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Posted by
bencevans on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:25AM
from the bencevans.io dept.
Thanks! Funnily enough, I did start building it before but then decided not to merge as I came to quite like the finiteness of it without. Shall maybe reconsider!
Posted by
bencevans on Sunday June 28, 2026 @06:53AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://times.hntrends.net/
This has been a play project for a little while, trying to build an interface that's comfortable to read on any device. It's a bit of a mashup of a Pocket-like interface, digital newspaper and Hacker News.
I found this to be a common theme in web design a while back, and in part led to an experiment developing a newspaper/Pocket-like interface to reading HN. It's not perfect, but is easier on the eyes for reading...
https://times.hntrends.net/story/47762864
This is great news. There's been a pilot study in which each retailer (voluntarily) hosted a JSON file containing their current prices (
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-fuel-price-data). I noticed recently that a few of them had been removed/stopped working.
Neither the pilot nor the current API appears to include all fuel stations, but at least they provide (hopefully) more reliable updates from the ones that do.
I'd been playing with the pilot study data and set up FuelBelly to aggregate and compare https://fuelbelly.com/explore?lat=51.50740713124398&lng=-0.1.... (doesn't include the API updates, yet...)
A quick play with the API, the information responses (opening times, addresses etc.) doesn't appear to be working, I just get a 500 (HTML not JSON) response. But the price calls are working, and I'm glad this is being pushed forward post-pilot.
Posted by
bencevans on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:12PM
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Posted by
bencevans on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:13PM
from the github.blog dept.
I'm quite happy to read something in a paper that ChatGPT or equivalent has written, just as i'm happy to read something that has been written with the assistance of other tools such as Grammarly, LanguageTool, Spell Check etc. I see it as the (human) authors responsibility to ensure that what has been written is factually correct.
Posted by
bencevans on Monday October 02, 2023 @11:57AM
from the github.blog dept.
I'm not sure i'm unusual in using the GitHub feed to keep an eye on commit activity on watched repos, all of a sudden there's no option to see push activity in the feed. o.O
I've recently used this approach for generating Open Graph images for display when a link to the site is used on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc [1]. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly something could be implemented. The last time I'd done something similar was using Cairo and needing to write more of the scaling dynamics. I don't think I ever got it to adjust to dynamic content very well. This time I put together a prototype in Inkscape, converted it to a template and render it to PNG with Sharp [2].
[1]: https://hntrends.net/api/og?word=twitter
[2]: https://github.com/lovell/sharp
It's a static list ordered by the number of mentions of all time. I plan to make this dynamic in the future and allow ordering by total score and filtering by time range. Also, I'd like to add separate pages for each book showing the stats and reviews, and maybe some form of sentiment analysis would be cool.
Cheers! Yes, I already have 'it's' and 'it’s', but that one escaped! Added now.
Thanks for the suggestion, yes a good idea! Aha, yes, I've spotted that with Reddit, and it is actually true as appose to a bug, as there's something like just one post back in 2016, and it mentions, thus, 100% popularity. I'll add some other metrics to the page soon.
Thanks for the heads up! Fixed
Thanks! Same; I've been coming to HN for books to read for years and finally got them in one place. I plan to extend the functionality there in the future :D
Posted by
bencevans on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:07AM
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bencevans on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:18AM
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bencevans on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:52PM
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bencevans on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:27AM
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bencevans on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:38AM
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Posted by
bencevans on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:54PM
from the filecoin.io dept.
Adding it to Pocket, then lets you read it.
Posted by
bencevans on Monday July 09, 2018 @03:12PM
from the show-hn dept.
You've got it! You run a P2P system on your local machine... in theory, you don't need the internet to communicate. Messages can be sent via your friends hopping between LANs using the underlying gossip protocol.
Interface looks cool but what benefits are there over using mitmproxy?