Monday, 5 April 2021

Sunday, 4 April 2021

Show HN: Test if your (US) phone number is in the leaked Facebook data https://bit.ly/3wuoxBV

Show HN: Test if your (US) phone number is in the leaked Facebook data https://bit.ly/39HBkak April 5, 2021 at 04:09AM

Show HN: gRPC server for hnswlib – a fast approximate nearest neighbor search https://bit.ly/2PyLbby

Show HN: gRPC server for hnswlib – a fast approximate nearest neighbor search https://bit.ly/3wqbFN5 April 4, 2021 at 11:43PM

Show HN: I wrote an HN bot to suggest HTTPS url when people post HTTP URLs https://bit.ly/3fTS5mH

Show HN: I wrote an HN bot to suggest HTTPS url when people post HTTP URLs It's inspired by this comment I made: https://bit.ly/3cQjF25. I actually saw several comments with HTTP URL posted, and that was the only one I bothered to comment on. So I thought that this is something better suited for bots than human. I hacked this together over yesterday and today: https://bit.ly/3drHSuw. Basically it uses the Firebase API (https://bit.ly/3fIrmJE) to find comments with HTTP URLs in them, try the HTTPS version, compare the contents, post back a comment if the contents are more than 95% similar. The "95% similar" part was actually the first part I wrote in the code. At first I tried a few existing go packages implementing diff/lcs, but most of them was quite slow and does a lot of allocations when I'm comparing two randomly generated 10KiB blobs, so I wrote my own (https://bit.ly/31Zs2Cp), which is optimized for space (it does almost no allocations), and it's also faster because allocations are slow. (I know this is an unfair comparison that most of the existing implementations need to give you an output that can be used to reconstruct the two blobs back, so at least some of their allocations are required and unavoidable) I also wrote a bug that it would find the same HTTP url in every run and post the same comment over and over again. My apologize to dang or whoever dealt with it (or maybe the system is good enough that it blocked those repetitive comments automatically). In the end it successfully made 6 comments across ~4 hours (not including the repetitive ones). All of those comments are flagged (likely due to hn policy), https://bit.ly/3sPWxq3 is the only one that's still visible to other users at the time of writing, if you are curious. I just killed it completely from the request of dang. Although it only lived for a few hours, it's still a fun exercise. Maybe I'll convert it into a reddit bot next? Who knows. April 5, 2021 at 12:52AM

Show HN: Docuowl – Pretty documentation generator based on Stripe's layout https://bit.ly/3wrHxRr

Show HN: Docuowl – Pretty documentation generator based on Stripe's layout https://bit.ly/3wuOfpF April 4, 2021 at 11:04PM

Show HN: A decentralised VC firm using Bitclout? https://bit.ly/2PW2piS

Show HN: A decentralised VC firm using Bitclout? Experiments are fun. I recently came across Bitclout, and I love the underlying concept. It’s ballsy, will it work? — time will tell. I think Bitclout as a thesis is moving towards the right direction. Decentralised Social Media networks will be the next thing and allowing users to own their own social equity and monetise that is the future. Last year I started an experimental fund, Khoob (https://bit.ly/3wpN6Qn) The idea was to invest in and build interesting Indian companies (a Betaworks / Expa for India). Thus far we have made 4 investments, and are building 4 companies. At Khoob I’m the solo GP, no LPs — so plenty of room to experiment. Currently Bitclout is aiming at helping individuals productise themselves. Individuals are brands, so why not an actual brand? The VC (venture capital) space is also undergoing a metamorphosis (eg. Sahil Lavingia's recent distributed raise for Gumroad). With that said we setup : https://bit.ly/2R8KTIT Currently the revenue into Khoob comes in the form of: 1). Dividends from investments / companies we have built. (Revenue Sharing) 2). Carry from liquidation events. (M&A, Secondary Sales). At the end of Q2–2021 we will be using 10% of our proceeds to purchase Khoob coins on Bitclout. Purchasers of our coins will be invited into a mailing list where we will be opening up data regarding current / future investments and companies we are building. This experiment will be about understanding whether we can decentralise Khoob as a fund and bring on (micro)LPs in a radically different way. Would love your thoughts/feedback. April 4, 2021 at 11:00PM

Show HN: Documentation system for any kind of project and documentation type https://bit.ly/31NSUF2

Show HN: Documentation system for any kind of project and documentation type https://bit.ly/31NSY7K April 4, 2021 at 10:49PM

Show HN: Map of active customers for landing page https://bit.ly/3cQ7QsJ

Show HN: Map of active customers for landing page https://bit.ly/3rJt0go April 4, 2021 at 09:38PM

Show HN: Wayland Explorer – Easily read Wayland protocol documentation online https://bit.ly/39FmK2W

Show HN: Wayland Explorer – Easily read Wayland protocol documentation online https://bit.ly/3wtGKiM April 4, 2021 at 09:20PM

Show HN: Beautiful PDFs from HTML https://bit.ly/2PSPCOc

Show HN: Beautiful PDFs from HTML https://bit.ly/3cOEyuv April 4, 2021 at 07:16PM

Show HN: Databunker – a GDPR compliant, secure storage for personal data (PII) https://bit.ly/31M8r8E

Show HN: Databunker – a GDPR compliant, secure storage for personal data (PII) https://bit.ly/39HNHDg April 4, 2021 at 04:37PM

Show HN: Create an endpoint and table to record HTTP requests in a few seconds https://bit.ly/3umwmHI

Show HN: Create an endpoint and table to record HTTP requests in a few seconds https://bit.ly/3wzslBZ April 4, 2021 at 07:47AM

Show HN: Simple, readable, chronological front page items from Hacker News https://bit.ly/3cPlQD3

Show HN: Simple, readable, chronological front page items from Hacker News https://bit.ly/39JnfZM April 4, 2021 at 01:14PM

Show HN: Clayoven – beautiful website generator aimed at math-heavy sites https://bit.ly/31LAODW

Show HN: Clayoven – beautiful website generator aimed at math-heavy sites https://bit.ly/34j5qLD April 4, 2021 at 01:12PM

Show HN: Live Feed of the HN Top 30 as an IRC Channel https://bit.ly/3sT6GCc

Show HN: Live Feed of the HN Top 30 as an IRC Channel https://bit.ly/3rOp4ej April 4, 2021 at 12:02PM

Show HN: I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there https://bit.ly/3sT2jHi

Show HN: I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there https://bit.ly/3wqt08B April 4, 2021 at 11:01AM

Saturday, 3 April 2021

Show HN: Clayoven – beautiful website generator aimed at math-heavy sites https://bit.ly/3rTbHt7

Show HN: Clayoven – beautiful website generator aimed at math-heavy sites https://bit.ly/34j5qLD April 4, 2021 at 07:29AM

Show HN: Miniflux-CLI – offline-first Miniflux client https://bit.ly/2Oib5j6

Show HN: Miniflux-CLI – offline-first Miniflux client Hey Hacker News, miniflux-cli developer here. I use miniflux as primary source of things to read (including hacker news, of course), but in my case I don't have stable internet connection most of the time, so I did offline-first console client for miniflux, check it out: https://bit.ly/2PwUQPS It syncs all feeds and entries on start and after that you can read all the content offline (including "mark as read"/"mark as unread"). The project built on go, using bbolt db, tview and official miniflux api client. Some neat features - you can set text and background colors of each ui element and hide/show sidebar, statusbar and hotkeybar. Custom hotkeys will be available later, for now "vim-like" is used. April 3, 2021 at 10:50PM