April 2020
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Show HN: Tiny game made overnight for the 2020 Blender 24hr art competition
2 by pengaru | 0 comments on Hacker News.
It was Saturday night, deep into a dark chocolate bar and well-paired Cabernet, when Cranksy [0] pinged me on IRC gauging interest in collaborating on this year's Blender [1] competition. "Would it be too much work to just throw an ANSI on the screen and play an ogg file?" he asked. Inebriated enough to get a little enthusiastic about something like this, I joined #blender on efnet, and noted this year's words had already been chosen. "Damn, we've got a late start." I thought as I read the channel's topic: Monkeys / Rescuing / Between Realities It must have been all the COVID-19 news I've been endlessly assaulted with, because it was immediately clear that these words would fit perfectly with a game of monkeys saving other monkeys from viruses by transporting them to another reality. A bottle of wine and one sleepless night of drunken coding later and a tiny game [2] is born. WARNING: there's a potentially NSFW ANSI graphic in-game, if ANSI can possibly be considered NSFW. Unusual for these kinds of things, I'm also releasing the entire C source code [3] of everything needed to rebuild and fork/hack if desired. The only external dependencies are SDL2, SDL_Mixer, whatever those pull in like libvorbis/libogg, and OpenGL. If you clone the repository, be sure to use a recursive clone as there are submodules. Also, if you'd like to be notified via email of interesting creations like these, you can submit your email address in the text box @ http://pengaru.com. If you're interested in collaborating on making demos, intros, or video games, reach out - I prefer email, Cranksy is on twitter. Please be kind to my server, hopefully it doesn't get hugged to death, thanks! [0] http://cranksy.net [1] https://ift.tt/2nsCoUj [2] https://ift.tt/2zcyzOH (Includes native OSX/Windows/Linux executables) [3] git://git.pengaru.com/sars

April 21, 2020
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Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles
3 by artembugara | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost" Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing. It is a 3 steps procedure: 1. Make an API that solves a problem 2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture 3. Distribute through an API Marketplace That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI. Source code of API: https://ift.tt/2RUHxXk Subscribe to API on Rapid: https://ift.tt/2KmjjBo I'm on ProductHunt today: https://ift.tt/2RPfqJ1 Full article on how I did it: https://ift.tt/3aiNsMk

April 20, 2020
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Show HN: Teddy Bear Tracker iOS App
2 by mikecaulley | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Two weeks ago when walking around my neighborhood I noticed a strange amount of teddy bears placed in the windows of homes. When I got home I searched the internet and found https://ift.tt/2URjc5m describing that this was being done to provide additional entertainment for people going on walks during these times of social distancing. This past week I decided to repurpose some old code into an app that would allow me to keep track of the teddy bears I found while on my own walks. It's quite simple but I hope others can get some enjoyment out of it! :) Here is the Apple App Store link: https://ift.tt/3al5kpV

April 19, 2020
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Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension that replaces new tab into a done tasks list
2 by thatoneguytoo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone, I recently started keeping a done list along with my todo list, and wanted to log updates quickly instead of searching for the file. As a way of easy input, I made a Chrome Extension to replace new tab into a pretty dashboard for logging progress updates. Let me know your thoughts on it: http://usedone.today/

April 19, 2020
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Show HN: A place that lists free games
2 by Thundernerd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Most people like free things, some people like games. If you like 'm both then this might be something for you! I've made a website, a Discord bot, a Twitter bot, and a bunch of scrapers that roam the web to find free games out there. Just so that they can be found in one place by other people. I'm running this on my own server, so I'm curious as to how much traffic it can handle. The Discord and Twitter bots run on a fixed interval, so that shouldn't be much of a bottleneck. You can check it out online at: https://ift.tt/2KdgG4v On Twitter at https://twitter.com/fgiafg And you can check out the Discord server over here: https://ift.tt/2zeP5xX Let me know what you think, and what could be improved! Cheers

April 18, 2020
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Show HN: Changelog Generation Tool
3 by bdryanovski | 0 comments on Hacker News.
It's the Easter holidays here so I decided to finish one of the pet-projects that I had on my work machine. https://ift.tt/2XKX4Nf This small package is designed to help me generate a changelog for my other projects and keep it up to date when it comes to update and handle it. The JSON part is for the cases when I want to integrate it into Single Page Apps like for example inside https://docusaurus.io/ or https://ift.tt/2tupKLA when I want to have a lot more control on how the data is rendered. Or even make it searchable. I will be happy to get some feedback on what other people could need or is it useful for someone. Happy Holidays to everyone.

April 18, 2020
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Show HN: Infstream – We’re trying to fix video monetization for creators
4 by 0x62 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
TL;DR: https://ift.tt/2VFChrA Hi HN – we’re Ben & Callum from Infstream. We’ve always been heavy users of YouTube, for entertainment, education and sharing. Towards the end of last year, we saw more and more horror stories of YouTubers losing their livelihood to the ad algorithm. We decided to build a content-first video platform, which aims to reduce issues by removing advertisers from the equation. Instead, we charge for the content you watch – bold, I know. Instead of paying in advertising and data, users on Infstream build their own streaming package, a channel at a time. Anyone can start a channel (US & UK now, Europe soon) and earn directly from their subscribers. Subscribers pay $1 per month per channel, of which the channel receives $0.75. This all begins from the first subscriber, there are no minimums to start monetization. Channels have total control, and can publish on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule – whatever is working for them and their subscribers. They’re free to keep publishing on other sites (we recommend it), and can promote exclusive content to their existing audience, quickly growing an ad-independent revenue stream. We’re getting ready to launch, and are inviting creators to sign up beforehand to get their channel ready. If you or a connection has had issues with publishing on YouTube we’d love to hear from you, and learn some more about the pain points. The platform is stocked with demo content, it would be great to get some feedback. https://ift.tt/2VFChrA This was also my first production project using Hasura (super positive), so can share my experience if you’re considering trying it. Stack: - Hasura (GraphQL) - Lambda + S3 - Mux - Cube.js - Stripe Connect / Atlas - Vue 2 Callum and I will be hanging out in the comments to answer any questions. Feel free to drop me an email at ben@infstream.com if you’ve got questions or want to chat.

April 17, 2020
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Show HN: S3 Bucket Monitoring – Are your private buckets private?
13 by encoderer | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, Shane and August here from Cronitor. We built this S3 monitoring feature and are excited to be launching it on HN today and hearing your feedback. A little backstory - a couple of months ago I was talking to a friend who works at a ~500 person company. They have a small development/IT team, but software development isn't their core business. In his second month on the job my friend was combing through S3 buckets to get a sense of what teams were using it. In doing so he came across a public bucket that contained both private customer and business data. It seemed clear to him that this bucket definitely should be private so he started asking around. It turned out an analyst in the finance department had asked someone they knew on the development team if they could make that bucket public so that they could pull data from it programatically. That person, not knowing any better, and wanting to help a more senior person at the company made the change and went on with their day. There have been so many examples of S3 buckets exposing private data[0], and this conversation made me realize that this was a perfect addition to our uptime monitoring service[1]. We use AWS lambdas that attempt to connect to your bucket in a couple of different ways to determine if there is any public access. It’s built on top of our existing Uptime Monitoring network by using Boto for these checks instead of our standard HTTP client. We check your buckets constantly and if a private bucket suddenly becomes public an immediate alert is sent to the right person. Let us know what you think! https://ift.tt/2ynVpCt [0] https://ift.tt/2PCb5pa [1] https://ift.tt/2Kdaeul

April 16, 2020
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Launch HN: Zynq (YC W20) – Book meetings instantly with your team
13 by zerzar | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Zerzar & David here from Zynq - we built a calendar extension for Google Calendar to help you easily book meetings with your colleagues, even if they are spread across timezones. You can check it out here: https://zynq.io/remote Both of us worked on G Suite and quit last year because we felt enterprise calendars really needed an upgrade and they weren’t a strategic priority for Google/Microsoft. As a product manager, I spent a bunch of time organizing meetings and moving them around which was probably the least valuable thing I could have been doing. David, as an engineer, would frequently get interrupted by meetings people would schedule in the middle of his day when he was trying to get work done. We built Zynq to make scheduling intuitive: just tell us who you want to meet & how long you want your meeting to be and we’ll find the best time that works for everyone. Our algorithm looks for open slots during work hours where everyone is free in their timezone & not out for lunch. We rank these slots via a scoring algorithm which prioritizes focus time for everyone invited & picks the top slot. We then create the meeting and automatically add a Zoom/Hangouts link so you never need to set that up manually again. We are launching this for free given the current WFH situation to help teams move faster, but we also have a separate paid product that optimizes for meeting room utilization and that’s how we make money. We don’t plan to charge for this version, but may release paid features on top in the future geared toward larger enterprises. Our goal is to build a complete end-to-end meeting solution for smart offices including meeting room tablet software, guest check-in experience, and an analytics back-end which helps plan future office space. Our long term vision is to automate away the many boring tasks you do at work so you can focus on the creative aspects of your job. We hope this is a step in that direction - please let us know your honest feedback and how we can improve!

April 15, 2020
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Show HN: Plato's Protagoras Highly Abridged
2 by ttonkytonk | 0 comments on Hacker News.
For no wise human...will allow that any human being errs voluntarily, or voluntarily does evil and dishonorable actions;... And do you, Protagoras, like the rest of the world, call some pleasant things evil and some painful things good? - for I am rather disposed to say that things are good in as far as they are pleasant, if they have no consequences of another sort, and in as far as they are painful they are bad. But are you aware that the majority of the world are of another mind; and that humans are commonly supposed to know the things which are best, and not to do them when they might? And most persons whom I have asked the reason of this have said that when humans act contrary to knowledge they are overcome by pain,or pleasure... Then you think that pain is an evil and pleasure is a good: and even pleasure you deem an evil, when it robs you of greater pleasures than it gives, or causes pains greater than the pleasure...You call pain a good when it takes away greater pains than those which it has,or gives pleasures greater than the pains... ...if you are unable to show any good or evil which does not end in pleasure and pain, hear the consequences:...the argument is absurd which affirms that a human often does evil knowingly... And that this is ridiculous will be evident if only we give up the use of various names, such as pleasant and painful, and good and evil. As there are two things, let us call them by two names - first, good and evil, and then pleasant and painful. Assuming this,... a human does evil knowing that they do evil...Because they are overcome...By the good... Is not the real explanation that they are out of proportion to one another, either as greater and smaller, or more and fewer? Then, I said, no human voluntarily pursues evil... To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a human is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when they may have the less.

April 15, 2020
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