Hacker News: bburns_km

New comment by bburns_km in "Show HN: Vratix – Open source API Modules that simplify backend development"

bburns_km — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:26:02 +0000

I'm fairly new to Express, so this looks like it could be helpful.

I read through the readme and the site/docs, but didn't see any examples of what the CLI creates.

But here's an example -

https://github.com/vratix-dev/api-library/blob/main/registry...

It might be good to show some code like that on the main page and readme.

Thanks for making this - will try it out!

New comment by bburns_km in "Show HN: Fireproof – local-first database with Git-like encrypted sync"

bburns_km — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:14:18 +0000

Thanks, looking forward to all that - will keep an eye out.

New comment by bburns_km in "Show HN: Fireproof – local-first database with Git-like encrypted sync"

bburns_km — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:34:16 +0000

I had recently been experimenting with pouch/couchdb, and got it working locally, then came across a post on reddit about Fireproof. I really liked how it sounded - like the evolution of pouch/couch.

So I set it up on a node app - it works great locally -

  import { fireproof } from '@fireproof/core'

  const db = fireproof(dbname)

  db.put(doc)

  async read(id) {
    if (id) return await db.get(id)
    return await db.allDocs()
  }

Then I wanted to sync the data to the cloud - just the simplest thing possible, but I got lost in all the connector options and descriptions. I tried setting up PartyKit, but got bogged down in it all and eventually went on to something else.

So it would be great if the home page included a simple demo with a connector - Amazon S3 or PartyKit - including setting up the cloud db.

Thanks, and good luck with everything - it looks amazing...

(side note: HackerNews doesn't let you format code with ``` ??)

New comment by bburns_km in "MiniZork: A Functional Adventure"

bburns_km — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 07:13:09 +0000

Thanks for linking that - it's a nice system with clean syntax -

  (location livingroom  
    (property  
      description "This appears to be the livingroom.  There is a hallway to  
                   the north and a closet to the west."   
      short-description "You are in the livingroom."   
      north hallway  
      west closet  
      south front-door-1))

https://github.com/dbetz/advsys/blob/master/osample.adv

compared with something like MDL -

    
       ,OPENBIT>  
              "open.")  
            ("slightly ajar.")>>)>>

https://github.com/historicalsource/zork-mdl/blob/master/act...

New comment by bburns_km in "Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins"

bburns_km — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:13:56 +0000

"I am convinced that fasting is a fad and may have placebo effect if you think it will."

or... different people respond differently to it.

New comment by bburns_km in "Show HN: Movie of Voyager's Neptune flyby from raw images"

bburns_km — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:44:34 +0000

This was made by PyVoyager [1], an attempt at automating the process of generating movies from the 70k+ images the Voyagers returned.

The Voyagers didn't have accurate camera position information, so the images are haphazardly centered on their targets. PyVoyager attempts to center the images on the target when they are fully in view, though there are still jitters.

One of these days I'd like to pick it up again and complete the movies - the filters can be combined of course to make color movies, as here [2]. There are some more movies here [3].

[1] https://github.com/bburns/PyVoyager

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f71KSLq4s0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-xg0iQIJ_TEusVPNqre32A

Show HN: Movie of Voyager's Neptune flyby from raw images

bburns_km — Wed, 02 May 2018 17:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF3UCo2P-4Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16979313

Points: 5

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New comment by bburns_km in "A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain"

bburns_km — Tue, 01 May 2018 18:03:30 +0000

Great project! The books have really nice covers, and brief descriptions also - https://standardebooks.org/

New comment by bburns_km in "Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars"

bburns_km — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:36:58 +0000

Here's a video showing the discovery of 600,000 asteroids in the inner solar system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2vkLEE4ko

New comment by bburns_km in "Ask HN: How do you find mentors?"

bburns_km — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:19:31 +0000

I happened across a couple of websites recently for finding mentors, which look promising -

https://mentorcruise.com/

https://www.mentorconnect.me/

New comment by bburns_km in ""Sonic attack" may have been two ultrasonic signals accidentally interfering"

bburns_km — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 01:36:56 +0000

It exists! http://www.halfbakery.com/

New comment by bburns_km in "Show HN: Firstusers.io – Find out how companies got their first users"

bburns_km — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:04:04 +0000

This is some great information - however clicking Back after reading some info scrolls the homepage back to the top. The categorization into separate categories is probably not too useful at this point - it might make more sense to just have a single page with all the companies and their strategies listed.

Anyway, great idea for a site - maybe you could add a post to Twitter or Facebook button to help spread it around.