Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Show HN: Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor. Now in public beta https://bit.ly/3LsiZlo

Show HN: Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor. Now in public beta https://bit.ly/3yGBz1l March 15, 2023 at 05:04PM

Show HN: Quality News – Towards a fairer ranking algorithm for Hacker News https://bit.ly/3yMt5pj

Show HN: Quality News – Towards a fairer ranking algorithm for Hacker News Hello HN! TLDR; - Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric. - We propose that this metric could be used to improve the Hacker News ranking score. - In-depth explanation: https://bit.ly/3ERwyq6 The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it creates a feedback loop: higher rank leads to more upvotes leads to higher rank, and so on... → ↗ ↘ Higher Rank More Upvotes ↖ ↙ ← As a consequence, success on HN depends almost entirely on getting enough upvotes in the first hour or so to make the front page and get caught in this feedback loop. And getting these early upvotes is largely a matter of timing, luck, and moderator decisions. And so the best stories don't always make the front page, and the stories on the front page are not always the best. Our proposed solution is to use upvoteRate instead of upvotes in the ranking formula. upvoteRate is an estimate of how much more or less likely users are to upvote a story compared to the average story, taking account how much attention the story as received, based on a history of the ranks and times at which it has been shown. You can read about how we calculate this metric in more detail here: https://bit.ly/3ERwyq6 About 1.5 years ago, we published an article with this basic idea of counteracting the rank-upvotes feedback loop by using attention as negative feedback. We received very valuable input from the HN community ( https://bit.ly/3mi2eyL ). Quality News has been created based largely on this feedback. Currently, Quality News shows the upvoteRate metric for live Hacker News data, as well as charts of the rank and upvote history of each story. We have not yet implemented an alternative ranking algorithm, because we don't have access to data on flags and moderator actions, which are a major component of the HN ranking score. We'd love to see the Hacker News team experiment with the new formula, perhaps on an alternative front page. This will allow the community to evaluate whether the new ranking formula is an improvement over the current one. We look forward discussing our approach with you! Links: Site: https://bit.ly/3y3oFdp Readme: https://bit.ly/3ERwyq6 Previous Blog Post: https://bit.ly/3EQaiwY... Previous Discussion: https://bit.ly/3mi2eyL https://bit.ly/3yCygZ8 March 15, 2023 at 04:06PM

Show HN: Discontent – Extension to combat garbage search engine results https://bit.ly/3JhZYPG

Show HN: Discontent – Extension to combat garbage search engine results Creator here. In a nutshell this extension is a "Like / Dislike" system but for website results. I miss the days of things like the YouTube dislike bar, where you can quickly assess if something is good or not. Currently sitting at ~90 users. To get it off the ground I've scraped the last year of HN to make a set of good links, and used a few content farm blacklists to make a set of bad links. Right now it's semi-useful and should only get better with time. There are some simple measures in place to prevent spam & abuse, but will cross that bridge if it ever comes. All feedback welcome! https://bit.ly/3LgYIyS March 15, 2023 at 02:31PM

Show HN: Gamaddy – Play Online Games https://bit.ly/3JFP2g5

Show HN: Gamaddy – Play Online Games https://bit.ly/3LmAF1F March 15, 2023 at 08:31AM

Show HN: Learn Python with Minecraft https://bit.ly/3Fphn7S

Show HN: Learn Python with Minecraft Looking for feedback on my project to teach python by writing code that interacts with a Minecraft World. https://bit.ly/3zIcjYL March 15, 2023 at 12:57PM

Show HN: Supersonic – A game-like social fitness app to help you get moving https://bit.ly/3ldiLDV

Show HN: Supersonic – A game-like social fitness app to help you get moving https://apple.co/3Dp3xRV March 15, 2023 at 09:55AM

Show HN: I Made a Ramen Meter https://bit.ly/3Fr7LcW

Show HN: I Made a Ramen Meter https://bit.ly/3TlzKQT March 15, 2023 at 09:35AM

Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Show HN: GPT-4 makes Snake game using Replit https://bit.ly/40anftx

Show HN: GPT-4 makes Snake game using Replit https://twitter.com/ammaar/status/1635754631228952576 March 15, 2023 at 03:13AM

Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for other people’s code https://bit.ly/3JhQ6p5

Show HN: Whatdoesthiscodedo.com – AI explanations for other people’s code https://bit.ly/42e3F1n March 15, 2023 at 01:33AM

Show HN: Compare ChatGPT and Bing Chat side by side https://bit.ly/3FmImB0

Show HN: Compare ChatGPT and Bing Chat side by side https://bit.ly/401CPb6 March 14, 2023 at 04:47PM

Show HN: Potash – Malware Proximity Search Engine https://bit.ly/403GHs3

Show HN: Potash – Malware Proximity Search Engine I wrote a search engine that ingests malware TLSH hashes from abuse.ch and provides a proximity search engine in order to find "close" malwares to yours. Comes handy if you want to classify a Malware that's not on VT or a malware that you only have the hash, but want to download a close enough sample. It works as a CLI app or a ReST API https://bit.ly/3FqahjI March 14, 2023 at 09:31AM

Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save 40% of doctors’ time https://bit.ly/3JG0B7g

Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save 40% of doctors’ time Hey HN, We're Alex, Martin and Laurent. We previously founded Wit.ai (W14), which we sold to Facebook in 2015. Since 2019, we've been working on Nabla (https://bit.ly/405cc4X), an intelligent assistant for health practitioners. When GPT-3 was released in 2020, we investigated it's usage in a medical context[0], to mixed results. Since then we’ve kept exploring opportunities at the intersection of healthcare and AI, and noticed that doctors spend am awful lot of time on medical documentation (writing clinical notes, updating their EHR, etc.). Today, we're releasing Nabla Copilot, a Chrome extension generating clinical notes from video consultations, to address this problem. You can try it out, without installation nor sign up, on our demo page: https://bit.ly/3JDegvz Here’s how it works under the hood: - When a doctor starts a video consultation, our Chrome extension auto-starts itself and listens to the active tab as well as the doctor’s microphone. - We then transcribe the consultation using a fine-tuned version of Whisper. We've trained Whisper with tens of thousands of hours of medical consultation and medical terms recordings, and we have now reached an error rate which is 3× lower than Google's Speech-To-Text. - Once we have the transcript, we feed it to a heavily trained GPT-3, which generates a clinical note. - We finally return the clinical note to the doctor through our Chrome extension, the doctor can copy it to their EHR, and send a version to the patient. This allows doctors to be fully focused on their consultation, and saves them a lot time. Next, we want to make this work for in-person consultation. We also want to extract structured data (in the FHIR standard) from the clinical note, and feed it to the doctor’s EHR so that it is automatically added to the patient's record. Happy to further discuss technical details in comments! --- [0]: https://bit.ly/3ZXvVnc March 14, 2023 at 03:16PM

Show HN: Scriptable.run, make your product extendable by anyone. https://bit.ly/3JDBUbr

Show HN: Scriptable.run, make your product extendable by anyone. https://bit.ly/3DedjXf March 14, 2023 at 07:22AM

Show HN: AI Chat Bestie – Enhanced UI for ChatGPT API https://bit.ly/3l4XoVm

Show HN: AI Chat Bestie – Enhanced UI for ChatGPT API Been working on this since last week and glad to share it here and now! There's already been a few other takes on this idea, but I figured none would fit me as well as if I had just built it myself. All messages are sent and stored locally in the browser for privacy and speed. Accounts are optional and upgrading is a one-time deal. Any questions, comments, feedback, please, I'd like to hear it all! https://bit.ly/3l7XE5Z March 14, 2023 at 12:45PM

Monday, 13 March 2023

Show HN: SchemafreeSQL – Data, Fluid as Code https://bit.ly/3ywNnDp

Show HN: SchemafreeSQL – Data, Fluid as Code Hi HN, I'm Dean, the non-technical co-founder of SchemafreeSQL. We released our beta version about a year ago. You can see the HN Post here https://bit.ly/3GGq0sK Today I am pleased to announce our initial release of our hosted SFSQL offering. A major concern from the HN Beta feedback we received was our longevity. Being a hosted database solution I can see why. We took that to heart and re-engineered our offering. We de-risked it by minimizing the amount of infrastructure under our management, fly.io manages customer's dedicated SFSQL endpoints, Aiven.io manages customer's dedicated databases across 5 clouds, our serverless offering is a managed AWS Aurora Serverless cluster, our in-house databases is managed by Planetscale.com, and Stripe handles subscriptions. The cost of these services are mostly on demand, bringing our monthly fixed cost to a very manageable level. I highly recommend all these services. We are boot strapping SFSQL for now. Our business model, how we make money, is simple. Our prices are higher than our costs. Just like all businesses, margins matter and because we incur the costs of these service and pass them on, our margins take a hit. We envision being more of an add-on to these service providers and others like them eventually. Our margins would increase and the total cost to our customers would decrease. In this model our pricing is purely value based. "Data, Fluid as Code" is what we settled on after countless iterations. I believe it captures the "why" question, "why did we build this". SFSQL originally started out as an Object store for a online dev. environment we built in 2000. It has evolved over time. Its schemaless properties where added as we had a need to better handle user provided data structures and refactoring associated with many of our client projects. Eric, the technical co-founder and creator of SFSQL, answered the "How" question in our HN beta post. For more in depth info on what's going on behind the scenes Eric is available via email support@schemafreesql.com, he is not available to respond here. The demo apps were all built by me. Eric would like it known that he is not responsible for those codes bases, which are all available on GitHub. I built these apps while testing out SFSQL and seeing if we play nice with the various serverless platforms. Client solutions we have built with SFSQL are not available for public display so we went with these demo apps I built. The apps show how easy it is to hook up a back-end to a web app with SFSQL even by a non programmer like myself. I hope you check out SFSQL. Try it for free, no sign-up required, and please leave us feedback https://bit.ly/3Jexczj https://bit.ly/3stXLbr March 10, 2023 at 09:10PM

Show HN: SwiftGPT – The native macOS app for ChatGPT https://bit.ly/3lcVzpm

Show HN: SwiftGPT – The native macOS app for ChatGPT https://bit.ly/3ZJvv48 March 13, 2023 at 10:48AM

Show HN: I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity https://bit.ly/3ZPigz2

Show HN: I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity https://bit.ly/3mM8YVE March 13, 2023 at 11:44AM

Show HN: I revived a game I abandoned 5yo ago and released it for free today https://bit.ly/3Td6USP

Show HN: I revived a game I abandoned 5yo ago and released it for free today https://bit.ly/3TiZKwj March 13, 2023 at 10:48AM

Show HN: This Job Does Not Exist https://bit.ly/3ZHGB9P

Show HN: This Job Does Not Exist https://bit.ly/3JJBfW9 March 13, 2023 at 09:05AM

Show HN: Mermaid Flow https://bit.ly/3ZT4Xx0

Show HN: Mermaid Flow https://bit.ly/3yyPl6b March 13, 2023 at 05:10AM