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Re:Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @07:15PM (#39035591)
We've seen this with the Chrome Web Store. With a flat $5 fee, and a limit to how many extensions each account could publish, that was probably pretty effective.

Maybe it would help here too?

What other alternatives could mitigate the problem?

Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:45PM (#38961920)
Really neat how easy IKEA products data can be gleaned, especially thanks to the online community.

I wanted to add a screen to the VINDRIKTNING[0] air quality sensor, and thanks to an existing project[1] I was able get it working[2].

[0] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor...

[1] https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...

[2] https://github.com/zvakanaka/vindriktning-oled-no-wifi

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year? on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:30PM (#34255146)
Have been working on a dark mode extension for Chrome and Firefox. The idea is to make it as lightweight as possible.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-lit...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-lite/bdl...

termux-url-opener has been an excellent tool to easily make use of Android's share menu. Taking inspiration from "YouTube-DL the easy way on Android" [1], I made a script that adds a URL to my bookmarks server [2]. It'd be even better to write a script that has some rules or a prompt so that different URLs can be handled differently (e.g. video URLs prompt for download, or there could be a prompt to add the page to archive.org).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/baufql/youtubedl_th...

[2] https://github.com/zvakanaka/termux-bookmark#readme

Re:FFmpeg 4.3 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:15PM (#23543534)
I've been working on making "pre-baked recipes" for a while to help with simple tasks like cutting/merging a video [0]. I recently made an npm package for making time lapses with effects from the command line with FFmpeg as well [1].

[0] https://github.com/zvakanaka/ffeasy [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mklapse

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:07AM (#22874393)
This isn't a program, but the document shortcuts (mostly the ones beginning with the control key)[0] on OSX have saved me heaps of time while maneuvering through text.

I learned them from Emacs on Linux and was pleasantly surprised to find that they work in almost every app on OSX.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236#text

Re:How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:50PM (#22783096)
With FFmpeg builds being produced for browsers[1], it'd be great see this working in a web app. I tried making one a few years back, but it was a little early. It only worked in Chrome, on a desktop, and with smallish MP4s at the time[2].

[1] https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/ [2] https://zvakanaka.github.io/vidslicer/

Re:Curl will now output JSON on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:38PM (#22611868)
Note that this is not titled, "Curl will now format JSON". This will "Make curl display information on stdout after a completed transfer"[1].

[1] https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-w

Re:Please Add RSS Support to Your Site on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:28AM (#20830341)
I made a thing that sends an email when a list on the internet changes https://github.com/zvakanaka/list-lemur
Re:Show HN: JSON Pizza – Beautify your JSON quickly on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:22PM (#20658673)
I made a command line one kind of like this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/color-json-cli
Re:Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:38PM (#20406852)
It's fun to play around with the algorithms in JavaScript. https://codepen.io/collection/AkoojL