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OpenSSH Keystroke Obfuscation Bypass (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6en9L
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6en9L
David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epjr
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SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6epMa
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Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ed4Y
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AppleWatchAmmeter (Score: 155+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6endJ
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Building the same app using various web frameworks (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emKh
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I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emZ2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6emZ2
Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ed2c
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We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi (🔥 Score: 174+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6enGw
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The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emW9
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Lottery Simulator (2023) (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emdj
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Tutorial on diffusion models for imaging and vision (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ekYF
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Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emeG
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Satellites Spotting Aircraft (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eiAB
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Google loses EU court battle over €2.4B antitrust fine (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ekjQ
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out (Score: 154+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqf7
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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eqci
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Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ekNM
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Possibly all the ways to get loop-finding in graphs wrong (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6en6D
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Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ektv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ektv
If you have a cloud-hosted database, read on: Visual DB was designed for you.
Visual DB is the fastest way to create data entry forms for your database: Starting with an Excel spreadsheet, you can import your data into the database and create a great-looking form in under 10 minutes. Watch this video: https://youtu.be/6rVD5rmrjN8
Visual DB is a comprehensive SaaS frontend for your database. In addition to data entry forms, Visual DB also has a spreadsheet-like interface for inserting and updating data in your database. You can also build interactive reports using Visual DB. Finally, although not intended as a replacement for your database's admin tool, Visual DB can browse schema, create tables, set up relationships, and import and export data.
Visual DB began as a drag-and-drop form builder for databases. Forms created with Visual DB are practically indistinguishable from those hand-coded using React. You can add client-side validation, set available values (displayed in dropdowns), define default values, and even add logic to dynamically hide or disable fields—all without writing a single line of code! With Visual DB Forms, you’ll never have to write another CRUD app again.
If you have been using Excel to manage data and running into its limits because the volume of data has grown, Visual DB Sheets may be of interest to you. With its spreadsheet-like interface, Visual DB Sheets allows users to interact with data as they would in Excel, while securely storing that data in a robust relational database. Spreadsheet-database hybrids have been around for a while now, but we believe we have one of the best implementations, with features such as advanced grouping, support for foreign keys and lookup tables, query parameters, full-text as-you-type filtering, and so on.
The newest feature of Visual DB is interactive reporting. Traditional reporting tools offer limited interactivity. For example, while most reporting tools support time series charts, they do not allow users to zoom or pan along the time axis. In contrast, Visual DB supports this capability thanks to its innovative approach: it downloads the dataset to the client and processes and visualizes data directly in the browser. This allows it to handle user interactions without a server round trip. Visual DB has excellent support for query parameters, which allows you to bring only the subset of data that's of interest (up to 100K rows), to the client.
Visual DB supports PostgreSQL (including Neon), MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle. Give it a whirl, and we look forward to getting your feedback: https://visualdb.com
Some of us like "interdiff" code review (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6em7u
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How economical is your local Taco Bell? (Score: 152+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6emQv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6emQv
Radicle 1.0 – A local-first, P2P alternative to GitHub (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6enwT
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Ask HN: Why Is Pave Legal? (🔥 Score: 165+ in 59 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6enDR
If you haven't heard of it, Pave is a YC-backed startup that helps startups with compensation. I can't actually access the system so I'm speaking from hearsay and what's information on public parts of their website. The way I understand it works is that you connect Pave to your HR and Payroll systems, they take the data about who you employ and how much you pay them, combine it with all their other companies, and give companies a collective breakdown of compensation ranges.
My question is, isn't this specifically anti-competitive wage fixing? This seems exactly like RealPage but for employee compensation. As far as I know, colluding on wages like this is illegal. Is there something about the company that I'm missing?
Why Not Comments (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6em9F
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Our Git Hash Bug (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6eiSs
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6eiSs
Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ekXJ
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Chai-1 Defeats AlphaFold 3 (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6empp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6empp
Litecli: CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ecJK
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Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end (Score: 153+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ejJc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ejJc
We’re building Your Next Store, a modern, ultra-fast, open-source commerce in Next.js with Stripe as the backend - no DB required.
Selling online is often more complex than it needs to be. Setting up a storefront with great performance can feel daunting and time-consuming. There are many plugins, libraries, etc - the choice can be overwhelming.
Plus, in e-commerce, the backend and frontend are often written in different languages (e.g., PHP, Python, or Ruby for the backend). This increases the complexity and makes code management more challenging, especially for teams.
After working in e-commerce for several years, Michał and I set out to build the fastest and most compelling storefront for small to medium-sized merchants. Fast e-commerce sites are crucial because slow pages hurt sales [1]. Unfortunately, performance issues are still very common. The beauty of Your Next Store is its simplicity. No additional tools and no databases - just Next.js and Stripe.
On the technical side, we use App Router, React Server Component, Partial Pre-Rendering, Optimistic Updates, and Streaming with Suspense to make the store faster and leaner so it feels almost like a static website.
In summary:
Modern & Popular Stack: Built with Next.js, React.js, and TypeScript, making development faster and hiring easier compared to platforms that use less common frameworks like Shopify’s Liquid.
No Database Needed: Stripe handles the backend, reducing the need for complex infrastructure and simplifying the setup process.
Open Source: Free and open (AGPL), with the option for a commercial license if needed.
This is just the beginning. We want to make YNS even better and easier to use and eventually provide a good, open-source alternative to Shopify.
Check our code at https://github.com/yournextstore/yournextstore
We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! What features would you like to see next?
[1]: https://www.deloitte.com/ie/en/services/consulting/research/...