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Spyce: Python in outer space! Basically, a very much work-in-progress pile of code to plan orbital trajectories and interplanetary travel. Its also quite handy when doing simple computations: >>> # distance to the Sun, in light-seconds >>> Earth.orbit.semi_major_axis / c 499.00650691887006 >>> # Martian year, in (usual Earth) days >>> Mars.orbit.period / Earth.solar_day 686.9944644093075 >>> # ping to New Horizons (l…
Tracks my/your favorite TV shows.
I got tired of googling "Dr Who episodes" whenever I wanted to know if the next half-season was starting soon, or to see whether any more episodes remained before a hiatus.
So I built a thing which monitors the data from Wikipedia episode list pages, normalizes it, and lets you easily view what's airing recently / soon. Also sends an (optional) email each week listing the upcoming week's schedule of my shows, plus a list of new / resuming shows.
Generally the only thing I need to do manually is to add primary network feeds. The show and episode feeds are scraped from there, with noise filtered out.
One of the coolest things is that it almost entirely heals itself -- canonical URLs and redirects are used to ensure consistent feed resolution, deprecated feeds are auto-removed after X time so long as it's a clear deprecation scenario, renamed shows are auto-updated, and an admin dashboard shows me stats about expected categories and outliers, so that I can easily investigate logic gaps from time to time.
CPAP.com Unlike 98% of the industry, we sell CPAP equipment for cash prices. This means that you, not the insurance company, are the respected and valued customer. The "cash CPAP" space means: 1. A market incentive to build people first instead of billing code first products. 2. A market comfort items that would never be produced in a billing code world. 3. A system where it pays to pick up the phone and know all abo…
Zatresi - http://www.zatresi.si/ It's a map of sport clubs (gyms, karate dojos, swimming pools, etc) in Slovenia. Why I made it? After moving back to Slovenia I started looking for a traditional Karate dojo. My choice would be constrained by hour of training and dojo philosophy (traditional karate vs sports karate). It turned out to be really difficult to find all the dojos nearby, as they neither on Google Maps, and…
Whoa, cool! How is it so inexpensive? That's an order of magnitude cheaper than a DO droplet.
Or to put it another way: I'm curious where the 0.30 comes from. It seems like it would be either 0.00 or >1.00
Written entirely in C, except for the front-end. Took 18 months. Didn't know C before and was a hack programmer. Just released a major update yesterday.
The crawler, parser, and indexer can process over 250,000 web pages per minute on commodity hardware and a gigabit connection. The parser is unlike any other I've seen, in that it parsers a document into about 200 sections.
This allows you to search for very specific things like "web pages that mention Donald Trump in the comments, where Bernie Sanders is mentioned in the main article, and there are Adsense ads on the page."
Details at : https://ontolo.com/app/guide/
PuPHPet: A web-based GUI that allows developers to quickly and easily create a highly customized virtual machine for local development as well as deployment to any SSH-enabled host in the world. https://puphpet.com Instead of having to learn the ins and outs of virtualization, Vagrant and Puppet, you simply fill in some form fields, click a few buttons and download a zip archive containing your choices. A simple `vag…
http://uploadcare.com File system as a service. It's all in one file uploading, processing, storage and delivery for web and mobile apps.
I'm spending some time creating a logo generator tool targeted at idea/early stage products and companies, or for side projects, open source projects, etc. It's called Logocaster - https://logocaster.com Logocaster is meant to help you explore a huge universe of logo designs when brainstorming your brand/logo. It makes it quite easy to scan a bunch of style/font/palette options and then "drill down" and see designs w…
Dude, that is perfect timing! We need a logo for NeuralObjects (see my other thread here), so this is great for us. I'd totally pay for this if you had your Stripe integration going. But since you don't, I can offer this: if you plan to use Machine Learning for anything, shoot me an email and I can offer up a discount or something once NeuralObjects is live, or maybe some free consulting or something. Do you have a f…
Re: pricing. Not quite sure about details yet. But the high level is that 1) the design page and functionality (https://logocaster.com/logo-design/) will always be free to use and explore, 2) I'll sell one-off logos at a price point that is competitive with anything out there, 3) as you mentioned, offer a monthly option for people who want to use the tool regularly and produce logos at some moderate volume and 4) offer up the API for other interesting use cases.
Re: (4) it's quite easy to see the API in action, eg.
https://api.logocaster.com/v1/logos/new.png?action=recreate&...
Try playing with the style param (text,bubble,outlined), or letter spacing (works only with style=text).
Metadata on a logo is tucked away in the HTTP headers for the curious.
Cloudcraft - https://cloudcraft.co It's a free tool for creating AWS architecture diagrams in an isometric style. You can snap together AWS services as if they were LEGO blocks. The latest development is that you can now scan an actual live environment and import your real resources. Right now (when not reading HN...) I'm working on making the grid infinite, adding zoom & pan, so it becomes usable for really large ar…
That's all kind of awesome - I'd pay some good money for a more generic version of the tool allowing me to draw out infrastructure for my clients that self host.
I created a completely new branch of advertising, which basically superimposes advertisements directly over images in a way that actually benefits consumers: http://pleenq.com/ . Here's a demo video (fairly old, have to still update with the latest look): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss Say you have a picture on a blog post showing a car engine, explaining how to fix something inside of it. You could high…
