The web tool will switch the position of latitude and longitude in text. It's a common issue in GIS industry as there's no agreement which order is the correct one (and tools/software want one or the other). The initial Show HN dicussion derailed into which order is the correct one, second-guessing why the tool could be any useful to anybody and it went downhill (well, flagged) from there.
Are you on mobile? There is a second column with flipped coordinates that is offscreen if the phone is in portrait mode. I suggest that you try to browse the page in landscape mode.
Hitting flip simply takes the entered (or default) coords and displays two columns of info below, maps and data about the location. Hitting it again doesn’t toggle anything further. Slightly confusing at first.
I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending.
I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!
This is awesome, I'm already using it. Thanks so much!
A few years ago a friend and I listened to one album a week from r/hiphopheads' Essential Albums List. It got me thinking about having an "Album club" like a book club. Each week the club's playlist would get updated with a new album or songs to listen to that week.
I see in the repo you mention wanting to add support for archiving. I'd really like to see a sort of master playlist for a genre. Just keep adding the songs from each weekly playlist to the master genre playlist, then the "date added" field could be used for looking at the playlist historically. You lose duplicates this way, so maybe not the best archival strategy, but with the master playlist you could have hours of music instead of an hour.
It's a showcase of movies that people made and released for free on YouTube (my original submission has better details). I'm pretty sure it got hit by the auto spam filter due to the name.
If you make a movie (>40min) independently and share it on YouTube and Letterboxd and I find I'd probably add it so long as it looks like you actually tried to make something.
I don't really care if the movie is "good". The people who made and shared them clearly put a lot of work into them and were brave enough to share their art on the internet so to me I feel they deserve some nice showcase
I setup an email will@welovefreemovies.com too if you want to send me something directly
I've been running the business for almost two years now (and it's now more of a status page that also monitors uptime), and it's still steadily growing!
I've launched a Windows app on the Microsoft Store a bit over a month ago. Didn't get any traction here (as windows closed source apps rarely do) but feel free to check it out at https://lumotray.com
I have already got a few downloads from the MS store though. "Advertising" was basically just a post here, a couple of posts on reddit and some links sent to friends.
Of course. It is indeed a C# (WPF) application that started as .NET6 during development but eventually migrated to .NET7 as it came out shortly before I published it.
I told it to gen a bunch of heartwarming messages, make a website to display them, now make it have a color gradient, now make the text fade in and out, now have the site have a button to play an audio file, etc etc etc
Spent more time hosting it via GitHub than making the site, really blew my mind in terms of the creation process.
This is fun, I like the music. Was ChatGPT able to give you the gradient animation as well? I have struggled to get ChatGPT to do anything that involves spatial reasoning.
it's an updated take on the DOM morphing algorithm of morphdom, and it uses what i call "ID sets" to allow the morphing algorithm to "see" children in the DOM when making morphing decisions in the parents, which means you don't need to annotate the DOM with as many ids
here is a demo showing how it outperforms morphdom when ids are sparse/deep:
I tried with my web app https://collanon.com and didn't get much traction on HN(maybe bad timing).
It's on its 3rd year of development/improvement and it's about making and sharing easily private discussions and confrontations(1vs1) with temporary/total anonymity in mind without relying on any big tech service or cloud providers to keep the data more private.
It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.
This is incredibly useful! Is it possible to make this into a simple (single page) shopping list? Where I type my shopping list, product recommends substitutes with lower sugar — and gives me distribution (histogram) of main ingredients for my shopping list.
This is definitely possible. I’m not sure if we’re going to have time for this as we’re occupied by work on Scraping Fish but we shared the code for scraping nutrition facts data from Walmart on github: https://github.com/pawelkobojek/scrapingfish-blog-projects/t.... Feel free to take it and build such app/website on top of it.
Streak Share - let's you share a live link to any email thread in your inbox. Useful to share with others without forwarding, embedding into google docs/notion or sharing on slack.
No JS, and easy to self host. It’s a place to put your dotfiles. It comes with a CLI loosely based on git for editing, versioning, pushing, and pulling.
I don't think I made it clear the last couple of submits that it's a purely solo effort which upon reflection is one of the more interesting things about it!
Nicely designed site! Some unsolicited feedback/idea: I like the examples page but it's a few too many clicks away for the average internet attention span. Could you have a couple interactive examples directly in the hero on the front page? With a button to see "More examples". I'm imagining something like how https://tailwindui.com/ presents their front page.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree the examples page is dated and, aside from the examples actually not being that useful, the list is too long and too far away. I'll update it soon and will definitely use that example as inspo!
In-depth analysis of a memory allocation strategy, which allowed me to write an alternative to std::vector, which in my benchmarks performed better for all but a few workloads and on those few was competitive.
I was exhausted after finishing it. It may have been too long for some folks though. No upvotes.
- Graphs of benchmark results would be neat to have. Remember to put the code and graphs as a sort of TL;DR in that blog post.
- I skimmed the code; there's no clear instructions as to how I'd use it for my own projects. Perhaps work on a CMake / Autoconf config for a library build?
- The repository itself might not have enough visibility due to being self hosted. While I do love self-hosting, maybe posting a read-only mirror on GitHub would bring in more exposure?
> Graphs of benchmark results would be neat to have. Remember to put the code and graphs as a sort of TL;DR
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll use it when I get around to updating this page. For now though I’ll let it sit there, as I’m too tired with it at this point.
> there's no clear instructions as to how I'd use it for my own projects. Perhaps work on a CMake / Autoconf config for a library build?
It’s not meant to be used as a library. It’s only for demonstrative purposes. There are a couple choices made in this code motivated by that, like not checking for integer overflow, or hardcoding page size based on the target platform at compile time. If someone wants to use the code anyway, they should just copy it into their project and possibly modify the parts which aren’t up to snuff. That’s also what I’m doing, as I wrote a more robust version in Rust for my project. I only wrote C++ for the article, because that’s what more people are familiar with, and there are more implementations, so I got to benchmark this code against several implementations of std::vector.
As for CMake/Autotools, I think the scripts in the repo are better for my little demo, as they don’t add any dependencies beyond what’s already available on each platform, they’re more transparent and easier to use. For a big project I’d probably use CMake, but I don’t think it’s warranted here.
> The repository itself might not have enough visibility due to being self hosted. While I do love self-hosting, maybe posting a read-only mirror on GitHub would bring in more exposure?
The intended path of discovery, when it comes to the repo, is through my article. It’s not meant to be independent, so I don’t really care about the discoverability of the repo as a stand-alone thing. As for GitHub, I don’t like it for a variety of reasons and if I can help it, I’ll avoid it.
It's super interesting as someone who never lived through the 80s watching someone programming an 8 bit system. Even more impressive is he is making his own "modern" 8 bit system with off the shelf parts! I'm amazed that people can make complex software in assembly. I feel like my brain can't deal with the limited abstraction
For original content, I would shamelessly plug my post from a month ago titled "The Fascinating development of AI: From ChatGPT and DALL-E to Deepfakes Part 3"
I look at the 3 main technologies that are shaping the way we create content, in text, art, and video, and talk about how we got there. If I were writing it today I'd have to include a 4th part about VALL-E which came out right after I posted it. Maybe I'll write about that later.
I created Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pure Data. They are extensions to the Max/MSP, Ableton Live, and Pure Data computer music environments that embed an s7 Scheme interpreter in the host so that you can script, automate, and live code the hosts with s7, a Scheme from the CCRMA computer music center at Stanford and the same one used in the Snd editor and the Common Music 3 algorithmic composition environment. This allows you to do things like write algorithmic music tools, sequencers, and use the Ableton Live API in Scheme, including with Common Lisp style macros. It has an API for integrating with Max to share data structures, hook into the scheduler, run in the high priority thread, and so on. (The Max javascript object does not run in the high thread and so while it is similar in scope, it can't be used for accurate timing, so is no good for sequencing or live algorithmic generation.) S4M allows you to do all the goodness of high level music programming in a Lisp, without losing the ability to use modern commercial tooling and instruments. It's my thesis project for a Masters in Music Technology with Andy Schloss and George Tzanetakis at the University of Victoria, and I plan to continue to a PhD working on it. I tried submitting twice, but it never made the page, which surprised me a bit given Lisp interest here.
Once or twice a year I get a computer music itch. I've never been able to find a tool that really fits what I'm looking for, and have been entirely unsuccessful making my own tools. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing!
I made (am making) an email inbox for your entire domain - https://pretzelbox.cc. Great for solopreneurs and small teams who need use case specific emails like leads@domain or support@domain but don’t want to keep buying email inboxes.
Here are a few cool things you can do with it -
1. Reply as anyone @your-domain
2. Comes with a built-in blog you can post to from your email much like world.hey.com
3. You can share emails as hyperlinks - great for sending reminders to people on WhatsApp/Messenger to tell them to take some action on an older email and to bookmark useful emails
I have a few Chartered Accountant and small law firms practices using it but I thought it would take off in a much bigger way in the indie hacker community than it actually did.
Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - Browse, search, and organize your videos (Win, Mac, Linux).
I sell it for $5.00 but $3.50 goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation. I recommend more people give to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell.org for info).
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Especially at a time when I’m interested in reading some good technical original content and /new is mostly general news.
The web tool will switch the position of latitude and longitude in text. It's a common issue in GIS industry as there's no agreement which order is the correct one (and tools/software want one or the other). The initial Show HN dicussion derailed into which order is the correct one, second-guessing why the tool could be any useful to anybody and it went downhill (well, flagged) from there.
Love the irony of a whole debate when your tool isn't taking an opinion, but instead letting people navigate (pun proudly intended) those two worlds.
I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending.
I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!
A few years ago a friend and I listened to one album a week from r/hiphopheads' Essential Albums List. It got me thinking about having an "Album club" like a book club. Each week the club's playlist would get updated with a new album or songs to listen to that week.
I may use this as some inspiration to make that.
I'm a contrarian, relative to HN, so on the technical/policy side: https://thebulletin.org/premium/2021-07/can-small-modular-re...
It's a showcase of movies that people made and released for free on YouTube (my original submission has better details). I'm pretty sure it got hit by the auto spam filter due to the name.
OG submission if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34288257
I don't really care if the movie is "good". The people who made and shared them clearly put a lot of work into them and were brave enough to share their art on the internet so to me I feel they deserve some nice showcase
I setup an email will@welovefreemovies.com too if you want to send me something directly
I've been running the business for almost two years now (and it's now more of a status page that also monitors uptime), and it's still steadily growing!
I have already got a few downloads from the MS store though. "Advertising" was basically just a post here, a couple of posts on reddit and some links sent to friends.
http://goodvibeai.com/
I told it to gen a bunch of heartwarming messages, make a website to display them, now make it have a color gradient, now make the text fade in and out, now have the site have a button to play an audio file, etc etc etc
Spent more time hosting it via GitHub than making the site, really blew my mind in terms of the creation process.
Crowdsourced rate sharing, like Glassdoor or levels.fyi, but for freelancers.
Launch was meh, but fortunately have been getting a lot of usage through other channels.
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph
it's an updated take on the DOM morphing algorithm of morphdom, and it uses what i call "ID sets" to allow the morphing algorithm to "see" children in the DOM when making morphing decisions in the parents, which means you don't need to annotate the DOM with as many ids
here is a demo showing how it outperforms morphdom when ids are sparse/deep:
https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph#demo
It's on its 3rd year of development/improvement and it's about making and sharing easily private discussions and confrontations(1vs1) with temporary/total anonymity in mind without relying on any big tech service or cloud providers to keep the data more private.
I'm on a path to a big upgrade soon too.
It analyzes how much sugar is in the food based on nutrition facts data scraped from Walmart. It also shows relation between amount of sugar and rating.
That would be life changing.
Streak Share - let's you share a live link to any email thread in your inbox. Useful to share with others without forwarding, embedding into google docs/notion or sharing on slack.
No JS, and easy to self host. It’s a place to put your dotfiles. It comes with a CLI loosely based on git for editing, versioning, pushing, and pulling.
And
https://videopoker.academy
Open source stuff, but I think Deno is less popular that I thought.
I don't think I made it clear the last couple of submits that it's a purely solo effort which upon reflection is one of the more interesting things about it!
A web-based retro gaming platform
In-depth analysis of a memory allocation strategy, which allowed me to write an alternative to std::vector, which in my benchmarks performed better for all but a few workloads and on those few was competitive.
I was exhausted after finishing it. It may have been too long for some folks though. No upvotes.
- Graphs of benchmark results would be neat to have. Remember to put the code and graphs as a sort of TL;DR in that blog post. - I skimmed the code; there's no clear instructions as to how I'd use it for my own projects. Perhaps work on a CMake / Autoconf config for a library build? - The repository itself might not have enough visibility due to being self hosted. While I do love self-hosting, maybe posting a read-only mirror on GitHub would bring in more exposure?
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll use it when I get around to updating this page. For now though I’ll let it sit there, as I’m too tired with it at this point.
> there's no clear instructions as to how I'd use it for my own projects. Perhaps work on a CMake / Autoconf config for a library build?
It’s not meant to be used as a library. It’s only for demonstrative purposes. There are a couple choices made in this code motivated by that, like not checking for integer overflow, or hardcoding page size based on the target platform at compile time. If someone wants to use the code anyway, they should just copy it into their project and possibly modify the parts which aren’t up to snuff. That’s also what I’m doing, as I wrote a more robust version in Rust for my project. I only wrote C++ for the article, because that’s what more people are familiar with, and there are more implementations, so I got to benchmark this code against several implementations of std::vector.
As for CMake/Autotools, I think the scripts in the repo are better for my little demo, as they don’t add any dependencies beyond what’s already available on each platform, they’re more transparent and easier to use. For a big project I’d probably use CMake, but I don’t think it’s warranted here.
> The repository itself might not have enough visibility due to being self hosted. While I do love self-hosting, maybe posting a read-only mirror on GitHub would bring in more exposure?
The intended path of discovery, when it comes to the repo, is through my article. It’s not meant to be independent, so I don’t really care about the discoverability of the repo as a stand-alone thing. As for GitHub, I don’t like it for a variety of reasons and if I can help it, I’ll avoid it.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507046 I made a port of Xixit to the X16 [video]
It's super interesting as someone who never lived through the 80s watching someone programming an 8 bit system. Even more impressive is he is making his own "modern" 8 bit system with off the shelf parts! I'm amazed that people can make complex software in assembly. I feel like my brain can't deal with the limited abstraction
For original content, I would shamelessly plug my post from a month ago titled "The Fascinating development of AI: From ChatGPT and DALL-E to Deepfakes Part 3"
2. https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/the-fascinating-development-...
I look at the 3 main technologies that are shaping the way we create content, in text, art, and video, and talk about how we got there. If I were writing it today I'd have to include a 4th part about VALL-E which came out right after I posted it. Maybe I'll write about that later.
Excited to see what everyone else posts!
The github page is here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
The youtube channel with various demos is here: https://www.youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp
Quiet is a content blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that lets you block out all of the unwanted distractions like Facebook, Twitter, etc...
On the Mac it also acts as a network filter.
I am looking into expending this app to more systems and browsers.
Here are a few cool things you can do with it -
1. Reply as anyone @your-domain
2. Comes with a built-in blog you can post to from your email much like world.hey.com
3. You can share emails as hyperlinks - great for sending reminders to people on WhatsApp/Messenger to tell them to take some action on an older email and to bookmark useful emails
I have a few Chartered Accountant and small law firms practices using it but I thought it would take off in a much bigger way in the indie hacker community than it actually did.
I sell it for $5.00 but $3.50 goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation. I recommend more people give to cost-effective charities (see GiveWell.org for info).
It's also MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App