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Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Search the Church Fathers 4 by j-b | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm pleased to present an update to Biblos, a semantic search tool designed for biblical research. This release incorporates instructor-large embeddings to enhance the precision of verse retrieval. Introducing some key features including historical church writings and commentaries alongside the main biblical corpus. Available for use at https://biblos.app/ Technical Insights: - Utilizes Chroma for vector search, now powered by instructor-large embeddings for improved semantic accuracy. - Features Anthropic's Claude LLM model to generate summaries that provide context and clarity for search results. - Developed with a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, the app offers a streamlined user experience through a Streamlit Web UI, all orchestrated with Python.

Show HN: Open-Source Data Replication and Anonymization 7 by edrenova | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, we're Evis and Nick, we're excited to be launching Neosync on HN! Neosync is an open source data replication and anonymization project that helps developers create safe, anonymized test data and sync it across all environments for high-quality local, stage and CI testing. This is how it works: 1. You select a job type. Today we support data sync jobs (these sync data between two databases and run on a schedule you define) and a data generation job (this generates synthetic data from scratch and sends it to a destination). 2. Next you define your source database and a destination(s) database (you can connect multiple destinations). 3. Next we pull in the schema from the source DB and then you can decide how to you to want transform your data. We ship with 40+ transformers (email, first name, address, random int64, random string, random float64, etc). You can create your ...

Show HN: Launch your product within hours 3 by salemy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Online RPG Game with AI being dungeon master 3 by dusanstanis | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi I've created a text-based RPG game in which you can experience different adventures and play interesting characters while the AI acts as a real time DM/story teller. There are multiple ways to interact with AI: 1) Input free will move 2) Input default move (affects resources) 3) Post a question to DM Also one more cool feature is that you can create your own adventure via simple form. Add scenes, add characters and make it public so other players are able to test it. I also plan to have 'competetive' side where players will pay some small fee to creators in crypto depending on community, and leaderboards can determine price pool reward distribution. But thats for future. Check it out and tell me what you think guys :) https://v3rpg.com

Show HN: Lume – automate data mappings using AI 13 by nmachado | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm Nicolas, co-founder of Lume, a seed-stage startup ( https://www.lume.ai/ ). At Lume, we use AI to automatically transform your source data into any desired target schema in seconds, making onboarding client data or integrating with new systems take seconds rather than days or weeks. In other words, we use AI to automatically map data between any two data schemas, and output the transformed data to you. We are live with customers and are just beginning to open up our product to more prospects. Although we do not have a sandbox yet, here is a video walkthrough of how the product works: https://ift.tt/1R5cX6K?... . And, here is our documentation: https://docs.lume.ai . We would love to get you set up to test it, so please reach out. Using Lume: we do not have self-serve yet. In the meantime, you can request full access to our API through the Request Access button in https://www.lu...

Show HN: Frogtab – Private, peaceful task management 2 by dwilding | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm excited to share the task manager that I've been building and relying on for the past 9 months I started developing Frogtab after a particularly busy period at work, where a large number of ad-hoc tasks would need my attention each day. What I Initially tried was a single (long!) checklist of outstanding tasks, but I found that too overwhelming to look at all day long. Then I tried scheduling tasks based on when I expected to complete them, but that also required too much cognitive load - I only had the capacity to bucket tasks into "today" and "not today" And so Frogtab was born. Originally as a Google doc, then later as a rudimentary web app with some simple automation. The automation was there to nudge me towards good habits, e.g., grouping all my outstanding tasks at the beginning of each day and requiring me to consciously choose which tasks to ...

Show HN: Solving NYT Connections with ChatGPT 2 by ekms | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just for fun I decided to see if I could use chatGPT to solve NYT Connections word puzzles. It uses a pretty straightforward BFS search in which the LLM is first prompted to generate several possible groupings of four related words, and then a different prompt is used to evaluate the soundness of each of those groupings. This approach seems to be able to produce the correct solution somewhat less than half the time. Some observations: * For whatever reason, chatGPT-4 seems to be a bit worse than 3.5 at generating Connections groupings. I haven’t tested systematically so maybe this is just some small sample size bias. But at the very least it isn’t obviously better * It really struggles with the “words that can fill in the blank” style groups. Often it will correctly come up with the right category (e.g. “words that can precede `cheese`”) but will only be able to identify 2 of 4 words in that groupin...

Show HN: Open-Source JSON Schema Enforcer for LLMs 3 by duchenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python 2 by jimmyechan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase ( https://www.dropbase.io ). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language Server Protocol (LSP) for linting. Since the self-hosted worker directly references .py or .sql files in the filesystem, you can even write them on VSCode directly or import any other Python script or library. Our app layout is highly opinionated to speed up app building. Instead of an open canvas for UI building, we ju...

Show HN: Darwinio: An Attempt at an Evolution Simulator 4 by tusharhero | 0 comments on Hacker News. We made this for our school project. I think we went a little too ambitious.

Show HN: Caption – Generate social media posts from a given image using LLaVA 2 by error404x | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A Who is Hiring app with AI filters – December update 2 by bernawil | 0 comments on Hacker News. A cureated list of Who is Hiring with posts with smart filters generated with AI

Show HN: OSHW Embedded Ethernet Switch 7 by Hello9999901 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds 31 by wildergarden | 6 comments on Hacker News. I made MAIM, an open-source audio plugin that uses real MP3 encoders to distort the sound. I've also added knobs that let you "circuit bend" the encoders, changing parameters that would normally be inaccessible to the user to get strange glitchy sounds. The plugin lets you switch between two MP3 encoders, since under the MP3 standard, the specifics of what to lose in MP3 lossy compression is left up to the encoder. The encoders are LAME, the gold standard for open-source MP3 encoders, and BladeEnc, an old open-source MP3 encoder that has a really bubbly sound and was fun to work with. I'd love any feedback, and I'll be around to answer questions!

Show HN: ThreeFold – Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure 8 by aredirect | 2 comments on Hacker News. We built it from the ground up, minimal Linux based operating system (written in go and rust), messaging system written in rust and infrastructure as code support (terraform and pulumi) There is even a dashboard, and a playground UI to manage it (that you can even run yourself) . Beautifully decentralized, you have full control of everything, you can deploy on your own servers if the cost of the cloud is too much. You can even run the whole system yourself if you want to. Here is a link to documentation https://manual.grid.tf/ Also, we are honored if it piqued your interest, and would love to support your testing journey free of charge.