nizarmah

All this time I've been oblivious to this. To this day I still write site:reddit.com in my searches to get information from people. SMH.

I really liked the comparison with the cricket. I haven't read Hofstadter! But, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Instead of focusing on escape, I’ll focus on human control. Depends on the restrictions, if there’s a weak link it will find it eventually.

I’m not mitigating these risks. I literally gave models my old laptops to have fun with.

They want AI? Give a model your old computer and have it do your work from A to Z. It’ll free you to do what you want. Salary probably already covers the model’s plan.

I would've thought it goes against the culture they've been growing.

I've seen people opt to refactor their entire codebase from one lang to another just because AI made it so much easier. Sure there were problems before, but now the new code with the better language is not readable and needs another refactor once this entire thing is done.

There's a lot of information in this world. It's fun stumbling on that information sometimes. For me personally, it makes learning much easier and gradual, than reading about something from a book or LLM answers.

I'm surprised how much intent matters. I know it's being used for the bad right now, but it's a nice silver lining.

That's a beautiful solution. I love it! The alternative work went with was to just build everything ourselves.

I mean if we can measure it, then we can probably have a way to validate it programmatically. I gave up on drawing restrictions using prompts :(

My work-mate told me about his dad a while ago. I tried his help reviewing the work some agents did, and I've been relying on his dad ever since. He does much better than my dad, my dad can't read code.

Jokes aside: Dad is a code reviewer skill that focuses on boring correct code. It's my co-worker's personal project, and I found myself using it on everything I do. My actual father remains unable to read code.

I just got a 3D printer and a few colors. My sister wants an organizer, but we're picking from the colors I have. It took me so much time to setup the project in Bambu Studio just to switch between filament colors. This made it much easier.

This was entirely vibe-coded, but man did it make my life easier. So I hope it helps you too.

I’m also suspicious about all those em dashes (—).

The legos was referring to user experience, sorry about the vagueness.

I'd love to try this again with a simpler UI. If there's a place I can follow for updates, LMK.

I just saw the Hello World example on the website, and the video.

It seems like your program is really capable, but I'm finding the UI extremely overwhelming.

I find myself comparing this to MIT's Scratch, and I know your tool is much more capable, but the user experience makes Scratch so intuitive.

Everything reads like a short sentence, and I can just dive in without understanding what I'm doing.

Any chance this can turn into something like "building legos"?

Blocks can be built exactly like Scratch. And, then, maybe you can map their input/output streams as a way to connect blocks (ideally inferred on the run).

And people can re-use blocks that others have built.

I know this is supposed to be a programming language, not a toy. But, selfishly, I want the UX to feel like it's a toy, so simple to discover it on my own. I can imagine prototyping stuff with it, especially if there's a library of stuff that I can use or contribute to while doing so...

This is really nice! Kudos.

Small request: When I have a document open, ask to prevent accidentally closing the tab.

Large request: Resizing pictures and signatures.

I am always fascinated how people get ideas as creative as this.

I didn't know I needed this, but now that you shared it—I NEEDED IT!

The animations on the left are exactly what my primitive mind needs to understand better and stay engaged while reading an article. I _love_ it.

One of the most challenging aspects in my career has been: communication.

This is largely because it leaves chance for misinterpretation or miscommunication. Programming languages eliminated misinterpretation and made miscommunication easier to notice through errors.

Programming language enables micromanaging proactively, I specify the instructions before they run. I often find myself micromanaging retroactively with LLMs, until I reach the path I am looking for.

I collected a list of alternative options for signals that I'll be looking into [1]. I included wifi probe requests as well. Thank you so much!

[1]: https://github.com/nizarmah/igatha/issues/5

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

That's a really cool idea. Kudos!! A companion system should be relatively easy. It's also two single devices communicating with each other which makes things much simpler to build as well. This is worth looking closer into.

I would definitely like to chat about it. Right now, it's the main picture in mind towards getting some funding to push this project forward. So, I'd love to learn more about it.

It's awesome that it's coming to Android as well. I was mind blown when I got it on my phone traveling between Spain and Portugal by car.

It's hard to find a one-size-fits-all solution. I don't know if satellite coverage would still be available under rubble. It's definitely valuable in other situations.

The country coverage is a huge part. My country will likely not get satellite coverage in the next 5 to 10 years. Such countries is where disaster response is worse and infrastructure is more prone to failure.

+1 to sound, I'm planning to research that thanks to all the helpful HN comments like yours :D

I find the "instruction app" a little limited because a person needs to be conscious, they need to be calm and collected to remember to open the app, and their phone needs to be accessible.

In its current state, providing instructions is better than just broadcasting BLE which will be weakened and lost by rubble.

In my country, a lot of first responders still rely on asking people to scream if they can hear them. Anyone unconscious would be discovered days later...

There has to be some way of providing an automated signal of life.

The comments about the physics limitations are pretty awesome. They make me wonder if we can assist it in any way... I learned about passive resonators recently. I know they have a short distance transmission, but maybe if they were part of the building material?

I need to start by learning more about the physics. I know I'm limited by it, but maybe there's window we can walk through instead of the door.

There's a higher chance a person/company can do something valuable with this than Apple buying it or hiring me as an employee.

I will also try to create a monetized version for specific use. Maybe that can help fund building a solution that's publicly available.

Both of those will increase the chances of it being adopted by smartphones, like Google and Apple. That's why I switched from GPL-3.0 to MIT.

I appreciate the kind words and the awesome suggestion. Thank you!

I have not, yet. Right now, it's more of a "signaling life" tool.

Improvements are definitely needed with location, but the signal loss as you mentioned is higher priority and restricts what can be used for location.

I'm planning to do my homework about alternatives to help mitigate the signal loss. And from there, the options for location might be clearer.

Not right now. There are applications out there that do p2p off-grid messaging.

Some of them might require you open the application the first time ever while on internet.

There are many out there (on the App/Play store) that support both use cases you mentioned, I just can't list any off the top of my head because it's been a while since I used one.

Every person being rescued must have the app. Only one person rescuing needs to have the app.

It'll be easy to find a collapsed building site. The person rescuing just needs to be close to the site with the app. Otherwise, the signal might not be noticed.

+1 regarding finding survivors for malicious purposes. I tried my best to lower the surface area of that happening. It's still possible in edge cases, like opposing soldiers finding the people transmitting SOS, but they need to be extremely close to do that.

Thanks a lot for the insight! You definitely highlighted an aspect where this tool could be monetized to fund the development of an open source project like Igatha.

Sadly today, money and connections are needed for r&d and distribution. And having a market that buys a tool like this in certain circumstances can seriously contribute to finding/building publicly available solutions.

This is pretty cool! I need to learn more about both.

I imagine such fancier tools would be less available among common folks, and more among first responders.

NASA already has the tech to detect heartbeats under rubble using radar [1]. No additional equipment is needed by the rescued. The problem is emergency response can get overwhelmed in large disasters.

If Rydberg sensors would be more common, and new tech is added to mobile devices, this can seriously shift the playing field.

I will look into this, because we need out of the box solutions. Thank you!

[1]: https://www.dhs.gov/archive/detecting-heartbeats-rubble-dhs-...