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Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal
I've always been dissatisfied that simple Mandelbrot explorers proport themselves as a Fractal Graphing Calculator. In summer break between semesters, I started making a real graphing calculator, parsing LaTeX to WebGL to let you graph most any combination of z and c.<p>Fun ones to try include
- sin(z^2+c)
- c^z
- z^{1.7}+c<p>Also supports animation, just enter any other letter and turn it into a variable. Supports Mandelbrot or Julia Set style calculation.<p>Use with a graphics card or integrated graphics
Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal
I've always been dissatisfied that simple Mandelbrot explorers proport themselves as a Fractal Graphing Calculator. In summer break between semesters, I started making a real graphing calculator, parsing LaTeX to WebGL to let you graph most any combination of z and c.<p>Fun ones to try include
- sin(z^2+c)
- c^z
- z^{1.7}+c<p>Also supports animation, just enter any other letter and turn it into a variable. Supports Mandelbrot or Julia Set style calculation.<p>Use with a graphics card or integrated graphics
Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon
We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.
Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon
We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.
Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon
We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.<p>Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the learning process.<p>So I started prompting GPT. I’d write my message with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn’t know, and it would return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the prompt each time became tedious.<p>So I built a wrapper around it.<p>Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of areas or words to review).<p>This app is for language learners who want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or breaking their flow by switching to a translator.<p>I hope you find it useful!
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.<p>Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the learning process.<p>So I started prompting GPT. I’d write my message with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn’t know, and it would return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the prompt each time became tedious.<p>So I built a wrapper around it.<p>Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of areas or words to review).<p>This app is for language learners who want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or breaking their flow by switching to a translator.<p>I hope you find it useful!
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.<p>Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the learning process.<p>So I started prompting GPT. I’d write my message with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn’t know, and it would return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the prompt each time became tedious.<p>So I built a wrapper around it.<p>Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of areas or words to review).<p>This app is for language learners who want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or breaking their flow by switching to a translator.<p>I hope you find it useful!
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally decided it’s time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish girlfriend, after all. One way I’ve been practicing is by trying to text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don’t know a word or how to fit something naturally into the sentence.<p>Especially in those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the learning process.<p>So I started prompting GPT. I’d write my message with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn’t know, and it would return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the prompt each time became tedious.<p>So I built a wrapper around it.<p>Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of areas or words to review).<p>This app is for language learners who want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or breaking their flow by switching to a translator.<p>I hope you find it useful!
Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser
I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious: copy-pasting commands, dealing with input file names and locations, making sure the prompt contains enough info about the input files.<p>This site attempts to solve that. You just describe what you want to do, pick the input files and an LLM (currently DeepSeek) generates the FFmpeg command. You can then run it directly in your browser or use the command elsewhere.
Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser
I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious: copy-pasting commands, dealing with input file names and locations, making sure the prompt contains enough info about the input files.<p>This site attempts to solve that. You just describe what you want to do, pick the input files and an LLM (currently DeepSeek) generates the FFmpeg command. You can then run it directly in your browser or use the command elsewhere.
Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere
Hey everyone, this is my latest project.<p>Bedrock is a lightweight program runtime: programs assemble down to a few kilobytes of bytecode that can run on any computer, console, or handheld. The runtime is tiny, it can be implemented from scratch in a few hours, and the I/O devices for accessing the keyboard, screen, networking, etc. can be added on as needed.<p>I designed Bedrock to make it easier to maintain programs as a solo developer. It's deeply inspired by Uxn and PICO-8, but it makes significant departures from Uxn to provide more capabilities to programs and to be easier to implement.<p>Let me know if you try it out or have any questions.
Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere
Hey everyone, this is my latest project.<p>Bedrock is a lightweight program runtime: programs assemble down to a few kilobytes of bytecode that can run on any computer, console, or handheld. The runtime is tiny, it can be implemented from scratch in a few hours, and the I/O devices for accessing the keyboard, screen, networking, etc. can be added on as needed.<p>I designed Bedrock to make it easier to maintain programs as a solo developer. It's deeply inspired by Uxn and PICO-8, but it makes significant departures from Uxn to provide more capabilities to programs and to be easier to implement.<p>Let me know if you try it out or have any questions.
Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere
Hey everyone, this is my latest project.<p>Bedrock is a lightweight program runtime: programs assemble down to a few kilobytes of bytecode that can run on any computer, console, or handheld. The runtime is tiny, it can be implemented from scratch in a few hours, and the I/O devices for accessing the keyboard, screen, networking, etc. can be added on as needed.<p>I designed Bedrock to make it easier to maintain programs as a solo developer. It's deeply inspired by Uxn and PICO-8, but it makes significant departures from Uxn to provide more capabilities to programs and to be easier to implement.<p>Let me know if you try it out or have any questions.
Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly