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johndimmon Show HN: Gradual Daylight Saving – Spread the 1-hour shifts over the whole year

Yeah, watches are a problem. Some possibilities:

Some clever horloger will find a simple mechanism to perform calendar-based warping.

After spending that much money on a watch, you'll be glad to be forced to play with it every few days. Makers will add the ability to move forward or back by seconds.

Our AI overlords will come to the same conclusion on their own and will not care about watches.

johndimmon Show HN: Apps posted here classified by LLM

Is it okay to classify apps this way? Not the same as news.

Link to the app: https://show-hn-classified.vercel.app/

johndimmon Show HN: I used AI and embeddings to build word-chain puzzles with closed loops

This is pretty cool!

Would like to see explanations for the connections which are sometimes not obvious.

Maybe make a video showing how it adapts as you make guesses. I wasn't sure what was happening when the first green arrow showed up.

I also like NYT Connections and have the feeling a better version could be created that would, like this, let you try out 2 and 3-word groupings visually before committing to a possible red-herring.

johndimmon Show HN: Constellations – On-the-fly D3 collaboration graphs of history via LLMs

Update Jan 11:

Originally designed to map world history, Constellations has evolved into a Universal Bipartite Explorer. It uses LLMs to identify the fundamental "Atomic" building blocks and the "Composite" collections that connect them in any domain.

Supported Bipartite Pairs: History: Person (Atomic) ↔ Event/Project (Composite) Cinema: Actor/Director (Atomic) ↔ Movie/TV Show (Composite) Sports: Player (Atomic) ↔ Team (Composite) Culinary: Ingredient (Atomic) ↔ Recipe (Composite) Medicine: Symptom (Atomic) ↔ Disease (Composite) Academia: Researcher (Atomic) ↔ Paper/Grant (Composite)

johndimmon Show HN: Constellations – On-the-fly D3 collaboration graphs of history via LLMs

I built this to see if I could create 'collaboration graphs' on the fly using LLMs instead of a pre-computed database. It connects people to people through events they both participated in.

The project was 100% 'vibe coded'. I started in Google AI Studio, moved to Antigravity, then Cursor, and finally Codex. The README has the full 'tool-hopping' story and the initial prompt that started it all.

Live demo is here: https://constellations-delta.vercel.app/