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Wednesday, 20 January 2021

Show HN: An automated security/performance checker for Laravel apps https://bit.ly/3oZaZdk

Show HN: An automated security/performance checker for Laravel apps https://bit.ly/3o4Dfd8 January 21, 2021 at 01:11AM

Show HN: FaceCompare – A macOS app for finding similar photos by face https://bit.ly/39296Hh

Show HN: FaceCompare – A macOS app for finding similar photos by face https://bit.ly/3p7fSRy January 21, 2021 at 12:16AM

Show HN: A simple rust library to extract code blocks from Markdown files https://bit.ly/39OC2lf

Show HN: A simple rust library to extract code blocks from Markdown files https://bit.ly/38Zg1RB January 20, 2021 at 09:54PM

Show HN: New data portal for Medicare/Medicaid I designed https://bit.ly/3ivs6B6

Show HN: New data portal for Medicare/Medicaid I designed https://bit.ly/2XXyk3h January 20, 2021 at 07:37PM

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies https://bit.ly/3qAKYl0

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies Hey everyone! My name is Laila and with my co-founder Iliana I’m building Manara ( https://bit.ly/3sKUZhe ). We support software engineers in the Arab region to get great jobs at tech companies worldwide. These companies appreciate being connected to skilled talent that is diverse and inclusive (50% of our engineers are women). I grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. My dream was to become a Silicon Valley software engineer. Eventually I hacked my way there successfully, becoming a software engineer at Nvidia. I like to joke that the hardest part wasn’t escaping Gaza in the middle of the 2014 war, but rather, my first interviews... which I totally bombed. ;) Once I got to Silicon Valley, I was surprised at the lack of women. In Gaza, more women study computer science than men! I was also surprised to learn how hard it was for companies in Silicon Valley to attract the talent we needed. During interviews with candidates I’d often think, “I wish I could hire my friends in Gaza. They’d be great.” That’s when I re-connected with Iliana. She and I had met in Gaza when she was running Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG), the first startup accelerator in Gaza. Her work was widely covered and has a few threads on HN including https://bit.ly/3iwdXn5 . Iliana asked me “How can we produce more success stories like yours?” I told her that engineers in the Arab region don't lack talent, but they lack other ingredients. They're mostly not aware of opportunities outside their region, and even if they are aware, they think you have to be a genius to work at a company like Google. Also, they have no idea what sorts of resumes recruiters want to see and don't have brand names to put on them. They don't have referral networks to get their foot in the door. And they're completely unprepared for the style of interviews that tech companies go for. As we talked further, it became clear that all of these problems would be fixable with the right kind of coaching and support, and that bringing this growing talent pool to the global job marketplace would benefit both sides (accelerating the success of global companies, while redistributing wealth to the region). We developed an approach to address those gaps - and it worked. Just last week, 67% of the people we referred to Google for internships made it past the hiring committee (they’re now waiting for their job offers, so if you work at Google and have internship headcount, let us know!) We’ve heard Google interviewers say several times, “This is the best junior engineering interview I’ve ever done.” I want to emphasize that we are not a zero-to-hero bootcamp. Manara is a career accelerator for skilled software engineers at all levels with a focus on junior engineers. Students learn the technical and soft skills they need to pass interviews and get introductions to companies with jobs that are either remote or on-site (in Europe or Canada). We charge an affordable fee to both candidates and companies, only if a successful match is made. We focus on Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) for a few reasons. On the business side, that's where we're from and where our connections are, so we understand the dynamics and have comparative advantage there. Second, the region has a huge opportunity: the youngest population in the world, 2x more university graduates than 10 years ago, women studying computer science at high rates (in some countries more women study CS than men: 52% in Palestine, 62% in Tunisia, 70% in Qatar), and so on. Third, it lends itself to scale. Our graduates have a high sense of affiliation and loyalty to the region, which means that as soon as we place 1 candidate at a company that’s growing, s/he comes back to us looking for 3 more to hire. But we’re not building Manara just for business reasons; rather, we were motivated to launch Manara for social impact reasons. The unemployment rate for recent college grads is ~60%; for women who studied CS, it can be as high as 83%. It pains us personally to see highly talented friends of ours struggling to find (meaningful) work. We originally planned to build Manara as a non-profit, but after lots of research, we realized that a social enterprise approach would better support our mission: the pressure of becoming self-sustainable forces sharper thinking and execution, and will make it possible for us to deliver this solution at scale. A powerful part of our impact is the community we are building. Students study in cohorts. Within each cohort, they compete to see who can solve more coding problems, and form strong bonds and support each other. Students also meet volunteers from tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Wayfair, Stripe, etc for mentorship and mock interviews once they achieve certain milestones (e.g., 100 questions on Leetcode). This leads to high motivation and retention. It also gives them access to professional networks like those Americans have when graduating from universities like Stanford. Often these networks later help them with their job hunting: just last week, a candidate got an interview at Uber thanks to a referral from one of our volunteers who works there. Our volunteers love the chance to use their professional skills to mentor engineers from untraditional backgrounds. Several told us that they spent years looking for an effective way to contribute. One recently wrote to us, “I'm in awe of the work Manara is doing. I love interacting with my mentee and providing mock interviews - so thank you for giving me a platform to be able to support these students.” If you're hiring, check out https://bit.ly/2KA9hAg . If you'd like to get involved or join our newsletter, check out https://bit.ly/2M90F44 . Most importantly, we can't wait to hear what you think, wherever in the world you might be. Over to you, HN! January 20, 2021 at 06:21PM

Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week https://bit.ly/2M69g7t

Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week https://bit.ly/3o1Fi1N January 20, 2021 at 06:00PM

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App https://bit.ly/391fbnu

Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App https://bit.ly/2LQGvMb January 20, 2021 at 05:24PM

Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown https://bit.ly/38Z3SMk

Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown https://bit.ly/3o2y4uu January 20, 2021 at 05:17PM

Show HN: AnimationCPU https://bit.ly/392cHFg

Show HN: AnimationCPU Features - Basis for OS, NoCode and UIs, apps and games - Ultra fast and light for low power devices, compiler, jit, vm, and everything is procedural - Reactive and live coding - ACPUL pure minimalistic programming language - Mobile IDE with realtime reverse debugger - Develop on desktop and mobiles, tablets and phones - Visual first - Code and No-code - Minimalistic core - A new alternative to Flash Screenshots: [1]: https://bit.ly/3p2of0S [2]: https://bit.ly/2Kxulr9 [3]: https://bit.ly/38Y6oTd More videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvin_F73BoNJ_VibPvtSjg Bootloader code sample https://bit.ly/3qxqysY More updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/acpustudio Read more https://bit.ly/3o0RzU4 Please fill out the form to connect to Animation CPU TestFlight! https://bit.ly/3o5NUUV January 20, 2021 at 01:52PM

Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn vim faster https://bit.ly/3c2BRFT

Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn vim faster https://bit.ly/3o5i4b0 January 20, 2021 at 02:46PM

Show HN: Audio DSP language SOUL reaches v1.0 status https://bit.ly/39J8XaU

Show HN: Audio DSP language SOUL reaches v1.0 status https://bit.ly/2M4WoyD January 20, 2021 at 12:11PM

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Show HN: A simple browser based video editor (desktop only) https://bit.ly/39LzYud

Show HN: A simple browser based video editor (desktop only) https://bit.ly/3qC5eCN January 20, 2021 at 05:56AM

Show HN: Rent a Brain https://bit.ly/2Nn3Aqn

Show HN: Rent a Brain https://bit.ly/3oZ0lmQ January 20, 2021 at 03:57AM

Show HN: Plugin Based, Batteries Included, Web Scraper https://bit.ly/3ixUaUn

Show HN: Plugin Based, Batteries Included, Web Scraper https://bit.ly/3bRwjxP January 20, 2021 at 01:02AM

Show HN: Il2cpp-modder – Generate DLL injection projects for hacking Unity games https://bit.ly/35TlhV2

Show HN: Il2cpp-modder – Generate DLL injection projects for hacking Unity games https://bit.ly/2XTlOBF January 20, 2021 at 01:21AM

Show HN: FounderZ – helps founders manage the investor courting process https://bit.ly/3o7Wwe5

Show HN: FounderZ – helps founders manage the investor courting process https://bit.ly/38Wy36S January 19, 2021 at 11:03PM

Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited) https://bit.ly/2Ngkve5

Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited) Hi there, I am the author of this Show HN post: https://bit.ly/2JcSq29 Back then, I released the materials for my Intro to Python course "to the world". GitHub repo: https://bit.ly/3bqiNhb I incorporated many of the constructive criticism and am currently recording a video lecture series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10kRUPgP7EwLhyeN5lOZW2kH I guess that a lot of people without a CS background would find these resources valuable and am open for further feedback. If you have any "non-tech" friends who want to learn to code, please feel free to direct them to my course. Stay healthy everybody! January 19, 2021 at 08:20PM

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