[HN Gopher] Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke...
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Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script
for chimney
This Playwright test script uses AI to test if there's smoke coming
out of the Sistine Chapel chimney and whether that smoke is white.
The test only passes if the smoke is white. Currently, set to use
Google Gemini Flash 2.0, but you can switch it to use other LLM
providers/models by setting the environment variable in the Github
actions workflow: https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-
election-tests/bl... I've set it to run every minute during the
Papal Conclave election times - https://github.com/donobu-
inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/ac...
Author : vasusen
Score : 22 points
Date : 2025-05-08 16:13 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| hcaz wrote:
| What was your motivation to use AI for this instead of simple
| image analysis?
| akmarinov wrote:
| AI's cool
| codr7 wrote:
| AI is for cool fools
| ksajh wrote:
| Writing prompts is much simpler than image analysis plus they
| make a AI test framework thingy
| vasusen wrote:
| Image analysis would be better. I just wanted to test it
| quickly with different models (Gemini, GPT 4o, etc.) using an
| AI testing framework I am building
| devonbleak wrote:
| Alternative version: check for dings on my phone from every news
| outlet sending a notification about it.
| akmarinov wrote:
| Test should be passing now
| vasusen wrote:
| It passed right when the smoke started coming out -
| https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/bl...
| alkh wrote:
| How much did you end up spending on API credits for Flash 2.0?
| vasusen wrote:
| $0.29 over the past 2 days
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