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Re:Kickbacks.ai – Get Paid for Waiting
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:23AM (#48515661)
> go to website, have to login
> login, have to pay $7 to even view the product
is this satire
Re:The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:04AM (#48409453)
Something must be wrong, it's showing github as up!
Re:Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending trans...
on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:57PM (#47094570)
Thanks, it's just raw js canvas and msgpack on the api to use less bandwidth
Re:Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending trans...
on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:05AM (#47086982)
Thank you so much
Re:Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending trans...
on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:11AM (#47086488)
Hi everyone, I built cspend.uk which is a free site that combines over 24 million published payments from all London boroughs and councils into one fast, searchable database. You can search by supplier, description, amount, date, borough, etc, filter/sort results, and skip the hassle of separate CSV files or PDFs per council. It's a side project to make public spending data easier to explore so that people can check where council tax goes. Feedback welcome: Is this helpful? What would you search for? Any improvements or issues? Found anything funny or interesting?
Re:Show HN: I made islechat, like Slack but in the terminal over SSH
on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @09:14AM (#46444207)
Updated the title it was a bit misleading!
Show HN: I made islechat, like Slack but in the terminal over SSH
You can try it out with ` ssh [email protected] ` Enter a password to use on first join. It features a slack/discord style interface with channels on the left and users on the right. You can create and join your own channels, and upload ascii art to be the channels banner which shows in the top right. Auth is user/pass only for now but plan to add support for uploading your pub key if you...
Re:I built my own CityMapper
on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:10AM (#45788920)
Potentially using the live arrivals APIs and seeing when its right now, not 100% it would work but might be worth a shot
Re:I built my own CityMapper
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:37PM (#45786065)
Im thinking it might be better to revisit the project and analyse long term patterns in bus arrivals
Rendering Conways Game of Life with Braille
Re:I built my own CityMapper
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:05PM (#45784380)
I used this exact API extensively for both buses and tubes :)
Re:I built my own CityMapper
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:58PM (#45783792)
I tried a route from a London tube station to Newcastle train station and it found one on the frontend for the tool so I think it may support national rail
Re:I built my own CityMapper
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:47PM (#45783665)
It looks like TFL's journey planner API has the ability to do some of these national rail trips, only tested a few though
I built my own CityMapper
Re:Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:55PM (#44638247)
That sounds very interesting, I'll look into it thanks :)
Re:Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:54PM (#44638233)
Yeah that would make an interesting addition. I was thinking about error correction so if you swapped two cards it would be okay but was struggling with how it would work, but I think it would be quite fun to add :)
Re:Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:42AM (#44605181)
Hey all, I found a cool way to convert text into a specific order of a deck of playing cards. I detailed the instructions of how it works in the blog post but a brief overview would be that it uses Lehmer codes which allow you to uniquely identify each permutation of a set i.e. each of the many many ways a deck of cards can be shuffled/arranged
Hiding messages in a deck playing cards
Hiding Images in DNS Records
Re:Tailscale Is Pretty Useful
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:32AM (#43277842)
Its relatively straightforward to host a nextjs app in a docker container and route it with nginx and cloudflare, but you probably wont get as good uptime
Re:Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:00PM (#43258665)
You can use copernicus satellites for free which ive found generally have at least 5 or so pictures each month but the resolution isnt that high (>10M i think)
I wrote a super simple script for redeploying Docker-compose files to servers
Re:Show HN: I built a book discovery engine using AI-powered semantic ...
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @06:28AM (#43138083)
safari iOS
Re:Show HN: I built a book discovery engine using AI-powered semantic ...
on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:22PM (#43131746)
Really like the UI for scrolling through the suggested books, although it does act a little bit buggy on mobile occasionally
Re:I built a game then realized it's banned by Spotify
on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:44AM (#42970102)
Yeah it's really annoying, and even if your app is oerfectly fine apparently their process for getting it unlocked from the limited developer mode takes an unholy amount of time.