Hacker News: thasaleni

New comment by thasaleni in "Created a Doom Scrollable HN website in 7 minutes"

thasaleni — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:01:42 +0000

This took a maximum of 3 prompts and 7 minutes, and it does and looks exactly how I wanted it to look. Just a beautiful version of HN

Created a Doom Scrollable HN website in 7 minutes

thasaleni — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:01:42 +0000

Article URL: https://hacker-feed-glance.lovable.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883351

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by thasaleni in "Ask HN: Replacing traditional UI with chat based interactions/chatbot possible?"

thasaleni — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:15:15 +0000

Thanks

Ask HN: Replacing traditional UI with chat based interactions/chatbot possible?

thasaleni — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:11:12 +0000

HI I am a software developer by profession and also on my spare time I develop websites and apps for a very little customer base of mine, I have a question I have been wondering for a while, at this moment could I replace an app interface or a web app with a chatbot (say a food delivery app, or a expense tracking app or even an activity tracking app), is there frameworks available to do that? If so can you guys link me to them

to add some context I have dabbled in Google Dialog Flow because I thought it was the answer to my question, but I feel like it fell short to a huge part of my requeirements very quickly.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838952

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by thasaleni in "Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language"

thasaleni — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:30:59 +0000

tried:

  simplex.goto("www.amazon.com")
  simplex.wait(2000)
  simplex.click('the search bar')
  simplex.type("bicycle")
  simplex.press_enter()
  simplex.wait(1000)
  image = simplex.extract_image("first 3 rows of results")

get error:

  simplex error processing error

New comment by thasaleni in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

thasaleni — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:47:32 +0000

https://github.com/thasaleni/song-association I was making a game based on Elle Magazine's song association (YouTube Game) - In the YouTube game a guest gets a word and has 10 seconds to sing a song with the word in the lyrics (the requirement is that he must get to the part with the given word within 10 seconds) - My game in flutter displays a word, and lets the player sing into the mic while running a countdown and converting the audio to text (if it gets to the word in the lyrics within 10 seconds it stops) then it looks up the lyrics via GeniusAPI if it finds a match that is a point, if it doesn't that is a loss also if you don't get to the word within 10 seconds that is a loss

I intended to make this multiplayer but I got busy in the early stages and kind of abandoned it, intend to get back to it soon

New comment by thasaleni in "A digital payments revolution in India"

thasaleni — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:30:29 +0000

South Africa: Payshap https://www.payshap.co.za/

New comment by thasaleni in "Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model"

thasaleni — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:45:37 +0000

almost nailed me to the T, so impressive

New comment by thasaleni in "Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone"

thasaleni — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:56:30 +0000

Cards are moving towards no card at all i.e. virtual cards. USA is very slow in adopting new payment technology compared to the rest of the world. I live in South Africa and tap to pay is so much of a thing that you do not have to worry if you leave your card at home as you can tap at like 80% of the merchants, and if you can't they will have a fall back like QR code etc, NFC enabled cards have been around for years and all the merchants are really quick in adopting them.

New comment by thasaleni in "Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone"

thasaleni — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:42:07 +0000

this is dope, and also something I have been working on on android (yes I am gonna be that guy, Android has supported this for a long time)... it's great for informal merchants, and maybe waiters that run around a bar collecting bills from customers... but actual POS devices aren't going anywhere, there is always gonna be a need for them, this function has been there and even has a name (softPos) many companies can give you this functionality TODAY on your android phone, so yes apple devices can now participate but it won't shake the market as everyone thinks.

New comment by thasaleni in "Google is shutting down Neighbourly"

thasaleni — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:36:44 +0000

The only difference between Google and any other private company is that Google publicizes it's "experiments" early, most companies have the same rate of experiments being closed or even higher, they just keep them private. It makes more sense when you look at Google as an R&D company, than a finished product company

New comment by thasaleni in "The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass"

thasaleni — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:26:53 +0000

Ey man, Africa is also in UTC+02 and we are not known to be as shady as that one UTC+02 country

New comment by thasaleni in "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]"

thasaleni — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:41:44 +0000

Funny, I wrote an article about why people don't cite Wikipedia as a source for information in scholary papers when in fact Scholary papers can fall to the same trap of being "not reliable" the same way wikipedia is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531 not so long ago

New comment by thasaleni in "Ask HN: What is the stigma against Wikipedia as an official reference"

thasaleni — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:32:38 +0000

It could be argued that wikipedia has better reviews cause it has a much wider audience of reviewers

New comment by thasaleni in "Ask HN: What is the stigma against Wikipedia as an official reference"

thasaleni — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:09:32 +0000

This is interesting, couldn't they just get away with translating the english articles?

Ask HN: What is the stigma against Wikipedia as an official reference

thasaleni — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:31:20 +0000

I mean the same things that people fault about Wikipedia can be said about scientific papers, anyone can write a paper and have it peer reviewed and approved. Isn't Wikipedia better cause it has a much larger audience that can call bullshit on articles of questionable factuality? Why do educational and research institutions frown against quoting Wikipedia as a reference? I mean some people even find information on Wikipedia and quote somewhere else just to avoid this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989531

Points: 3

# Comments: 10

New comment by thasaleni in "Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests?"

thasaleni — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:19:57 +0000

that is the wrong implementation of a spinner

New comment by thasaleni in "Show HN: Discover what locals eat all around the world"

thasaleni — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:03:41 +0000

Additionally, since it's a place search, maybe add place autocomplete. So it's obvious if the place you search for is not in the list. I also thought the search was broken

New comment by thasaleni in "Strange earthquake waves rippled around Earth"

thasaleni — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:57:12 +0000

I'm imagine a dragon that has been sleeping beneath the sea for hundred years just woke up, and nothing is gonna change my mind

New comment by thasaleni in "Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done"

thasaleni — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:40:52 +0000

Fun fact: Boss as a service = BaaS, which is the same as the Afrikaans translation of Boss :)