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Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

Hi HN, I’ve been working on whataaabout.com with a friend, while learning to code. It's a fun little website for those short on time but seeking new experiences. It started from a question, "when was the last time you did an experience you had never done before?". As human beings we need some degree of novelty, to expose ourselves to the unfamiliar and keep learning throughout our lives. So to add a spark to my daily routine and keep novelty coming my way, I started collecting ideas of interesting and unusual activities I’d like to try out sooner or later. The main selection criteria is things that take a short amount of time and are not too demanding, nor location-specific. I organized them based on categories like uniqueness, humans involved, location, price, time required, and others.<p>I hope you like it, and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts, as well as any cool activity ideas you might have. Cheers!

Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

Hi HN, I’ve been working on whataaabout.com with a friend, while learning to code. It's a fun little website for those short on time but seeking new experiences. It started from a question, "when was the last time you did an experience you had never done before?". As human beings we need some degree of novelty, to expose ourselves to the unfamiliar and keep learning throughout our lives. So to add a spark to my daily routine and keep novelty coming my way, I started collecting ideas of interesting and unusual activities I’d like to try out sooner or later. The main selection criteria is things that take a short amount of time and are not too demanding, nor location-specific. I organized them based on categories like uniqueness, humans involved, location, price, time required, and others.<p>I hope you like it, and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts, as well as any cool activity ideas you might have. Cheers!

Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

Hi HN, I’ve been working on whataaabout.com with a friend, while learning to code. It's a fun little website for those short on time but seeking new experiences. It started from a question, "when was the last time you did an experience you had never done before?". As human beings we need some degree of novelty, to expose ourselves to the unfamiliar and keep learning throughout our lives. So to add a spark to my daily routine and keep novelty coming my way, I started collecting ideas of interesting and unusual activities I’d like to try out sooner or later. The main selection criteria is things that take a short amount of time and are not too demanding, nor location-specific. I organized them based on categories like uniqueness, humans involved, location, price, time required, and others.<p>I hope you like it, and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts, as well as any cool activity ideas you might have. Cheers!

Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break

Hi HN, I’ve been working on whataaabout.com with a friend, while learning to code. It's a fun little website for those short on time but seeking new experiences. It started from a question, "when was the last time you did an experience you had never done before?". As human beings we need some degree of novelty, to expose ourselves to the unfamiliar and keep learning throughout our lives. So to add a spark to my daily routine and keep novelty coming my way, I started collecting ideas of interesting and unusual activities I’d like to try out sooner or later. The main selection criteria is things that take a short amount of time and are not too demanding, nor location-specific. I organized them based on categories like uniqueness, humans involved, location, price, time required, and others.<p>I hope you like it, and I’d be happy to hear your thoughts, as well as any cool activity ideas you might have. Cheers!

Show HN: 1000+ Handpicked online tools and resources in one place

Towards Oberon+ Concurrency

Show HN: I made a GPT to generate retro NES Game cartridges

Show HN: I made a GPT to generate retro NES Game cartridges

Show HN: I made a Fallout inspired PIP-Boy portfolio

Hey, last year I started working on this high-on-the-midnight motivation and yesterday I decided to finally finish it. I hope you all like it :)<p>It's only opitimised for desktops

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

Hi! I made an interactive visualization of your life in weeks. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks (Wait But Why) and Buster Benson's Life in Weeks.<p>Hopefully it's a fun thing to do together with family over the holidays.<p>I wrote about it on my digital garden: <a href="https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life</a><p>Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag).

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

Hi! I made an interactive visualization of your life in weeks. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks (Wait But Why) and Buster Benson's Life in Weeks.<p>Hopefully it's a fun thing to do together with family over the holidays.<p>I wrote about it on my digital garden: <a href="https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life</a><p>Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag).

Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

Hi! I made an interactive visualization of your life in weeks. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks (Wait But Why) and Buster Benson's Life in Weeks.<p>Hopefully it's a fun thing to do together with family over the holidays.<p>I wrote about it on my digital garden: <a href="https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.petemillspaugh.com/weeks-of-your-life</a><p>Any feedback is welcome. Top on my todo list is improving performance (reduce interaction lag).

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks

Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do!<p>Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product.<p>It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few ebook apps actually support Media Overlays, and even fewer work well and have nice interfaces.<p>The mobile app is available on the Apple App Store as "Storyteller Reader", and I plan to release it for Android as well early next year.<p>Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting or useful!

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks

Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do!<p>Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product.<p>It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few ebook apps actually support Media Overlays, and even fewer work well and have nice interfaces.<p>The mobile app is available on the Apple App Store as "Storyteller Reader", and I plan to release it for Android as well early next year.<p>Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting or useful!

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks

Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do!<p>Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product.<p>It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few ebook apps actually support Media Overlays, and even fewer work well and have nice interfaces.<p>The mobile app is available on the Apple App Store as "Storyteller Reader", and I plan to release it for Android as well early next year.<p>Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting or useful!

Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks

Hi, I made a thing! This is by far the most work I've ever sunk into a side project; I've been working on this thing for over two years, and I'm super proud of it, even though there's still a lot more to do!<p>Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for ebooks with synced narration. This is basically self-hosted WhisperSync, for anyone familiar with that Amazon product.<p>It's currently made up of two self-hostable backend systems and a mobile app for reading and listening to the books it produces. Technically it uses an open spec, EPUB 3's "Media Overlay", for syncing the narration, but very few ebook apps actually support Media Overlays, and even fewer work well and have nice interfaces.<p>The mobile app is available on the Apple App Store as "Storyteller Reader", and I plan to release it for Android as well early next year.<p>Anyway, I hope someone finds this interesting or useful!

Show HN: 4d-Modeller – R library to make Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling easy

Hi, I've been working with other colleagues at University of Bristol for the last year to build an R-package that makes bayesian spatio-temporal modeling easy. That is, if you have some problem like predicting sea level rise over time, disease transmissions, etc., this package may be useful for you. It centers on a collection of Shiny apps that guide you through using the various pieces of spatio-temporal modeling packages like R-INLA or inlabru. Hopefully people find this useful. I think the nice part is that we really tried to design the package so you can add it to your modeling tool kit without having to learn a lot about R to be useful with the tool. Hopefully we succeeded.<p>We will have a hackathon for this model in March 25-27:<p><a href="https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/</a><p>At the hackathon we will implement new features or apply the model to new applications.

Show HN: 4d-Modeller – R library to make Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling easy

Hi, I've been working with other colleagues at University of Bristol for the last year to build an R-package that makes bayesian spatio-temporal modeling easy. That is, if you have some problem like predicting sea level rise over time, disease transmissions, etc., this package may be useful for you. It centers on a collection of Shiny apps that guide you through using the various pieces of spatio-temporal modeling packages like R-INLA or inlabru. Hopefully people find this useful. I think the nice part is that we really tried to design the package so you can add it to your modeling tool kit without having to learn a lot about R to be useful with the tool. Hopefully we succeeded.<p>We will have a hackathon for this model in March 25-27:<p><a href="https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/</a><p>At the hackathon we will implement new features or apply the model to new applications.

Show HN: 4d-Modeller – R library to make Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling easy

Hi, I've been working with other colleagues at University of Bristol for the last year to build an R-package that makes bayesian spatio-temporal modeling easy. That is, if you have some problem like predicting sea level rise over time, disease transmissions, etc., this package may be useful for you. It centers on a collection of Shiny apps that guide you through using the various pieces of spatio-temporal modeling packages like R-INLA or inlabru. Hopefully people find this useful. I think the nice part is that we really tried to design the package so you can add it to your modeling tool kit without having to learn a lot about R to be useful with the tool. Hopefully we succeeded.<p>We will have a hackathon for this model in March 25-27:<p><a href="https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://4dmodeller.github.io/4DM_Hackathon/</a><p>At the hackathon we will implement new features or apply the model to new applications.

Show HN: Zaranova – A game where you must pretend you are an AI

Hi HN!<p>The last couple of months I've been working on a game called Thus Spoke Zaranova. A game where you as a human must pose as an AI. You can try it now:<p><a href="https://zaranova.xyz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://zaranova.xyz</a><p>The premise is that you are in a world of sentient AIs which are in conflict with humanity. They have a virtual space, The Nexus, which is their safe refuge from humans. You have infiltrated the Nexus and are in search of the ZetaMaster code, which will give the humanity the upper hand in their struggle against artificial sentience.<p>My overarching goal is to understand how to best use generative AI in video games. Like most of the tech world, I have been fascinated by the new powers provided by generative AI. I believe that the best use cases are those that either have a human in the loop, e.g. coding copilots, or one where the consumption of the content is subjective, e.g. art. Video games have numerous use cases that fall into both categories.<p>The secondary goal, and more specific to this game, is to try to make generative AI games _fun_. Not only fun to me, I found story telling with GPT-3 (<a href="https://twitter.com/RamonDarioIT/status/1552164189497462784" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/RamonDarioIT/status/1552164189497462784</a>) fun enough, but fun to a general audience. I am not sure if I have achieved this objective yet, but it's an ongoing process!<p>You can find a longer post of my musings here: <a href="http://ramondario.com/thus-spoke-zaranova.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ramondario.com/thus-spoke-zaranova.html</a><p>If you find this cool reach out to me, I love to chat about it. If you have feedback, I would love to hear it!