What: A site/app that will tell you the most popular events in your city, and which event you should go to.
Why: I wanna be able to reach after my phone and quickly find out where I should go to have fun.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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#42Working on simulating a complete nervous system (i.e. C Elegans Connectome) and connecting to a robot so we can see an entire organism simulated from environment to a simulated "brain". To my surprise the robot behaves in a similar manner as the worm; i.e. I wire the sonar to activate nose touch sensory neurons and when the robot comes upon an obstacle, it will stop, reverse a bit and change direction. This is not a program that tells the robot to stop, reverse and change direction but the connectome. This proves in part that we are our connectome. Furthermore, I have created a true "thinking" and autonomous inorganic creature. Currently I am analyzing the captured neural data to validate against the biological creature. Next I want to apply to an autonomous ground vehicle for exploration = throw a hundred of these guys out in the desert and have them search for minerals. Check out my work at http://www.connectomeengine.com
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#44scridx.com It's a screenplay search engine. I couldn't find any adequate resources out there so decided to build my own. I've got much loftier goals for it, but all in good time.
Awesome product. I would have loved this in film school or when I was a reader at a production company.
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#45What: A new Internet search engine. Why cool: To be the best for the roughly 2/3rds (safe for work or not) of Internet content, searches people want to do, and content they want to find at best poorly served now.
Porn I'm assuming? I would think that spam dominates internet content.
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#46What: https://www.uncover.com Why is it cool: In the fifteen months we've been in operation, we've never lost a customer. It just gives everyone a smile on their face and that's the type of businesses that I like to work on.
Heads up: the site doesn't appear to render correctly on Safari on iOS.
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#47Hacking on RTL-SDR.
I've been running a successful fundraiser [1] and have just posted a detailed progress report [2].
This might be the first FOSS software-development fundraiser where backers get to decide what features are added.
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#48I am working on a small virtual machine in C, called Carp.
It's cool because I am learning about C, a bit about asm, and a bit about how a simple CPU works. Ish.
I also got a bit acquainted with comp.lang.c :)
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#49#knowledgebomb Fully offline live-USB (Ubuntu) w/ offline Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, OpenStreetMaps, and other public domain / creative common sources, all running on OSS. Just download and toss it on a USB, then use it as you want. I think it's great for those that have/may-have an intermittent internet connection, want to have an offline way to browse wikipedia, want to put it in a time capsule, are going campin…
That sounds awesome — kind of like the SMILE project!
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#50What I'm working on: Turfly ( http://www.turf.ly ) Why it's cool: You get to capture real-life territory by running and walking through it. Just keep your phone in your pocket. Compete with your friends if you want. This is the game I have always wanted, and I get to make it. Feels great.
Any Android app coming soon? :D