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needz··on WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI
I assume it’s for one-off cases that you encounter while agents scrape/browse with a goal in mind.
needz··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I lead development on Pindigo (https://pindigo.app), a social score-tracking and ranking app for pinball players.

Most of my time lately has gone into Flippd, its successor, which we recently soft-launched. We’ve also released a tech demo that uses custom computer-vision models to identify a pinball machine from a photo and extract the player’s score.

You can try it here: https://flippd.gg/scan

needz··on Migrate from OpenClaw
Everything you mentioned OpenClaw does is also something that Hermes supports. Hermes also supports project-scoped kanban boards and can orchestrate across multiple specialized Hermes profiles.
needz··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
I'm Pindigo's dev. Thanks for the plug!

Our locations are sourced from Pinball Map; scores can be tagged with locations which allows us to maintain leaderboards for specific machines (in addition to global/social/event leaderboards).

needz··on Getting into Pinball
Just wanted to give a shoutout to my hobby app, a social scorekeeper and ranker for pinball players, Pindigo. It’s free; there are over 11k users posting scores. It also has locations, user groups, and leaderboards. https://www.pindigo.app
needz··on Show HN: A NextJS boilerplate to automate all the boring stuff
> Javascript or Typescript?

> Javascript :)

Pass

needz··on Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
I have and am still working there. Fairly kismet situation; found a very bespoke opportunity.
needz··on Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
Was this website written in it? It’s awful on mobile. :/
needz··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
This website crashes Firefox on iOS
needz··on The Principal Engineer's Handbook
I've been a senior engineer for several years now and feel that I would enjoy the jump to principal engineer. Are there any recommended coursework or books that would help me with this?
needz··on Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
Professionally, I'm working on the frontend of a radio frequency propagation simulator for 3D "digital twins" of cities/regions. This uses ImGui under the hood, but is wrapped by Python. It's a bit of a pain, but I came up with a class that allows the UI to be composed in a manner more akin to React Components.

For fun, I just implemented a finite-state machine for a videogame I'm working on in Rust. It's used to swap out sprite animations depending on the state of its parent entity. I'm glad to be solving problems I'd never come across in my normal line of work.

needz··on Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager
That landing page is fantastic
needz··on Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
Looks awesome. I wish it weren’t Windows only.
needz··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)

    Location: Birmingham, AL
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Node, Express, React, React Native, GraphQL, Typescript, MongoDB, SQL, Docker
    Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanturner/
    Email: hnjobs@foglet.io
    Hobby Project: https://www.patreon.com/pindigo
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M.S. in Data Science - Dec '21

I've spent the last 6 years planning and building HIPAA-compliant web applications in Javascript.

As a hobbyist homelabber and the sole technical developer of a hobby app for 8k users, I also have experience with mobile app development, network engineering, sysadmin, and devops.

needz··on Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Thank you for your guidance. I will investigate further
needz··on Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
The preprocessing suggestions I see are to crop out everything except for the numbers and I don’t know how to do that programmatically. There’s many kinds of displays: rollers, 7-segment, dot matrix, and LCD.

The preprocessing to increase DPI to 300 did not help when I tried Tesseract, unfortunately. It’s hard to achieve a good contrast between the numbers and the backdrop

needz··on Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
I’m working on OCR to recognize the scores on pinball machines. I have about a quarter million photos encompassing every model of pinball machine in the world but I just don’t have the know-how to accommodate all the font styles.
needz··on What should the next chat app look like?
I really hope the rust implementation of Matrix helps. I reboot my Matrix container daily because if I don't it'll quickly eat through the 12GB of memory I've allocated it. I run a 3 person instance.
needz··on Alamo Drafthouse Files for Bankruptcy
Non-fungible tokens??
needz··on Total Cookie Protection
"Unsupported browser" messages when attempting to login on both desktop firefox and mobile firefox.
needz··on Total Cookie Protection
Ebay works on and off for me. I often have to resort to Safari
needz··on Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android
Turntable is coming back. tt.fm
needz··on Ask HN: What email service do you use?
Also with Fastmail on my own domain. I like the little extras they offer too, like calendar/contacts/file storage. You can even host static sites with them if you want.
needz··on IPFS Support in Brave
Neat. Still can't make the switch until they have an equivalent to Firefox containers.
needz··on Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
This whole ordeal motivated me to join the fediverse and I'm not looking back.
needz··on Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services Inc
Why not decentralized/federated services run by by various communities all across the world?
needz··on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
I rewrote my social, score-tracking app for Pinball in react-native. Previously it was in Angularjs (ionic/cordova). Has ~6k registered users, ~300 daily active users, and earns ~$200 a month on Patreon.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ascrewaske...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pindigo-social-pinball-scores/...

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pindigo

needz··on A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
One of Spiderman's developers gave a very interesting talk about this (and more) during the Game Developers Conference this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhKyIZd3O8

needz··on Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform
If you were asking how Harris and Peterson can be linked, they've debated publicly and have hosted discussions with one another on their podcasts.
needz··on Ask HN: Paid app to free and Patreon?
I have a free social network app that makes $122/month on Patreon[0] (from 43 patrons). Userbase is about 3.4k with ~200 DAU. I offer in-app recognition and the ability to vote monthly on what features I work on. I won't be quitting my job, but it's nice to not have to pay for servers and marketing out of pocket.

0: https://www.patreon.com/pindigo

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