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Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine

117 points · 41 comments · primitivesuave

anonydsfsfs · 1790728547 · focus · HN ↗
I love the presentation! Would you mind sharing the source code?
1. soltanov · 1790739242 · focus · HN ↗
  +1. source code will be useful for educational purposes.
  1. tonymet · 1790739381 · focus · HN ↗
    typical freeloading entitlement. It's his project, and he can share whatever he likes.
    krapp · 1790739519 · focus · HN ↗
    The purpose of Show HN is to share and discuss code, not to advertise products. That isn't freeloading entitlement, it's the point of being here.
    tonymet · 1790739753 · focus · HN ↗
    That's a misleading narrowing of the topic. It's a show and tell. Code, hobby, product, whatever the person wants.
    krapp · 1790740357 · focus · HN ↗
    The guidelines demonstrate that it isn't merely show and tell: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
    On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok. Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. The project should be non-trivial. Don't post quickly-generated one-offs; anybody can do that now. Share something that is deeply personal and interesting to you. Explain how and why.
    Also see dang's comments on the validity of various submissions:
    <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20valid%20show%20hn&sort=byDate&type=comment" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    And in particular this comment that touches on AI submissions in particular (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727) from which I provide an excerpt:
    In software it's fascinating how configuration management (that boringest of all phrases) is becoming the hard part. How do you share and version the source? What even is the source? Is it the prompts? That's where the OP heads at the end: "share it somewhere — or, better yet, just a screenshot and the prompts you used to make it." But when I floated a couple trial balloons about whether we might use this for Show HN—i.e., don't just share the code you generated, because that's not the source anymore; instead share the prompts—we got a lot of pushback from knowledgeable people (summarized here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213630).
    The topic is supposed to be narrow. It's supposed to be more than just show and tell, and definitely not "whatever the person wants."
    tonymet · 1790741251 · focus · HN ↗
    you're making my case, not yours.
    krapp · 1790742398 · focus · HN ↗
    No, I'm not.
    tonymet · 1790786074 · focus · HN ↗
    the app meets the bar, thanks for sharing.
    krapp · 1790796382 · focus · HN ↗
    It meets your personal bar, which matters to no one but you. Thanks for sharing.
    306bobby · 1790814624 · focus · HN ↗
    It definitely meets the bar set in everything you shared too. Nothing there states source code must be shared that I read. He is sharing the end product, which fits all the guidelines
    orphea · 1790756147 · focus · HN ↗
    I don't follow. How is a polite question if the code can be shared (not even a request to share the code), freeloading entitlement?
    tonymet · 1790786756 · focus · HN ↗
    it's impolite.
  2. primitivesuave · 1790739715 · focus · HN ↗
    I will open-source it very soon! I was a bit nervous about putting it out there before I'm sure that the machines are absolutely accurate, especially the more niche ones where I had to make some inferences about the wiring. Will add the GitHub link to the site when I've had a chance to review everything for accuracy, and will probably end up moving some of my "educated guesses" off the main branch.
    utopiah · 1790754874 · focus · HN ↗
    > bit nervous about putting it out there before I'm sure that ...
    At the risk of being presumptuous I believe that's the wrong way of looking at it. The point isn't to show the entire World that everything you did is perfect (because it's not, for anyone) but rather to grow from potential collaborations, even if only just discussions in issues. It is a humbling process to show how something was built but with a positive crowd it is definitely leading to growth!

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