Tuesday 31 October 2023

Show HN: Collaborative Shopify Queue with upvotes and downvotes https://bit.ly/3seFhj4

Show HN: Collaborative Shopify Queue with upvotes and downvotes Hey all, I created https://bit.ly/46RZWJ2 that works as a remote for a collaborative spotify queue where the users can upvote and downvote music they want to hear next. Only the person who is playing the music needs to have spotify premium! And if you're far from your friends (and have premium) and want to listen together, you can go to the settings and click Connect to Room, and you all can listen to the same music remotely. Let me know what y'all think about it, and any improvements as well. And if anyone's interested in how I built it let me know as well. https://bit.ly/46RZWJ2 November 1, 2023 at 02:36AM

Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal https://bit.ly/3MqhraS

Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://bit.ly/49fdwHU Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://bit.ly/3FDF3Fk I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the terminal. Joel Einbinder https://bit.ly/49fdwHU November 1, 2023 at 01:14AM

Show HN: My wife and I built a Halloween game https://bit.ly/49t3xyW

Show HN: My wife and I built a Halloween game Happy Halloween! Instead of going to a Halloween party this year, my wife and I decided to run a tiny Hackathon and built this little retro choose-your-own-adventure to pay tribute to a popular series of yesteryear. Try and escape! Also pumpkin mode!! We made liberal use of ChatGPT for code, DALLE3/Midjourney for images, but did most of the storyboarding/writing ourselves because we couldn't stand the style of GPT4/Claude. https://bit.ly/3Mpx4zx November 1, 2023 at 12:38AM

Show HN: JS Local-only AI Apps starter kit: cost $0 to run and test locally https://bit.ly/3sksiMM

Show HN: JS Local-only AI Apps starter kit: cost $0 to run and test locally Hi HN! Here's a local-only stack I built over the weekend - hope it can be useful for you! I have been building a lot of AI apps - https://bit.ly/456eqDX https://bit.ly/3Dc5pNy ... And there were definitely times I spent way too much $$ before deploying the app to production. So I was looking for a "local only" stack and found a few tools that worked well together. I used the following set of tools but may add more options later: - Inference: Ollama - VectorDB: Supabase pg-vector - LLM orchestration: langchain - Framework: nextjs My learning from building ai-town was also that many people don't have the luxury of swiping a credit card to test an app with a lot of AI workloads -- not surprisingly, many models on Ollama are already very good - I used llama2-7b for majority of my dev work. Hope this can lower the barrier to entry for building AI apps. :) https://bit.ly/3QcA1V2 October 31, 2023 at 05:42PM

Monday 30 October 2023

Show HN: Slack with Empathy Chrome Extension https://bit.ly/47bBeD1

Show HN: Slack with Empathy Chrome Extension Hey HN, I decided to create this extension after realizing it was a feature that I wanted inside of slack. A number of times over the past few weeks I've caught myself wishing I had spent a minute more thinking about the other person on the other side of the slack message I was hastily firing off. Or wondering what was taking someone so long to get back to me, only to hear later that afternoon that they were having a tough day to the grief of a recent loss. The extension is quite simple, think of it as "status for others". You can set a reminder, a color to help theme the UI, and an expiration date. I'm in the process of testing whether it actually changes my behavior. Open to feedback and suggestions, as this is my first extension and attempt to solve this problem. Sean https://bit.ly/40khzi1 October 31, 2023 at 03:05AM

Show HN: AnglE-LLaMA Sentence Embeddings (New SOTA on STS) https://bit.ly/3SjzByY

Show HN: AnglE-LLaMA Sentence Embeddings (New SOTA on STS) https://bit.ly/3QDQfIt October 31, 2023 at 01:24AM

Show HN: Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics https://bit.ly/47e90Ye

Show HN: Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics We just launched our open beta of Discourse and would love feedback. We’re a group of professionals from across technology & journalism who all have a shared experience working with sensitive topics and misinformation online. We built Discourse as a way to fill a gap we continued to see in our day jobs: a trustworthy and simple way to understand challenging topics. Discourse is unique in that it (a) combines multiple viewpoints into one place and (b) allows for Wiki-style crowd suggestions. While other sources try to be 'fair and balanced' off the bat, our belief is that it takes time, feedback, and iteration to get there - and the team has built the site around this. We’d love your feedback about how we’re presenting and summarizing the full picture to present a more balanced view of complex topics like the Future of AI, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Climate Change, Defunding the Police, and more. Is the formatting easy to follow? Is the wiki component clear? Are opposing viewpoints being presented fairly? We want to hear it all. For more on Discourse check out indiscourse.com/about – thanks for your feedback! https://bit.ly/3tOaFW2 October 31, 2023 at 12:49AM

Show HN: EnfinBref- {GPT3-5|Mistral-7B} YouTube summaries, segment by segment https://bit.ly/3FEGxz6

Show HN: EnfinBref- {GPT3-5|Mistral-7B} YouTube summaries, segment by segment A neat (in my opinion) little side-project I've been working on, both to get somewhat basic React skills going, and to work with LLMs on even more cool projects to build. It should work for most major languages and output English summaries (or French summaries, if using the main https://bit.ly/3FAzw2t page instead of the /en/ subpage), no matter the input language. Currently planning on expanding in various directions, including some nice new features like choosing a summary type, better video type identification and LLM routing, and bullet points exec summaries. Pretty basic on functionalities at the moment, and relying on a few tricks. The key stack: - FastAPI + Python backend, with some extra libs for type validation (Pydantic), translation and YouTube transcript fetching. - Chained LLM calls with logic. id video type w/ a light model, break down into segments and sections, parallelise as much as can be, general high level summaries. - Models are a mix of Mistral fine-tune and GPT-3.5, with prompts tailored to the identified type of content and the current context. - Front-end is my first foray into React + Tailwind, with my last front-end experience before that being jQuery. Inspired by a post a while back about Summary Cat, but with a more in-depth approach: all summaries are segment-by-segment to get a more in-depth view at potentially complex videos. Segments are defined as being 3mn long for short videos, 5mn for longer ones. Anything above 45mn is broken down into 45 minute sections, both for ease of context length handling (solidly into gpt-3.5-16k territory, which is already more annoying to run than Mistral-7B, and any further would require GPT-4) and because things get a bit murkier to handle in terms of clarity when going above that limit. (the name is from a common French idiom for "anyway") https://bit.ly/46T0luB October 31, 2023 at 12:56AM

Sunday 29 October 2023

Show HN: SanitizHAR: A simple Chrome extension to sanitize HAR file contents https://bit.ly/3FzX0og

Show HN: SanitizHAR: A simple Chrome extension to sanitize HAR file contents https://bit.ly/3saNFjE October 30, 2023 at 12:49AM

Show HN: Rust TUI libcurl HTTP client – developed in prison https://bit.ly/3sdmYee

Show HN: Rust TUI libcurl HTTP client – developed in prison https://bit.ly/3s8yDLp October 30, 2023 at 12:42AM

Show HN: Bitcoin Private Network Manager with a Terminal User Interface https://bit.ly/3Qf7le7

Show HN: Bitcoin Private Network Manager with a Terminal User Interface Introducing PrivateBTC: A Go package providing an intuitive TUI and a streamlined API. Launch and manage your Bitcoin private network with ease. Execute and replace transactions by fee, mine blocks, and programmatically delve into chain reorganizations. https://bit.ly/3skX7Rs October 29, 2023 at 11:17PM

Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law https://bit.ly/40e4aIa

Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law https://bit.ly/45N7co1 October 29, 2023 at 01:06PM

Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client https://bit.ly/3SitivG

Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client Hi HN, This is a little "HN Reader" experiment I made using a domain hack of "news.ycombinato.com" <- notice the "r" is missing . Basically, I thought it would be cool to make a "clone" of the "Hacker News" URL so you can quickly navigate to "YCombinato" from any post on "news.ycombinator" by just dropping the r in the domain. The benefit is a few extra features like; sorting, searching etc... Unfortunately I realized it's essentially a phishing attack :( according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers... but it's still usable and hopefully people find it enjoyable. There's so many "Hacker News" clients now that it's almost equivalent to the TODO app for web developers. This project does take it pretty far by replicating the URL, so if moderators are unhappy with it, please let me know It's a static site using the [1] algolia API, but I tried hard to make it fast and snappy. It's fully [2] open-source and hosted on github too. Anyway, thought I'd share it, let me know what you think! [1] https://hn.algolia.com/api [2] https://github.com/benwinding/ycombinato https://news.ycombinato.com/ October 29, 2023 at 12:32PM

Saturday 28 October 2023

Show HN: Codebuy.org – A Digital Assets Marketplace https://bit.ly/3MhmryE

Show HN: Codebuy.org – A Digital Assets Marketplace https://bit.ly/3MmNYPb October 29, 2023 at 02:09AM

Show HN: Marmotte – Open-Source IT Asset Management Made Simple https://bit.ly/3SivRhl

Show HN: Marmotte – Open-Source IT Asset Management Made Simple https://bit.ly/3Fz2hN1 October 28, 2023 at 11:12PM

Friday 27 October 2023

Show HN: BillDB – What were you charged? https://bit.ly/3QAvUnd

Show HN: BillDB – What were you charged? BillDB is a searchable database of prices people have paid and where. What does each veterinarian charge to spay a cat? Who provides the cheapest oil change in your town? Which plumber has been charging the lowest rate? Which car dealership has been giving the best out-the-door price, inclusive of any surprise markups? Is your current dentist charging you a fair price? Just like with the review sites we all know, BillDB is community-driven, so it's up to us to post what we've paid and where. This is the biggest challenge of the whole project, so it would be great to get your suggestions on achieving that as well as the site itself. I built this with React, Material UI, and Firebase. https://bit.ly/3QAxSUE October 28, 2023 at 12:55AM

Show HN: Prompt Engineering Made Easy https://bit.ly/477SiKd

Show HN: Prompt Engineering Made Easy Hey HN, We've been hard at work on a tool that we believe will change the game for developers, data scientists, and anyone working with models that rely on textual prompts. I'm excited to introduce our new tool: Automated Prompt Engineering (APE). Problem: As many of you know, how you phrase a prompt can significantly impact the results you get from models, especially with sophisticated language models. It often requires numerous iterations to hone in on the right prompt to obtain the desired response. Solution: APE is designed to tackle this exact problem. With APE, you can: - Iterative Testing: Input your desired outcome, and APE will iteratively rephrase and test multiple prompts to achieve that outcome. - Optimization: APE can integrate with popular models and optimize prompts based on the model's feedback, ensuring the highest quality responses. Features: Customization: Tailor the tool according to your domain-specific requirements. Model Integration: Seamless integration with popular NLP models and platforms. Try it out: We've opened a limited beta for HN users. Get early access and let us know your feedback. Your insights will be invaluable in shaping the next iterations of APE. Link to the beta: https://bit.ly/3QATBvS October 27, 2023 at 12:56PM

Show HN: Is It Toxic To? – Check if a plant is toxic to your pets https://bit.ly/49c8R9t

Show HN: Is It Toxic To? – Check if a plant is toxic to your pets All information is from the ASPCA's list of toxic plants ( https://bit.ly/45KP0LH... ) https://bit.ly/3FUg29f October 28, 2023 at 03:44AM

Show HN: ChatGQL – Natural Language Conversations with GraphQL APIs https://bit.ly/47cueG9

Show HN: ChatGQL – Natural Language Conversations with GraphQL APIs https://bit.ly/478mjtf October 27, 2023 at 10:50PM

Show HN: An AI that reads privacy policies for you https://bit.ly/46KfaQb

Show HN: An AI that reads privacy policies for you https://bit.ly/3MhbUUd October 27, 2023 at 10:31AM