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Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember.<p>Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting.<p>So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph.<p>We also felt like it was important for Booqsi to be independent of Amazon; we care about supporting local bookstores, so every book in Booqsi links you to Bookshop.org to purchase that book (not Amazon).<p>Here are some of my favorite features launched as part of beta:<p>- A book-focused social feed (finally!)<p>- Beautifully-rendered custom bookshelves to show off to your friends<p>- Streamlined book recommendations to friends<p>- Easily track reading goals and books you've read<p>And many more...<p>It's completely free and easy to use, and we would love your feedback as you explore the platform.

Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember.<p>Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting.<p>So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph.<p>We also felt like it was important for Booqsi to be independent of Amazon; we care about supporting local bookstores, so every book in Booqsi links you to Bookshop.org to purchase that book (not Amazon).<p>Here are some of my favorite features launched as part of beta:<p>- A book-focused social feed (finally!)<p>- Beautifully-rendered custom bookshelves to show off to your friends<p>- Streamlined book recommendations to friends<p>- Easily track reading goals and books you've read<p>And many more...<p>It's completely free and easy to use, and we would love your feedback as you explore the platform.

Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember.<p>Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting.<p>So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph.<p>We also felt like it was important for Booqsi to be independent of Amazon; we care about supporting local bookstores, so every book in Booqsi links you to Bookshop.org to purchase that book (not Amazon).<p>Here are some of my favorite features launched as part of beta:<p>- A book-focused social feed (finally!)<p>- Beautifully-rendered custom bookshelves to show off to your friends<p>- Streamlined book recommendations to friends<p>- Easily track reading goals and books you've read<p>And many more...<p>It's completely free and easy to use, and we would love your feedback as you explore the platform.

Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember.<p>Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting.<p>So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph.<p>We also felt like it was important for Booqsi to be independent of Amazon; we care about supporting local bookstores, so every book in Booqsi links you to Bookshop.org to purchase that book (not Amazon).<p>Here are some of my favorite features launched as part of beta:<p>- A book-focused social feed (finally!)<p>- Beautifully-rendered custom bookshelves to show off to your friends<p>- Streamlined book recommendations to friends<p>- Easily track reading goals and books you've read<p>And many more...<p>It's completely free and easy to use, and we would love your feedback as you explore the platform.

Show HN: Switch windows of same app with hotkey (alt + `)

Show HN: Switch windows of same app with hotkey (alt + `)

Show HN: TopHat Finance – free, open, and offline

Show HN: TopHat Finance – free, open, and offline

Show HN: Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client

Show HN: Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client

Show HN: Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client

Show HN: Create a timeline from Markdown-like text

Show HN: Esolang Park, a visual debugger for esolangs

Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff).<p>Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare). Some features like non-debugging execution mode (0ms interval) are missing too.<p>Currently the entire source code[0] (core + language providers) is written in TypeScript and React. Esolang code execution happens in a web worker. I'm planning to add support for WASM-based language providers for better performance, particularly for non-debugging execution. There's also a wiki[1] containing a description of the core design and a guide for implementing and contributing new language providers.<p>Looking to hear some feedback on the idea and current implementation - bug reports are welcome too!<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki</a>

Show HN: Esolang Park, a visual debugger for esolangs

Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff).<p>Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare). Some features like non-debugging execution mode (0ms interval) are missing too.<p>Currently the entire source code[0] (core + language providers) is written in TypeScript and React. Esolang code execution happens in a web worker. I'm planning to add support for WASM-based language providers for better performance, particularly for non-debugging execution. There's also a wiki[1] containing a description of the core design and a guide for implementing and contributing new language providers.<p>Looking to hear some feedback on the idea and current implementation - bug reports are welcome too!<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki</a>

Show HN: Esolang Park, a visual debugger for esolangs

Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff).<p>Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare). Some features like non-debugging execution mode (0ms interval) are missing too.<p>Currently the entire source code[0] (core + language providers) is written in TypeScript and React. Esolang code execution happens in a web worker. I'm planning to add support for WASM-based language providers for better performance, particularly for non-debugging execution. There's also a wiki[1] containing a description of the core design and a guide for implementing and contributing new language providers.<p>Looking to hear some feedback on the idea and current implementation - bug reports are welcome too!<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nilaymaj/esolang-park/wiki</a>

Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine

It runs on the frontend in vanilla JS, it should work 9 times out 10.(false negatives near the border)<p>(Not that thoroughly tested but should be fine)

Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of audio

In 2020, Magenta released DDSP [1], a machine learning algorithm / python library which made it possible to generate good sounding instrument synthesizers from about 6-10 minutes of data. While working with DDSP for a project, we realised how it was actually quite hard to find 6-10 minute of clean recordings of monophonic instruments.<p>In this project, we have combined the DDSP architecture with a domain adaptation technique from speech synthesis [2]. This domain adaptation technique works by pre-training our model on many different recordings from the Solos dataset [3] first and then fine-tuning parts of the model to the new recording. This allows us to produce decent sounding instrument synthesisers from as little as 16 seconds of target audio instead of 6-10 minutes.<p>[1] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04643</a><p>[2] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06006" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06006</a><p>[3] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07931" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07931</a><p>We hope to publish a paper on the topic soon.