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mostelatoon Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

What does it do?

I built a bot that runs every 2 weeks, scrapes my local movie theater's currently playing titles, runs them against rotten tomatoes to filter out movies rated below 85%, then looks them up on youtube and posts the trailers to my discord server

How did you make it?

Python script that runs in google cloud functions, triggered on a bi-weekly schedule

How much time you spent making it?

An evening

How often do you use it?

Every two weeks

mostelatoon LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request

You don't need to use langchain with Cohere, it's just nice for demos since Langchain comes with pre-built tools.

Check out the examples here: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multi-step-tool-use

and this notebook https://github.com/cohere-ai/notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/a...

mostelatoon LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request

Here is the correct link: https://github.com/cohere-ai/notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/a...

And here are the docs: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multi-step-tool-use

mostelatoon Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards

Minimalism is all the rage these days!

mostelatoon Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards

We are experimenting with a deck printing API! We printed a couple of decks and played with them - it was really delightful and fun!

mostelatoon Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards

Image loading is down right now, Wombo is throwing more GPUs at it!

mostelatoon Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

I always thought the skip button would get treated as a dislike

mostelatoon Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

All of us in the band are engineers (I work at Snapchat) and we take the band super seriously and make time for it

mostelatoon Show HN: You've all heard of stock photos, but what about stock text?

The text examples on your site are not great copy. “Something goofed” - “goofing” is something humans do, it’s not a synonym for “broke”.

“We use cookies on Fridays to boost employee morale” - I know it’s meant to sound cute, but the way it’s worded it’s giving me sweatshop vibes.

I’d revisit the text examples used throughout the website, because the idea behind the product is actually neat!

mostelatoon Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash

Based on that article, every MacBook Air released since 2008 will receive a patch update and every MacBook Air released since 2015 will support OSX Monterey. Is that not reasonable?

mostelatoon Stride Game Engine

Curious - how come so many engines don’t support Mac? I am constantly baffled by how few games exist for my MacBook Pro.

mostelatoon The website obesity crisis (2015)

The author calls out the Apple Watch review website from The Verge for hijacking navigation, but honestly I remember reading this review and being really delighted by all the magical effects.

http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

mostelatoon Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar on Macs

Why is it a horrible place to work?

mostelatoon Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel

I use something identical to this: https://stackedit.io/

mostelatoon Show HN: Meteor Based Multiplayer Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

This is awesome. You should implement a ranking system (similar to hearthstone), and have people climb the ranks

mostelatoon Introducing Google Helpouts

Skype used to have something like this in 2006-ish...

mostelatoon I failed a Twitter interview

Yeah, I received a rejection letter the next day. Solving it on my own definitely made me feel better though!

mostelatoon I failed a Twitter interview

Yeah, Kite is being very unreliable :( I keep manually restarting the server.