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Re:LLMs are the ultimate demoware on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @11:27AM (#45438875)
(OP) In my post, I actually ask the question of whether a student would _want_ to interact with the tutor, not if the tutor is capable of providing good instruction. These are drastically different critiques.

Show HN: Chessophone – Generate music from chess games

Posted by csmeyer on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:07PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://chessophone.com/

Chessophone takes a PGN string representation of a chess game and generates music - Notes from the C major scale are added for each piece in each row of the board for each move in the game. Games played with the same opening will sound the same until they deviate from book moves. The perceived tempo of the music speeds up as pieces are captured. Enjoy!Created with python-chess and...

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Show HN: Chessophone – Listen to Chess Games

Posted by csmeyer on Saturday April 19, 2025 @11:58AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://chessophone.netlify.app/

Chessophone takes a PGN string representation of a chess game and generates music - Notes from the C major scale are added for each piece in each row of the board for each move in the game.Games played with the same opening will sound the same until they deviate from book moves. The perceived tempo of the music speeds up as pieces are captured. Enjoy!The Web Audio API is a bit annoying and this...

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Re:Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting thems... on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @09:08AM (#40926462)
I’ve been in the habit of emailing myself a lot, I’m excited to give this a try! I had thought of building this myself, so I’m glad I don’t have to :-)
Re:Own $20 MicroPython Smartwatch on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @09:30PM (#40922932)
I loved programming for Pebble back in the day. They actually had a pretty nice in browser IDE and IIRC their APIs were fairly well documented.

I remember making watch face bitmaps with paint!

Re:Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids on Sunday June 30, 2024 @06:32PM (#40840930)
Our customers are split between the US and Europe. There are a lot of decision makers in the process who need to approve a purchase at school, so things are pretty time consuming.
Re:Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids on Sunday June 30, 2024 @06:30PM (#40840912)
If you go to https://app.pickcode.io/lessons you can do some free Pickcode VL lessons without an account. Later this year we’ll probably add some Python or Javascript to that page too. URI storage would be neat!
Re:Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:09PM (#40839334)
Basically just a lot simpler. Replit has a million features (and AI ghostwriter) that in my experience are distracting for kids (I used to be a teacher and still tutor kids 1:1)

Show HN: Pickcode – Free online code editor for kids

Posted by csmeyer on Saturday June 29, 2024 @12:56PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://pickcode.io

Hi HN! I've posted Pickcode a few times (most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365638), but we've improved things quite a bit so I thought it was worth posting again. This is a bit of 1.0 release after a long year of working on the company full time!Pickcode is basically Replit-lite, for kids. The editor is simple: text editor + output console + big green button to run your code....

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Re:Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games on Thursday June 20, 2024 @08:29AM (#40737949)
This post (just thinking of use of Unix tools within game software) reminds me of that bug a few years back within steam itself that accidentally deleted user’s root directories

https://youtu.be/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=F-Aq9Ha_GKEZH006

Re:Show HN: Ritt – The tag-centric file manager on Thursday June 20, 2024 @08:25AM (#40737900)
Dark mode/light mode unreadability has bitten me a few times on sites of my own…

And it seems as though it’s happened to the best of us, more or less the entire YouTube iPad app is unreadable in light mode

Re:Now is a good time to start a service business on Thursday June 20, 2024 @08:22AM (#40737884)
Palantir is a classic example of what is a hybrid services => product business. It was a _very_ long road for them to get to a point where their product could actually scale without massive implementation effort, but I think they’re finally getting there (they offer a cheap self service option now AFAIK)

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