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kashnoteon Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

All good points. To be honest, I hate Twitter so I don't know if I'll be trying to share it on there, but I agree that promoting discussions is the way to go.

PS Fixed the voting algorithm (was using ASC instead of DESC). Probably needs more work but thanks for pointing it out!

kashnoteon Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

This is actually what I'm going for, which is why I described it as "Hacker New but for research papers." I think it'll definitely be possible with proper moderation

kashnoteon Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

Ah interesting. I'm using LaXeXML to translate LaTeX to HTML. Might be something up with that. Will take a look at it!

kashnoteon Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

Appreciate it!

kashnoteon Ask HN: Reject/ghost on all job applications with 8 YoE, what am I doing wrong?

You didn’t mention it in your post so I assume you have been applying to these positions online. I would try and work your network as much as possible here. With a decent resume, you’re almost guaranteed an interview if you get a referral.

kashnoteon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://cubedesk.io - the chess.com of Rubik’s cubes

I started this as a side project about two years ago and now it has about 1k daily active users. Users time themselves solving the Rubik’s cube, practice on the trainer, and 1v1 others.

Technically, it’s generating some money from the Pro feature, but not enough to run the servers. So I pay out of pocket every month. It has a lot of fans and supporters so I’d never shut it down, but it’d be nice to at least break even.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

I'm working on it. I recently redesigned the landing page and plan on adding more info soon. I don't work on CubeDesk full time so it's mostly after work or weekends when I can make improvements. I'd like to add a whole help/docs section soon with all this info.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

Right, it's a hard problem to solve. A camera-based approach would be invasive, impractical, and really easily duped. But now we have bluetooth cubes.

Bluetooth cubes still have a ways to go before they're physically good enough and also affordable enough to replace regular cubes, but they will solve this issue. CubeDesk already supports a few types of BT cubes. When you use a BT cube on CubeDesk, you get a breakdown of every stage, turns per second, areas you paused, etc.

The unfortunate thing about BT cubes is that all the companies making them have their own proprietary software that they want their customers to use, so they encode the data coming from the cube to make it really hard for anyone to make sense of it. Some of us in the cubing dev world have reversed engineered these techniques, but it's just unfortunate how they try to keep it a secret.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

You're right, it's not really beginner friendly. I want to improve upon that in the coming months. But for now, there are tons of cubing-related resources online nowadays. For 99% of cubers, you want to focus on OLL and PLL algorithms.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

I have implemented an ELO system, but it's just running in the background right now with no UI component. I'm collecting data for now to see how I'll need to tweak the various params that go into ELO calculation. I'm going to try to make it as close to chess as possible.

As for cheaters/trolls, I have a manual reporting system right now, but I'll do my best to start flagging accounts automatically. Pretty hard thing to solve given the nature of the issue.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

I'll double check the large average calculation logic.

Good question. I recently came out with a Pro version for CubeDesk which is mainly there for people who want to support development. You also get some minor stuff like additional themes and 1v1 options.

I'm hoping that enough people buy Pro so that I can cover the server costs. As long as the server costs are covered (or at least not too high), there's no reason for me to ever take down the app. If nothing else, it's a good learning opportunity for me.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

I actually have plans of making some parts of the app accessible without having to log in.

Since I started the app by saving data to the DB instead of the user’s device, this is more of a technical limitation than a choice that I’ve made. I just need to put aside the time to implement it.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

It can be used for any cube or event. The WCA ones are built-in but you can even add custom event types if you want.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

I think cubing definitely has potential to become mainstream like chess has. Maybe I should try reaching out to chess streamers to share my app with their audience.

kashnoteon Show HN: I'm building the “chess.com” of speed cubing

Thanks! Yup it’s all made with React and Sass.

Didn’t use anything for designing it. Just mainly eyeballing

kashnoteon Ask HN: A Dumb Database?

Well my problem isn’t really the storage, per se, but rather the management of it. I don’t really want to spend time and build my own UI for this. If for whatever reason I want to toggle has_seen_welcome_popup for a certain user, I don't want to connect to the prod DB with a client either.

I can definitely do this on my own, but a SaaS with a nice UI just makes sense for this use case.

kashnoteon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://kg.dev

I share my thoughts and personal projects

kashnoteon Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices

I assume they’re trying to fight against bots buying up “hot” Airbnbs that sell out quickly. It’s a weird captcha for sure, but understandable why they wouldn’t want bots accessing the site.

kashnoteon Google Search Is Dying

Are people still drinking cow milk? Oat milk all the way.

kashnoteon You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses

Ditto!