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amagasakion Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video

Could be interesting, but allowing the webcam crashes my browser.Repeatedly

macOS 15.7.1 (24G231) Brave 1.87.186 (Official Build) (arm64) Chromium: 145.0.7632.45

amagasakion High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping

The HTML version has much larger images

amagasakion Typing fast is about latency, not throughput

If anyone is interested - I have written https://typealong.app/ because I wanted to combine reading with typing practice.

amagasakion ChatGPT app for iOS

Not available in Germany. That’s a pity.

amagasakion Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced

That's SvelteKit (https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/routing)

amagasakion Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

The MetaMask Chrome extension doesn't let me visit your site because it seems to be listed on a list concerning "Ethereum Phishing Detection". Haven't seen this before, just thought to let you know.

amagasakion The Awful German Language (1880)

Perhaps “Weib” An outdated,today slightly pejorative, word for “Frau” But to me the term “das Fischerweib” doesn’t sound familiar either, so I am not sure

amagasakion Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies

And furthermore you have to differentiate between "assistance" doctors (~82k $) and "chef" doctors (~336k $). (I don't know the comparable titles in the US system)

Both values are taken from the parent's article and converted using Google. Of course, mostly without serious student debt

amagasakion Ask HN: How to hole up in a cabin in the woods to write my great software idea?

On macOS there is Dash - https://kapeli.com/dash which can download and make easily searchable many documentations as well as StackOverflow answers. I have been using it sparingly, but for coding without an internet connection it seems ideal

amagasakion People-tracking wristbands tested to enforce lockdown in Bulgaria

At least post a source for such a claim. M understanding is that they managed. to act relatively good, given the information and circumstances.

amagasakion Ask HN: Easy Workaround for Wikipedia Censorship in Turkey

I didn't look at the source code, but there seems to be a Chrome extension that does this. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikizero/ailedophm...

amagasakion Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

That would be really great. To improve looking through new repos at least a litte bit I like the browser plugin [Octotree](https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree), it adds a tree view of the code and eases jumping between files.

amagasakion The Konami exodus

Well, at least in reference letters, former employees can be criticised quite well. Mostly by omitting certain words. I believe most employers have practice in reading between the lines.

edit: I always thought this is just culturally. I have no idea, but I don't believe there are any laws that forbid telling the truth about former employees.

amagasakion Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

You have built such a thing! :-D

amagasakion Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

I had to disable PrivacyBadger for it to work

amagasakion Ask HN: What are your greatest productivity hacks?

https://www.notion.so/

I just googled "notion notes" and it was the first link. Looks quite interesting!