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Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion.<p>I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see <a href="https://github.com/fduran/sadservers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fduran/sadservers</a>
Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion.<p>I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see <a href="https://github.com/fduran/sadservers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fduran/sadservers</a>
Show HN: Encrypt and hide files inside images
Show HN: Encrypt and hide files inside images
Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service!<p>You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation.<p>I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic.<p>Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome.<p>If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service!<p>You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation.<p>I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic.<p>Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome.<p>If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service!<p>You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation.<p>I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic.<p>Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome.<p>If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model
Show HN: I'm trying to guess your personality by your comments with an NLP model
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release.<p>Quick list of features:<p><pre><code> - Workspaces
- Tabs
- Nested Folders
- Lots of context menus
- Response history
- Plugins
- Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary
- Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions
- Desktop builds for all platforms
- GraphQL support
- Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia
- Simple user friendly interface
</code></pre>
I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the browser.<p>If you're tired of Postman's bloated interface and slow startup times, do give this a try.
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release.<p>Quick list of features:<p><pre><code> - Workspaces
- Tabs
- Nested Folders
- Lots of context menus
- Response history
- Plugins
- Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary
- Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions
- Desktop builds for all platforms
- GraphQL support
- Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia
- Simple user friendly interface
</code></pre>
I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the browser.<p>If you're tired of Postman's bloated interface and slow startup times, do give this a try.
Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release.<p>Quick list of features:<p><pre><code> - Workspaces
- Tabs
- Nested Folders
- Lots of context menus
- Response history
- Plugins
- Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary
- Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions
- Desktop builds for all platforms
- GraphQL support
- Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia
- Simple user friendly interface
</code></pre>
I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the browser.<p>If you're tired of Postman's bloated interface and slow startup times, do give this a try.
Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters.<p>Let me know what you think.<p>You can see some of my results on my reddit page: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top</a>
Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters.<p>Let me know what you think.<p>You can see some of my results on my reddit page: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top</a>
Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities
Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord!<p>I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for open-source knowledge-based communities. Traditionally these communities have lived on forums that solved many of these problems. However, from talking to communities, I found most of them preferred chat because it feels more friendly and modern. We want to bring back a bunch of the advantages of forums while maintaining the look and feel of a chat-based community.<p>Slack and Discord are closed apps that are not indexable by the internet, so a lot of content gets lost. Traditional chat apps are not search engine friendly because most search engines have difficulty crawling JS-heavy sites. We built Linen to be search engine friendly, and our communities have over 30,000 pages/threads indexed by google. Our communities that have synced their Slack and Discord conversations under their domain have additional 40,000 pages indexed. We accomplish this by conditionally server rendering pages based on whether or not the browser client is a crawler bot. This way, we can bring dynamic features and a real-time feel to Linen and support search engines.<p>Most communities become a support channel, and managing this many conversations is not what these tools are designed for. I've seen community admins hack together their own syncs and internal devices to work to stay on top of the conversations. This is why we created a feed view, a single view for all the threads in all the channels you care about. We added an open and closed state to every thread so you can track them similarly to GitHub issues or a ticketing system. This way, you and your team won't miss messages and let them drop. We also allow you to filter conversations you are @mentioned as a way of assigning tickets. I think this is a good starting point, but there is a lot more we can improve on.<p>How chat is designed today is inherently interrupt-driven and disrupts your team's flow state. Most of the time, when I am @mentioning a team member, I actually don't need them to respond immediately. But I do want to make sure that they do eventually see it. This is why we want to redesign how the notification system works. We are repurposing @mentions to show up in your feed and your conversation sections and adding a !mention. A @mention will appear in your feed but doesn't send any push notifications, whereas a !mention will send a notification for when things need a real-time synchronous conversation. This lets you separate casual conversations from urgent conversations. When everything is urgent, nothing is. (credit: Incredibles) This, along with the feed, you can get a very forum-like experience to browse the conversations.<p>Linen is free with unlimited history for public communities under <a href="https://linen.dev/community" rel="nofollow">https://linen.dev/community</a> domain. We monetize by offering a paid version based on communities that want to host Linen under their subdomain and get the SEO benefits without managing their own self-hosted instance.<p>We are a small team of 3, and this is the first iteration, so we apologize for any missing features or bugs. There are many things we want to improve in terms of UX. In the near term, we want to improve search and add more deep integrations, DMs, and private channels. We would appreciate any feedback, and if you are curious about what the experience looks like, you can join us here at Linen.dev/s/linen
Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows
Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows
Show HN: Carefulwords.com, a more inspiring thesaurus
I began this in late September purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com/word) to get my results.<p>It is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. I hope to take the site in a more inspiring direction over time than merely synonyms. Perhaps euphemisms, or other poetic uses from the past, or author commentary, or something altogether different.
Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
APIs are a little like the open road—always waiting, full of opportunity, but hardly utilized. So here’s America, composed of several APIs that paint a vivid, real-time picture of a good old-fashioned road trip. Get local classifieds and photos. Tune into local radio stations. Talk wit other drivers. And more.<p>Exploring the country by car was an invaluable experience for me during my time in the states. I’ve since moved to Barcelona, and find myself missing the territory. This is my attempt at recreating the magic.