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Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI
Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI
Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI
After playing with AI Avatars (like many of us I guess around here), I started to wonder if we could instead bring real value to people by producing affordable professional head-shots using a combination of Dreambooth and ControlNet.<p>Obviously it's only the beginning and there are still many imperfections, but the foundational tech behind this (Dreambooth and ControlNet) are only respectively 6 months and 1.5 month old, and already delivers pretty amazing results.<p>I came up with this little service "Virtual Face" and I'm looking for feedback if some of you are willing to try it (you can use the HUNTER50 coupon to get 50% off, can't make it free to try yet since the running costs are still non-negligible).<p>Cheers,
Pierre
Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI
After playing with AI Avatars (like many of us I guess around here), I started to wonder if we could instead bring real value to people by producing affordable professional head-shots using a combination of Dreambooth and ControlNet.<p>Obviously it's only the beginning and there are still many imperfections, but the foundational tech behind this (Dreambooth and ControlNet) are only respectively 6 months and 1.5 month old, and already delivers pretty amazing results.<p>I came up with this little service "Virtual Face" and I'm looking for feedback if some of you are willing to try it (you can use the HUNTER50 coupon to get 50% off, can't make it free to try yet since the running costs are still non-negligible).<p>Cheers,
Pierre
Show HN: Leetcode but for front end engineers. Bad idea?
Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others
Show HN: Find words “halfway” between two others
Show HN: Great Books Homeschool beta program
I built this customizable literature-based K-12 homeschool curriculum, based on my experience as a homeschool parent. It's designed especially for intellectually curious kids who love to read.<p>One of the main benefits of homeschooling is the ability to design customized programs of study that let kids learn at their level of challenge in each subject. But since designing custom curricula from scratch requires a huge time commitment and familiarity with children's literature and academic materials, most homeschooling parents don't take advantage of this potential and instead opt for prepackaged curricula.<p>Great Books Homeschool eliminates a lot of the work involved in designing a complete and rigorous curriculum for homeschooled students. The website generates a default program of study for each student, then helps parents customize it. Transcripts and other records are generated automatically.<p>Pricing is normally subscription based, but we're offering complimentary access for twelve months to the first 50 users who sign up for our beta testing program. In return, beta testers are requested to complete a monthly questionnaire about their experience with the curriculum.<p>If you would like to participate in the beta testing program, please first create a free trial account at <a href="https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com</a>. Once signed in, go to <a href="https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com/parent/beta-application?via=hn" rel="nofollow">https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com/parent/beta-application...</a> and complete the application form.<p>Questions and comments are welcome!
Show HN: Great Books Homeschool beta program
I built this customizable literature-based K-12 homeschool curriculum, based on my experience as a homeschool parent. It's designed especially for intellectually curious kids who love to read.<p>One of the main benefits of homeschooling is the ability to design customized programs of study that let kids learn at their level of challenge in each subject. But since designing custom curricula from scratch requires a huge time commitment and familiarity with children's literature and academic materials, most homeschooling parents don't take advantage of this potential and instead opt for prepackaged curricula.<p>Great Books Homeschool eliminates a lot of the work involved in designing a complete and rigorous curriculum for homeschooled students. The website generates a default program of study for each student, then helps parents customize it. Transcripts and other records are generated automatically.<p>Pricing is normally subscription based, but we're offering complimentary access for twelve months to the first 50 users who sign up for our beta testing program. In return, beta testers are requested to complete a monthly questionnaire about their experience with the curriculum.<p>If you would like to participate in the beta testing program, please first create a free trial account at <a href="https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com</a>. Once signed in, go to <a href="https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com/parent/beta-application?via=hn" rel="nofollow">https://www.greatbookshomeschool.com/parent/beta-application...</a> and complete the application form.<p>Questions and comments are welcome!
Show HN: Recursive LLM Prompts
I've been playing with the idea of an LLM prompt that causes the model to generate and return a new prompt. <a href="https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm">https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm</a><p>The idea I'm starting with is to implement recursion using English as the programming language and GPT as the runtime.<p>It’s kind of like traditional recursion in code, but instead of having a function that calls itself with a different set of arguments, there is a prompt that returns itself with specific parts updated to reflect the new arguments.<p>Here is a prompt for infinitely generating Fibonacci numbers:<p>> You are a recursive function. Instead of being written in a programming language, you are written in English. You have variables FIB_INDEX = 2, MINUS_TWO = 0, MINUS_ONE = 1, CURR_VALUE = 1. Output this paragraph but with updated variables to compute the next step of the Fibbonaci sequence.<p>Interestingly, I found that to get a base case to work I had to add quite a bit more text (i.e. the prompt I arrived at is more than twice as long <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andyk/recursive_llm/main/prompt_fibonnaci_include_math.txt" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andyk/recursive_llm/main/p...</a>)
Show HN: Recursive LLM Prompts
I've been playing with the idea of an LLM prompt that causes the model to generate and return a new prompt. <a href="https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm">https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm</a><p>The idea I'm starting with is to implement recursion using English as the programming language and GPT as the runtime.<p>It’s kind of like traditional recursion in code, but instead of having a function that calls itself with a different set of arguments, there is a prompt that returns itself with specific parts updated to reflect the new arguments.<p>Here is a prompt for infinitely generating Fibonacci numbers:<p>> You are a recursive function. Instead of being written in a programming language, you are written in English. You have variables FIB_INDEX = 2, MINUS_TWO = 0, MINUS_ONE = 1, CURR_VALUE = 1. Output this paragraph but with updated variables to compute the next step of the Fibbonaci sequence.<p>Interestingly, I found that to get a base case to work I had to add quite a bit more text (i.e. the prompt I arrived at is more than twice as long <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andyk/recursive_llm/main/prompt_fibonnaci_include_math.txt" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andyk/recursive_llm/main/p...</a>)
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Show HN: I want to change how people buy health supplements
I made a table where you can find out the source/location of factory for where health supplements are made. Then, I spent a year reading product labels so you can save time and money when buying supplements. This is that update.<p>This is still a work in progress but it functions fine.<p>My previous post was a simple database of company data showing ingredient sourcing/location. That took 10 days, this has taken me close to 9 months. BackOfLabel is an extension of that initial interest with dosage information at the product & ingredient level.<p>This update allows sorting by many more attributes at the product level (for 4000+ products at the moment) of manually scraped data.<p>Now, for instance you can sort by specific types of ingredient - eg. filter by magnesium glycinate , magnesium orotate or any combination. eg. find ubiquinol or ubiquinone, two forms of coenzyme q10. This is useful for consumers but also companies seeking competitor analysis.<p>You are able to filter products by<p>– Ingredient
– Filter by liquid, tablet, capsule, powder & more
– Browse by UPC Code
– Dosage Information
– No. Individual Serving
– No. Manufacturer Serving
– Total Dosage<p>For example You can also search by type of protein powder - eg. search for whey protein powder and find the dosage information for many products instantly.<p>It frustrates me and I think the way that people buy supplements is wrong. And they don't know any better because there are incentive structures that keep them in the dark. This is a small effort to combat the misleading labeling and lack of regulation in the industry.<p>full disclosure - i've provided a generic affiliate link in the table that means i earn a small percentage (5%) of total cart if you purchase through the link<p>note: browse on desktop to filter & sort
Show HN: Next.js ChatGPT – Responsive chat application powered by GPT-4
Show HN: Next.js ChatGPT – Responsive chat application powered by GPT-4
Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
I have been working on this for a while. Main goal was to build a usable programming language. I even end up building few tools for this such as IntelliJ plugin, etc.<p>I also plan on building some games with it in future.<p>Main use case would be: small games (raylib), tools (static linux binaries with musl-libc) and recreational programming (wasm4). Works in Windows also. If you have emscripten in path you can even build these games/tools (raylib) to WASM.<p>Please have a look. Thank you.<p>-------------------------------------<p>Main Repo: <a href="https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha">https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha</a><p>Doc: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html</a><p>Library: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html</a><p>Tutorials: <a href="https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tutorials">https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tu...</a><p>----------------------------------------<p>Started after a comment from WalterBright here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840</a>
Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
I have been working on this for a while. Main goal was to build a usable programming language. I even end up building few tools for this such as IntelliJ plugin, etc.<p>I also plan on building some games with it in future.<p>Main use case would be: small games (raylib), tools (static linux binaries with musl-libc) and recreational programming (wasm4). Works in Windows also. If you have emscripten in path you can even build these games/tools (raylib) to WASM.<p>Please have a look. Thank you.<p>-------------------------------------<p>Main Repo: <a href="https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha">https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha</a><p>Doc: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html</a><p>Library: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html</a><p>Tutorials: <a href="https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tutorials">https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tu...</a><p>----------------------------------------<p>Started after a comment from WalterBright here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840</a>
Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
I have been working on this for a while. Main goal was to build a usable programming language. I even end up building few tools for this such as IntelliJ plugin, etc.<p>I also plan on building some games with it in future.<p>Main use case would be: small games (raylib), tools (static linux binaries with musl-libc) and recreational programming (wasm4). Works in Windows also. If you have emscripten in path you can even build these games/tools (raylib) to WASM.<p>Please have a look. Thank you.<p>-------------------------------------<p>Main Repo: <a href="https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha">https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha</a><p>Doc: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html</a><p>Library: <a href="https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html" rel="nofollow">https://yakshalang.github.io/library-docs.html</a><p>Tutorials: <a href="https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tutorials">https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tu...</a><p>----------------------------------------<p>Started after a comment from WalterBright here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929840</a>
Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT
integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json/yaml extraction.<p>I've added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.
Show HN: Chatblade – A CLI Swiss Army Knife for ChatGPT
integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json/yaml extraction.<p>I've added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.