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sum1renon Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers

When I'm using genai to write some code for me, I lose the internal mental state of what my code is doing.

As such, when I do have to debug problems myself, or dream up ideas of improvements, I no longer can do this properly due to lack of internal mental state.

Wonder how people who have used genai coding successfully get around this?

sum1renon Ask HN: What are your founder's resolutions for 2024?

Focus on one side project and one side project only - I think the concept of trying to create 12 products in 12 months is probably counterproductive (for me)

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

right I see, gotcha. I'll repost as a ShowHN when I remove the waitlist next time

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

will drop you an email!

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

the latter is definitely the long term vision. Today we do capture the elements, but do some sort of 'automated' (tree traversal) to produce the video. Would definitely love to give future users even more fine grained control

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

thanks for raising this, there is currently nothing in the nav bar, but seems that hamburger menu is still there, I'll remove it :)

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

let's definitely give it a try :) what's ur app name, I'll build a demo of it and send it over (also feel free to email me the app name at hello@minidemo.app instead)

sum1renon Turning websites into animated videos

nice, let me take a look at ur app from the waitlist - will be in touch soon

sum1renon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

https://minidemo.app

Been working on a way to turn websites into animated demo videos, with clicks and transitions etc.

Hoping that it'll help with producing landing page videos or marketing videos without needing after effects

sum1renon Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

I have this exact problem! About a year ago I built https://fetcher.page which fetches updates for me every 10 minutes or so, filters the ones I've already seen, and then notifies me of new updates.

It's not perfect, but at least I thought reopen 5 websites like 50 times a day.

I rebranded it as a social listening platform a couple months ago, but one can still use it for its initial purpose. Let me know if you find this useful, can grant free access.

sum1renon Analysis of distances between London's bus stops

Thanks for the insight, it's definitely pique my interest, going to check the game out.

sum1renon Analysis of distances between London's bus stops

> Think of it as a plumbing problem. Your primary people flow is between cheap rent and good jobs.

That's an interesting idea. Just thinking out loud, I wonder how one affects the other. I.e cheap rent -> create better transport links -> increased rent -> etc etc.

I know this is true with tube stations raising the cost of certain areas in London.

sum1renon Analysis of distances between London's bus stops

Makes me all the more in awe of London's bus network despite the occasional tardiness.

I've not played Cities, but interested to know the usual stumbling blocks to build such a system. Too large a city to cover, and too expensive to cover extensively?

sum1renon Analysis of distances between London's bus stops

Slightly tangential, but here's a viz of how sprawled out London's bus network is https://youtu.be/xAnCD_Czwxw?t=648. Quite amazing how well the bus system works.

sum1renon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://fetcher.page

Haven't got enough traction for me to want to implement payments

sum1renon Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

Shameless plug: I created a web extension that scrapes from twitter UI directly to a single page. That's one way to get around the api... https://fetcher.page

sum1renon For your next side project, make a browser extension

Extensions were the only way to help me fix my habit of constantly rebrowsing websites. It was chronic at one point.

Might come in helpful for someone: Https://fetcher.page

sum1renon Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks

I've been using auradb, not exactly SQLite-like but good way for me to get started for free.

sum1renon Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

Blocksite.co - for getting rid of distractions

Fetcher.page - for getting distractions in a controlled way

sum1renon Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

Trying to persevere and get 1000 users for the first time in an app which I built.

Currently growing https://www.fetcher.page/

sum1renon Show HN: I built a possible alternative to social media RSS

"monitor the culture" - don't think I could word it any better. When FTX fell and ChatGPT got released, there was just so much to monitor to see what others are saying/doing

Care to share a link to rivus?

sum1renon Ups and downs of a side project

Thanks for sharing your experience. I definitely have given up on marketing/selling my projects after just a month or two of trying.

Going to try a little longer this time.

sum1renon Search result: Hide sites with advertising?

I started a project to help me pull content from my insta, twitter, etc with the ads cut out.

The aim feeds still look and feel like the original site, but without ads, or duplicate content.

In case you are interested - https://www.fetcher.page/

sum1renon Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?

Its insane how accurate some of the posts from last year were: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236

sum1renon Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?

A image versioning tool: https://www.gitimage.app

I was asking myself why the benefits of version control was not used more outside of the software industry, and decided to work on a MVP to prove/disprove it's usefulness in another hobby - photography

sum1renon Ask HN: What Is Going on with Neo4j?

Could it because many people are evaluating the community version of the database? The enterprise/Aura (cloud) is definitely designed to be more scalable