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Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
Show HN: Daily Read – Receive a chapter a day from popular public domain books
Show HN: Daily Read – Receive a chapter a day from popular public domain books
Show HN: Daily Read – Receive a chapter a day from popular public domain books
Show HN: Mailwind – Use Tailwind CSS to design HTML emails
Show HN: BeerBase – an accessible worldwide open beer database
Show HN: BeerBase – an accessible worldwide open beer database
Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle
I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word.<p>So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.
Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle
I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word.<p>So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.
BlockPaper – Centralized, paper-backed blockchain in my home office
Show HN: Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop
duralava is a neural network which can simulate a lava lamp in an infinite loop.<p>It uses a recurrent GAN that learns the physical behavior of the lava lamp.<p>A noteworthy aspect is that can generate an arbitrarily long video of a (virtual) lava lamp, without diverging even after thousands of frames.
Show HN: Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop
duralava is a neural network which can simulate a lava lamp in an infinite loop.<p>It uses a recurrent GAN that learns the physical behavior of the lava lamp.<p>A noteworthy aspect is that can generate an arbitrarily long video of a (virtual) lava lamp, without diverging even after thousands of frames.
Show HN: Lava lamp simulated by neural net in infinite loop
duralava is a neural network which can simulate a lava lamp in an infinite loop.<p>It uses a recurrent GAN that learns the physical behavior of the lava lamp.<p>A noteworthy aspect is that can generate an arbitrarily long video of a (virtual) lava lamp, without diverging even after thousands of frames.
Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored
Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You <i>can</i> host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out and write a bot for to ruin the whole canvas, but I trust that the HN crowd can come up with clever things to draw with a script, should they choose to do so. The server is recording draw events into a log, and I will be posting a timelapse here in the comments after some time. Have fun!
Show HN: I've built my own simple website analytics
Show HN: Download Twitter data without API keys
In April last year I started thinking about using Twitter in a smarter way. I wanted to do analytics on my tweets and find out more about people following me on Twitter. What kinds of things do people who follow me like and retweet? I decided to dig into the data and find out.<p>When I went to try and download Twitter data in raw form I found I quickly got bogged down writing API wrangling code and fiddling with API keys. I just wanted to crunch some data but here I was wrangling Twitter's API. This was such a frustrating experience it suddenly looked like an opportunity to me. Was there room for a product here? A product which does one simple thing: help people extract Twitter data painlessly without writing any code.<p>I did some research and discovered some tools that purported to do this, but none of them worked well for my use-case and all were badly designed and/or expensive. I decided to take a shot at it.<p>I worked on this as a side project in a "calm company" fashion. Each week for 26 weeks I would put aside one day to chip away at the features. I tried not to think about how the issue tracker was filling up more and more. Several times I pared back the feature set to try to really focus on the core use-case.<p>When my first user reached out and engaged I knew I might be onto something. I kept posting progress on Twitter and a few more people started to use it each week. Some of them came back, hinting at possible user retention. I hired a writer to write some articles to help with SEO and I kept working towards and MVP that I could use to test the market.<p>Finally the day arrived where all of the critical issues in my issue tracker were closed. That meant it was launch day. That was yesterday. So here I am releasing this on Hacker News to you, dear reader.<p>God speed little micro-SaaS, may the winds of fortune be at your back.