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realty_geek

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Founder at https://housepriceguess.com/. You can reach out to me at https://bsky.app/profile/homestocompare.bsky.social

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realty_geek··on Show HN: I built a climbing tracker for data-obsessed climbers (Expo/RN)
Looks good!

It's so hard to get traction on HN though - I only found this by chance because I was coincidentally searching HN for stories about the recent react hack!!

It doesn't even show up here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

realty_geek··on Gemini 3
Wow, that is awesome.
realty_geek··on Gemini 3
I would like to try controlling my browser with this model. Any ideas how to do this. Ideally I would like something like openAI's atlas or perplexity's comet but powered by gemini 3.
realty_geek··on Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)
Thanks, that is helpful.

Chatgpt also explained the concept of ideophones which was helpful:

https://chatgpt.com/share/69187b3e-7948-8001-9fea-2b4412d5a7...

realty_geek··on Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)
I've always wondered about this.

In Akan languages it is not difficult to conceive of how the same word can be written in different ways to convey another dimension.

Anyone who speaks an akan language will understand that each of these words below means good but with a slightly different emphasis.

papa papaaapa papapapapapa

What is the linguistic term for this concept?

realty_geek··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I created this recently but have let it fallow in the last month. Planning to update it over the next few days / weeks. There are a crazy number of directions I could take it.

https://housepriceguess.com/

Would be great to collaborate with others on it. In particular I want to explore building the "alpha arena for AI house price prediction"

realty_geek··on I'm Selling No CS Degree
Nice. How much do you charge for ads on there?
realty_geek··on [dead]
Booking.com charge a completely different (and much higher) price than displayed at every step - including the final screen!!!

Small businesses are being fined outrageous amounts for not displaying a cookie warning on their sites but a multibillion dollar company seems to get away with barefaced robbery.

Thing I need to figure out now is how to get the regulators on in.

realty_geek··on How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch
True story (even though as the years go by I find it hard to comprehend myself)

I was in a boarding school in Ghana in the late 80's and pretty much every day there would be someone boiling water with a fork directly wired to a 240 volt socket. All the beds were metal bunk beds and there was plenty of combustible material in each dormitory.

I am pretty sure this was replicated in the dozens of other boarding schools across the country. Somehow I never heard of any deaths or serious injuries from it.

Not in the slightest bit advocating for it. It was a desperate solution in desperate times but it has massively skewed my comprehension of risk compared to pretty much anyone I meet in Europe.

realty_geek··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
dang!! I have so much respect for this ironic situation where we are discussing the superpowers of AI while a very human, very decent being ponders deeply on how to compose a few words to make a suitable title. Please can we have a future world where such events can always happen every so often.
realty_geek··on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Absolutely hilarious how it gets stuck trying to solve captcha each time. I had to explicitly tell it not to go to google first.

In the end I did manage to get it to play the housepriceguess game:

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

I think I'll make that my equivalent of Simon Willison's "pelican riding a bicycle" test. It is fairly simple to explain but seems to trip up different LLMs in different ways.

realty_geek··on Gem.coop
Flagging this post is quite disturbing.

There is a conversation around this which needs to be had. Maybe on bsky or x?

https://x.com/africajam/status/1975206106738901110

https://bsky.app/profile/indirect.io/post/3m2iq5p7eoc2j

realty_geek··on The QNX Operating System
Good times indeed. knoppix was my best friend then but I remember that QNX floppy and being pissed off that I didn't have enough geeky friends who were blown away by it.
realty_geek··on [dead]
This could be quite a big deal!
realty_geek··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
@bondarchuk you are right. Something wrong with that sentence.
realty_geek··on Historical Housing Prices Project
Interesting that the Rental Housing Price Indices has seen a fall in some cities!!
realty_geek··on [dead]
Surely this is an opportunity for a startup....
realty_geek··on [dead]
Initially this struck me as very disturbing. Then I realised I have met people like this in coworking spaces across the world. The difference here is openly stating that you are paying to "pretend to have a job".
realty_geek··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
One thing I will be doing this week will be to get different AIs to play the game to get an idea of how good they are. The easiest to start with will be open AI - using the new agent I should be able to record a screencast of it with explanations for each one.
realty_geek··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
I recently built a site for guessing house prices. I thought I'd be done with it in a week. Over a month later I still have a ton of things to work on.

You can at least play some games now though:

https://housepriceguess.com/roundup/v/holiday-destinations/p...

Enjoy. And yes that really was my wife playing one of the games for the first time in the video ;)

realty_geek··on Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule webapp for a conference on my phone
Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points?

And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a bit balanced which is fair enough.

realty_geek··on Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
This will become powerful when artifacts have some way to call out to 3rd party APIs. Is there an AI provider that allows this?
realty_geek··on Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale
It is an interesting product but I really do wonder if it is something users are asking for. In the market jitty is going for I would say that discovering what is on any given real estate website is not the big pain point.
realty_geek··on Show HN: We made a Meta Quest3 see through walls
Such a great project!! I suppose it is not getting many comments because it is such a niche concept.

I think the HN algo rewards posts with a high points to comments ratio anyway which is a good thing in this case.

realty_geek··on Ask HN: I don't want my idea, what can I sell?
Genuinely curious- why would op not mention anything about code written?
realty_geek··on NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
I am very very bullish on NotebookLM. There is an awesome notebooklm list here now:

https://github.com/etewiah/awesome-notebooklm

Will be interesting to see what new ideas NotebookLM leads to. I feel this is how custom GPTs should have been launched. OpenAI is on the backfoot here.

realty_geek··on Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how do you treat free users of your product?
Are you able to get ai summaries of hn articles for free? I'm creating a tool for hn that could do with that.
realty_geek··on Who Owns AI's Output?
And who would be liable for slander if I shared ai generated content which I explicitly marked as AI generated but which slandered someone.
realty_geek··on Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
Delighted to see dokku on here. It's an amazing product and the founder is super humble and helpful. I can't afford to throw much money at it now but it would be great if more people supported it financially
realty_geek··on Transformers for Ruby
Seriously, is this guy human? I'd invest a billion dollars in any individual so talented...
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