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Show HN: AI for Building Design, Planning, and Permitting

pscsbs — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:50:15 +0000

Saw Spacial recently — it's an AI tool that helps figure out what can be built on a piece of land, based on local zoning rules.

You enter a parcel and it generates 3D massing, site plans, and other planning details in a few minutes. Seems like it could be super helpful for early-stage architecture or development work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44102366

Points: 16

# Comments: 8

New comment by pscsbs in "The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)"

pscsbs — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 06:07:46 +0000

That's a San Diego Burrito. A San Franicsco (Mission) burrito, for example, does not have french fries but has Avocado/guacamole.

New comment by pscsbs in "Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP"

pscsbs — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:35:45 +0000

Shouldn’t IPFS + Filecoin be well-suited for this exact use-case?

New comment by pscsbs in "The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19"

pscsbs — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:13:50 +0000

The guidance is usually given for exposed arms and legs.

New comment by pscsbs in "My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards"

pscsbs — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:34:48 +0000

Never underestimate the power of poverty and desperation.

New comment by pscsbs in "Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak"

pscsbs — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:14:40 +0000

No it is not.

New comment by pscsbs in "Living skin can be 3D-printed, with blood vessels"

pscsbs — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 19:48:18 +0000

Bladders have been successfully grown and transplanted into patients.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/bladder-grown-from-3d-bi...

New comment by pscsbs in "Company Update"

pscsbs — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:54:53 +0000

Tesla is profitable.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019048/tesla-earnings-...

New comment by pscsbs in "Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia"

pscsbs — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:02:33 +0000

Not that it makes it any better, but they only took down the episode in Saudi Arabia, not globally. The headline makes it sound like they took down the episode altogether.

New comment by pscsbs in "Killed by Google"

pscsbs — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:28:23 +0000

This is why Google struggles to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the enterprise cloud space - the trust that these services will be maintained and legacy support provided just isn't there for large enterprise clients.

New comment by pscsbs in "The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context"

pscsbs — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:18:55 +0000

No.

New comment by pscsbs in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

pscsbs — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:51:30 +0000

Minor clarification: LinkedIn primarily runs on Java not Scala.

New comment by pscsbs in "Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone"

pscsbs — Tue, 08 May 2018 21:28:56 +0000

Likely it'll be a transition technology for businesses still using phone appointments as their primary API, and eventually it'll ease the path for more direct integration.

New comment by pscsbs in "Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s"

pscsbs — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:55:42 +0000

That’s assuming they are going to plateau at 6k/week, which is certainly not their plan.

How LinkedIn's News Feed Algorithm Works

pscsbs — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 05:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/03/a-look-behind-the-ai-that-powers-linkedins-feed--sifting-through

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714031

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pscsbs in "Tesla Is Facing a Crucible"

pscsbs — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:46:12 +0000

Benefits of an electric engine vs. ICE:

1. No oil changes. 2. Fewer moving parts, fewer repairs, longer life. 3. Instant acceleration. 4. Zero emissions. 5. Ability to be fully powered by renewable energy.

New comment by pscsbs in "CEO of porn cryptocurrency disappears with investor money"

pscsbs — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 06:55:43 +0000

I think FileCoin is pretty interesting, and actually based on the economics of scarcity (file storage) thereby providing some concrete value.

New comment by pscsbs in "We’re Going to Need More Lithium"

pscsbs — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 07:01:38 +0000

If I wanted to invest in lithium, what companies or ETFs should I look at?

New comment by pscsbs in "Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?"

pscsbs — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:49:54 +0000

The POTUS has nukes and one of the most highly trained and best-equipped militaries in the world. Facebook can be shutdown by POTUS in an instant.

Power is not measured by “users.”

New comment by pscsbs in "Announcing tools for the AI-driven digital transformation"

pscsbs — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:48:32 +0000

Takes little time to set run Tensorflow from a docker image, or learn from Jupyter notebooks, etc... with fully open source projects where you can consult the source code and see how an algorithm is implemented.

This is exactly the problem -- what you're describing is not easy for anyone outside of tech to do. If you want to, say, run a simple text classification task and have thousands of labels, this is way overkill. Machine learning has the opportunity to become a common place utility for automating repetitive tasks, and the barrier to entry does not need to be learning Tensorflow, Docker, and Jupyter.