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This map is missing a number of locations near me that DeFlock (
https://deflock.org/) has. For example, entrances to Stanford's campus.
Posted by
eiiot on Sunday May 24, 2026 @03:41PM
from the spoqify.com dept.
Sometimes I will see a domain on YC and immediately know it will be LLM-designed before clicking on the link. This was one of those projects. Wish they were more human and more understated.
> compiles directly to Rust — no runtime, no GC, just (s-expr → .rs → binary).
Can we please write our own READMEs before posting to HN?
I'm a student at Stanford — this is hitting the whole school hard. Unlike a lot of schools on the east coast that are affected (Brown, Harvard, MIT) we are on the quarter system so we're just ending Midterms right now. We're also lucky enough to have our CS department entirely independent from Canvas, but most of my humanities classes are not so lucky. One art history class is having us submit our midterm papers by uploading to a google drive folder—another is pausing weekly quizzes. The main thing this has revealed is just how dependent students and teachers are on Canvas... I hope that this re-prompts discussions about moving off of a platform that was already (from a student perspective) not very good.
Posted by
eiiot on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:29PM
from the eliothertenstein.com dept.
Interesting that this doesn't seem to include a computer algebra system like the Nspire CAS. Wonder if it's a testing environment compliance thing?
This seems like a great opportunity for new platforms who are rethinking the OSS space to finally gain the traction they need to be effective. For a collaborative platform, quantity is key, and I am hopeful that someone who is interested in advancing the software space will become the new go-to. This isn't to say that GitHub hasn't been innovating, but at least from my perspective, the way we've used git for the past however-many-years has remained basically constant.
Some projects that seem interesting:
- https://tangled.org/ seems to be building out cool and exciting ways to write and interact with code (and they're distributed on the ATProto! But notably that's not their core selling point)
- Microservices like https://pico.sh/ and https://sr.ht/ feel like fresh air...
Farming is a funny example to use, given that it's one of the best examples of an industry that's continually revolutionized by evolving technology. Farming today is about owning the best tractor.
The dismiss button on the top banner doesn't work after I click onto the trial page.
...and start writing it like you're an LLM!
This looks generally good but sadly also stylistically is similar to the default "modern" output of Claude Code. Just a thought.
Posted by
eiiot on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:16PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/eiiot/crabify
Hey HN,I made a little Spotify TUI today because I was sick of the electron app draining my battery and otherwise slowing down my computer. I am using it right now and figured you all might find it useful.Spotify doesn't seem to allow devs to create new apps at the moment, but this should work with any existing or unused app id.Cheers!
Was this post written with AI? The syntax and use of emojis certainly looks like something Claude would generate.
The table also seems like the kind of thing that Gemini seems to generate a lot. "Here's a table that communicates almost no information! One of the rows is constant for each item."
Just ran a script to do this – doesn't seem like there's much going in, other than one test transaction.
It’s such a shame they shut this down. I loved golden gate Claude.
LiveStore is the only sync engine I’ve used for Expo / RN that actually just works out of the box. In a space that is seemingly mature it’s nice to see something polished and I’m excited to see how it develops over the next year!
Posted by
eiiot on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @03:09PM
from the dmvfilter.com dept.
Posted by
eiiot on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:35AM
from the eliothertenstein.com dept.
It's so funny you mention this, I actually just launched something super similar today for the California DMV (as a Bay Area student). It checks for openings from cancellations and notifies people.
There's a special kind of magic that comes from meaningfully improving your life from software :)
(the project is https://dmvfilter.com if you want to check it out!)
As a current student and self-taught developer this is one of the best representations I’ve seen about what makes the world of CS fun. You have a bunch of people with a crazy idea that’s just SO niche and they’re able to use their brains to create something beautiful of immense value.
Posted by
eiiot on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:01AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://dmvfilter.com
Hey HN! My name is Eliot, I'm a student and developer from the Bay Area. DMV Filter is a better interface for the California DMV's appointment finder that also alerts you when new appointments are available.What: First and foremost, DMV Filter is a filtering tool. You can see ALL appointments near you at once, filter by distance and time, and see availability visualized on a map. If you can't...
There are basically three parts to this question, all of which can be chosen independently and then fit together.
First you choose a frontend (and often backend) framework to actually build the pages, like Next.js, Svelte, Laravel, etc.
Then, you can choose an auth solution like Clerk, auth0, NextAuth, Supabase, etc. Most of these products work with a wide variety of frameworks. Some of the frameworks (like Laravel) also have an auth framework built in.
For payments, you technically have choices but I would just use stripe.
Posted by
eiiot on Monday June 10, 2024 @12:57PM
from the developer.apple.com dept.
Posted by
eiiot on Monday May 27, 2024 @11:56PM
from the eliothertenstein.com dept.
> Southwest even sues websites that display its schedules and fares without authorization
Why does Southwest even have any jurisdiction here? It seems like they won a preliminary case, but don't we have established president that scraping websites is legal, thanks to hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn?
Posted by
eiiot on Saturday May 11, 2024 @10:15AM
from the christianselig.com dept.