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I would love a watch in the F-91W form factor that does heart rate and sleep tracking. Maybe one day…
The developer also recently posted on Reddit that he’ll soon be adding third party app support
Re:I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:11AM (#47138866)
At age 13 I pitched a candy idea to Mars Bars as part of a school project to write business letters. I loved Snickers at the time but was tired of unwrapping so many fun-size ones from Halloween. I told them something like - “you should just put the fun-size candies in a big resealable bag, so people can eat as much as they want without dealing with the wrappers. You can call them unwrapped minis. All you have to do is create new packaging and re-use the fun-size bars!”

I found the CEO’s corporate address somewhere online and sent the letter to him, never to hear back.

Then, around 8 months later, I saw my first ad for Snickers Unwrapped Bites on TV and freaked out. They had immediately implemented my idea, which as a kid was amazing, but I’ll never forgive them for not writing back. Especially because none of my friends ever believed me.

These days you can even add notifications to iOS/Android PWAs with no registration
Amazing nature, food, and people. Not a whole lot of cities that compete with it in the US.
Re:My Life in Weeks on Saturday February 15, 2025 @03:19PM (#43061939)
I’ve been using MarkWhen for a similar life timeline https://markwhen.com
Re:I basically announced Minecraft 2 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:52PM (#42597596)
Native LOD akin to the Distant Horizons mod

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/distant-horizon...

Re:Engineering Sleep on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:51AM (#42303337)
One of my friends is participating in a research studying using Orexin Agonists to treat narcolepsy - the research is happening!
This would be amazing for backcountry communication - e.g when backpacking with a large group.

Is there any way to enable this for iOS?

Re:A Local-First Case Study on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:29PM (#41713746)
This is awesome! Since you’re using CRDTs, do you have any plans to make it collaborative? I would find it useful to build an itinerary with multiple people
I created a scraper that scrapes around ~30 different property management sites for new rental listings. It then sends me new listings on telegram

It’s been useful for finding new places for myself and my friends - we can usually get tours before the properties are posted on Zillow.

Though definitely against a few privacy policies

Re:Lens sort, a masked pixel sort glitch effect on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:22PM (#39995862)
It looks fairly basic, creating a python venv and installing the requirements.txt should be all you need
Re:Show HN: Astro App on Monday March 04, 2024 @12:15PM (#39592923)
This is awesome! I’m curious what you used to make the 3D view? I’ve been trying to make something similar to control my telescope
Re:The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:48PM (#39282572)
Wasn’t this a Silicon Valley plot line, but with fridges?
You don’t need to fully fool the vestibular system. This could be installed in a large room and move users slowly back to center as they approach the edge
Re:Audio2Photoreal on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:07PM (#38872954)
I’m imaging video game applications where the avatars are controlled by both online users and LLMs
An alternative to using GPT could be NLP Clustering.

If you clustered hierarchically, you could even make groups within groups (idk if chrome supports that, but there’s extensions like Tree-Style Tab in Firefox that do)

Beautiful answer. Beyond programming, our society is incredibly overstimulated. TikTok - and now YouTube reels, instagram, etc - are moving towards short form, algorithmically delivered content that gives you a quick dopamine hit for just swiping, and I think it’s killing our collective attention spans. I wonder if there will every be a movement to move away from such platforms, but for now everyone seems always wired in.