Show HN: I made Scrabble with modified rules https://bit.ly/3TJ3LK6

Show HN: I made Scrabble with modified rules Crapple is my take on "improved" Scrabble rules... obviously that is subjective, I'm not even sure I agree with it. You and your opponent share a rack of letters, and vowels are only obtained by opting to deduct a configurable amount of points from your score to receive a random vowel tile. Additionally, there is an alternate board layout with some new tile multipliers. This is an old project but I never posted it, so I thought what the hey, I am curious to hear what your guys' thoughts are on these rules. It's an old dead project so you can't hurt my feelings. Thanks! You can play it now against the computer in your browser (no signup required, but an account lets you create and play games against other humans). The Android app is the better version only because the AI will run on a seperate thread (in the browser version you might see a hiccup while it runs), and because Unity WebGL doesn't export retina-sized graphics (ie graphics may look less than sharp on your mobile device). (Note: I linked the landing page instead of the direct link to play in case you are on mobile and want to avoid a largish download. Direct link to play in the browser is here: https://bit.ly/3TToprp ) --- Some more details for anyone still reading... It's your basic LAMP stack on AWS, with Laravel for the web framework and Unity (2017) for the client. The dictionary is stored as a DAWG. When you play a word, instead of giving you the dictionary definition, I wanted to do something different like provide a paragraph from a book that the word was used in. You can click the book icon to get some of those, I was scraping books in the public domain but gave up after a while when I was getting diminishing returns for words I lacked paragraphs for (if you try it you will likely see a lot of Moby Dick paragraphs as I never randomized it either). The AI was based on the scrabble AI algorithm (I think it was this, but can't remember now, https://bit.ly/3RifZb5... ). Since Crapple has modified rules, due the possibility of "buying" vowels on your turn, there is set of _potential_ playable words. The Crapple AI ranks each word based on the cost of the vowels needed with their probability of obtaining the needed vowels. The AI is not very intelligent, the difference between the 3 provided computer opponents is just the average word score they will play. If I had worked on this any longer I could have extended this to let them take into account what words/scores they may be setting you up for with their play, and other ideas. Each player's avatar is consistent, but uniquely generated for them. I didn't want to have every using the same boring default avatar, but didn't want the hassles of letting people upload their own, so I went with a version of this idea: https://bit.ly/3THFtAb https://bit.ly/3RivAHE September 3, 2022 at 09:15PM

Show HN: bitloops-gherkin Automatically generate tests from Google Sheets https://bit.ly/3AOqPyu

Show HN: bitloops-gherkin Automatically generate tests from Google Sheets For those into BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and JavaScript/TypeScript you will find that this tool allows you to add all your test data on a Google Sheet and then automatically pulls the info from the Google Sheet into your Cucumber feature file in any format you want (you can have multiple lines etc) without having to go through the pain of managing a limited text-based table written in Gherkin. https://bit.ly/3Bb6kxj September 3, 2022 at 04:54PM

Show HN: Alumina Programming Language https://bit.ly/3TIq4zG

Show HN: Alumina Programming Language Alumina is a programming language I have been working on for a while. Alumina may be for you if you like the control that C gives you but miss goodies from higher level programming languages. It is mostly for fun and exercise in language design, I don't have any grand aspirations for it. It is however, by this time, a usable general-purpose language. Alumina borrows (zing) heavily from Rust, except for its raison d'être (memory safety). Syntax is a blatant rip-off of Rust, but so is the standard library scope and structure. Alumina bootstrap compiler currently compiles to ugly C, but a self-hosted compiler is early stages that will target LLVM as backend. If that sounds interesting, give it a try. I appreciate any feedback! Standard library documentation: https://bit.ly/3TD2Tqy Online compiler playground: https://bit.ly/3AOulsT https://bit.ly/3eiWOPR September 3, 2022 at 04:32PM

Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals https://bit.ly/3AOt0lS

Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals I made a site to do investment research faster and more efficent, with links to 10k 10Q, charts, industry averages, macro economic data, hedgefund reports and much more https://bit.ly/3RfwzbP September 3, 2022 at 02:10PM

Show HN: SMS Interface for Stable Diffusion https://bit.ly/3cDLtJW

Show HN: SMS Interface for Stable Diffusion If you text 8145594701, it will send back an image with the prompt you specified. Currently only US numbers can send/receive texts because Twilio. Sorry to the rest of the planet! I think this will likely fall over but I figured this would be a cool little thing to demo. I removed the NSFW filter so be mindful of your prompts! I don't persist numbers and there is no linkages being saved between the original text message and the generated images. September 3, 2022 at 12:22AM

Show HN: Visualize Apple Health Data in Grafana https://bit.ly/3cEX6QC

Show HN: Visualize Apple Health Data in Grafana https://bit.ly/3ecoBkV September 2, 2022 at 03:43PM

Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon https://bit.ly/3cByB77

Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc. The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly. This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace. In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for customer support). Together, they provide the staples for any modern business: sales, fulfillment, support. Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls. https://bit.ly/34ImG0j September 2, 2022 at 02:19PM

Show HN: Unicaps - a Python package for CAPTCHA solving https://bit.ly/3RNRsuD

Show HN: Unicaps - a Python package for CAPTCHA solving https://bit.ly/3q5SYwb September 2, 2022 at 12:21PM

Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port) https://bit.ly/3CRuIFD

Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port) I originally developed a WASM port of wxWidgets for https://bit.ly/3CRuJtb . When it came time to open source wxWidgets-wasm, I decided to port another complex app as a test case, and Audacity seemed like the obvious choice. In the process, I also needed to write a new host API for PortAudio for playback and recording in the browser. https://bit.ly/3ejKm2b https://bit.ly/3CPrkv1 https://bit.ly/3D8ScX9 https://bit.ly/3CMEA3w September 2, 2022 at 10:31AM

Show HN: Convos Self Hosted IRC Web Client https://bit.ly/3CRJf41

Show HN: Convos Self Hosted IRC Web Client https://bit.ly/3KG6gsB September 2, 2022 at 07:52AM

Show HN: Async OK – Find an async job, work anytime https://bit.ly/3CR15nP

Show HN: Async OK – Find an async job, work anytime https://bit.ly/3q1OoPF September 1, 2022 at 09:37PM

Show HN: Pith language. JavaScript with a little bit of Python syntax https://bit.ly/3cDekxV

Show HN: Pith language. JavaScript with a little bit of Python syntax I've been writing a lot of JavaScript and Python lately. I like Python's syntax, so I created a language called Pith that's JS with some Python-like syntax (but without trailing colons). It's not a full compiler. It really just does search-and-replace, but I find it fun and useful in spite of some sharp edges. I use it on my smartphone to write and run short programs. Here's an example using the HN API: max = 6 ids = await getApi('topstories') for id in ids.slice(0, max) getItem(id) async def getItem(id) const d = document.createElement('div') results.appendChild(d) d.style = 'padding-bottom: 1em;' i = await getApi('item/' + id) ? i.title, '|', i.score u = '//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=' d.innerHTML = i.title.link(u + id) async def getApi(path) u = '//hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/' return getJson(u + path + '.json') https://bit.ly/3RsdmTH September 1, 2022 at 07:47PM

Show HN: Open Sourcing Notesnook – an end to end encrypted private notes app https://bit.ly/3RbgBzm

Show HN: Open Sourcing Notesnook – an end to end encrypted private notes app https://bit.ly/3KCXjQM September 1, 2022 at 07:23PM

Show HN: Open-source infra for building embedded data pipelines https://bit.ly/3RoH3VG

Show HN: Open-source infra for building embedded data pipelines Hey HN! We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.* Here’s our repo https://bit.ly/3eaqrmp and website https://bit.ly/3KFMhKT . Pipebird is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products. Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of truth without having to maintain custom built pipelines or introduce security risks by contracting a third-party ETL/ELT provider. After seeing Stripe https://bit.ly/3RaZYUs and customer.io https://bit.ly/3eaqrCV recently invest in building out their own native data sharing products, we realized that many SaaS companies could better support their customers and even generate additional revenue by offering native data pipelines. Our goal with Pipebird is to make creating a reliable data pipeline as simple as pressing a button from a vendor's dashboard. With the current iteration of the product, data can be selected from a number of sources (ex: Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, etc.), customers can configure pipelines and optionally apply transformations (like type casting), and data can be periodically synced directly to customers’ warehouses (ex: Snowflake). We’re actively adding sources/destinations and would appreciate any feature requests. Here's a 2 min demo of the product https://bit.ly/3eaqj6p Pipebird is open source (MIT license) so that any developer can use it. Our aim is to not charge individual developers - we make money selling paid plans that include features like multiple projects, user permissions, additional security features, managed infra, support, etc. Give us a whirl: https://bit.ly/3eaqrmp . We’d love your feedback and will be here to answer any questions! https://bit.ly/3eaqrmp September 1, 2022 at 05:57PM

Show HN: OpenBracket, a collaborative code editor for technical interviews https://bit.ly/3ADeCga

Show HN: OpenBracket, a collaborative code editor for technical interviews Hi everyone! At Fluxon, we found that we were't happy with existing solutions for collaborative coding with engineering candidates in our technical interviews. So we built OpenBracket.net—a simple code editor with no setup or log in needed—just share the link and start coding together. Our first version is now available for anyone to use. We’d love some feedback. Thanks! https://bit.ly/3RprDAO August 31, 2022 at 06:40PM

Show HN: Using GPT-3 to answer annoying interview application questions https://bit.ly/3KQn2pj

Show HN: Using GPT-3 to answer annoying interview application questions Hi folks. My wife has been looking for a job and sometimes in the application forms there are annoying questions like "Why do you want to work here?". At the same time I've been playing around with GPT-3 and have blown away by it's capabilities, so I decided to build a site that can answer these annoying questions for her. Github: https://bit.ly/3TxHpeQ Here's an example of a generated answer: Using this opening for a Senior iOS Engineer at Monzo - https://bit.ly/3Tz7xWE The generated answer question on the application "What attracted you to Monzo?": "What attracted me to Monzo is that it is a bank that is trying to make a difference in the world by making it easier for people to manage their money. Monzo is also very customer focused and puts the customer first in everything they do." https://bit.ly/3KzfCXb September 1, 2022 at 08:30AM

Show HN: Encrypted Git hosting should be easy https://bit.ly/3cHE8su

Show HN: Encrypted Git hosting should be easy https://bit.ly/3wNZtr9 September 1, 2022 at 12:42AM

Show HN: Reverse eBPF Using Ida Pro https://bit.ly/3B0SLk1

Show HN: Reverse eBPF Using Ida Pro https://bit.ly/3qhzt41 August 31, 2022 at 03:31PM

Show HN: Chrome extension that extracts HTML+CSS from an element to inline style https://bit.ly/3Q8C9ey

Show HN: Chrome extension that extracts HTML+CSS from an element to inline style Hi there. I spent the last couple months building this chrome extension to scratch my own itch. It allows you to extract a snippet of HTML along with its styles and export to inline styles or JSX. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work on every site. There is class support but I am still working on it along with some other cool features. Feedback is appreciated. https://bit.ly/3B1GtYU August 31, 2022 at 01:20PM

Show HN: Reddit's favorite products, extracted using deep learning https://bit.ly/3eaSUZ7

Show HN: Reddit's favorite products, extracted using deep learning Many people add "Reddit" to their search queries to find authentic product reviews. We fine-tuned a BERT model to extract product mentions from over 4 million Reddit comments and posts with Named Entity Recognition (NER). The result is a list of the most mentioned products across many subreddits. Soon, we'll roll out a version that includes sentiment (positive/negative mention). No platform (including Reddit) is resistant to fake reviews and spam, but we think it's happening less frequently here for various reasons: - Redditors and other forum members are more interested in boosting their ego by showing their depth of knowledge on the topic (and correcting others on the topic), whereas corporate websites are more interested in raking profit by displaying (potentially) dishonest information. - Enthusiasts in subreddits are pretty good at spotting dishonest or fake content, which results in immediate downvotes. The whole karma system helps with trustworthiness. - Most subs are moderated well and spam gets removed quite quickly That being said, good fake reviews are technically almost impossible to detect, even with sophisticated network analysis of the reviewer's profile. https://bit.ly/3AD09Rb August 31, 2022 at 04:22PM