I spent 3 months scraping 6 million pages from an extremely old political web forum (I think their backend was written in perl and hasn't been updated since 2001 and the response times for these pages were extremely high) in an effort to learn NLP stuff with a working database. Its cool because you get to see how old Boomers digested huge events during 9/11 up until now and the slow decline of web forums as a medium. The pain is trying to parse the actual pages since the dev never learned how to liberally use div tags like we do now.
I once scraped a large forum off Yuku, the HTML was easily the most bizarre I've ever seen (i.e. multiple different HTML formats for posts on the same page for no apparent reason).
I've spent the last few years building a product to help every user and business own their data. It solves Identity, Language, and Hosting, with customizable UIs.
It's cool because it can change the way we all communicate; instead of interacting with 3rd parties, you always interact with your AI that handles everything for you.
Just coming out of stealth, launch posts and whatnot coming soon :)
I think it's cool because it's almost definitely the most complex Slack bot out there (though I admit that's an arbitrary metric), but it's for sure the most advanced game on the platform.
Very similar idea to Multi User Dungeon (MUD) RPG games back in the day. Was that your inspiration? If you're not familiar with those you should check out their history.
Absolutely something I took inspiration from, though the primary inspiration was more along the lines of Legend of the Red Dragon, a BBS Door game that hit the height of it's popularity back when MUDs hit the height of theirs.
A website that shows if there's a scene after credits for movies in theaters. So long for all that people standing on the stairs because a scene just started.
It takes designs for mobile apps (from Sketch files), and tries to convert those into React Native components. It's still early days, but it's a promising start.
It's cool because if I can get it working fully, it can replace a large chunk of my consulting projects (taking designs and converting them to the initial code)
I'm building https://timeguard.io, which is an iOS app that acts like HN's "noprocrast" setting but for the entire internet.
You pick distracting sites/apps to block, and then you choose when to pause the block and access them. I've found that little extra bit of friction in checking FB/HN/Twitter is enough to keep me far more concentrated and present throughout the day. Would love feedback from other HN users!
Hey Kyle, this looks nice. I use RescueTime[1] for this purpose on desktop, but since it doesn't easily interop with mobile/other devices, it's still easy to slip into procrastination by pulling out the phone. I'll try TimeGuard as a way to fill the gap.
For me, the killer feature for this type of tool would be a blanket anti-procrastination mode that works across all devices. Maybe it could even make sense to integrate somehow at the router level?
It's cool because REST/HATEOAS is the original and unique software architecture of the web, and building client/server apps in Javascript/JSON throws that architecture out:
I'm working fulltime on a tool called TimeShark (https://timeshark.io). It generates invoices based off color coded events from your Google Calendar.
It's cool because I as well as many others got tired of spending time...logging time. A lot of us live inside our Calendars so why not build on top of that behavior?
Very much in listening and feedback mode right. If TimeShark is interesting to you, please reach out (contact details in my profile).
Outside list is cool because it (hopefully) encourages people to travel and get outside more.
Hollaback is cool because it's sort of an "about" page as a service, and lets people know you made the thing they're looking at, not a team, not a company, you.
http://tracket.com - It's google news + the internet archive. You can go back in time and see what the top breaking headlines were on a given day. I've been running it since July 2016 so there's nothing before that, unfortunately.
http://ripplescan.com - A website to visually explore the Ripple XRP network, lookup accounts, and transactions, and subscribe to XRP news in your inbox every day.
https://exponentialbackoff.substack.com - A newsletter where I write about the soft skills side of software engineering that I've learned throughout my career. Hopefully it's helpful to some younger engineers that are just starting out in their careers.
I just redesigned what an offer letter looks like. [1] I think it's cool for a few different reasons: (1) most people don't truly understand the value behind an offer from a startup. Equity for example is tricky for newcomers. (2) Most companies don't share this information unless you push them on it. I wish more companies would be transparent about it, and I think doing this will help.
[1] As with many things in design, I think I should attribute the source of inspiration, which is Carta. They wrote about a new offer letter format back in 2016. I'm basically taking their Apple Keynote slides and moving them to the web.
- You install it with `npm install server` and use modern ES6+ including async/await very naturally.
- Node.js is the most popular "framework, library or tool" [1], but getting started with most of the current Node.js server frameworks has a really steep learning curve.
- Plugins are coming! They will be a really easy way to extend server in ways that middleware cannot by adding some lifecycle calls.
I'm building a mobile app that's a bit like the anti-Instagram. It gives you confusing set of shutter/filter options that post weird, uneditable and uncanny photos to a feed whose sole mode of interaction is scrolling and drawing.
Mostly it's a conceptual art piece that's meant to offer a different model of being social online — one that's wholly about ongoing presence and participation, not accumulation and curation. I think I'll try to sell it for a buck in the app store.
https://vrsketch.eu/ - Editing and viewing virtual reality plugin for sketchup. It's a lot of basic research on UI/UX in VR.
http://pypy.org - Python interpreter with a just in time compiler. It's the only alternative python implementation out there, after failures of unladen swallow/pyston etc.
http://bloc11.co.za - Own climbing gym. It's cool to work directly with people and pursue own ideas in a small space.
I am working on testing ("ground truthing") common observational astronomy modeling techniques against hydrodynamic simulations. The basic approach is to generate synthetic/mock observations from the simulations, apply typical model-fitting approaches, and then see how the model results compare with the properties of the original simulations. Our first paper on this has recently been accepted (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07084) and we're preparing a second paper looking at emission from dust in new simulations which more realistically treat the cosmological history of galaxies.
I'm hooking up a piece of kitchen equipment to a cloud backend. It's for a major restaurant chain.
I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple of years as a demonstration of the technology.
It always ends the same: Every party fights for ownership of the data, but nobody can figure out what to do with the data once they have it. Nobody wants to pay for it, much less support a subscription model. The free sites are held together with duct tape and chewing gum. Nobody wants to support it in the field. There are too many variables in network infrastructure. You can't use the network in the store because the cashier system is on there and PCI says no way. Getting a solid 802.11 signal in a room full of sheet metal is a nightmare. Customers want to use off-the-shelf cellular hotspots that are pieces of garbage and couldn't hold a TCP packet if it was covered in crazy glue.
But the demonstrations always go well. The customers think it's cool.
So on we go, boldly onward into the IoT future. I just pushed the next release up.
Working on an SMS crypto trading bot where you can text it trading commands according to whatever exchange you connected to. I've been in many situations where I needed to trade and logging into the exchange on my phone is cumbersome and could sometimes take 3+ minutes, and by then the opportunity is gone.
I've been working on Fructika https://fructika.com for the last few months as a little side project. It's an app that helps you manage your fructose consumption (my partner suffers from fructose malabsorption).
It's cool because it makes her life better and I've had some great feedback from other people trying to manage their intake of sugars about how it makes their lives easier :)
I'm working on a technology that will enable people to easily distribute and copy data in a secure and more performant way, the more people are using it. It's basically throwing a local cache over the web, so when you neighbour already have the data, you can download it from them without being afraid if the data has been altered in any way. I'm super excited to work on it, as it combines my two favourite areas, open source and decentralized. The project I work on is called IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System.
It's a little music production community. You know how everyone on HN laments that small quirky websites have been eaten by bigger ones, so they don't exist any more? My website is cool because it has that sort of community - intelligent and good at music but also funny and super weird. We all kinda know each other, which makes it fun.
Also, a bunch of us have gotten a lot better at making music, which is another nice win. :)
https://github.com/PetrochukM/PyTorch-NLP -- Following writing a NLP research paper. Working on open sourcing the tools that helped me rapidly prototype. PyTorch-NLP comes with pre-trained embeddings, samplers, dataset loaders, metrics, neural network modules and text encoders.
I am currently working on building a system that processes and provides analytical data for a major semi-conductor manufacturing company.
It is cool because we have a serious stream of data to collect, stream, process and store, and provide users with very fast access to massive datasets.
Not really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- personally i use adblock, and most of these mixes are 1-2 hours long, so even people having an add in between each would seem not too bad
Also i havent really put this site out there before, so any feedback or ideas are welcome:)
I've wanted to build something similar but haven't gotten around to it.
Couple questions:
What do the icons at the top of the page do? (The music note, rain drop, anchor, etc) I think they are some sort of filter but click them doesn't seem to do anything. A tooltip or quick note might help the user know what they are for.
would you consider adding soundcloud integration? I have a bunch of playlists/music that I can only find on soundcloud and want a way to integrate with youtube playlist for continuous play/mixed playlists.
are you open to outsider help? I've been looking for a project to help contribute to and really like what you have started. Wouldn't mind helping with some PRs if you are open to it.
So I just broke those this week with an update & some refactoring, but they are for soundscapes, like rain, ocean, cafe background noise ect. - still thinking about how to group things
You know, open sourcing with multiple devs is something I haven’t put much thought into - at least for this project. I will have to move around some configs and do some readme stuff but growing that collaboration muscle seems important. Ill let that stir in my head, its still my baby, but I don’t see any harm, so maybe in a little:)
Soundcloud is a great idea:) I didn’t think of that either! - probably bc I don’t use it enough. Im definitely going to look into that this weekend.
Thanks and I’m really glad u guys like it this made my day:)
However, because of Apple's new strict rules on what it considers user aggregated content, privacy, and etc. It's been stuck on beta for a while. I originally wanted to create a YouTube aggregator (like yours) however, I'm almost certain Apple will reject it.
Please don't! Efax owns patent for sending faxes online and they troll/bully other website into sometimes buying them out sometimes shutting them down. There is 99% chances you will receive their C&D letter :(
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It's cool because it can change the way we all communicate; instead of interacting with 3rd parties, you always interact with your AI that handles everything for you.
Just coming out of stealth, launch posts and whatnot coming soon :)
I think it's cool because it's almost definitely the most complex Slack bot out there (though I admit that's an arbitrary metric), but it's for sure the most advanced game on the platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
Simple stuff, some scraping
ex. http://aftercredits.com/
It takes designs for mobile apps (from Sketch files), and tries to convert those into React Native components. It's still early days, but it's a promising start.
It's cool because if I can get it working fully, it can replace a large chunk of my consulting projects (taking designs and converting them to the initial code)
They can generate sketch files from react components (https://github.com/airbnb/react-sketchapp) but not the other way around.
The painting with code demo (https://airbnb.design/painting-with-code/) was a step towards that though, and I think it's really interesting as well.
You pick distracting sites/apps to block, and then you choose when to pause the block and access them. I've found that little extra bit of friction in checking FB/HN/Twitter is enough to keep me far more concentrated and present throughout the day. Would love feedback from other HN users!
For me, the killer feature for this type of tool would be a blanket anti-procrastination mode that works across all devices. Maybe it could even make sense to integrate somehow at the router level?
1 - https://www.rescuetime.com/
PS Good luck with fundraising!
I'm on a Mac, so the macOS/iOS combo would be great for me.
http://intercoolerjs.org/
It's cool because REST/HATEOAS is the original and unique software architecture of the web, and building client/server apps in Javascript/JSON throws that architecture out:
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
It's cool because I as well as many others got tired of spending time...logging time. A lot of us live inside our Calendars so why not build on top of that behavior?
Very much in listening and feedback mode right. If TimeShark is interesting to you, please reach out (contact details in my profile).
Outside list is cool because it (hopefully) encourages people to travel and get outside more.
Hollaback is cool because it's sort of an "about" page as a service, and lets people know you made the thing they're looking at, not a team, not a company, you.
http://ripplescan.com - A website to visually explore the Ripple XRP network, lookup accounts, and transactions, and subscribe to XRP news in your inbox every day.
https://exponentialbackoff.substack.com - A newsletter where I write about the soft skills side of software engineering that I've learned throughout my career. Hopefully it's helpful to some younger engineers that are just starting out in their careers.
The goal is to be able to say things like "give me a header element at the top - height 250, width 100%", and it'll inject it immediately.
Combined with mouseover inspection and positional guidance (e.g. moving the mouse to a particular spot and saying "put a folder icon here").
Also, reminds me of the Celery Man sketch from Tim and Eric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWBEK8w_YY
Here's a demo: https://coinbase.onsites.co/o/aurora-h
I also redesigned the onsite experience. Demo here as well: https://airbnb.onsites.co/joe-zadeh
[1] As with many things in design, I think I should attribute the source of inspiration, which is Carta. They wrote about a new offer letter format back in 2016. I'm basically taking their Apple Keynote slides and moving them to the web.
- You install it with `npm install server` and use modern ES6+ including async/await very naturally.
- Node.js is the most popular "framework, library or tool" [1], but getting started with most of the current Node.js server frameworks has a really steep learning curve.
- Plugins are coming! They will be a really easy way to extend server in ways that middleware cannot by adding some lifecycle calls.
Feedback is welcome!
[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-f...
Mostly it's a conceptual art piece that's meant to offer a different model of being social online — one that's wholly about ongoing presence and participation, not accumulation and curation. I think I'll try to sell it for a buck in the app store.
http://pypy.org - Python interpreter with a just in time compiler. It's the only alternative python implementation out there, after failures of unladen swallow/pyston etc.
http://bloc11.co.za - Own climbing gym. It's cool to work directly with people and pursue own ideas in a small space.
I've done this probably a dozen times over the last couple of years as a demonstration of the technology.
It always ends the same: Every party fights for ownership of the data, but nobody can figure out what to do with the data once they have it. Nobody wants to pay for it, much less support a subscription model. The free sites are held together with duct tape and chewing gum. Nobody wants to support it in the field. There are too many variables in network infrastructure. You can't use the network in the store because the cashier system is on there and PCI says no way. Getting a solid 802.11 signal in a room full of sheet metal is a nightmare. Customers want to use off-the-shelf cellular hotspots that are pieces of garbage and couldn't hold a TCP packet if it was covered in crazy glue.
But the demonstrations always go well. The customers think it's cool.
So on we go, boldly onward into the IoT future. I just pushed the next release up.
It's cool because it makes her life better and I've had some great feedback from other people trying to manage their intake of sugars about how it makes their lives easier :)
It's a little music production community. You know how everyone on HN laments that small quirky websites have been eaten by bigger ones, so they don't exist any more? My website is cool because it has that sort of community - intelligent and good at music but also funny and super weird. We all kinda know each other, which makes it fun.
Also, a bunch of us have gotten a lot better at making music, which is another nice win. :)
It is cool because we have a serious stream of data to collect, stream, process and store, and provide users with very fast access to massive datasets.
https://ytradio.xyz/
It started with only live streams (24/7 youtube music channels)
I enjoy lofi youtube mixes when coding, and theres a lot of them.
Currently im adding functionality for users to curate the mixes
I think its cool bc its kind of like a shared youtube playlist for a particular niche, with nice ui, and soon with curation
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/21/17147800/youtube-streamin...
Also i havent really put this site out there before, so any feedback or ideas are welcome:)
I've wanted to build something similar but haven't gotten around to it.
Couple questions: What do the icons at the top of the page do? (The music note, rain drop, anchor, etc) I think they are some sort of filter but click them doesn't seem to do anything. A tooltip or quick note might help the user know what they are for.
would you consider adding soundcloud integration? I have a bunch of playlists/music that I can only find on soundcloud and want a way to integrate with youtube playlist for continuous play/mixed playlists.
are you open to outsider help? I've been looking for a project to help contribute to and really like what you have started. Wouldn't mind helping with some PRs if you are open to it.
Great work!
Thanks:)
So I just broke those this week with an update & some refactoring, but they are for soundscapes, like rain, ocean, cafe background noise ect. - still thinking about how to group things
You know, open sourcing with multiple devs is something I haven’t put much thought into - at least for this project. I will have to move around some configs and do some readme stuff but growing that collaboration muscle seems important. Ill let that stir in my head, its still my baby, but I don’t see any harm, so maybe in a little:)
Soundcloud is a great idea:) I didn’t think of that either! - probably bc I don’t use it enough. Im definitely going to look into that this weekend.
Thanks and I’m really glad u guys like it this made my day:)
In any case, I'll be keeping an eye on the project. Good luck!
However, because of Apple's new strict rules on what it considers user aggregated content, privacy, and etc. It's been stuck on beta for a while. I originally wanted to create a YouTube aggregator (like yours) however, I'm almost certain Apple will reject it.
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