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Just use fable and F# instead, your code transpiles to python and rust too

reverseblade2on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

A tool For logistics and container planning and movers:

LLM driven 3d packing written in F#

reverseblade2on Hidden 960 Chess Variant

- Yes, pcs don’t have to share the same columns.

- There is a certain level uncertainty about where these pcs will land. Yes perhaps stockfish could try to add all possible future placements but I expect that would significantly hinder stockfish as the the number of possibilities grow hundreds of times.

Your opponent doesn’t know which piece will be where until you reveal it. Therefore can’t attack a non defended pawn on b column because you may reveal a castle on next turn.

On the overall it mitigates problems of weird openings in regular chess 960 but End game stays the same.

reverseblade2on Hidden 960 Chess Variant

I built Hidden 960 Chess to bring back human creativity. At https://hidden960.onur.works, your back rank starts hidden—gray squares hide your pieces from a secret pool (1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights). You reveal them as you play, and if an opponent threatens a hidden square, it must be revealed immediately. When only a couple of hidden squares remain, you reveal them together. Currently rules aren't enforced and no computers.

Because of the hidden information and forced reveals, computer algorithms struggle with planning moves, making the game a true test of human intuition. Give it a try

reverseblade2on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

Location: Norway

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Resume: Creator of 3dpack.ing

Email:onur@3dpack.ing

reverseblade2on GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

lol. I was a going to build this. Even purchased the domain alert.now I even have news based version active implementation at alarms.global if you install it to your phone as PWA you get push notifications when something important happens in your region or can notify you before public holidays

I even have an automated x account @alarmsglobal

reverseblade2on How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?

It is odd that C# version doesn't increase list capacity:

List<Task> tasks = new List<Task>(numTasks);

reverseblade2on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

I have built a news and public holidays tracker at httsp://alarms.global. It focuses on what happened and natural disasters so that you can know what's going on.

There is also twitter account you can follow to see the set of news https://x.com/AlarmsGlobal

reverseblade2on Terence Tao on O1

Here's a little test I try on LLMs. So far only O1 and Microsoft Copilot (bing chat) was able to solve it:

Find a, b, c distinct positive integers satisfying a^3 + b^3 = c^4. Hint: try dividing all sides by c^3, then giving values to (a/c) and (b/c).

reverseblade2on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

I have a 40 ft HQ container and I would like to fill it with following items:

- 10 boxes of Clothes, 100x140x170 cm, 5kg each, non stackable.

- 8 boxes of Shoes, 80x120x170 cm, 3kg each, keep boxes upright.

- Try to fit everything into a single container.

https://3dpack.ing

reverseblade2on Big Ball of Mud (1999)

Fun fact, when I told my skip level manager that we have is big ball of mud, I think he was unfamiliar with the term.

Few months later I heard a complaint from my direct manager that I called our code “big ball of crap” and it was a major software company

reverseblade2on Show HN: A Modern Palletization App

here's my alternative 3d bin packer https://3dpack.ing

reverseblade2on AI driven 3D bin packer written in F#

Hi, Yes AI merely acts as an interface, not part of the algorithm. It's because trying to add everything as a UI, I personally find it challenging. Also the options can exponentially grow. In the future I plan to add more sophisticated features as in

"- Do not add Clothes over Shoes, while Shoes and Buttons can be stacked over each other but do not exceed 140 cm height."

This in turn can be translated into a json level config but it is difficult to acquire user input with plain forms.

There are 2 different algorithms. One is adding each box partitions space into 3 and those spaces are recursively filled. Eventually the problem is reduced to finding the correct permutation of boxes along with their correct orientation.

That is primarily derived by simulated annealing of which I had good experience with combinatory problems. Also some magic heuristics which I also don't fully understand takes into play :)

reverseblade2on AI driven 3D bin packer written in F#

Sorry forgot the repo link

https://github.com/goswinr/BinDrake

reverseblade2on AI driven 3D bin packer written in F#

Hello,

I have written a 3D bin packer fully in F# https://3dpack.ing

I plan to open source the frontend. And a fork of older version of the algorithm is available here (albeit that version is very slow)

reverseblade2on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

Location: Oslo Norway

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: .NET, C#, F#, Web components, Lit , distributed computing

Résumé/CV: Microsoft Employee, https://www.linkedin.com/in/onurgumus/

Email: onur@outlook.com.tr

Personal blog: https://onurgumus.github.io

Sample project: 3d bin packer, https://bindrake.com

reverseblade2on Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator

How about just use F# and https://fable.io

reverseblade2on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

  Location: Oslo, Norway. 
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: FSharp, Akka.NET, CQRS, Web Components
  Résumé/CV: Microsoft employee, https://www.linkedin.com/in/onurgumus/
  Email: onur@outlook.com.tr
  Sample project: https://bindrake.com

reverseblade2on Use web components for what they’re good at

Just as a side info, the profile card in Microsoft Teams does use Web Components.

reverseblade2on If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?

Built with lit web components, and F# no shadow root

https://funpizzashop.azurewebsites.net/

Source: https://github.com/OnurGumus/FunPizzaShop

reverseblade2on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)

Location: Oslo, Norway

Current company: Microsoft

Remote: Yes, Any timezone

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies/Arch.: Full-stack F#, Akka.NET, DDD & CQRS, distributed programming

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onurgumus/

Email: onur AT outlook.com.tr

Live app: bindrake.com Workshops: https://github.com/OnurGumus/FunPizzaShop/

reverseblade2on Lit: Simple, fast web components

This is done with lit https://github.com/OnurGumus/FunPizzaShop/tree/main

reverseblade2on BinDrake a 3D Bin Packer

I have build this with F# both front-end and back-end. Thanks

reverseblade2on Thoughts on React vs. Vue vs. Everything Else in 2023

I use F# Fable.Lit with web components. here’s a sample app I built, a 3d bin packer load calculator. https://bindrake.com

reverseblade2on React is holding me hostage

Web Components, Service workers, Lit.dev, htmx, declarative shadow dom. These are the modern tools you need.

reverseblade2on How to hire engineering talent without the BS

The sad fact is usually your assumed nationality, your assumed gender, your skin color (not necessarily being white is always good), your assumed origin and assumed religion matters more.

Depending on these, you end up with different attitude and questions.

reverseblade2on Ask HN: Side projects that generate $0 / month

I have this 3d Bin packer. Its algorithm is pretty solid and there is some use of it. But last month only made $19.

https://bindrake.com

reverseblade2on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

Perhaps, human technology is needed in order to prevent a catastrophic asteroid impact.

But life, never puts all eggs into a single basket. And that's precisely why we have cockroaches.

reverseblade2on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model

- Hey Janelle, what's wrong with wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is everything okay?

- Wolfie is fine dear. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?

reverseblade2on F# to Rust Ray Tracer

Well Bolero runs on Blazor and that runs mono runtime on interpreted mode. So it's not something you would want your code to run if you need high perf.