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I think what I will miss most about TikTok is its ability to teach me things that I would otherwise never have interest in. I've discovered so many musicians, writers, historians and niche curators it's such a shame that this is going away. I'm still surprised somehow no other company has been able to compete with how well TikTok has done discovery.

Wow this is amazing. If there was a locally running version available, I would gladly pay money for it.

Second this. I've written my own private Google Apps script specifically for this view and I wish more calendar apps would do the same. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see his name on HN. He had a table at NYCC this week and people have been leaving him gifts and messages. It's so sad.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeZt8yNWIAE0HEZ?format=jpg&name=...

Edit: Photo Credit to @Leah617

Did we hit some sort of technical inflection point in the last couple of weeks or is this just coincidence that all of these ML papers around high quality procedural generation are just dropping every other day?

I see an old Sudoku game I wrote in here and it brings back some great memories but now I'm also scared to look at my old code now. O_O

Curious how did you back all this up?

Curious if there's more news on this. They came back for a short bit but now they're gone again...

I'm really happy to see ZhuangZi show up on HN and a good reminder to go back and re-read his work from time to time.

I never thought I'd see Vaporwave mentioned on HN. Anybody fans of Bandcamp here? I really feel like it's helped keep a lot of these microgenres going even more than Spotify.

My response to this will always be: whoever solves live music performance (as in two or more musicians in two different locations happily playing together over the internet) will win the video conferencing wars.

It's not just latency, it's the non-verbal cues, dynamics (including silence that often represents acknowledgement), "energy" and rhythm that I miss about in-person communication.

I'm still stunned we're able to achieve all this in a web browser today (not the processing power but how accessible this is to people). Great job, Emily!

What is his motivation for this right now? Is it just the distraction of the week or was there a specific incident recently that triggered this?

I'm fine with the questions but I still think people are missing my point.

This is NOT for professional videos. The whole point is just regular people showcasing some small talent they might have hidden away and thru the algorithm you start to discover these amazingly talented regular people that the other platforms have failed.

If I want to see the celebs, brands or professionally shot content I have FaceGram/YouTube/Vimeo for that. This app is for the rest of us until the celebs/brands come in and inevitably ruin it. Hopefully by then, one of you HN folks will have built the next one.

According to their "algorithm", they show everyone's videos randomly to a small set of people and if people watch all of it (as in don't immediately swipe up), share or comment quickly then they show it to more people implying that the content I made is actually interesting to people. TikTok obv wants to surface good viral content to as many people as possible so the incentives are aligned. Think of it as being able to automate AB testing across hundreds of thousands of pieces of content.

As a result, I don't think traffic was given to me for absolutely no reason but there is a component of luck that they are explicit about which makes it even more compelling to creators. Compared to FB/IG/YouTube where I have to pay influencers or ad networks to get my work seen, they've evened the playing field a bit if my content has enough "inertia". It just motivates me to create better content next time and to try more often. You see how they're getting creators addicted?

a) If I'm being brutally honest, it's attention. Human beings enjoy attention even if it's totally dumb luck. I could say for this HN crowd that the traffic translates to revenue or some kind of practical benefit but honestly, it just felt good to get attention for something I created. That triggered a serotonin response in my brain that made me want to come back. I would assume it's similar to a HN post you submit making it to the front page?

b) They're real in that I get tens of thousands of comments and people actually reply. Most of the comments are reactions and jokes but I enjoy the thought that someone took the time to comment just like how I'm enjoying having a discussion here on HN. Whether or not it's meaningful is entirely subjective but probably goes back to my answer in a) - I appreciate the attention.

My personal opinion is people don't realize the app/algorithm doesn't just reward the viewers, it rewards the creators. I do video/photo work outside of coding and at first what got me hooked was the effortless video tools (useful realtime effects, non-generic music). Not a video editor? Someone in my feed already posted a 15s tutorial so you learn how to create as you consume. Then after posting a few vids as a joke (cuz 15s videos couldn't be anything meaningful right?) the algorithm rewarded me with 100k's views that IG/YouTube/FB/Twitch/Vimeo COMBINED could never give me. Then they randomly invited me to their Slack where I could get tips on how to use the latest new effect, upcoming hashtags and give feedback to devs. I'm not a full time content creator, I'm old and I'm not a looker but for the first time, I felt like I could be a content creator and all I did was post a few 15s videos. It just works.

I don't want to debate the politics, security issues or your judgement of the content. I want whoever comes up with the next killer app to learn from what they were able to achieve because they hit an amazing product market fit and I'm hoping the HN crowd can at least understand that. /rant

There is something irreplaceable about the first time you solve a difficult puzzle, especially one that you anticipate to be daunting. As a Sudoku enthusiast (though not at Simon's level) this was surprisingly vicarious to watch for what's usually a silent solitaire experience. Well done!

I got the game because a friend invited me to a virtual wedding party because she had to cancel the one in real life due to SIP. My goal was to get a nice virtual gift for my friend so I grinded hard to make Bells and learn DIYs but wound up enjoying the whole process not because I was living a fantasy life like in the article but because it gave me a bit of purpose beyond checking mortality stats every five minutes and feeling guilty for not developing a new skill during this "privileged downtime". Everyone plays for different reasons. I feel lucky this game came out during this uncertain time.

Not always and I'd suspect that being a "Full-Service Shopper" (vs "In-Store Shopper") pays better so a large percentage are likely both preparer and deliverer.

Source: https://shoppers.instacart.com/

What area do you live in? Like the other comment, best to donate locally and not delay with more shipping logistics. Search #GetMePPE or #PPEshortage on Twitter and you'll find a bunch, possibly where you are.

I'm in the Bay Area & Hospitals are ready to receive (a couple examples): https://vmcfoundation.org/covid19list/ https://www.facebook.com/ingrid.lim.56/posts/101583083580236...

Did you ever use AIM, ICQ, MSN, Y! Messenger? I'm quite certain that in a decade, there will be another batch of dominant messengers "reinventing the wheel" (IG & TikTok I'm looking at you). Real-time Communication is just such a crucial part of people's lives that people will never stop working on it, even if it feels like it's been solved.

We call them "High End Collectibles" or "Designer Toys" if it's more about the artist than the IP. Happy to see TRU make a comeback.

Eventually, you'll be able to pay with your face and won't even need your phone in some places [1]. I wonder if they're taking and storing stereoscopic photos of my face when I go thru customs...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/biometrics-payment-china-s...

Site was down for a little bit but an overview presentation is back up here: http://techshop.ws/techshop.pdf

I've been a member since forever and learned so much just by working on my projects next to other people and chatting. I had tried unsuccessfully to create online meeting places (FB groups, subreddits, bulletin boards) to connect with other makers I met there but because of the hands on nature, most people were too busy to be chatting somewhere online. A lot of makers were also a bit older and weren't into social media. There were so many resources like the San Jose corkboard that had lists of local raw parts suppliers that I just could never find online and now it's all gone...

I wondered why this wasn't applied to suitcases to make them lighter and then common sense kicked in regarding just how much actual helium would be required to lift even an empty suitcase...

Shameless plug since I rarely see us mentioned on HN:

We're hiring for a large range of engineering roles including some more specialized positions in research (writing classifier models and machine learning operations) and 3d (computer vision, photogrammetry, rendering). There's a lot more behind the scenes than just pretty pictures.

http://houzz.com/jobs and mention HN

Now do ffmpeg! (Seriously I would pay for autocomplete ffmpeg cmd line options)

This is a bit off topic but I'm curious what your background is in? I noticed that not only is your visual design good but also your sound design as well. Were you in animation and media and decided to pick up coding or the other way around?

In any case, thank you for creating this and hope to see this project continue to grow.

Yes. I was animating an SVG path's scale from small to beyond full screen (zoom effect) and Chrome for Android struggled with frame rate. I just pulled that particular element out of the mo.js Tween handling since its movement was simple and put it into a CSS3 transition. Things went back to normal after that and I had a deadline to meet so I didn't really go back and dig into exactly why.

This is a fantastic library but one warning based on past experiences is that you'll hit performance bottlenecks for full screen type animations on mobile browsers. I ended up re-writing some of my animations in plain old CSS3 transitions to utilize the GPU on Chrome for Android but this library made it so much easier for me to visualize on the desktop first.