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Posted by
mdoliwa on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:54AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://hnrant.com
One of my new year resolutions was to cut the scope of my side projects, do not overthink, just build cool things and publish them.So here it is, 25th Hour mirror rant scene with Edward Norton meeting HN front page. It was some random idea, I was curious what AI will output and it turns out it's really good at it.Hope you like it as much as I do.
I wonder how HN front page would look like with positive ones only.
Posted by
mdoliwa on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I love "Size of Life" by Neal Agarwal that just hit top spot on frontpage, and I love checking other projects that these makers do.Do you know any other people that are building cool projects like these?I can start with some interesting ones I found here recently.- https://neal.fun/
- https://eieio.games/
- https://greg.technology/
yeah, so basically 1 we have available places, 0 we do not.
so this just says if we have free places or not?
students.size < maximum_number_of_students
Posted by
mdoliwa on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @07:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm paraphrasing yesterday's Ask HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976045Every time I see posts like this, I feel like I should take more notes. I do write some down, but I rarely use them afterward.I'm curious, what do you actually do with your notes? How do they help you in real life?
I created this tool for myself because I always start my projects by buying a domain name. The other similar tools I used often gave me false positives, so I decided to do something about it. I hope it will save you some time.
Posted by
mdoliwa on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:09AM
from the show-hn dept.
No, I believe it was some kind of science paper.
Posted by
mdoliwa on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:25AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/mdoliwa/chaos-pixels
Hey HN,I've been wanting to start this project for a long time, ever since I read an article about collaborative transformation of blob images[1], and I'm hoping it will take off here as I'm curious to see how it can grow.Here's how it works:- My website is available at https://chaospixels.com. You can find its code in the `src` directory of the linked repository.- Every day, I'll review all...
Posted by
mdoliwa on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @06:06AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
mdoliwa on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:49AM
from the gregnavis.com dept.
Stupid question, if we find a commercially viable way of converting CO2 into fuel is there a danger of "global cooling" because people will get too greedy with this?
I'm Ruby developer, and tried multiple times to switch to vscode or one of these heavy IDE like plugins. All the time I'm back to my simple setup which is basically vim + fzf(powered by ripgrep). CTRL+P I run fzf to find files, CTRL+F to scan files content.
It's so fast, that every time I'm doing the test switch to another tool, I'm missing this speed and get back to it. Some time ago I wrote an article for company that I used to work for, describing my workflow:
https://thecodest.co/blog/rails-development-with-tmux-vim-fz... you can check it for more details.
I thought only people knowing game of life will play it, so I didn't explain it. The way they transition is exactly the same as in original game of life. The only difference is this grey dead cells area, where cells are always dead no matter what's their neighborhood. Anyway, I think you're right, I'll add this info. Thanks.
Author here. Maybe it's too early to post it here, as I'd like to add few more things, but I couldn't wait :). There is one board per day, so if you're bored with today's grid please wait for tomorrow. Stack: Rails + Stimulus, no AI :)
Posted by
mdoliwa on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:29AM
from the show-hn dept.
I'd like it to be something on its own, and it's exactly like you said HN is only a method to jump start.
Good question, and I'm not sure what's the correct answer for this. Sometimes you just want to build something. I guess my main motivation was nostalgia for the times when I first discovered Internet (late 90s) and I remember it as a network of personal sites, usenet and irc :) Besides that I thought it's something people here on HN would like.
Not sure where I found it, but I have it coded like this:
scope :ranked, -> { select('posts.*, ((posts.upvotes_count + 1) / POWER(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (NOW() - posts.published_at)), 1.8)) AS rank').order('rank DESC') }
yep, that's correct, in most cases I visit about page and see if it's single person's site.
Hi,
IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :).
Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think about this idea.
Besides that I love concept of RSS, so wanted to play with it :)
Posted by
mdoliwa on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:57PM
from the show-hn dept.
How does it compare to Lenovo Thinkpad L15? As I understand there is no problem with running latest Linux on it, and currently I'm thinking about buying it (mostly Rails development + docker). Do you recommend any other machine?
What do you think about running live coding stream on YT vs Twitch? I'm about to start streaming myself, but not sure what platform should I use. Last time I checked Twitch it looked a little bit overwhelming.
Still work in progress, but I started identifying local flowers
https://mdoliwa.com/projects/plants.html
I'm using plantnet app to help me with it.
It's super cool and I recommend it to everyone. I feel like I'm treasure hunting every time I go for a walk now :)
Posted by
mdoliwa on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:03AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm curious if current MacBook Pro thread [0] is the most commented thread on HN, what are top 10 most commented threads here ?[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523780
Posted by
mdoliwa on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm looking for interesting personal sites (they can be ugly and old school). Do you know any?