Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C
2 by epermyakov | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 31 August 2018
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Show HN: A curated list of amazingly awesome Home Assistant resources
2 by frenck | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by frenck | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 30 August 2018
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Show HN: GitHunt – GitHub Trending Page on Steroids
2 by kamranahmed_se | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by kamranahmed_se | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A JSON Viewer with indentation based highlighting, and table-view mode
2 by curiousorchid | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by curiousorchid | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Subcommunity where HNers can socialize by drawing pixel art together
2 by sdegutis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by sdegutis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets
2 by WhiteRiceWill | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by WhiteRiceWill | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I built a remote jobs board that you can filter by timezone ⏰
4 by Jthink | 1 comments on Hacker News.
4 by Jthink | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I built a jobs board to find the best paying tech contracts
5 by chrisvxd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by chrisvxd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Multi-part series on web and api access control (part 1)
2 by malachygr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by malachygr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: SpaceFox, a browser tab manager I wrote for myself
2 by laktak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by laktak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
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Show HN: Weekend Project – My first blockchain wallet. Comments welcome
3 by brown-dragon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by brown-dragon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Golang Cafe a Golang-only job board /w no recruiters and clear salaries
2 by hidiegomariani | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by hidiegomariani | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I'm 12. Learning JS. I Wrote Wolfram's Cellular Automata in Node
7 by liamilan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
7 by liamilan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Dank Learning – mobile app to make memes with AI
6 by freedmand | 0 comments on Hacker News.
6 by freedmand | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Rocket – Automated deployment as fast and easy as possible in Go
3 by z0mbie42 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by z0mbie42 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: SpaceChop – HTTP service for high-level image processing
2 by ericwenn | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ericwenn | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
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Show HN: Abstract Calculus, a massively parallel model of computation
2 by maiavictor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by maiavictor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Weekend Project – A Stellar blockchain wallet on the command-line
2 by brown-dragon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by brown-dragon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Interactive completion for all the things in tmux windows
2 by shagabutdinov | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by shagabutdinov | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 27 August 2018
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Show HN: Indiehacker jobs – Find jobs helping other indiehackers
3 by camhart | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by camhart | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: 3geonames.org – A triple name geocode for the world
2 by eruci | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by eruci | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: PlainChart – A plain text charting utility in Python
2 by gduverger | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by gduverger | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: FlightList – Find cheap, one-way flights within a departure date range
2 by ismaelyws | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ismaelyws | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Hacker News Post Coloring Extension to Chromium
2 by Midnightas | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Midnightas | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, 26 August 2018
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Show HN: Introducing a Q&A site that is tree based and hierarchical
2 by schwanray | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by schwanray | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Help validate idea – connecting with your audience after presentation
3 by matijash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We are testing the value proposition for an idea described here: http://lastslide.io/ If you could take a quick look and give us your feedback (is it clear, is this something you would consider using) we would be very grateful. Every kind of feedback is welcome. Thank you
3 by matijash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We are testing the value proposition for an idea described here: http://lastslide.io/ If you could take a quick look and give us your feedback (is it clear, is this something you would consider using) we would be very grateful. Every kind of feedback is welcome. Thank you
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Show HN: I built my dream puzzle game Shapeuku
2 by dannybirch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
It's like a mix between Picross (Nonograms) and Polyominoes. It's a minimalist puzzler which has no text, no tutorials (none required) and no ads set in a relaxing environment. App Store: https://ift.tt/2PFZbLH... Play Store: https://ift.tt/2wn9PhK... I have a bulk load of Android promo codes to give away, so if you'd like one let me know! (Sorry iOS users, I have no free codes left!)
2 by dannybirch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
It's like a mix between Picross (Nonograms) and Polyominoes. It's a minimalist puzzler which has no text, no tutorials (none required) and no ads set in a relaxing environment. App Store: https://ift.tt/2PFZbLH... Play Store: https://ift.tt/2wn9PhK... I have a bulk load of Android promo codes to give away, so if you'd like one let me know! (Sorry iOS users, I have no free codes left!)
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Show HN: Travel Shopping Buddy: Recognize price tag/show amount in home currency
2 by billylo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Just aim camera at price tag. Zero-touch interface. https://ift.tt/2MLcAnp
2 by billylo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Just aim camera at price tag. Zero-touch interface. https://ift.tt/2MLcAnp
Saturday, 25 August 2018
Friday, 24 August 2018
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Show HN: SpeakingPuppy – Snapchat-like AR for your dog
5 by throwaway413 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
5 by throwaway413 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Interactive computational neuroscience: synapses and Hebbian learning
3 by jterwill | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by jterwill | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Learning just enough Groovy to read a Jenkinsfile [video]
2 by rpwilcox | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by rpwilcox | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 23 August 2018
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Show HN: An online, responsive reader for Reddit and Hackernews
2 by sras-me | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by sras-me | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Objective-Rust: pure Rust code masquerading as Objective-C
2 by cornstalks | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by cornstalks | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: VueToolbox – Collection of the best Vue.js libraries
4 by alvesjtiago | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by alvesjtiago | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Sketch.sh - Interactive OCaml and ReasonML Sketchbook
7 by thangngoc89 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
7 by thangngoc89 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Fully Featured, JavaScript DataTable Without JQuery
4 by rushabh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by rushabh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I'm sorry, I put Windows 95 into an Electron App
2 by felixrieseberg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by felixrieseberg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A no nonsense technology news app for geeks
2 by nelliprashanth | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by nelliprashanth | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Invoking web APIs as if they were JavaScript methods
7 by fmontesi | 1 comments on Hacker News.
7 by fmontesi | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Json-aggregate – js utility to perform aggregations on JSON data
2 by salvadornav | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by salvadornav | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
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Show HN: Crypto Table – A Periodic Table of Cryptocurrencies
2 by jesalg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jesalg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: PubLoft – A Content Agency Powered by the Gig Economy
2 by Mat_Sherman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Mat_Sherman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Yes BOSS – A game with a critical view on “cool” Bosses
3 by bobGiezi | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by bobGiezi | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
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Show HN: Hall of Fame – Show some love to your contributors
4 by smartapant | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by smartapant | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer
2 by aaronkjones | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by aaronkjones | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Assorted conveniences for the PowerShell `cd` command
3 by nickcox | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by nickcox | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Active Checklist, Reusable Checklists for all your processes
4 by _query | 1 comments on Hacker News.
4 by _query | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Color Icon – Distinguish tabs with the same favicon in your browser
2 by tiagonbotelho | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by tiagonbotelho | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 20 August 2018
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Show HN: Deploying React applications with webhooks and Slack
2 by adnanh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by adnanh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: React-ApexCharts – Elegant SVG Charts in React.js
5 by junedchhipa | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by junedchhipa | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: NuFHE: A GPU implementation of fully homomorphic encryption in Python
4 by mwilkison | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by mwilkison | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Dove – A utility to manage a development environment in Digital Ocean
2 by vishalkuo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by vishalkuo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A Tic Tac Toe “AI” Built with Only HTML and CSS
4 by lbatchelor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by lbatchelor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, 19 August 2018
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Show HN: GNU Linker Script Highlight Extension for VSCode
2 by thenetadmin | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by thenetadmin | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
2 by quickthrower2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by quickthrower2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Maven plugin to verify PGP signatures on downloaded artifacts
2 by exabrial | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by exabrial | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: GDPR Busters – busting GDPR myths, tips for startups and developers
2 by FooBarWidget | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by FooBarWidget | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: AppKeywordTool – Keyword Research Tool for iOS Apps
2 by sabike | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by sabike | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs
15 by lukehero | 7 comments on Hacker News.
15 by lukehero | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 18 August 2018
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Show HN: Refjar.com – find online discussions for your Pocket articles
2 by mdoliwa | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by mdoliwa | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Storybook – UI dev environment you'll love to use
2 by octosphere | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by octosphere | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Interactive Wallpaper animated art tool (symmetry groups)
2 by alexberke | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by alexberke | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: TinyGo – Go compiler(based on LLVM) for microcontrollers
2 by ngaut | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ngaut | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 17 August 2018
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Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”
87 by anvaka | 3 comments on Hacker News.
87 by anvaka | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: RedditRecommend – Holy Grail Reddit Life Recommendations
2 by potaloma | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by potaloma | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Stylos – Automatically generate and inject CSS utilities using Webpack
2 by kamranahmed_se | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by kamranahmed_se | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: DecentralizedPosts.com – Federated text posting boards on Ethereum
3 by kevinflo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by kevinflo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Writemail - discover interesting pen pals around the world
2 by mariushop | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by mariushop | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
2 by michaelmure | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by michaelmure | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: StateViewController – Stateful view controller containment for iOS
2 by davidask | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by davidask | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Awesome Distributed System Resources from GO-JEK Tech
4 by rshetty | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by rshetty | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Frontloops.Elements – real world front end ui challenges
2 by bananabobby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by bananabobby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I made wits.io where writers can earn money with book summaries
2 by zaheerbaloch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by zaheerbaloch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Analysis of sorting algorithms using random comparators
2 by thethirdone | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by thethirdone | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 16 August 2018
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Show HN: Ethereum Address Monitoring, Bootstrapped Startup
7 by ethwatch | 1 comments on Hacker News.
7 by ethwatch | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative
14 by simonrepp | 9 comments on Hacker News.
eno [1] - A modern plaintext language w/ libraries [2] for JavaScript, Python, Ruby & soon more! We migrated a big relational research database to a file-based solution - requirements were: - Super fast and easy editability for users - Highest performance for parsing/validating >10K documents on every user change. Our trials with YAML/TOML showed us that we wanted something both faster [3][4] and easier [4], something tailored for file-based content management ... and after months of research & development it's now publicly available (under MIT license) for everyone! Last but not least I also want to mention eno's document introspection capabilities - with a few lines of code you can build intelligent relational suggestion UIs as shown in [4] below. [1] https://eno-lang.org/ [2] https://ift.tt/2L1do2B [3] https://ift.tt/2MuvYF2 [4] https://ift.tt/2BhWJYP PS. Your input for the Roadmap is highly welcome - what do you think should be in the next releases? More languages? (If so, which? Currently in progress: Rust/PHP, Currently planned: Go/Java) Additional IDE/editor support? (Currently supported: Atom/VSCode/Sublime) Or something else entirely? :) Looking forward to your feedback!
14 by simonrepp | 9 comments on Hacker News.
eno [1] - A modern plaintext language w/ libraries [2] for JavaScript, Python, Ruby & soon more! We migrated a big relational research database to a file-based solution - requirements were: - Super fast and easy editability for users - Highest performance for parsing/validating >10K documents on every user change. Our trials with YAML/TOML showed us that we wanted something both faster [3][4] and easier [4], something tailored for file-based content management ... and after months of research & development it's now publicly available (under MIT license) for everyone! Last but not least I also want to mention eno's document introspection capabilities - with a few lines of code you can build intelligent relational suggestion UIs as shown in [4] below. [1] https://eno-lang.org/ [2] https://ift.tt/2L1do2B [3] https://ift.tt/2MuvYF2 [4] https://ift.tt/2BhWJYP PS. Your input for the Roadmap is highly welcome - what do you think should be in the next releases? More languages? (If so, which? Currently in progress: Rust/PHP, Currently planned: Go/Java) Additional IDE/editor support? (Currently supported: Atom/VSCode/Sublime) Or something else entirely? :) Looking forward to your feedback!
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Show HN: Buzzngo.io – Real-time public polls using RethinkDB
2 by lionpixel | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by lionpixel | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Cross-platform Objective-C, now with IDE and dependency management
2 by mulle_nat | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by mulle_nat | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Greetings cards that don't skirt around your emotions
2 by willyams | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by willyams | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: React water wave – Add water wave effect to the background using WebGL
2 by xxhomey19 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by xxhomey19 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Tiny(ish) Wayland compositor in ~500 lines of annotated C
5 by Sir_Cmpwn | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by Sir_Cmpwn | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A free and open-source command line note organizer
2 by gkutiel | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, Motivated by this discussion https://goo.gl/te4BFv , I have created a simple (free and open-source) command line note organizer. The tool, called npmnotes, take a folder with notes (written in markdown/texdown) and creates a webpage that lets you search and browse through the notes. You can then publish this webpage or use it locally. The result (built with npmnotes) looks something like this https://npmnotes.org . Currently, this is just a (working) prototype and I plan to add more features soon (based on the feedback I get). What do you think of it?
2 by gkutiel | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, Motivated by this discussion https://goo.gl/te4BFv , I have created a simple (free and open-source) command line note organizer. The tool, called npmnotes, take a folder with notes (written in markdown/texdown) and creates a webpage that lets you search and browse through the notes. You can then publish this webpage or use it locally. The result (built with npmnotes) looks something like this https://npmnotes.org . Currently, this is just a (working) prototype and I plan to add more features soon (based on the feedback I get). What do you think of it?
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
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Show HN: Termdiff – Diff the Outputs of Commands Run at Different Times
2 by karagenit | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by karagenit | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
2 by mitraraman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I’m Mitra Raman, the founder/CEO of The Buttermilk Company ( https:///www.thebuttermilkco.com ). We help you make authentic, fresh Indian food in 5 minutes by just adding water to our products. As an Indian-American in my 20s, I grew up eating my mom’s homemade Indian food everyday. When I moved away from home to attend Carnegie Mellon University, I was homesick for the first time and realized how hard it was to find anything that resembled my mom’s food. I either had to make it myself (finding the Indian grocery store + following my mom’s recipe took way too much time) or would settle for whatever generic dishes at the local Indian restaurant. The options were expensive, time-consuming, or tasted horrible. Two years into my job as an Software Engineer at Amazon, I asked my mom to help me make her rasam. She gave me all the ingredients in a ziploc bag and told me to just add hot water! I asked my friends about how they coped with homesickness and realized that most parents were also figuring out their own ways of getting their kids’ favorites foods to them when they moved. That’s how the idea for Buttermilk started! We crowdsource our recipes from real people (keeping our product truly authentic) and develop them into products that are super easy for our customers to make. If you’ve ever asked your mom to send a family recipe to you, you know how hard it is to get this right! Our team spends hours in the kitchen tweaking each recipe so we can prep and cook it just enough that the customer can complete the cooking with water. We have to be careful to not over-prep such that the taste and nutritional value erode over time. We use fresh and non-GMO ingredients, make everything from scratch (seriously, even the garam masala), and deliver our perishable products in sustainable packaging. Our production is extremely detail-oriented and time-consuming because we are recreating recipes for one family into large-scale batches that need to maintain the quality of its original recipe. To improve efficiency, we have built software to track food production, predict incoming volume, and help our production and fulfillment teams communicate. We’re also exploring new shelf-life extension technologies (such as HPP) so our products can last a lot longer. Currently, they must be refrigerated for 5-7 days or frozen for up to 3 months -- if you don’t eat them before then, that is! In terms of market size: there are over 4 million Indian immigrants in the U.S. This demographic, like all other ethnic groups, is poorly served by the existing food options when it comes to their cuisines. And of course there is the population of everyone who just likes Indian food and can’t find or make it! Though we are starting with Indian cuisine, we definitely don't plan to stop there. The market for ethnic foods in the U.S. is at least $5B. But in good startup style, we've started with the specific problem we ourselves had. We’re super eager to hear your feedback, ideas, and experiences in this space or as it relates to our type of product.
2 by mitraraman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I’m Mitra Raman, the founder/CEO of The Buttermilk Company ( https:///www.thebuttermilkco.com ). We help you make authentic, fresh Indian food in 5 minutes by just adding water to our products. As an Indian-American in my 20s, I grew up eating my mom’s homemade Indian food everyday. When I moved away from home to attend Carnegie Mellon University, I was homesick for the first time and realized how hard it was to find anything that resembled my mom’s food. I either had to make it myself (finding the Indian grocery store + following my mom’s recipe took way too much time) or would settle for whatever generic dishes at the local Indian restaurant. The options were expensive, time-consuming, or tasted horrible. Two years into my job as an Software Engineer at Amazon, I asked my mom to help me make her rasam. She gave me all the ingredients in a ziploc bag and told me to just add hot water! I asked my friends about how they coped with homesickness and realized that most parents were also figuring out their own ways of getting their kids’ favorites foods to them when they moved. That’s how the idea for Buttermilk started! We crowdsource our recipes from real people (keeping our product truly authentic) and develop them into products that are super easy for our customers to make. If you’ve ever asked your mom to send a family recipe to you, you know how hard it is to get this right! Our team spends hours in the kitchen tweaking each recipe so we can prep and cook it just enough that the customer can complete the cooking with water. We have to be careful to not over-prep such that the taste and nutritional value erode over time. We use fresh and non-GMO ingredients, make everything from scratch (seriously, even the garam masala), and deliver our perishable products in sustainable packaging. Our production is extremely detail-oriented and time-consuming because we are recreating recipes for one family into large-scale batches that need to maintain the quality of its original recipe. To improve efficiency, we have built software to track food production, predict incoming volume, and help our production and fulfillment teams communicate. We’re also exploring new shelf-life extension technologies (such as HPP) so our products can last a lot longer. Currently, they must be refrigerated for 5-7 days or frozen for up to 3 months -- if you don’t eat them before then, that is! In terms of market size: there are over 4 million Indian immigrants in the U.S. This demographic, like all other ethnic groups, is poorly served by the existing food options when it comes to their cuisines. And of course there is the population of everyone who just likes Indian food and can’t find or make it! Though we are starting with Indian cuisine, we definitely don't plan to stop there. The market for ethnic foods in the U.S. is at least $5B. But in good startup style, we've started with the specific problem we ourselves had. We’re super eager to hear your feedback, ideas, and experiences in this space or as it relates to our type of product.
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Show HN: Legal Marketplace for Startups
3 by SeedLawyers | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We're BETA testing our partnership portal at SeedLawyers and thought y'all might be interested in some FREEEeee... legal help. Just type "betatest" where it asks here --> https://ift.tt/2nyslzH to unlock an account with 500 credits that you can spend on calls with our lawyer members, legal questions, and DIY startup legal documents. Every bit of feedback counts :)
3 by SeedLawyers | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We're BETA testing our partnership portal at SeedLawyers and thought y'all might be interested in some FREEEeee... legal help. Just type "betatest" where it asks here --> https://ift.tt/2nyslzH to unlock an account with 500 credits that you can spend on calls with our lawyer members, legal questions, and DIY startup legal documents. Every bit of feedback counts :)
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Show HN: Unyt – Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python
2 by ngoldbaum | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ngoldbaum | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: CI-Wallboard
2 by aterlamia | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/2P9yMFX... Hello, Not sure if useful for anybody but I created a wallboard that can follow your build. At my work we use it constantly to check for all our projects if no important builds have failed (and to point fingers at those who broke it ;)). Though might be handy for others as well. Hope it useful for somebody.
2 by aterlamia | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/2P9yMFX... Hello, Not sure if useful for anybody but I created a wallboard that can follow your build. At my work we use it constantly to check for all our projects if no important builds have failed (and to point fingers at those who broke it ;)). Though might be handy for others as well. Hope it useful for somebody.
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Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator
4 by seiflotfy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Penc – Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS
3 by dgurkaynak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by dgurkaynak | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: React Move - Beautiful, Data-Driven Animations for React
4 by sahin-boydas | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by sahin-boydas | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
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Show HN: Paperkast
45 by dogancan | 10 comments on Hacker News.
http://paperkast.com Hello everybody, I just wanted to share a link aggregator website: paperkast.com. It's a article sharing and discussion hub. It's opened recently. I think it was a need for the academia. I don't think there is an online community for paper discussion. Twitter is good for publication sharing but there is no central discussion around a paper. It's all over the place. Seperately, we know that the link aggregation style has a good reputation. It's a good stimulation for discussion. What do you think of it?
45 by dogancan | 10 comments on Hacker News.
http://paperkast.com Hello everybody, I just wanted to share a link aggregator website: paperkast.com. It's a article sharing and discussion hub. It's opened recently. I think it was a need for the academia. I don't think there is an online community for paper discussion. Twitter is good for publication sharing but there is no central discussion around a paper. It's all over the place. Seperately, we know that the link aggregation style has a good reputation. It's a good stimulation for discussion. What do you think of it?
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Show HN: Telegram is the new IRC – list of communities, bots and channels
10 by lenilsonjr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
10 by lenilsonjr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Zunzun.com now 100% open source Python
2 by zunzun | 0 comments on Hacker News.
The full Python source code for zunzun.com online curve and surface fitting is at https://ift.tt/2nFQXXs
2 by zunzun | 0 comments on Hacker News.
The full Python source code for zunzun.com online curve and surface fitting is at https://ift.tt/2nFQXXs
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Show HN: BrowseNodes – Get Unthrottled Access to Amazon Product API
3 by BrowseNodes | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by BrowseNodes | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Fintual Inc. (YC S18) – Automated Wealth Manager for Latin America
2 by agustinf | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN!! I’m Agustin, founder of Fintual Inc, from YC’s S18 batch. We’re building an automated passive investment platform for Latin Americans ( https://fintual.com ). I come from a computer science + business background so when we first started discussing this idea I didn’t have much experience on finance or investment other than what I had learned by playing around with Bitcoin. Since I graduated I knew I wanted to become an entrepreneur, but not having any work experience led me to pretty standard ideas like a music streaming website or a food ordering app. I realised rather late that I needed to join experienced partners to find better business insights and opportunities. After many conversations with my current business partner Omar, who had been 8 years working for the largest wealth manager in LATAM, I was shocked to understand how Latin American people, including people around me, were unfairly paying enormous amounts of money to banks who offered very expensive and many times overly complex investment solutions to retail / uninformed long term investors. After investigating how Betterment, Wealthfront and passive investment strategies in general had been changing the landscape for Americans, we were motivated to do whatever it took to solve this problem in LATAM starting from our own country Chile which, despite being a tiny country, has more than 60 billion dollars allocated in Mutual Funds by itself. We started by building a responsive website using AngularJS and Ruby on Rails as quickly as we could to get user feedback soon, we mostly copied the onboarding process directly from Betterment. At the beginning we thought automating every step of the investment process was the most important challenge, but now, after some experience and several conversations with YC partners, we have come to realize the real problem to solve is none other than distribution: how to reach millions of users in an economically viable way. Banks already have the clients, while we have to explain and convince people there’s a better way. At first we tried to find an incumbent to work with us, but after a year trying we decided to get our own license (the equivalent to a FINRA Series 6 license) which took a large part of the seed round and 8 months of work, but finally got it. We’ve been growing at a healthy 10% week over week since March now thanks mainly to word of mouth, but we know we need to have a better handle on this growth for the future. I’m very excited to be at this point, I have been reading HN for 10 years now and I only dreamed about making a YC launch post. As I said, we need to find a more consistent approach on growth, If any of you has any new idea or has heard of approaches of how could we get more people to realize they’re overpaying (some even pay 7% annual fees!) and get them to know and trust our solution, that would be awesome, but anyway, I’m eager to read and respond to whatever this great community has to say.
2 by agustinf | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN!! I’m Agustin, founder of Fintual Inc, from YC’s S18 batch. We’re building an automated passive investment platform for Latin Americans ( https://fintual.com ). I come from a computer science + business background so when we first started discussing this idea I didn’t have much experience on finance or investment other than what I had learned by playing around with Bitcoin. Since I graduated I knew I wanted to become an entrepreneur, but not having any work experience led me to pretty standard ideas like a music streaming website or a food ordering app. I realised rather late that I needed to join experienced partners to find better business insights and opportunities. After many conversations with my current business partner Omar, who had been 8 years working for the largest wealth manager in LATAM, I was shocked to understand how Latin American people, including people around me, were unfairly paying enormous amounts of money to banks who offered very expensive and many times overly complex investment solutions to retail / uninformed long term investors. After investigating how Betterment, Wealthfront and passive investment strategies in general had been changing the landscape for Americans, we were motivated to do whatever it took to solve this problem in LATAM starting from our own country Chile which, despite being a tiny country, has more than 60 billion dollars allocated in Mutual Funds by itself. We started by building a responsive website using AngularJS and Ruby on Rails as quickly as we could to get user feedback soon, we mostly copied the onboarding process directly from Betterment. At the beginning we thought automating every step of the investment process was the most important challenge, but now, after some experience and several conversations with YC partners, we have come to realize the real problem to solve is none other than distribution: how to reach millions of users in an economically viable way. Banks already have the clients, while we have to explain and convince people there’s a better way. At first we tried to find an incumbent to work with us, but after a year trying we decided to get our own license (the equivalent to a FINRA Series 6 license) which took a large part of the seed round and 8 months of work, but finally got it. We’ve been growing at a healthy 10% week over week since March now thanks mainly to word of mouth, but we know we need to have a better handle on this growth for the future. I’m very excited to be at this point, I have been reading HN for 10 years now and I only dreamed about making a YC launch post. As I said, we need to find a more consistent approach on growth, If any of you has any new idea or has heard of approaches of how could we get more people to realize they’re overpaying (some even pay 7% annual fees!) and get them to know and trust our solution, that would be awesome, but anyway, I’m eager to read and respond to whatever this great community has to say.
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Show HN: Contribute to real scientific projects in your spare time
2 by Hyeyeyeh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Hyeyeyeh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Filltron, an Excel add-in for making machine learning predictions
2 by jacobfs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jacobfs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 13 August 2018
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Show HN: rb – 10 lines of Ruby to replace basic command line tools
2 by redka | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by redka | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Clean Code Katas – Learn How to Write Clean and Maintainable Code
2 by edgar971 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by edgar971 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: TextWallpaper.Online – Create plain text solid background wallpapers
2 by eralpkaraduman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by eralpkaraduman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Comprehensive list of 8000+ startups “Funded in 2017”
2 by pankmahar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by pankmahar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, 12 August 2018
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Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()
2 by lukaslueg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by lukaslueg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Hermes – Organise, manage and optimise meetings
3 by grunnlock | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by grunnlock | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices
7 by tiagovtristao | 0 comments on Hacker News.
7 by tiagovtristao | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 11 August 2018
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Show HN: A pastebin anyone can host that aims to meet and surpass Gist – Rust
3 by jkcclemens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by jkcclemens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)
2 by mirceal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by mirceal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Started learning JavaScript and what API is by implementing HN API
2 by cardiaX | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by cardiaX | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 10 August 2018
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Show HN: Python CSV reader implementation with direct file access
2 by loisaidasam | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by loisaidasam | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: PHLO – Visually integrate Voice and SMS into your apps in minutes
2 by bevenky | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by bevenky | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Find anyone's email in seconds
3 by buflowsean | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I made a Chrome extension for Gmail and would like to receive some feedback. It looks up email addresses by a person's name: https://teragod.com/ please let me know your thoughts.
3 by buflowsean | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I made a Chrome extension for Gmail and would like to receive some feedback. It looks up email addresses by a person's name: https://teragod.com/ please let me know your thoughts.
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Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++
2 by adamjs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by adamjs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A decentralized index of banned users and where to find their content
2 by Mattasher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Mattasher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: cURL for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL
3 by wawhal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by wawhal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: CanSnippetCE Easily manage your repetitive code, phrases and paragraphs
2 by ademcan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I am really happy to announce the new version of canSnippetCE (v2.0.0) today. canSnippet Community Edition is a web-based snippet management tool. It allows you to save and share all the precious pieces of code and text that you often refer to. The whole story started during my PhD when I often needed to get the list of all hexamer sequences (4096 sequences of 6 letters) as a Python array. Instead of writing the function every time in different project or creating limited access functions I was simply copy-pasting these few lines of code to all the scripts that needed this information. I then decided to implement a code snippet manager to make my life easier. Today, I use canSnippet for anything from a single hexstring for colors in CSS to complete functions to repetitive text for emails. canSnippet CE was born in 2013, followed by a little desktop brother in 2017 ( https://cansnippet.com ) and a completely new version 2.0.0 coming out today. The main advantage of the desktop version is the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to have your snippets always in your hands. canSnippet CE is a complete content management system for your repetitive code and text. The main features of canSnippet are as follow: - easily share your snippets with a unique URL - multiple user accounts - syntax highliting - tag support - copy the snippet to your clipboard with a button - rating system - multiple themes You can follow the whole project via: - http://cansnippet.org/ - Github: https://ift.tt/2OYuSQb - Twitter: https://twitter.com/cansnippet Feel free to share and let me know your feedback. canSnippetly yours :)
2 by ademcan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I am really happy to announce the new version of canSnippetCE (v2.0.0) today. canSnippet Community Edition is a web-based snippet management tool. It allows you to save and share all the precious pieces of code and text that you often refer to. The whole story started during my PhD when I often needed to get the list of all hexamer sequences (4096 sequences of 6 letters) as a Python array. Instead of writing the function every time in different project or creating limited access functions I was simply copy-pasting these few lines of code to all the scripts that needed this information. I then decided to implement a code snippet manager to make my life easier. Today, I use canSnippet for anything from a single hexstring for colors in CSS to complete functions to repetitive text for emails. canSnippet CE was born in 2013, followed by a little desktop brother in 2017 ( https://cansnippet.com ) and a completely new version 2.0.0 coming out today. The main advantage of the desktop version is the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to have your snippets always in your hands. canSnippet CE is a complete content management system for your repetitive code and text. The main features of canSnippet are as follow: - easily share your snippets with a unique URL - multiple user accounts - syntax highliting - tag support - copy the snippet to your clipboard with a button - rating system - multiple themes You can follow the whole project via: - http://cansnippet.org/ - Github: https://ift.tt/2OYuSQb - Twitter: https://twitter.com/cansnippet Feel free to share and let me know your feedback. canSnippetly yours :)
Thursday, 9 August 2018
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Show HN: Vue-ApexCharts – Interactive Charts for Vue.js
4 by junedchhipa | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by junedchhipa | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Hacker News Rankings to catch up on the trending stories you missed
2 by tsutomun | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by tsutomun | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I built OLEDify to help save battery by pure-blacking your wallpapers
3 by busymom0 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Download: https://ift.tt/2M5jswm... OLEDify converts regular dark wallpapers into Pure Black wallpapers (#000000 - pixel is off). Since the pure black pixels are off, it helps reduce battery use on the newer phones with OLED and AMOLED screens. More research on this can be found here: https://ift.tt/2ASEyIW... iPhone X is the first iPhone with OLED screen. Even if your iPhone doesn't have an OLED screen, I find pure black wallpapers looks super crisp and nice! I built this app from feedback from the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub: https://ift.tt/2M47xPc... Before: https://ift.tt/2JwBEZC After: https://ift.tt/2M3aj7n... Demo: https://ift.tt/2AW03sj https://ift.tt/2noTh4I... - The app is 100% free to use and has no ads. I noticed a few people requested a donate/tipping on the AmoledBackgrounds subreddit post, so there is a Tip Jar option but it's not required to unlock any features. Only if you really really find the app useful and wanna buy me a beer, you can use the tip jar. If you don't want Apple to take 30% cut, I setup a paypal here: https://ift.tt/2ASEAAy - The “Crop & Resize” tool in the app can be used to resize & fit wallpapers for your screen. This is useful when you have an image which doesn't perfectly fit your screen. You can create a new image of the suitable size for your screen size. - The app also contains a "Post to Reddit" option which posts the edited wallpaper directly to the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub. - As you drag the sliders, the updates to the image happen in realtime on the GPU instead of CPU and are quite fast.
3 by busymom0 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Download: https://ift.tt/2M5jswm... OLEDify converts regular dark wallpapers into Pure Black wallpapers (#000000 - pixel is off). Since the pure black pixels are off, it helps reduce battery use on the newer phones with OLED and AMOLED screens. More research on this can be found here: https://ift.tt/2ASEyIW... iPhone X is the first iPhone with OLED screen. Even if your iPhone doesn't have an OLED screen, I find pure black wallpapers looks super crisp and nice! I built this app from feedback from the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub: https://ift.tt/2M47xPc... Before: https://ift.tt/2JwBEZC After: https://ift.tt/2M3aj7n... Demo: https://ift.tt/2AW03sj https://ift.tt/2noTh4I... - The app is 100% free to use and has no ads. I noticed a few people requested a donate/tipping on the AmoledBackgrounds subreddit post, so there is a Tip Jar option but it's not required to unlock any features. Only if you really really find the app useful and wanna buy me a beer, you can use the tip jar. If you don't want Apple to take 30% cut, I setup a paypal here: https://ift.tt/2ASEAAy - The “Crop & Resize” tool in the app can be used to resize & fit wallpapers for your screen. This is useful when you have an image which doesn't perfectly fit your screen. You can create a new image of the suitable size for your screen size. - The app also contains a "Post to Reddit" option which posts the edited wallpaper directly to the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub. - As you drag the sliders, the updates to the image happen in realtime on the GPU instead of CPU and are quite fast.
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Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
3 by antonybello | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! We’re Chen-Chen and Antony from MAC’D, a fast-casual, build-your-own mac & cheese restaurant. Pick one of our six cheese sauces, a pasta base, add unlimited toppings like roasted broccoli and mushrooms, and top it off with anything from truffle oil to hot cheetos. We’re currently in San Francisco and Portland. MAC’D was inspired by a mac & cheese restaurant called Homeroom, which Chen-Chen frequented while at Cal. Fast-casual has consistently been the fastest growing segment in the food and bev industry, so it made sense to apply that spin to an old-school comfort food like mac & cheese. It’s a social, nostalgic, late-night meal that’s both familiar in taste and unique in experience. After graduating from Berkeley, Chen-Chen was a management consultant, but quickly realized that consulting wasn’t the career for him. Together with a part-time partner, he began drafting up ideas for a restaurant concept. The one that struck a chord was mac & cheese. After confirming high demand through several pop-ups in early 2017, Chen-Chen and his partner opened MAC’D’s first brick & mortar in SF’s Marina District. About 6 months in, Chen-Chen’s partner made a decision to pursue business school, and Chen-Chen ran the restaurant solo until opening up a second location. Antony was a friend of Chen-Chen’s and had been following MAC’D’s progress while a software engineer at AWS. He worked in restaurants throughout his life and after a brief stint as a chef in Milan, knew he wanted a career in the food industry. Chen-Chen had been pretty spread thin running two locations with eyes on a third, and good timing on both ends led to our partnership. In a little over a year, we’ve successfully bootstrapped two locations in SF and have served over 75,000 meals. We’re profitable and have a validated concept in a city with among the highest costs in the US. We want to continue to grow and expand to other cities. In Portland, we’re using low capital commissary kitchens to explore new food markets through catering and delivery. Commissaries give a low managerial overhead and remove front of house staffing / building costs. It’s a way of getting into new markets quickly and intelligently, with the goal of proving a market and getting our name out before investing in brick & mortar spaces. We’ve identified roughly thirty cities across the US as potential locations for MAC’D. Our customers range from families looking for a predictable meal to more boisterous late night crowds. Our target markets are college towns, cities in the south and midwest, and ones with progressive food scenes, both in and outside the United States. We’re also ramping up on catering, so if you’re in SF and Portland, reach out! Our catering form is on www.getmacd.com. We’re also on instagram @getmacd.
3 by antonybello | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! We’re Chen-Chen and Antony from MAC’D, a fast-casual, build-your-own mac & cheese restaurant. Pick one of our six cheese sauces, a pasta base, add unlimited toppings like roasted broccoli and mushrooms, and top it off with anything from truffle oil to hot cheetos. We’re currently in San Francisco and Portland. MAC’D was inspired by a mac & cheese restaurant called Homeroom, which Chen-Chen frequented while at Cal. Fast-casual has consistently been the fastest growing segment in the food and bev industry, so it made sense to apply that spin to an old-school comfort food like mac & cheese. It’s a social, nostalgic, late-night meal that’s both familiar in taste and unique in experience. After graduating from Berkeley, Chen-Chen was a management consultant, but quickly realized that consulting wasn’t the career for him. Together with a part-time partner, he began drafting up ideas for a restaurant concept. The one that struck a chord was mac & cheese. After confirming high demand through several pop-ups in early 2017, Chen-Chen and his partner opened MAC’D’s first brick & mortar in SF’s Marina District. About 6 months in, Chen-Chen’s partner made a decision to pursue business school, and Chen-Chen ran the restaurant solo until opening up a second location. Antony was a friend of Chen-Chen’s and had been following MAC’D’s progress while a software engineer at AWS. He worked in restaurants throughout his life and after a brief stint as a chef in Milan, knew he wanted a career in the food industry. Chen-Chen had been pretty spread thin running two locations with eyes on a third, and good timing on both ends led to our partnership. In a little over a year, we’ve successfully bootstrapped two locations in SF and have served over 75,000 meals. We’re profitable and have a validated concept in a city with among the highest costs in the US. We want to continue to grow and expand to other cities. In Portland, we’re using low capital commissary kitchens to explore new food markets through catering and delivery. Commissaries give a low managerial overhead and remove front of house staffing / building costs. It’s a way of getting into new markets quickly and intelligently, with the goal of proving a market and getting our name out before investing in brick & mortar spaces. We’ve identified roughly thirty cities across the US as potential locations for MAC’D. Our customers range from families looking for a predictable meal to more boisterous late night crowds. Our target markets are college towns, cities in the south and midwest, and ones with progressive food scenes, both in and outside the United States. We’re also ramping up on catering, so if you’re in SF and Portland, reach out! Our catering form is on www.getmacd.com. We’re also on instagram @getmacd.
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Show HN: A parser for sqlite databases to implement full ALTER TABLE support
4 by creolabs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by creolabs | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A Chrome extension that extracts used CSS and combines it into one file
17 by grezql | 4 comments on Hacker News.
just wanted to share this useful tool with you. I have been looking at something like this for a very long time. https://ift.tt/2OX33rl... what it does: it analyses your html dom and looks for css classes. Then it extracts it all and combines it into 1 single css file. I used 5 css framworks which was on 340kb kb. This tool made it 36kb!
17 by grezql | 4 comments on Hacker News.
just wanted to share this useful tool with you. I have been looking at something like this for a very long time. https://ift.tt/2OX33rl... what it does: it analyses your html dom and looks for css classes. Then it extracts it all and combines it into 1 single css file. I used 5 css framworks which was on 340kb kb. This tool made it 36kb!
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
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Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files
4 by feross | 1 comments on Hacker News.
4 by feross | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC
3 by hauxir | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by hauxir | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Comp.fyi – Open compensation data by company and level
10 by zuhayeer | 2 comments on Hacker News.
10 by zuhayeer | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Radix Labs (S18) – Downloading drugs with programmable lab automation
3 by dhash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We're Dhash and Ian, the founders of Radix Labs. We build software that lets biologists automate and transparently share their work. Our software glues together biologists' existing lab hardware and provides a seamless way for biologists to execute their protocols on it. Check us out at http://radix.bio/ . We think lab equipment is like mainframes were in the 1980’s - you have to program each one separately. We’ve built an operating system so you can write a program once that runs on all of them. Just like developers write apps for iOS, they write recipes for Radix. In the future with our technology, you’ll be able to download a recipe for making a coca-cola and if you have the right robots in your lab, they’ll just start making it. Technically, we force biologists to describe their protocol in a formal language with verified operational semantics. We do this with a web UI, so they’re don’t have to write “real” source code. We compile this protocol to our IR, deriving control and data flow graphs to inform our place-and-route algorithms. After the program is realized to robot/lab instrument commands, we generate code to be run on the automated machinery. If the entire protocol can’t be totally realized by automation, we generate natural language instructions for humans to interact with the runtime system. We go through this process to gain features you’re used to in your “normal” operating system. We provide a virtual memory abstraction so that programs compose, concurrency primitives for executing tasks in parallel and synchronizing access to fluids, and drivers to support a wide variety of different lab hardware. These abstractions differentiate us from companies like Transcriptic and Emerald Cloud Labs by allowing us to write programs with branching control flows, support for on-premise deployments, a wider variety of compatible hardware, and an advanced optimizing compiler to allow users to specify optimization criteria like minimum execution time, minimum consumable usage, or max flow to run a lab as a high-throughput assembly line. Right now we’re compatible with some pipetting robots (Opentrons and some Tecan robots) and we're working on adding more devices. Contact us and let us know what you need automated. Launch HN: Radix Labs (YC S18) - Software for Bio Lab Automation We’re doing this to bring better lab-scale tooling to biologists, it currently costs 2.3B to get a new drug to market. This is too high to the point of where promising drugs are scrapped for economic reasons, and we think we can help fix that. We’ll be here to answer any questions you have about us and our product for the next few hours as @Ian_Paul and @Dhash. Also feel free to fill out this ( https://ift.tt/2AQsWpK ) form and we’ll answer any question you have over email We’ll be here to answer any questions you have about us and our product for the next few hours as @Ian_Paul and @dhash. Also feel free to fill out this ( https://ift.tt/2AQsWpK ) form and we’ll answer any question you have over email
3 by dhash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We're Dhash and Ian, the founders of Radix Labs. We build software that lets biologists automate and transparently share their work. Our software glues together biologists' existing lab hardware and provides a seamless way for biologists to execute their protocols on it. Check us out at http://radix.bio/ . We think lab equipment is like mainframes were in the 1980’s - you have to program each one separately. We’ve built an operating system so you can write a program once that runs on all of them. Just like developers write apps for iOS, they write recipes for Radix. In the future with our technology, you’ll be able to download a recipe for making a coca-cola and if you have the right robots in your lab, they’ll just start making it. Technically, we force biologists to describe their protocol in a formal language with verified operational semantics. We do this with a web UI, so they’re don’t have to write “real” source code. We compile this protocol to our IR, deriving control and data flow graphs to inform our place-and-route algorithms. After the program is realized to robot/lab instrument commands, we generate code to be run on the automated machinery. If the entire protocol can’t be totally realized by automation, we generate natural language instructions for humans to interact with the runtime system. We go through this process to gain features you’re used to in your “normal” operating system. We provide a virtual memory abstraction so that programs compose, concurrency primitives for executing tasks in parallel and synchronizing access to fluids, and drivers to support a wide variety of different lab hardware. These abstractions differentiate us from companies like Transcriptic and Emerald Cloud Labs by allowing us to write programs with branching control flows, support for on-premise deployments, a wider variety of compatible hardware, and an advanced optimizing compiler to allow users to specify optimization criteria like minimum execution time, minimum consumable usage, or max flow to run a lab as a high-throughput assembly line. Right now we’re compatible with some pipetting robots (Opentrons and some Tecan robots) and we're working on adding more devices. Contact us and let us know what you need automated. Launch HN: Radix Labs (YC S18) - Software for Bio Lab Automation We’re doing this to bring better lab-scale tooling to biologists, it currently costs 2.3B to get a new drug to market. This is too high to the point of where promising drugs are scrapped for economic reasons, and we think we can help fix that. We’ll be here to answer any questions you have about us and our product for the next few hours as @Ian_Paul and @Dhash. Also feel free to fill out this ( https://ift.tt/2AQsWpK ) form and we’ll answer any question you have over email We’ll be here to answer any questions you have about us and our product for the next few hours as @Ian_Paul and @dhash. Also feel free to fill out this ( https://ift.tt/2AQsWpK ) form and we’ll answer any question you have over email
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Launch HN: Numericcal (YC.S18) – Lifecycle Management for ML Models on the Edge
2 by radoye | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, We’re Ranko and Shaoyi, co-founders of Numericcal ( https://numericcal.com ). We’re building developer tools to simplify building, optimizing and maintaining Machine Learning models for embedded, mobile and IoT applications. This platform is the result of our own struggles while helping on two ML powered projects; one using Computer Vision and one Voice Recognition. In both cases running models in the cloud was too expensive and slow for a good user experience. Moreover, it was not clear whether the training data our Data Science team had, at the beginning of the project, was representative of the data to be encountered in production. The solution for cost and speed was to run inference on some end-device. However, we did not know which device would be feasible, nor did we know what model the Data Science team would end up with. We initially considered two options: * Postpone working on ML related software tasks until the Data Science team figured out what they wanted to do. Unfortunately, this meant that we could not parallelize the development. Moreover, the Data Science team would not get any feedback on the model runtime performance until we integrated them towards the end. * Make a bunch of assumptions about models that the Data Science team would use and implement something. This would allow us to work in parallel, but we would be running the risk of having integration issues if those assumptions turned out to be wrong. We looked for tools online to solve this but we couldn’t find anything comprehensive. So we decided to build our own! We settled on a design that packages ML models into (very primitive) serializable objects, encapsulating all the information and supporting files to use the models. For example, an object detection model would package the DNN graph, shape of the input and output tensor, bounding box anchors, etc. This gave us what we wanted. On the software side we could write against the “interface” of the package. During initial development, we simply packaged dummy DNN models that always returned the same value. Later, the Data Science team would simply drop in a new package and everything just worked. One more victory for abstraction! Since then, we’ve added a number of features around the packaging system. We can now add models during compilation or remotely through a cloud service and a user-friendly GUI. Models are versioned and report basic performance metrics to the cloud so Data Science teams can get feedback and guide model exploration. Remote delivery also allows sending different models to devices with different compute capabilities. We also added the possibility of running models on different runtimes (TensorFlow Mobile, TensorFlow Lite, our own library, Caffe2 is coming soon). Finally, we wrapped the app side code into ReactiveX API to make working with multiple models asynchronously easier. Today we’re releasing the Numericcal Cloud Tools and Android SDKs in Beta. You can read about the system in more detail at (overview.workspace.numericcal.com) and check out demos ( https://ift.tt/2vvZnER ). Machine Learning on mobile and IoT devices is yet to gain wide adoption. Making this transition will bring personalization of mobile apps and automation of business and industrial processes to a whole new level. We’re currently working on projects for automatic damage assessment on vehicles and preventative maintenance of mobile assets. We hope these tools will add to the momentum by speeding up development iterations for other teams, as they did for us. In the long term, we plan to open source edge integration and packaging SDKs. We will also open up more of our cloud-hosted functionalities, such as automatic model benchmarking, deployment, model compression and runtime optimization as services. We’re eager to hear comments, ideas and your experiences in building Edge applications with ML. Thanks for reading!
2 by radoye | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, We’re Ranko and Shaoyi, co-founders of Numericcal ( https://numericcal.com ). We’re building developer tools to simplify building, optimizing and maintaining Machine Learning models for embedded, mobile and IoT applications. This platform is the result of our own struggles while helping on two ML powered projects; one using Computer Vision and one Voice Recognition. In both cases running models in the cloud was too expensive and slow for a good user experience. Moreover, it was not clear whether the training data our Data Science team had, at the beginning of the project, was representative of the data to be encountered in production. The solution for cost and speed was to run inference on some end-device. However, we did not know which device would be feasible, nor did we know what model the Data Science team would end up with. We initially considered two options: * Postpone working on ML related software tasks until the Data Science team figured out what they wanted to do. Unfortunately, this meant that we could not parallelize the development. Moreover, the Data Science team would not get any feedback on the model runtime performance until we integrated them towards the end. * Make a bunch of assumptions about models that the Data Science team would use and implement something. This would allow us to work in parallel, but we would be running the risk of having integration issues if those assumptions turned out to be wrong. We looked for tools online to solve this but we couldn’t find anything comprehensive. So we decided to build our own! We settled on a design that packages ML models into (very primitive) serializable objects, encapsulating all the information and supporting files to use the models. For example, an object detection model would package the DNN graph, shape of the input and output tensor, bounding box anchors, etc. This gave us what we wanted. On the software side we could write against the “interface” of the package. During initial development, we simply packaged dummy DNN models that always returned the same value. Later, the Data Science team would simply drop in a new package and everything just worked. One more victory for abstraction! Since then, we’ve added a number of features around the packaging system. We can now add models during compilation or remotely through a cloud service and a user-friendly GUI. Models are versioned and report basic performance metrics to the cloud so Data Science teams can get feedback and guide model exploration. Remote delivery also allows sending different models to devices with different compute capabilities. We also added the possibility of running models on different runtimes (TensorFlow Mobile, TensorFlow Lite, our own library, Caffe2 is coming soon). Finally, we wrapped the app side code into ReactiveX API to make working with multiple models asynchronously easier. Today we’re releasing the Numericcal Cloud Tools and Android SDKs in Beta. You can read about the system in more detail at (overview.workspace.numericcal.com) and check out demos ( https://ift.tt/2vvZnER ). Machine Learning on mobile and IoT devices is yet to gain wide adoption. Making this transition will bring personalization of mobile apps and automation of business and industrial processes to a whole new level. We’re currently working on projects for automatic damage assessment on vehicles and preventative maintenance of mobile assets. We hope these tools will add to the momentum by speeding up development iterations for other teams, as they did for us. In the long term, we plan to open source edge integration and packaging SDKs. We will also open up more of our cloud-hosted functionalities, such as automatic model benchmarking, deployment, model compression and runtime optimization as services. We’re eager to hear comments, ideas and your experiences in building Edge applications with ML. Thanks for reading!
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Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News
4 by eat_veggies | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by eat_veggies | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: MATHC – new version of pure C math library for 2D and 3D programming
2 by ferreiradaselva | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ferreiradaselva | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: StateOfVeganism – Get insights into the current state of Veganism
2 by timgrossmann | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by timgrossmann | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Creating groups of people so everyone always meets someone new
2 by TrinaryWorksToo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by TrinaryWorksToo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
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Show HN: Small utility to change xfce4-terminal themes on the fly
3 by jcmuller | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by jcmuller | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Deck.vc – expert feedback for your pitch deck
5 by andrewacove | 2 comments on Hacker News.
5 by andrewacove | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: HAKARAN – Hacker News Rankings for story/show/ask, update once daily
2 by tsutomun | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by tsutomun | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 6 August 2018
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Show HN: Rocket – a language that lets you focus on your business logic
3 by cmullen | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by cmullen | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language
3 by YorickPeterse | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by YorickPeterse | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Masonite – The Modern and Developer Centric Python Web Framework
1 by jmancuso | 1 comments on Hacker News.
1 by jmancuso | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Play Overwatch (and anything else) in your browser
2 by andrewmd5 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by andrewmd5 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses
1 by dpandya | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! I'm Dhaivat and I've been working on JetLenses in the present YC batch. We offer the lowest prices on contact lenses online. On average, each of our customer saves $70 on each order in comparison to buying their contacts from a large online retailer. It turns out that most of the cost of contacts is just advertising cost and fulfillment overhead. We've built automation software for the fulfillment and prescription verification processes allowing us to cut overhead. We also use statistical models for ad optimization which allow us to cut our customer acquisition costs dramatically and deliver savings to our customers. I have a technical background (I studied computer science and statistics, interned at Meteor (YC S11) and a quant hedge fund) and my Dad trained as an ophthalmologist. This was the perfect circumstance to realize that this is a large, fairly overlooked space within ecommerce where improved operations through software/data science can have a strong impact. We're starting with contact lenses and we'll eventually apply our core tech to other prescription medical products with very similar cost structures. At the end of the day, we'd like to make these products cheaper and more easily accessible. Help us out by buying contacts from us or telling your contact-wearing friends about us! If you wear contacts: We sell the same contacts as your doctor or other retailers, just for a lot less money. Check out our website at beta.jetlenses.com - order from us and save some dough while supporting our run-up to demo day! You can also check out our price comparison tool at https://ift.tt/2Ky1UD9 - we're the cheapest for most lenses but not all (yet!). I would love to hear HN's thoughts about this! I'm particularly keen to learn about your experiences buying contact lenses (or even other medical products) and if what we're doing sounds exciting. You can also reach me at dhaivat AT jetlenses.com Thanks! Dhaivat
1 by dpandya | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! I'm Dhaivat and I've been working on JetLenses in the present YC batch. We offer the lowest prices on contact lenses online. On average, each of our customer saves $70 on each order in comparison to buying their contacts from a large online retailer. It turns out that most of the cost of contacts is just advertising cost and fulfillment overhead. We've built automation software for the fulfillment and prescription verification processes allowing us to cut overhead. We also use statistical models for ad optimization which allow us to cut our customer acquisition costs dramatically and deliver savings to our customers. I have a technical background (I studied computer science and statistics, interned at Meteor (YC S11) and a quant hedge fund) and my Dad trained as an ophthalmologist. This was the perfect circumstance to realize that this is a large, fairly overlooked space within ecommerce where improved operations through software/data science can have a strong impact. We're starting with contact lenses and we'll eventually apply our core tech to other prescription medical products with very similar cost structures. At the end of the day, we'd like to make these products cheaper and more easily accessible. Help us out by buying contacts from us or telling your contact-wearing friends about us! If you wear contacts: We sell the same contacts as your doctor or other retailers, just for a lot less money. Check out our website at beta.jetlenses.com - order from us and save some dough while supporting our run-up to demo day! You can also check out our price comparison tool at https://ift.tt/2Ky1UD9 - we're the cheapest for most lenses but not all (yet!). I would love to hear HN's thoughts about this! I'm particularly keen to learn about your experiences buying contact lenses (or even other medical products) and if what we're doing sounds exciting. You can also reach me at dhaivat AT jetlenses.com Thanks! Dhaivat
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Show HN:Frontend microservices framework for scalable and blazing fast websites
2 by acanguven | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by acanguven | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A raytracer to shade and visualize topographic maps in R: Part 3
3 by tylermw | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by tylermw | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles
2 by Tjorvens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Tjorvens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: RecruitT – Post your resume and let recruiters reach out to you
2 by rusucosmin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by rusucosmin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, 5 August 2018
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Show HN: PJON v11.1 an independent, decentralized, open-source protocol
3 by gioscarab | 11 comments on Hacker News.
3 by gioscarab | 11 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Astrolab turns your telescope into a remote control telescope
2 by freerobby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by freerobby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 4 August 2018
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Show HN: I made a tool that made me 10 times faster at Git
85 by jesseduffield | 28 comments on Hacker News.
85 by jesseduffield | 28 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Full-text search with 16-bit vector space index and HTTP API
2 by misterman0 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by misterman0 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Optimizing a Voxel Mesher with One Weird Hack
2 by captainbenises | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by captainbenises | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I made immigrationlist.co which lists the best countries to immigrate
2 by zaheerbaloch | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by zaheerbaloch | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 3 August 2018
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Show HN: A mobile HTML editor that sucks less than all the others
2 by EGreg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by EGreg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A finite automata creation and testing tool for teaching CS Theory
3 by diger44 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by diger44 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: 9front (plan9) gopher server
2 by kamalatta | 0 comments on Hacker News.
My gopher server is running on different thin clients since march 2016. Serving a wide range of plan9 related content and other stuff, like a local weather meteogram. Best viewed with the LYNX text browser. So give it a visit, and mail me what else do you want to see about plan9. There's also a webserver running on it. Have fun!
2 by kamalatta | 0 comments on Hacker News.
My gopher server is running on different thin clients since march 2016. Serving a wide range of plan9 related content and other stuff, like a local weather meteogram. Best viewed with the LYNX text browser. So give it a visit, and mail me what else do you want to see about plan9. There's also a webserver running on it. Have fun!
Thursday, 2 August 2018
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Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology
2 by tboyd47 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by tboyd47 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Federacy (YC S18) – bug bounties for startups
2 by jsulinski | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey all, we're James and William, founders of Federacy (YC S18). We're building a bug bounty platform for startups. ( https://ift.tt/2npXeFm ) I was an early engineer at MoPub, responsible for security and infrastructure. By the time we were acquired by Twitter, we were 20+ engineers, but growing so fast that building software and systems securely was almost an impossible task. I found that there were never enough hands; I couldn’t peel engineers from revenue-driving features and it was really difficult to find contract or full-time security engineers. William and I started Federacy to make it easier for startups to secure themselves. We think the key is to pair startups with extremely talented, outside security researchers to test their applications for vulnerabilities, review code, and help implement best practices—essentially serving as an outsourced CISO. We saw that the best security minds we knew either weren't interested in a full-time role for a single company, weren’t able to work in the United States, or already had day jobs at the largest Internet companies. We thought that if we provided an efficient, no-bullshit way for them to do work that they enjoy, make a real difference in how startups secure themselves, and make money while honing their skills, we could unlock a huge amount of talent that wasn’t accessible previously. We have a lot of respect for what HackerOne and BugCrowd have built, but they are focused on serving mostly enterprise companies with large engineering and security teams, who can afford their services. Their revenue comes largely from triaging the high volume of low-quality and automated/spam bug reports that come through their platforms. These services can be in the six figure range. It may be a good business, but that isn’t where our passion lies. Startups can’t afford these services and the burden of triaging low-quality bug reports can completely overwhelm even the best dev teams, leaving them worse off than they started. We think there is a better way: • We hand-pair startups with a small team of pre-vetted researchers who are subject matter experts in your stack. • Researchers test your infrastructure for vulnerabilities in an initial scan, and work closely with you to resolve issues and implement best practices. • Your program can be private, where only you and the researchers you approve will have access to your program. You don’t have to provide source code and all initial testing is done with only the information and access your normal users have. • We create your program for you and have you up and running in 5 minutes (or you can self-serve, if you prefer). • We only charge for results (when a researcher finds a vulnerability). We just started building a couple months ago and are looking for early feedback. Here’s an invite link we made for HN: https://ift.tt/2Klp0g8... We’ll be around all day to chat and are very happy to answer any questions as well as discuss how we built our product, security-related topics (systems automation, vulnerability reporting, coping with imposter syndrome, etc.), what it's like building a startup with family (we’re twin brothers), or anything in between. Some specific questions we have: If you’re familiar with other bug bounty platforms, are there any issues we can tackle early on that made the experience frustrating for you? Would you consider contracting an outsourced CISO or a pentest with a security researcher that has reported vulnerabilities to you through your bug bounty program?
2 by jsulinski | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey all, we're James and William, founders of Federacy (YC S18). We're building a bug bounty platform for startups. ( https://ift.tt/2npXeFm ) I was an early engineer at MoPub, responsible for security and infrastructure. By the time we were acquired by Twitter, we were 20+ engineers, but growing so fast that building software and systems securely was almost an impossible task. I found that there were never enough hands; I couldn’t peel engineers from revenue-driving features and it was really difficult to find contract or full-time security engineers. William and I started Federacy to make it easier for startups to secure themselves. We think the key is to pair startups with extremely talented, outside security researchers to test their applications for vulnerabilities, review code, and help implement best practices—essentially serving as an outsourced CISO. We saw that the best security minds we knew either weren't interested in a full-time role for a single company, weren’t able to work in the United States, or already had day jobs at the largest Internet companies. We thought that if we provided an efficient, no-bullshit way for them to do work that they enjoy, make a real difference in how startups secure themselves, and make money while honing their skills, we could unlock a huge amount of talent that wasn’t accessible previously. We have a lot of respect for what HackerOne and BugCrowd have built, but they are focused on serving mostly enterprise companies with large engineering and security teams, who can afford their services. Their revenue comes largely from triaging the high volume of low-quality and automated/spam bug reports that come through their platforms. These services can be in the six figure range. It may be a good business, but that isn’t where our passion lies. Startups can’t afford these services and the burden of triaging low-quality bug reports can completely overwhelm even the best dev teams, leaving them worse off than they started. We think there is a better way: • We hand-pair startups with a small team of pre-vetted researchers who are subject matter experts in your stack. • Researchers test your infrastructure for vulnerabilities in an initial scan, and work closely with you to resolve issues and implement best practices. • Your program can be private, where only you and the researchers you approve will have access to your program. You don’t have to provide source code and all initial testing is done with only the information and access your normal users have. • We create your program for you and have you up and running in 5 minutes (or you can self-serve, if you prefer). • We only charge for results (when a researcher finds a vulnerability). We just started building a couple months ago and are looking for early feedback. Here’s an invite link we made for HN: https://ift.tt/2Klp0g8... We’ll be around all day to chat and are very happy to answer any questions as well as discuss how we built our product, security-related topics (systems automation, vulnerability reporting, coping with imposter syndrome, etc.), what it's like building a startup with family (we’re twin brothers), or anything in between. Some specific questions we have: If you’re familiar with other bug bounty platforms, are there any issues we can tackle early on that made the experience frustrating for you? Would you consider contracting an outsourced CISO or a pentest with a security researcher that has reported vulnerabilities to you through your bug bounty program?
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