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Re:The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022) on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:14AM (#49817405)
Not many people know that the github wiki is actually backed by a separate "hidden" repo, and can be accessed by adding .wiki to the repo url, e.g. https://github.com/lionleaf/dwitter.wiki.git

Apparently it can even do CI stuff. Still wouldn't recommend it though, for the other reasons outlined in TFA and this thread.

Came across the Samsung The Frame variant last month too! https://github.com/simenf/birdframe
Re:ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:53AM (#49407451)
I work on https://elevenmusic.io (full disclosure), so I just had to check:

  onemusic.com.au
  twomusic.it
  3music.tv
  fourmusic.com
  5music.com.tw
  bbc.co.uk/6music
  seven-music.com
  (8 appears to be vacant?)
  ninemusic.net
  tenmusic.in
Hi HN! Hope you have fun with this one :) Everything is free to browse and download and if the sound you need doesn't exist, describe it and generate it. Every generation joins the public library, so the catalog grows from what people couldn't find.

Show HN: Sounds – Infinite funk fusion rhodes licks (or any other loop you want)

https://elevenmusic.io/sounds

Hi HN!I could never find the right sample for my music, so we built Sounds. A collaborative catalog of free samples and loops, generated with our music model.Everything is free to browse and download, but the most fun part is to generate your own. Every generation joins the public library, so the catalog grows from what people couldn't find.

( Read More... | 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:42AM (#46566104)
Dwitter is 10 years old this winter! If anyone is interested in some backstory, I dug up an old interview: https://medium.com/windows-developer/dwitter-dares-you-to-co....

Of course, the real magic of dwitter is the lovely community: https://discord.gg/emHe6cP

Arc Roam is my holiday project this Christmas. I wanted to create an online, browser-based, mobile-playable "destilled" alternative to the old classic PC game Elastomania, (and it's unofficial multiplayer mod Elma Online). I used to play Elma religiously, but it stopped working on Mac (via Wine) last year, so hopefully I now have a way of getting my fix again! Now all I need is someone to complete against :)
Arc Roam is my holiday project this Christmas. I wanted to create an online, browser-based, mobile-playable "destilled" alternative to the old classic PC game Elastomania, (and it's unofficial multiplayer mod Elma Online). I used to play Elma religiously, but it stopped working on Mac (via Wine) last year, so hopefully I now have a way of getting my fix again! Now all I need is someone to complete against

The tech stack is pretty simple: - React / canvas (2d) frontend - express / ws backend - Fully ephemeral, no storage (to save money)

Re:Perfect Circle on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:29PM (#34283467)
Cool! Not to self-promote (no monetization or anything), but in case any one finds it helpful, I made something similar for myself to practice becoming more accurate with Wacom-style tablet pens: https://tabletpractice.arkt.is/
Re:Show HN: Hebrew Wordle on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:03AM (#29995396)
Since we are sharing variants in different languages, here's Norwegian: https://www.fiveletters.xyz/no/five
Re:Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:14PM (#29545377)
That's for the stats feature that shows you e.g. your most guessed word, etc. It's all calculatated client-side. In fact, there is no backend at all!
Re:Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:25AM (#29538948)
It uses the scrabble dictionary (SOWPODS, as you mention) -- if it is a playable five-letter word in scrabble, then it is playable here.
Re:Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:43PM (#29536369)
Technology-wise, I wanted to try out two things that I hadn't tried before for this project.

One was to use Expo to release on web and mobile at the same time. I've used React Native quite a bit in a professional capacity, so I wanted to check out the Expo landscape. I discovered that the web part (react native web) didn't quite deliver on what I was looking for, so I scrapped it and ported to Vite/react-ts and dropped native completely.

The other was to see if I could find a low-friction way of setting up subscriptions for a static web frontend with no first party backend. That is the reason why there is a premium subscription tier for a small weekend game like this. Turns out that this was pretty straight forward with Gumroad! In the end, I was pretty happy with the way the flow turned out (except that Apple Pay isn't supported without stepping out of the flow and heading to Gumroad directly).

Re:Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game on Sunday December 12, 2021 @06:43PM (#29534894)
I came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... on HN the other day, and decided to do my own take on the concept as a little weekend project.
Re:Ask HN: Any Artists on HN? on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:57AM (#28862242)
In a similar vein, here are my dweets: https://beta.dwitter.net/u/sigveseb/top
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021) on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:47PM (#28723247)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 1000+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:20PM (#28038697)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 1000+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:57PM (#27702198)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 900+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:24PM (#27357020)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 600+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021) on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:41PM (#27032326)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 600+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:55PM (#26667737)
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Oslo, Norway | https://www.hyre.no

Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 500+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.

Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.

Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.

Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.

Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/

Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:43PM (#26392039)
Some demoscene-related tracks:

Ninjadev - No Invitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLCvjuW9c4

Ninjadev - Pinky Frinky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGCKu2H7mI

Ninjadev - What are you syncing about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU5POqHdeA

Re:Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:16AM (#26325941)
Looks like this thread is all about sharing our own related local browser-based PDF tools. Here’s mine: https://pdftotext.github.io

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