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This is very cool! I love how no-fuss it is. I'm on a train travelling home, and suddenly I'm in a slipgate.
Posted by
lowercasename on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:15PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://mixpal.net
I was recently thinking about mixtapes.Mixtapes were like a personalized way to discover music, free of algorithms or AI. If I wanted an introduction to a band or genre my friend loved, I'd ask them for a mixtape. Or I might get a mixtape from a cutie and discover a whole new kind of music.MixPal is a tiny, federated mixtape sharing service. The idea is: log into MixPal with your Fediverse...
I've built a little demo on the landing page now! Enjoy!
This feedback has been really great and detailed, just what I was looking for!
- I've added an option in user settings to turn on a 'Skipped' stack.
- Card titles should now all be clickable!
- It's now more obvious that you need to upload a PDF before you can use the AI summary (because the LLM has to read the PDF).
- I've made a dedicated page to see all your tags just like you already have with stacks. You can't reorder them yet but hopefully I will add that soon.
- Export and search are coming soon!
- I'm thinking about your other suggestions, thank you!
That's a very good point. I've just put up some screenshots on the landing page - it's not a demo to be fair, but at least you can see what using it might look like!
Posted by
lowercasename on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:03PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://paperstack.ac
My wife recently started her PhD and while she uses Zotero as a citation manager, she was really missing a tool for keeping track of what she's reading right now/has already read/needs to read next. This overwhelming experience might be familiar to other researchers working on a niche field where every paper is called pretty much the same thingSo I built her Paperstack. It's basically...
Posted by
lowercasename on Saturday March 08, 2025 @05:25AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://blogflock.com
I made BlogFlock to help myself discover new blogs, and it's been so lovely for that. I think of it as 'RSS feeds in public'. I promise the colour scheme was a coincidence...
This is super nice, and it looks like it's going to have some really great features, well beyond OpenOrb's! Excited to keep an eye on this.
That would be _so_ cool! What an amazing resource that would be.
Posted by
lowercasename on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:26AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://openorb.idiot.sh/search
Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?)Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of...
Posted by
lowercasename on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:50AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://pointers.website/
Today I launched Pointers, a simple, low-tech directory to help share links to your online presence with friends and mutuals.Unlike similar services like Linktree, Pointers is designed for private or intimate links you may not want to make visible to the world - a sort of forwarding service for the Internet, inspired by the concept of the forwarding pointer in computer science.It works very...
I'm so sorry, I've been doing some digging and I think there's a bug in the way the libraries for this particular board implement a WiFi server! It seems to crash quickly with even minimal code. I'm going to go back to the drawing board and see if I can set up an Ethernet-based server on an Raspberry Pi Pico - they're a bit more battle-tested. I'll let you know in a week or two when Solar Witch is back online!
You're right - this was my impression too! You read a few dramatic posts about being hugged and you get this idea that HN is a behemoth that DDoSes everything it loves. Thanks for the context!
Not as far as I can tell! Absolutely ashamed to say I did it because it looked cool. I did manage to get the dithered GIF down to 7KB, but I think I could have done the same with a limited palette and no dithering.
That's a really interesting point and one I hadn't considered! I'm reverse proxying it through a larger server on the home network which is public-facing, and that server automatically slaps HTTPS on whatever it sends out.
Well, granted, no doubt, but my poor little server routinely crashes after a few dozen connections, and exposing it to HN was the first time it experienced that many. Something is clearly amiss!
I've been resetting it every 2 minutes! This is how regular servers work, right?
There's no better stress test than Show HN, and unsurprisingly, that's revealed that Solar Witch has a buffer overrun bug somewhere which I'm investigating! If Solar Witch is currently offline, here's a screenshot of what it might look like:
https://ttm.sh/ix3.png
Posted by
lowercasename on Saturday April 02, 2022 @01:10PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://witch.solar
Solar Witch is a little webpage and server which receives and displays messages, so I suppose it's a tiny message board. It's coded in very dubious Arduino C.It's not a 24/7 website. Depending on the state of the battery, the server itself might run all night, but all the messages it receives during the day are deleted at sunset, and the messaging function itself is only active between sunrise...
I'm OP, and this was in fact my response to my question! Everyone else is suggesting these wonderful grandiose economic and social changes, and I just want a strongly typed (or, hell, even a little bit typed) Internet...
Posted by
lowercasename on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.
This was just an idle conversation we were having at work. Imagine that one day you wake up and you've been sent back in time, where you are now a researcher at DARPA in the early 1960s. You've got the influence to effect fundamental changes in the next sixty years of the Internet's history, and can make your changes any time in the next sixty years - but you know that as soon as you change one...
No, I just need to get off my butt and push it!
Posted by
lowercasename on Sunday July 19, 2020 @07:27AM
from the show-hn dept.
For a while now, I've been working my way through the reasons why I don't like the current state of social networking with a series of little social coding projects. Pond is the latest one - it's sort of like a newsletter, sort of like a patently simple social network.
A lot of my trouble with social networking comes from the anxiety of the 'feed', and with Pond I'm trying to find a balance between the constant stream of information and, uh, absolute silence.
You send Pond your posts (Markdown-equipped), and once a week you get back two digests: one digest with every post sent that week, and one digest with the posts of the people you've chosen to follow. That's it!
I'd love to see what you think of it, HN. x
It's just a very little Node thing I made in a serious bout of procrastination, but I'm surprised I've not seen anything like it around before - general, quick to use, easy to share, doesn't try to snoop on you. I'm sure it already exists in lots of forms, and I'd love comments and criticisms because it's one of the first things I've really coded (which is mildly exhilarating).
Posted by
lowercasename on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:21AM
from the show-hn dept.
I will check this out later but for now, _what_ a good name. Although I'm not sure how good the connectivity is in Helheim.
