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I really liked all the info you have provided. You need a solid evidence to back some of the claims made by the system.

You might want to add a section where you list related/similar startups and how well they are doing (in terms of ARR and/or other metrics.)

Re:Show HN: I made a crowd counting game on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @07:26AM (#44499008)
Your comment made my day! The historical stats option is already available, it is a button to click/touch on the summary page (perhaps I need to make it a bit more visible). And I like competitive leaderboard and themed rounds ideas, will definitely take into consideration, thanks!
Re:Show HN: I made a crowd counting game on Sunday July 06, 2025 @03:52PM (#44483503)
Hey, thanks for the spot-on questions and the encouragement! You made me remember my initial plan to add a reference to the crowd counting dataset I have used as the ground truth. You can find the link to the dataset in the About page (the ? icon) now. These datasets typically include crowd annotations every image where every person is annotated with head locations (and sometimes the head size) so rendering that was trivial. I actually do show the accuracy of the individual guesses at the end (with the summary of every round) and during the game (with that animated accuracy ruler). It would be great to find out if they are not working properly or not explanatory enough.
Zildjian's original craftsmanship actually lives on in Istanbul. Mehmet Tamdeger, who began apprenticing at age nine under Mikhail Zilcan (grandson of Kerope Zilcan, of K series fame) and master smith Kirkor Kucukyan, continued the traditional techniques from the 1950s K. Zilcan factory in Istanbul.

What's fascinating is that Tamdeger and master smith Agop Tomurcuk preserved these methods by founding "Istanbul" cymbals. Initially exporting to the US under "Zildjiler" before switching to "Istanbul" in 1984, each cymbal was personally signed by both masters. After Agop's unexpected death in 1996, Mehmet continued under "Istanbul Mehmet", maintaining the 17th-century hand-crafting methods with the philosophy "Machines don't have ears."

The cymbals they make are particularly sought after by jazz drummers for what's known as the "old K sound" - referring to the original K Zildjians made in its place of birth.

Here is one for sale:

https://soundsanatolian.com/products/istanbul-mehmet-22-mika...

Re:Show HN: Time Flies on Monday September 23, 2024 @06:28PM (#41631261)
Nice.

<Spoiler> I would expect the phone shake to cause the flies to dispatch tho. <Spoiler/>

Re:One Million Checkboxes on Thursday June 27, 2024 @06:02AM (#40808918)
Great work! I hope unchecking them would not result in a ban...
Being able to help my friends understand the basics of the pointer arithmetic in C.
Re:Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:15AM (#34844441)
This turned out to be much more Terminatoresque than I expected.
Re:Hello on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:23AM (#33490073)
Hey, this post made me remember a feeling that I had long forgotten. Thank you.

I write short stories in Turkish. I wanted to become a skilled writer ever since I can remember. So I started to keep a dairy. I have been writing since -give or take- two years, nearly every day. I also post some short stories of mine, when I have some.

Best part of it is when go back in time and actually like some of things you have written a long time ago. It is common for me to dislike my own writing so that rare feeling gives me a lot of strength to continue.

Hope this gives some of you out there some inspiration and I appreciate any advice/ideas you might have!