SamuelKatsaros's comments

On: Show HN: Like Zuck's Facemash but for YC

[SamuelKatsaros]

just altered the db for better ranking

kinda slow

any recs?

On: Like Facemash but for YC Startups

[SamuelKatsaros]

when catching up on my weekly watch of the social network

I wanted to do smt like facemash

having just applied to yc. I though ycmash was the natural + perfect idea

so, here it is: https://ycmash.vercel.app/

it's as simple as that

clean + retro ui

elo ranking algo

postgresql, well, supabase bc who doesn't use that

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rlly just a late night thing

don't judge

but pls rank

id actually be interested to see who ranks 1st after a week or so

[mindcrime → SamuelKatsaros]

Time to break out Emacs and hack that Perl script!

[SamuelKatsaros → mindcrime]

what's funny ab this is the difference between the movie + the book

in the book he spent days hacking

got into other dorms + got access to the server

such a great book

On: Never Redlining a Doc Again

[SamuelKatsaros]

built >>> redline.rocks <<< redlines docs in seconds

On: Never Redlining a Doc Again

[SamuelKatsaros]

yeah — it’s a script that extracts raw text from .docx, feeds it into gpt-4 with a structured system prompt (playbook-style rules), parses the diffs, and rebuilds the doc with tracked changes using docx. just input → process → redline.