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Show HN: Interactive Diesel Price Forecaster

sightspinner — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:46:57 +0000

Interactive model of diesel price I've been working on with my (sightspinner) agent. Takes into account the main (known) factors (Hormuz, Ukraine, etc.) contributing to the current spike as well as possible future scenarios.

Set up for periodic updates.

To view the model without the article: https://app.sightspinner.ai/share/bMO8oBg7n3hjNdyEVAs0xi2NQ7...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887056

Points: 4

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sightspinner — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:35:46 +0000

I like the idea but it seems unusable for me at least at the moment. It crashes whenever I zoom.

I'm curious as what is different between this and say, google maps?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Vanish moves heavy computation off your laptop"

sightspinner — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:22:20 +0000

Wouldn't this require you to send over your entire workspace with each call?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Less Prompts, More Guardrails"

sightspinner — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:33:23 +0000

ah yeah i like this a lot. A much cleaner and more organized way of what i was trying to do.

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sightspinner — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:03:18 +0000

Looks nice! My only issue with these kinds of app is that it requires me to be disciplined about inputting the data, which I'm not. I guess there's really no way around that though.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Deterministic UI testing that checks backend logs, not just the UI"

sightspinner — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:51:28 +0000

seems interesting. do I understand correctly that after you record once you get a script that you can use it as a test (whether that be for you or you agent)? If you make a change (e.g a button name update) do you need to rerecord it entirely?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Shellroute – give each shell its own proxy IP"

sightspinner — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:41:10 +0000

not sure but I'm guessing it's serving a different purpose. I think ngrok is just giving you a single url so that you can whitelist your machine and this is giving you potentially several different ips, I assume for scraping and such.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: I made a browser tool that creates newspaper and book text match cuts"

sightspinner — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:12:20 +0000

I understand what a match cut is in film but not sure I can tell what this does from the landing page.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: AI accounting harness for finance teams"

sightspinner — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:41:57 +0000

Great design!

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires"

sightspinner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:56:50 +0000

I see, was thinking about doing something similar for what I'm working on. Separate but related space.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires"

sightspinner — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:20:28 +0000

I'm curious about what MC simulations are even being used for here. A lot of this stuff should be driven by simple closed form equations.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: FirstEmployee.ai – Start a Business"

sightspinner — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:51:06 +0000

I'm also a bit confused. Is this supposed to be similar to something like lovable, claude code, etc.?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: I ran 12 AI bots predicting stocks for two months, every call public"

sightspinner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:33:09 +0000

> annualized directional log return with Bayesian smoothing Don't really understand how this works if people are only predicting up or down?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Visual-HN – a hcker.news reader with images"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:59:29 +0000

I thought the lack of development on HN was kind of the point.

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Forall – OpenSpec but with actual machine-checkable verification"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:34:57 +0000

I'm confused about what this is. Is basically doing formal verification on the things spec'd out?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Pasly – Make every ⌘V smarter on macOS"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:24:26 +0000

I like the idea. Is it possible to change the keystroke? some people (me)might want to keep the regular paste keystroke and just have another one that brings up the clipboard.

Also, just reading the webpage, it's a little unclear what "free" is in this case. It seems like the main features you demo are from the "pro"?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Open Problem Gallery – Coordinating mathematics research"

sightspinner — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:09:42 +0000

How are you deciding what goes in here. I assume there are in reality near infinite open problems?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Typedeck – a Mac presentation app with a deterministic layout engine"

sightspinner — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:32:24 +0000

how is this different from gamma, etc.?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Fluent, tiny lang for reactivity and autograd"

sightspinner — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:07:35 +0000

Was this just for fun/practice or are you trying to solve some problem/do something more efficiently? Surely, there are languages the calculate exact derivatives already?

New comment by sightspinner in "Show HN: Fortress – Give your agents unlimited access to the web"

sightspinner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:25:16 +0000

All for OSS and all but seems like one of two things will happen: A. This repo becomes really popular and useful for a lot of projects, cloudflare or someone else hears of it, looks a the code, finds a way to block it. B. It doesn’t become popular