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Re:Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:30PM (#38846762)
This is really cool!

Some ideas:

- Let me drag out guests to tables and then optimize around what I've done so far. It looks like optimize wipes the slate clean each time.

- You might consider letting people pick how many seats should be at each table with a +- tolerance.

- People really like seeing seat numbers, whether globally or local to a table.

- If you clean up the UI a bit this could also be something people print out for a reference chart at events.

Automatic seating has been one of the more common feature requests of my own seating chart app, seatpuzzle.com, but I haven't quite gotten around to modeling the right parameters and prioritized a different set of things instead.

Show HN: I made Echo, a interview coach for iOS

Posted by _jnc on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:28PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echo-ai-interview-prep-coach/id6474445689

This is the first version of an app idea I had last month as a way to dip my toes into some of the AI APIs.The idea is you can record yourself answering and rehearsing what you'll say to common interview questions, and receive AI feedback on how you did and how you can improve. In the future I may expand into other subject areas, but wanted to scope it to the behavioral interview format for the...

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to Open... on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:20AM (#38375418)
microsoft is going to need 2-3 seats on that board
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:01PM (#38311087)
Wait maybe he resigned with no notice to do something different and that's why the board response is so harsh.
Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo chamber? on Monday July 03, 2023 @08:38AM (#36572050)
My experience has been that most people have not heard of it, most people that have heard of it have not tried it meaningfully, and most people who tried it meaningfully did not unlock massive productivity gains yet.
Re:Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:29AM (#32851608)
In cases like this I always wonder, what stops another startup from basically just spinning up a figma clone from scratch?
Re:One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:09AM (#32617186)
This strikes me as exactly the intent of the cloud kitchen model, not some big reveal.
Re:Katapayadi System on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:09AM (#31872964)
The mnemonic major system is a more approachable technique for number memorization (in english), learnable in several hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system
Re:What the IBM Layoffs Look Like on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:40PM (#11262619)
Why do they enforce having a referrer set? If you refresh the page it becomes a 404.
Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:16AM (#9823643)
At least in Ruby, you can only do string interpolation with strings in double quotes.
Re:Project Fi by Google on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:21PM (#9422418)
Video borrows a lot from Apple's "Designed by Apple in California": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQfye4vAQ8
Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 27, 2014 @01:43PM (#7655983)
Looks like something like this debuted last week: https://gofuckingdoit.com
Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 27, 2014 @01:29PM (#7655931)
- An app that keeps track of what websites you browse and at the end of the day shows you how much of your time was actually spent on useful activities versus browsing Facebook for 2 hours.

Have you looked into rescuetime.com for this?