Lost Phone? Claude Built a Bluetooth Tracker in a Minute
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
Ben Zhang lost his phone at the office. Find My was disabled by MDM, so he asked Claude for help. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength and wrote a meter in about a minute. Zhang walked around watching the number climb and found the phone. The code is on GitHub.
Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.
- gitowiec
I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs are broken. When I was chatting with Claude to see if I can use it somehow to send Ethernet packets one of the Claude responses was to use broken cables as a pilot to pull fiber channel!
- 2398aG
OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.
- amelius
Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses.
But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?
- aidos
Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state starting to become a bit of a spaghetti mess.
It’s a funny time to live through. A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden.
- varjag
So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.
- gervwyk
Cant wait for it to find my car keys
- notawaytothink
- speedgoose
Yes you can do that.
It’s a standard feature on my Garmin watch. I can access it in a few button presses, sometimes two if it’s the last action I used.