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irson Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)

sure yeah, this is for non-technical crowd as well, they can just paste a doc and find out if it has an answer to their question.

irson Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)

it would say it isn't able to find a match in any of the passages for your question.

irson Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)

hmm, its more like a semantic search.

irson Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)

hmm.. can you try it again please. it's just the simple animation on the homepage.

irson Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)

yeah, that's my main use case as well. Just wanted to view the answer (if it exists) to the question without an AI summarizing it.

irson Taproot – web interface for editing data in your ATProto PDS manually

yeah that was one of the articles that got me curious about atproto. very clever hack.

like the article mentions, blobs are little different in the sense that they can't be independently added to the PDS. there needs to be a another record created right after the blob upload that references it. Otherwise the blob gets deleted. https://atproto.com/specs/blob#blob-lifecycle

sounds like an interesting feature to add, will check on how feasible it is (along with some possible guardrails to not abuse the system). thanks for the suggestion!

irson Taproot – web interface for editing data in your ATProto PDS manually

Hi, I made that!

Here is the full feature list of what Taproot can currently do

https://sri.xyz/projects/atprotoat

I have more features in pipeline. - Constellation integration - Custom App Views and more!

irson Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

hey greg, no problem. Definitely looking forward for the next show. Maybe in a new city? Or a different theme altogether?

irson Crowd Sourcing Broken QR Codes

I participated in the QR Show in NYC mentioned in the post. It sent me down a rabbit hole and gave me a whole new perspective on QR codes now.

Show: https://qrshow.nyc/retrospective.html Related: https://bsky.app/profile/sri.xyz/post/3llnpa3tvqs2u

irson Every .gov Domain

Is there a similar source for .edu ?

irson Happy 18th Birthday Hacker News

I've learned a lot because of HN. Thanks to everyone who makes it what it is.

irson Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

Sam’s reply on twitter[0]

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

[0]https://x.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090?

irson OpenAI – Deep Research

Apparently, even google used a similar term for Gemini back in December. https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/gemini-can-now-research-de...

irson Macrodata Refinement

Here is another fan site where you can enjoy a lumon wellness session. https://lumon.industries/intranet/wellness/

irson Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

Yeah Rongta brands are the ones that come up frequently when I search on Amazon. Will check them out. Thanks.

irson Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

Thanks for checking on this. Will look into this model.

irson Show HN: Printercow – Turn any thermal printer into an API endpoint

This is nice! Was looking for exactly a similar feature in a previous HN discussion [0]. Want something that I can integrate with IFTTT/Zapier.

I was looking to buy one of ESC/POS compatible printer but none of the official sites seem to sell directly on the site and have to contact their sales to get a quote. I see a few on ebay and from third party sellers in Amazon.

Does anyone have a recommendation on where to buy an official / new one without going through the sales call hassle? Or buying from 3rd parties is the only option?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599784

irson Stimulation Clicker

It’s just the end credits with a soothing ocean video in the background https://imgur.com/a/eNwfBO6

It was too addictive. My eyes still hurt !!!

irson Stimulation Clicker

Wow. Too much fun. My eyes/head hurts. Finally went to the ocean in the game.

irson Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer

This is cool. Please make it so its not just for news and developer friendly so it can print any content on demand using api. Tried to use a "memobird" printer for similar purpose but couldn't get any support for their API.

irson Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever

Lol, definitely a parody site registered today. Creation Date: 2025-01-01

Related stack overflow post about that topic. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dat...

irson Happy New Year 2025

Happy New Year y’all !

irson Dog Aging Project

There is also https://loyal.com - Biotech Startup for researching/ developing longevity drugs for dogs.

irson Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email

Something similar https://notimeforbooks.com

irson Curl Wttr.in

another shameless plug:

  curl ipaddress.sh

irson Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

Congratulations!

irson Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://ipaddress.sh

Simple service to get the public IP address based on IPIFY API.

Lots of services already exist like this and my favorite is icanhazip.com. This is basically the same old service in a more memorable domain name. But it is helping me trying to learn Go and API development. https://about.ipaddress.sh/

irson Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

1. There will be a major earthquake in a major city. 2. More states in US will implement their own version of GDPR. 3. Tech Conference pass prices will continue to rise, reach a tipping point until it would be free to attend. 4. Queen Elizabeth II would pass away. 5. Food delivery companies would not be sustainable and they will have to pivot to something else. 6. Google will still be #1 in search, Amazon in shopping but might be forced by government to break up into smaller entities. 7. Alternatives to password would be used for authentication. 8. "Influencers" will lose value and people will start to not buy things if it was "influenced"

irson Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams

When it is designed to be conversational, wouldn't the company run out of easy to remember keywords at some point? Or should they keep reusing the keywords whenever they update the resource?