> Magnus Carlsen, co-founder of Take Take Take, will not be actively promoting the platform at launch. With Take Take Take now offering a full play and learning experience, it enters territory that conflicts with his ambassador agreement with Chess.com. He remains a co-founder and the company's largest shareholder, and the team expects his involvement to resume once those contractual constraints change. For now, the product will have to speak for itself.

> TOS says: access the Site or Service for purposes of reselling API access to AI Models or otherwise developing a competing service;

I think what you meant is "you aren't allowed to expose the access to the API to end users", which is a fair condition IMHO.

You're still allowed to expose the functionality (ie. build a SaaS or AI assistant powered by OpenRouter API), just don't build a proxy.

Turns out if you want to have a useful clock it needs to use the social/cultural constructs. This was not at all obvious to me before I started with the project, but now, especially after the discussions here and elsewhere, it looks unavoidable.

Or to quote one of my favorite books: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

There's been a lot of progress there, it's just that an LLM that's best for, say coding, isn't going to be also the best for image edit.

Does the arc length signify anything? Wasn't able to figure it out, and as far as I can see, it isn't explained.

Rereading the post, I notice I haven't made that distinction clear.

Even at zero electricity host (I have rooftop solar), the investment didn't make a lot of sense at the time, assuming the costs would be falling in the next few years.

I had a fuzzy sense of these differences but had no idea that MST/solar is 17 minutes off - that's a lot! Of course there's also the difference between this and proper clock time (depending on where in your timezone you're located), and the clock shows clock time.

Referencing actual phenomena would be more elegant - but wouldn't show correct date (see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686522)

It's really not obvious, especially in light mode, but if you switch to dark mode you can see the day circle has a "bolder" and a "thinner" part. Bolder is the daylight hours, and its length and position corresponds to the daylight hours (in this instance, of Zagreb, since that's the primary timezone for the clock).

You're correct in that it can't work if you have multiple lattitudes. I took the easy way out - I ignore that and just use the first one :X

I love your reinterpretation of time as a mini solar system. On impulse I tried to drag to rotate it and it worked, was delighted!

I was confused for a bit on what that satellite orbiting Moon is, and why the Moon is blue, before realizing how it works, so was a mini puzzle for me too :)

I wanted the year circle to evoke Earth's orbit, so it had to be near the Sun. Inserting another circle was breaking that intuition (already stretched, tbh) for me. I was flip-flopping between these two and finally decided on the current solution.

I'm even more unhappy[0] with the fact that the number of ticks and speed on that circle changes every month, depending on the calendar month duration. For a world clock, on month changes it also means that you can't represent the date correctly for all shown timezones.

I could have used some real-world phenomena that are close to our calendar month instead[1], as pointed out by another commenter. This would make it "more correct" but "less useful in everyday situations". Even though I don't plan to use it every day, one of the goals of the project was for it to aspire to being useful.

[0] unhappy is a strong word; I mean I'm not satisfied with the solution, but was unable to find one I feel better about [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Types

Have the costs dropped for that as well?

I was in YC W24 (exactly two years ago) with an AI coding startup ("agentic" and "vibe" buzzwords weren't invented yet). LLMs were useful as smarter autocomplete, but were struggling (and us with them!) on anything nontrivial.

Comparing that state to the past few months and saying it's just a social change is a bit of a stretch :)

Been plucking at the guitar (literally and figuratively - trying to learn) for a couple of years now and Justin's (free) course was the best I've found. His videos are compassionate, funny, explain things really well and easy to follow. He also dog-fed the instructions by learning to play left-handed (and posted those videos as well, hilarious to watch).

Compared to that, some time earlier I subscribed to a Berklee free course on Coursera (iirc) - Beginner guitar. Felt like a fumbling idiot, almost never touched guitar afterwards.

Really recommended: https://www.justinguitar.com/