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Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity
Hi HN! AI Product Rank lets you to search for topics and products, and see how OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity rank them. You can also see the citations for each ranking.<p>We’re interested in seeing how AI decides to recommend products, especially now that they are actively searching the web. Now that we can retrieve citations by API, we can learn a bit more about what sources the various models use.<p>This is increasingly becoming important - Guillermo Rauch said that ChatGPT now refers ~5% of Vercel signups, which is up 5x over the last six months. [1]<p>It’s been fascinating to see the somewhat strange sources that the models pull from; one hypothesis is that most of the high quality sources have opted out of training data, leaving a pretty exotic long tail of citations. For example, a search for car brands yielded citations including Lux Mag and a class action filing against Chevy for batteries. [2]<p>We'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think! What other data would you want to see?<p>[1] <a href="https://x.com/rauchg/status/1898122330653835656" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/rauchg/status/1898122330653835656</a><p>[2] <a href="https://productrank.ai/topic/car-brands" rel="nofollow">https://productrank.ai/topic/car-brands</a>
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows
Hey HN - It’s Finn and Jack from Aqua Voice (<a href="https://withaqua.com">https://withaqua.com</a>). Aqua is fast AI dictation for your desktop and our attempt to make voice a first-class input method.<p>Video: <a href="https://withaqua.com/watch">https://withaqua.com/watch</a><p>Try it here: <a href="https://withaqua.com/sandbox">https://withaqua.com/sandbox</a><p>Finn is uber dyslexic and has been using dictation software since sixth grade. For over a decade, he’s been chasing a dream that never quite worked — using your voice instead of a keyboard.<p>Our last post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686</a>) about this seemed to resonate with the community - though it turned out that version of Aqua was a better demo than product. But it gave us (and others) a lot of good ideas about what should come next.<p>Since then, we’ve remade Aqua from scratch for speed and usability. It now lives on your desktop, and it lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal.<p>It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text in about a second (sometimes as fast as 450ms), and has state-of-the-art accuracy. It does a lot more, but that’s the core. We’d love your feedback — and if you’ve got ideas for what voice should do next, let’s hear them!
Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows
Hey HN - It’s Finn and Jack from Aqua Voice (<a href="https://withaqua.com">https://withaqua.com</a>). Aqua is fast AI dictation for your desktop and our attempt to make voice a first-class input method.<p>Video: <a href="https://withaqua.com/watch">https://withaqua.com/watch</a><p>Try it here: <a href="https://withaqua.com/sandbox">https://withaqua.com/sandbox</a><p>Finn is uber dyslexic and has been using dictation software since sixth grade. For over a decade, he’s been chasing a dream that never quite worked — using your voice instead of a keyboard.<p>Our last post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686</a>) about this seemed to resonate with the community - though it turned out that version of Aqua was a better demo than product. But it gave us (and others) a lot of good ideas about what should come next.<p>Since then, we’ve remade Aqua from scratch for speed and usability. It now lives on your desktop, and it lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal.<p>It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text in about a second (sometimes as fast as 450ms), and has state-of-the-art accuracy. It does a lot more, but that’s the core. We’d love your feedback — and if you’ve got ideas for what voice should do next, let’s hear them!
Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows
Hey HN - It’s Finn and Jack from Aqua Voice (<a href="https://withaqua.com">https://withaqua.com</a>). Aqua is fast AI dictation for your desktop and our attempt to make voice a first-class input method.<p>Video: <a href="https://withaqua.com/watch">https://withaqua.com/watch</a><p>Try it here: <a href="https://withaqua.com/sandbox">https://withaqua.com/sandbox</a><p>Finn is uber dyslexic and has been using dictation software since sixth grade. For over a decade, he’s been chasing a dream that never quite worked — using your voice instead of a keyboard.<p>Our last post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686</a>) about this seemed to resonate with the community - though it turned out that version of Aqua was a better demo than product. But it gave us (and others) a lot of good ideas about what should come next.<p>Since then, we’ve remade Aqua from scratch for speed and usability. It now lives on your desktop, and it lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal.<p>It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text in about a second (sometimes as fast as 450ms), and has state-of-the-art accuracy. It does a lot more, but that’s the core. We’d love your feedback — and if you’ve got ideas for what voice should do next, let’s hear them!
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.<p>In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.<p>All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.<p>How would you proceed?
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.<p>In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.<p>All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.<p>How would you proceed?
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.<p>In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.<p>All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.<p>How would you proceed?
Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.<p>In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.<p>All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.<p>How would you proceed?
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture
I'm relatively new to Go, but recently got interested in how MCP servers work. I started thinking about what the architecture of such a project might look like, and decided to build a minimalist version as an experiment.<p>I based it on my past experience writing regular REST API servers and figured it might be useful or interesting to others as well.
Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles
Hey HN<p>After years working in software engineering and helping with hiring, I noticed a frustrating pattern:<p>Companies often rely on résumés and LinkedIn titles to find developers instead of looking at what they've actually built.<p>So I built GitMatcher.<p>It analyzes GitHub profiles to surface developers based on:<p>Their public repos<p>Commit history<p>Originality and usefulness of code<p>Patterns that show consistency and real skill<p>No keywords. No job titles. Just code.<p>GitMatcher is useful if you're:<p>- A recruiter tired of resume roulette<p>- A founder looking for a technical co-founder<p>- An OSS maintainer searching for genuine contributors<p>It’s still early, so I’d love your feedback especially around what signals you’d care about most when discovering devs.
Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles
Hey HN<p>After years working in software engineering and helping with hiring, I noticed a frustrating pattern:<p>Companies often rely on résumés and LinkedIn titles to find developers instead of looking at what they've actually built.<p>So I built GitMatcher.<p>It analyzes GitHub profiles to surface developers based on:<p>Their public repos<p>Commit history<p>Originality and usefulness of code<p>Patterns that show consistency and real skill<p>No keywords. No job titles. Just code.<p>GitMatcher is useful if you're:<p>- A recruiter tired of resume roulette<p>- A founder looking for a technical co-founder<p>- An OSS maintainer searching for genuine contributors<p>It’s still early, so I’d love your feedback especially around what signals you’d care about most when discovering devs.
Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar
Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar
Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video]
The IBM 3151 from 1987 is an interesting ASCII terminal. Unlike "normal" serial terminals, it not only supports the so-called "character mode", where after each keypress there is an interaction with the host computer (like with a Unix terminal), but it also has a "block mode". This means, you can send it commands to define fields for input and output on the screen (like a form to fill out). The terminal then handles autonomously all the the user input, and when the user is done and presses a special key (Enter or a function key), all the entries in the form are transferred to the host in one go.<p>This is very similar but unfortunately not identical to the so-called 3270 terminals used by IBM mainframe computers. Therefore, I wrote a little C program to translate between the differing protocols of 3270 and 3151 terminals enabling a 3151 to be connected to a mainframe.<p>I made a video describing a little bit the 3151 terminal and the interface program and showing how it looks like to work with the (emulated) mainframe on an 3151. The source code and Windows binary are on github for you to try out, if you happen to have a 3151 terminal. The link is in the description of the video.
Show HN: Connecting an IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe [video]
The IBM 3151 from 1987 is an interesting ASCII terminal. Unlike "normal" serial terminals, it not only supports the so-called "character mode", where after each keypress there is an interaction with the host computer (like with a Unix terminal), but it also has a "block mode". This means, you can send it commands to define fields for input and output on the screen (like a form to fill out). The terminal then handles autonomously all the the user input, and when the user is done and presses a special key (Enter or a function key), all the entries in the form are transferred to the host in one go.<p>This is very similar but unfortunately not identical to the so-called 3270 terminals used by IBM mainframe computers. Therefore, I wrote a little C program to translate between the differing protocols of 3270 and 3151 terminals enabling a 3151 to be connected to a mainframe.<p>I made a video describing a little bit the 3151 terminal and the interface program and showing how it looks like to work with the (emulated) mainframe on an 3151. The source code and Windows binary are on github for you to try out, if you happen to have a 3151 terminal. The link is in the description of the video.