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Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by echelon »

krapp wrote: post #55
echelon wrote: post #54

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People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough. Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early. I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc. I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world wh…

But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web. There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species." FFS we've stood on the moon.

> was already possible.

The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.

And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need.

This is like 3D printing for software.

I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.

I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now.

> FFS we've stood on the moon.

And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by echelon »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #53
echelon wrote: post #22

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People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love. This is 100% a good thing. I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.

What world are you living in where you’re okay with this? Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing. Code something yourself on neocities.

This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by adamgordonbell »

vesterde wrote: post #36
adamgordonbell wrote: post #34

Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...

My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.

I'm not a diver but I suspect it can be learned. I have allergy issues that cause my ears to not equalize when allergies are hitting and I think I just learned how to do this. its just sort of muscle that can sort of be lightly controlled. Controlling one side vs the other I can't really manage.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by krapp »

echelon wrote: post #61
krapp wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web. There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species." FFS we've stood on the moon.

> was already possible. The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need. This is lik…

>The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.

Learning to program has never been easier or more accessible. Being able to build a website has been accessible to non-techies for years. I'll admit using an AI is convenient but "beyond remarkable" is pushing it. If anything it's a bit of a tragedy. In exchange for that convenience people are buying into a closed, third party mass surveillance infrastructure generating code they can't understand, can't repair, can't edit or redistribute. From a FOSS point of view AI is objectively worse than what we had. And that's not even getting into the flood of slop and disinformation destroying the web.

>I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.

I can't imagine you needed all of this done within a month and couldn't find existing solutions for most of it. It seems more like you're addicted than being productive.

And I still don't see the line between you vibe-coding a productivity app something something holograms and brain uploads and surfing on Titan.

>And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.

No, we aren't. We're no closer to than than we were 60 years ago. If you think Elon Musk is actually going to accomplish anything of the sort I think you're bound for disappointment.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by jwrallie »

autoexec wrote: post #58
jwrallie wrote: post #44

Something not mentioned that I’m curious about, if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids.

Weird. A spike in blood pressure maybe? Can you do reproduce it consistently on purpose with an alarm or by holding something as you fall asleep that will make a loud noise when it falls?

Yes, I have never tried to reproduce it on purpose, but it happens consistently enough that I would be surprised if it does not happen at this point.

It happens simultaneously with the sound, so I would guess it is purely a weird form of synesthetic hallucination.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by Timwi »

galangalalgol wrote: post #37
vesterde wrote: post #28

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It's there! :)

Is voluntary piloerection really that unusual? I thought everyone could give themselves goosebumps?

I certainly can't, and until now I'd never heard of it either (I'm over 40).

It's not uncommon to assume that other people's experiences are like one's own until told otherwise. For me, it took until at least age 10 before I realized that other people aren't near-deaf on the left side.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by Timwi »

cmehdy wrote: post #38
vesterde wrote: post #32

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Ah great! I'll put it on my list to read up on. Thanks

Another one I'm not sure how to fully explain: closing the nose without touching it. I can fully block smells or breathing by doing something that feels like inflating a zone between the top of the mouth and the nose. When speaking it will sound as if I am pinching my nose without hands. Comes in handy when having to face horrible smells. I assume everybody can do it but many don't know how. https://www.reddit.com/r/…

Everybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by Timwi »

yzydserd wrote: post #5

Only 30-40% of people encounter brain freeze? Fabulous site.

I experienced mild brain freeze as a child but it went away in adolescence. It doesn't seem pleasant so I don't envy those of you who get intense versions of it.

Re: Show HN: Bodily Oddities

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Post by Timwi »

tripdout wrote: post #43

Fascinating, but sadly LLM-assisted writing. edit: and apparently AI-generated site layout too. Either it doesn't bother me as much as the writing, or I haven't seen enough examples, but I didn't notice that.

Or maybe you could start focusing on the content instead of how it's made.
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