Hacker News: kiru_io

New comment by kiru_io in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

kiru_io — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:32:33 +0000

I am working on https://beta.colorguesser.com/ - a small daily color guessing game.

A few years ago it started as colorguesser.com - which is not much maintained, but since there are many new users enjoying this small game, I decide to invest more time and add more feature.

New comment by kiru_io in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

kiru_io — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:20:44 +0000

TrailerSpoiler.com [0]

It annoys me how much a bad trailer can spoil the movie, so I made this platform to rate trailers how "spoily" they are and how good they are. To my surprise, you find some great trailers without many spoilers, but then you will have trailers which are basically a 3-min summary of the movie.

[0] https://trailerspoiler.com/

New comment by kiru_io in "Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms"

kiru_io — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:43:28 +0000

I developed a few utilities to help me track the words and expressions I know in a language (and also see which words in other languages are missing). Tried to port it to an app [0], but it's not perfect yet.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-anki-learning-fluentread/id...

New comment by kiru_io in "Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix"

kiru_io — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:56:39 +0000

Why does it forward to https://tidewave.ai/ when I type http://localhost:4000/tidewave ?

New comment by kiru_io in "Millau Viaduct"

kiru_io — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:06:25 +0000

The attention to details, it's probably sorted by their contributions in percentage as well (not sure how to get that for such a project, but nvm).

New comment by kiru_io in "The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games"

kiru_io — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:52:08 +0000

I’ve created a few "daily puzzle" games (e.g., [0] and [1]), and it still surprises me when I meet a random stranger who occasionally plays them. Even now, I can’t quite explain why people keep coming back to the site every day. But maybe for many, it's just a small daily ritual to distract for a few minutes.

[0] https://mathlegame.com/ [1] https://colorguesser.com/

New comment by kiru_io in "Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters"

kiru_io — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:28:01 +0000

Idk why people are always so harsh online. This is clearly stated as "experimental".

New comment by kiru_io in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

kiru_io — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:13:11 +0000

I am trying to figure out how to do marketing for my journaling app for language learning. Basically, you journal in a foreign language and see grammar and other mistakes directly in the app: https://langdiary.com

New comment by kiru_io in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

kiru_io — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:51:12 +0000

I managed to ship my journaling app [0] focused on language learners. Basically, you write your journals in a different language and see corrections.

Gonna focus on marketing and improving the app.

[0] http://langdiary.com/

New comment by kiru_io in "Is being bilingual good for your brain?"

kiru_io — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:57:27 +0000

Can you give more info on that? the website is not very clear what it is, so basically it's an app to learn languages?

Show HN: Daily game to guess color by their names

kiru_io — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:19:56 +0000

Hi there,

Kiru here, I made this app a while back, saw recently a post about color names API and posted a link. A few people were interested, so thought more people can discover the page.

Feel free to suggest any improvements.

Cheers, Kiru

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44386701

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New comment by kiru_io in "Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed"

kiru_io — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:59:01 +0000

This feels like a indirect response to what Andrej Karpathy said in his last presentation, about how it took him barely any time to create the project, but spent a few days to figure out how to deploy the project.

New comment by kiru_io in "Mechanical Watch: Exploded View"

kiru_io — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:04:55 +0000

This is such a cool idea! You could potentially sell this or contact some watchmakers!

New comment by kiru_io in "Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name"

kiru_io — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:06:34 +0000

Actually I experienced with different distance metrics and settled for one.

New comment by kiru_io in "Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name"

kiru_io — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:05:25 +0000

> I get the same 5 colors every time? That's probably a bug.

> Fun! If I may make one suggestion, could you please show the color I picked next to the real one once it is revealed? The color of the color-name changes to what you picked.

New comment by kiru_io in "Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name"

kiru_io — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:46:51 +0000

Wow, pretty cool to see the color-names project here. I made a simple color guessing website a few years ago [0] using your library. I almost forgot it till someone reminds how they enjoyed it ([1]).

[0] https://colorguesser.com/ [1] https://x.com/wifeofnoob/status/1935788167086436375

New comment by kiru_io in "Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task"

kiru_io — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:23:24 +0000

Interesting perspective to see AI as the opposite of accessing connected knowledge (aka Zettelkasten)

New comment by kiru_io in "The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string"

kiru_io — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:08:59 +0000

Can you elaborate or show a better way?

New comment by kiru_io in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

kiru_io — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:27:52 +0000

Maybe just a toilet break (see the bio): > Fun fact: All my comments have been written on the toilet. I don't use social media anywhere else.

New comment by kiru_io in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)"

kiru_io — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:06:47 +0000

Maybe someone should edit the title to mention this is from 2024: [Submitted on 30 Sep 2024 (v1), last revised 15 Oct 2024 (this version, v2)]