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Looking at the CLI implementation. Why not build on top of jj?
Why are university admissions so much more competitive now than they were just a decade ago?

"In 2010, USC's acceptance rate was 26.3%. By 2015, the acceptance rate had dropped to 18%. In 2020, USC's acceptance rate was 16%. For the Class of 2027, USC's acceptance rate further decreased to 9.75%."

https://www.crimsoneducation.org/us/blog/usc-admission-rate/....

How is this different from Gradio/Streamlit?
Love this project! Can you tell us a bit about what stack you used to build this? Were there easy-to-use APIs to get this data in realtime?

Show HN: Search Engine for Aircraft Listings

https://www.aircraftalpha.com/

Pilots and aviation enthusiasts of HN, I built a crawler and search interface for aircraft for sale listings. Anyone looking to buy a plane today knows that you need to be constantly checking half a dozen spammy websites with awful UX to find the right listing in time. The goal of AircraftAlpha is to have a single up-to-date place where you can easily search for your ideal aircraft, receive...

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Re:Show HN: Aviation Navigation Log on $20 Receipt Printer on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:09PM (#37191478)
Not sure about Europe, but I think Foreflight is the most popular EFB in the US for GA pilots. Would be sweet to have support for it!
Re:Show HN: Aviation Navigation Log on $20 Receipt Printer on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:49PM (#37191257)
G1000s are great, but it's disappointing that just about everything else has remained basically unchanged on GA aircraft for the last 30+ years. I hope that we will see some actual innovation in GA engines, airframes, and fuels soon. Fuels might be the most promising for the near-term.
Re:Show HN: Aviation Navigation Log on $20 Receipt Printer on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:33PM (#37191093)
Is there any way to send a Foreflight flight plan into this printer setup?
I am interested to know whether or not the screws into the carbon hull, for example the monitor mount, might've had anything to do with the likely implosion. I have trouble imagining it being something so small, but I don't believe a whole lot of engineering rigor went into the design and build of this sub.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:06PM (#28041228)
Coding Rooms | Backend & Front-end Engineers | REMOTE or Palo Alto/San Francisco

At Coding Rooms, we're building the first virtual classroom for teaching programming. Our customers are teachers, professors, and tutors from around the world who use Coding Rooms to deliver and manage their programming lessons online and in-person. Our problem domain means that we work on online IDEs, Docker infrastructure for running student code, and solutions for automatically assessing students' code.

Our stack:

* Go

* Docker

* TypeScript

* Hasura

* Angular

* AWS/ECS/GCP

* MySQL & PostgreSQL

Learn more at https://codingrooms.com/ and contact [email protected] to apply!

I can certainly vouch for you and your team's commitment to that level of perfection and use of feedback even during what I can only imagine was a truly unprecedented year of usage. The majority of our (relatively few) issues were small UI issues that confused students and instructors, but with the new beta of the pre-built UI I believe those have been addressed! Some of those less well documented patches have also been really useful in tuning performance for certain use cases!
This is (very unfortunately) true, and I honestly don't know people get it to work in larger school implementations. The idea behind BigBlueButton is spot on and ultimately I hope another FOSS tool can help to fill this void
It's also worth noting that we started by integrating Jitsi, then BigBlueButton, and finally settled with Daily.co because stability, UIs, and support were such huge issues for us with the other solutions. While Daily.co doesn't do everything perfectly, I have to say their coverage of edge cases and support has been a lifesaver scaling our product for schools.
This is a really brilliant project, and I love that it's open source! I'm certain that for tutoring, this is a much-needed self-hosting option! When it comes to schools, I'd be curious to know how it works in practice. Having supported a lot of schools in the past year using Coding Rooms with integrated Daily.co for remote learning, I have to say that the biggest challenges have always been related to just getting video to "work" with students. From the instructor's perspective, it's just so challenging to get 30 K-12 students on the same page with audio, video, input devices, and UIs -- not to mention stuff like just getting everyone signed in or using the right link. A system (perhaps hardware-included/based) that could do that would be ground-breaking for remote learning in my opinion. This is also the reason, in addition to school policies in some cases, that instructors feel like they have to stick with what they know in situations like this.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:04PM (#26665352)
Coding Rooms | Backend & Front-end Engineers | REMOTE or Palo Alto/San Francisco At Coding Rooms, we're building the first virtual classroom for teaching programming. Our customers are teachers, professors, and tutors from around the world who use Coding Rooms to deliver and manage their programming lessons online and in-person. Our problem domain means that we work on online IDEs, Docker infrastructure for running student code, and solutions for automatically assessing students' code.

Our stack:

* Go

* Docker

* TypeScript

* Angular

* AWS/ECS/GCP

* MySQL

Learn more at https://codingrooms.com/ and contact [email protected] to apply!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:16PM (#26310334)
Coding Rooms | Backend & Front-end Engineers | REMOTE or Palo Alto/San Francisco

At Coding Rooms, we're building the first virtual classroom for teaching programming. Our customers are teachers, professors, and tutors from around the world who use Coding Rooms to deliver and manage their programming lessons online and in-person. Our problem domain means that we work on online IDEs, Docker infrastructure for running student code, and solutions for automatically assessing students' code.

Our stack:

* Go

* Docker

* TypeScript

* Angular

* AWS/ECS/GCP

* MySQL

Learn more at https://codingrooms.com/ and contact [email protected] to apply!

Re:JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:54PM (#25946991)
Oddly enough, we also used BigBlueButton for a while and really loved the additional features like the whiteboard but also had to drop it because we were doing more support for BBB than our core product...
Re:JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:16AM (#25939111)
Congrats this seems like a very needed product! We tried Jitsi for our web app (1), but ultimately settled on Daily.co for it's pricing and easy developer experience. How does JaaS stability compare to Jitsi? Any one here chose Jitsi over Daily?

1. https://codingrooms.com/

Re:Replit Classroom Export Tool on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:12AM (#25277715)
Since repl.it classroom is shutting down on Jan 31, 2021, I needed a way to retrieve my assignments, submissions, and auto-grading test cases so I built a Chrome and Firefox extension to do it for all my courses in one click. Using the extension, you can get all your data as a single JSON file. I've made the extension completely free and it doesn't talk to any servers or send analytics data (as I am often touchy about browser extensions doing this...). It doesn't take more than 5-15mins to run, depending on how much data you have and it has a real-time progress bar to communicate how much data is left to get.

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/replit-classr...

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZI_tX8Nog

If you're looking for an alternative to repl.it classroom, please check out https://codingrooms.com/ and you can also send us your export file and we'll import all your data (with full feature parity) within 24-hours. (I'm also the creator of Coding Rooms)

Great to see gather.town on HN -- I really love the entire UX of being in this type of 2D virtual environment. Wonder what kind of traction this could get with educators as a Zoom alternative to help students have more of an engaging "physical classroom" feel
Re:Zoom Partial Outages on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:59AM (#24260694)
For CS teachers working through the outage, https://codingrooms.com/ is providing a virtual classroom for teaching programming that offers conferencing separate to Zoom as a backup

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