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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by rockdiesel »

bazillion wrote: post #220

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…

The scenario I'm imagining is that I just want to click on the image to view a larger version, but when I click on it, instead of getting a larger version, I'm redirected through an affiliate link to buy a product. Not my desired outcome and seems like a frustrating scenario.

How does your platform account for this?

EDIT: When watching the video, I see that specific items are highlighted and not the whole image, but I still envision a lot of visitors who have no interest in determining where they should click on image in order to avoid affiliate links.

Still looks like a very neat product, however.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by sixtypoundhound »

sixtypoundhound wrote: post #246

Just rebuilt one of my projects: an automated website revenue strategy consultant. http://www.marginhound.com/calculators/website-revenue-calcu... The tool is built off a set of revenue benchmarks I built up over the past couple of years; this version looks at the expected performance for different market niches and revenue strategies (for ad-supported sites). It guides the audience towards the best options to improv…

BTW, I'd like to thank my lazy clients for the inspiration.

One of them decided that product managers shouldn't have to study performance reports and draft an analysis of what was happening in their P&L. So.... here's an automated analyst.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by karambahh »

iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

This is a great product.

It solves an actual issue (that I had never thought about since I'm very far from that field :-) ) in a simple and clever way.

You deserve the award of the most original and useful use of drone tech I've seen.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by jcr »

metasean wrote: post #194
jcr wrote: post #7

youtubedown It's awesome because youtube is (intentionally) annoying, plus, it's nice to give back bugfix/feature patches when someone else (jwz) is kind enough to give their code to the public. EDIT: Thanks detaro. Link removed. I didn't know it was an issue, and obviously, couldn't see it.

For anyone else wondering about the links, I think one of these is the archive.org version of the link jcr removed: https://web.archive.org/web/20150930225625/https://www.jwz.o... [edited with more recent version] https://web.archive.org/web/20160310204843/https://www.jwz.o...

The second link you posted '/20160127052944/' is bad. It links to an old version, 1.681, and the current version is 1.711 as of an hour or two ago. The version number matters.

The url I posted and removed still works fine, so long as it's not originating from HN (i.e. 'referer' checking). If you do a quick web search on 'youtubedown' you'll find it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by bgrohman »

mdisc wrote: post #234
bgrohman wrote: post #199

The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/ It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them. "We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of…

I like this a lot! I'd be interested to see a few more candid photos of you subjects actually doing their work too.

Hey, thanks! I appreciate your feedback. That's a good suggestion.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by ejcx »

I'm making internal honeypots a thing. I'm making statically compiled binaries that make deploying a honeypot super super easy.

Right now, I've built an HTTP honeypot.

The idea is that if anything ever talks to these services you have an instant alert you NEED to respond to and actionable information about it. I have support for sending you a text message.

It has support for whitelisting certain IPs that you would be doing your scanning from, and post all information to a second URL for logging, as well as a lightweight dashboard to view logs generated by the binaries and more. Next up I need to build an SSH honeypot, FTP, etc.

https://www.chuckcanary.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by bazillion »

rockdiesel wrote: post #251
bazillion wrote: post #220

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…

The scenario I'm imagining is that I just want to click on the image to view a larger version, but when I click on it, instead of getting a larger version, I'm redirected through an affiliate link to buy a product. Not my desired outcome and seems like a frustrating scenario. How does your platform account for this? EDIT: When watching the video, I see that specific items are highlighted and not the whole image, but…

The interaction is dependent on the website's settings, but one of the available options (which is the default) is to show a popup that lets you know what you're navigating to, such as on http://girlpowder.net/ -- I'll be adding a store logo to this soon, so you know you're navigating to i.e. amazon.

Since some websites might want to make it only have the hover effect, I leave that up to the website to decide best for their users.

Edit: I see that you just might be referencing the main functionality of clicking on an image. If the user clicks on the image and doesn't click on a highlighted area, the functionality will default to whatever happens on that website when a user clicks on an image. A parent tag, for instance, will bubble up to its href as normal.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by yoha »

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 (light roundtrip), in hours
    >>> (Pluto.orbit.periapsis - Earth.orbit.apoapsis) / c / 3600 * 2
    7.9167895224639375
The graphical interface does work though! (kinda) It's initially inspired from Kerbal Space Program, so it defaults to showing Kerbin and its universe. However, you can choose Earth instead. I like to just zoom in and out, and explore the Solar system; the vastness of that is so mindblowing!

How yeah, and a link: https://github.com/qsantos/spyce/

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