Show HN: FreeBoardGames.org – FOSS platform for publishing boardgame.io games https://bit.ly/37X9UvQ

Show HN: FreeBoardGames.org – FOSS platform for publishing boardgame.io games Hello HN, I have started FBG some years ago when I moved to the Bay Area and could not find a simple, cross-platform, no-registration way to play board games with my friends back in my home country. I also wanted to make it simple to create multiplayer board games online for developers in their free time. Shortly after, I found out about boardgame.io with similar goals and decided to join forces with them. It became the engine of our board games, and we focused on publishing/serving them. To be fair with everyone and inspired by Wikipedia, we made the project a non-profit with GPLv3 Affero license. Since then, the project has gotten many amazing contributors that developed really cool board games, added translations, helped with infra, etc (see https://bit.ly/3mpZkWJ ...). My focus has been on the infrastructure (scaling, adding text chat, etc). During the pandemic, we saw a large 30x increase in usage, and it also became more useful for me, as I started using it at work for (now virtual) fun team meeting events. Please check it out and give any feedback! I've been postponing submitting on HN for a long time because I always felt it "wasn't ready enough" as there are a ton of rough edges, but I came to the realization that this feeling might never go away. August 20, 2021 at 07:14PM

Show HN: Cassyni – Relaunching Academic Seminars https://bit.ly/3y8a8L4

Show HN: Cassyni – Relaunching Academic Seminars Hi, this is Andrew (arhpreston) and Ben (benjyk) from Cassyni ( https://bit.ly/3swF2f6 ). We both completed PhDs in physics before going on to found Publons and Kopernio, companies that were acquired by -- and became a part of -- Web of Science, a product researchers on HN may be familiar with. It is well known how important academic seminars are for networking, promoting your research, and keeping up with latest developments. But the scale is under-appreciated: by our estimates more than 1 million academic seminars were happening every year. And then Covid came along... As a result many seminar series are now online and recorded using solutions that cobble together tools like Zoom, Google Sites and Sheets. This all more or less works but is painful and time consuming to operate. Our co-founders, researchers at Imperial College London and Texas A&M, experienced this firsthand. With their input we set out to build a tool to take the pain out of organising a seminar series. The idea is that in just a few minutes you can set up a professional looking seminar series and begin inviting researchers. We take care of the tedious process of setting up an online presence and working with speakers to find a time slot that works for them, collect their bio, abstract, promotion and more. We’ve been operating in beta for several months now. You can see some of the seminar series that are up and running on our homepage. These range from your standard departmental series (ABI Tuesday Seminars: https://bit.ly/3j1Ld7N ), to a series about a specific tool for scientific simulations (PyFR: https://bit.ly/3AXg7UN ) through to a journal that brings in authors to talk about influential papers (J. Comp Phys.: https://bit.ly/2W5wI9X ). Note that you can click on the archive tab of each series to watch recordings of previous seminars. As you can see, these are not just standard departmental seminars; the shift to online has removed geographics barriers, enabling different types of seminar series to develop. What they all have in common is that they are helping communities to form around different kinds of research topics, and they all give you information and nuance you wouldn’t find by reading the related publications alone. On the attendee side, we’ve done some nifty work to integrate with Zoom so the live experience is better (instead of a name in a Zoom meeting you can see the profile of people in the room and participate in a live Q&A: https://bit.ly/2Wcvgmz ). In the longer term we think Cassyni can help to make seminars and their recordings a searchable (e.g., check out the slides we’ve automatically extracted from the video and search for “flux” here: https://bit.ly/2WgzZU8 ) and citable (as you can see from the previous link public seminars on Cassyni get a DOI and are indexed in CrossRef) part of the sphere of human knowledge -- a complement to the published literature. We thought we’d share what we’ve built with HN in the hope of getting some feedback about what we can improve. If you are a researcher please do take a look and let us know what you think. And if you’re interested in setting up a seminar series drop us a line (help@cassyni.com) to let us know where you came from and we’ll organise an HN discount for you. August 20, 2021 at 04:03PM

Show HN: Yay||Nay – The Peak of Automation: Automating saying yes/no https://bit.ly/2XJ3zCk

Show HN: Yay||Nay – The Peak of Automation: Automating saying yes/no https://bit.ly/3y2o9Kp August 20, 2021 at 06:37AM

Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones https://bit.ly/3mgsxmC

Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones https://bit.ly/3sxi7A9 August 20, 2021 at 12:59AM

Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line https://bit.ly/3xWmTbC

Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line https://bit.ly/3j1Itr6 August 18, 2021 at 03:03PM

Show HN: Minymon – cute and helpful pets for your website https://bit.ly/3y52Ibs

Show HN: Minymon – cute and helpful pets for your website https://bit.ly/3miFj4i August 19, 2021 at 06:53PM

Show HN: Made a service that can text you as soon as the PS5 is back in stock https://bit.ly/2Uvjh2y

Show HN: Made a service that can text you as soon as the PS5 is back in stock https://bit.ly/382bMDi August 19, 2021 at 06:09PM

Show HN: Canonic: Visual Development Platform https://bit.ly/3suAohL

Show HN: Canonic: Visual Development Platform https://bit.ly/3D3nbRV August 19, 2021 at 05:33PM

Show HN: Gossip: short form social audio https://bit.ly/2W8MBMI

Show HN: Gossip: short form social audio https://bit.ly/3k7serR August 19, 2021 at 11:44AM

Show HN: SurplusCI – runners for your CI pipelines. More builds, smaller bills https://bit.ly/3k6eMV8

Show HN: SurplusCI – runners for your CI pipelines. More builds, smaller bills https://bit.ly/3mv3LzB August 19, 2021 at 03:03PM

Show HN: Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact https://bit.ly/3CWjyx7

Show HN: Video conference from 6ft away using your hands or phone to interact https://bit.ly/3meI5r0 August 18, 2021 at 04:49PM

Show HN: ETSD – Transmit sensitive data encrypted across your organization https://bit.ly/3D2XlgD

Show HN: ETSD – Transmit sensitive data encrypted across your organization https://bit.ly/3gfDbpQ August 18, 2021 at 11:56AM

Show HN: How Do I Cook That? Recipe search by photo https://bit.ly/2VYlgNP

Show HN: How Do I Cook That? Recipe search by photo https://bit.ly/3z4d398 August 19, 2021 at 05:17AM

Show HN: Job Board for Rust Developer Skills https://bit.ly/3y0FraO

Show HN: Job Board for Rust Developer Skills https://bit.ly/3CZpqpf August 19, 2021 at 04:18AM

Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – make your own NeuralHash collisions https://bit.ly/3svDodN

Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – make your own NeuralHash collisions https://bit.ly/3k3YEmR August 19, 2021 at 02:22AM

Show HN: FilesRemote. Edit files over SSH with any local editor. With sudo https://bit.ly/3ATtWnn

Show HN: FilesRemote. Edit files over SSH with any local editor. With sudo https://bit.ly/2W9Yge8 August 19, 2021 at 01:49AM

Show HN: Learn music theory with Ableton Push, WebMIDI and WebUSB display driver https://bit.ly/3ghkour

Show HN: Learn music theory with Ableton Push, WebMIDI and WebUSB display driver https://bit.ly/3z09tNb August 18, 2021 at 09:04PM

Show HN: BrainTool – Beyond Bookmarks, a Topic Manager for your online life https://bit.ly/3z35I9y

Show HN: BrainTool – Beyond Bookmarks, a Topic Manager for your online life Long time looker, first time Show-er here! I built the initial BrainTool to scratch a personal itch - to unify my bookmarks and online resources with text-based notes. I've spent the last several months iterating on it with feedback from early adopters and UX volunteers. It's finally at the point where I feel confident enough to seek this communities feedback. BrainTool is a browser extension that makes it easy to save pages of interest into a personal 'topic' hierarchy, along with associated notes. Your topics are shown in an editable side panel which can also control the browser - opening and closing tabs, tab groups and windows by topic. There's a 90 sec intro video here: https://youtu.be/7zvyvATpoVM The above by itself makes BrainTool one of the handiest bookmarks/tabs/browser managers around, but the kicker is that all your data is stored in a separately editable org-mode[1] format plaintext file. Off-browser I edit my braintool file in emacs but I've also played around syncing with LogSeq, Orgzly and other org-based tools. If you're an emacs user it could give you a shallow on-ramp into the world of org-mode, if you're an aspiring PKMer it's an easy way to slurp in all of your online resources, if you just want to get out of tab hell and up your browser game - dive right in! Its serverless so your data never leaves your personal environment. Chromium-based browsers only for now (Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc. not FF). Landing page: https://bit.ly/3j0PM2h Some articles on use: https://bit.ly/3AV3n0W Github repo: https://bit.ly/3mcsiJt [1] https://bit.ly/3gbSwYQ August 18, 2021 at 05:52PM

Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing https://bit.ly/3iX3pzm

Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing https://bit.ly/3iW3bID August 18, 2021 at 05:25PM

Show HN: Shisho, a lightweight code matching and transformation engine in Rust https://bit.ly/37UukFI

Show HN: Shisho, a lightweight code matching and transformation engine in Rust https://bit.ly/3AS4Tkr August 18, 2021 at 06:11PM