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by PullJosh 1mo ago
I love this! Such a beautiful use of some real nerdy math to benefit humans in a way non-nerds would appreciate.
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by PullJosh 5mo ago
I can’t believe they haven’t already
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by PullJosh 5mo ago
I like their emphasis on quickly prototyping many variations of a design. That seems useful, even for experienced designers.
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by PullJosh 6mo ago
This is awesome! 1) I am able to run the model on my iPhone and get good results. Not as good as Gemini in the cloud, but good. 2) I love the “mobile actions” tool calls that allow the LLM to turn on the flashlight, open maps, etc. It would
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by PullJosh 6mo ago
Looks great! I’ve definitely wanted this exact thing before. I will consider reaching for this next time I need to throw together a quick app.
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by PullJosh 7mo ago
I just deleted my account. The other LLMs are so good that I don't even feel like I'm sacrificing much.
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by PullJosh 10mo ago
Does relying on larger players result in better overall uptime for smaller players? AWS is providing me better uptime than if I assembled something myself because I am less resourced and less talented than that massive team. If so, is it a
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by PullJosh 10mo ago
It’s been many years since I built a website using Django. At the time, my favorite feature was that it provided a built-in admin UI with no extra work. So helpful! Now that I live in the JavaScript ecosystem, I don’t have an equivalent too
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by PullJosh 1y ago
I’ve been working on promoting my seating chart app for teachers, Shuffle Buddy, on social media. I had a 1M view pop on TikTok when I first launched and have now been clawing along to try for continued engagement. It’s reassuring to know t
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by PullJosh 1y ago
The solution I built for this is Leopard. It is a Scratch → JavaScript converter. You can take an existing Scratch project and convert it to JavaScript code and then keep working, or use the Leopard library to create a new project from (ahe
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by PullJosh 2y ago
I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.
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by PullJosh 2y ago
I have aphantasia and have long thought that my lack of a mind’s eye might be an asset for programming, much like how a blind person will typically have better-than-average hearing. If programming is best done through abstract thought and d
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by PullJosh 2y ago
The design of this blog post is lovely! Despite seemingly having no right to be. It goes against all of my design instincts, but it somehow nails a vibe while remaining pleasant and easy on the eyes. I love it!
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by PullJosh 2y ago
I was expecting this to refer to different ways to represent the same diff. (For example, you could represent a change from `console.log(“hello”)` as `console.log('hello')` as +'-“ … +’-“ or as +'hello'-“hello”) I d
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by PullJosh 2y ago
Totally agree. I’ll also add that although I am often tempted to work alone, sharing my work or ideas or output with someone else boosts motivation a lot.
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by PullJosh 2y ago
I don’t know if this is true or not, but it’s clever and interesting regardless.
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by PullJosh 2y ago
Complete novice question: Would it be possible to build a language that could read your source code and tell you, at compile time, which expressions have values that depend on RNG? And on cryptographically secure RNG? So that you could anno
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by PullJosh 2y ago
As I understand it, the hard part of a masonry layout is ensuring that items are laid out with the first items near the top of the screen and the last items near the bottom of the screen. If you just plop your items into columns, the first
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Show HN: Leopard – Convert Scratch projects to JavaScript(leopardjs.com)
6 points by PullJosh 3y ago|1 comments
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by PullJosh 3y ago
Hi HN! A few years ago, I began creating Leopard, a Scratch to JavaScript code converter. (Since then, I've received help from a few awesome open-source contributors. Thank you!) I started using Scratch when I was in 2nd grade. I made
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by PullJosh 3y ago
Completely unrelated, but are you the adhesive_wombat I would listen to on SoundCloud when I was younger?
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by PullJosh 3y ago
Or, if that’s too hard, leave the orbit the same but slow the spin down a little so each day is longer. A 0.35% decrease in spin speed seems fine right?
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by PullJosh 4y ago
The live-streaming software OBS has a “virtual webcam” feature that can make a generated video feed behave like a hardware webcam. Perhaps something similar is being used to feed generated video into zoom?
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by PullJosh 5y ago
Genuine question: Does anyone here have a good sense of how easy/hard it is to moderate a platform like YouTube? My sense is that the answer is VERY HARD, so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong. But perhap
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by PullJosh 5y ago
This doesn’t seem like a very useful characterization. To the best of my knowledge, visualization ability falls on a spectrum, and some are better than others. Aphantasia is a useful word to describe a low ability to visualize. Just because
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Imba: The friendly full-stack language(imba.io)
5 points by PullJosh 5y ago|0 comments
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by PullJosh 5y ago
At least in the beginning, self-driving cars need to be compatible with human drivers, who are also on the road.
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by PullJosh 5y ago
Thank you for all the quiet moderation work you do to make HN so great. I can say that you’ve personally made my life better, and I’m sure many others would say the same.
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by PullJosh 5y ago
This is smart! Seems like a great way to provide value that’s lacking in other browsers. I much prefer this method of attracting users to some of Microsoft’s other antics. Now can they make a mode that helps ME avoid websites that make my l
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by PullJosh 5y ago
Can I get an ELI5 on how physical neurons, stuck in a measly 3 dimensions, can possibly form higher-dimensional connections on a large scale? I understand higher dimensional connections in theory (such as in an abstract representation of ne

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