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Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:23AM (#49845121)
These aren't good. They have the same llm-speak that has pithy short sayings but are strung together not in a way that unfolds naturally and clearly but only as generally conceptually related.

Good explainer videos need a human teacher to craft the narrative and exposition.

A vocabulary flash card app. I know I know, there's a million.

None of them had share extension feature so whenever you are reading on the web or in a book you highlight the word share directly to the app and it automatically looks up the definition.

Also added a voice review (with gemini native audio model) so you can chat your reviews.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vocabulary-flash-cards/id67750...

Re:What to Do with Your Extra Tokens on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:03AM (#47704682)
I've kept a running list of what to do with extra tokens. Would love other ideas people have.
Nutshell subscribes you to RSS feeds and emails you a daily digest. Each morning it fetches new articles, runs them through an LLM, and sends you a summary to your inbox. The main configurable piece is the summary format. You can set writing style (bullet points, narrative, technical, casual, or a free-form custom system prompt) and reading length (short ~1-2 min, medium ~5-10 min, long ~10-20 min). Changes take effect on the next send, no re-generating history.
Re:Croppy on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:56PM (#46281290)
This is little croppy app.

The problem I was having was that when I was passing UI screens to coding agents, I know I should break down the screen into all the components and pass 1 component per turn in order to get the best component generation.

But this was annoying because you just have to do all the cropping in figma/photoshop. So I made this little utility app.

- Upload UI (Mobile or Desktop) - Passes it to AI to analyze into components - You fine tune cropping (this happens client-side, super fast) - Export images

Free - 1 Page $5 - 100 Pages

Let me know if you want any features.

Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @10:33AM (#45980849)
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Re:ElevenReader by ElevenLabs on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:34AM (#43026370)
Have you used it? I use it for both hands free and read later. When I'm on a webpage I just use the safari share sheet to send it to ElevenLabs Reader and then just listen whenever I have time.
Re:How to Escape a Container on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:10AM (#38721359)
Thought the same thing.

I, however, have not written any containerization code.

Really cool, but in 3d modeling triangles are a "no no". You are taught early on to design in quads.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:45AM (#38069389)
just do back and forward really quick and no ads:

⌘+[ and ⌘+]

I had early access to this and I can tell you it is insane. It allows you to build your backend logic so fast without losing any control over more customized code. This is my goto now.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:14AM (#35439085)
FlutterFlow: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flutterflow/jobs

Technical Support Engineer (Americas) | Remote (IN) | 3+ Years Consulting Sales Engineer (US or Americas Region) | Remote | 6+ Years Consulting Sales Engineer (India or APAC Region) | Remote | 3+ Years Enterprise Flutter Developer (US or Americas Region) | Remote (US) | 3+ Years Software Engineer (United States) | Bay Area (San Mateo) / Remote (US) | 3+ Years Head Of Technical Support | Remote (US) | 3+ Years

I would check out low-code tools. They are insanely powerful now. For the web use www.weweb.io and for mobile use www.flutterflow.io.
Re:JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs on Monday August 29, 2022 @08:36AM (#32637397)
That's really cool. One change would be for nested structures I wouldn't put and arrow but have it be a property with the rest of the properties that then has an arrow to the contents.
Just use Webflow.
Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:50AM (#30359880)
Whenever this type of criticism is made about a digital property you need to ask if that behavior is incentivized by the design of the product or is it just human nature.
Just wait 5 years.
Re:Jimmy Wales’ Final Email on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:46AM (#29174550)
Whenever I see these campaigns and emails I always think, "this could be solved by 1 ad"
What's your hobby?
Re:Show HN: PDFs from HTML on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:47AM (#26698246)
Another great option is https://www.pdfmonkey.io. They're also wired up in zapier.
Webflow & Zapier

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