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Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes
Over this Christmas break, while discussing the best episodes of Frasier with my mother (as we tend to do when I get to see her), I thought about coming up with something that's less arbitrary than 1-10 ratings.<p>The result is TV Sort. It just uses a sorting algorithm, but... it's human powered. When the algorithm needs to compare two items, it asks you to compare them, and with that you end up with a full, thoroughly sorted episode list.<p>It uses TMDB, IMDB, and Wikipedia to extract episode information for any show, to help jog your memory when making episode comparisons.<p>It was a fun little experiment. And finally, I know -exactly- what I think the best and worst episodes are.[0]<p>Would love to hear your feedback, this is my first Show HN. ;)<p>Edit: I wrote a whole blog post about what went into making it, if anyone wants to read more of the technical detail behind it.[1]<p>[0]: <a href="https://tvsort.com/show/3452/matrix_01hjtxz2e1ewkrh44ja3mz0ss4" rel="nofollow">https://tvsort.com/show/3452/matrix_01hjtxz2e1ewkrh44ja3mz0s...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://pocketarc.com/posts/tv-sort-engineering-the-ultimate-tv-episode-ranking-system" rel="nofollow">https://pocketarc.com/posts/tv-sort-engineering-the-ultimate...</a>
Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals
I've been working on an ANSI art editor off and on for a while. It works like a traditional ANSI text editor, except it supports 256 colors, Unicode and CP437 encoding, frame-based animation, custom UI themes, terminal mouse input, HTML and IRC color output, and runs in Utf-8 terminals.<p>It's written in Python and curses, and is fairly portable across Unix systems. If you have ever used TheDraw or Aciddraw, the user interface is similar. It can also load/convert, view, edit and save most CP437 (MS-DOS style) ANSI art in a Utf-8 terminal, so you can view ANSI artscene packs in the comfort of your favorite terminal, and even convert them into 256 color Unicode ANSI.<p>I've been using it for my own ANSI and ASCII art for a number of years, and hope this will help artists work with less restrictions. I think there is a lot of opportunity for ANSI art beyond its dominant 16-color Code Page 437 format. We all have computers with amazing ANSI terminals with modern features. Shouldn't they be the natural home for making text art?<p>It's still a work in progress, and I'm always adding features. Thanks for checking it out!
Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals
I've been working on an ANSI art editor off and on for a while. It works like a traditional ANSI text editor, except it supports 256 colors, Unicode and CP437 encoding, frame-based animation, custom UI themes, terminal mouse input, HTML and IRC color output, and runs in Utf-8 terminals.<p>It's written in Python and curses, and is fairly portable across Unix systems. If you have ever used TheDraw or Aciddraw, the user interface is similar. It can also load/convert, view, edit and save most CP437 (MS-DOS style) ANSI art in a Utf-8 terminal, so you can view ANSI artscene packs in the comfort of your favorite terminal, and even convert them into 256 color Unicode ANSI.<p>I've been using it for my own ANSI and ASCII art for a number of years, and hope this will help artists work with less restrictions. I think there is a lot of opportunity for ANSI art beyond its dominant 16-color Code Page 437 format. We all have computers with amazing ANSI terminals with modern features. Shouldn't they be the natural home for making text art?<p>It's still a work in progress, and I'm always adding features. Thanks for checking it out!
Show HN: Page Replica – Tool for Web Scraping, Prerendering, and SEO Boost
Show HN: Page Replica – Tool for Web Scraping, Prerendering, and SEO Boost
Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
I made this simple language over the past year, and it's time for me to say it's "done" (for now) and focus on other projects.<p>I've struggled to answer the question "what is this language for?" other than "it's just for me" — and that's probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something "complete" that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I'd recommend everyone trying it.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you've also made a language.
Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
I made this simple language over the past year, and it's time for me to say it's "done" (for now) and focus on other projects.<p>I've struggled to answer the question "what is this language for?" other than "it's just for me" — and that's probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something "complete" that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I'd recommend everyone trying it.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you've also made a language.
Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
I made this simple language over the past year, and it's time for me to say it's "done" (for now) and focus on other projects.<p>I've struggled to answer the question "what is this language for?" other than "it's just for me" — and that's probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something "complete" that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I'd recommend everyone trying it.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you've also made a language.
Show HN: DarkGen – Create deepfake videos of anyone
I spent 2 months training a custom deepfake video model that anyone can now use.
Show HN: I made a resistor calculator with TS+React
Show HN: Common Lisp Vim Compiler Plug-In
As linked in the readme at the link, I am an ardent vim user and lisp enthusiast. I got tired of hard to read error messages in SBCL with my vim set-up, so I spent a few days cobbling together this `:make` plugin for sbcl Roswell. More about my rationale around why I did it is in the readme. Let me know what you think!
Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
Hi HN,<p>I was late to wordle, so I am also late to making my own version.<p>In Spindle, you rotate words on a grid with the aim of assembling the day’s target word. I enjoy it, so I thought some of you might enjoy it too.<p>From a tech perspective, it’s a very simple Laravel / Livewire app. My happy place in recent years has been Typescript and SvelteKit, so this was a bit of an adjustment, but it allowed me to take advantage of an existing shared hosting server meaning no additional financial outlay. Happy to report a positive experience with PHP and this framework, although I do miss types! Deploying with rsync feels enjoyably old school.<p>(I gather PHP does have types now, but perhaps I’m using the wrong IDE or need a specific VS.Code plugin…)<p>Very happy to answer any questions, although I’m the first to admit it’s very simple from a tech perspective. Your guess at how it was implemented is probably a better solution than what I actually did :)<p>Happy holidays all!
Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
Hi HN,<p>I was late to wordle, so I am also late to making my own version.<p>In Spindle, you rotate words on a grid with the aim of assembling the day’s target word. I enjoy it, so I thought some of you might enjoy it too.<p>From a tech perspective, it’s a very simple Laravel / Livewire app. My happy place in recent years has been Typescript and SvelteKit, so this was a bit of an adjustment, but it allowed me to take advantage of an existing shared hosting server meaning no additional financial outlay. Happy to report a positive experience with PHP and this framework, although I do miss types! Deploying with rsync feels enjoyably old school.<p>(I gather PHP does have types now, but perhaps I’m using the wrong IDE or need a specific VS.Code plugin…)<p>Very happy to answer any questions, although I’m the first to admit it’s very simple from a tech perspective. Your guess at how it was implemented is probably a better solution than what I actually did :)<p>Happy holidays all!
Show HN: dextk - Android dex file parser in Go
Show HN: dextk - Android dex file parser in Go
Show HN: dextk - Android dex file parser in Go
Show HN: I built ContainerCVE – a web tool to scan public Docker images
I found it odd there wasn’t a simple web tool to scan Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities.<p>So I built one.<p>It’s powered by the popular open-source tool Trivy.
Show HN: I built ContainerCVE – a web tool to scan public Docker images
I found it odd there wasn’t a simple web tool to scan Docker Hub images for vulnerabilities.<p>So I built one.<p>It’s powered by the popular open-source tool Trivy.
Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels
I use it almost daily and thought others might find it useful.<p>I submitted this to HN 6 years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019</a>
Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels
I use it almost daily and thought others might find it useful.<p>I submitted this to HN 6 years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409019</a>