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Show HN: WhereIsMyIP, A no-nonsense, one-second public location checker

https://whereismyip.info/

Hey HN,I originally built this tiny project a few years ago but ended up abandoning it. I recently revived and finished it to solve a very specific, recurring annoyance I had with my usual workflow.Whenever I turn on my VPN, I always want a quick visual confirmation that it’s actually routing correctly before I start browsing, usually by just checking what city/country I appear to be in.The...

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Show HN: The Frontier, Tracking the LLM Pareto Frontier

https://the-frontier.app/

Hi HN,I'm a software engineer working on C++/python/robotics by day, dabbing into web apps by night. I built The Frontier (https://the-frontier.app) because the LLM market is moving so fast it's hard to tell if you're overpaying for performance.Pricing is easy to find, but it's hard to tell if you're missing a similarly priced or even cheaper model with better performance. So I built a...

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Truly amazing work! I only had time to scan quickly your write-up but I'll try to read it entirely, it's very interesting thank you!

As you say: software engineering doesn’t go away in the age of AI - it just moves up the ladder of abstraction ! At least in the mid term :)

there's a bug on the differ tool

I paste a json on the left, a different one on the right and it shows "No differences found. The JSON objects are identical."

Also the CSV tool should probably complain when the json is not in the intended format

Show HN: Visualizing LLM Price vs. Performance

https://the-frontier.app/

Over the holidays I worked on a few small AI projects and got frustrated with the hassle of choosing a model that's good enough for the job without massively overpaying.So I built a visualization for the models’ performance vs price:- Performance comes from LM Arena's ELO, by category (overall, coding, etc.).- Pricing comes from OpenRouter (USD per 1M tokens).- The chart highlights the Pareto...

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Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:46AM (#46678917)
The current trend made me realize I don't like coding so much as I like creating stuff. So I'm happy I can build the stuff faster in an increasingly tight schedule as I'm getting older. I have always done small projects at home, few of which would reach maturity, and I was doing less and less every year, until recently!