wtf242

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by wtf242 10mo ago
That's super cool. I launched a book recommendations feature this year, which works vastly different. I ask users what their favorite books are(which you can rank), and then allow them to import their goodreads data which includes star
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by wtf242 1y ago
One of my favorite games of all time. It's so simple yet can be so complex. You can legit spend 8+ hours playing the first couple levels easily.
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by wtf242 1y ago
I failed out of college my senior year because I discovered EQ. So many fond memories. I created a guild on a new server and it ended up one of the most famous and best guilds on any of the servers. The amount of planning and management it
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by wtf242 1y ago
I think it's most useful for discovering new reads, especially with the advanced search and recommendations functionality. I do agree i could do a better job of non spoiler summaries. good idea - Series have always been a problem. Some
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by wtf242 1y ago
Still working on my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org that I started in 2008. It's been a 1 man team the entire time. I recently made some major algorithm changes that I think greatly improves the rankings. My algorit
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by wtf242 1y ago
recently launched book recommendations feature for my books side project that I put a LOT of work into. I might be biased but I think it works well as long as you give it your favorite books. https://thegreatestbooks.org/rec
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by wtf242 1y ago
that's awesome! I've had many many side projects launched in the past 2 decades, but the only one still going is my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it 17~ years ago mostly as just a tool for myself an
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by wtf242 2y ago
been using https://github.com/alexrudall/ruby-openai for years with no issues which is a fine gem and works great.
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by wtf242 2y ago
yeah the amazon product API has some severe limitations. I have 25,000~ books on my site, and I just don't have enough API calls in a day to keep the prices 100% updated. It's on my todo list to revisit this, but it's low on
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by wtf242 2y ago
I built it in 2008, and have rewritten it twice now since them. I have spent quite a bit of time adding new lists. It's definitely a labor of love and I do spend quite a bit of time on it. I do use Gen AI now to generate genres, descri
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by wtf242 2y ago
The Greatest Books https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it in 2008 and have maintained and improved it over the years. I am trying to figure out how to monetize it more. I currently make around $2k a month. I just use adsense
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by wtf242 2y ago
I had the same issue with TikTok/ByteDance. They were using almost 100gb of my traffic per month. I now block all ai crawlers at the cloudflare WAF level. On Monday I noticed a HUGE spike in traffic and my site was not handling it well
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by wtf242 2y ago
This is awesome! Do you mind if I add this list to my books site? ( https://thegreatestbooks.org ) I'll give you full credit and link back to your site.
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by wtf242 2y ago
This is a bad article. The highest cost is network television/cable which is free if you buy an hd antenna
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by wtf242 2y ago
still working on https://thegreatestbooks.org been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm. would love to collab with a data scientist on ways to imp
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by wtf242 2y ago
This problem is only going to get worse. for my thegreatestbooks.org site i used to just get indexed/scraped by google and bing. now it's like 50+ AI bots scraping my entire site just so they can train a LLM to answer questions my
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by wtf242 2y ago
The amount of AI bots scraping/indexing content is just mind boggling. for my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org , without blocking any bots, I was probably getting 500,000~ requests a day from ONLY ai bots. Claudebot,
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by wtf242 2y ago
It's insane how toxic the js environment is. it seems like if a project is over 6 months old, nothing will work. When I yarn install on an old project, i'm rolling the dice. I had a 2 year old next.js side project i was working on
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Show HN: The Global Literary Canon(thegreatestbooks.org)
4 points by wtf242 2y ago|1 comments
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by wtf242 2y ago
"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; + https://openai.com/gptbot )" "52.230.152.37"
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by wtf242 2y ago
i definitely see a lot of indexing requests from openai in the logs of my books site. I figured it was just the bing integration. (thegreatestbooks.org)
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by wtf242 3y ago
I build this app over a decade ago. https://thegreatestbooks.org which I aggregate all the "lists" and use a weighted algorithm to create a single list of the best books. I've been working on a new version with ge
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by wtf242 4y ago
No. It's been awhile since I played around with it, but it's a front end framework that depends on react, that's really good at generating static pages
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by wtf242 4y ago
yeah, the last item I bought from Etsy showed up in an Amazon box. The seller legit just bought the item on amazon and shipped it to me for 2x the price.
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by wtf242 5y ago
delta 8 will definitely get you high just like weed
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by wtf242 6y ago
This is actually my site. I built it over 10 years ago. I do understand the complaint about it being mostly western lit, and I've recently started searching for and adding more non-western lists. I am open to any recommendations. Thank
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by wtf242 12y ago
no it's not. their new OSX client is native. the old version is Adobe Air.
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by wtf242 13y ago
congrats! We use Crocodoc a lot and their API is amazing as well as their support. All our customers have loved it.
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by wtf242 13y ago
national geographic has a trip there that's only 12k~ a person http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/expeditions/ant...
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by wtf242 14y ago
This is disappointing. My Rails app gets just enough traffic that it uses 1.2-1.4 gigs of ram on average. The 1.5 gig plan was perfect for me and I've used it without issues for years now.

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