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Nice! I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing.

I'm working on a WhatsApp AI bot for my group chats, specifically for my friends' soccer group chat where we organize our Wednesday matches. We have a bunch of "problems" that I think are ripe for bot automation. WhatsApp is what all of us hispanic people use and it's particularly interesting because Meta doesn't really provide you with much tooling to build bots, unlike Telegram. I started this weekend and went all in on cursor. I also streamed the whole process, so yeah, apparently I'm also a streamer now. Check them out at https://www.youtube.com/@alexon_v1/streams.

Ableton is awesome for putting this type of stuff out. The learning music section is also great. And, it's a perfect post for a shameless plug: I built a u-he Diva (my favorite VST synth) tool for generating presets with AI. It's called Diva Copilot and it can be accessed at https://divacopilot.com - I started out by offering a free trial with 10 free presets and then a monthly $20 plan with 50 presets. You can also buy on-demand credits. It works on top of a custom built RAG system that then uses GPT-4o for actually generating .h2p files. I'm mainly working on improving the knowledge base so that results get better and better. Still, you can already get some super good results. I put some examples in the landing page. Would love to get some feedback!

I’m a customer and it’s awesome. I think we’ve even exchanged emails about some questions I’ve had. When I paid for the premium version I thought it was super good for what I was getting. You must be getting a ton of traffic for it to still be paying rent after 8 years! Congrats!

I started learning on my own about two years ago and I only used simplypiano and youtube. I’m able to play with both hands now and can learn songs pretty quickly by watching youtube videos. I can also read some music thanks to simplypiano. I noticed quicker progress when I sat down to learn songs I really liked (in comparison to just learning what everybody else tells you to learn).

The godotneers video on Godot Components was clutch. Thanks!

Same here!

Thanks! Hadn’t heard about the book. Do you feel it’s worth diving into the GDQuest courses even though they are v3? Given the price, I feel like I should wait until they release the v4 versions.

I actually did find you guys last week. I didn’t buy anything because I’m waiting for the Godot 4 3D shooter game, since that’s exactly what I want to make. Having focus on code organization + best practices would also be awesome.

Newbie in machine learning here. It’s crazy that this is the top post just today. I’ve been doing the intro to deep learning course from MIT this week, mainly because I have a ton of JSON files that are already classified, and want to train a model that can generate new JSON data by taking classification tags as input.

So naturally this post is exciting. My main unknown right now is figuring out which model to train my data on. An RNN, a GAN, a diffusion model?

Music production on this is going to be crazy good.

How is this up here when I turn 30 tomorrow? Brah…

Yeah, that’s for sure something I’ve looked at (like developing VST plugins for ableton for example). But that market seems pretty saturated too.

I’ve been looking for insights from people in the industry about problems they have now (that software could solve), but it’s been pretty hard.

I’m also learning piano + guitar + ableton, so maybe as I go I’ll have problems that I could solve for myself and others.

Music software, or anything software related in the music industry.

The app also works great on iPad btw. I think ableton missed advertising for it since there’s now iOS and iPadOS.

100% yes. As someone who did JavaScript only for a while, once you make the switch, you’ll never want to go back.

The things you’ll get: 1. It’s going to force you to think more about how you structure your program. You’ll probably end up with a cleaner design. 2. It’s going to make you code faster because of the awesome autocomplete functionality you get out of the box (at least with VSCode). 3. It’s going to give you much more confidence that your code won’t break at runtime. There’s still a chance it will (write unit tests), but it’ll be much less frequent. 4. Types are a kind of documentation, so your future self will thank you.

Same here.

"That’s because the prevailing behavior of web browsers allows cookies to be shared between websites, thereby enabling those who would spy on you to “tag” your browser and track you as you browse."

Is that true though? I thought it was well known that you can only access cookies from your own domain: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12370495/share-a-cookie-...

I'd say most of them are running private companies that are both improving human life and generating profit. I think the part I agree with the most from the article is the one that talks about having people in government who have the skill to know what experts to lay off issues to. I think if we had leaders that did we'd be much better off.

I'm currently going through https://github.com/LukeMathWalker/build-your-own-jira-with-r... and had been using RLS. I just switched to the VSCode rust-analyzer plugin, I've followed the instructions, the installation finished w/o errors, but it's only working in the main.rs file.

I’ve been loving redux toolkit so far, so great job on that! The docs are super good too, so props for wanting to improve them further.

I encourage everyone to try out redux toolkit if you feel like redux is too much boilerplate. It also comes with immer out of the box, so no more crazy spread operators.

If you’re writing JS, then adding TS will give you a lot more reassurance when writing new code or refactoring old one. Even if it’s not perfect, I don’t see a reason why you’d choose JS over TS today other than maybe you don’t want to go through the first month of getting used to. Once you’re out of that, you’ll end up with code that’s much easier to reason about and also debug, in my humble opinion.

Check out the chapter on handling errors in the book “Programming TypeScript”, it gives a solid pattern for achieving something very close to Rust’s Option.

I’m kind of amazed that people want a better laptop speaker. I feel that’s like the one thing that could be just decent and nobody would complain. Everybody I see either uses headphones or a bluetooth speaker.

Do PWA push notifications already work on iOS browsers?

Yeah no, I get that. I was just talking about my case. I’m mostly happy tbh, but I’m pretty lucky. I know some people’s mental health is actually tied to some biological reasons.

Sometimes I start questioning our existence but then I realize there’s no point in doing that and just go back to doing whatever it is I enjoy the most. ¯\_( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

Documentary on YouTube featuring Yukio Shige: https://youtu.be/Nj1QHZTokWE

Nice. I went to la sagrada familia today and this becomes hacker news top post.

Thanks for all the replies everybody. My bad for missing the “Ask HN” part, kind of posted this pretty fast. Yeah, I think that for me the pro that I give to working on site is the social aspect of it. But as far as productivity, I get much more done when I’m working from home. I also think that less people driving for god knows how many hours a year would also bring a million other collateral benefits for everybody. I live in Miami and I think about the infrastructure that we have for the number of people that live here, and it just seems crazy that it hasn’t improved at all in the 8 years I’ve been here. Hopefully autonomous cars + hyperloop really take off pretty soon. Anyway, thanks again for your thoughts on this random end of the day question ;)

Given your situation you can wire me 1 million. Shoot me a reply and I’ll send you my info. Congrats on your big exit!