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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:<p>> If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.<p>Hopefully I did that?<p>Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:<p><a href="https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty">https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty</a><p>Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638</a>
Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal
Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal
Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal
Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
Hello HN community,<p>This is bootstrapped/indie hacker-ish. Would appreciate feedback.<p>What it is: You create a link (e.g. onair/yourname), and anyone can call you from it. Caller uses a web browser to make the call (not dedicated app). You can create as many links as you want, and can direct calls to colleagues in a round-robin or escalation manner.<p>In a way, it's like the "opposite of Calendly"; whereas Calendly is about meetings in the future, OnAir is about immediate meetings.<p>Motivation behind it: One of our SaaS products was struggling to grow. We believed that if we provide more "hand holding" to visitors on the landing page, it will increase conversion. It's like speaking to the guy behind the counter before making a purchase. That idea/experiment, over time, became OnAir.<p>Feedback: Identifying the perfect use case / customer has not been easy. E-Commerce store owners, which I thought would be ideal customer profile, are not responding as expected (e.g. "why use this instead of a WhatsApp button?"). The value of branded links, round-robin, recording/transcription, lead capture, etc does not seem to matter much to them. Ideas are welcome.
Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
Hello HN community,<p>This is bootstrapped/indie hacker-ish. Would appreciate feedback.<p>What it is: You create a link (e.g. onair/yourname), and anyone can call you from it. Caller uses a web browser to make the call (not dedicated app). You can create as many links as you want, and can direct calls to colleagues in a round-robin or escalation manner.<p>In a way, it's like the "opposite of Calendly"; whereas Calendly is about meetings in the future, OnAir is about immediate meetings.<p>Motivation behind it: One of our SaaS products was struggling to grow. We believed that if we provide more "hand holding" to visitors on the landing page, it will increase conversion. It's like speaking to the guy behind the counter before making a purchase. That idea/experiment, over time, became OnAir.<p>Feedback: Identifying the perfect use case / customer has not been easy. E-Commerce store owners, which I thought would be ideal customer profile, are not responding as expected (e.g. "why use this instead of a WhatsApp button?"). The value of branded links, round-robin, recording/transcription, lead capture, etc does not seem to matter much to them. Ideas are welcome.
Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
Hello HN community,<p>This is bootstrapped/indie hacker-ish. Would appreciate feedback.<p>What it is: You create a link (e.g. onair/yourname), and anyone can call you from it. Caller uses a web browser to make the call (not dedicated app). You can create as many links as you want, and can direct calls to colleagues in a round-robin or escalation manner.<p>In a way, it's like the "opposite of Calendly"; whereas Calendly is about meetings in the future, OnAir is about immediate meetings.<p>Motivation behind it: One of our SaaS products was struggling to grow. We believed that if we provide more "hand holding" to visitors on the landing page, it will increase conversion. It's like speaking to the guy behind the counter before making a purchase. That idea/experiment, over time, became OnAir.<p>Feedback: Identifying the perfect use case / customer has not been easy. E-Commerce store owners, which I thought would be ideal customer profile, are not responding as expected (e.g. "why use this instead of a WhatsApp button?"). The value of branded links, round-robin, recording/transcription, lead capture, etc does not seem to matter much to them. Ideas are welcome.
Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs
Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs
Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs
Show HN: Xfer, a data-transfer language
Xfer is an experimental language I've been defining for a little while. It's intended to be a strictly-typed alternative to Json that offers a few other features, like comments, nested elements, placeholder substitution, and metadata. It's in VERY early days, so I'd love to hear your suggestions and feedback.
Show HN: Visual inference exploration and experimentation playground
Most inference UIs that I've come across pretty much just give us a chat-like interface to toy around with models in a single visual conversation thread.<p>Given the fact that we are limited to seeing only one output at a time, it's kind of hard to compare outputs from different models, adjustments made to the prompting, and sampler settings.<p>But even when keeping the generation parameters the same (e.g., to test for reliability in the output) and just going for multiple passes, there is no easy way to have a side-by-side comparison to keep track of the outputs from the multiple "rounds".<p>I really like excalidraw and thinking visually, so that got me thinking: why not build a sort of "open-world" playground to just place nodes that represent system, user, and assistant messages on a big canvas? Since they all fit on the screen, we have this easy side-by-side comparison that is basically unlimited in the number of direct side-by-side threads at any level. Meaning one user input could lead to two assistant outputs that in turn introduce new sub-branches that can be tracked visually.
Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto
Hi HN! I’m one of the creators of Burner, a low cost Ethereum hardware wallet designed for gifting. After creating various forms of crypto “cash” (<a href="https://kong.cash/" rel="nofollow">https://kong.cash/</a>, <a href="https://offline.cash/" rel="nofollow">https://offline.cash/</a>) we learned that gifting cryptocurrencies was consistently one of the biggest challenges for holders and enthusiasts.<p>Burner looks and feels like a colorful gift card, but under the hood it incorporates a secure element chip. You can access its wallet with just an NFC tap, and it works entirely through our (soon to be) open source web app.<p>There is a lot more to share, like USD II (created by <a href="https://www.bridge.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bridge.xyz/</a>), a stablecoin that we designed to work with Burner without gas, but for now we’re excited to push Burner out the door and start getting feedback from users.
Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto
Hi HN! I’m one of the creators of Burner, a low cost Ethereum hardware wallet designed for gifting. After creating various forms of crypto “cash” (<a href="https://kong.cash/" rel="nofollow">https://kong.cash/</a>, <a href="https://offline.cash/" rel="nofollow">https://offline.cash/</a>) we learned that gifting cryptocurrencies was consistently one of the biggest challenges for holders and enthusiasts.<p>Burner looks and feels like a colorful gift card, but under the hood it incorporates a secure element chip. You can access its wallet with just an NFC tap, and it works entirely through our (soon to be) open source web app.<p>There is a lot more to share, like USD II (created by <a href="https://www.bridge.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bridge.xyz/</a>), a stablecoin that we designed to work with Burner without gas, but for now we’re excited to push Burner out the door and start getting feedback from users.
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
At Codeium, we've been building AI-powered extensions for a while (we first launched our VSCode extension with autocomplete a little over 2 years ago!), but we've always thought there would come a day where we would hit the limits of what could be achieved within existing IDEs, so we decided to build our own: Windsurf (yes, it's yet another VSCode fork :)<p>We've stuffed a lot of cool features into Windsurf—a super fast autocomplete model, an inline diff generation experience that feels truly native, but we're most proud of Cascade, which is an evolution of the sidebar chat experience that many other extensions have. Cascade can perform deep reasoning on your existing codebase, access a vast array of tools that allow it to run terminal commands and find relevant files, and it's omniscient of all the actions that the user has taken independent of invoking the AI. (You can for example, start implementing a change manually and just ask Cascade to "continue").<p>We've been using Cascade internally at Codeium on our actual production codebase, and we're getting actual value from it. We hope everyone here does too! You can find a bunch of demos of Cascade on our website but I want to show one that I made myself using Cascade to solve an interesting cryptography challenge:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20</a><p>Cascade was able to explain the problem to me, install some libraries needed to interact with the challenge, give me some pointers towards a solution, and implement an attack that I described to it all by itself.
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
At Codeium, we've been building AI-powered extensions for a while (we first launched our VSCode extension with autocomplete a little over 2 years ago!), but we've always thought there would come a day where we would hit the limits of what could be achieved within existing IDEs, so we decided to build our own: Windsurf (yes, it's yet another VSCode fork :)<p>We've stuffed a lot of cool features into Windsurf—a super fast autocomplete model, an inline diff generation experience that feels truly native, but we're most proud of Cascade, which is an evolution of the sidebar chat experience that many other extensions have. Cascade can perform deep reasoning on your existing codebase, access a vast array of tools that allow it to run terminal commands and find relevant files, and it's omniscient of all the actions that the user has taken independent of invoking the AI. (You can for example, start implementing a change manually and just ask Cascade to "continue").<p>We've been using Cascade internally at Codeium on our actual production codebase, and we're getting actual value from it. We hope everyone here does too! You can find a bunch of demos of Cascade on our website but I want to show one that I made myself using Cascade to solve an interesting cryptography challenge:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20</a><p>Cascade was able to explain the problem to me, install some libraries needed to interact with the challenge, give me some pointers towards a solution, and implement an attack that I described to it all by itself.
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
At Codeium, we've been building AI-powered extensions for a while (we first launched our VSCode extension with autocomplete a little over 2 years ago!), but we've always thought there would come a day where we would hit the limits of what could be achieved within existing IDEs, so we decided to build our own: Windsurf (yes, it's yet another VSCode fork :)<p>We've stuffed a lot of cool features into Windsurf—a super fast autocomplete model, an inline diff generation experience that feels truly native, but we're most proud of Cascade, which is an evolution of the sidebar chat experience that many other extensions have. Cascade can perform deep reasoning on your existing codebase, access a vast array of tools that allow it to run terminal commands and find relevant files, and it's omniscient of all the actions that the user has taken independent of invoking the AI. (You can for example, start implementing a change manually and just ask Cascade to "continue").<p>We've been using Cascade internally at Codeium on our actual production codebase, and we're getting actual value from it. We hope everyone here does too! You can find a bunch of demos of Cascade on our website but I want to show one that I made myself using Cascade to solve an interesting cryptography challenge:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20</a><p>Cascade was able to explain the problem to me, install some libraries needed to interact with the challenge, give me some pointers towards a solution, and implement an attack that I described to it all by itself.
Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
Hey HN,<p>I built this simple puzzle generator to play around with wasm a bit.<p>It's open source if anyone wants to play around with the code <a href="https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip">https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip</a>
Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
Hey HN,<p>I built this simple puzzle generator to play around with wasm a bit.<p>It's open source if anyone wants to play around with the code <a href="https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip">https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip</a>
Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
Hey HN,<p>I built this simple puzzle generator to play around with wasm a bit.<p>It's open source if anyone wants to play around with the code <a href="https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip">https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip</a>