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Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations.<p>The plot was sourced from a group of friends.
Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update.<p>The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component.<p>Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies to use. It unlocks most features, but it isn't intended for companies with more than 5 employees or over $1M in annual revenue.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and am happy to answer any technical questions about how QueryStorm is implemented.
Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update.<p>The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component.<p>Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies to use. It unlocks most features, but it isn't intended for companies with more than 5 employees or over $1M in annual revenue.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and am happy to answer any technical questions about how QueryStorm is implemented.
Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.<p>I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.<p>Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.
Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.<p>I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.<p>Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.
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Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make:
Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a>
Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.
Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make:
Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a>
Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.
Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make:
Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a>
Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.
Show HN: Names
DALL-E for Playlists
Natural language playlist is an AI tool that generates a Spotify playlist based on your prompt.
Show HN: Retool Mobile
Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494</a>. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it.<p>Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app, to POST back to an API endpoint, is startlingly difficult. (As a web developer myself, it has for a while been shocking how hard it is to build and ship something useful onto the app store.)<p>For us, it was important that we build a native mobile app. That’s because although the web as a platform has come a long way, we think Apple / Google are — to some extent — anti-web, in the sense that they hamstring web developers in an attempt to get more apps on their app stores. With a native app, we were able to ship a brand new set of mobile-specific components, drive substantially more performance, and frankly — deliver much more delight.<p>The team is currently hard at work on white labeling, offline apps, and push notifications. We expect to ship all that in the next few months.<p>If you have any feedback on the product, please do comment in this thread! HN is a particularly valuable source of product feedback for us, and the team is very eager to please HN readers. (Since if we can do that, we can surely please any developer, hah!)
Show HN: Retool Mobile
Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494</a>. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it.<p>Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app, to POST back to an API endpoint, is startlingly difficult. (As a web developer myself, it has for a while been shocking how hard it is to build and ship something useful onto the app store.)<p>For us, it was important that we build a native mobile app. That’s because although the web as a platform has come a long way, we think Apple / Google are — to some extent — anti-web, in the sense that they hamstring web developers in an attempt to get more apps on their app stores. With a native app, we were able to ship a brand new set of mobile-specific components, drive substantially more performance, and frankly — deliver much more delight.<p>The team is currently hard at work on white labeling, offline apps, and push notifications. We expect to ship all that in the next few months.<p>If you have any feedback on the product, please do comment in this thread! HN is a particularly valuable source of product feedback for us, and the team is very eager to please HN readers. (Since if we can do that, we can surely please any developer, hah!)
Show HN: A version control system based on rsync
Hi everyone! I'm trying to create a version control system that solves some of the problems that Git and other version control software has when working in a team. Let me know if you have any feedback!
Show HN: A version control system based on rsync
Hi everyone! I'm trying to create a version control system that solves some of the problems that Git and other version control software has when working in a team. Let me know if you have any feedback!
Show HN: Vento, a screen recorder that lets you rewind and record over mistakes
Hey folks, we made this screen recording tool to fix one simple problem - fixing your mistakes easily when recording so you don’t have to constantly restart or stitch.
I’m not particularly great at presenting and so mistakes will inevitably happen during a screen recording, and it’s worse when you’re already 5 minutes into your recording, forcing you to restart completely.
Please check this out and let us know what you think!
Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots
Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content
Hey HN!<p>I’m excited to share sketch: a tool to help anyone who uses python and pandas quickly iterate and get to answers for their data questions.<p>Sketch installs as a pandas extension that offers utility functions that operate on natural language prompts. Using the `ask` interface you can get answers in natural language. Using the `howto` interface you can get get python and pandas code directly. The primary benefit of this over copilot and chatGPT is that this adds data-content based context so that the generated answers are much more accurate and relevant to the data problem at hand.<p>Check out the demo video[1] and try it out using the colab notebook (on github)!<p>[1] <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/916073/212602281-4ebd090f-09c4-495d-b48d-0b4c37b9f665.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/916073/212602281-4...</a>
Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card.<p>I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life.<p>There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion
A few months ago, I started making video clips with stable diffusion and noticed that the tools to do this were too complicated for everyday people. That's why I built neural frames. Enjoy.