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This guy used Opus 5 to build a tiny device that replaced scrolling for him. Imagine a small screen, barely bigger than a watch, with hundreds of glowing blue particles floating inside. When you tilt it, they slide. When you shake it, they splash. When you hold it still,... they settle like water at the bottom of a glass. It looks like actual liquid is trapped behind the screen. But it's all code running on a $15 chip. Opus 5 wrote the entire thing in C. The physics, the lighting, the way each particle reacts to your hand movements. 100 fps on a device smaller than your palm. He says he picks it up instead of reaching for his phone now. Just sits there tilting it, watching particles move.show more

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THIS GUY GOT SICK OF UK TRAIN STATIONS HIDING THE PLATFORM NUMBER UNTIL THE LAST SECOND, SO HE VIBE CODED AN APP THAT PREDICTS IT BEFORE THEY REVEAL IT if youve ever stood in a crowded station like london euston, you know the pain the platform stays hidden until 15 minutes before boarding, then it flashes up and hundreds of people sprint for the same gate so he built something that fixes this: > a clean departures and arrivals app pulling live data straight from the network rail apis > live train tracking so you can watch where your train actually is on the route and whether its running on time > the main feature is a predictive engine that guesses your platform before the station reveals it, and its right about 75% of the time heres how it predicts: every time a train finishes its journey, it logs which platform it actually pulled into and compares that to the platform network rail originally advertised it saves every one of those comparisons, and over time it builds up enough history to predict the platform with a real confidence score he built the whole thing with claude, mostly opus with some fable

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