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hammeiamon Show HN: What to Wear in NYC Today

Great idea, I've moved some elements around to put the focus on the people. I definitely take a lot of inspiration from TCP, but many of those cameras are like 320p - way too low res to extract figures from. The 19 HD cameras all look onto highways. I'm all ears if you know of any other HD feeds I should be exploring!

hammeiamon Show HN: What to Wear in NYC Today

Thank you! Shockingly there are not many public HD webcams in NYC. THE NYC DOT can provide access to some of theirs - I've already emailed them about adding them to the site. The quality of the cutouts is downstream of the quality of the video feed, unless I do something like superresolution...

hammeiamon 'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This

Doesn't even mention crocs

hammeiamon Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

Photopea is such an amazing project. Pre-AI solo dev, too.

hammeiamon It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

I'm not going to take design advice from somebody who animates snow falling over the text and images of his blog

hammeiamon DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

Sparse Attention, it's the highlight of this model as per the paper

hammeiamon Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

I took this one as well - even as a new programmer is was really engaging and information-dense.

hammeiamon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

I built a website that lets you browse Pokemon ENS (Ethereum Name Service) names, view their registration statuses and recent sales. It's a small but engaged niche

https://pokemon-ens.com

hammeiamon Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta

hammeiamon Mark: AI Bookmark for Physical Readers

What if you have two books?

hammeiamon Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

Why wake up so early for tiktok time?

hammeiamon Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

Yes, no such thing as dark pools in traditional finance /s

hammeiamon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Awesome! I think that makes you matcha's first official user. Please let me know if you have any other feature requests or use cases you'd like me to look into

hammeiamon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I appreciate you testing it! The whisper model that I'm using indeed doesn't seem to pick up filler words, I'll try to add those ASAP. I'd also like to add background noise removal as a preprocessing step in case the input audio isn't the cleanest.

Were you able to import the result into your editor?

hammeiamon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

https://matcha.video is an in-browser transcription-based video editor. Remove silence and keep only the takes that you want with just a couple clicks. Export your edits to an XML format that you can bring into FCP or Davinci Resolve to finish. Free to use, data stays on your machine.

Note: this is a WIP, so if you have any experience working with .fcpxml, I'd love to hear from you!

hammeiamon Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams

I've been a YNAB (You Need A Budget) user for years now, and they have a community run extension which includes Sankey Diagrams and different visualizations and reports. Highly recommend!

hammeiamon My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

ahh this is the insight I was missing, thank you!

hammeiamon My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

The "Split the array into subarrays of length 5, now sorting all of the arrays is O(n) instead of O(n log n)" feels like cheating to me

hammeiamon Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

Right now it exports a .fcpxml file which you would import into you editor (davinici, final cut etc) which includes all of the cuts you made. And from there you could move things around, add effects, do color grading, whatever you need to do to get to a final product.

hammeiamon Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

I've spent some of my free time over the past couple of months working on something similar. It's in a decent state but I need help from somebody who understands the .fcpxml format so you can export your edits to Davinci and FCP.

Take a look at https://matcha.video

hammeiamon Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships

They give this book out to all the new hires at Flexport, or at least they did a few years ago

hammeiamon OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture

I'm just seeing an nginx page, is archive.ph/is/today down?

hammeiamon Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)

May I ask which one, and what your process was that led you to them?

hammeiamon How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview

One thing I’ve wondered about is how can I best perform query expansion to return vectors that answer my question rather than just looking like my question itself?

hammeiamon Casio G-Shock time sync radio

Your $0.02 costs $1500

hammeiamon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

I built a simple little webapp to help encourage taking breaks during work to practice healthy habits, it's called https://takeabreak.health

Eventually I'd like to add auth and a backend, it's using localstorage for now.

hammeiamon Get a personal teacher

Things that are missing for me to have found this helpful: - how to get a teacher - anecdotes about how having a teacher affected your life - why a teacher I found at the pub is better than a udacity course

hammeiamon The quest for a simple smartwatch

Withings scanwatch is the way to go. Looks like a watch, functions like a smartwatch, doesn’t break the bank. https://a.co/d/gvy1CWR