Saturday, 21 August 2021

Friday, 20 August 2021

Show HN: Browser extension to (fuzzy) search bookmarks, history and open tabs https://bit.ly/2WgghYg

Show HN: Browser extension to (fuzzy) search bookmarks, history and open tabs https://bit.ly/3kft0CW August 21, 2021 at 06:34AM

Show HN: Build a Lisp in Swift https://bit.ly/2XL03HF

Show HN: Build a Lisp in Swift https://bit.ly/3rYzs4O August 21, 2021 at 01:26AM

Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas https://bit.ly/3kbaqvZ

Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas https://bit.ly/3z5Qcdl August 20, 2021 at 12:06PM

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

Thursday, 19 August 2021

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

Wednesday, 18 August 2021