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Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxWk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxWk
Buzee is a file search application that helps you find your files effortlessly.
As a modern-day knowledge worker, I have several thousand documents, presentations and other files on my computer. I built Buzee in my free time to help me weave my way through this maze. I have been using it pretty much everyday since the day I built it - and I love it!
I thought I could turn Buzee into a startup. I reached out to offices and helped set it up for them. But it didn't pan out.
I am now letting go of this project because I have other priorities in life.
Please feel free to do with this project as you wish. I am happy to help you get started with the codebase.
Do share what you build. I would love to see it!
Cheers
Conversations are better with four people (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6js3B
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6js3B
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyUi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyUi
Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyfa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyfa
NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juc9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6juc9
Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxAG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxAG
Svader is a library for rendering 2D shaders on Svelte websites, using either WebGL or WebGPU.
It's streamlined for the specific use case of rendering 2D graphics using fragment shaders as an alternative to SVG or the JS canvas API, so it's not meant for doing 3D objects like three.js, for example.
This started as something I needed for my own project, but I eventually decided to split it into a separate library. I've since found that this use case fits really well into the Svelte compiler-based approach and its fine-grained reactivity system.
In general, I think using shaders like these has some really positive upsides compared to traditional ways of doing graphics on the web — not just for games and stuff, but also for something like data visualizations and aesthetic details. My dream is that one day, you'll see web developers using small, isolated shader components ubiquitously across web applications, just as naturally as something like SVGs are used today.
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxjC
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxjC
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxeU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxeU
Luon programming language (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwF9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwF9
My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6juJk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6juJk
The Myth of Bananaland (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jd6G
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jd6G
macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwNx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwNx
Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6jvMQ
Hey HN! A few weeks ago, meet.hn was released: (Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41539125)
We are now about 1700 hackers willing to meet each other in almost 700 locations worldwide.
Since then, some requested features and bug fixes have been implemented:
- locations are now searchable and not restricted to a simplistic city-country pair
- locations work with diacritics and diverse languages
- new socials: personal website, email, Mastodon, Discord, GitLab, Google Scholar, YouTube, etc.
- upon user request, I can now showcase your local meetups on your location listing, as it's done for Old Toronto: [1]
About actual meetings, I'm aware of around a dozen so far, but I think many more occurred.
Why am I writing this post?
About 80% of the ~1700 signups happened in the first 36 hours after launch.
As expected, signups dropped pretty quickly, and now it gains about one new user every other day.
I think a ton of global value (and local joy) can emerge from HN users meeting each other.
That's why I'm writing this post. To answer the question: how can we meet more? and how can meet.hn help?
What I thought about:
1. Implementing RSS for each location: helpful for RSS users only, and not that useful if there are no new registrations.
2. Email notification system: wide audience, but requires users to give their emails.
3. Turning meet.hn into some sort of an atproto [3] project, or at least leveraging it somehow. Might be more Bluesky centric (if we use labels, for example), but maybe not?
4. A bookmarklet which, once clicked when on a HN post, would insert a meet.hn logo next to all user names of users commenting there and registered on meet.hn
5. An HN "proxy website" which would copy HN in every way, but would add the meet.hn logo just like the bookmarklet described point 4 would do, but everywhere and automatically.
6. Create Telegram (or equivalent) channels for each location
But all of these ideas are unideal fixes. The lowest common denominator between everyone on HN... is HN.
Hence, meeting right from HN would be best. An MVP for this could be to have a "willing to meet" attribute with a boolean value (like the "showdead" or "noprocrast" attributes).
When enabled, an icon would be shown next to the user name in threads.
I talked to dang, and even if the idea of implementing something on HN is not out of the question, it is not on the roadmap yet.
Let's discuss all of this in the comments. Looking forward to hearing what you think.
[1] https://meet.hn/city/43.6534817,-79.3839347/Old-Toronto
[2] https://meet.hn/city/43.6044622,1.4442469/Toulouse
[3] https://atproto.com/
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwmA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwmA
Donald Bitzer has died (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6junQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6junQ
IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jytQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jytQ
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwHi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwHi
I made a public transport route planning program that's capable of planning journeys across Europe or North America! There's only one other FOSS project I know of (MOTIS/Transitous) that can do transit routing at this scale, and in the testing I've performed mine is about 50x faster. I've spent a few weeks on this project now and it's getting to the point where I can show it off, but the API responses need a lot of work before they're usable for any downstream application.
Example query (Berlin to Barcelona): https://farebox.airmail.rs/plan/52.5176122,13.4180261/41.380...
There are some bugs still. Notably, it's not capable of planning the return trip for this route, nor the reverse of the trip from Seattle to NYC that I gave in the blog post.
Blog post: https://blog.ellenhp.me/performant-intracontinental-transit-...
Repo: https://github.com/ellenhp/farebox
Side-note but in the past some have criticized my writing style and it's been a bit hurtful at times but if you have constructive feedback on the blog post I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to get better at writing. :)
They See Your Photos (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jyCx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jyCx
People who are good at reading have different brains: study (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvLw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jvLw
Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024 (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jttj
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jttj
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxq7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxq7
Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video] (Score: 151+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwM7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwM7
Uv, a fast Python package and project manager (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jxpu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jxpu
The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jpzz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jpzz
Htmx 2.0.4 Released (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwQ7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwQ7
McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jwAy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jwAy
Exotic new superconductors delight and confound (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jfYL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jfYL
Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jvFx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jvFx
Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jv4z
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jv4z
Colour in the Middle Ages (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6jjhE
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6jjhE