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dankwizard··on Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database
"Directus TV" (with content such as "Live scenes from our team with ambient music to help you get into the flow when you're coding")

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They really did it. FSaaS (Flow State as a Service)

Sign me up

dankwizard··on Bitwarden Authenticator
Do a few searches of "Authy" and you'll be switching sooner rather than later. Absolutely awful app.
dankwizard··on Show HN: OpenAstra – Chat based open-source alternative to Postman
People really do be throwing AI onto anything and everything these days
dankwizard··on A secret poker game you can play on the subway
Humans slaved away to give me the perfect entertainment device at my finger tips and you're trying to drag me away with what looks to be the most boring game I've ever seen?

And to think Poker is the right move after we all battle our Balatro addiction?

dankwizard··on Ask HN: What would you do with $1000 in AI credits
There is a website where creators can sell a subscription to their 'content'. Their fans buy it.

I followed a guide I saw on reddit a while back on how to use AI and establish a workflow to create an AI 'content creator'. I'm currently running two models. I'd probably use the tokens on image/video gen to give subscribers a bit more this month.

dankwizard··on Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki
Thank you, I hadn't noticed!
dankwizard··on WTF Are Popcorn Tasks?
Summarised:

If you are drowning in "popcorn tasks" and it is impacting your deliverables, sit down with your boss/stakeholder and advise them that this will impact your deliverables.

dankwizard··on I Blog with Raw HTML
I think OP is defining Raw HTML as an excuse to not bother with themes, style, or clever use of HTML.

Just ignore the markdown and Javascript....

dankwizard··on Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki
What algorithm are you using for SRS?

Anki recently updated to include (the much better) FSRS4.5 algorithm alongside their usual (and still default) SM-2.

dankwizard··on Show HN: For Valentines, I built an app for my boyfriend
Genius. You give him the app, he gives you the outrageous $10 per week subscription fee!
dankwizard··on First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision, classical AI, a lot of free time
Even if it isn't winning, I'm choosing multiplayer to play against others. If I wanted to verse machine code, I'd play single player.
dankwizard··on "A computer can never be held accountable"
This feels very "I'm 12 and this is deep".

If a bridge collapses, are you blaming the cement?

dankwizard··on Ask HN: AI bots everywhere – does anyone have a good whitelist for robots.txt?
People pointing at AI are right, but also, I've done a lot of scraping for personal sites and small side hustles and not once even been concerned to check for robots.txt.
dankwizard··on OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
Reddit comment moment.
dankwizard··on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color
And his post history. It's always one sentence about who he is, then a paragraph of text of one of his many careers slightly related to OP
dankwizard··on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color
(It's a bot)
dankwizard··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
I kind of count this as "Breaking it". Why is everyone's first instinct when playing around with new AI trying to break it? Is it some need to somehow be smarter than a machine?

Who cares.

"Oh lord, not being able to reference the events of China 1988 will impact my prompt of "single page javascript only QR code generate (Make it have cool CSS)"

dankwizard··on Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Neo, get off HN and go destroy the agents!
dankwizard··on Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages
It's ChatGPT answers anyway.
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys
It has happened twice. I outline in the contract if there's no contact 48 hours after agreed pick up time I will look at other options.

Then one went to a vet to rehome, and one went to the pound.

It does feel really bad but if they didn't abandon to me, they would have abandoned elsewhere.

I implemented a minimum booking period (5 days) to try minimise it. People looking to get rid of their pets don't really want to shell over $150 to do it.

dankwizard··on Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys
Yes, it was how I got the idea. I needed cat boarding.
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Best side hustle for WFH guys
Cat boarding.

Got privvy to the idea when we needed to find boarding for our cat when going on a holiday. Scoped out a few businesses and they were costly, so explored private. All the private ones we visited were simply a largish cage with 3 or so levels, all with litter + bowls within cage. Ranges from $30-40 per night (Australia).

I have a spare room. I looked up Cat Cages and purchased 3 for $150 each. Then I considered what could happen (Vets, abandonment, etc.) and consulted with a lawyer to help write up a contract for customers. (~$1000)

The bare minimum work required is about 20 minutes per day for breakfast, dinner, water top up & scooping the litterbox.

The 3 cages all are booked out about 200 days of the year each for about $18,000 yearly.

Yes I have had 2 people abandon their pets. This was difficult to go through.

edit: I should add - There may be some business hours work required if a cat falls ill and vet trips required.

dankwizard··on Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain
This isn't anything new, or exclusive to Google, or exclusive to OAuth.

My workmate hadn't used Facebook for many years and it was associated to an email on a custom domain. Said domain expired and somehow hackers/script kiddies/bots must have an email list, run a whois, buy the domain if expired, setup email, and do password resets across social media and common websites. His Facebook was stolen.

dankwizard··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
"And then they released Microsoft Bob. They should have named it Microsoft Bomb, because it bombed. But if you take one letter out of Bomb, you get Bob. So they almost got it right."

So proud of this one they had to explicity point it out. Thank you though, I never would have made that connection.

dankwizard··on Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
Don't beat yourself up.

This guy - "I do actually know Rust, but I never learned how to use it. I just started writing it because I was born with an innate knowledge of the language, similar to how I know Java or Kotlin despite never having learned them."

My first words were "Dada!". This guys was "public static void main(String[] args)"

dankwizard··on 1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project
I don't speak the language so maybe what you're scraping isn't in this list, but why manual when they seem to have comprehensive RSS feeds? [1]

Automating this part should have been day 1.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/infoservices/rssfeeds

dankwizard··on ChatGPT Pro
I bought it. My first prompt? "To prove you're smarter, tell me how I can get this Pro plan for $10 instead of $200".

It answered.

I've been in contact with OpenAI and if they decline, I guess their AI isn't that smart. If they accept, a win for me.

Stonks.

dankwizard··on 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
I go further than judging a book by its cover, I judge it by its name!
dankwizard··on Show HN: Book and change flights with one email
Sorry I didn't log back in.

I kept trying to do flights from Adelaide (A capital city, but a smaller) to Sydney and back.

It couldn't find anything.

dankwizard··on Show HN: Belief.garden – a social network for civil discussion
Why?

I clicked an example profile, 'Athena'.

I can now scroll for what feels like forever to see what they approved of, what they disapproved of, with soulless AI generated slop background photos with the foreground being dictionary definitions of words/phrases.

Sometimes they add a comment?

All summarized in a donut chart which doesn't really convey any sort of stat.

I'd rather spend my evenings browsing brain rot Tiktoks than this.

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