
Explore the hottest developer projects on Show HN for 2024-10-26. Dive into innovative tech, AI applications, and exciting new inventions!
Summary of Today's Content
Today's summary features innovative projects showcased on Hacker News. Highlights include Instapics, a visual platform, and Shake For Bitcoin, an app challenging users to guess Bitcoin private keys. Notably, serverless Python workers were introduced for web developers, while Synth offers an AI-driven job application tool for personalized resumes. Other exciting tools include a commercial jingle generator, a discussion platform for developers, and a minimal drawing language. Each project addresses unique user needs, fostering creativity and collaboration within the tech community.
1. Show HN: Instapics
Author: nanacat
Description:
Popularity: 12 points | 1 comments
2. Show HN: Shake For Bitcoin – Can you guess the Bitcoin private key?
URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.btcforshake.bitcoinforshake&hl=en_US
Author: furkanonder
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
3. Show HN: Long-running serverless Python workers
URL: #
Author: ATechGuy
Description: Hi HN,
We are launching serverless Python workers for developers who are building Python web/AI apps: https://pyworkers.so
Our Python workers similar to Cloudflare workers, except for Python and are long running, which means there are no timeouts.
This is something that our team has been working on for the past year. Would love to know your feedback.
Popularity: 1 points | 3 comments
4. Show HN: Perfect Tidy Game Online
URL: https://perfecttidygame.com/
Author: Kevin_Guo
Description: Inspired by the recent viral success of Perfect Tidy, I've created a collection of browser-based tidy-up games that capture the same satisfying mechanics but in a lightweight H5 format.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/SmileyEmily/perfecttidygame
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
5. Show HN: I Made a Free Personal Assistant API – Order an Uber W Natural Language
URL: #
Author: hackersignal
Description: I was going to make a whole ChatGPT-generated post filled with emojis and junk, but I hate reading that stuff so I'll keep it short and sweet. I wanted a personal assistant that could do things for me -- I want to order an Uber using natural language. I want to buy food using natural language... etc. But I couldn't, so I made my own personal assistant that could.
I made this project totally free such that anyone can build on top of it. Wanna make a business on top of my API? Go for it. Wanna use it to make a personal home assistant? Go for it. If you want to create your own tools on top of Pal (let's say you want to enable Pal to control your Roomba), you can create your own tools in the dev portal. The only catch is that I've rate limited it to 2 requests per minute per user because I can only afford so many API credits.
I was going to charge people for this, but as a Developer, I know how frustrating it is trying to build when everything is pay walled. Go wild fellas, but please don't abuse it. I put a lot into developing this. If you'd like to support me, feel free to donate.
Anyways, check it out at https://www.meetpal.ai and navigate to the API subsection in the header.
Popularity: 2 points | 5 comments
6. Show HN: Create Commercial Jingles
URL: https://sendfame.com/commercial-jingles
Author: sendfame
Description: We're excited to introduce our latest tool, the AI Commercial Jingle Generator! Perfect for small businesses, content creators, and marketers, this tool helps you create catchy and personalized jingles for ads in seconds. Simply input your product, target audience, and vibe, and let our AI do the magic.
Try it now to level up your audio branding: sendfame.com/commercial-jingles.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
7. Show HN: Rust crate for Mac OS X Spaces API
URL: https://github.com/Schachte/mac-space-monitor-rs
Author: siamese_puff
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
8. Show HN: A discussion platform for developers
URL: https://www.itsrapport.com/
Author: elamafella
Description: We developers have always wanted a place to ask questions freely. While Stack Overflow has been the go-to platform for years, it’s clear that developers need a change. That’s why I was inspired to create Rapport, a free and community-driven platform designed for developers to discuss and share ideas.
On Rapport, you can ask your questions, and discussions are capped to 15 minutes. This setup encourages active participation—when a discussion starts, a notification system alerts users who clicked the notification button. If a topic relates with many, they'll upvote it, drawing even more participants and leading to lots of answers.
It’s really that simple, and I’d love to know what you all think!
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
9. Show HN: Created a Service to Exchange Legit Backlinks
URL: https://www.rankchase.com/
Author: wbemaker
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
10. Show HN: I Built AI-Driven Job Application Tool
Author: denizhdz
Description: Synth is an AI tool designed to streamline job applications from start to finish. Upload your resume once, and AI will generate custom resumes and cover letters tailored to each job. Plus, our AI interview practice feature helps you prepare with realistic interview questions and feedback. The goal is to save you time and boost your confidence for each application.
Features:
1- Automated Customization: Tailored resumes and cover letters for each job application. 2- AI Interview Practice: Simulate interviews and receive feedback to improve your responses. 3- Single Upload: Upload once, apply to many roles with ease.
Popularity: 6 points | 0 comments
11. Show HN: Mnemonic ephemeral messaging from the command line
URL: https://github.com/eliyastein/disappear-cli
Author: disappeardev
Description: It's similar to pastebin, but everything is encrypted/decrypted client-side using bip39 mnemonic phrases. Instead of sharing a deeplink to share a file, you can share the mnemonic.
Popularity: 5 points | 0 comments
12. Show HN: I built a paragraph rewriter that runs 100% in the browser
URL: https://paragraphrewrite.com/demo
Author: orenha
Description:
Popularity: 8 points | 1 comments
13. Show HN: I have created a DaaS – Directories as a Service
Author: karakhanyans
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
14. Show HN: Colorbox Mustard – New Music Game
URL: https://colorbox-mustard.net/
Author: netherhand
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
15. Show HN: TUI tool for sending packets of arbitrary input and monitoring packets
URL: https://github.com/ddddddO/packemon
Author: ddddddO
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
16. Show HN: Learn Anything 2x Faster – A Simple Tool for Lazy Learners
URL: https://www.quillminds.com/
Author: Kirsanov
Description: Chat with YouTube videos & PDFs, get instant quizzes, flashcards, and study plans. Like having a tutor who never gets tired of your questions (and doesn't judge your procrastination). Built this because traditional studying puts me to sleep.
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
17. Show HN: Jist searches JSON 3x faster than jq
URL: https://github.com/adelamodwala/jist
Author: adelamodwala1
Description: Hi HN,
jist is a JSON path search tool that feels like accessing a JavaScript object. It’s 3x faster than jq for the same use case, and over 2000x more memory efficient when searching a 3.3GB file for the last element (jist reads data in chunks so has constant space use).
It doesn’t implement pattern matching yet. A feature I’m looking to add is generating a full JSON schema using the same streaming approach so stay tuned!
Any feedback and feature requests are more than welcome
Popularity: 7 points | 0 comments
18. Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store
URL: https://github.com/jonfraser/simpletext
Author: jonutah
Description:
Popularity: 94 points | 44 comments
19. Show HN: ThinkPad Keyboard Backlight Controller
URL: https://github.com/MateuszMyalski/thinkpad-keybacklight
Author: Sianko
Description: This repository provides a controller for managing the backlight of ThinkPad keyboards with integrated Systemd support. The controller offers extensive features including event-based backlight control, automatic brightness adjustments, and scheduling. This tool is especially useful for users who want to fine-tune their keyboard backlight settings based on input events, time, or system state.
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
20. Show HN: Throw Your Message into the Void
Author: KronisLV
Description: I sometimes catch myself struggling wanting to get the last word, or leave a comment that's not entirely objective in code review, or want to get something out even knowing it doesn't contribute to the conversation.
For example, the other day there was a conversation of someone wondering why they can't get the newest version of the unzip package that ships with a recent OS release running under an older OS release, which they found to be worse than Windows. I posted a comment demonstrating that while you could move executables across (using Docker containers), it wouldn't run due to the dependencies, but then I deleted the comment because it didn't actually give them a workable solution.
Another recent case was people talking about imperative languages and functional languages and someone brought up a snippet of code in Haskell that read like executable line noise to me. Not as much because of the syntax itself, but because most of the variables were single letter or very short and I dropped a comment with an example of what it'd look like with "more Java" naming conventions. I did delete that one as well, realizing it contributed nothing to the greater conversation.
On one hand, I want the feeling of expressing the thoughts, on the other, it isn't always productive to do so. That's why I made a little site to help me with letting go: it's just a front end app where I can drop whatever I want to say (and maybe what I'm responding to) and... send it into the void.
There's no back end, no analytics and honestly anyone could make something like that in a day (if concerned about privacy), but I wonder whether people in general are able to dismiss thoughts like that. Perhaps not, judging by how many arguments there are online where people go back and forth with no actual progress or compromise, but in my case something like this definitely helps my mind get some closure and be at rest.
Popularity: 3 points | 0 comments
21. Show HN: Create forms faster with minimal form builder
URL: https://minform.io
Author: eashish93
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
22. Show HN: Turn your home into a co-working space – when it suits you
URL: https://www.mysparedesk.com/
Author: RasmusSoerensen
Description: Focused on remote workers and digital nomads living or travelling to smaller cities where there might not be access to many co-working spaces.
Popularity: 3 points | 3 comments
23. Show HN: Agentic terminal computer-use with Sonnet3.5(new)
URL: https://github.com/jonpojonpo/cclient
Author: jonpo
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 1 comments
24. Show HN: SongLink a web app to share songs across music streaming services
Author: Raed667
Description: I built a web application after being frustrated about how my friends share music.
In chat groups, we constantly share songs & albums with each other. But since everyone uses a different music streaming service, that means I had to open a link, dismiss cookie banners, copy/paste the title, find the right version etc...
So I came-up with SongLink where songs, albums and artists can be shared across different services with one link!
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
25. Show HN: Unmoderate Hacker News Titles
URL: https://github.com/bambax/hntitles
Author: bambax
Description: This is a simple Tamperscript to optionally display the original title of Hacker News stories.
HN titles are sometimes moderated long after they appear on the front page, so that one either can't find a story they read, or read it twice. This helps check what the original title was.
Install is one click -- needs Tampermonkey to work of course.
More info in the Github readme.
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
26. Show HN: Share your Tailwind CSS components with ease in a Twitter style website
URL: https://sharewind.onrender.com/users/sign_in
Author: AbenezerDaniel
Description:
Popularity: 3 points | 1 comments
27. Show HN: CFRS[]: Minimal drawing language with 6 commands: C, F, R, S, [, ]
URL: https://susam.net/cfrs.html
Author: susam
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
28. Show HN: Firebase Vector Search Demo with OpenAI Embedding
URL: https://github.com/yashwanth2804/firebase-vector-openai-embedding
Author: yashwanth2804
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 1 comments
29. Show HN: I'm building DocuCap – a DIY cap attachment that records 360 img/vid
URL: https://twitter.com/_diginova/status/1850069825319731352
Author: diginova
Description:
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
30. Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go
URL: https://github.com/dim0x69/mdx
Author: dim0x69
Description: Hey HN! I recently came across makedown here on HN and loved the concept. Wanting to learn Go, I thought this could be a great starter project - so I started working on my own Go implementation, which I’m calling mdx (https://github.com/dim0x69/mdx).
Key Features:
- Define dependencies between commands
- Supports shebangs
- Ability to pass arguments to code blocks
Would love feedback and thoughts!
Ref. makedown: https://github.com/tzador/makedown. Thanks for the idea! :)
Popularity: 113 points | 50 comments
31. Show HN: Comment Issues – Link repo issues in your code comments
URL: https://github.com/ryawaa/comment-issues
Author: ryanamay
Description: Hi HN,
I wasn't really sure on whether this extension or functionality exists anywhere and I thought it would be really good to have since you can just command/control + click to jump to the issue referenced in code comments so I made this.
Features:
- Automatically links (#123) in code comments to the repository issue if available.
- Support for Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket is present, others are untested.
- Javascript/Typescript is a confirmed working language, others are untested.
You can view the vscode marketplace listing here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ryawaa.c...
Please feel free to report bugs and the like!
Popularity: 1 points | 0 comments
32. Show HN: Turn your Google Doc into a website
URL: https://voltdocs.com
Author: hbroadbent
Description:
Popularity: 2 points | 0 comments
Conclusion
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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