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Show HN: Easily share games made by you/ your kids/ your dog etc.(arcadelab.ai)
3 points by mlapeter 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mlapeter 7mo ago
Why did people used to make geocities pages back in the day? Kids like to express themselves and being able to make simple games and share them with friends is fun for them. So far it's helping him learn to read (he reads and edits his
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by mlapeter 7mo ago
It's actually helping him learn to read quite a bit - after voice transcription, he reads the post and edits any errors by tapping on the word and changing it. He's been on the cusp of reading on his own and it's the first th
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by mlapeter 7mo ago
Not sure if you'd consider this a counterpoint or just proving your point, but in the sea of AI slop there's also a real chance for people to create things that they couldn't before - my 7 year old is now able to nerd out and
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by mlapeter 7mo ago
My 7-year-old uses Claude on his iPad to make games. He can barely read but uses voice to describe what he wants. He can read enough to make text edits when voice transcription gets it wrong. It's been pretty cool to see where his imag
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Show HN: My 7 year old makes games with AI, I made kidhubb.com to share them(kidhubb.com)
3 points by mlapeter 7mo ago|1 comments
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by mlapeter 7mo ago
Thanks! The bloat problem is exactly what pushed me toward forgetting-as-a-feature rather than just accumulating everything. Salience is scored on four dimensions when a memory is first ingested: novelty (how surprising/new), relevance
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Show HN: Claude-engram – Brain-inspired persistent memory, runs inside Claude.ai(github.com)
6 points by mlapeter 7mo ago|2 comments
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by mlapeter 7y ago
I'm working on a site that basically groups you into a cohort of like-minded Yang supporters and helps you accomplish simple but helpful stuff online. Things like favoriting a tweet seem tiny, but if every yang supporter did it, the di
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Show HN: Yanggangs.org – Auto Generated Cohorts for Slacktivists(yanggangs.org)
2 points by mlapeter 7y ago|1 comments
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by mlapeter 10y ago
Would it be appropriate to ask our users of our startup to and vote for us on here? If they are invested enough in our service and community to do so, it seems like that would be a very positive and useful signal in it's own right. Or
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by mlapeter 11y ago
Agreed, I'm surprised the 4x price increase is not mentioned more often. Personally I can understand moving away from a free offering, especially if they're having trouble with spammers, but to quadruple pricing out of the blue? F
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by mlapeter 11y ago
This is really great! Is it open source? I couldn't see a license or anything in the readme so wasn't sure.
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by mlapeter 13y ago
To add more data, I've been successful (generating more than average salary in my area for programmers I think) in creating a small online saas business. I would say it's totally possible, but for me it took a lot longer than I th
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by mlapeter 15y ago
Self Control: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol I found this on HN a while back, it's like a lightweight RescueTime for blocking news sites etc.
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by mlapeter 15y ago
Agreed. I don't want to sound totally callous, but while this is a dramatic and terrible incident in it's own right, her writing style does seem to be magnifying the drama for maximum effect/ attention, in which case it's a truly difficult
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Bank's Use of MERS Database Draws Probes(bloomberg.com)
5 points by mlapeter 16y ago|0 comments
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by mlapeter 16y ago
A good article, but personally I'm concerned that your "safe picks" such as government bonds/ sovereign debt might be exactly the kind of black swan Taleb is talking about. He doesn't seem to be such a fan on US monetary policy: http://www
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by mlapeter 16y ago
Speaking of currencies, I'm wondering if anyone more intelligent than me knows what to make of this: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s[1][id]=BASE To my untrained eyes, it makes the idea of diversifying into anything other tha
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by mlapeter 16y ago
If you read further down, it seems to show that the banking system as a whole can expand $100 into $1000 with a 10% reserve requirement: "Reserve requirements affect the potential of the banking system to create transaction deposits. If the
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by mlapeter 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out Phil. I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't call it illegal outright, as you say it may just require a fair amount of upfront legwork to arrange the structure of the service in a legal way. There do seem to be some e
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by mlapeter 16y ago
If you take PG's essay one step further, it would seem there might also be a need for micro-investing in the same style that Kiva does micro-loans. Something that lets small fish invest in startups that need less than, say, $250k. Investmen
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by mlapeter 16y ago
I've also had problems with paypal, due to the fact I needed three accounts for three separate businesses/ partnerships. Even though I formed separate LLCs, Paypal apparently can only link even business accounts to a specific person, so whe
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Ask HN: Settlers Of Catan For iPad?
5 points by mlapeter 17y ago|2 comments
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by mlapeter 17y ago
If someone could take this concept a step further and let you create a self contained process that users could download and run just by clicking (like tasks in photoshop), I could see some uses: - Some tech support situations where you have
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by mlapeter 17y ago
I think this is a great idea, but agreeing with other commenters minimum wage is likely far too low. My brother and I are fairly new to ruby on rails, and we often get stuck and left at the mercy of support forums and friendly programmers.
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by mlapeter 17y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I could see many uses for a tablet beyond just reading in the bathroom or in bed. For any job where you're standing/ walking and taking notes (real estate agents, etc), it's awkward to try to open a macbook, and the
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by mlapeter 17y ago
As a real estate agent, I agree with the author's point, especially about the technology. I not only pay hundreds of dollars per year, but technologically they still can't even keep up with basic advancements such as making the mls work in
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by mlapeter 17y ago
The problem with this is that in a lot of areas Google enters then wipes out the competition by offering the service for free. It's extremely hard for competitors to gain a foothold in a market when a huge competitor is giving the product a
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by mlapeter 17y ago
How about a news site that actually helps reporters/ photographers/ editors collaborate to create news, instead of just aggregating/ ranking already written articles? The basic blocks of the news stories is source material: photos, quotes,

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