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Posted by
deevelton on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:25PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://dvelton.github.io/binge-ready/
Made this for impatient people like me, who have trouble dealing with the torturous drip feed of one new TV series episode per week, and often search for "season finale air date" to determine when a show will finally be ready to binge.
Thanks for reading it, I appreciate it!
Posted by
deevelton on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:42PM
from the github.com dept.
awesome! thanks for checking it out
Not sure what happens if you start scaling this, but curious too. Would love to see someone who actually knows ML try it.
Increased default epochs to 2000 instead of 500, I think that fixed it but let me know if you still run into this.
This was just a fun thought experiment.
Feed it two inputs (e.g. chance of rain and wind speed; this is one of the examples in the demo) and it learns to answer a yes/no question like "bring an umbrella?" It's a one-neuron binary classifier with three learned parameters: two weights and a bias. Those three numbers map directly to Red, Green, and Blue. Save the model: you get a 1x1 PNG. Load the pixel: you get your classifier back. The color is the model.
Posted by
deevelton on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:32PM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
deevelton on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:48AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/dvelton/eyeball
When working in hallucination-sensitive contexts (where cost of error is very high), found myself constantly jumping between AI outputs/analysis and source docs to see with my own eyes that a source doc says what the AI claims it says. This is a simple little tool that tries to alleviate that pain, based on the theory that screenshots are less likely to be hallucinated than text.
I wonder if an animation with the prompts/edits inline and the text morphing might be an interesting UI…fun stuff to think about. Contributions welcome!
https://github.com/dvelton/trace
This was just a small experiment, but as a teammate and I watched our respective agents (each loaded with its owner’s context/preferences/etc) negotiate directly with one another to schedule and agree on lunch plans on our behalf, there was definitely a feeling that what we were watching was the tip of an iceberg.
Posted by
deevelton on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:30AM
from the show-hn dept.
Parents in my son's hockey league used to track shots on goal with pen and paper during games, to help coaches both during and after the games. It was tedious and the data was hard to use afterward.
Not a developer, so I used AI to build a free web app to replace it. You tap where on the rink each shot came from, tag whether it was a goal or save, and at the end of the game you get a full report with shot maps, heatmaps, and per-player breakdowns. Works on your phone, no account needed.
It's not fancy tech, but it's pretty rewarding to see it actually in use by the team and now even spreading to other teams in the league :)
Posted by
deevelton on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:56PM
from the show-hn dept.
Maybe it’s just personal deja vu, but in current discussions of vibecoding v software engineering I keep seeing parallels from the debates 20 years ago when blogs began proliferating: the bloggers v “real journalism” arguments.
Have been curious what it could look like (and whether it might be an interesting new type of “post” people make) if readers could see the human prompts and pivots and steering of the LLM inline within the final polished AI output.
This hits home for me. Lawyer, not developer here. Implementation was never a hard part for me, it was an impossible part. Now that the time/cost needed to experiment with prototypes has dropped to near zero I've been been spending a lot of time doing exactly what you describe (steering, brainstorming). I find it fun but I do it mainly as a bunch of personal side projects. Can understand how it might feel different for users when the stakes are much higher (like when it's part of the day-to-day in a real job).
Experimented very briefly with a mediation (as opposed to a litigation) framework but it was pre-LLM and it was just a coding/learning experience:
https://github.com/dvelton/hotseat-mediatorCool write-up of your experiment, thanks for sharing. Would be interesting to see how results from one framework (mediation, whose goal is "resolution") differ from the other (litigation, whose goal is, basically, "truth/justice").
Didn’t expect to see this on HN. Thanks for checking it out though. Not a developer, just a lawyer at GitHub, this repo was me playing around with the GitHub Spark tool.