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Re:Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:01PM (#48712668)
Northwoods is actually a very real collegiate summer baseball league.

https://northwoodsleague.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods_League

Are you referring to a text box that would allow you to filter the brands based on what you type into the box instead of having to scroll through all the brands?
I added an include/exclude toggle for Brands. Take a look and let me know if this works for you.
Nice layout. Looks solid on mobile.
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
Yep. That's one of the downsides of relying on unit count. Sellers don't always accurately match the unit count to their product title. I'll work on fixing these inconsistencies.
That's a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into expanding the filters to be more useful and allow some more granularity.
I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.
You're probably right. I can see how LLM is the better way to approach this. I haven't looked into AI usage fees or anything, but I would think the amount of queries I'd send wouldn't be that expensive. I'll look into it.
Funny that you mention that. That's how it originally worked, but I changed it to filter in brands because I assumed golfers are more brand loyal, and thought they might want to only look at the brands they normally play with.

I think your toggle idea is a good one though, and I'll look to implement that. I can see how some people might want that.

Yeah. I state in my post that I took inspiration from diskprices.com. I always wanted to build something similar, but for a product that I actually buy on semi-regular basis.
I appreciate you taking a look. This product weight approach has me intrigued and something I'll look into.

I'm thinking I could just start with any listing where unit count = 1 and take a pass at those first. I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing single unit counts are almost always inconsistent with the actual number of golf balls.

O wow, that's an interesting approach. That would've never crossed my mind without posting this on HN. Appreciate the suggestion.
Thank you. I appreciate it. I love that site and always sat around thinking about building something like it, but for a product I buy frequently. And I finally built it.
Before going full AI, maybe I could create a list of quantity keywords like "dozen", "3-pack", etc... and at least use that as a starting point.
Yeah... I'm just now realizing how relying on unit count in the listing is more problematic than I thought. Sellers say their unit count is 1, but the product title says it is 4 dozen. I need to figure out how to fix these inconsistencies.
Posting my other comment from above:

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings.

Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to combat these inconsistencies. Right now, I have some manual overrides, but not sure it's sustainable to keep manually overriding inconsistent listings.

Any thoughts? Should I default to what's in the product title instead of the unit count? Not sure the best way to combat this.

Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball

https://priceperball.net/

I took inspiration from diskprices.com, but applied it to my golfing hobby.For someone who can't always keep it in the fairway, golf balls can get rather expensive, so I decided to build a way for me to view Amazon listings by how much they cost per ball in the hopes of finding some good deals. Hence the name of the website.The site is hosted on Cloudflare pages and I use Github actions to...

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Re:John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:39AM (#39301754)
If you haven't heard of it, maybe give MacroFactor a look (not affiliated, just a happy user). It is the only food log and weight tracker that I've used with success. On the weight tracking side, it also requires daily weigh-ins and tracks your trend weight over time. Combining that with the calories you log, it determines your TDEE and adjusts your calories and macros from week to week depending on the goal you want to achieve.

https://macrofactorapp.com/

Re:Effective Spaced Repetition on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:24AM (#35539242)
Yes. I had a similar experience. The answer would come to me before I even finished reading the prompt, but I never felt like I was actually learning the info. Just memorizing the pattern.

I surmised that it was a result of my deck being too small. It may be different with a larger deck and a greater variety of cards, but I never got my deck to that point.

Have you looked at Lofta?

https://lofta.com/products/sleep-apnea-test

Disclaimer: I've not used them. No experience with them. I've just seen their name mentioned as an affordable sleep test.

EDIT: Just realized the company of this submission has similarly priced sleep apnea test. I should have probably clicked through before commenting.

Re:A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012) on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:58AM (#30629190)
I'll admit it's been 15 years since I originally read Warrior Diet, but I thought it advocated a massive salad as the first part of your dinner followed by the protein source? I don't recall much mention of stew in the book, but like I said it's been ages since I read it. Not challenging you. Just curious since it has been so long since I read it and I'm trying to jog my memory.
Re:Ghidra 9.2 on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:00PM (#25089930)
Good to know. As a Godzilla fan, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.

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