Monday, 5 April 2021

Show HN: ESP32 Walkie-Talkie Using UDP Broadcast and ESP-Now https://bit.ly/2PWbok7

Show HN: ESP32 Walkie-Talkie Using UDP Broadcast and ESP-Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_h38X4_eQQ April 5, 2021 at 08:56PM

Show HN: Tidbyt – A connected, programmable LED matrix display [KS] https://bit.ly/2Q1fVlb

Show HN: Tidbyt – A connected, programmable LED matrix display [KS] https://bit.ly/3mn08cK April 5, 2021 at 07:56PM

Show HN: Has my Facebook data been leaked? https://bit.ly/3wrHTrb

Show HN: Has my Facebook data been leaked? https://bit.ly/31LuZGf April 5, 2021 at 07:14PM

Show HN: Automated stripping of CSS/JS to improve performance audits https://bit.ly/3cQPAQ7

Show HN: Automated stripping of CSS/JS to improve performance audits https://bit.ly/3wwe0G4 April 5, 2021 at 05:44PM

Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making https://bit.ly/2OrcZ14

Show HN: See the stock trades your representative is making Hey HN, I am the creator of senatestockwatcher.com and im finally happy to say that the same data that is filed from the House of Representatives is now live for everyone to watch, report against, and use. https://bit.ly/3rR0vNK When Senate Stock Watcher was released, the US was in the midst of an election year and after the COVID market crash the SEC had opened some investigations on 3 Senators for insider trading allegations. My interest in politics and finance lead me to build that website, but the number one question I always got was "where is the houses' data?" The House of Reps exclusively files their transactions reports in PDF forms that vary wildly in quality and format, so OCR was not a trustworthy and tenable solution. There is a supporting platform for the community to contribute to this dataset so that it can eventually be 100% complete. To date, I have transcribed over 690 transactions. There are literally hundreds of thousands more to go. If you would like to help on this front - you can also go to: https://bit.ly/3fIhNKB This data is available, totally open, in both JSON and CSV format so that people more savvy than me can uncover trends and patterns. April 5, 2021 at 05:22PM

Show HN: My personal website is a shell https://bit.ly/2RcwMCx

Show HN: My personal website is a shell https://bit.ly/3dyJrHn April 5, 2021 at 05:08PM

Show HN: Ampie finds HN discussions of any URL and good pages on the same domain https://bit.ly/3dvpiSs

Show HN: Ampie finds HN discussions of any URL and good pages on the same domain https://bit.ly/3cNaW0x April 5, 2021 at 03:08PM

Show HN: Datature – A NoCode platform for training deep neural nets https://bit.ly/3dyAWfj

Show HN: Datature – A NoCode platform for training deep neural nets https://bit.ly/31TbZWl April 5, 2021 at 10:45AM

Show HN: Sixteen year old developer made a fullstack Twitter clone https://bit.ly/39GiFeS

Show HN: Sixteen year old developer made a fullstack Twitter clone https://bit.ly/31Jox2C April 5, 2021 at 08:20AM

Show HN: Launch a Private LinkedIn-Like Professional Network https://bit.ly/3t3w2h7

Show HN: Launch a Private LinkedIn-Like Professional Network https://bit.ly/3ujnO4z April 5, 2021 at 07:31AM

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