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Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:00PM (#47055252)
This looks awesome!! Nice work!!
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:59PM (#47055240)
Yes!! We are working on this currently thinking of a top trumps style system with different stats!
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:35PM (#47042619)
Good shout! thank you
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:14PM (#47041627)
1) agreed by the look of everyone’s comments we need to rephrase some things in the onboarding, apple review made us change it to be explicit as possible. 2) yes this is a great idea!! ‘You’re the first in the world to discover this’!! Thank you for that!!
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:38PM (#47041320)
Just as an example, we are currently at lady bird lake in Austin, tx and saw a turtle on the bank. It turned out to be a red eared slider turtle. The app informed us that they can breathe through their bottoms! Who knew!
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:30PM (#47041244)
Yeah the first thing that comes up is a full page splash screen saying ‘DANGEROUS SPECIES Be careful’

So hopefully people will get the memo immediately!

Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:27PM (#47041226)
Fully agree here.
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:27PM (#47041213)
Respectfully disagree here, the more people you could get outside appreciating and learning about nature, the better it can be preserved for future generations. Whether it’s gamified or not.
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:19PM (#47041135)
As people are requesting we will make a paid version pronto with no ads.

As per apple guidelines you can request us not to track and the app of course respects that.

The location data is used only for helping us narrow down the collection species!

Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:13PM (#47041045)
Nice thank you so much!
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:12PM (#47041037)
We thought about this and specifically decided not to award xp based on an animals danger rating.

Even though we warn users in the onboarding to take care in the wild, TikTok and similar platforms have shown people acting foolishly is not something you can fully control

Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:04PM (#47040955)
Definitely soon, we just wanted to build a version that everyone can use regardless of income.

Unfortunately inference costs means we needed something (ads) to keep the servers online.

Out of curiosity what would you say is a fair price for this?

Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:02PM (#47040937)
iNaturalist is great for identification and information, but it lacked the fun and soul we were looking for.

It doesn’t feel like you’re playing when you use it, it feels like you’re in biology class (no hate to them).

Wildex gives you cute fun facts and lets you build up points for rare species finds. It feels like a completely different experience.

Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildex-identify-plants-animals/id6748092158

Dear HN,My wife and I both love nature and have always wanted a Pokémon go style app, to collect and learn about different species we find.All the usual species identifying apps were didn’t feel fun enough, so we designed and built one together!Would love for you guys to give it a try and share any thoughts you have.

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Thanks so much!!
Thanks so much!! Really really appreciate it.

If you get a chance to try out the interview itself, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Congratulations on the launch. We've weighed up algolia, in house, type-sense etc and so I'd would have been very keen to know more, but asking for us to integrate before knowing the pricing is a tough sell.

Would highly recommend having at least an estimated pricing calculator so we can determine if its worth our time to install.

Show HN: Pickles.io – Cheap, fast, realistic text to speech

https://pickles.io/

Hi Hackers,Excited to share our new text to speech API: https://pickles.io/- 2x cheaper then UnrealSpeech - 5x cheaper then OpenAI TTS HD - 32x cheaper then ElevenLabsWe have designed the API to be easy to use and integrate.There’s a live demo on the landing page where you can try it.We’d love to hear your feedback and comments as we refine and develop it further!

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Re:Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next on Saturday February 17, 2024 @06:16AM (#39408442)
No indication that this a MoE (Mistral not Mixtral).

Very exciting nevertheless, here’s hoping the bless the OS community once again!

Ask HN: What’s the best way to get in touch with YC Staff?

Hey HN,I submitted my YC application yesterday for the early deadline for AI startups. I was silly and forgot to include the AIEarlyInterviews23 string in the application. I am now unable to edit the necessary question to include it.I have emailed [email protected] to let them know but I’m guessing they are understandably super swamped right now.Just wondering if anyone knows another way of...

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Re:Show HN: Bricabrac – Text to Functional Web Apps on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:24AM (#35536551)
Thank you!! I find it great for making advanced boilerplate code

Show HN: Bricabrac – Text to Functional Web Apps

https://bricabrac.ai/

Hey HN! I would like to introduce Bricabrac, a text to web app creator.While no-code tools have democratised web app development, making it more accessible and faster, they often come with a steep learning curve and platform lock-in.Bricabrac aims to address these limitations by enabling rapid web app creation while still granting access to the underlying code.Some examples of uses: - Remix...

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Show HN: ChatGPT but for Rap Battles

https://rappingai.com/

I made a thing! I made something I thought was fun with the latest OpenAI GPT 3.5 model.It lets you rap battle against famous figures (Abraham Lincoln, Kim Kardashian etc) or against a generic A.I. You can also generate rap lyrics about any topic.I've set it to give away 180 words for free so you can try it out, you'll have to confirm your email for this.Hope you have fun :)

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Show HN: Rap Battle Simulator Using GPT

https://rappingai.com/

I made a thing!I made something I thought was fun with the latest OpenAI model.It lets you rap battle against famous figures (Abraham Lincoln, Kim Kardashian etc) or against a generic A.I. You can also generate rap lyrics about any topic.I've set it to give away 90 words for free so you can try it out, you'll have to confirm your email for this.Hope you have fun :)

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Dentist here. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but regenerative dentistry is still some time away.

The linked article describes that they have discovered new pathways in the development cycle of teeth. (Akin to learning how something complex like your fingers develop from a fetal cell mass.)

This is a great start for sure and vital research.

But still some way before we are able to turn these developments into something actionable in a clinical setting.

Dentist here, in terms of replacing root canals. The technique described in the paper would not replace the nerves and blood vessels in the root canal system.

It just shows a new method for sealing off the root canal system - via a blood clot.

Unfortunately you would still need to have the root canal treatment - just the sealing may be slightly quicker with this method.

The quality obturation (apical seal) doesn’t really effect the clinical outcome o of root canal so unlikely will mean better outcomes either.