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hacker of python, go, nosql. advisor to startups in bayarea and beyond. reach out- ''.join('.com gmail @ emailg+hn'.split()[::-1])
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gagzilla··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
I'm guessing from the AIS Vessel Tracking (mentioned in their data sources)- https://www.vesselfinder.com/realtime-ais-data
gagzilla··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

There is also this one- https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/

gagzilla··on !Camera
Same concern. Uninstalled. The other obvious concern is of not being able to test the actual app without a paid subscription.

Side note- I wish the AppStore would identify apps that are completely useless without a paid plan.

gagzilla··on The Small World of English
Very cool and fascinating. I wonder if there are other insights that can be drawn from what you've built. Like which two words (or such pairs) have the longest sequence of hops to connect? Or what are the top "superconnectors"? Or if there is a plausible correlation between how well a word is connected to how old it is?
gagzilla··on The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter
This looks really cool. A while ago I was thinking of putting together something similar but for very different reasons but this would enable bringing them to life much more easily.

Have you published as yet, how to create a new game on this?

gagzilla··on Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp
This is really useful! Makes it easy to feed unstructured (thoughts) into a spreadsheet for processing later on. Thanks for doing this. Are you planning on making this open-source?
gagzilla··on Ask HN: What charities do you contribute to?
Love their mistakes page- https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes

Most startups could learn to maintain a page like this.

gagzilla··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
This is a great thread! I'm wondering if creating an ideas-people matchmaking site for it makes sense- it could be a collection of ideas along with their stage of development (idea only, prototype ready, production ready, etc) and a similar collection of skills/people who are willing to/interested in projects. All opensource/free of course.

I'll be up for putting this together if someone wants in on this. I'm a generalist with mastery/expertise in [python, go, nosql dbs, aiml, bigdata] have product and business experience as well.

gagzilla··on FD 100
There are also web implementations like https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ or https://turtleacademy.com/ which kids love to play with (and I'll admit is fun for us adults too!) The fern example in particular is surprisingly beautiful.
gagzilla··on Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
You can also host an event for online volunteering- eg. mapping projects. Examples- https://www.missingmaps.org/ and https://www.hotosm.org/

Most of these would show a leaderboard of whoever has made most contributions (within your event/subgroup) and you can turn it into a game.

gagzilla··on Show HN: Thoughtwriter – a digital whiteboard for your thoughts
These prompts can vary significantly based on the field you are working on. You should consider a way to customize these prompts that are more relevant to your field.

Overall- very cool concept. Realized this while using it- I have a forcing function of taking only the useful parts of my thoughts forward. That is handy for someone like me that has brain-spills all the time :)

gagzilla··on How to start a startup without ruining your life
Almost all such articles miss the most crucial self assessment piece- if you are married/in a relationship make sure you and your partner have a good understanding of the potential stress that you are about to take on. It can make all the difference in making shitty days tolerable or even more terrible.
gagzilla··on Ask HN: Where should I host my startup?
Sometimes the best question is the simplest one. I agree the original has a lot of scope of improvements but I prefer the debate and the range of answers which wouldn't have been the case if the original question was more specific.
gagzilla··on Hello world in every programming language
The TrumpScript is awesome :)

Lots of us are pointing out what's missing, but I think there is at least two that doesn't necessarily belong in a category of programming language- plain text and json. The latter one just says {"hello":"world"} if you are curious.

There may be more but I haven't looked through all of them.

gagzilla··on Show HN: Lambdaway
I tried clicking on this link while in India. Strangely enough, I'm getting this intriguing message-

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

gagzilla··on Amazon Echo Dot
If Amazon gains by providing this service to prime members then why don't they have a voice control app for iOS/Android to connect with Alexa? (not just the setup Alexa app)
gagzilla··on Open Food Facts – A free food products database
Love the concept. Tried adding products with the Android app- it would be good to add more details than just the name and pictures (on the app that is)

Also encountered a bug for a new product ingredient. The unfortunate part is that it lost all the data that I had entered till then.

Looking forward to contributing.

gagzilla··on Open Food Facts – A free food products database
Wow. Mountain Dew stands out with 77g of sugar per 100g in the soda category.

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?action=process&...

gagzilla··on Fourier Image Filtering
Strangely for me- neither Chrome nor Firefox seems to load this. Would be helpful if we knew what's missing to make this work.
gagzilla··on Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading
It should be possible to change the color of the selected letter to indicate where you are on the page. Alternate option could be to position the word on the (current) vertical line to indicate where you are on the whole page. I'd like to believe that if the text is reasonable amount- the transition for either would be gradual.

Hoping the open source fairy sprinkles some dust on this one.

gagzilla··on The Virtual Typewriter Museum: Hansen writing ball
If it was done in 1870, the design is past copyright expiration. Would be a fun project to recreate this machine- specially with 3D printers making it more accessible to make. Anyone know where we might find the actual design?