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(Since libraries have been closed, I used it to download my entire reading list. As I read through the books, if I find one I particularly like, I order a hard copy for delivery from my local neighborhood bookstore to support their business.)
Having a monthly "Show HN-athon" would be nice (or is that already a thing and I always miss them?). - I did some woodworking at the start of lockdown. It was very therapeutic. Built a small table with a flip-top back where charging accessories can be stored: https://imgur.com/ea67ANO - And some more woodworking to build a shoe rack (never enough room for all our shoes): https://i.imgur.com/ihw12YT.jpg - A Raspberry…
Maybe it's an idea that will get traction.
I built a tool to check if an email exists without sending any email. I also created a SaaS out of it: [link redacted]. The tool connects to the target email's SMTP server, and parses the response of the "RCPT TO" command. To avoid IP blacklisting, I use Tor. The code is in Rust, 100% open-source. The core library is here: [link redacted]
Aren’t Tor exit nodes mostly blocked already?
Using Tor, I can verify around ~60% of emails. Notably, the exit nodes can connect to Gmail/GSuite servers. So it's not that bad.
If Tor's exit nodes are blocked by a server, I fallback to Heroku, where I have right now 3 fixed-IP instances. And if I see that one of these also gets blacklisted, I would have it self-destruct and relaunch, Heroku assigns a new IP on each new instance.
There are a few extensions like this out there already but I didn't like how they worked. With my extension you can quickly see how many children a comment has, easily show/hide them, collapse an entire thread from anywhere in the tree, and toggle whether or not HN remembers that you collapsed a thread.
It's available on Chrome and Firefox:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackollapse/cfinlo...
Made a platform for party/drinking games over Zoom. https://ziago.co Games run on Realtime Firebase DB, so players join with a link and everyone is kept updated with game flow and other player actions etc. So far had 10000 people play, and has 9 games and still working on more. The focus for now is on social/turn-based kind of games. Runs on Vue and Firebase. FB helped me to launch it in a month. Wrote about it at ht…
Looks awesome, I've been recently playing Jackbox over Zoom with friends and was hoping to find something different. Will check it out.