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Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

124 points akktor | 1 comments | 09 Jun 25 12:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source

This question's for all those cool projects or skills you're secretly fascinated by, but haven't quite jumped into. Maybe you feel like you just don't have the right "brain" for it, or you're not smart enough to figure it out, or even worse, you simply have no clue how or where to even start.

The idea here is to shine a light on these hidden interests and the little (or big!) mental blocks that come with them. If you're already rocking in those specific areas – or you've been there and figured out how to get past similar hurdles – please chime in! Share some helpful resources, dish out general advice, or just give a nudge of encouragement on how to take that intimidating first step.

Let's help each other get unstuck!

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PSBigBig ◴[16 Jun 25 08:59 UTC] No.44287751[source]▶
I really resonate with this. For the longest time, I felt I just “wasn’t wired” to explore deeper reasoning tasks with AI — things like philosophy, creative synthesis, or even serious debugging just seemed like they needed some genius-level prompting or coding skill.

Weirdly enough, what helped me break through wasn’t a course or a YouTube tutorial… it was a PDF.

Sounds silly, but I found this open-source project called WFGY, which is basically a semantic reasoning booster for any LLM. You just upload the PDF to ChatGPT (or any model), and it starts interacting in a way that feels like actual understanding — not just parroting surface logic.

No install, no sign-up. Literally a 60-second experiment.

I used it to challenge GPT with questions it usually fumbles (like nested logic, or paradoxes), and it actually got better. The framework even comes with sample questions to test against it. Kind of surreal.

If you’ve ever felt AI prompting is a weird dark art... this made it feel like turning on a light.

→ https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY

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1. mdrzn ◴[16 Jun 25 11:39 UTC] No.44288628[source]▶
"I found this open-source project" which you built. The lowest level of astroturfing.