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mfa | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

Not all questions are gen ai, but I understand your point. Initially I thought that gen ai could be a huge help, then realized the questions weren't good and there were some mistakes. I tried to comb through them, but I'm only human :-(

mfa | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

This is good feedback, thanks! A mode without a timer is totally doable and shouldn't be too difficult to implement -- I'll add to the list.

That particular question on the number of apples also confused the hell out of me. I checked with Gemini and ChatGPT and both agreed on the answer. Not being a native speaker, and because it was suggested by a friend, I thought I should accept it. I'm sorry it's causing confusion.

mfa | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

Hey, thanks! The core is really simple: Django + Postgres, Tailwind CSS for the UI, and little bits of plain JavaScript for things like the countdown timer. I also used a couple of libraries like django-allauth for account management and django-storages for managing static assets in S3. The whole thing runs on AWS.

I have no corporate secrets here, so if there's anything else you'd like to know, happy to share!

mfa | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

Quite a few are AI generated and even though I tried to read through all of them once I realized that often the choices weren't great, I probably missed a few :-(

That's a good example, and I'll fix it now. FWIW, I also have it on my list to add a feature to flag bad questions.

mfa | 3 months ago | on: Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game

Are you referring to the interruptions from one question to the next that show the explanation? Those were added on purpose because originally I had this in mind for kids in the 8 -- 16 years old range and wanted it to be educational.

But I see what you mean, and it's no trouble to add an option for "rapid mode" to just blaze through questions! I'll add this to the list!

mfa | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Pastebin-like tool with focus on privacy and security

I think all you're suggestions are good and just finished adding them. Thanks for the feedback!

mfa | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Pastebin-like tool with focus on privacy and security

Got it. Makes sense and just added it. You can now curl https://www.pastesafely.com/pastes/P73?format=raw ;-)

mfa | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Pastebin-like tool with focus on privacy and security

There's actually a (not yet documented) API available. If you curl curl https://www.pastesafely.com/api/paste/P73 you'll the paste and it's metadata in json. Would that work for your use case?

mfa | 7 years ago | on: High availability for InfluxDB

We do, but it's still at a very early stage :-)

mfa | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: EC2 price API

v2 maybe? :-)

mfa | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: EC2 price API

Blank? Doesn't it show just the price? (single number at the top left corner, probably)