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friendofafriend··on Elegance is Bullshit
Elegantly put! :)
friendofafriend··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Was recently reading about Project Ara, the modular smartphone project by Google/Motorola [1]. Would have liked to see a few more iterations of the idea. Something more customizable than what we have today without having to take the phone apart.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara

friendofafriend··on Catalog of Novel Operating Systems
Sorry, is "operating environment" a known and used term?

Completely agree with the sentiment here, but have not seen this term used to describe what should almost certainly be distinguished as its own concept to facilitate these kinds of conversations. OE is great terminology.

friendofafriend··on Show HN: Kabit – A Simple Habit Tracker
Thanks for sharing! The app looks good. Last I checked there are only a handful (or less) of really decent habit tracking apps, so the space could certainly use some competition!

What kind of GPT features does this app have and how are you thinking about privacy?

friendofafriend··on Ask HN: Simple API to extract web article text?
I was not aware of any of those projects - thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

goose3, trafilatura, newspaper3k (and newspaper4k even) all look like great tools. We were not planning on rolling our own, but that might be the right way to go after all. Thanks again.

friendofafriend··on Ask HN: Simple API to extract web article text?
Great, I'll check it out. Thank you again!
friendofafriend··on Ask HN: Simple API to extract web article text?
Thanks for the suggestion! The site itself works pretty well, but I'm not seeing an API or any such documentation.
friendofafriend··on Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager
Doesn't appear to work offline yet, but their Pro plan has something called a Permanent Copy [1] which sounds like an archived version of a website.

(Just started using it again and asked the same question)

[1] https://help.raindrop.io/permanent-copy

friendofafriend··on Bloo Lo-Fi Wireframe Kit
This is superb, thanks for sharing! I know a lot of devs & designers will appreciate the free license.
friendofafriend··on Show HN: Landing Page Checklist
+1 to this. Otherwise, looks really good!
friendofafriend··on Show HN: I built a pytorch image transformation visualizer. Thoughts?
It's cool to be able to visualize these operations.

Perhaps you can add a blurb of instructions at the top of the app or in a dialog. It took a bit of playing around with to figure out how to make it work. Just a couple of notes about adding to, and updating the transformation pipeline; and regenerating the output (the button for which should maybe be with the other buttons).

friendofafriend··on Show HN: Map of active customers for landing page
Nice work. I appreciate the relative simplicity of the integration & look forward to using this soon.

Edit: Why the downvote?

friendofafriend··on Show HN: Create a beautiful website, portfolio and resume
Doesn't the Templates page do just that?

https://www.resoume.com/templates

friendofafriend··on First ever GPT-3 startups exit
Even more impressive if this is all true [1]:

- $0 VC funding + fully bootstrapped

- grew to $20K+ MRR in just 8mo

- built remotely as a nomad

- founder learned to code just 1-2 years ago

[1] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1377095814963589125

friendofafriend··on Show HN: Device Shots 1.0 – Screenshot Device Mockup Generator
Nice work. I know there have been a few takes on this kind of tool, but I've always been surprised to not be able to find one this simple and straightforward for such a frequent task.
friendofafriend··on Show HN: Backprop – a simple library to use and finetune state-of-the-art models
Completely understandable, and I appreciate the realistic estimates you've provided. The usage per tier definitely seems fair. I'll keep an eye on this project and hopefully circle back soon. Thanks for the reply!
friendofafriend··on CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
Codeamigo definitely looks like a nice alternative as well, though I'm really keen on Python tools at the moment. Appreciate the heads up nonetheless!
friendofafriend··on CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
Sub 30 is good. Definitely looking forward to that Colab integration though! Thanks for the reply.
friendofafriend··on Show HN: Backprop – a simple library to use and finetune state-of-the-art models
Just commented on your last post so copying here:

This looks pretty slick! Can you give any sort of average number of seconds your pre-trained models run for? Just curious approximately how many API calls one could make on each tier given the per second usage pricing.

friendofafriend··on Show HN: Backprop – a library to easily finetune and use state-of-the-art models
This looks pretty slick! Can you give any sort of average number of seconds your pre-trained models run for? Just curious approximately how many API calls one could make on each tier given the per second usage pricing.
friendofafriend··on CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Programming Courses
Hi,

I commented on the original post but I suppose it got buried [1].

This product looks great, just wondering what kind of computing power is available to teachers for the interactive coding examples. Can it handle machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for example?

Congrats (again) to the founder on the launch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557174

friendofafriend··on Show HN: CourseMaker – Interactive Course Builder for Developers
Looks great, congrats on the launch!

What kind of computing power is available to teachers for the interactive coding examples? Can it handle machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for example?

friendofafriend··on Finally Launched My SaaS
Hey, congrats on the launch!

After scrolling through the home page, the value prop is definitely clear, and overall the site is clean and visually appealing.

Just a couple of notes at first glance: (1) for whatever reason the phrase "Log parcels" doesn't immediately click in my mind as a user (might just be me), and (2) it may be helpful to include one or more screenshots of the app on the landing page (such as the one on the about page [1]).

[1] https://www.parcelfriends.com/about