Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language https://bit.ly/3WnpASz

Show HN: Simplex: Automate browser workflows using code and natural language Simplex is an SDK that provides low-level functions you can use to create reliable web automations using code and natural language. Here's a quick video to show you how it works: https://bit.ly/40dfXal A couple weeks ago, we needed a way to automatically find 3D assets from the internet for one of our work contracts. We didn’t need an AI to choose all the steps for us autonomously — we knew generally what the flow to find items should be and just needed some intelligence to handle different webpage formats. Playwright couldn’t easily generalize to the different sites we wanted to search over and Claude computer use was tough to use — it was slow, expensive, struggled to click on the correct web elements, and there was no way to correct its actions if it failed at step 20 of our workflow. So we built a vision-based solution using vision language models that sits on top of Playwright. In our SDK, building a function that can universally search websites is as easy as this: from simplex import Simplex simplex = Simplex(api_key="api_key") def search(website, search_query): simplex.goto(website) simplex.click("the search bar") simplex.type(search_query) simplex.press_enter() search("mit.edu", "alyssa p hacker") You can play around with what we’ve built and see a few more examples at https://bit.ly/3WlkS7P . We'd love feedback! https://bit.ly/4j9LtPb January 14, 2025 at 10:30PM

Show HN: Blinkenlights. Bling up your server rack like its 1974 https://bit.ly/4hcZABq

Show HN: Blinkenlights. Bling up your server rack like its 1974 Got a boring server rack? Got a retro-computer project? Need some bling?? If you have a little electronics skill then you may want to make a few of these babies to let your server rack party like a 1970's mainframe. Just a fun little project done over a couple of days at XMAS, and probably best not to install in the corporate server room! https://bit.ly/4g11rID January 12, 2025 at 10:39AM

Show HN: Practise PyTorch in LeetCode Style https://bit.ly/4jeNHwA

Show HN: Practise PyTorch in LeetCode Style https://bit.ly/40fsHx1 January 14, 2025 at 05:21AM

Show HN: A complete e-commerce website builder to build ecom stores in minutes https://bit.ly/3WjpwmK

Show HN: A complete e-commerce website builder to build ecom stores in minutes StoreLauncher is a professional Shopify store builder primarily designed for newbies who struggle to create a professional-looking Shopify store. All you have to do is follow a few simple steps to have your store built in literally minutes. There are 8 niches to choose from, each filled with numerous products in our database. The product pages are highly descriptive and unique, as we use AI API to generate product information. Each product gets a dedicated product page template. A logo is also generated using one of 100 premium fonts and published on the store. StoreLauncher creates a professional, clean homepage filled with collections and featured products, as well as image-with-text sections. All essential pages are also created and published to your store. The header and footer navigation are automatically generated and assigned to the appropriate pages and products. Try it for yourself, it's completely free! https://bit.ly/4jdtZBq January 13, 2025 at 10:41PM

Show HN: chDB 3.0 released, 12% faster than DuckDB https://bit.ly/40su7pf

Show HN: chDB 3.0 released, 12% faster than DuckDB https://bit.ly/4gOUvj5 January 14, 2025 at 05:33AM

Show HN: Python with do..end in place of strict indentation https://bit.ly/429tUbJ

Show HN: Python with do..end in place of strict indentation https://bit.ly/4h7EyVn January 10, 2025 at 02:53PM

Show HN: JUring – Java bindings for io_uring file I/O https://bit.ly/4hdkAbi

Show HN: JUring – Java bindings for io_uring file I/O Hi HN! For the past few weeks, I've been working on bringing io_uring to Java. It started as an experiment, but slowly it became more than just that, and now trying to turn it into a proper library. After hearing talks about virtual threads and io_urings performance I wanted to build something that was faster than Java provides out of the box. I ended up creating two APIs: - A direct one that closely mirrors io_uring's behavior - A blocking one built with Virtual Threads in mind for remote files. This is the link to the project if you are interested https://bit.ly/3WiBf57 It's still far from done, but it's running! Would love to hear your thoughts if you've worked on or used something similar. Also very curious to hear what you like and don't like about the project! https://bit.ly/3WiBf57 January 13, 2025 at 11:06AM

Show HN: WhatsApp Bulk Messager Chrome Extension https://bit.ly/3Wig43f

Show HN: WhatsApp Bulk Messager Chrome Extension Whatsapp Web Bulk Messager Chrome Extension Upload Contact CSV (12 digit number without +) Draft the message Hit send The new way of Outbound WhatsApp marketing. Messages - Free Attachments - Lifetime for $20. Will be updated in next Version https://bit.ly/4gSf9yB January 13, 2025 at 08:08AM

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Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF https://bit.ly/4jeo1jO

Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. I was inspired by the recent HN post about Tetris in a PDF ( https://bit.ly/3C5N8V9 ) and I wondered if I could get Doom to run using a similar method. It turns out that old versions of Emscripten can compile C to asm.js code that will happily run inside the limited JS runtime of the PDF engine. I used the doomgeneric ( https://bit.ly/42u9iLN ) fork of the original Doom source, as that made writing the IO fairly easy. All I had to do was implement a framebuffer and keyboard inputs. Unlike previous interactive PDF demos, the output for DoomPDF is achieved by creating a text field for each row of pixels in the screen, then setting their contents to various ASCII characters. This gives me a 6 color monochrome display, that can be updated reasonably quickly (80ms per frame). The source code is available at: https://bit.ly/3WhAol4 Note that this PDF can only run in Chromium-based browsers that use the PDFium engine. https://bit.ly/4h9z4sE January 13, 2025 at 01:50AM

Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Gathering posts about what people will pay for https://bit.ly/4hd45Mc

Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Gathering posts about what people will pay for When people have a pain point they'd like solved, I find that many of them resort to posting a Tweet about it. I made these posts easy to find. https://bit.ly/3VSDI6c January 12, 2025 at 06:56AM

Show HN: Weekly to-do list with automatic task rollover https://bit.ly/3DQGL8N

Show HN: Weekly to-do list with automatic task rollover https://bit.ly/4jr4gWr January 12, 2025 at 06:09AM

Show HN: Dribbble for code https://bit.ly/3DRdTgE

Show HN: Dribbble for code https://bit.ly/4j9ofbV January 12, 2025 at 03:52AM

Show HN: I started sharing 2 New Validated SaaS ideas every week https://bit.ly/426Fog7

Show HN: I started sharing 2 New Validated SaaS ideas every week I'm tired of seeing founders building stuff for months and years that nobody would ever pay for. They just don't see it, like most other founders learn to do. Business validation = making money, and nothing else really. If you really wanna make money this year, I can help you do it. https://bit.ly/4g1G3Da January 11, 2025 at 11:37AM

Show HN: Portify – A No-Code Portfolio Builder for Developers and Creators https://bit.ly/428z3kk

Show HN: Portify – A No-Code Portfolio Builder for Developers and Creators I’m excited to share Portify, a no-code portfolio builder designed for creators, developers, and professionals to showcase their work effortlessly. As a developer, I know how time-consuming building and tweaking personal portfolios can be, especially when existing tools lack flexibility. Portify simplifies this process with sleek, customizable templates tailored for developers, designers, and freelancers. You can personalize your portfolio with beautiful themes and fonts, track profile views with built-in analytics, and publish it in minutes. Whether you’re looking to land gigs, apply for jobs, or showcase side projects, Portify ensures your work stands out. I’d love for you to check it out and share your feedback—good, bad, or brutal. Cheers, A fellow builder. https://bit.ly/3WalEVm January 11, 2025 at 06:49AM

Show HN: My Literate System Configuration https://bit.ly/409SNBI

Show HN: My Literate System Configuration This is version 3 of my tinkering with an immutable configuration for my computers. This time around I used emacs' org + nixos to settle on this. The README is the single source of truth for my computer. It is then "tangled" into nix source files, which can then be used by nixos to build my system. This allows me to keep a living document as my system configuration, especially reminding me (hopefully) of certain decisions. https://bit.ly/3PvE13b January 11, 2025 at 02:14AM

Show HN: A self hostable forum like news.Y Combinator.com https://bit.ly/3WcQsVn

Show HN: A self hostable forum like news.Y Combinator.com https://bit.ly/3C54qBO January 11, 2025 at 12:07AM

Show HN: Map showing which notable people were born in your backyard https://bit.ly/40s8G7J

Show HN: Map showing which notable people were born in your backyard https://bit.ly/40rKaDG January 10, 2025 at 12:59PM

Show HN: Bin - AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards https://bit.ly/4abrTOd

Show HN: Bin - AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards Bin is an AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards. Our goal is to make creating dashboards simpler to do than no-code alternatives like PowerBI and Tableau while preserving the powerful customization abilities of raw SQL and Python. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh8M3hIjDA . Customers from our previous product wanted custom dashboards but didn’t want to spend on technical staff to build them. They wanted customizability of the dashboard yet simplicity of the building experience. So, we studied the approaches of Devin, Claude Artifacts, and v0 and wanted a version that was purpose built for making dashboards and admin pages to solve this problem. This way anyone could spin up highly custom dashboards fast without knowing PowerBI, Tableau, Python, or SQL. The interface is similar to Cursor, where you attach database context and then prompt Bin on a side chat to make visual components (charts, cards, graphs). You can then click to add these components onto your panel. On the backend, Bin spins up the components in React code and data queries in Python + SQL code in one go. We’ve wired up Bin with tool calls so that it can make the query given the schema and table context of your selected database, execute the query, and then make the component with the query key passed into our useQuery function. We make all of this code for the component and query viewable and editable on the platform. Once components are added, you can then drag and drop, resize, and reorganize them on the panel layout. The dashboard will self-update over time as more data enters your database (the queries are re-executed with every refresh). After finalizing, you can deploy the dashboard or embed it onto your other internal tools. You can try Bin today on a test database for free at https://bit.ly/4aeli5z . Please do let us know what you think – we’re open to feedback and suggestions as we continue to improve Bin. https://bit.ly/4aeli5z January 6, 2025 at 05:50PM

Show HN: TLabWebViewVR – Open Source 3D Web Browser Project https://bit.ly/4g0f7Uk

Show HN: TLabWebViewVR – Open Source 3D Web Browser Project https://bit.ly/40aEU67 January 10, 2025 at 03:50AM