Saturday, 2 April 2022

Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day https://bit.ly/3u2kTQm

Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day Solar Witch is a little webpage and server which receives and displays messages, so I suppose it's a tiny message board. It's coded in very dubious Arduino C. It's not a 24/7 website. Depending on the state of the battery, the server itself might run all night, but all the messages it receives during the day are deleted at sunset, and the messaging function itself is only active between sunrise and sunset. This is for two reasons: 1. Less usage of Solar Witch during the night conserves battery power. 2. I like the idea of websites which _aren't_ constantly available. Websites which have to sleep too. Websites living on servers which aren't somewhere in the cloud, but which are bound to a particular location, giving you a sense of where in the world they actually live. Solar Witch is very much inspired by the solar-powered version of Low Tech Magazine ( https://bit.ly/3LzWveJ ) and the not-always-online chatroom Gossips Cafe ( https://bit.ly/3J09RPR ), but at a far, far smaller scale. PSA: Solar Witch is a teensy hand-written C server running on a teensy microcontroller attached to a teensy solar panel which can only handle one HTTP request at a time and may have buffer overrun issues due to my ineptitude with C. If it's gone down, please don't be surprised, and rest assured I'll hit the reset button soon! Solar Witch encourages patience. https://bit.ly/3j0NjDW April 2, 2022 at 06:10PM

Friday, 1 April 2022

Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination https://bit.ly/36MKpQI

Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination https://bit.ly/3uRkAHp April 2, 2022 at 07:12AM

Show HN: Host Touchless Menus for Free https://bit.ly/3Dv263m

Show HN: Host Touchless Menus for Free Many restaurants moved to touchless menus during the pandemic. The restaurant owners need a solution to host their existing digital menus (in PDF) online and give QR codes to their customers. When customers scan the QR codes, they can view the menus on mobile and order in person. I built a website for this simple use case last night. I'm planning to get first 100 users and validate product market fit in next few weeks. The basic functionalities will always be free. I probably will be able to monetize by offering tracking and analytics. I don't know if there is a strong need for ordering food on mobile. Some restaurants certainly do this. However heavy automation in the ordering process creates a different dining experience which may not fit all restaurants. I'm not a frontend engineer by any means. The UI is very primitive. I can also open source the project if there's any interest. https://bit.ly/3LyOTZX April 2, 2022 at 01:51AM

Show HN: NFTs for Starving Children https://bit.ly/3tWkXkB

Show HN: NFTs for Starving Children https://bit.ly/3K2pI1L April 2, 2022 at 03:25AM

Show HN: Snabl – a practical embedded Lisp in C++ https://bit.ly/3qSgKfS

Show HN: Snabl – a practical embedded Lisp in C++ https://bit.ly/3quLALt April 2, 2022 at 01:31AM

Show HN: App That Creates Music Based on Weather and Health Data https://bit.ly/3NHeuC7

Show HN: App That Creates Music Based on Weather and Health Data Endless personalized soundscapes to give your mind and body what it needs to achieve total immersion. https://bit.ly/3LyhTBf April 1, 2022 at 12:14PM

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Show HN: Simple and fast reverse port forwarding tool by Python https://bit.ly/3tYMUbK

Show HN: Simple and fast reverse port forwarding tool by Python I write a port forwarding tool using pyhton. Please have a try, thanks ! https://bit.ly/3IVVADW April 1, 2022 at 05:09AM

Show HN: I made a stupid indoor cycling app for my command line https://bit.ly/36LDdnV

Show HN: I made a stupid indoor cycling app for my command line https://bit.ly/3uJdzsa March 31, 2022 at 11:32PM

Show HN: Open-source Role management and Permissions Library https://bit.ly/3LydVZ9

Show HN: Open-source Role management and Permissions Library https://bit.ly/386fJKA March 31, 2022 at 12:32PM

Show HN: Brametric – Advanced calculator to determining your correct bra size https://bit.ly/36JLqZY

Show HN: Brametric – Advanced calculator to determining your correct bra size https://bit.ly/3LvMwap March 31, 2022 at 11:15AM

Show HN: Professional growth in 2 min a day [total rebuild of iOS app] https://bit.ly/35q8hJk

Show HN: Professional growth in 2 min a day [total rebuild of iOS app] https://apple.co/3IUFryo March 31, 2022 at 01:20PM

Show HN: Kusk-gateway, an OpenAPI Ingress Controller, is now in Beta https://bit.ly/3wSyaNb

Show HN: Kusk-gateway, an OpenAPI Ingress Controller, is now in Beta https://bit.ly/3uFEd57 March 31, 2022 at 07:16AM

Show HN: No-communication-boilerplate Stateful Serverless https://bit.ly/3wS4JuA

Show HN: No-communication-boilerplate Stateful Serverless Hi HN! We're Sebas and Elias, and we are building Telekinesis: a serverless platform aimed to make it easy to deploy complex applications. We love serverless because it abstracts away the infrastructure but we think we can take it a step further: abstract away the communication. Effectively, a place where you just code any function or class, we run it in the cloud, and then let you connect securely to it. To be truly easy, it has to support: - stateful objects: you can instantiate classes and manipulate them through our secured websockets connection - any pip/npm package dependencies: we'll keep a container with your dependencies ready to run your code when your service is invoked Since now these services would be pure logic, we can efficiently compose them, just like with open source (pip or npm) packages. However, there would be one key difference, here you can put a price on your code. In this setup, developers could opt in to have their code become open source automatically after a certain amount of time or if it hits an income threshold. We're a long way from the "function marketplace" idea, but we have an early version of the serverless platform you can try at https://bit.ly/2Uc1vgW We are looking for our first users to try our product. We're especially interested in working closely with anyone that's building a prototype. If you are interested you can register for early access or email us at contact@telekinesis.cloud Lastly, if you share any feedback below it would have an enormous value for us. Thanks everyone! March 31, 2022 at 11:26AM

Show HN: M3O Prices – Global prices index https://bit.ly/3iODNnB

Show HN: M3O Prices – Global prices index https://bit.ly/3wS9STp March 31, 2022 at 09:59AM

Show HN: Find companies with jobs using technologies you love https://bit.ly/3qOt9kQ

Show HN: Find companies with jobs using technologies you love https://bit.ly/3NB3R3K March 30, 2022 at 11:09AM

Show HN: A VSCode extension that farts as you type https://bit.ly/3qR8AnV

Show HN: A VSCode extension that farts as you type With April Fools' Day coming up, I thought I'd share my VSCode extension again: Whoopee cushion keyboard. When installed, it makes fart noises as you type. And with the new version I just released, you can now enable this per language (command palette: "This is a smelly business"). So if a coworker who doesn't like CSS happens to leave their desk without locking their screen, who knows what might happen... https://bit.ly/3iSebG9 March 31, 2022 at 10:35AM

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Show HN: I grouped HN by topics, so you don‘t have to https://bit.ly/3uC4zVH

Show HN: I grouped HN by topics, so you don‘t have to https://bit.ly/3iLEuhi March 30, 2022 at 01:33PM

Show HN: Humbo – The IMDB of Travel https://bit.ly/3wOXVOl

Show HN: Humbo – The IMDB of Travel https://bit.ly/3iM7Agm March 30, 2022 at 11:17AM

Show HN: My carpet is generating a lot of valid QR Codes https://bit.ly/3wPuJXt

Show HN: My carpet is generating a lot of valid QR Codes https://twitter.com/mxwllt/status/1509138566328340482 March 30, 2022 at 01:33PM

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface https://bit.ly/3qMOUlg

Show HN: A clean alternative Hacker News interface This is a clean Hacker News interface that I called `Lipu`. Repo: https://bit.ly/3NuwAHl https://bit.ly/3wIsgye March 30, 2022 at 05:07AM