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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I used notebook LM and claude/gemini to gather the notes on K8s and created a vitepress site with it.

Claude/gemini helped with design and content meta. NLM for content with official sources.

https://randomwrites.com

I am doing a similar with linux internals (to be published soon). ofcourse from the official docs and asking some questions around the concepts i like and forget mostly :-)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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This is really cool! Seems like the key to the prompt it seems is the knowledge of how these tones were created in the first place (your system prompts for the 80s) which requires some actual tone knowledge and leaves all the fiddly bits to the LLM. As someone relatively new to guitar this is intimidating, but also a fun rabbit hole. Additional “expert” prompts for different archetypes and genres could be fun.

thanks.Frankly — the system prompt is the sauce. The LLM has encyclopedic knowledge of every amp, cab, and pedal ever made which still blows my mind, but without guardrails it'll confidently tell you to boost mids on a JCM800 (which is how you disappear in a loud mix i've noticed). That era cheat sheet is all the working knowledge over the years of spectacularly failing to get the right tones. Once someone does that…

Amazing! Even though they’re “just prompts” that knowledge is still important and valuable. Very cool. Unfortunately I’m just a guitar newb trying to figure out what pickups are doing things to my tone so you probably don’t want me in there :)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Photo Organizer - Organizes image and video files first by original directory name, then by EXIF date, if any. Renames images to img-yyyymmdd-hhmmss format and moves them to yyyymmdd directories. I've planned such for a decade, but I was too lazy to spend a week or two with it (I mean some evenings, ca. a week). Vibecoded in ca. two days: https://github.com/ern0/photo-organizer

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Timelapse-consolidator: create a single timelapse video from multiple captures, ignoring night shots. I think, it's a good example for splitting the task for separate programs, which task size the AI still can handle. See prompt for details: https://github.com/ern0/timelapse-consolidator

(Night shot detector should be faster, instead Python, I would rewrite it in some native language, like Rust, but it will run once per project, so it's not vital.)

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#865
Sony-TV-Control: the battery in the RC is started to discharge, so I've downloaded Android apps, which can control our Sony smart TV. Tried some, but I was disappointed, so asked DeepSeek if Sony TVs have some API. Instead of demonstrating the API, DeepSeek created me a simple RC PoC, which looked promising, so I decided to continue vibe-coding my version, a mobile-first webapp with Python backend: https://github.com/ern0/sony-tv-control

It has several functions which a normal RC can't have, e.g. search channel by name, or hide "ABCD" channel, if it has "ABCD HD" pair, to make channel list shorter.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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I restore old non-functioning radios with nice design and good audio. I replace the old tech except the speakers with a raspberry add a mic array and package them with an easy to use ubuntu. whisper and the small gemma models made everything so much easier and private. I basically rewrite the whole backend with claude and created a nice first setup experience akin to other smartspeakers. It's amazing how good the sou…

What do you do with the old guts? I suspect plenty of people would be interested in those (me included)

If they are still salvageable I resell them on ebay

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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how Mistral OCR works for you? Is it really better than Tesseract?

IME way better. It may not be the best out there, but it's cheap (2c per page), fast, easy to integrate API, and sufficient for my needs. It does things like describe what's drawn in pictures and shown in graphs, which all helps when searching.

great! have you tested how well it return coordinates of objects/text? Ive tried with generic LLMs like Gemini/Qwen/Gemma and they all are unstable with coordinates around text, better when using visual grounding though

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

#869
The first thing I did was set up Linux's inbuilt imap-filter service to handle push notifications from Gmail:

https://github.com/yo-chanan/gmail-imapfilter

I had looked everywhere for a simple system service that supports Gmail, or a chrome extension that supports push, and was able to find neither. Then when I started using Codex, I thought "Here, go automate the setup of the imap-filter service for Gmail."

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Here's what gemini says about running hooks in parallel: > Native Git traditionally executes hooks sequentially. However, you can achieve parallel execution by leveraging dedicated third-party hook managers or using built-in shell background processing .. and that's what git-multi-hook is: a third-party hook manager, that uses shell background processing :)

Just out of curiousity, what are the 8 hooks you run?

The precommit checks I run are:

- end-with-blank-line: normalize file endings

- find-do-not-commit: do not commit files that include "DO NOT COMMIT"

- lint-code: run `$REPO/scripts/lint` if it exists

- lint-nodejs: run `$REPO/{pnpm/yarn/npm}` lint if `package.json` exists

- lint-shellcheck: shellcheck all the files that have no extensions or end in `.sh` that have a shell-shebang

- lint-swift: run swiftlint

- prevent-commit-secrets: run ripsecrets to avoid committing secrets and credentials

- validate: run `$REPO/scripts/validate` if it exists

By default all of the scripts check the files in the git staging area, but they can also be run standalone to check everything. You can find them here: https://github.com/webcoyote/git-multi-hook. Glad to take suggestions for more.

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