Hacker News: joshelgar

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?"

joshelgar — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:58:12 +0000

Really cool - keep at it.

New comment by joshelgar in "Gemma: New Open Models"

joshelgar — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:13:01 +0000

Could you give an example of these datasets?

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?"

joshelgar — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:41:40 +0000

1. GPT4 "500 tough professions w/ hardship involved" 2. Multiply that with "500 shifts in or regulations> since 2000" 3. Get inspired to come up with - grumpy fisherman mad about mooring fees, dog walkers upset about walking limits, 10x increases in flytipping in blackpool 4. As your ideation improves, train a better gpt.

Frankly all those FB groups (min. names) are probably in the GPT training set, just a case of finding good prompts to get inspiration.

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?"

joshelgar — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:28:06 +0000

Often 40+ yr old people complain about problems that you can solve e.g. vet technicians don't like veterinary software - you can fix that somehow.

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?"

joshelgar — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:36:40 +0000

Some starting points:

- Find old datasets (hn.algolia.com "datasets", use huggingface, search arxiv)

- Use weird search engines, e.g. exa.ai (searches based on embeddings vs. google's pagerank/keywords) + google dorks. weird input = weird output

- mix 2 ideas you see - look at showcase channels on discord and pages on random frameworks, things people are building at Buildspace

- Find old facebook groups with lots of grumpy members posting regularly

These are just random strategies I use before I make things I post on twitter (https://twitter.com/joshelgar), but they work pretty well for coming up with fun projects.

New comment by joshelgar in "Stable Cascade"

joshelgar — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:30:18 +0000

Why are they benchmarking it with 20+10 steps vs. 50 steps for the other models?

New comment by joshelgar in "Show HN: Every "Launch HN" Ranked"

joshelgar — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:40:48 +0000

Sharing another weekend project here - every "Launch HN" post ever made, coloured according to how many points they received.

Code: https://github.com/JoshElgar/HNLaunches

Data: https://github.com/JoshElgar/HNLaunches/blob/main/src/app/da...

Show HN: Every "Launch HN" Ranked

joshelgar — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://joshelgar.com/hnlaunches

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315256

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by joshelgar in "Show HN: One pixel for every food in the USDA database"

joshelgar — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:56:01 +0000

I've open-sourced it here: https://github.com/JoshElgar/foodpixel

The tech stack was NextJS, Tailwind + Vercel.

Show HN: One pixel for every food in the USDA database

joshelgar — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:38:52 +0000

Hey, just sharing a weekend project I worked on. The USDA has a lot more than ~300,000 foods, but this is a cleaner dataset without duplicates.

AMA - happy to share how I made it & how I kept it performant (rendering 300k foods can be slow)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300431

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

joshelgar — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:36:43 +0000

Hey, had a similar idea, would be great to chat - can reach me at my username on google’s mail.

Show HN: What happens when you combine two foods?

joshelgar — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:15:25 +0000

Inspired by Neal's "Infinite Craft" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020), I made a food-based version. You can use the sidebar to create a new food and click or drag the example ones.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274352

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

joshelgar — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:38:31 +0000

1. An infinite crafting game: https://foodformer.com

2. An embeddings-based job search engine: https://searchflora.com

3. I used LLMs to caption a training set of 1 million Minecraft skins, then finetuned Stable Diffusion to generate minecraft skins from a prompt: https://multi.skin

New comment by joshelgar in "Infinite Food Craft"

joshelgar — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:09:49 +0000

Inspired by Neal's "Infinite Craft" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020), I made a food-based version. You can use the sidebar to create a new food and click or drag the example ones.

Infinite Food Craft

joshelgar — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://foodformer.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232041

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by joshelgar in "Infinite Craft"

joshelgar — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:06:36 +0000

Saw this on Neal's twitter a couple of days ago, it inspired me to make the food version :)

https://twitter.com/joshelgar/status/1750141793377686000

New comment by joshelgar in "Show HN: Startup funding simulator"

joshelgar — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:03:07 +0000

What was the point of you being pedantic? It simulates what happens in different scenarios.

New comment by joshelgar in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

joshelgar — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:14:59 +0000

Hey there, do you sponsor visas?

New comment by joshelgar in "To YouTube: I'd gladly pay you if your website was de-bloated and fast like this"

joshelgar — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:24:35 +0000

People sometimes forget this - people don't pay just because they use something.

And sometimes, like with Youtube, many people wish they didn't use it. It's hard to get people to pay for something they wish they didn't use.

New comment by joshelgar in "Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization"

joshelgar — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:43:37 +0000

Any idea how this compares to Supabase's Realtime & Presence libraries?

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime