Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement
2 by jmheflin | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
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Show HN: A wiki style education platform licenced under CC0
2 by itslunahanson | 3 comments on Hacker News.
2 by itslunahanson | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Telegram bot to get new HN stories by keywords
2 by solus_factor | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by solus_factor | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Narrator (YC S19) – a data modeling platform built on a single table
29 by cedricd | 18 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We’re Ahmed, Cedric, Matt, and Mike from Narrator ( https://www.narrator.ai ). We’ve built a data platform that transforms all data in a data warehouse into a single 11-column data model and provides tools for analysts to quickly build any table for BI, reporting, and analysis on top of that model. Narrator initially grew out of our experience building a data platform for a team of 40 analysts and data scientists. The data warehouse, modeled as a star schema, grew to over 700 data models from 3000+ raw production tables. Every time we wanted to make a change or build a new analysis, it took forever as we had to deal with managing the complexity of these 700 different models. With all these layers of dependencies and stakeholders constantly demanding more data, we ended up making lots of mistakes (i.e. dashboard metrics not matching). These mistakes led to loss of trust and soon our stakeholders were off buying tools (Heap, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Wave Analytics, etc…) to do their own analysis. With a star schema (also core to recently IPO-ed Snowflake), you build the tables you need for reporting and BI on top of fact tables (what you want to measure, i.e. leads, sales…) and dimension tables (how you want to slice your data, i.e. gender, company, contract size…). Using this approach, the amount of fact and dimension tables grow in size and complexity in relation to the number of questions / datasets / metrics that need to be answered by the business. Over time the rate of new questions increases rapidly and data teams spend more time updating models and debugging mismatched numbers than answering data questions. What if instead of using the hundreds of fact and dimension tables in a star schema, we could use one table with all your customer data modeled as a collection of core customer actions (each a single source of truth), and combine them together to assemble any table at the moment the data analyst needs that table? Numbers would always match (single source of truth), any new question could be answered immediately without waiting on data engineering to build new fact and dimension tables (assembled when the data analyst needs it), and investigating issues would be easy (no nested dependencies of fact and dimension tables that depend on other tables). After several iterations, Narrator was born. Narrator uses a single 11-column table called the Activity Stream to represent all the data in your data warehouse. It’s built from sql transformations that transform a set of raw production tables (for example, Zendesk data) into activities (ticket opened, ticket closed, etc). Each row of the Activity Stream has a customer, a timestamp, an activity name, a unique identifier, and a bit of metadata describing it. Creating any table from this single model made up of activities that don’t obviously relate to each other is hard to imagine. Unlike star schema, we don’t use foreign keys (the direct relationships in relational databases that connect objects, like employee.company_id → company.id) because they don’t always exist when you’re dealing with data in multiple systems. Instead each activity has a customer identifier which we use, along with time, to automatically join within the single table to generate datasets. As an example, imagine you were investigating a single customer who called support. Did they visit the web site before that call? You’d look at that customer’s first web visit, and see if that person called before their next web visit. Now imagine finding all customers who behaved this way per month -- you’d have to take a drastically different approach with your current data tools. Narrator, by contrast, always joins data in terms of behavior. The same approach you take to investigate a single customer applies to all of them. For the above example you’d ask Narrator’s Dataset tool to show all users who visited the website and called before the next visit, grouped by month. We started as a consultancy to build out the approach and prove that this was possible. We supported eight companies per Narrator data analyst, and now we’re excited for more data folks to get their hands on it so y’all can experience the same benefits. We’d love to hear any feedback or answer any questions about our approach. We’ve been using it ourselves in production for three years, but only launched it to the public last week. We’ll answer any comments on this thread and can also set up a video chat for anyone who wants to go more in-depth.
29 by cedricd | 18 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We’re Ahmed, Cedric, Matt, and Mike from Narrator ( https://www.narrator.ai ). We’ve built a data platform that transforms all data in a data warehouse into a single 11-column data model and provides tools for analysts to quickly build any table for BI, reporting, and analysis on top of that model. Narrator initially grew out of our experience building a data platform for a team of 40 analysts and data scientists. The data warehouse, modeled as a star schema, grew to over 700 data models from 3000+ raw production tables. Every time we wanted to make a change or build a new analysis, it took forever as we had to deal with managing the complexity of these 700 different models. With all these layers of dependencies and stakeholders constantly demanding more data, we ended up making lots of mistakes (i.e. dashboard metrics not matching). These mistakes led to loss of trust and soon our stakeholders were off buying tools (Heap, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Wave Analytics, etc…) to do their own analysis. With a star schema (also core to recently IPO-ed Snowflake), you build the tables you need for reporting and BI on top of fact tables (what you want to measure, i.e. leads, sales…) and dimension tables (how you want to slice your data, i.e. gender, company, contract size…). Using this approach, the amount of fact and dimension tables grow in size and complexity in relation to the number of questions / datasets / metrics that need to be answered by the business. Over time the rate of new questions increases rapidly and data teams spend more time updating models and debugging mismatched numbers than answering data questions. What if instead of using the hundreds of fact and dimension tables in a star schema, we could use one table with all your customer data modeled as a collection of core customer actions (each a single source of truth), and combine them together to assemble any table at the moment the data analyst needs that table? Numbers would always match (single source of truth), any new question could be answered immediately without waiting on data engineering to build new fact and dimension tables (assembled when the data analyst needs it), and investigating issues would be easy (no nested dependencies of fact and dimension tables that depend on other tables). After several iterations, Narrator was born. Narrator uses a single 11-column table called the Activity Stream to represent all the data in your data warehouse. It’s built from sql transformations that transform a set of raw production tables (for example, Zendesk data) into activities (ticket opened, ticket closed, etc). Each row of the Activity Stream has a customer, a timestamp, an activity name, a unique identifier, and a bit of metadata describing it. Creating any table from this single model made up of activities that don’t obviously relate to each other is hard to imagine. Unlike star schema, we don’t use foreign keys (the direct relationships in relational databases that connect objects, like employee.company_id → company.id) because they don’t always exist when you’re dealing with data in multiple systems. Instead each activity has a customer identifier which we use, along with time, to automatically join within the single table to generate datasets. As an example, imagine you were investigating a single customer who called support. Did they visit the web site before that call? You’d look at that customer’s first web visit, and see if that person called before their next web visit. Now imagine finding all customers who behaved this way per month -- you’d have to take a drastically different approach with your current data tools. Narrator, by contrast, always joins data in terms of behavior. The same approach you take to investigate a single customer applies to all of them. For the above example you’d ask Narrator’s Dataset tool to show all users who visited the website and called before the next visit, grouped by month. We started as a consultancy to build out the approach and prove that this was possible. We supported eight companies per Narrator data analyst, and now we’re excited for more data folks to get their hands on it so y’all can experience the same benefits. We’d love to hear any feedback or answer any questions about our approach. We’ve been using it ourselves in production for three years, but only launched it to the public last week. We’ll answer any comments on this thread and can also set up a video chat for anyone who wants to go more in-depth.
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Show HN: Parenthing – a parenting companion for parents with children aged 3 – 9
2 by dobreandl | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by dobreandl | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Buku – browser-independent private portable bookmark manager
2 by apjana | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by apjana | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
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Show HN: Live dashboard of every email Trump and Biden are sending
2 by greggblanchard | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by greggblanchard | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Supertribe – Meaningful professional connections over online games
5 by ntai9296 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
5 by ntai9296 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Lightweight runtime types for vanilla JavaScript
10 by browsergrip | 0 comments on Hacker News.
10 by browsergrip | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Go library for loading Python's data serialized with pickle
2 by matteogrella | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by matteogrella | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 28 September 2020
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Show HN: A progress bar that plays lofi music while waiting
3 by rsrihari95 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by rsrihari95 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Keywords2lyrics – Automatic Songwriting from Keywords
9 by mathigatti | 2 comments on Hacker News.
9 by mathigatti | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: The Most Simple Way to Set Goals You Actually Follow
10 by hoanhan101 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
10 by hoanhan101 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations
325 by phpnode | 151 comments on Hacker News.
325 by phpnode | 151 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Bring your desktop-based engineering simulation results, Models in VR
2 by bhargav1195 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by bhargav1195 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A tool that finds formulas from values without supervision
4 by tbsoftware | 1 comments on Hacker News.
4 by tbsoftware | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: All duckduckgo bang operators on one page (metasearch tool)
16 by MichaelMoser123 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
16 by MichaelMoser123 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Make web longform content print optimised(beta),physical book(release)
2 by yorgos_kats | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by yorgos_kats | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Go Budget, a full-featured manual budget tracker built with Flutter
2 by 10-1-100 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Over the weekend I launched Go Budget, a side project of mine from the last few years that originally was just an Android app used by me and my wife, but was recreated in Flutter during the pandemic. https://gobudget.io [0] App Store [1] Google Play [2] Privacy Policy Go Budget lets you set up your income and bills (repeating expenses), automates tracking them wherever possible, then makes it as painless as possible to log every day purchases. For individual users the app is free/adfree. I offer a premium subscription that allows you to back up budgets online and invite others to join your budgets to stay in sync. My experience with Flutter was nothing short of amazing, and I think the end result turned out pretty nice. I'm happy to answer any questions about Flutter or anything else related to the app. -- The backend stack is pretty basic: - Flask + Redis + Gunicorn + Traefik running in docker on a Digital Ocean VM - Managed Digital Ocean postgres cluster -- [0] https://ift.tt/30ckH1F [1] https://ift.tt/2GaY3j3 [2] https://ift.tt/3jbzxwV
2 by 10-1-100 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Over the weekend I launched Go Budget, a side project of mine from the last few years that originally was just an Android app used by me and my wife, but was recreated in Flutter during the pandemic. https://gobudget.io [0] App Store [1] Google Play [2] Privacy Policy Go Budget lets you set up your income and bills (repeating expenses), automates tracking them wherever possible, then makes it as painless as possible to log every day purchases. For individual users the app is free/adfree. I offer a premium subscription that allows you to back up budgets online and invite others to join your budgets to stay in sync. My experience with Flutter was nothing short of amazing, and I think the end result turned out pretty nice. I'm happy to answer any questions about Flutter or anything else related to the app. -- The backend stack is pretty basic: - Flask + Redis + Gunicorn + Traefik running in docker on a Digital Ocean VM - Managed Digital Ocean postgres cluster -- [0] https://ift.tt/30ckH1F [1] https://ift.tt/2GaY3j3 [2] https://ift.tt/3jbzxwV
Sunday, 27 September 2020
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Show HN: File2DB, Upload CSV/JSON/Excel to a (PostgreSQL/MySQL/) Database
2 by BenderV | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by BenderV | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Instant SVG icon search with over 50K+ icons indexed
3 by Fileformat | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by Fileformat | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: bbox-visualizer – Make drawing and labeling bounding boxes easy as cake
2 by shoumikchow | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by shoumikchow | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Simple, customizable, no-code website Hit Counter
2 by Hitcount | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Hitcount | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: iPhone app that may prevent you from frequent social media checking
2 by yarsanich | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by yarsanich | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 26 September 2020
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Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
2 by trungdq88 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
2 by trungdq88 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
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Show HN: Port2 – Expose local port to the internet, macOS App
3 by winok8 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by winok8 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Wyre, a hardware definition language that compiles to Verilog
2 by nickmqb | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by nickmqb | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Airlane Beta – a better LinkedIn for your Twitter
5 by vcrizpy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by vcrizpy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I'm building an open-source catalog of cloud infrastructures
2 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Friday, 25 September 2020
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Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years not due dates
2 by wrentopher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by wrentopher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A Serverless Chess Engine running in 4 different clouds
32 by dilox | 2 comments on Hacker News.
32 by dilox | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Video Transcoder on the browser using WASM
2 by cryogenicplanet | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by cryogenicplanet | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 24 September 2020
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Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase
2 by valeria_m23 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by valeria_m23 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code
25 by mrborgen | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Hi all, I’m Per, co-founder of Scrimba. We are building an interactive video format for teaching and learning how to code. The main benefit is that students can pause the video and edit the code whenever they want. We think this is needed is because over 70% of people who are trying to learn to code today use videos. But since videos aren’t interactive, students end up mirroring the instructors’ code line-by-line in their local code editors. This is time consuming, and it often causes problems with local dev environment setup. Scrimba solves these problems as it enables students to pause the screencast and modify the instructors’ code directly inside the player. So when a Scrimba student feels confused, she jumps into the screencast and plays around with the code (editing, running, debugging) until she’s made sense of it. As a consequence, she learns faster. Technically, this is possible because we have merged the IDE and the video player into one tool. To understand the technology in-depth, please watch this cast: https://ift.tt/33UHYX4 The Scrimba format also opens the way for other features that can further enhance the learning experience, like searching inside videos, in-video hyperlinks, audiovisual code feedback from teachers, remote pair programming between students, and more. The more we work with the format, the more of these opportunities we see. So we have decided to use the format as the backbone for an online coding school as we continue to improve it. After launching a bunch of shorter courses the last couple of years, we launched our first full-degree program this summer. It's called “The Frontend Developer Career Path” and it contains 75 hours of content and 100s of interactive coding challenges. It costs $19 per month and the teachers are well-known instructors like Gary Simon, Cassidy Williams, and Kevin Powell. Students are also paired up in Study Groups, in order to make the online learning experience feel less lonely. So far, over 3000 people from 110 different countries have enrolled. Here’s a link to the course: https://ift.tt/365a1pg Fun fact: Scrimba is built entirely in Imba, a programming language that our CTO has created. It’s a Ruby-inspired language that compiles to JavaScript, and it excels at creating high-performant web apps. The first version of Scrimba was created because Sindre wanted a better way to teach Imba. You can learn more about Imba here: https://www.imba.io/
25 by mrborgen | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Hi all, I’m Per, co-founder of Scrimba. We are building an interactive video format for teaching and learning how to code. The main benefit is that students can pause the video and edit the code whenever they want. We think this is needed is because over 70% of people who are trying to learn to code today use videos. But since videos aren’t interactive, students end up mirroring the instructors’ code line-by-line in their local code editors. This is time consuming, and it often causes problems with local dev environment setup. Scrimba solves these problems as it enables students to pause the screencast and modify the instructors’ code directly inside the player. So when a Scrimba student feels confused, she jumps into the screencast and plays around with the code (editing, running, debugging) until she’s made sense of it. As a consequence, she learns faster. Technically, this is possible because we have merged the IDE and the video player into one tool. To understand the technology in-depth, please watch this cast: https://ift.tt/33UHYX4 The Scrimba format also opens the way for other features that can further enhance the learning experience, like searching inside videos, in-video hyperlinks, audiovisual code feedback from teachers, remote pair programming between students, and more. The more we work with the format, the more of these opportunities we see. So we have decided to use the format as the backbone for an online coding school as we continue to improve it. After launching a bunch of shorter courses the last couple of years, we launched our first full-degree program this summer. It's called “The Frontend Developer Career Path” and it contains 75 hours of content and 100s of interactive coding challenges. It costs $19 per month and the teachers are well-known instructors like Gary Simon, Cassidy Williams, and Kevin Powell. Students are also paired up in Study Groups, in order to make the online learning experience feel less lonely. So far, over 3000 people from 110 different countries have enrolled. Here’s a link to the course: https://ift.tt/365a1pg Fun fact: Scrimba is built entirely in Imba, a programming language that our CTO has created. It’s a Ruby-inspired language that compiles to JavaScript, and it excels at creating high-performant web apps. The first version of Scrimba was created because Sindre wanted a better way to teach Imba. You can learn more about Imba here: https://www.imba.io/
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Show HN: Ready-Made CRM, Project and Content Management on Notion
2 by saviorand | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by saviorand | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Alpodo – Free simple, Easy to use and privacy friendly analytics
2 by theXspidy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by theXspidy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
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Show HN: Scribble – Realtime Whiteboarding for Developers
3 by happycipher | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by happycipher | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Argsearch – A composable tool for sweeping over command-line arguments
2 by maxwells-daemon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by maxwells-daemon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian
6 by steve1820 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
6 by steve1820 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Create AWS infrastructure, defined as Terraform TypeScript code
6 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
6 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: SirTunnel – Selfhosted, 0-config alternative to ngrok. Caddy+SSH+50 LOC
2 by anderspitman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by anderspitman | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I made an open-source marketplace to fasten OAuth API integrations
7 by corentin88 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
7 by corentin88 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Blindsend, Open-Source End-to-End Encrypted File Transfer
5 by tiord | 6 comments on Hacker News.
5 by tiord | 6 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Cambrinary – a terminal online dict, powered by cambridge dictionary
3 by hsuehyuan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by hsuehyuan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: CSNotes – A website for my Computer Science Notes
2 by samrobbins | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by samrobbins | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Chrome Addon to list BitChute (and more) subs on your YouTube subs page
2 by richardARPANET | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by richardARPANET | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set
81 by cdrove | 21 comments on Hacker News.
81 by cdrove | 21 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Slick Docs Editor – A Hybrid of Google Docs and Wix
5 by trantor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by trantor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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Show HN: I'm building a catalog of cloud infrastructures
2 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jeremylevy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Use iPhone as a password manager for your desktop PC
5 by pfandrade | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by pfandrade | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: ExGAN-Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples
11 by siddhartb_ | 1 comments on Hacker News.
11 by siddhartb_ | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I made a site that provides data-driven book recommendations for makers
2 by jakobgreenfeld | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jakobgreenfeld | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: FAQ-div: turn a div into a FAQ with /w search and more
2 by almarklein | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by almarklein | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Fossnode – Free Matrix server for free and open source projects
4 by hestefisk | 2 comments on Hacker News.
4 by hestefisk | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 21 September 2020
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Show HN: DJ Checkup – Check your Django site for security errors
2 by amanzi | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by amanzi | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Open-source tools to troubleshoot Kubernetes applications
2 by Snappy | 3 comments on Hacker News.
2 by Snappy | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Realtime Collaborative Drawing with WebRTC and Canvas
3 by nyxtom | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by nyxtom | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: An interactive tutorial teaching spring physics for animation
2 by joshwcomeau | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by joshwcomeau | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos
3 by matiastucci | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by matiastucci | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I visualised the co-occurrence of origin and variety in coffee beans
4 by DataCrayon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by DataCrayon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Monitor your internet speed with a Raspberry Pi
2 by perryizgr8 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by perryizgr8 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Sunday, 20 September 2020
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Show HN: Interactive: Visualizing Caffeine Halflives and Bedtime
4 by eli-bryan | 4 comments on Hacker News.
4 by eli-bryan | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Interactive tutorial for learning Git's internals
2 by chrisparnin | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by chrisparnin | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: FileConverter using FFMPEG as WASM to convert files
2 by redhathacker | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by redhathacker | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 19 September 2020
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Show HN: Evaluate mortgage cost with discounted cash flow
2 by kjhitcher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by kjhitcher | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: My Python Notebook Driven Book on Evolutionary Algorithms
4 by DataCrayon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by DataCrayon | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Find missing/stale translations for Android apps using GitHub actions
2 by ashutoshgngwr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ashutoshgngwr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: GhostLap – A simple list of all Sim Racing Hardware/Equipment
2 by ghostlap | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by ghostlap | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Philosophers in an influence graph with PageRank scores
3 by jonersRochen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by jonersRochen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Debut – a retro terminal PowerPoint clone
3 by tcbasche | 1 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3my8IVH As part of work I was tasked with doing a presentation on a part of the Agile Manifesto, so as a way to make it interesting I initially decided to do it as an animated CLI app. Then I remembered curses existed! And a weekend later I ended up with a mini-framework for doing your own presentations in the terminal complete with borders, colours and keyboard interaction. It's also 100% Python with no external dependencies, so feel free to clone it and run it as the readme states.
3 by tcbasche | 1 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3my8IVH As part of work I was tasked with doing a presentation on a part of the Agile Manifesto, so as a way to make it interesting I initially decided to do it as an animated CLI app. Then I remembered curses existed! And a weekend later I ended up with a mini-framework for doing your own presentations in the terminal complete with borders, colours and keyboard interaction. It's also 100% Python with no external dependencies, so feel free to clone it and run it as the readme states.
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Show HN: How beautiful is your website – check using Visual Mind AI
2 by myraahio | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Friday, 18 September 2020
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Show HN: Can I create a better image format than PNG? probably not
2 by atum47 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by atum47 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Laguna – See what your friends are trading and make bets
2 by PodCurator | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by PodCurator | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: A web service which renders SVG plots from Prometheus data
2 by ddevault | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Dendron – open-source, local first, anti-roam note-taking tool
3 by kevinslin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by kevinslin | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Easy way to explain code architecture to new hires
13 by kossnocorp | 1 comments on Hacker News.
13 by kossnocorp | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: FiftyOne – Explore, Analyze and Curate Visual Datasets
2 by benjaminpkane | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python
3 by nikital | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by nikital | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: PostgreSQL and Machine Learning - step-by-step python tutorial
2 by pplonski86 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Visualizing how a NeuralNetwork learns to recognize the MNIST digits
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2 by zbendefy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 17 September 2020
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Show HN: Built this using no-code (Webflow, Airtable, Zapier)
3 by jayra | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by jayra | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Play music while and after shell jobs complete
2 by this_machine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by this_machine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Marker – open source hand-drawn illustrations
4 by alokepillai | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by alokepillai | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Invest systematically in deeply undervalued companies
3 by wsieroci | 3 comments on Hacker News.
3 by wsieroci | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: faasd. Look Ma’ No Kubernetes Use-Case and Case-Studies
4 by alexellisuk | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by alexellisuk | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Building the next-generation learning experience
2 by IvanVLiu | 0 comments on Hacker News.
If you reflect a bit on how you learn, you will probably find that in order to acquire a skill or some level of expertise on a subject, you take 5 steps that make up your learning behaviour. 1. You find the learning materials for the subject. 2. You input these materials into your brain through reading and listening. 3. You process the new information through memorising and associating in order to construct a new thinking model. 4. You practise by solving problems that are designed for learning, or by having basic conversations in the case of learning languages. 5. You apply the new skill you just acquired and start creating values for the world with it. What Astrasum does is that we are hacking learning. We want to accelerate your learning by helping you become better and better at each one of these steps with our technology and growing community. We are still working to integrate AI and VR into our features, but they are already pretty cool. Try it out and if you find it helpful or fun, please share it with your friends as well! https://astrasum.com
2 by IvanVLiu | 0 comments on Hacker News.
If you reflect a bit on how you learn, you will probably find that in order to acquire a skill or some level of expertise on a subject, you take 5 steps that make up your learning behaviour. 1. You find the learning materials for the subject. 2. You input these materials into your brain through reading and listening. 3. You process the new information through memorising and associating in order to construct a new thinking model. 4. You practise by solving problems that are designed for learning, or by having basic conversations in the case of learning languages. 5. You apply the new skill you just acquired and start creating values for the world with it. What Astrasum does is that we are hacking learning. We want to accelerate your learning by helping you become better and better at each one of these steps with our technology and growing community. We are still working to integrate AI and VR into our features, but they are already pretty cool. Try it out and if you find it helpful or fun, please share it with your friends as well! https://astrasum.com
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Show HN: I made a website to help manage tasks with service providers
3 by phranger | 2 comments on Hacker News.
3 by phranger | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Web Push Notification for Shopify Store Owners
2 by naveensky | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Folks, We recently launched our app, https://ift.tt/32BUJX5, on Shopify App Store for store owners to promote their stores using push notifications. I am sure almost here everybody knows about push notifications, but just in case you are not, they are small popups you see on your mobile whenever you receive an email, sms or any other notification. Along with mobiles, most of the modern browsers on desktops support push notifications. Shopify store owners can use push notifications to send automated abandoned cart notifications, new order confirmation, shipping information. You can also run marketing campaigns to send notifications to your subscribers for new launches, weekend offers etc. Its a free app for now with no limits on usages. We are inviting and looking forward to the feedback from everybody in the community, Please install the app from https://ift.tt/32BUJX5
2 by naveensky | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Folks, We recently launched our app, https://ift.tt/32BUJX5, on Shopify App Store for store owners to promote their stores using push notifications. I am sure almost here everybody knows about push notifications, but just in case you are not, they are small popups you see on your mobile whenever you receive an email, sms or any other notification. Along with mobiles, most of the modern browsers on desktops support push notifications. Shopify store owners can use push notifications to send automated abandoned cart notifications, new order confirmation, shipping information. You can also run marketing campaigns to send notifications to your subscribers for new launches, weekend offers etc. Its a free app for now with no limits on usages. We are inviting and looking forward to the feedback from everybody in the community, Please install the app from https://ift.tt/32BUJX5
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
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Show HN: Search your codebase with code blocks instead of text
2 by jierenchen | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by jierenchen | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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3 by pseudosavant | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by pseudosavant | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Used it, liked it, joined them. Low-code process automation platform
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Show HN: A furniture e-commerce site built entirely in Notion
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Show HN: Single Sign-On (SSO) for OpenFaaS with Okta and OpenID Connect
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Show HN: Secret Splitter – split passwords into pieces, then combine them again
2 by securilla | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by securilla | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Build a DIY license plate reader with machine learning
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Show HN: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
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Show HN: Mailbrew, all-in-one RSS reader, newsletters inbox, and Read Later
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5 by linuz90 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
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Show HN: VizTracer, trace and visualize your Python code execution
2 by gaogaotiantian | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by gaogaotiantian | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Jazz up your Python scripts with sound effects
4 by phantomshelby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by phantomshelby | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Memory Pill
37 by nickbild | 36 comments on Hacker News.
Memory Pill passively records the last time a medication bottle was opened to prevent over- and underdosing of medications when you cannot remember if you have already taken a scheduled dose. https://ift.tt/35Eje7E
37 by nickbild | 36 comments on Hacker News.
Memory Pill passively records the last time a medication bottle was opened to prevent over- and underdosing of medications when you cannot remember if you have already taken a scheduled dose. https://ift.tt/35Eje7E
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Show HN: Misakey – end-to-end encryption for your documents and discussions
3 by FabienFournier | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by FabienFournier | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Stargate – An open source API framework for data
8 by dwettlaufer | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: AdObservatory – Website for Overviews of Facebook Political Ad Spending
2 by whiskeyocelot | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by whiskeyocelot | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: My journey to create a Text Editor that allows you to build apps
4 by johndamaia | 3 comments on Hacker News.
4 by johndamaia | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: pongo2 v4: Django-like templating engine for Go released
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2 by flosch | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Crowdsec, the behavior and reputation-based collaborative firewall
9 by Philippe_H | 0 comments on Hacker News.
9 by Philippe_H | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, 14 September 2020
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Show HN: Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web App
5 by Maxence | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by Maxence | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Sombras.app, toy to play with shadows and 3D, TensorFlow logo style
2 by javierbyte | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by javierbyte | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Generate one of those subreddit compilation videos
2 by krishnanunnir | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Juliette - Reactive State Management Powered by RxJS
3 by stanimirovic | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by stanimirovic | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: 1st app to combine all your Trello boards and track time - Try for free
2 by elmehdikamar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by elmehdikamar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Building secure Electron apps (now with Electron v10)
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Show HN: Google Translate for Australian Aboriginal Languages
3 by thomasfromcdnjs | 5 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Clouddraw – draw cloud architecture diagrams with ease
7 by shobankr | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Golang – Converts 'go mod graph' output into Graphviz's DOT language
2 by lucasepe | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by lucasepe | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Monitor ML model training on mobile
4 by vpj | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We developed a simple mobile app to monitor ML model training on mobile phones, with two lines of code to push training statistics. Client library (GitHub): https://ift.tt/2RoQDLC App (Github): https://ift.tt/31oE1tq Sample: https://ift.tt/35EjXGh...
4 by vpj | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We developed a simple mobile app to monitor ML model training on mobile phones, with two lines of code to push training statistics. Client library (GitHub): https://ift.tt/2RoQDLC App (Github): https://ift.tt/31oE1tq Sample: https://ift.tt/35EjXGh...
Sunday, 13 September 2020
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Show HN: Ambient soundscapes inspired by night-time cities
2 by cody_ellingham | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by cody_ellingham | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: OOTB Code-Server, Easiest “VSCode on Browser” + HTTPS and GitHub Auth
2 by abc_tkys | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by abc_tkys | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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2 by JackPaxton | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: We made finding a REMOTE developer job easy
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Show HN: Exploring a Docker image, layer contents, and ways to shrink it
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Show HN: Explore breathtaking places from home with 360° Audio Tours
5 by Kiryous | 3 comments on Hacker News.
5 by Kiryous | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 12 September 2020
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Show HN: A TypeScript library for generating crypto tax reports
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Show HN: Commodore 64 users had fun with this pattern. Now JavaScript coders too
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Friday, 11 September 2020
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Show HN: ARIA DevTools – Chrome extension for accessiblity testing
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19 by I-M-S | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Paper and Book List of System for Machine Learning
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Show HN: Octo – Generate a Serverless API from an SQL Query Connected to Any DB
24 by khalidlafi | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: An experiment to create heart beat effect with CSS animation
1 by amalfra | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: The Slice| A Curated Email of SaaS Nuggets and Resources
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Thursday, 10 September 2020
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Show HN: Inspect – DevTool to debug Safari and WebViews on iOS devices
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27 by auchenberg | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes with CNCF's Kuma and Envoy
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Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
3 by taylorcooney | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m Taylor Cooney. My co-founder Lucas Playford and I are launching ( https://ift.tt/35pgqv2 ) - software for managing self-storage facilities. Lucas and I met 5 years ago at a startup in Toronto. Since leaving the startup, we’ve been looking for ways to “get the band back together” ever since. I would hack on side projects, such as an order-ahead food app and applicant tracking system for recruiting tech employees, but most of these fizzled out after a few weeks. Despite our best efforts to get something started, we quickly realized that good startup ideas don't just happen out of nowhere. Or do they? 12 months ago my landlord came to me with an offer: they wanted to sell the place I was renting, and they’d give me a surprising amount of money if I could be out with just a few days notice. Pulling that off though meant finding somewhere to keep all of my stuff while I looked for a new place to live. Within the first hour of searching, I discovered how antiquated the process of finding and booking self-storage is. After digging in, I found that for many facility owners having the time, technical skills, and frankly, money, to piece together a system that lets customers rent online, is hard. If you’ve ever tried to find self storage yourself, you probably noticed that many of the small operators have horrendous websites that are slow, non-responsive, and don’t give you the ability to rent without picking up the phone. After talking to self storage owners directly, I also learned that they spend hours every single day doing back-office work that really should, and could be automated. Since I was actively working on side projects, and I had just had this terrible experience trying to rent a storage unit, I decided to focus my time diving even further into the self-storage industry. I took time to research the tech used in the industry and connected directly with storage facility owners and operators to get a better understanding of the pain points of this large and, what appeared to be, technologically-backwards industry. Wanting to take the idea of “building something people want” a bit more seriously, I joined the Y Combinator’s online Startup School program (before it became a Continuous Program) to work more formally on what would later become OpenUnit. After Startup School, I was invited to take this idea out to Mountain View for an interview with YC. Two months later Lucas and I had quit our jobs, the band was back together, and we were on our way to California. The initial idea was to build a marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and instantly rent a storage unit online. But after speaking with more storage operators and hearing the same themes over and over again, we thought, why not be even more ambitious? Why not build a product that solves the problems of the renters AND facility owners? It turns out that self-storage generates $48 billion in rental revenue a year. But, while you might see big players - Public Storage, Extra Space, CubeSmart etc. — in downtown cores, 74% of all self storage facilities are small and self-reliant. And they can’t afford expensive software. As a result, the bad software they end up using creates terrible business inefficiencies and a lackluster customer experience. When I rented my storage unit, I experienced this firsthand. For the most part, large enterprises can spend enough money patching together systems to deliver an acceptable customer experience. But, for mom-and-pop operations, that is done with shoe leather - or it’s not done at all. Instead of just building a marketplace, we were going to build a truly affordable, all-in-one management ecosystem. So here we are. We provide self-storage facilities exactly what they need — merchant solutions, lease agreements, websites and more to provide an amazing customer experience. We designed OpenUnit so that a typical facility can get up and running fast and with zero paperwork. We also tailored the features we’re offering to meet the unique needs of small operators first. As a result of this, our hope is that the entire experience is less overwhelming than competing management tools. Our enterprise package for facilities with >5 properties is 15% more affordable than anything else we’ve seen in the market and customers get a lot more than what’s included with the other storage solutions. Surprisingly, we're seeing an increased level of interest due to coronavirus. Many operators and facilities are looking to adopt a contactless move-in process (think eSignatures for rental agreements, with customers managing their own profiles/information and payment methods), which is something we’ve kept in-mind, and can be accomplished out of the box with OpenUnit, keeping employees and customers safe. As a team, we’re firmly focused on the web: the core technology that powers our applications on all platforms. It’s hard to pin down a name for this stack, but it’s a majestic monolith, built using Ruby on Rails. We embrace a “HTML over the wire” architecture, of server-rendered HTML, and “sprinkle” bits of interactive JavaScript. Season with Redis and ElasticSearch, we should have all we’ll ever need. For the foreseeable future anyways. We’re taking a privacy-first approach to customer data and use lockbox, which aims to make encryption as friendly and intuitive as possible for Rails. If you have experience or if you have close friends, relatives, or colleagues that are in the storage space, please reach out! We're keen to get the community's input, in the comments below or at hn@openunit.com. After reading this, don’t be surprised if you start to notice the number of self-storage facilities in your city. Thanks so much, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts! --
3 by taylorcooney | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m Taylor Cooney. My co-founder Lucas Playford and I are launching ( https://ift.tt/35pgqv2 ) - software for managing self-storage facilities. Lucas and I met 5 years ago at a startup in Toronto. Since leaving the startup, we’ve been looking for ways to “get the band back together” ever since. I would hack on side projects, such as an order-ahead food app and applicant tracking system for recruiting tech employees, but most of these fizzled out after a few weeks. Despite our best efforts to get something started, we quickly realized that good startup ideas don't just happen out of nowhere. Or do they? 12 months ago my landlord came to me with an offer: they wanted to sell the place I was renting, and they’d give me a surprising amount of money if I could be out with just a few days notice. Pulling that off though meant finding somewhere to keep all of my stuff while I looked for a new place to live. Within the first hour of searching, I discovered how antiquated the process of finding and booking self-storage is. After digging in, I found that for many facility owners having the time, technical skills, and frankly, money, to piece together a system that lets customers rent online, is hard. If you’ve ever tried to find self storage yourself, you probably noticed that many of the small operators have horrendous websites that are slow, non-responsive, and don’t give you the ability to rent without picking up the phone. After talking to self storage owners directly, I also learned that they spend hours every single day doing back-office work that really should, and could be automated. Since I was actively working on side projects, and I had just had this terrible experience trying to rent a storage unit, I decided to focus my time diving even further into the self-storage industry. I took time to research the tech used in the industry and connected directly with storage facility owners and operators to get a better understanding of the pain points of this large and, what appeared to be, technologically-backwards industry. Wanting to take the idea of “building something people want” a bit more seriously, I joined the Y Combinator’s online Startup School program (before it became a Continuous Program) to work more formally on what would later become OpenUnit. After Startup School, I was invited to take this idea out to Mountain View for an interview with YC. Two months later Lucas and I had quit our jobs, the band was back together, and we were on our way to California. The initial idea was to build a marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and instantly rent a storage unit online. But after speaking with more storage operators and hearing the same themes over and over again, we thought, why not be even more ambitious? Why not build a product that solves the problems of the renters AND facility owners? It turns out that self-storage generates $48 billion in rental revenue a year. But, while you might see big players - Public Storage, Extra Space, CubeSmart etc. — in downtown cores, 74% of all self storage facilities are small and self-reliant. And they can’t afford expensive software. As a result, the bad software they end up using creates terrible business inefficiencies and a lackluster customer experience. When I rented my storage unit, I experienced this firsthand. For the most part, large enterprises can spend enough money patching together systems to deliver an acceptable customer experience. But, for mom-and-pop operations, that is done with shoe leather - or it’s not done at all. Instead of just building a marketplace, we were going to build a truly affordable, all-in-one management ecosystem. So here we are. We provide self-storage facilities exactly what they need — merchant solutions, lease agreements, websites and more to provide an amazing customer experience. We designed OpenUnit so that a typical facility can get up and running fast and with zero paperwork. We also tailored the features we’re offering to meet the unique needs of small operators first. As a result of this, our hope is that the entire experience is less overwhelming than competing management tools. Our enterprise package for facilities with >5 properties is 15% more affordable than anything else we’ve seen in the market and customers get a lot more than what’s included with the other storage solutions. Surprisingly, we're seeing an increased level of interest due to coronavirus. Many operators and facilities are looking to adopt a contactless move-in process (think eSignatures for rental agreements, with customers managing their own profiles/information and payment methods), which is something we’ve kept in-mind, and can be accomplished out of the box with OpenUnit, keeping employees and customers safe. As a team, we’re firmly focused on the web: the core technology that powers our applications on all platforms. It’s hard to pin down a name for this stack, but it’s a majestic monolith, built using Ruby on Rails. We embrace a “HTML over the wire” architecture, of server-rendered HTML, and “sprinkle” bits of interactive JavaScript. Season with Redis and ElasticSearch, we should have all we’ll ever need. For the foreseeable future anyways. We’re taking a privacy-first approach to customer data and use lockbox, which aims to make encryption as friendly and intuitive as possible for Rails. If you have experience or if you have close friends, relatives, or colleagues that are in the storage space, please reach out! We're keen to get the community's input, in the comments below or at hn@openunit.com. After reading this, don’t be surprised if you start to notice the number of self-storage facilities in your city. Thanks so much, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts! --
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5 by andriosr | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Relax your coding self with the soothing JavaScript simulation of rain
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3 by newcoders | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
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Show HN: A tool to make graphic design easy for developers and dev-preneurs
6 by panabee | 1 comments on Hacker News.
6 by panabee | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Pygumroad – A Python API Client to Interact with Gumroad's API
2 by opsdisk | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by opsdisk | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Eiten – open-source tool for Portfolio Optimization
2 by hydershykh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by hydershykh | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Creating accurate Spotify playlists based on your current mood
2 by kabirvirji | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by kabirvirji | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to make recipe websites less terrible
4 by conroydave | 3 comments on Hacker News.
4 by conroydave | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Musilinks – Interactive musical artist's relationships discovery
2 by knackfuss | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by knackfuss | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Twitch Chat Draws – Replicating Reddit's “The Place” on Twitch
2 by petargyurov | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by petargyurov | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: CoffeeTime - Connect with teammates over weekly coffees
4 by stewartma | 0 comments on Hacker News.
4 by stewartma | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science
33 by tappityapp | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN -- I’m Chad, and I co-founded Tappity ( https://ift.tt/2F4JDRv ) with my friend, Lawrence. We’re building a healthy alternative to Youtube that entertains and educates kids (4-10) with interactive lessons—starting with science! Tappity’s story began ten years ago when I developed an app for my Biology professor to teach kids about evolution. It was my first time building a product for kids, so I learned a ton about designing for an audience who couldn’t read or sit still for very long. Also, their brutally honest feedback was refreshing! We ended up getting 20,000 downloads, and I learned kids love interactions. After that great experience, I continued to create apps for kids on the side for fun. About two years ago, parents started paying for one of these apps. Kids loved a segment we had shot on a whim at our friend’s house, in which they could interact with a real live science teacher. Parents were excited, too. We gave them something engaging, fun, and educational for their kids, which is shockingly rare. The sad reality is that 99% of kids apps fall into three buckets: ad-riddled games, cheap & buggy ABC/123 apps, or YouTube. We wanted to do better. Shortly thereafter, Lawrence and I quit our jobs (where we had met) to start Tappity! We leaned into this idea of live-like experiences. We felt it’d enrich screen time without sacrificing the fun. So, with Tappity, kids don’t just passively watch, they play along and direct our live-action characters on screen. For example, you could tell Haley—our version of Bill Nye—what she should do next in her science experiment, and she would actually do what you say. Unlike traditional TV programs or videos, where you know the person on screen is talking to a million other people, Tappity makes it feel like characters are interacting with just you in real time. Turns out, this format is super engaging. Best of all, kids don’t feel like they’re learning—they tell their parents they're hanging out with Haley! So far, we’ve produced ~40 hours of original content, and we’re rapidly building out our library. While we shot much of our content initially with an iPhone in my garage, we’ve now graduated to filming with an actual crew at a studio in Los Angeles! We're excited to share Tappity with the wider HN community, especially those of you with younger kids. With many families still spending a lot of time at home, we're hoping to make at-home learning a bit more fun and bearable. You can download it for free on the App Store [1]. Would love to hear what you think! Chad, Lawrence, & Tanner P.S. We also just launched the first online science fair for kids [2] hosted by Kari Byron from Mythbusters to encourage families to do more science experiments at home (and win prizes)! Check it out! [1] https://ift.tt/32fWedo... [2] https://ift.tt/3m1Uc8B
33 by tappityapp | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN -- I’m Chad, and I co-founded Tappity ( https://ift.tt/2F4JDRv ) with my friend, Lawrence. We’re building a healthy alternative to Youtube that entertains and educates kids (4-10) with interactive lessons—starting with science! Tappity’s story began ten years ago when I developed an app for my Biology professor to teach kids about evolution. It was my first time building a product for kids, so I learned a ton about designing for an audience who couldn’t read or sit still for very long. Also, their brutally honest feedback was refreshing! We ended up getting 20,000 downloads, and I learned kids love interactions. After that great experience, I continued to create apps for kids on the side for fun. About two years ago, parents started paying for one of these apps. Kids loved a segment we had shot on a whim at our friend’s house, in which they could interact with a real live science teacher. Parents were excited, too. We gave them something engaging, fun, and educational for their kids, which is shockingly rare. The sad reality is that 99% of kids apps fall into three buckets: ad-riddled games, cheap & buggy ABC/123 apps, or YouTube. We wanted to do better. Shortly thereafter, Lawrence and I quit our jobs (where we had met) to start Tappity! We leaned into this idea of live-like experiences. We felt it’d enrich screen time without sacrificing the fun. So, with Tappity, kids don’t just passively watch, they play along and direct our live-action characters on screen. For example, you could tell Haley—our version of Bill Nye—what she should do next in her science experiment, and she would actually do what you say. Unlike traditional TV programs or videos, where you know the person on screen is talking to a million other people, Tappity makes it feel like characters are interacting with just you in real time. Turns out, this format is super engaging. Best of all, kids don’t feel like they’re learning—they tell their parents they're hanging out with Haley! So far, we’ve produced ~40 hours of original content, and we’re rapidly building out our library. While we shot much of our content initially with an iPhone in my garage, we’ve now graduated to filming with an actual crew at a studio in Los Angeles! We're excited to share Tappity with the wider HN community, especially those of you with younger kids. With many families still spending a lot of time at home, we're hoping to make at-home learning a bit more fun and bearable. You can download it for free on the App Store [1]. Would love to hear what you think! Chad, Lawrence, & Tanner P.S. We also just launched the first online science fair for kids [2] hosted by Kari Byron from Mythbusters to encourage families to do more science experiments at home (and win prizes)! Check it out! [1] https://ift.tt/32fWedo... [2] https://ift.tt/3m1Uc8B
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Show HN: Cubbit, accessible like Dropbox, secure like your hard drive
3 by wnd_pn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by wnd_pn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: dwata – Manage Databases without knowing SQL (v0.4)
3 by brainless | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by brainless | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Covid-19 news and tweets from 100s of scientists on Twitter
2 by eudaimonia22 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by eudaimonia22 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: BGJar – SVG background generator for your websites
2 by zhangshine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by zhangshine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
9 by njhaveri | 1 comments on Hacker News.
9 by njhaveri | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Expired domain search engine based on patterns updated daily
3 by zapzap40 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
3 by zapzap40 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Ridiculously fast, easy and free website for your business
2 by donedave | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by donedave | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Convert MIDI to CV for controlling VCOs of synthesizers
2 by qrv3w | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by qrv3w | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
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Show HN: Recipe nutrition calculator focusing on micronutrients
2 by scxyz42 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by scxyz42 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data
24 by LukeEF | 2 comments on Hacker News.
24 by LukeEF | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Ultra High Performance Reactive State-Management in React
11 by EspressoJS | 0 comments on Hacker News.
11 by EspressoJS | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Turn asterisk-indented text lines into mind maps
2 by lucasepe | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by lucasepe | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Can't afford GPT-3 access? Self-host your own GPT-2 API
3 by calebkaiser | 1 comments on Hacker News.
3 by calebkaiser | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL
2 by DataSpeeder | 0 comments on Hacker News.
2 by DataSpeeder | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow (public beta)
2 by newcrobuzon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
2 by newcrobuzon | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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Show HN: Bookmark with Scheme Lisp REPL
2 by jcubic | 0 comments on Hacker News.
You can use it to run Scheme interpreter on any website, if it don't have content security policy (like Hacker News). You can use it while learning Lisp (Scheme) or when testing some code from online book or PDF (at least in Chrome). The link to Bookarklet can be found in this link: https://ift.tt/2Zf2Ir2 The bookmark use devel version of LIPS Scheme, it will be released version after 1.0.0 is finished. Latest version is very old, devel and beta versions have lot of changes. LIPS scheme have almost fully working lisp macros and hygienic macros systems (syntax-rules) but still no call/cc and TCO.
2 by jcubic | 0 comments on Hacker News.
You can use it to run Scheme interpreter on any website, if it don't have content security policy (like Hacker News). You can use it while learning Lisp (Scheme) or when testing some code from online book or PDF (at least in Chrome). The link to Bookarklet can be found in this link: https://ift.tt/2Zf2Ir2 The bookmark use devel version of LIPS Scheme, it will be released version after 1.0.0 is finished. Latest version is very old, devel and beta versions have lot of changes. LIPS scheme have almost fully working lisp macros and hygienic macros systems (syntax-rules) but still no call/cc and TCO.
Monday, 7 September 2020
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