Saturday, October 31, 2020
Show HN: I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24957244
Show HN: I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies http://growthunt.com October 31, 2020 at 09:34PM
Show HN: Empirical support for thirder interpretation of Sleeping Beauty problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24956943
Show HN: Empirical support for thirder interpretation of Sleeping Beauty problem https://github.com/seisvelas/SleepingJulia/blob/main/sleeping.jl.ipynb October 31, 2020 at 08:08PM
Show HN: IRC like chat platform with 4chan like reply system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955109
Show HN: IRC like chat platform with 4chan like reply system Hello HN, I want to share something that I worked on for quite a while as my side project - www.heahy.com an IRC like chat where you can share various media and even record yourself (using web MediaRecorder api). Here is a thread with short explanation on how it works: https://www.heahy.com/channel/homepage/thread/3900adb9e441a09abc757461 I am looking for any feedback and if you have any ideas, advice or questions I am eager to hear it here or on heahy! October 31, 2020 at 01:53PM
Show HN: Use your webcam to animate an avatar and use it to make friends https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24954643
Show HN: Use your webcam to animate an avatar and use it to make friends https://alto.lol October 31, 2020 at 12:54PM
Friday, October 30, 2020
Show HN: TypeScript Hack – Type System Text Adventure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948911
Show HN: TypeScript Hack – Type System Text Adventure https://ricklove.me/typescript-type-system-adventure October 30, 2020 at 08:22PM
Show HN: Archa – Build Dependencies Graph of TypeScript Applications https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947663
Show HN: Archa – Build Dependencies Graph of TypeScript Applications https://arc.patico.pro October 30, 2020 at 04:02PM
Show HN: Generating fake resumes with GPT-3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948143
Show HN: Generating fake resumes with GPT-3 https://gpt3.jsonresume.org/ October 30, 2020 at 05:44PM
Show HN: A message board app encompassing all topics in 1 site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948028
Show HN: A message board app encompassing all topics in 1 site https://cliqbeta.herokuapp.com/ October 30, 2020 at 05:16PM
Show HN: Backtest Trading Strategies: A Quantopian Alternative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24940644
Show HN: Backtest Trading Strategies: A Quantopian Alternative https://www.tradytics.com/backtester October 30, 2020 at 02:48AM
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Show HN: I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939625
Show HN: I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies http://growthunt.com October 29, 2020 at 11:08PM
Show HN: Personalized sound environment to boost productivity and reduce stress https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939360
Show HN: Personalized sound environment to boost productivity and reduce stress https://coworker.netlify.app/ October 29, 2020 at 10:08PM
Show HN: Pragma – A language for building GraphQL servers in no time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24935519
Show HN: Pragma – A language for building GraphQL servers in no time https://github.com/pragmalang/pragma October 29, 2020 at 01:41PM
Show HN: BlobBackup – Lightweight Backup Utility https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24935753
Show HN: BlobBackup – Lightweight Backup Utility https://blobbackup.com October 29, 2020 at 01:56PM
Show HN: An interactive live map of regional European Covid-19 cases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24931033
Show HN: An interactive live map of regional European Covid-19 cases http://quant-arxiv-sanity.com:81/ October 29, 2020 at 07:47AM
Show HN: Bypass paywalls and read your news on the terminal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930774
Show HN: Bypass paywalls and read your news on the terminal https://github.com/trashhalo/readcli October 29, 2020 at 07:27AM
Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929993
Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes https://github.com/borkdude/grasp October 29, 2020 at 05:57AM
Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930271
Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps Hey everyone! Yunyu, Rahul, and Jason here. We're co-founders of Cohere ( https://cohere.so ), which lets you see what your users are seeing on your web app and remote control their browser with their permission. This requires zero setup on their part, which is particularly helpful for less tech-savvy users. Pointing things out over Zoom screenshare is highly time consuming ("click the 4th checkbox on the right", "click the handle and drag"), and trying to figure out what users are doing over a live chat or phone call typically leads to endlessly frustrating back-and-forths. When COVID forced all of us into remote work, we found ourselves spending a lot of time in screensharing sessions. We were tired of choppy frame rates and blurry text, and realized that we could get around this by sharing the user’s screen in a different way. Rather than video streaming, which is how it’s usually done, we could send over diffs of their webpage’s DOM representation and reapply those in the viewer’s browser – this is similar to how virtual DOM frameworks like React work. We first used this technique for an earlier project ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363250 ) that rendered React apps on the server (a Node equivalent of Phoenix LiveView). This reduces development complexity for web apps by completely eliminating the need for RPC layers (REST, GraphQL) – for instance, you'd be able to write to the database directly from your React component and share state across sessions with a single hook. It works by sending DOM updates from the server (e.g. insert a node, change an attribute) in response to input actions sent from the client (e.g. click a button, type a character). This approach uses significantly less bandwidth compared to traditional screen sharing solutions, and gives us a semantic understanding of the webpage (e.g. a button is sent over as a , instead of a blob of bytes). As a result, we can selectively filter out sensitive content and allow viewers to scroll and type on the webpage without any perceived latency. To solve our screen sharing problem, we initially built a Chrome extension that let users browse web pages collaboratively. During YC, we saw that our early adopters were primarily using this tool to walk through their own web apps with their customers, so we decided to refocus the product towards helping companies onboard and support their users. Because we're focused on the real time use case, we only record the DOM when a session is being viewed. This means that no data is sent to our servers unless Cohere is actively being used. Additionally, we don’t persist or retain any session data. Thanks for reading our story – we'd love to get your thoughts, feedback, and ideas! October 29, 2020 at 06:33AM
Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929732
Show HN: Nhost – Open source Firebase alternative with GraphQL https://nhost.io October 29, 2020 at 05:26AM
Show HN: Sleep Specialist Opinion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24928366
Show HN: Sleep Specialist Opinion https://getontology.com/sleep October 29, 2020 at 01:27AM
Show HN: Add WhatsApp Chat Button to your website for free https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24928309
Show HN: Add WhatsApp Chat Button to your website for free https://www.wati.io/whatsapp-chat-button/ October 29, 2020 at 01:19AM
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Show HN: Portabledevops – useful Windows remote network tools on 1 USB https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917178
Show HN: Portabledevops – useful Windows remote network tools on 1 USB https://github.com/robertluwang/portabledevops October 28, 2020 at 03:27AM
Show HN: Ench – a minimalistic editor x3 faster than Medium https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24914041
Show HN: Ench – a minimalistic editor x3 faster than Medium https://ench.app/ench/the-internet-today-is-it-really-a-genius-product-of-humanity-TfHQUH October 27, 2020 at 06:33PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Show HN: A tool to understand and compare tech company compensation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24912218
Show HN: A tool to understand and compare tech company compensation https://aeqium.com/offer_analysis?s=120000&sb=50000&ab=25000&sc=6000&st=option&sp=0.99&pp=6 October 27, 2020 at 02:37PM
Monday, October 26, 2020
Show HN: Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24904375
Show HN: Hackable No-Code Tool for MVPs https://abstra.app/?ref=hn October 26, 2020 at 08:59PM
Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897260
Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests https://www.testim.io/root-cause/ October 26, 2020 at 08:32AM
Show HN: Git-Retext https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893024
Show HN: Git-Retext https://blog.aloni.org/posts/gitology-2-git-retext/ October 25, 2020 at 10:14PM
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Show HN: Octree Visualization https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886029
Show HN: Octree Visualization https://nickyvanurk.com/boids-octree-simulation/ October 25, 2020 at 06:15AM
Show HN: (Eacc) PLY Lex-Yacc alternative in Python https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892035
Show HN: (Eacc) PLY Lex-Yacc alternative in Python https://github.com/iogf/eacc October 25, 2020 at 06:45PM
Show HN: A map of wheelchair accessible places https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884960
Show HN: A map of wheelchair accessible places https://wheelmap.org/ October 25, 2020 at 02:26AM
Show HN: 196,640 books in .txt format, freely available for AI training purposes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884789
Show HN: 196,640 books in .txt format, freely available for AI training purposes https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282149329784833 October 25, 2020 at 01:46AM
Show HN: Bookpub v1 – free web library with classic books https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884536
Show HN: Bookpub v1 – free web library with classic books http://bookpub.club October 25, 2020 at 12:42AM
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Show HN MowUr – Marketplace app for on demand lawn mowing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24882558
Show HN MowUr – Marketplace app for on demand lawn mowing http://www.mowur.com October 24, 2020 at 03:56PM
Friday, October 23, 2020
Show HN: Deploy your own algo trader in 5 minutes with 0 code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876474
Show HN: Deploy your own algo trader in 5 minutes with 0 code https://streak.world October 23, 2020 at 07:35PM
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866377
Show HN: Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries https://github.com/akdor1154/python-csql October 22, 2020 at 10:47PM
Show HN: Source code and build system used to generate the book Hands-on Scala https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865225
Show HN: Source code and build system used to generate the book Hands-on Scala https://github.com/handsonscala/build October 22, 2020 at 06:38PM
Shared Spaces Permits Extending to Next Summer
Shared Spaces Permits Extending to Next Summer
By Phillip Pierce
Published October 22, 2020 at 05:28PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/shared-spaces-permits-extending-next-summer
By Phillip Pierce
More than 1,800 individual operators and counting are making the Shared Spaces Program a successful part of San Francisco’s economic recovery. Permits originally set to expire at the end of December may now be extended through June 30 and new applications are welcome. Mayor Breed has called for this extension as well as for exploring ways to make the program permanent.
Shared Spaces allow merchants to use sidewalks, full or partial streets, and other nearby outdoor spaces like parks, parking lots and plazas for restaurant pick-up and other neighborhood retail activities allowed under San Francisco’s Public Health Orders. The program is a multiagency collaboration born out of the city’s Economic Recovery Task Force.
White Cap’s Shared Space in the Outer Sunset.
How to Renew Existing Permits:
The process for renewing permits to June 30, 2021 depends on the type of Shared Space. Merchants may use the following guide to understand how to renew a permit:
- Sidewalk Permits – Automatically renewed before December 31, 2020. No action is needed from the permittee unless:
- The permittee wants to modify the existing permit. To do so, the permittee must submit a new application for a Sidewalk Permit on the Shared Spaces website.
- The permittee wants to discontinue or withdraw the existing permit. To do so, email SharedSpacesPermit@sfdpw.org with "Withdraw
permit" in the subject line.
- Curbside Lane Permits – On Monday, October 26 curbside lane permit holders are scheduled to receive a personalized email from the SFMTA to renew, extend or change the existing permit. The email contains a personalized link to a permit renewal form. This webform must be completed by November 15, to be guaranteed a permit renewal by December 31.
- If the curbside lane zone being permitted extends in front of a neighboring property, written consent for the permittee to occupy that area through June 30, 2021 from the affected neighboring property owner(s) must be provided.
- If the curbside lane zone has a fixed structure or deck, a signed form and photos must be provided as described in the Shared Spaces Design Guidelines.
- Street Closure Permits – To extend the Street Closure permit beyond December 31, the permittee must submit a new application for Street Closure Permit on the Shared Spaces website.
- Private Property Permits – Valid through the end of the State of Public Emergency. No action is needed from the permittee.
- Port Property Permits – To renew, email SharedSpaces@sfport.com requesting renewal.
- Recreation and Parks Department Property Permits – Permittees will be contacted by the Recreation and Parks Department in the coming weeks about extending Outdoor Dining and Outdoor Fitness Permits. The availability of facilities for outdoor fitness classes may change due to the change in seasons or the reopening of facilities previously closed by the health order.
- Just Add Music (JAM) Permits – If the JAM permit is associated with a Shared Space, the Shared Space permit must be renewed in order for the JAM permit to remain valid. JAM permits not associated with Shared Spaces do not need to be renewed at this time.
Small Business Impact Survey
During these difficult times, the city is working to help small businesses. If you are a business owner or operator, please take the short survey below to help evaluate the Shared Spaces Program. Please fill out a separate survey for each business that you operate.
Survey: ENGLISH / ESPANOL / ä¸æ–‡ / PILIPINO / TIẾNG VIỆT
The Castro area on 18th Street is open for people each Sunday. Check out our website for a full list of Shared Space street closures.
More Information
To learn more about the program, track applications or apply, please visit our website or email SharedSpaces@sfgov.org
Published October 22, 2020 at 05:28PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/shared-spaces-permits-extending-next-summer
Show HN: Hunting Greek Unicorns – a newsletter for Greek startups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24856285
Show HN: Hunting Greek Unicorns – a newsletter for Greek startups https://startuppirate.substack.com/ October 22, 2020 at 02:36AM
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Show HN: While looking for cool domain name came across this gem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24852913
Show HN: While looking for cool domain name came across this gem https://blank.page taps into local storage api so persistent as well. A+ October 21, 2020 at 03:25PM
Show HN: Caasy – the glue between web developers and creative content creators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846497
Show HN: Caasy – the glue between web developers and creative content creators https://caasy.io October 21, 2020 at 03:45AM
Show HN: TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846335
Show HN: TidalWaves API – live, tokenized news metadata from around the world https://tidalwaves.io October 21, 2020 at 03:14AM
Show HN: Flat SVG Designs – Free Vector(SVG) Icons and Illustrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24845908
Show HN: Flat SVG Designs – Free Vector(SVG) Icons and Illustrations https://flat-svg-designs.net/en/ October 21, 2020 at 01:36AM
Show HN: SaaStarter – Nuxt.js auth templates and Stripe integration https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24845523
Show HN: SaaStarter – Nuxt.js auth templates and Stripe integration https://saastarter.com/ October 21, 2020 at 12:24AM
Show HN: GitHub for Learning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24844734
Show HN: GitHub for Learning https://astrasum.com/subject/1 October 20, 2020 at 09:26PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24834636
Show HN: Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim https://github.com/arturo-lang October 20, 2020 at 12:14AM
Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832752
Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only) https://facebookscraper.net/ October 19, 2020 at 05:37PM
Monday, October 19, 2020
Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833801
Show HN: Turn your website console into a chat that connects website visitors https://www.consolechat.io October 19, 2020 at 08:57PM
SFMTA Staff Recognized for Putting Riders First
SFMTA Staff Recognized for Putting Riders First
By Bradley Dunn
Published October 19, 2020 at 05:16PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/sfmta-staff%C2%A0recognized%C2%A0-putting-riders-first
By Bradley Dunn
SFMTA staff were honored for their work to keep the city moving during the San Francisco Transit Riders’ Rider First Awards last Friday. The nonprofit organization that aims to better transit in San Francisco gave awards to several members of the SFMTA’s hard-working staff who put Muni customers first.
“It's as important as ever that we come together to show our appreciation for all those people working hard to make Muni better every day for riders, despite all the challenges,” the San Francisco Transit Riders said of the awards.
The San Francisco Transit Riders present awards to Perry Poole, Johnny Siu, Celso Abueg at West Portal Station.
The Transit Riders presented awards to:
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Myra Phillips and the Car Cleaner team for developing and instituting new cleaning protocols and systems in a quick and effective response to the pandemic,
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Dickson Yee and the Personal Protective Equipment team for tireless work making sure our Muni operators and staff have personal protective equipment,
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Cable car operators Perry Poole, Johnny Siu, Celso Abueg and Sam Eversly for stepping up in a new role as ambassadors and using their customer service skills out to the streets to help direct people during all the service changes,
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Public Information Officer Enrique Aguilar for visual communications that helped the public understand service changes and the importance of transit lanes,
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Jason Lee for ushering the biggest improvement in customer information in two decades through design and the SFMTA Board serving as the Program Manager for the Next Generation Customer Information System,
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Felix Castillo for being a voice for his fellow Muni Operators during the pandemic,
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Shaun Reeves, a Muni Operator, who helped transport homeless San Franciscans under investigation for COVID-19 infection in the early days of the shelter-in-place.
You can watch the SF Transit Riders’ Rider First Awards ceremony here. “This year has shown once again that Muni is the critical transportation link for our essential workforce. People who are riding Muni throughout this crisis are the critical workers doing the essential tasks we depend on during these difficult times,” the organization said. “They're also the people who depend on Muni to access services We have always known #TransitIsEssential.”
The SFMTA congratulates the staff who won awards for their dedication to our customers.
Published October 19, 2020 at 05:16PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/sfmta-staff%C2%A0recognized%C2%A0-putting-riders-first
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Show HN: Open-source portfolio and blog template built on Gatsby / Tailwind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822951
Show HN: Open-source portfolio and blog template built on Gatsby / Tailwind https://github.com/RyanFitzgerald/devfolio October 18, 2020 at 07:51PM
Show HN: StumbleUpon-like site to discover stunning WebGl experiments randomly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822221
Show HN: StumbleUpon-like site to discover stunning WebGl experiments randomly https://sharkle.netlify.app/ October 18, 2020 at 05:11PM
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Show HN: MVP Before Effort Estimation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24815183
Show HN: MVP Before Effort Estimation https://medium.com/@ss.shailesh28/mvp-before-effort-estimation-aca93a443eda October 17, 2020 at 07:56PM
Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24814718
Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows) https://github.com/postprintum/devcomrade#whats-new October 17, 2020 at 05:40PM
Show HN: Tax Bracket Explorer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24814030
Show HN: Tax Bracket Explorer https://bigballi.com/tax-brackets October 17, 2020 at 03:43PM
Friday, October 16, 2020
Show HN: Look up 50 facts on any lead anywhere for 5 cents https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24804338
Show HN: Look up 50 facts on any lead anywhere for 5 cents http://enhance.diffbot.com October 16, 2020 at 12:47PM
Show HN: I have made a Twitter bot that Tweets a Hadith every hour https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803363
Show HN: I have made a Twitter bot that Tweets a Hadith every hour https://github.com/Ananto30/hadith-every-hour October 16, 2020 at 11:05AM
Show HN: Web Annotation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803278
Show HN: Web Annotation https://www.kontxt.io October 16, 2020 at 10:56AM
Show HN: Omni – The fast, personalized web navigation companion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802288
Show HN: Omni – The fast, personalized web navigation companion https://tefter.io/extensions/omni October 16, 2020 at 09:20AM
Show HN: Guitar tube amp plugin based on spice simulations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801895
Show HN: Guitar tube amp plugin based on spice simulations https://github.com/resonantdsp/SwankyAmp October 16, 2020 at 08:42AM
Show HN: Rentify – Build your rental empire today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801360
Show HN: Rentify – Build your rental empire today https://rentify.store?v=1 October 16, 2020 at 07:52AM
Show HN: Data Engineering Learning path – best resources https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24799854
Show HN: Data Engineering Learning path – best resources https://awesomedataengineering.com October 16, 2020 at 04:50AM
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Show HN: How to Derive Useful Financial Approximations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797837
Show HN: How to Derive Useful Financial Approximations https://www.neelsomani.com/blog/derive-useful-financial-approximations.php October 15, 2020 at 10:39PM
Show HN: Receive an email when purpleair quality is unhealthy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796973
Show HN: Receive an email when purpleair quality is unhealthy https://github.com/alanhamlett/purpleair-notify October 15, 2020 at 07:54PM
Show HN: Architecture Analyzer for the TypeScript Projects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795890
Show HN: Architecture Analyzer for the TypeScript Projects https://arc.patico.pro October 15, 2020 at 05:04PM
Show HN: Made a web app for Christians struggling on their walk with Jesus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24794011
Show HN: Made a web app for Christians struggling on their walk with Jesus http://faithworks.me October 15, 2020 at 02:11PM
Show HN: 3D scanned human characters for game developers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24792732
Show HN: 3D scanned human characters for game developers https://scanandeggs.com/ October 15, 2020 at 12:26PM
Show HN: WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790500
Show HN: WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps https://webcatalog.app/ October 15, 2020 at 09:34AM
Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation superpowers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790209
Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation superpowers Hi, it's Yury and Steve from Openland ( https://openland.com ). We make it easy for any person or business to build a chat community. We believe that in the next five years there will be a massive shift from audiences (top-down content broadcasting) to communities (two-way communication between organizers and members and among members). For members, communities fulfill fundamental social needs: new friendships, safe space for self-expression, learning from peers. For organizers, communities help collect leads, sell, drive customer success, or earn direct revenue from members. Today, building a great community is super hard. Getting people in one place, explaining and enforcing the rules, collecting member info, and interacting in a scalable personalized way takes a huge amount of time. That's why we've built Openland. At its center, there's a new fully-functional messenger, comparable to FB Messenger or WhatsApp. On top of that, we added tools for onboarding, automated messaging, integrations (CRMs, etc.), analytics, and paid memberships. Community automation is what sets Openland apart from other messengers and community platforms. Openland has actually started as a marketplace for urban land. While working on its messaging module, we realized that professional messaging in general is much underdeveloped and our talents are better suited for building a horizontal messenger than a vertical marketplace. We made a pivot shortly after YC graduation and spent the next two years quietly building a new messenger for communities. Since our soft-launch this Summer, 250+ communities launched on Openland around educational programs, professional services, tech products, content creators, and nonprofits. There are also standalone communities built from scratch. The largest community has 14k+ members who've already sent 500k+ messages. Openland is free to use. Today, we take a small revenue cut from member-supported communities and will add premium plans for business-led communities later in the future. If you want to start a community for your customers, students, fans, or followers, we'd be delighted to help. To coordinate, ping Yury at https://openland.com/yury or email at yury@openland.com. Openland is built on FoundationDB, Node.js, and React Native. For anyone interested in messaging tech, we share our engineering lessons at https://openland.com/tech . We’d love to hear your thoughts and questions. Do you run a community? Thinking about starting one? What tools have you tried so far? What worked and what didn't? October 15, 2020 at 09:12AM
Show HN: Fair Remote. A place to find companies with a remote-first work culture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789405
Show HN: Fair Remote. A place to find companies with a remote-first work culture https://fairremote.com October 15, 2020 at 08:11AM
Show HN: Workbench – DIY Home Shop https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789364
Show HN: Workbench – DIY Home Shop https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/microfactory-2 October 15, 2020 at 08:07AM
Show HN: App to create object detection projects without coding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784680
Show HN: App to create object detection projects without coding https://www.lookuq.com/create-your-own-app October 14, 2020 at 08:41PM
Show HN: Ga.today – iOS 14 Widgets, and Siri Shortcuts for Google Analytics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24788814
Show HN: Ga.today – iOS 14 Widgets, and Siri Shortcuts for Google Analytics https://apps.apple.com/app/id1488463071 October 15, 2020 at 07:09AM
Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24787763
Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes https://canonic.dev October 15, 2020 at 05:15AM
Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24788074
Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced Table Plugin https://gridjs.io/ October 15, 2020 at 05:54AM
Show HN: Wafxr – dynamic sound FX via WebAudio https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24787852
Show HN: Wafxr – dynamic sound FX via WebAudio https://andyhall.github.io/wafxr/ October 15, 2020 at 05:27AM
Show HN: A Password Validator Based on Raw Cryptographic Entropy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24787541
Show HN: A Password Validator Based on Raw Cryptographic Entropy https://github.com/lane-c-wagner/go-password-validator October 15, 2020 at 04:45AM
Show HN: Batchdist, a PyTorch package for batched computations of distances https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786042
Show HN: Batchdist, a PyTorch package for batched computations of distances https://github.com/mi92/batchdist October 15, 2020 at 01:02AM
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Show HN: I Made an iMessaging API https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784043
Show HN: I Made an iMessaging API https://sendblue.co October 14, 2020 at 07:07PM
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24783533
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://thiicket.com/ October 14, 2020 at 05:50PM
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24783533
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://thiicket.com/ October 14, 2020 at 05:50PM
Show HN: Where it pays to be a know-it-all: a “videochat marketplace” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773733
Show HN: Where it pays to be a know-it-all: a “videochat marketplace” https://thundre.com October 13, 2020 at 11:30PM
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Reducing Crowding and Providing Service to Open Spaces
Reducing Crowding and Providing Service to Open Spaces
By Enrique Aguilar
Published October 13, 2020 at 04:03PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/reducing-crowding-and-providing-service-open-spaces
By Enrique Aguilar
The 30 Stockton bus route extension to Crissy Field in the Presidio began service on September 19. In partnership with the Presidio Trust, Muni implemented this new lifeline connection to bring workers, families, residents and visitors from Chinatown, Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area via public transportation.
The 30 Stockton on Marina Boulevard en route to downtown San Francisco
Shifting from 40-foot to 60-foot buses on the 30 Stockton helps reduce crowded conditions through neighborhoods like Chinatown, a neighborhood that generates some of the highest rates of trips in San Francisco. Moving the terminal to its new location in Crissy Field provides increased space for these longer buses.
Direct access to parks via public transportation is vital for neighborhoods with the least access to open space in San Francisco. Visitors to the Presidio enjoy nature within the city, including miles of walking and biking trails, beaches, scenic overlooks with views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay and the city, as well as picnic and play areas. The 30 Stockton extension not only benefits park-goers, but serves as a lifeline for essential workers who work or live in the Presidio or nearby neighborhoods.
The 30 Stockton making its new last stop near the Sports Basement store
Details on the 30 Stockton extension:
- The 30 Stockton route extends into the Presidio between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. daily. All other times, the 30 Stockton terminal is on Divisadero at Chestnut.
- We have added three stops in each direction within the Presidio:
- On Mason Street near Marina Boulevard by Crissy Field East Beach.
- On Mason at Halleck Street near the Tunnel Tops park and Presidio Main Post.
- By the Sports Basement store at Crissy Field.
- Daily frequency: Every 12 minutes on weekdays, every 20 minutes on weekends.
Published October 13, 2020 at 04:03PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/reducing-crowding-and-providing-service-open-spaces
Monday, October 12, 2020
Show HN: AI Generated Short Video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24759603
Show HN: AI Generated Short Video Hey everyone, I have always wanted to content. I enjoy creating videos and watching other's creations! Being a programmer, I decided to create an AI pipeline which can create textual scripts and churn out thousands of videos / blogs on a daily basis given any topic. This is my first video and I would appreciate any comments and suggestions regarding it but I am particularly interested in hearing about tips and tricks / content format which can be followed to make the such video more fun and intuitive to watch. Also looking for advice if this can be monetised maybe saas or ads or something completely different. I would also want to know if anyone of you would be interested in such an AI tool. The Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_DOIPGKsw Specifically, what I wanted to ask: What are the specific things you liked and what you didn't. Would there have been a better format for me to have made this video to deliver the message more effectively? Are there any concepts things I can look up that may help me improve my videos generation. Thank you again! October 12, 2020 at 02:24PM
Show HN: Remote Compilation for Your Build https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754945
Show HN: Remote Compilation for Your Build https://stormyapp.com October 12, 2020 at 07:54AM
Show HN: I built Allocator from an old spreadsheet to teach myself React https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754664
Show HN: I built Allocator from an old spreadsheet to teach myself React https://allocator.app/ October 12, 2020 at 07:28AM
Show HN: A user account management dashboard for userbase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754390
Show HN: A user account management dashboard for userbase https://github.com/slymax/dashboard October 12, 2020 at 07:00AM
Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24753105
Show HN: How to X with Y. Engineering questions, answered https://howtoxwithy.com/ October 12, 2020 at 03:42AM
Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24752932
Show HN: Stop creating bad resumes. Use Resoume https://resoume.com October 12, 2020 at 03:05AM
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Show HN: Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745009
Show HN: Artvee – Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations https://www.artvee.com October 11, 2020 at 04:15AM
Show HN: One tool, where multiple translators are integrated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744780
Show HN: One tool, where multiple translators are integrated https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator October 11, 2020 at 03:07AM
Show HN: Learn coding concepts faster https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744645
Show HN: Learn coding concepts faster https://stanza.dev/ October 11, 2020 at 02:24AM
Show HN: Wikimap – A map of all geotagged Wikipedia articles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743367
Show HN: Wikimap – A map of all geotagged Wikipedia articles https://wikimap.wiki/ October 10, 2020 at 07:24PM
Show HN: GitHub feed CLI – GitHub feed right at your terminal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744068
Show HN: GitHub feed CLI – GitHub feed right at your terminal https://github.com/RocktimSaikia/github-feed-cli October 10, 2020 at 11:08PM
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24742127
Show HN: I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis https://thiicket.com/ October 10, 2020 at 02:50PM
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Show HN: T-rec – super fast terminal recorder generates animated GIFs for macOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24742378
Show HN: T-rec – super fast terminal recorder generates animated GIFs for macOS https://github.com/sassman/t-rec-rs October 10, 2020 at 03:34PM
Free guitar plugin on GitHub sounds like $600 tube amp by using deep learning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24740266
Free guitar plugin on GitHub sounds like $600 tube amp by using deep learning https://github.com/keyth72/SmartGuitarAmp October 10, 2020 at 10:01AM
Show HN: Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738722
Show HN: Mental State of HN Users Before/After Lockdown https://www.kaggle.com/kag888/mental-state-of-hn-users-before-after-lockdown October 10, 2020 at 06:07AM
Friday, October 9, 2020
Show HN: Emoji Search made with ReactJS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734460
Show HN: Emoji Search made with ReactJS https://braydentw.github.io/react-emoji-search/ October 9, 2020 at 02:08PM
Show HN: OptDuty – PagerDuty scheduling for distributed teams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24732102
Show HN: OptDuty – PagerDuty scheduling for distributed teams https://optduty.com/ October 9, 2020 at 10:14AM
Show HN: Two way sync a Google Sheet to Postgres https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24731837
Show HN: Two way sync a Google Sheet to Postgres https://doc.seekwell.io/syncsheet October 9, 2020 at 09:53AM
Show HN: AI-Powered Interview Transcription Software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24731022
Show HN: AI-Powered Interview Transcription Software https://speechtext.ai/transcription-of-interviews October 9, 2020 at 08:44AM
Show HN: A dynamic Steam stats SVG generator for readme and website https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24727432
Show HN: A dynamic Steam stats SVG generator for readme and website https://github.com/Ananto30/steam-stat October 8, 2020 at 11:40PM
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24725360
Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month Hi HN, [yorgos_kats][1] posted [My Screen Break][2], which looks really nice! People sent me messages about it because it has a lot in common with what I'm working on: [Walden Pond][3] ( https://WaldenPond.press ). You connect your [Pocket][4] account, and once a month you get a printed magazine. You can subscribe for 1, 2 or 4 hours of reading time. I got my 7th one on [Monday this week][5]. We deliver anywhere in the world, except Antarctica. It has been a pandemic project to build it as a "real" product, but I've been making these zines for my friends for a bit over 2 years now. This means that I've come across and fixed an amazing number of edge cases! I initially started building it because I couldn't find anything that did the job. I've since turned up [Quarto][6] by [Elan Kiderman][7], which is similar; [newspaperclub.com][8] had a product that did something along these lines but using their presses, and as [jamez][9] noted in the replies to [yorgos_kats][1] post, [Memeoirs][10]; and [pulp][11] by [Outofthebot][12], but that's shut down. The pagination is done using [Paged.js][13], and their community has been super helpful. It's amazing what can be done with the holy trinity of HTML, CSS & JS. If you want to see some pictures of the physical thing, take a look at [Instagram][14] and [Twitter][15]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yorgos_kats [2]: https://myscreenbreak.com [3]: https://WaldenPond.press [4]: http://getpocket.com/ [5]: https://twitter.com/notionparallax/status/1313313422499483648?s=20 [6]: https://elankiderman.com/quarto/ [7]: http://elankiderman [8]: https://newspaperclub.com [9]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamez [10]: https://www.jamez.it/project/memeoirs/ [11]: https://getpulp.io/ [12]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Outofthebot [13]: https://www.pagedjs.org/ [14]: https://www.instagram.com/waldenpondzine/ [15]: https://twitter.com/WaldenPondZine October 8, 2020 at 05:08PM
Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24723945
Show HN: SplitSearch – Simultaneously search conservative and liberal news orgs https://splitsearch.netlify.app/ October 8, 2020 at 02:05PM
Show HN: VTiler – Write SQL, Get Vector Tiles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24723114
Show HN: VTiler – Write SQL, Get Vector Tiles https://www.vtiler.com October 8, 2020 at 12:51PM
Show HN: A Markdown Time Capsule https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24722887
Show HN: A Markdown Time Capsule https://bury-it.herokuapp.com/ October 8, 2020 at 12:32PM
First Temporary Emergency Transit Lanes Complete on Mission Street
First Temporary Emergency Transit Lanes Complete on Mission Street
By Erin McMillan
Published October 08, 2020 at 02:43PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/first-temporary-emergency-transit-lanes-complete-mission-street
By Erin McMillan
14 Mission downtown on the transit lane.
Installation of the all-day, temporary emergency transit lanes on Mission Street is complete. With installation completed in just a few months, the new all-day temporary emergency transit lanes from 11th to 3rd streets downtown serve segments of the 14 Mission and 14R Mission Rapid and will help keep buses out of traffic to reduce crowding and travel times. Both routes have been a lifeline for essential trips during the pandemic and have experienced crowding despite increased service. Almost ten percent of trips on the 14 Mission and 14R Mission Rapid are at or exceeding our COVID-era capacity standards, which take into account the need for physical distancing. By reducing delay from congestion, Muni can provide more frequent service and greater capacity with the same number of buses.
In addition to installing the temporary all-day transit lanes, the transit lanes were widened to improve traffic safety. Previously, the lanes on Mission Street were too narrow to accommodate traffic and buses, which has contributed to unsafe street conditions and 225 collisions involving transit in the past five years.
These are the first of the temporary emergency transit lanes to be installed. SFMTA is planning to install additional temporary transit lanes along other key locations across the city. With the need for a swift response to increasing traffic congestion and the need for more space on buses to allow for physical distancing due to COVID-19, temporary emergency transit lanes are an emergency response that allows us to be nimble and install these temporary measures and evaluate the outcomes, making changes as necessary.
Now that installation is complete, we’ll begin the evaluation process evaluating metrics like travel time and ridership. You can provide feedback about what you feel is important to evaluate for these temporary emergency transit lanes. Take a short survey about how we should evaluate temporary lanes.
Soon, we’ll invite you to help evaluate the transit lanes. Sign up for project updates to receive a link to the survey via email or text in the coming weeks.
For additional project information, visit www.SFMTA.com/TempLanes14.
Published October 08, 2020 at 02:43PM
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/first-temporary-emergency-transit-lanes-complete-mission-street
Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719722
Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets Brian here - I am one of the creators of Doppler and I’m pumped (and kinda nervous!) to share it with HN. Doppler is an easy way to manage and share environment variables and secrets -- things like API keys, database credentials, feature flags, and configuration like a port or a hostname. We’ve heard it's “GitHub for secrets”. While working at Uber and small startups, managing app config via env vars really sucked. Simple options like .env files were a nightmare to keep updated. Enterprise tools like HashiCorp Vault and AWS Parameter Store felt like we were stuck using FTP instead of Dropbox! For the past 2 years, we’ve been heads-down building a secrets manager we actually want to use. For our customers, it's now their central source of truth for secrets and app configuration. They use Doppler to quickly organize and sync secrets with teammates and across infra, from local to prod on every stack. It has the features you'd want in a secrets manager, like sharing, audit logs, versioning, and integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Heroku, Docker, Netlify, Laravel Forge, etc.). We’re deeply committed to strong security controls and highly available infra. Best-practices like data tokenization, security driven design, and external pentests help keep us secure: https://doppler.com/security . And fully managed encrypted fallbacks in your infra means your secrets are always available, even in the rare case we aren’t. To support our community, we’re committed to offering a community plan that's free forever for unlimited users. Paid plans start at $6/seat/month. For visual learners like me, here's a 4-min video of us installing Doppler: https://vimeo.com/447918575 . Take a look if you're curious: https://doppler.com . Let us know what you think! October 8, 2020 at 08:03AM
Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719680
Show HN: I reverse engineered my cable modem and turned it into an SDR https://stdw.github.io/cm-sdr/ October 8, 2020 at 08:00AM
Show HN: A tool that automatically creates infographics from webpages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24718847
Show HN: A tool that automatically creates infographics from webpages https://www.turboinfographic.com/ October 8, 2020 at 06:21AM
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Show HN: Highly customizable React library for creating node-based graphs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24707513
Show HN: Highly customizable React library for creating node-based graphs https://github.com/wbkd/react-flow October 7, 2020 at 05:31AM
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24707407
Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/ October 7, 2020 at 05:14AM
Show HN: Simple Automation of System Containers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24706579
Show HN: Simple Automation of System Containers https://github.com/bravetools/bravetools/ October 7, 2020 at 02:34AM
Show HN: Astrofox – I made my motion graphics app open-source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705515
Show HN: Astrofox – I made my motion graphics app open-source https://github.com/astrofox-io/astrofox October 6, 2020 at 10:18PM