News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Nortey

Show HN: Explain The Law – Simplified legislation and executive orders using AI

https://explainthelaw.com/

As someone who likes to keep up with politics but finds legislation a pain to read, I created Explain The Law to make understanding bills and executive orders easier. I’ve seen a number of other websites that also do this, but the summaries were either too brief or too wordy and poorly structured. I wanted to strike a balance between “give me the gist of it” and “tell me everything this...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )

Show HN: Numari – An Original Number Puzzle

https://numari.com

Numari is a number puzzle aimed at audiences who like games like Sudoku, Kakuro, or 2048. Here is a short video preview of what the gameplay is like: https://youtu.be/YRF0e7xroe0I created this puzzle a few months ago and got some really great feedback when I shared it. The verdict was that the game itself was fun, but the graphics and sound needed improving. I've spent the last few months...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )

Show HN: Numari – an original number puzzle for Sudoku lovers

https://playnumari.com/

Hi HN,Numari is a number puzzle I've been working on for a few months that I (finally) completed recently. This game was made with the intention of appealing to those who like games similar to Sudoku.I actually released this as a native app in 2018 (for both iOS and Android), however the rules were a bit too complicated for the initial release (the game used to allow for diagonal movements)....

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Agreed. I'd prefer to leave those kinds of comments on reddit.
As an avid anime watcher and a frequent user of https://myanimelist.net/, I don't mind providing a bit of constructive feedback:

- I get that its just a hobby website, but at the moment there isn't enough there that would pull me away from using an established service such as myanimelist. Or at the very least, it isn't completely obvious to me what it provides that MAL already doesn't. If you do decide to advertise on other sites, I'd suggest making it clear to users what your site offers that isn't provided by already established services.

- This might just be a personal thing, but before an image loads, it first shows up as a blurred image. I really do not like this, as I find it a bit painful for my eyes.

The layout looked pretty decent to me and everything loaded fine on my end. Good job the UI and development. If you were just wanting this to be a hobby, then I'd say well done, and keep playing around with it. If you do want this to ever take off in any way, my suggestion is to focus on providing something new, because at the moment it feels like a bit of an incomplete MAL clone (don't mean to come off as harsh here, just trying to be honest). Good luck!

FWIW, I accidentally left a machine running for a month and ended up owing ~$700. I called them and told them I wasn't using it and they gave me the money back. I'd give it a try if I were you.
Nearly every time I log onto HN someones created a new .js project/framework/solution/whatever for something. Its usually a variation of some .js project that already exists.
Relying on documentation a lot is NOT a bad thing. Your problem solving abilities are important but one could make the argument that your ability to look up how to solve a problem is just as important. I can't count the number of times I've heard developers (including myself) say "Most of my job is just Googling how to solve something...".

When I was in college, once of my classmates only used documentation as an absolute last resort claiming that he didn't want to rely on it in college since he wouldn't be able to rely on it in the 'real world'. Not only was he slow and a pain to work with, but he couldn't have been farther from the truth. Google isn't going anywhere, and if anything its more accessible in the workplace than in a college setting where at times you're forced to write syntax correct code on paper in some unrealistic testing environment.

In short, embrace the documentation :)

Currently it just sits on top of Sqlite. I wanted to keep with the whole 'lightweight' concept. Also, all of the apps I have made have used very basic schemas and using CoreData was a bit more overhead than I needed. I wanted to make a library that was easy to setup and use. Making it easy to transition to core data isn't a bad idea though.
This is correct. I originally created this library for someone who was completely new to iOS and SQL. The documentation and syntax for Core Data was a bit too daunting for him. With this he was able to have his project use local storage with a very small learning curve.
It is primarily aimed at beginners and projects that need basic local storage that is easy to setup.