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superasn··on DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
Now that LLMs can summarise videos (I'm guessing it's probably using the srt files) wouldn't it be easier to generate the default better title using that as well
superasn··on Show HN: Hacker News Summary – Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You
I wrote a tampermonkey script(1) so you don't have to navigate away and it shows you summary and takeaways right inside hacker news (2) div boxes, but i was using kagi.com/v1/summarization for the api which is now dead.

But this is the perfect fit for it as I see you have created services for extraction and summarisation which can be easily self hosted and turned into apis.

(1) https://gist.github.com/san-kumar/b3604ca40905556b4135fee64e... (2) https://imgur.com/a/kRUkn6g

superasn··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
If anything it will be much better as it won't mind waiting and asking for answers nor get frustrated with incompetence.
superasn··on Ask HN: Which stack is as boring (good boring) and cheap in 2023 as PHP?
> should I just "undust" my PHP and learn Laravel?

Definitely not a bad idea. Php has come a long way while composer and laravel has made dev a breeze.

You're absolutely right in picking up a good old boring stack and LAMP still rocks.

Also do explore laravel jetstream / interiajs if you get a chance.

superasn··on The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
I really hate that I can't even delete it on my phone. Had to do some `adb` magic to finally get it disabled. There is a really horrible policy for Android on some phones which doesn't allow you to uninstall apps (and some phones like Oppo don't even let you disable it too).

Don't know if it's the same on iPhone (having never owned one) but I reckon they are no better as I have to install 'Notunes' on my laptop just to disable Apple music popping up when I connect bluetooth (and now way to uninstall Apple apps either).

What a horrible ecosystem this is with these companies nowadays.

superasn··on Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
I think the tags can be grouped like Extereme trackers, Moderate trackers, etc and clicking on them expands the full list.

Also one really useful tag would be "Affiliate links" if there is a way to identify a page contains affiliate links like amazon affiliate, etc. Those pages are always almost crap.

Also a tag for "Modal popups", those are too often just marketing related websites and definitely want to skip it if I know prior to visiting.

superasn··on Microsoft looks to tame Bing chatbot
We really need to crowdfund that so it's available to everyone.
superasn··on Ask HN: Our nonprofit got shut down by PayPal. Help?
Something similar happened to this person but he actually won. May help you too

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-paypal-and-i...

superasn··on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Nice idea. Not sure how good the recommendations are just yet, but I really wish there was a Spotify button on there.

Also if it's not a trade secret can you expand "My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output." What kind of analysis are you doing? What is the criteria for picking recommendations? I always find this area of music analysis intersting.

superasn··on Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?
https://www.bootstrapsite.com

Project description:

I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).

The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder. Apart from the drag-n-drop builder, It has many ways to create websites and landing pages including a step by step wizard that generates a landing page after you answer a few simple questions, a GPT3 a.i. filler, etc.

Testing info:

If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.

Contact: support@domain or my personal email in profile.

superasn··on Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT to make your life better?
Chatgpt is incredibly useful for making todo lists. Like when i have a big vague task like "add a billing system", i just tell chatgpt to break the task into byte sized tasks of 25 mins each with 5 min breaks and it gives me CSV table with super simple tasks that I can get started doing instantly.

It's a great little trick if you're feeling stuck or procrastinating.

superasn··on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
I think the thumbs up and down button it shows on each response can be good for that. I think it can already classify similar questions so if it consistently gets a thumbs up or thumbs down it can become smarter too.
superasn··on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
Yes I've switched to chatgpt for all my programming questions nowadays because of many reasons:

1. It understands the versions more clearly, it won't generate the code for Bootstrap 2 when my question is about Bootstrap 5

2. Asking follow up questions is easy. So the code didn't work. I tell it that and instantly it tells me what I need to do to fix it (leave missing config file, etc) or gives me an alternate.

3. Its answers instantaneously except when their site is down.

4. Its more customised as the answer is not a generic question posted an year ago.

5. It spans multiple domains of knowledge, so if lets say I get an error curl.so not found, it can tell me what I must run on the command line to fix that on my system too.

6. Its so much faster because there are no stupid questions. It's just like typing on google vs SO where you need to proof read and make sure its not a duplicate.

superasn··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
> would be nice is the ability to delete, copy, and paste from the canvas

Yes it's possible. Please see this image

https://imgur.com/a/zgnmF0E

> Also on trying to signup with my email I got a server error

Yes the server error was due to SES not being able to send emails (fixed now) but the account was created.

Thanks for the feedback

superasn··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://www.bootstrapsite.com

I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).

It's like my pet project than any money earning business but it gives me pleasure to work on it so I just keep at it.

My plan is to open source it soon so people can create their sites and landing pages for free and host it on their own servers. Initially I made it create my own sites and learn Vue 3 but I'm kinda hooked on how it's turning out to be.

Right now everything is free including ssl hosting. Maybe to support the hosting cost I will charge a one time fees later on, but except a small "Powered by blurb" there will never be any difference between paid and free plan.

It's work in progress so I don't think it's ready for a Show HN just yet but that's the next big thing on my list.

The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder (need to update the landing page to reflect that soon).

If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.

superasn··on What happens when a CPU starts
I found this video a long time ago about this and it's a great way to understand it if you're a visual learner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7X7aZvMXQ&t=5s

superasn··on Old man yells at cloud
I guess it's the glass half full or empty type situation

1. You can watch your favorite movie sitting on a bus stop

2. sure but i can listen to any song i like those that aren't on my playlist thanks to 4g instead of hearing annoying radio ads. i can frickin see the tyre pressure of each individual tyre fwiw.

3. yes but again i can watch anything i like as compared to having a tivo or even before that when you missed your favorite show at 9pm, you missed it forever.

superasn··on Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?
I'd vote for tampermonkey. If you learn how to use it well it's almost like a new superpower.
superasn··on Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving
I feel amazon cloudfront is a much better option for an image proxy. Takes less than a minute to setup, offers automatic ssl and dozens of caching endpoints. Also super easy to automate with AWS cli. Even optimizes for streaming videos. I have never had any issues with them.

You can check the AWS calculator to figure out the pricing based on your average bandwidth. Depending on your use case you may be paying less than a Cloudflare pro account.

superasn··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
That sounds great. Is this SD? Are you running this locally or via some service? Would love more details if you don't mind.
superasn··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
Yes there has been a lot of hot things in A.I. in 2022 but most of them are mostly novelty value like Dall-E/SD and sometimes worse like SEO spam.

Copilot is the only real value I'm getting from the recent A.I revolution and it does save me hundreds of lines of manully typing code all day. And the best part is it's getting better and better each day.

superasn··on Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?
I don't know if this is the case with HTML5 but one small feature of flash that I really loved is the seamless music loop even when the audio had trailing or padding silence.

The loop just worked and flash trimmed out silence automatically when playing the music. Very useful for games.

superasn··on Ask HN: What is the coolest thing you have seen done with a bash script?
Kind of obligatory for HN as it has been shared many times but I think Bocker is pretty cool - Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash

(1) https://github.com/p8952/bocker

superasn··on What’s so great about functional programming anyway?
Just watched a video(1) about functional programming and this is the gist of it (for those like me who don't know).

Three main things of functional programming:

1. Keep your data and function independent

2. avoid changing state of variables, instead declare others

3. accept function/reference as a param

(1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dAPL7MQGjyM&t=3s

superasn··on Imagine McDonald's makes its own money, let's call them clown-bucks
Now imagine McDonald took a $10B+ loan and based on the collateral of the gift-certificates it has printed but hasn't given away. Because that is what is happening in crypto afaik.

I think this part probably didn't happen in real word before ...or did it? (hoping it didn't)

superasn··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Very nice. I use a telegram bot for doing this as telegram API also makes it a simple GET request to send such notifications to yourself (once you have created a bot).

Also it's surprisingly hard to kill telegram for some reason so it's kinda robust. My stupid mi phone is quite aggresive in killing most background apps except whatsapp and telegram.

superasn··on Ask HN: What games are you having fun with?
I really had an amazing time recently playing this game called Inside (by playdead).

It's such a simple 2d scroller game but somehow I really enjoyed the whole gameplay and the story.

superasn··on I made a cute mini desktop robot
The title is verbatim as per HN guidelines (not my project).

I don't understand a word in this video but it's just so amazing to see what he is doing and the end product.

superasn··on TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
Another cool website that I came across a few days ago is https://vdo.ninja/ (create reusable invite option) which also uses the HTML camera APIs to connect your mobile phone to OBS. Both the audio and video quality I get from my phone is at par or sometimes even superior to my laptop's webcam. This video tutorial(1) explains the setup really well.

Kudos to whoever made this free site and also the modern browser tech for making this possible.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArVDKf2QK1s

superasn··on Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
For all the red-tape and corruption we have here, I still think India has done a phenomenal job with UPI payments. I mean I don't even remember the last time I used my credit card considering I have even forgotten the pin codes now.

One or two other thing I love about these UPI payments is that it doesn't seem to incur any 2 or 3% commissions(1) which is both great for the consumer and the merchant (as these costs would eventually be passed to the customer anyway). Also almost every cc machine, website and panwala has a the QR codes now so no need to carry a wallet or plastic cards. I can make payments of Rs.5 and that's fine.

I don't even carry a wallet anymore to a mall or any place since my driver's lic/reg is in the digilocker app(2) and the credit card is the gpay/phonepe app.

(1) Not really sure if there is or will be later, since I'm not a fintech person, but from what I can tell I don't see any commission on UPI payments yet.

(2) https://www.google.com/search?q=digilocker+license+valid

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