sourabh65

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   by sourabh65 1mo ago

   I move around the office all day and there are a lot of wifi networks, most of them flaky. I keep ending up stuck on a bad one for wherever I'm sitting and having to guess which to switch to. So I built roamr: it tells you which of you
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   by sourabh65 2mo ago

   Thanks! Would love your feedback once you give it a try.
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   by sourabh65 2mo ago

   Not released yet, but it's actively in progress.
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   by sourabh65 2mo ago

   Yeah, same problem but worse when you're moving. Catch is roamr is a desktop tool - iOS and mostly Android lock the WiFi scan/switch APIs away from apps, so a roamr-style thing can't really exist on a phone. That restriction
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   by sourabh65 2mo ago

   Just tried it with my hotspot on - turns out it kind of already does. A hotspot is a WiFi network, so roamr saw it and recommended switching to it. It just can't see the cellular quality behind it, only the WiFi link.
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   by sourabh65 2mo ago

   Thanks! OSes mostly stick with whatever you're on as long as it works — they don't re-check for quality once connected, so you get parked on a strong-but-slow 2.4 GHz network. That's the gap roamr pokes at. Menubar app is the
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   Show HN: Roamr – a CLI that picks the best saved WiFi, and tells you why(github.com)

   3 points by sourabh65 2mo ago|10 comments
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   Ask HN: How to manage sessions with OpenAI's chat completion API?

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