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Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672</a><p>That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.<p>Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).<p>I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.<p>This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!<p>But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.<p>Since the last Show HN I’ve added:<p>- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).<p>- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.<p>- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.<p>- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.<p>- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.<p>- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.<p>- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.<p>- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.<p>- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc<p>- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.<p>- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.<p>- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.<p>- Updated location handling for realtime location display.<p>- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.<p>Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.<p>Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<p>Thanks!
Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672</a><p>That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.<p>Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).<p>I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.<p>This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!<p>But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.<p>Since the last Show HN I’ve added:<p>- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).<p>- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.<p>- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.<p>- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.<p>- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.<p>- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.<p>- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.<p>- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.<p>- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc<p>- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.<p>- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.<p>- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.<p>- Updated location handling for realtime location display.<p>- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.<p>Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.<p>Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<p>Thanks!
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
Show HN: We launched a new web browser
My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.<p>Check it out:<p><a href="https://impervious.com/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://impervious.com/beacon</a><p><a href="https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon</a>
Show HN: We launched a new web browser
My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.<p>Check it out:<p><a href="https://impervious.com/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://impervious.com/beacon</a><p><a href="https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon</a>
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.<p>Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.<p>It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...</a>
Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.<p>Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.<p>It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...</a>
Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.<p>Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.<p>It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...</a>
Show HN: I created a collection of useful websites
Show HN: Favicons for HN
Show HN: I built a website to find nearby cafes to work remotely from
Show HN: Emacs Configuration Generator
Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance
Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser
Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
Show HN: Employees.fyi – Easily compare U.S. workforce demographic data
Hi HN! We built Employees.fyi to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.<p>In the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires the collection and submission of demographic workforce data. We collected and organized the publicly available federal data from the EEOC as well as publicly available EEO-1 submissions from individual companies. By doing so, we hope to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.<p>The URL contains your current selection. Just copy the URL and share it!<p>Some examples:<p>* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Professionals" job category across the Information industry, Facebook, and Netflix: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=PROFESSIONALS&reference=51&company1=Facebook&company2=Netflix" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=PROFESSIONALS&reference...</a><p>* A comparison of 2018 data for all job categories across the Finance and Insurance industry, BlackRock, and PayPal: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=ALL&reference=52&company1=BlackRock&company2=PayPal" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=ALL&reference=52&compan...</a><p>* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Exec/Sr Officials & Managers" category across the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services industry, Accenture, and Nvidia: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=SRMANAGERS&reference=54&company1=Accenture&company2=Nvidia" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=SRMANAGERS&reference=54...</a><p>If there's a company with EEO-1 data that you would like to see, consider submitting a URL via this form: <a href="https://forms.gle/8cVfXpg69fiiemzc8" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/8cVfXpg69fiiemzc8</a><p>Let us know what feedback you have for us! For those who are curious: at runtime, Employees.fyi uses normalize.css and the Open Sans font. They are hosted with the website.
Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet