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Show HN: Frogtab – Private, peaceful task management 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 tackle that day. I subsequently refined the sy...

Show HN: Solving NYT Connections with ChatGPT 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 grouping * It frequently generates very vague cat...

Show HN: Open-Source JSON Schema Enforcer for LLMs https://ift.tt/KeUyF7I December 5, 2023 at 11:56PM

Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python 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 just give you a main table view and a widget sideb...

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