Any plans to make the extension perform a replacement of whatever’s flagged with dummy data? Knowing I have sensitive data is usually not a problem, but constantly needing to replace or remove it is, particularly with larger token counts
I’m sure commissioning engineers would have a field day with this. Have you considered use cases on the larger owner’s side of things? As an owner’s rep I can definitely see value here at an SD and DD level, especially if the owner has a decently sized Facilities or commissioning team.
Great point! Owner’s reps and commissioning teams are becoming one of the fastest-growing user groups for us. At SD/DD we can surface coordination risks early, highlight spec–drawing mismatches, and give owners a clearer picture of design completeness before things get locked in. If you’re open to it, we’d love to run a sample SD/DD set from your world and see what’s most useful.
Apparently one of the old school decentralized RPC providers (pocket network) has pivoted into being a way to access open data sources in a permissionless way. I think this is what you’re talking about?
I don’t disagree that it would be nice to be able to do this, but barring some black swan-esque event that changes how people see these things, it’ll probably always be somewhat niche compared to more permissioned or centralized systems. That or the decentralized systems will need to be VERY competitively priced to make the value-prop a bit more of a slam dunk for making this more widespread outside of philosophically-aligned hardliners and idealists
Assuming you mean TrainTime (which does both LIRR and Metro-North). That app is one of the best transit apps I’ve used (public or private).
TrainTime has different requirements though - it’s focused on schedules and ticket-buying (and does both of those things really well). The relaunched MTA app seems more about way-finding, trip planning, service status. For those functions, I’m not sure it does much of a better job than Transit app or Citymapper app (although certainly an improvement over Apple or Google Maps).
Hmm, I've been using Google Maps for this purpose for years, just helping me decide how to get to a particular spot in NYC, walking, subway, bus, citibike, or uber if its worth it.
It also takes into account the official schedules, so I generally trust its routing.
What am I missing out on that the MTA app does better with?
Hope you’ll excuse the somewhat off-topic nature of my comment: I’d be curious in hearing your story how you transitioned into software development from construction - would you mind passing along contact information or reaching out to me? I’m in a similar boat and thinking long and hard about my options!
Reading the submission headline, I thought this might generate the podcast using comments.
I've found myself wanting to listen to HN comment threads, as I'm one of those people who derives more value and entertainment from the comments than I do from the actual submissions a lot of the time! I envision a voice-controlled way to navigate through threads too. Basically an accessibility narrator on steroids.
I wonder if anyone else has ever been interested in something like this. Getting good voices to read like this podcast would make it that much more fun, so thanks for getting me really hot and bothered :)
Guess if no one does it soon I'll have to build it myself!
I also have wanted to build this, but instead of voice controlled, perform thread navigation using the AssistiveTouch SDK for Apple Watch. [1]
I released a product yesterday that handles all aspects of the URL to speech process called Chief of Staff. [2]
The initial version only synthesizes article text alone.
I found there is a great deal of nuance to text to speech synthesis, from the player behavior itself to handling quotas around cloud services.
My goal is far greater flexibility and features—-a genuine Chief of Staff that briefs you on information you care about in a format and medium that beats suits your.
want to team up on it? I'm wanting to build the same, maybe recreate it for some multireddits on tech or science and turn it into YouTube channel etc.
I'm thinking maybe having it read just the top thread if there's only 10 or so comments or just the main threads if it's a topic with hundreds of main threads.
maybe we could make some way where the reader can text a code and we'll link them directly to a comment if they want to dig deeper, or save/upvote it.
I actually stsrted work in a similar space not too long ago if you both want another set of eyes.
This was pre GPT apis but essentially what i was doing was using a python summarization library to sumarize articles from rss feeds into a simple tts podcast. Probably a lot of money in custom GPTCasts made off someone personal rss feed as a service IMO.
I rarely log into HN, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for building this. I was looking for something just like it a few months ago to plan a trip with some friends that I also wanted to view-only share with a couple others (with a simple link - no account requirements). I was amazed how hard it was to find something like it and how you couldn’t really do that with Google Calendar. Don’t remember exactly what the issue was with other sites I found, but just know I will ABSOLUTELY be using Calenday for all of my collaborative trip planning needs going forward. If you add any other features I can’t wait to see them (and if you leave the site as is, I might be even happier in the long run).
Thank you for the kind words! I was thinking the same thing, I didn't really find a good solution for group trips and also wanted something where I can send a link after the trip to friends that wanted to go to the same place. If you recall the issues with the other sites, do let me know! I am interested to hear.
