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Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search
Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
Hi HN!<p>Wikiwho is a tool that scans Wikipedia edits and extracts those coming from specific IP ranges associated to known organizations. I've made this as a for-fun side project two years ago.<p>If you want to read more on how it works I've written a short blog article about it here: <a href="https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-made-by-institutions-companies-and-government-agencies/" rel="nofollow">https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-ma...</a><p>I had already posted it here at the time (previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907200</a>) but I've now decided to release the code openly, hence the repost.<p>If you're insterested, you can check the repo here: <a href="https://github.com/aileftech/wikiwho" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aileftech/wikiwho</a> (disclaimer: the code is a bit clumsy).<p>Cheers!
Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist
Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified
Link: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a><p>Hi HN:<p>After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules).<p>The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in documents, summarization, translation, generating text, and question answering.<p>The course is divided into two parts. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up valuable bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>In part two, we dive into deep learning for NLP. We start with neural network fundamentals and go through embeddings and sequence models until we arrive at transformers and the mainstream models of today.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web
Creating a basic webpage has become way too complicated and expensive. Often there are those times when you just want to share your thoughts with the world but don't want the overhead and complexities that come with maintaining a website. Sometimes, you have an interesting thought piece, an education article, or just a quick and simple bio page that doesn't need the heavy hand of a WordPress blog or Medium post. That's where Single Page comes in. Publish a single page instantly to the web with no fuss.<p>I was laid off three weeks ago from Twitter and I decided to work through a couple of my projects and this was one of them. I've tried blogs over the years, Medium didn't feel right but yet I wanted to quickly post pages online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. So I created it.<p>Feedback appreciated!
Show HN: SinglePage – Quickly and anonymously publish a page to the web
Creating a basic webpage has become way too complicated and expensive. Often there are those times when you just want to share your thoughts with the world but don't want the overhead and complexities that come with maintaining a website. Sometimes, you have an interesting thought piece, an education article, or just a quick and simple bio page that doesn't need the heavy hand of a WordPress blog or Medium post. That's where Single Page comes in. Publish a single page instantly to the web with no fuss.<p>I was laid off three weeks ago from Twitter and I decided to work through a couple of my projects and this was one of them. I've tried blogs over the years, Medium didn't feel right but yet I wanted to quickly post pages online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. So I created it.<p>Feedback appreciated!
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
I made a thing!<p>In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself:<p><pre><code> "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves"
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I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays.<p>Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.<p>In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion.<p>HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
I made a thing!<p>In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself:<p><pre><code> "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves"
</code></pre>
I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays.<p>Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.<p>In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion.<p>HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
Show HN: WebStickies – Sticky notes for the internet
I made a browser extension that lets you leave notes on websites.<p>Some features: search by content, add tags, sync, export/import
Show HN: WebStickies – Sticky notes for the internet
I made a browser extension that lets you leave notes on websites.<p>Some features: search by content, add tags, sync, export/import
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
I built over the last two years a human-like neural network chess engine that tries to predict your rating from a single game. It automatically adapts to your play and tries to play like a human at your level would play, giving you a balanced game.<p>At the core I’m using an AlphaZero / Leela Chess Zero style neural network that I have trained on 1 billion human games from the lichess.org open database. Around this network I have built a chess engine in Rust with algorithms that use the outputs from the NN to produce human-like moves at a given rating from beginner to world champion, as well as predicting the level of the opponents play.<p>I want to develop this into kind of an AI coach that you can spar certain positions against and get feedback suited for your level. Happy for any suggestions!
Show HN: Noctie – A chess AI that predicts your rating
I built over the last two years a human-like neural network chess engine that tries to predict your rating from a single game. It automatically adapts to your play and tries to play like a human at your level would play, giving you a balanced game.<p>At the core I’m using an AlphaZero / Leela Chess Zero style neural network that I have trained on 1 billion human games from the lichess.org open database. Around this network I have built a chess engine in Rust with algorithms that use the outputs from the NN to produce human-like moves at a given rating from beginner to world champion, as well as predicting the level of the opponents play.<p>I want to develop this into kind of an AI coach that you can spar certain positions against and get feedback suited for your level. Happy for any suggestions!
Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username