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dotspencer

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    Show HN: HostBlock – A menu bar app that blocks ads and malware (for my grandma)

    I'm the family IT person and I wanted a simple way to block ads and malware on my non-technical family member's computers. I already have uBlock origin installed on most of their b…

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    Comment #49029330

    It's not super clear to me from the site what the app actually does. Is it for habit tracking or journaling? Curious what problem it solves.

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    Comment #45862668

    Yeah so far I've only added brands you can find in craft stores (FolkArt Matte, Apple Barrel, and DecoArt Americana) Any specific artist brands you'd want to see added?

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    Comment #45862622

    I can definitely try to make that happen!

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    Comment #45862612

    Yeah the goal was simply to find the closest paints for specific RGB values from a reference image for a pointillism project I was working on. I wasn’t trying to do the impossible …

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    Comment #45862496

    I pulled out the RGB values from the solid color areas of the swatch images on the manufacturers' websites for each of the colors. It's definitely just an approximation of the real…

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    Show HN: I made a YouTube thumbnail always display the latest comment [video]

    Behind the scenes 1. I pull the latest comments using the YouTube data API. 2. A next.js app using ImageResponse from next/og generates a new thumbnail image by overlaying the late…

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    Show HN: I built a better text diff website for developers and writers

    A few times a week I find myself turning to diff checker websites to compare snippets of text or JSON, but I've always found their UIs clunky or unnecessarily complicated. I set ou…

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    Comment #24500002

    I always thought that 8 hours was the best amount of time to sleep but so often I'd still wake up feeling groggy and tired. Sometimes I'd go to bed at 1AM and wake up around 7AM an…

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