Show HN: Use libsqlite3 directly from Python with ctypes https://bit.ly/3mDGN9x

Show HN: Use libsqlite3 directly from Python with ctypes https://bit.ly/2WeTVqq August 23, 2021 at 07:27AM

Show HN: GLAuth 2.0 out, only a year late https://bit.ly/3j5221w

Show HN: GLAuth 2.0 out, only a year late https://bit.ly/2Wh72Yf August 22, 2021 at 11:06PM

Show HN: Hacker News Summary Service (HNSS) https://bit.ly/2W7kf69

Show HN: Hacker News Summary Service (HNSS) I'm Sid Sijbrandij and I love reading Hacker News. I almost always read the comment section and when there is a summary of the article in there that is frequently helpful. But most articles don't have a summary so I want to hire someone to create more summaries. I hope that this will make Hacker News more enjoyable and efficient to use for its readers. Many times it takes a while to figure out what the article is about, a summary would allow people a quick way to see if they are interested in investing that time. There are potential downsides: 1. People only read the summary and not the full article. 2. The summary might not be clear or correct. 3. People who already read the article don't want to see the summary. With a one month experiment we should have a better idea if HNSS is worth it. If it is here to stay we can also see if the summary can become an official part of HN. The writer of the summaries should: 1. Be able to do this for a month 2. Have at least 20 comments on Hacker News 3. Be able to invoice me as a contractor Apply via https://bit.ly/385nJIE August 22, 2021 at 08:00PM

Show HN: Shirtbot irresponsibly easy t-shirts in slack https://bit.ly/3j87wsl

Show HN: Shirtbot irresponsibly easy t-shirts in slack https://bit.ly/3sEMN2L August 22, 2021 at 05:15PM

Show HN: Where I get the last word https://bit.ly/2WgdGOz

Show HN: Where I get the last word https://bit.ly/3zbyJ2S August 22, 2021 at 05:57PM

Show HN: Free to play old-school browser MMORPG https://bit.ly/3B0q3wN

Show HN: Free to play old-school browser MMORPG https://bit.ly/3j7WoMd August 22, 2021 at 11:51AM

Show HN: A https://bit.ly/2XHt2vP

Show HN: A https://bit.ly/3gpcDCN August 22, 2021 at 06:18AM

Show HN: A toy compiler of a Scala subset https://bit.ly/3sBQfeg

Show HN: A toy compiler of a Scala subset https://bit.ly/38347F1 August 22, 2021 at 02:34AM

Show HN: Version 8.0 of SixArm Unix shell functions https://bit.ly/3kfBl9H

Show HN: Version 8.0 of SixArm Unix shell functions https://bit.ly/383UuG8 August 21, 2021 at 02:29PM

Show HN: A Pure SQL Raytracer https://bit.ly/3glCyvk

Show HN: A Pure SQL Raytracer https://bit.ly/3CZmXuS August 21, 2021 at 09:36PM

Show HN: edotool (X11/Wayland) https://bit.ly/3kfuUUk

Show HN: edotool (X11/Wayland) Howdy folks! edotool: Simulate keystrokes. X11 and Wayland supported - Please see: https://bit.ly/3szGDkl or https://bit.ly/380bo8u Cheers! August 21, 2021 at 08:53PM

Show HN: Facata – Connect to SQL Databases from Python https://bit.ly/3CYWIom

Show HN: Facata – Connect to SQL Databases from Python https://bit.ly/3glbyvV August 21, 2021 at 05:47PM

Show HN: DocOne – A Search Engine for Healthcare https://bit.ly/2XFgMMh

Show HN: DocOne – A Search Engine for Healthcare https://bit.ly/3jNbMwE August 21, 2021 at 09:27AM

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

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