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Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-10-13. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Today’s content includes a variety of innovative projects showcased on HN. Notable highlights are a VSCode extension for real-time HTML editing and a GitHub app streamlining software delivery. A self-hosted web-searching platform, an AI-driven news feed, and a framework for aligning LLM evaluators to human feedback also caught attention. Additional projects cover SEO tools, running gamification apps, and a markdown-based scripting alternative. Lastly, offerings range from a minimalist writing app to an AI tool for generating image descriptions, emphasizing usability and diverse applications across tech and creative fields.
URL: https://foldl.github.io/2022-10-18-chasing-a-win32-bug/
Author: foldl2022
Description:
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URL: https://getdumy.co/roast/
Author: rosishi
Description: Roast is a complete landing page audit delivered in 24 hours. I’ll give you actionable tips on what to improve right now so you can get the most out of you landing page.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://chat.datamule.xyz/
Author: jgfriedman1999
Description: A basic implementation of a tool-using SEC chatbot without reasoning ability.
Features:
Future:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/urin/vscode-web-visual-editor
Author: urin
Description:
Popularity: 122 points | 77 comments
URL: https://github.com/marketplace/poe-engineer
Author: stefanm8
Description: I’ve built Poe, a GitHub app that automates versioning for you, moving from deployments to publishing in different release channels, which you can subscribe to through your CI and deploy to any environment you desire.
I’ve built an experimental UI to collaborate on release notes and configure various settings, leading to a SaaS.
How to use:
1. Install the following GitHub App on a repository.
2. Make a commit on the default branch (main/master), and you will start the release process (tagging the current version, promoting to the next channel, generating the changelog).
The github app:https://github.com/marketplace/poe-engineer/
UI Link:
Popularity: 5 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/felladrin/MiniSearch
Author: felladrin
Description: MiniSearch is celebrating its 1st birthday!
Exactly one year ago, I shared the initial version of this side-project here. Since then, there have been numerous changes under the hood. I use it daily as my default search engine and have done my best to make it useful. I hope it’s interesting for you too!
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
URL: https://bazaari.io/
Author: alizaid
Description:
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URL: https://conductor.gg
Author: zayne
Description: I’ve been tinkering on and off with FFmpeg over the years and wanted to try to build a tool that automates some of my common use cases. Some fun things you can use Conductor for currently:
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
URL: https://app.readaloudto.me
Author: waynenilsen
Description: I hacked this together to listen to PGs Essays in audio format. I have used it for several hours now, quite enjoyable.
Features
Totally free, I may add a “no api key” option if folks enjoy it. Feedback is absolutely welcome.
It is really quite simple but it is quite useful to me. Perhaps this exists somewhere else already but I don’t think it does with the feature set I described.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Author: druskacik
Description: Hey, HN,
literature and classical music are two of my biggest passions, and I always found it interesting how some classical pieces fit to the stories they are barely connected with.
E.g. some of Tchaikovsky’s music will always evoke the world of Harry Potter for me; music of Sibelius takes me to the same landscapes as writings of Tolkien - of course, these clearly result from John Williams’ and Howard Shore’s direct inspirations from the romantic composers when creating the soundtracks for the movie adaptations. For a more niche example, music of Olivier Messiaen fits in my view the book L’Écume Des Jours by Boris Vian - grandiose movements of the Turangalila symphony for the first half of the story, the expressionism and sadness of Vingt Regards the latter. The examples are numerous.
My recent idea was to somehow automate this pairing of literature and music. It works quite simply - at first, I collected a large dataset of classical music pieces with text descriptions, which I transformed into embeddings. When generating a soundtrack, I use an LLM to create a description of what kind of music would be suitable for the story, and the embedding of this description is used to fetch the most relevant tracks.
While the resulting playlist can barely be understood as “soundtrack” at this point, it can be a pleasant background playlist for reading the book.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or feedback :)
Popularity: 3 points | 2 comments
URL: https://proxmoxve-scripts.com/
Author: BramSuurdje
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/NyuB/ocli
Author: NyuB
Description: I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not ‘fluent’ with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year.
The notable features are:
Feedbacks (both on the tool and the code) and contributions welcome, hope it could fit other people needs too !
Popularity: 21 points | 1 comments
Author: LoGiSTeRr
Description: After 5 months of coding and tweaking, I’m excited to introduce Bibliou, a social media platform dedicated to book enthusiasts. With Bibliou, you can:
-Read and upload books
-Share what you’ve read and discover new reads from others
-Connect with fellow book lovers, make friends, and see what they’re reading
-Download books from the community
It’s a place where bookworms can geek out about their favorite reads, follow others’ reading journeys, and build meaningful connections over shared literary interests.
I’d love to get feedback on the platform, and if you’re into books, feel free to check it out!
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
URL: https://thecommandfor.com/
Author: rclaudedev
Description:
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Author: anophelon
Description:
Popularity: 49 points | 5 comments
URL: https://chess.olzhasar.com/
Author: olzhasar
Description:
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Author: topps1k
Description: Hey HN,
I’m a Big Tech engineer turned SaaS founder, and I’m excited to share Captchify, an A/B testing platform I’ve built to solve a problem I experienced firsthand: all the existing A/B testing tools available external to big techs are either way too complex or incredibly overpriced.
Captchify is designed to provide a robust, high-performance A/B testing solution that meets Big Tech standards but is accessible to smaller teams and solo devs. With 99.9%+ uptime guarantees and real-time analytics, it’s built to handle even the most demanding use cases. The JavaScript SDK ensures low latency, with no impact on performance (as treatment allocation is done locally) unless you’re using our segmentation API, which is optimized with a p99 of ~30ms client-side. Basically make sure you allocate a singleton on your node server or prime it before accepting requests on serverless (use the preload feature I have in the constructor).
I also recently launched a WordPress plugin for easier integration, and I’m planning to add more low-code features to make Captchify even more user-friendly for non-technical users. For HN users interested in trying it out, I’m offering 50% off for life on all paid tiers (there is a free tier), plus I’ll personally assist with setup to make sure you get up and running smoothly.
Its features include
So its designed to be a super flexible core engine that does everything you need to do for proper A/B testing for a very modest price at scale.
If you’re looking for a simpler, more affordable way to do A/B testing at scale, give Captchify a shot. I’d love to hear your feedback and answer any questions you have. You can check it out at https://captchify.com.
Thanks, and happy testing!
Popularity: 2 points | 5 comments
URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/serverette
Author: emnawer
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
URL: https://starshipthegame.site
Author: BabyJordan
Description:
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URL: #
Author: GTCHO
Description: Hey HN!
I’m excited to share LabViz.co, a platform designed specifically for laboratories and pharmacists to visualize their reports and data. We recently crossed 20K views in just 72 hours, and I’m looking forward to feedback from the HN community!
What LabViz.co offers: Report Visualizations: Transform lab data and pharmaceutical reports into clear, interactive visuals. Efficiency for Labs & Pharmacists: Streamline analysis of critical metrics like sample results, medication compliance, and patient data trends. Tailored for the Industry: Built with the specific needs of laboratories and pharmacies in mind to make report analysis intuitive and actionable. The goal is to make it easier for labs and pharmacists to explore, understand, and communicate data without needing extensive technical skills.
I’d love any feedback or ideas on how to improve LabViz.co or any features you think would be useful!
Check it out: LabViz.co
Thanks!
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/routerino
Author: floydnoel
Description: Hello HN! I wanted to share my open-source project I’ve been working on, called Routerino. It’s an ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency router built specifically for React client-side rendered websites. If you’re building with modern tooling like Vite.js or focusing on JAMStack architectures, Routerino aims to be the simplest routing solution. I built it in response to the common frustration of overcomplicated web development. With just React and Routerino, you can ship a full website or application in HTML, just like we used to.
Beyond just routing, Routerino has some powerful built-in features to help make your React sites more SEO and social media sharing friendly right out of the box:
- Automatic support for Prerender tags, allowing your client-side app to serve up proper 301 redirects and 404 status codes to web crawlers for better indexing. No relying on fragile SSR hydration or hash-based routing!
- An integrated CLI tool to generate a sitemap.xml directly from your defined application routes. Keep your sitemap always in sync with your routes with a single command. I use this to generate a fresh sitemap with each build. I couldn’t find another router that tackles this (only some abandoned plugins).
- Automatic social media Open Graph (OG) tag population based on your route props, making social sharing of your app’s pages look great on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Best practice nudges like canonical URL management and robots.txt generation to help your app avoid common SEO pitfalls. My goal is to include support and documentation sufficient for any developer to easily handle SEO concerns.
The goal with Routerino is to create a routing solution that lets React devs focus on building great apps and websites without having to worry about the SEO and social sharing aspects as an afterthought. By baking this functionality in from the start, Routerino helps you build more visible and shareable web applications with minimal extra effort.
I’ve kept the API surface small and focused, so if you know React, you’ll feel right at home with Routerino. The core fits in a single file for easy integration into your build process.
Check out the project on GitHub and give it a star if you think it could be useful! I’d love to hear feedback from the HN community on how to make Routerino an even better tool for the React ecosystem. PRs and suggestions are most welcome.
Happy routing!
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
Author: jneagu
Description: We’ve built SMELL (Subject-Matter Expert Language Liaison), a new framework that combines human expertise with LLMs to create feedback-informed, domain-specific LLM evaluators. One of the biggest issues with current evaluation methods (heuristics, assertions, LLM-as-a-judge etc.) is that it’s difficult for them to match up with and capture human preferences.
SMELL addresses this by putting human feedback at the core of the evaluation process. It scales up a small set of human-provided feedback into evaluators that reflect the standards and nuances of specific industries or use-cases. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, you get evaluations that actually align with human judgment in those areas.
If you’re curious to try it out, we’ve made it easy by offering both a notebook and a hosted API so you can test SMELL with your own LLMs and datasets:
- Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wCRwU5KQvnRSDxkubU9…
Check out the blog post for more details: https://www.quotientai.co/post/subject-matter-expert-languag…
We are in the process in writing up the findings into a paper, and are planning to provide the full details on SMELL (incl. prompts).
If you’re interested in building a custom judge tailored to your specific use case, or if you’d like to contribute to our research, we’d love to collaborate! You can share your datasets with us at [email protected]. We’ll publish results based on the data you provide, with full attribution and recognition of your contributions.
In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback and see what you think!
Popularity: 4 points | 0 comments
Author: gopherbro
Description: I’ve been doing SEO for a long time, and I was tired of all the repetitive tasks. So, I decided to build an automation AI agent to handle those tasks for me. To my surprise, I ended up creating a tool that saves 500 hours of manual work with just one click!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-viewer-formatter/hccflbcmekoegenjodacikdoponodeid
Author: chernikovalexey
Description:
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URL: https://www.screenvivid.com
Author: tamnv
Description:
Popularity: 9 points | 11 comments
URL: https://vscode-themes-community.vercel.app
Author: RustyNail96
Description: Introducing VSCode Themes Community: Create Themes with Sacred Geometry!
Hey fellow developers!
Are you tired of the same old color schemes for your VSCode editor? Looking for something truly unique and harmonious? Check out our new project: VSCode Themes Community!
What makes it special? We’ve developed an innovative algorithm that uses sacred geometry patterns to generate color schemes. This means you get themes that are not just visually appealing, but also based on harmonious ratios found in nature and ancient architecture!
Key Features:
Try it out: [VSCode Themes Community](https://vscode-themes-community.vercel.app) GitHub Repo: [RLabs-Inc/vscode-themes-community](https://github.com/RLabs-Inc/vscode-themes-community)
We’d love to hear your feedback and see the amazing themes you create! Feel free to star the repo if you find it interesting.
Happy theming!
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
Author: ilangorajagopal
Description: Hey HN! I’ve been working on yet another writing app called Aurelius (https://aurelius.ink). I built Aurelius primarily for myself and I’ve been writing with it everyday. I thought I’ll share this here.
Here are the features:
- Local-first, but can sync data between different browsers or devices without signup. Sync is also end-to-end encrypted.
- Progressive web app and offline functionality.
- Rich-text editing with support for Markdown shortcuts.
- Keyboard shortcuts for most actions in the app.
- Writing sessions timer for tracking your daily writing.
- Focus-mode which hides almost everything except the editor.
- Music player that plays focus music like lofi, chillhop, etc. You can also use a Youtube video or playlist of your choice.
Give it a try and let me know your thoughts.
Thank you!
Popularity: 4 points | 2 comments
URL: https://yustynn.github.io/nonlinear-text-experiment/
Author: Yustynn
Description: This is an experiment for better communication. If anyone’s got time for feedback (positive or negative), I’d love to hear it :) Especially about: • [core idea] Do you think the core idea of some logical channel for info display is promising, or do you think it’s not worthwhile? • [current utility] Does the current logical channel help you understand the text better? • [reader interface] Assuming we have the logical markup of a text, how can we use that to help readers grasp the parts of the text they’re interested in faster? How should we display the information? • [author interface] What would an ideal author interface look like, for marking up text while writing it?
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://skoro.sk/en/news?l=en
Author: takmer
Description:
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URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tempeh-cli
Author: asunknownast
Description:
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URL: https://zillowscraper.site
Author: Alan_Swift
Description: Tired of manual Zillow searches, I built a web-based scraper.
As a real estate investor, I found myself constantly sifting through Zillow listings, manually copying data into spreadsheets. It was mind-numbing work that ate up hours of my time. I knew there had to be a more efficient way.
I realized this wasn’t just my problem. Many real estate professionals – from agents to investors to market analysts – were likely facing the same tedious task. We all needed a quick, reliable way to gather property data at scale.
Over six weeks of intense coding (and more coffee than I care to admit), I developed Zillow Scraper. The journey wasn’t without its challenges – I had to navigate Zillow’s data structure, ensure accurate parsing, and create a user-friendly interface. But the result was worth it.
Zillow Scraper simplifies the entire process of collecting property data. Here’s what it does:
1. Just input a city or area, and it scrapes all relevant listings 2. Export data directly to Excel (.xls) or CSV formats 3. No plugin or software installation required – it’s entirely web-based 4. Provides 3 free searches for new users to try before committing
The tool has streamlined my own investment research, and now 300 active users are benefiting from it too. Real estate agents are using it to quickly gather comps, investors are efficiently analyzing new markets, and analysts are effortlessly collecting data for trend reports.
I’d love for the HN community to give it a try and share your thoughts. What additional features would make this even more useful for you? Are there any other data points you’d like to see included in the exports?
You can check it out at https://zillowscraper.site
Remember, you get 3 free searches to test it out – no credit card required.
Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://anime-pfp.com/pfp/goku
Author: ImranK
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://highlights.tatli.me/
Author: TaylanTatli
Description: Hey everyone!
I created KoboHighlights to easily extract and display highlights from my KoboReader.sqlite file.
Although I’m not a professional developer, I realized that others might find it useful too, so I decided to share it with the community.
What It Does:
- Extracts highlights from KoboReader.sqlite file
- Displays highlights in a user-friendly interface
- Allows sending highlights to Notion (for a single book or for all)
- Supports saving highlights to Local Storage for offline access
- Supports downloading as TXT, MD and HTML
- Multilingual (supports English and Turkish for now)
I built this project with my limited coding skills, so if you have any feature requests or notice any issues, please let me know.
I’ll do my best to improve the project based on your feedback.
Source: https://github.com/TaylanTatli/KoboHighlights
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nixiesearch/hackernews-stories
Author: shutty
Description: We’re at nixiesearch.ai building a yet another search over HN, but we found no public datasets of the actual submission texts available - so we scraped one!
TLDR: 2.1M texts, around 55% of all stories still available online.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/emillamm/envx
Author: jk801
Description: EnvX is a module for reading and parsing environment variables in Go.
I decided to create this project as I found myself writing lots of boilerplate code when using os.Getenv extensively in my Go programs.
EnvX is just a type definition of func(string)string with methods for parsing values as different types and dealing with errors and defaults.
I started learning Go earlier this year and this is my first project in Go that I am proud of showing. I hope that others will find it useful.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/dhuan/mock
Author: dhuan_
Description: mock is an API utility - it lets you:
- define API routes easily through API configuration files or through command-line parameters.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
Author: owen8372
Description: Getting 0 to 1000 customers on X and Reddit is tough. Hours wasted, mentions missed, and replies that don’t convert. Opencord AI automates leads, crafts replies, and turns conversations into customers.
Popularity: 2 points | 2 comments
URL: #
Author: Utkarshn10
Description: Hey everyone!
I’ve been running for about 4 years and have completed multiple half-marathons, 5Ks, and 10Ks. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how I can make my running habit more meaningful beyond just tracking miles.
So, I’m building Run&Grow, an app that rewards you with plants for each milestone you hit on your runs! Every time you accomplish a goal, you’ll plant trees and plants in a virtual garden—turning your fitness achievements into something you can actually see grow.
If you’re into running or just like the idea of gamifying your workouts with a cool environmental twist, I’d love for you to join the waitlist and be one of the first to try it out!
runandgrow.carrd.co
Let’s grow something amazing together!
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
URL: https://github.com/tzador/x.md
Author: timz
Description: x.md
allows you to organise your cli scripts in one or several markdown files,
by mix and matching different scripting languages for various commands, such as zsh/bash/sh, python or javascript.
Handy for replacing one-line-based package.json
scripts or Makefile
s.
One can also write documentation and explanations to various commands in same x.md
markdown file.
ZSH autocompletions are also working, suggesting you the most relevant available commands from your x.md
files.
Most editors highlight correctly most languages in the markdown code blocks, even when you use several scripting languages.
Provided the following example (x.md file in the root of your project), one can run in a terminal:
$ x weather-tomorrow
orThe syntax is simple, each command is a level 1 header followed by optional documentation in markdown notation, and followed by annotated (which interpreter to use) code block.# x generate-password
--- An example of x.md file --- # hello Prints "Hello" to `stdout` using Zsh. ```zsh echo "Hello" ``` # world Just prints "World" to `stdout` using JavaScript. ```js console.log("World"); ``` # weather-tomorrow Prints the weather for tomorrow to `stdout` using Zsh. ```zsh curl wttr.in/tomorrow ``` # generate-password Prints a random password to `stdout` using Python. ```python import random import string length = 16 characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation password = ''.join(random.choice(characters) for _ in range(length)) print(password) ``` --- end of x.md ---
One can type --help
after x my-command
to print out the help associated with that command.
It is possible to have multiple files with scripts, just put them in the x
folder with .md
extension.
Would be very grateful for any suggestions or other feedback.
Thank you.
Popularity: 13 points | 9 comments
URL: https://alttextgenerator.co/tools/ai-describe-image
Author: allenz_cheung
Description: Hey HN,
I’m excited to share a tool I’ve been working on: AI Describe Image. It’s an AI-powered tool that automatically generates detailed descriptions for images. If you’re a content creator, marketer, or web developer, this tool can help streamline the process of creating image descriptions for blogs, websites, or social media.
What It Does:
Automatically generates descriptions for any image you upload. Designed to improve accessibility by providing descriptive text for images, ensuring that screen readers can convey the visual content to visually impaired users. Optimized for SEO: The descriptions are keyword-rich, helping your images rank higher in search engines. Batch processing available for creating multiple image descriptions at once, saving time for larger projects. Who Can Benefit:
Content creators who want to enhance their posts with context-rich image descriptions. E-commerce owners looking to optimize product listings by adding detailed descriptions to images. Marketers who need to boost SEO and engagement on visual-heavy social media campaigns. Developers focused on making websites more accessible while improving SEO performance. Key Features:
Easy image upload and description generation. Bulk processing for handling multiple images efficiently. Support for multiple languages, making it useful for international audiences. Designed with accessibility in mind, adhering to alt text best practices. Feel free to try it out! I’d love to hear any feedback or ideas for improvement.
Popularity: 4 points | 3 comments
Today’s Show HN roundup showcases a diverse range of innovative projects. From AI-powered tools to creative coding solutions, these projects reflect the dynamic nature of our tech community. Which project caught your attention the most? Let us know in the comments!
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