jamwise

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by jamwise 11d ago
If you enjoyed it and want a code to unlock the mobile app let me know, I have codes for iOS and Android.
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Show HN: I made a retro falling block puzzle, with a twist ;)(blocknado.app)
6 points by jamwise 11d ago|1 comments
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by jamwise 11d ago
Feels like 2026 is the best time for non-US tech companies to grow. What a weird timeline we're in. Excited for our developments up here in Canada too :D
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by jamwise 11d ago
I wish I had learned about this when it was still $60. In Canada I can't find any for less than $300.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Safari is the new IE
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Consumer solar has been a game changer, so doing the same for wind would be a huge innovation. But the reasons everyone doesn't already have wind generators on their roof is it's a much harder problem to solve. Not least of which
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by jamwise 3mo ago
There are two sides to this with companies automating hiring with AI as well, so the whole interface between employers and job seekers seems to be getting an ever thicker layer of bots talking to bots. I've heard stories of interviewee
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Appreciate the feedback, thanks for checking it out. To be clear, LLMs were not used to design this game, just to edit my post talking about creating the board generator. And I do play it every day, today was definitely a tougher one, but t
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Thanks for the feedback. The premise of the game is you solve each individual word in order, so greyed out cells are places that aren't the next letter for any of the words right now. As you place the letters those cells open up.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
EDIT: I used an LLM as an editor, and clearly that stank. So I just touched up my original draft and updated the page.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Yeah that's fair. I might dust off my draft and re-edit myself, I foolishly thought this would lead to a better post, and I guess am not as attuned to the AI smell as others.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Seems like others feel the same. I guess getting an LLM to help with editing was a bad choice. Thanks for the feedback.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Well it certainly was a wall. That's how I kept describing it to my partner, I was hitting a wall.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Sorry about the turn off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I tried to put my best foot forward by reading about prose, engaging story telling, and did use an LLM to help me edit and reword parts of the post. Either way, I appreciate the feedback.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Yeah no criticism of the devs here, it's a great project. I meant to point at Apple. Though I'm a customer and like many of their products. I do hate their rigid clearly profit driven walled garden.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Information theory has been a really fascinating topic to get more acquainted with. Not really related to the crossword, but I highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's video "Compression is Intelligence", https://www.youtube
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How information theory saved my word game(motplot.app)
23 points by jamwise 3mo ago|30 comments
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Yeah I understand. But there are plenty of good headphones that work with Android and include most of the features. That's kind of the point of Librepods right? To bring AirPods up to par for non-Apple devices and make them a viable op
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by jamwise 3mo ago
If I wasn't certain Apple will do their best to patch every avenue to this working in the future it might be motivation to buy AirPods.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Fair enough. I appreciate the feedback regardless. Thanks for sharing.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
FWIW I was aiming for this to be a "connections" level of difficulty. My sample size is small but the past week win rate is about 65%, which is actually very close to connections. But I also don't want to cause frustration, s
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Really great idea. And not going to ding it for kicking off with an LLM. But it might be worth thinking about how you could build a community of human contributors in a future stage. I personally don't feel comfortable with handing AI-
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
My family plays a lot of word games, some are board-game style and of course we all love the NY-Times catalog of puzzles. The idea for this game came to me when I played bananagrams, and lost, after having binged way too much sudoku earlier
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Show HN: Motplot is a crossword but it plays like Sudoku(motplot.app)
6 points by jamwise 3mo ago|7 comments
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by jamwise 3mo ago
The idea was fresh in my mind because I watched this yesterday. Great video, the illustrations and intuition-building of the compressability of information was so good! I'm so grateful for 3Blue1Brown.
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by jamwise 3mo ago
Reminds me of when I tried to use the library of babel as a data compression tool. It led me down a fun rabbit hole and was my first introduction to information theory. The conclusion being that you basically need the same amount of data to
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by jamwise 3mo ago
> Speculative proposal I guess at least they're honest about it? lol
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by jamwise 3mo ago
This is wild. How did anyone approve this architecture. You should never give your LLM privileged access the current user doesn't have access to. Even if you're not logged in the LLM's tool calls should only be able to access
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by jamwise 3mo ago
I don't know if I'll ever use this but that "Infinite View" is a lot of fun, I just lost 20 minutes before snapping myself out of a trance. Some really cool pictures in there.

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