Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday - <AUTHOR> Please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation about what you have been working on for the past week. <comment><USER3> Life Goes On!

A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles.

[http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg)

[http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg)

[http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg)

This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. ([http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/](http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/))

I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy.

[http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com](http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com)

<comment><USER4> Congrats for the awesome game! :D It's really fun — and I also had lots of fun watching the playthrough on Game Grumps. (where I originally found out about it).

One thing I wondered: do you have a random Knight name generator based on something like markov chains, or do you just have a very, very long list of knight names?

Also mad props on the visual effect of the lava heating up the rocks, it looks super realistic. Did you write a custom shader for that?

<comment><USER5> I also picked this up after seeing it on Game Grumps. The combination of the game looking pretty interesting and them being really bad at it convinced me to just pick it up and finish it myself.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> In early March I whipped up [http://Listen2EDM.com](http://Listen2EDM.com) because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point.

While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is [http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png](http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png)

<comment><USER7> I fucking love this.

Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.

EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).

<comment><USER8> > "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology

Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also starting to refer to a very 'American' style of dance music, so it probably _will_ turn off a lot of people, especially those most involved/interested in electronic music.

Music genres are one of those identity-defining topics[1], so it's best to sidestep the whole issue if there's any doubt!

[1]: [http://paulgraham.com/identity.html](http://paulgraham.com/identity.html)

<comment><USER9> I would argue against "EDM" in the name not because it sounds stupid, but because it limits the point of reference to a very specific style of music in a worldwide music-playing web service.

The reason why "Spotify" and "Rdio" are such good names is because musically they are undefined by the service and defined by you; you can listen to almost any kind of music on them. Also I think it's better to avoid acronymns; that can be a little obscure. Don't limit yourself or your business to identity- defining topics. See: Amazon, Zappos, Google, Apple, etc.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> [http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa](http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa) PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files.

Main motivation: I can grade ~80 student projects in at most 1 hour, even looking at code besides their output. It took almost 2 days before, and repetitive tasks made me lose my mind. It keeps me sane, and saves me tremendous time. [http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr](http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr)

<comment><USER11> It's a really good idea to have something like this to create a canonical build environment. We've had quite a few issues on my course of "it works on my machine". The only thing I'm wondering about is GUI programs. Currently it looks like those wouldn't be possible, which is unfortunate, because several of the main programming assignments I've had have been Java GUI applications, C++ and OpenGL programs, etc. I wonder how these could be done?

<comment><USER10> I have already evaluted this; You can expose VNC through a port, and use NoVNC to play it on browser over websockets. The problem is, it is too slow and would generate a big burden on server.

noVNC: [https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC](https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> [https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-26%20at%206.35.53%20PM.png)

A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary))

The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at [http://reasonedrhymer.com](http://reasonedrhymer.com) (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)

What I wanna do eventually: \- Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song) \- Speed up the core algorithm \- Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary \- Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look \- Explain the process visibly on the site

<comment><USER13> You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it.

I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.

<comment><USER12> The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together.

I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapper's flow and you don't get the full story without incorporating it. The issue is that I haven't found a way to programmatically pull the metre from a song, and rapper's don't generally keep track of their metre, let alone put it online in a machine readable format (though I'm sure you could find ones for hugely popular songs like 'Lose Yourself' online!).

I am interested in figuring this out though, and have been throwing around ideas for people to simply generate metre for songs by having a tool that simply allows users to match words to times in a song. Though I'm not sure how scalable that is, or how to create such a tool that is drastically simple and fast to use, because otherwise it defeats the point. My hope is that there'd be a way to algorithmically parse the audio and look for inflection points in a song for where words might lie but I've done no research towards that end. digression: This kinda tech would probably be useful for generating 'sing-a- longs'

<comment><USER13> Could you hack some sort of karaoke system? I mean, it ties word display to time, so you could then use that alongisde tying time to beats (DJ tools do this already) to link the words with the beats of the song. I would expect it to be manually generated but it'd give you a data set to work with for more popular stuff?

That said, I'm not sure how fine-grained karaoke systems get - whether they just display the lyrics for a whole bar of the song and linearly interpolate between the start and end, or whether they are a bit more intelligent than that.

Just a thought!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> [http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png](http://i.imgur.com/quhpXWi.png)

NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing.

The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.

<comment><USER15> This is cool. I work in GIS at a college and would be interested in seeing / hearing more about this... do you have a repo or a blog about it?

<comment><USER14> Getting it ready for github and I'm also planning to publish it to npm. It's still pretty rough around the edges, so hopefully in another weekend or two I'll get it out there.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right.

[https://vimeo.com/59463521](https://vimeo.com/59463521)

The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate.

I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.

<comment><USER17> It's an interesting concept and intuitively it might seem desirable to fit in more text/information on the screen, but after some thought I think it would diminish user experience.

The supporting arguments come from the principles of graphic design and book publishing. Digital screens are very much evolution of print. Two examples. Think of the well designed art books or hard covers. Large pages with significant areas taken by blank margins. This is easier and more pleasant to look at. Cheap pulp fiction paperbacks on the other hand had little margin space. Second example is the latest redesign of the digital version of the New York Times. It takes advantage of the fact that having blank/white pixels is free in comparison to unused spaces in the print edition and many changes were aimed at reducing number of items on each page not increasing.

So in my humble opinion it's an interesting experiment, but in the wrong direction...

<comment><USER18> That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation.

Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activity: you progress onward and never have to go backward. In that case, readability is very much influenced by a page layout that reduces noise.

For other types of documentation, the surroundings of what you are reading are important, and having to actually move the page up/down or flip pages on a book makes you easily loose context.

So maybe this n-column reflow is not for everything or everyone, but if it was an option available in my browser, I know I would use it quite often.

Another thing to note: newspapers and magazines have multiple columns of text, and they are still very readable. So that n-column layout in a browser might not even be bad for reading articles on website that don't have busy side panels.

<comment><USER17> Agreed. Context/content makes a big difference... I guess the idea is similar to having multiple panes of IDE open with different sections of the same file.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> Same thing I've been working on for most of the past few years: my graphic novel about a robot lady dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend.

[http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Scre...](http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Screen- Shot-2014-04-26-at-8.04.41PM.png) \- the WIP page of the moment

[http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/phot...](http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/photo-e1398531964119.jpg) \- I woke up with a crazy idea about the final printed volume this morning

[http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/](http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/) \- the comic itself

A lot of the past couple of weeks have been taken up with getting the second printed volume to bed. For the second time, as I managed to let a terrible show-stopping mistake get past me until I was sitting back reading the advance copy, with 399 more on a loading dock in China. My first $6k mistake! Which I have done my best to make sure will never happen again.

<comment><USER20> This is fantastic. Love the art style! Looks like I'm going to be spending the next few hours reading through this now...

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.)

If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the only account currently allowed to make bot submissions, and it seems better to extend an existing system than create a new one.

In the meantime, we changed both the title and the text of this submission to be closer to previous editions.

<comment><USER22> One pro argument is that if the quality of these goes down hill they will fail to make the front page anyway, so what's the down-side?

<comment><USER21> I suspect that's wrong and that they'll make it to the front page regardless.

<comment><USER22> Wrong from whose perspective? It's strange that "wrong" things make it to the front page. By definition wouldn't that make them "right?"

<comment><USER21> If only it were that simple. HN is about optimizing for intellectual curiosity, and that is only one of the reasons why stories get upvoted.

<comment><USER22> Yeah I understand that perspective. I really think that these are the type of posts that won't be upvoted like some post about Elon Musk or Bitcoin. I guess there's a good potential for promotional upvotes since there are so many people invested in the post being seen. Would it be possible to not count upvotes from people who post comments? (Not comments of comments, however.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_003.jpg)

[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg)

[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png)

[https://github.com/hylian/arducard](https://github.com/hylian/arducard)

Just soldered this up. It's a small e-paper device with USB, buttons, a real- time clock, FRAM, an ATmega32u4, and a rechargeable battery.

I'm trying to get USB CDC virtual serial up right now, so that I can test and debug the rest of the board, but it's proving to be a bit difficult...

<comment><USER24> Hey that is really nice! Are you interested in looking for a way to get them manufactured?

<comment><USER23> If there is community interest, I definitely would!

I love the Pibow, by the way. ;)

<comment><USER24> Drop me an e-mail (details in profile) we're definitely looking for e-paper/ink options at the moment!

Glad you're a fan of the Pibow! :-)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> [http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png](http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png)

Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations.

Docs: [https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation](https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation)

<comment><USER26> This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?

<comment><USER25> The traditional localization approach is very time intensive, and requires a large time commitment to implement properly. Localize.js automates most of the localization process, which lets you localize your site in ~10% of the time it would normally take.

The traditional way you'd localize a website is by replacing text in your template files with string keys. For example:

Hello world!
 .

becomes...

{{ t 'homepage.hello_world' }}

You'd then maintain dictionary files that maps "homepage.hello_world" to "Hello world!", with a separate dictionary for each language. Additional complications arise when you want to pluralize phrases, since different languages pluralize phrases differently, etc. It's a pain to setup an effective localization workflow using the traditional approach.

Localize.js handles all of this automatically, and removes the need to convert your template files or manage your own phrases and translations. If you're interested in trying it out, I'd love to get in touch :) firstname.lastname@example.com

<comment><USER27> Can't check your site because I'm on a phone. I would interested to know how you solve this issue.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> [https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png)

Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still _very_ early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode.

The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.

<comment><USER29> For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).

<comment><USER28> Thanks, we definitely plan notifications via email and if possible other messenging services.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> [https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png](https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/images/interact.png)

A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background:

[https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...](https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441a-9894-70784f43f8a0)

</comment><comment><USER31> I published my first chrome extension the other day. Its a very simple UI tweak ([http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png](http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png)) that adds buttons to move through Youtube videos frame by frame. You can also use mouse wheel to scroll through frames, which has lent it the name 'Frame Scroll'.

Its on the Chrome store: [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame- scroll-for-y...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for- youtube/llinnoiobmohhbhnkflcflojcomgonge)

and I wrote a short blog post: [http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll- extension-for-chrome/](http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for- chrome/)

</comment><comment><USER32> I've been working on an interactive data visualization about the scale of the brain. It is supposed to educate people about parts of the brain and its depth. ETA: next Tuesday [http://imgur.com/cthoD4n](http://imgur.com/cthoD4n)

<comment><USER33> Interesting, I guess you could expand into other areas and end up having the entire body. While you at it, I hope you are building it as a platform allowing others to create something similar for anything physical: cars, trees, whatever...

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> LottoLane / [http://www.lottolane.com](http://www.lottolane.com)

Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself.

Screenshot of a lottery drawing page:

[http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png](http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png)

Screenshot of sending emails to users:

[http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png](http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png)

<comment><USER33> This should be 100% mobile first, even if mobile web. I do not play lottery, but I can see this being very very valuable to people who play in groups. Or even just for individuals who want to keep track of the combinations they played in the past.

<comment><USER34> I agree. I'm using bootstrap for the layouts, so it should translate to mobile fairly easily. The nice thing is the players in a pool won't have to sign up. Only the lottery pool manager has to sign up. It's pretty convenient. We have a pool at work but aren't allowed to use our work emails for it. So this was born out of necessity.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER35> I am working on a personal project: book reading logger

[http://imgur.com/APYWfLn](http://imgur.com/APYWfLn)

The back-end is a Rails API, the front end is an Ember app. This was a nice project to learn Ember.

</comment><comment><USER36> [https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/bglsyo0tnwp6ddd/Screenshot%202014-04-27%2012.09.56.png)

I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre.

This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).

<comment><USER37> Neat! I'll keep an eye on this.

</comment></comment><comment><USER38> [http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png](http://i.imgur.com/3fcnnfS.png)

Help fund life changing medical procedures for people in need while you sleep!

Stream this album while you sleep and 100% of royalty payments go directly to watsi.org

I really liked the Spotify hack from a few weeks back ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550)), but didn't really have any interest in supporting that band. So I took the concept and uploaded pink noise (distrokid kicks back silent tracks) that I've been streaming while I sleep. Right now I'm just testing it with a handful of people and won't have results for another month or so due to a delay in royalty reporting. If we end up raising decent money, I plan to roll this out on a larger scale.

It's not technical by any means, but it's still a fun hack and I'm learning a lot about the streaming music business along the way. Based on what I've read, we can potentially earn $2-5 per user per night.

I've already been in contact with watsi and will be linking the distrokid account directly to the official watsi paypal so all funds will automatically get deposited to them.

</comment><comment><USER39> [http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq](http://imgur.com/1xfJRbq)

[http://woodspotting.com/](http://woodspotting.com/)

Been a pet project for a few months. It started out as a hacker news for woodworking (my obsessive hobby), and it ended up being a hybrid with a web crawler that auto posts from about 100 blogs I like to follow. I'm its biggest user, but it seems to be slowly growing in terms of traffic.

<comment><USER40> What's the advantage over /r/woodworking?

<comment><USER39> Funny, I got the same exact question when I posted it there. Honestly, not much until it morphed into an rss feed of my favorite blogs.

<comment><USER40> Ha, then I guess just make sure it's linked in their sidebar.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Auto Miles: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic- mileage...](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic- mileage/id817598888?ls=1&mt=8)

It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh):

[https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png](https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png) [https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png](https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png)

As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.

<comment><USER41> Awesome, thank you! As an aside, searching in the app store with "automiles" doesn't bring up the app.

I've been using 'Moves' to track contracting hours. In that vein, would be great if you could add hour tracking, e.g. for the time spent at a client location.

<comment><USER7> Huh, thanks for pointing that out! May have to add the misspelled name into the keywords for the next version (iTunes keywords are a PITA: they're limited to 100 characters, and can't be edited between versions).

What do you mean by hour tracking? Like time-sheets functionality (which seems a bit out of the scope), or something simple you could type in how long you spent at the location? I've been considering adding a notes option for logs, which might work for something like that.

<comment><USER41> Right now I will look up how long I've spent at a client location to prepare the timesheet for billing. If the app, like Moves, knew where 'work' is, it could do this automagically.

Could be out of scope depending on perspective, but for me it would be killing two birds with one stone.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER42> [http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ](http://imgur.com/qc0zTnJ)

I've spent a few hours today dealing with the fallout from the landing page we launched a few months ago. The landing page is for the cloud-based calculator app builder Calcapp Creator that we're hoping will replace Excel for a good many use cases. (Build a calculator app using the service and have it generate apps for iOS, Android, desktop computers and the web.)

I do customer development by responding to every sign-up and asking people their precise requirements. That invariably leads to people sending me obfuscated Excel calculators, which I then analyze. A couple of months ago, I spent a lot of time having lunch with businesses interested in our service, now I mostly interact with people that have found the landing page. That thankfully leaves more time for product development.

I spent the rest of the day playing with the browser-based app builder -- which is implemented using AngularJS -- and on modifying our custom compiler (which produces the apps) to accept JSON data from the app builder.

</comment><comment><USER43> [http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png](http://i.imgur.com/izk5Rbr.png)

online g-code simulator. [http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/](http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/)

and a pocketing toolpath generator [http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html](http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/text.html)

</comment><comment><USER44> First time, long time.

I'm the creator of PaperBox ([http://www.gopaperbox.com](http://www.gopaperbox.com)), a document scanning and organization system for mobile (iPhone only right now) and the web. There are lots of similar solutions, but ours has a few unique features that make it stand out (web interface, fundamentally dependent on Dropbox, sharing, reminders, etc).

I'd love some feedback on it! The screenshots are a little old, FYI. Please checkout the free iPhone app!

[http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0](http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#0) [http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1](http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#1) [http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2](http://imgur.com/oxfr8oU,Lxcf8RW,P8SsY0I#2)

</comment><comment><USER45> gittribute ([http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/](http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/))

Gittribute saves your time on getting help on your open-source project. Need help on your project? All you need is to add one line on your Github project's README.md & click your link there, and then everyone in the world will see you need help and they will find you.

It is under MIT license here: [https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute](https://github.com/jw2013/gittribute)

I want to post a screenshot, but currently there is only one project listed on the website, so may be it is better if those interested care to check the website itself: [http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/](http://gittribute.herokuapp.com/)

</comment><comment><USER46> Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text.

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This is still an expense tracker "Spendy".

\- Multiple currencies are handled smooth. You have one main currency but you can add multiple others and set up exchange rates for them. You can add expenses/incomes for them in any currency and in the log-view it will automatically show you both the entered currency and a smaller converted amount in your main currency. Perfect for travellers.

\- Easy, quick. Non verbose UI.

\- Data will not be locked in in any way. Dropbox sync, email data in CSV etc.

\- Pretty? Color theme can be changed.

\- Basic basic basic charts for now. 14 days overview is implemented. Will do more later.

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So I've worked a bit more on the app and I thought I'd put it here again. This is the previous version: [http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg)

And this is the new one: [http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp](http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp) (excuse the layout and/or the large res)

I'll see if I can sum up the changes:

\- Changed color to green, although I've made the color-theme chooseable by the user (see the bottom). The color theme is on the buttons, the "tints" (such as some text colors and etc).

\- Made the Money log entries bigger/more space.

\- Less stuff in the menu.

\- Added a "settings" panel.

\- Chart is now colored and includes both incomes and expenses.

\- Before I had alertviews for lots of things. This has been replaces by inline buttons (see: delete/edit). These are also affected by the users chosen color btw.

\- The tag-view is still bare-bones, but centered and alternating row-colors.

\- The Currency-view is completely remade, see the bottom for how it looks. I tried to make "more" out of virtually no info and I do think it worked pretty well.

Any feedback is welcome!

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And a short GIF of the app in action. [http://imgur.com/PFnRae7](http://imgur.com/PFnRae7)

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EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.

</comment><comment><USER47> TwitterHealth

[http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png](http://i4.minus.com/ibmjeJLRAFCB0Q.png)

Crowdsourcing the classification of tweets as sick related or not for my Data/Visual Analytics class. Classified tweets from users are sent to our machine learning alg.

Originally was supposed to show where and what ailments people were dealing with around the world but having only cities doesn't give that great of a visualization.

Using node, d3, cubism, redis.

App: [http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com](http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com) Code: [https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth](https://github.com/eltacodeldiablo/twitterhealth)

</comment><comment><USER48> [http://jasymchat.com](http://jasymchat.com)

It is a computer algebra system (CAS) mobile web app with built in chat. Suitable for highschool,undergrad and grads school work.

basically it would be like if matlab had chat built in :)

</comment><comment><USER49> [http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg)

Homework - a basic CRUD app in VB to manage reservations for a movie theatre, through a remote database connection.

<comment><USER50> Do you have a customer for this, or just making it for the heck of it?

<comment><USER49> This is a final class project (Advanced VB.) After the semester's over i'll probably rewrite it in C# (because I really am not a fan of VB) and find some use for it.

Edit: I just realized my last post made it look like the name of the app was "Homework"... no, it literally is homework :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER51> Mountain Mapper

A map-based web app for discovering the world's mountains

[http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/LE2X6Fz.jpg)

[http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain- mapper](http://www.tomjwatson.com/projects/mountain-mapper)

Zoom and pan around the map to find the locations of significant peaks in an area. Click a marker to reveal information about each mountain, including images, descriptions, height etc.

Data is sourced using the Freebase API and displayed using Google Maps Javascript API.

</comment><comment><USER52> Side project: refactoring an IRC bot I'm writing after hours for fun (both mine and of our local hackerspace).

[http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png](http://i.imgur.com/nAGkbF3.png)

The bot is written in Common Lisp and it's intention is to pretend to be human (i.e. parse natural-language requests instead of typical commands) while still providing useful functions for the channels it sits in. By "pretending to be human" I mean that I'm trying to add some personality and emotional model (yet to be done) to the program. It's a playground to test my ideas of creating programs that you can relate emotionally to, as well as some basic machine learning stuff. The "personality" of the bot is based on Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project series.

Currently working code at [https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice](https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice). I'm doing a huge rework of the codebase on [https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style](https://github.com/TeMPOraL/alice/tree/feature/style) branch right now.

An interesting side effect is that after deploying Alice on few channels I have several people asking me for Lisp books/tutorial. It would seem that showing some working, fun project is a good way to get people interested in the language :).

</comment><comment><USER53> [http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8](http://tinypic.com/r/4jampz/8) (original: [http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil](http://www.damienhirst.com/minoxidil)) [http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8](http://tinypic.com/r/o0tcug/8) (original: [http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Vali...](http://www.eyestorm.com/Pages/Product.aspx/Damien_Hirst/Valium__2000/4575921))

Learning D3.js by implementing Damien Hirst's spot painting techniques. Fun way to learn about D3 and to appreciate the complexity behind seemingly simple modern art.

The latter uses a phyllotaxis algorithm that models how sunflower florets replicate (even though I think Hirst traced his from a textbook it's fun to implement the algorithm).

Random color selection is also a much harder problem than you'd think (how to avoid repeating patterns) and I'm seeing that Hirst's allocation is not quite so random (rumours of steganography - [http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled- substance-key-paint](http://www.damienhirst.com/controlled-substance-key- paint) for the key if anyone is good at cryptanalysis).

</comment><comment><USER54> I've been working on a "web app builder". It lets users create a web app based on a pre-built template and tweak it to their hearts content. Examples are link-sharing apps like reddit, image sharing like Dribbble, blogs, cms, pastebins etc.

Link here: [http://getsproute.com](http://getsproute.com)

It's also open-source: [http://github.com/sproute/sproute](http://github.com/sproute/sproute)

<comment><USER55> Just an FYI that you're heartbleed vulnerable: [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.co...](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=getsproute.com)

<comment><USER54> Oops forgot to restart Nginx after updating. Thanks!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER56> [https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1](https://github.com/davidchambers/dotfiles/pull/1)

Fix for ugly `npm` output.

</comment><comment><USER57> Great idea, I did really a lot this week, very productive :-)

#1

[https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X](https://imupa.com/v/Aplag1t5M8X)

my game analytics company

some huge changes in our event processing and storage system to load real time data much faster.

#2

[https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI](https://imupa.com/v/w7EOFP8qOWI)

[https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN](https://imupa.com/v/sOlf93ldjjN)

my payment aggregator company

added some new features to our new accounting panel and some new payment methods for our new api as well, some weeks after the first release of our new system a lot of work still left as usual :-).

#3

[https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw](https://imupa.com/v/5yrGG82tOtw)

A strategy space game I'm working on since 5 month, this week i implemented the whole localisation things with jsgettext and php-gettext

#4

[https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo](https://imupa.com/v/N8RbEXXDwjo)

image upload / effect / sharing web-app for free as a side project started 3 weeks ago was looking for a web-app which gives me easily access to some interesting imagemagick effects but everything i found was just not as comprehensive as it would be possible, so I built it on my own during a weekend and I optimized the UI last days.

</comment><comment><USER58> Working on an iOS game with a friend, built with cocos2d. It's my first time doing native iOS development, and also my first time building a 'real' game (ie that moves). The performance concerns are really interesting, even with such simple graphics.

[http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png](http://i.imgur.com/YBUEHhw.png)

[http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png](http://i.imgur.com/VoIu5sq.png)

</comment><comment><USER29> A web application for my Computer Science dissertation (I'm writing up the report at the moment).

The idea was to produce a web app that you upload your bank statements to, the system categorises the transactions and then predicts how much money you will spend in each category next month.

Underneath the system is using machine learning techniques to model the spending, deciding whether or not a particular transaction will occur and triple exponential smoothing to predict how much would be spent.

Screenshot of the homepage (fake data): [http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png](http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png)

I'm currently seeking research participants if any UK based (not tested with non UK data) users would like to give it a try: [http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register](http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register). There's a survey link on the home page.

\--

Edit: I also put together a biblatex checker which I've been using to validate my reference files for my report.

[http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png](http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png) [https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check](https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex- check)

</comment><comment><USER59> Simple photoalbum sharing service to host on your own (I use it for friends/family). Main purpose was to allow groups to collaborative upload and create albums. Also wanted to test some new things (koajs, reactjs). Feedback appreciated!

[http://imgur.com/a/92W2u](http://imgur.com/a/92W2u)

[https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos](https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos)

</comment><comment><USER60> No screenshots, because just code, but this is what I'm working on:

Project PiGNWhiStle: Postgresql NOTIFY to WebSocket sample app.

Project VAN: Validation, Analysis, and Normalization library for common types in PL/V8. Just in case you need to validate 5000 phone numbers per second in- database.

Project Ted: Annotation-driven in-database PL/PGSQL unit test framework for Postgres.

Project Hedgehog: a DIY web analytics app done w Spring and Postgres. Poor man's GA.

<comment><USER61> Shine on you crazy diamond!

Remember, elephants never forget--and they never forgive.

</comment></comment><comment><USER62> [http://git-paid.gitescrow.com](http://git-paid.gitescrow.com)

Payments for freelancers

You can have your clients pre-fund your contract. You push milestones at tags on git, and when they approve your milestone you get paid instantly, and they get a zip of the code

[http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png](http://i.imgur.com/VSRueph.png) gulping it up, and get ready for deployment.

</comment><comment><USER63> I built, and am continuing to refine, a site that features one link (and accompanying discussion thread) per day.

[http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png](http://puu.sh/8p3D5.png)

I got the idea from an Idea Sunday thread, built the first version in a few hours, and I've been working on it on and off all week.

[http://threadaday.github.io](http://threadaday.github.io)

<comment><USER33> Awesome. A few things to think about:

1) Would it not be better to have one-topic per day as opposed to one link. With one topic, users can submit multiple links/sources.

2) Have you started to think about acquiring users? You definitely need to grab an email address and email the daily topic so we can get remember to come back.

3) Related to 2. I think when selecting links, topics, it is important to select something ultra-controversial/interesting if you want to sparkle discussion.

<comment><USER63> Thanks for the feedback!

1 & 3\. I thought about this approach, but right now I like the idea of having one link, that way all discussion is centralized to the particular article at hand (and of course comments with links are allowed if someone would like to link to an outside resource). I have been trying to pick articles that have a strong thesis or present an idea that I feel would spark some discussion. I don't want to ignite any flamewars so I try to stay away from topics that are too controversial/not actually likely to produce useful insight (i.e. "Javascript Sucks Because X"). What are some topics you would recommend?

2\. Collecting email addresses is definitely on my list of TODOs, right now I'm still roughing out the MVP.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER64> Nothing big, a side-project that is work related.

[http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png](http://i.imgur.com/TxLS6GN.png)

I've been thinking more about 'cards' and started playing around with something akin to Twitter's embedded tweets but for The New Yorker. Drop a link into a page and it gets re-done. Glorified oEmbed in a way.

</comment><comment><USER65> Working on improving the layout of a project I'm working with a friend on, where we translate Ukrainian & Russian media into English and interview Ukrainians ourselves.

Progress: [http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png](http://i.imgur.com/Vch8UDO.png) Site: [http://zasiv.ca](http://zasiv.ca)

</comment><comment><USER66> Here's the 3rd side project I've been working on with a friend that was just released (I've been busy!).

The iPhone app is called 'Run the World' and it lets you create goal based on running from one city to another (for example run from San Francisco to Dallas).

Here are some screenshots: [http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-7...](http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/50/ea/e5/50eae50f-79ae- ec88-2623-28c5025cf184/screen568x568.jpeg)

[http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3...](http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/6e/5d/08/6e5d0849-3a17-c115-d7be-650ca16bcb65/screen568x568.jpeg)

[http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa...](http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/f0/28/0f/f0280ff7-fa3f-0692-e9a0-b352808cf4ee/screen568x568.jpeg)

[http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-9...](http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/c2/7c/f7/c27cf75b-99d7-8754-b065-4e7a3cee3a70/screen568x568.jpeg)

[http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30...](http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple/v4/cc/dd/97/ccdd97cd-30ab-e5bb-399a-f6c8e54ed02d/screen568x568.jpeg)

Here is the App Store Link: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the- world/id832500937?mt...](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/run-the- world/id832500937?mt=8)

We both realize the benefits of running but find it hard to get motivated so we made this app as a way to get off the couch.

</comment><comment><USER67> I've been working on a fun side project that takes a light-hearted dig at all the _[] driven development_ processes that our field comes up with.

Screenshot: [http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png](http://i.imgur.com/Tl7NCje.png) Link: [http://devdriven.by/](http://devdriven.by/)

</comment><comment><USER66> The second project that I've been working on is RepairMyRentalPro.com which is a site to help connect landlords and contractors when work is needed on a rental property. The site is in beta but went 'live' a week ago.

Screenshot: [http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png](http://i.imgur.com/HKHPsqi.png)

<comment><USER33> I would try to purchase rentalrepair.com, it is a premium domain available for $1000, or buy rentalrepair.net for $9.

<comment><USER66> Thanks for the tip. I picked up rentalrepair.net and rentalrepair.co today.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER66> I just finished a dice game for iOS called Tripps (also known as 3s). The point is to score less than your opponent and 3s count as zero points. My friends and I often played this at parties so I decided to turn it into an app.

Screenshots: [http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b...](http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/56/ad/7c/56ad7c61-b461-10ab-72da-e4b8717962ac/screen568x568.jpeg)

[http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a...](http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/e9/c4/a0/e9c4a0f8-a9d5-e0f6-6378-c4963a0fafae/screen568x568.jpeg)

App Store Link: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice- game/id856299408...](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripps-dice- game/id856299408?mt=8)

</comment><comment><USER68> We're rebranding as Widgetic. We're called Blogvio now ([http://blogvio.com/](http://blogvio.com/)).

So personally I've been focused on building the new identity and securing the domain name, Twitter username (had to purchase this one from an existing user), Facebook vanity URL, Google, Vimeo and all the other accounts we needed.

The icon we've been working on, although not final, should help users see two things depending on where they look from (front, sides) - I'd love to hear your guesses - what do you see?

[http://o7.no/1fhXfoX](http://o7.no/1fhXfoX)

Here's a more fine tuned / in progress version: [http://o7.no/1hE7mOY](http://o7.no/1hE7mOY)

Once the rebranding is done we can finally release our API under the new name, so we don't break any integrations with our product.

</comment><comment><USER69> Goliath. An alternative Dashboard for Wordpress, based on Wp-Svbtle with a medium.com like editor.

[https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1...](https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot1.png) [https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2...](https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot2.png) [https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3...](https://github.com/arkokoley/goliath/blob/master/Screenshot3.png)

I really liked the simplicity of svbtle, medium's editor and wordpress's raw power. QSo i built this scounging from the discontinued wp-svbtle project.

</comment><comment><USER70> BasicBookReader

A book interest tracker for my eBook application:

application: [http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png](http://i.imgur.com/wTTBxw1.png)

data analysis: [http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png](http://i.imgur.com/QyOJAPw.png)

log (Dates): [http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png](http://i.imgur.com/78b4jmf.png)

log (pages): [http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png](http://i.imgur.com/uoac6K3.png)

times per page: [http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png](http://i.imgur.com/U6W2zAQ.png)

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website: [http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/](http://austingwalters.com/basicbookreader/)

github: [https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader](https://github.com/lettergram/basicbookreader)

</comment><comment><USER71> Working on adding a analytics feature in a side project ([https://www.getosmosis.com](https://www.getosmosis.com)). Right now you can send people questionnaires to set up projects - I'm working on making it so you can see if the person viewed from their computer / mobile, etc and from where.

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgzjh9r54da4n5x/Screenshot%202014-04-26%2020.47.44.png)

I'm hoping will help me get a better read on how people use the site and help customers do the same with their clients - obviously similar to Google analytics but tied to events in this application, and should help make sure we're not sending notification emails if some bot hits the site.

</comment><comment><USER72> [http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg)

Today I tested [https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine](https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine) on Windows and thought I should add a mention to the README.

This is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies.

Also, about a week ago, I fixed [https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font](https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font) so now it works with [https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline- shell](https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell)

<comment><USER73> Could you tell me what that font is? :)

<comment><USER72> It's [https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font](https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font), which is based on the x3270 bitmap fonts which were, in turn, copied pixel by pixel from an IBM 327x terminal, IIRC, from an undergrad student in Georgia Tech. The idea is to bring back some of the 3270 terminal aesthetics.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER74> [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%2...](https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oxn36sidtubcvhi/w5km41TbaY/beta%20screenshots)

AndroidFocus, an Android app that syncs with OmniFocus. Currently I have a read only beta out where you can browse your projects, contexts, actions and forecast. Creating and completing actions are next on the list and those features should be ready by next week.

The beta can be joined through this G+ community: [https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711](https://plus.google.com/communities/103938802070518069711)

</comment><comment><USER75> Not the usual faire for this site, or this thread but...

I was tinkering with using the solarized colour scheme in vim which led me onto hacking on mintty. I added some GUI controls for the 16 ANSI colours.

[https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12](https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=193#c12)

and a small screenshot

[https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=19300120...](https://mintty.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=1930012000&name=mintty- gui-colour- controls.png&token=ymrS60K9uldpZfKhDXISu4Y5BUk%3A1398558560801&inline=1)

</comment><comment><USER76> Working on a Venmo like money tracking app that evolved out of a school project. Adding some features and making it more performant on mobile. Learning backbone.js right now to make the switch to a fully API backed service instead of a server render site. Reason is because a) Venmo doesn't exist in Canada and b) school is boring.

[http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png](http://i.imgur.com/OS0A7B7.png) [http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png](http://i.imgur.com/6K9iD8w.png) [http://moneytrackr.ca](http://moneytrackr.ca)

</comment><comment><USER77> Have been working on a Road Engine[1].

Below is a really simple road I created with it: [http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz](http://imgur.com/GkBq8Oz)

The graphics are not great yet but most of the work on the engine itself is almost done.

Will be using this for the game I'm currently working on [2]

[1] A road engine is a tool for creating a system of roads in just a matter of minutes.

[2][https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnol...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnologies.android.flyingfighterbeta&hl=en)

</comment><comment><USER78> Working on finalizing the new UI and uTorrent plus Chromecast integration for the Chrome Extension that i'm building with Angular.js

The aim of DuckieTV is help make the lives of TV Show freaks easier by providing a calendar that lists your favorite shows and is always up-to-date (Think sickbeard, but without the setup hastle)

Current v0.5 progress: [http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU](http://imgur.com/a/ZLHkU)

v0.43 (live): [http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV](http://schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV)

</comment><comment><USER26> Been working on my first Rails app for a few [http://sixtasks.heroku.com](http://sixtasks.heroku.com) because I think the idea of a to-do list is powerful, but the concept needs refining.

Also, I wanted to be able to track my productivity in a tangible way, and Six Tasks helps me do that: [http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png](http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png)

Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along

</comment><comment><USER79> I 've been working on 2 things past week:

1) [http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg)

[http://hopgenie.com/](http://hopgenie.com/) \- Community for travelers with travel tips, advice, questions etc.

2) [http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png](http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png)

[http://sciboards.org/](http://sciboards.org/) \- News aggregator / Q&A for scientific research

</comment><comment><USER80> My Gps Tracker is an open source project that allows you to track android, ios, windows phones and java me phones using various mapping providers such as google, bing and OpenStreetMaps. MIT licensed.

Here is the android version:

[https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png](https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png)

and the source code:

[https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker](https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker)

</comment><comment><USER81> Android Homebrew (as in beer) recipe application: [http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq](http://imgur.com/ESyqCeq)

Currently in read only mode, it reads recipes from the phone and I'm halfway through adding in the ability to download recipes. Links in with the desktop version of Strangebrew (available in Java and QT for all platforms), which extends to a Brewery controller, to allow users to send mash temperatures and times to the system.

</comment><comment><USER82> Been working on adding new search providers to StartHQ cloud search.

Screenshot: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png)

API docs: [https://github.com/starthq/search#readme](https://github.com/starthq/search#readme)

Sign up link: [https://starthq.com/signup](https://starthq.com/signup)

</comment><comment><USER83> My side project: [http://arturo.io](http://arturo.io)

Automated book builds on commits and PRs:

[http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0](http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#0)

Automatic diffs for PRs/Commits:

[http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1](http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#1)

Stylesheet support here is the base output with custom link colors:

[http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2](http://imgur.com/a/xa70N#2)

</comment><comment><USER84> Just doing a little Saturday afternoon verilog. [http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png](http://i.imgur.com/gkB6FMh.png)

<comment><USER85> I'm not sure this is what ESR meant with Linus's Law when he said "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" [1]

[1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law)

</comment></comment><comment><USER86> Massive multiplayer browser game I've been working on with meteor.js.

[http://imgur.com/cryCE2s](http://imgur.com/cryCE2s)

<comment><USER87> That looks awesome. Would you mind briefly describing what technologies you're using for the graphics?

<comment><USER86> I rendered .png files with the 3d program Maya. Then used svg to draw them. Meteor.js handles updating them. Here's an example [https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg- demo](https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER88> A client for a java based cryptocurrency:

[http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png](http://nxtra.org/mac/NxtWallet.png)

More info about the cryptocurrency at [http://www.mynxt.org](http://www.mynxt.org) / [http://nxt.org](http://nxt.org)

(PS: Looking for java developers, if you're interested email me via wesleyh _ at _ telenet.be

</comment><comment><USER89> I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 so that I can build games - right now I'm working on a game where you run a pizza shop, because I used to like playing lemonade stand:

[http://d.pr/i/zJh4](http://d.pr/i/zJh4)

Today has mostly been spent working on getting some of my UI in order, although there's still a lot of work to do as I hammer down the design for that page.

</comment><comment><USER90> [https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_2...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7010clm7smjfxs/_20140426_145022_20140426_145042.jpg)

I'm working on an iOS app that lets you run Apache Bench (and dig & ping) from your phone. It has a Rails back-end that actually performs the ab command and parses the results into a JSON response.

</comment><comment><USER91> [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/sc...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GreenZapdos/reel/master/screenshot.png)

A simple flask app to stream movies over HTTP, like XBMC for web browsers. Works good on mobile!

[https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel](https://github.com/GreenZapdos/reel)

</comment><comment><USER37> URLDiff - a small ruby app (and my very first!) that computes and renders the visual differences between two (or a list of) URLs:

[https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff](https://github.com/sammcj/urldiff) (screenshots included)

whipped it up to check for visual differences in a bunch of pages I moved to a new platform, worked a treat.

</comment><comment><USER92> A theme for LightDM Webkit that's a mashup of the Google login and Chrome OS login.

Repo: [https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit- google](https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google) Screenshot: [http://uk.omg.li/VE7v](http://uk.omg.li/VE7v)

</comment><comment><USER93> I've been working on a simple news scraper to make a custom news aggregator for the websites I usually read. I published an alpha version today on npm, and would really appreciate your feedback. [https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns](https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns)

</comment><comment><USER94> Nothing fancy, just a bouncing ball in canvas that follows the laws of gravity and elasticity.

[http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png](http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png)

Site: [http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/](http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/) Needs some fixes.

</comment><comment><USER95> [http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png](http://i.imgur.com/1LZNRg7.png)

multiplayer hacking game

</comment><comment><USER96> The Business Social Graph

It maps relationships between companies, their investors, acquirers, competitors & customers/partners.

[http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_gra...](http://cbinsights.com/marketing/img/screenshots/business_graph/amex.png)

<comment><USER17> Interesting... Are you familiar with theyrule.net - the art project of futurefarmers from few years ago? Note that it seems to be Java driven so you need a desktop browser to see it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER97> [http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/F58XeiU.jpg)

Finishing a project (Synthesis and analysis of vanillin from eugenol for those interested). Looking at some NMR-spectra. I love LaTeX for collaborating, makes everything much easier to manage.

</comment><comment><USER98> A small change to add line highlighting for git diffs.

[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/...](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/Conception/images/Go/git- diff-line-highlighting.png)

</comment><comment><USER99> I built screenshot service as a side project. [https://urlbox.io](https://urlbox.io)

Fortunately we got some big customers recently. So it started to generate little bit of profit. Hoping to get couple more big customers and turn it into my full-time job.

<comment><USER100> This looks cool. Any plans to add support for posted HTML (as opposed to a target URL) too?

The reason I ask is that sometimes I need to screenshot pages that I've crawled - but you might not see exactly the same page I did at the time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER101> I have been working towards creating some content for our product teamgum. And trying to reach the influencers is patience testing job. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKfbbGUH48)

</comment><comment><USER102> It's not really a side project but I spent today rebuilding the website for our asbury park, nj based coworking space - [http://cowerks.com](http://cowerks.com) \- would love some feedback/copy editing.

disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.

</comment><comment><USER103> I've been working on an project called Swiftacular that uses Ansible to deploy OpenStack Swift to Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 6, and Ubuntu 14.04.

[https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular](https://github.com/curtisgithub/swiftacular)

</comment><comment><USER104> I've been adding notifications to Metamorfus. They are all done, going to deploy it out to the site tomorrow

[http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png](http://i.imgur.com/kFSbfLI.png)

[https://metamorf.us](https://metamorf.us)

</comment><comment><USER105> [http://imgur.com/5PIv59x](http://imgur.com/5PIv59x)

a customization to the Django admin to track my food intake. It supports recipes (group of foods) and custom serving sizes (e.g. specifying that a middlesized apple is xx grams).

</comment><comment><USER106> I've been working on a site dedicated to informing the public about net neutrality. It's using the new EFF data about legislators too!

[http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png](http://i.imgur.com/ML4rmKQ.png)

</comment><comment><USER107> [http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe](http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe)

A semi-social stat tracking website for DOTA players. More advanced statistics than gathered by DOTABUFF, but those aren't shown in the screenshot.

<comment><USER108> Thats actually pretty amusing, though I can't help but wonder whether it will only be convenient if actually integrated into DOTA/Facebook etc. At the moment, isn't it just DOTA: Stalker?

<comment><USER107> I'm really not sure. It emerged from a few of my friends noticing that we often check each other's DOTABUFF pages, especially after a few of us moved to the opposite coast. I suppose it's basically just DOTA stalking at the moment.

That's also a potentially interesting title... DOTAstalker.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER109> I'm working on solving business meeting nightmares. I'm bored about ineffective meetings.

[http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png](http://i.imgur.com/5yiMnqq.png)

</comment><comment><USER110> Product configurator built with AngularJS. Pretty complex ruleset for allowed combinations.

[https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png](https://i.imgur.com/FfeWmt1.png)

</comment><comment><USER111> Making [http://bandhub.us](http://bandhub.us) grow

[http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png](http://i.imgur.com/TDndNDJ.png)

</comment><comment><USER112> phancap, a self-hosted website screenshot service API. JPG, PNG and PDF output. Useful for web-based bookmark managers.

Homepage: [http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm](http://cweiske.de/phancap.htm) Screenshot: [http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf...](http://cweiske.de/graphics/phancap/www.bogo-029bd33b9f01eccf3cc97c1b3b213024.png)

</comment><comment><USER113> A sales CRM that is similar to Pipedrive [http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png](http://i.imgur.com/MFHYTQ4.png)

</comment><comment><USER114> A restaurant recommendation web app: [http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC](http://imgur.com/iTKXwrC)

</comment><comment><USER115> a to b!

an anonymous textboard for people: [http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png](http://i.imgur.com/vjEfiwI.png)

sometimes, it is hard to be wrong when one's name is on the line - <USER2> discussions can remove the ego from the discussion.

[http://atob.kthxb.ai](http://atob.kthxb.ai)

<comment><USER49> It looks like you have an interesting take on tripcodes, although users with colorblindness issues might have some trouble differentiating.

<comment><USER115> that's a great point. here's what it looks like in BW: [http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png](http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png)

i'm wondering what a good way to work for colorblind people would be.

<comment><USER116> Replace the colors with patterns in a colorblind mode (e.g. A left striped replaces blue, a right striped replaces green, a vertical striped for red, a right horizontal stripe with dots in the brighter spaces for yellow, etc.).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER117> insaana.com - A real estate marketplace. Connects buyers and sellers directly and provides necessary services to complete the transaction (from connecting buyers and sellers to handing over the key to the buyer).

Still in beta, tons of things to do, built with Django/Postgres.

</comment><comment><USER118> Bake

Making to-do lists better.

[http://arsln.co/VCsx](http://arsln.co/VCsx)

</comment><comment><USER119> I know about Kimsufi, don't know how reliable those are though.

[http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/](http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/)

</comment><comment><USER120> I'm posting an inspiring quote from the masters who changed the world at Instagram.com/BeTheCrazyOnes and doing that daily following the Seinfeld's 'don't break the chain' method: one rare black & white picture + quote first thing in the morning, one picture + quote last thing at night.

[http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh](http://imgur.com/TqTCMmh)</comment>


Free Online OCR service - convert PDF documents to Word, JPG to Word - <AUTHOR> http://www.onlineocr.net/ <comment><USER2> I opened a normal Word document, created a screenshot and tried to OCR it. The quality was terrible and the result was completely unusable. Only a rare word was recognized correctly. The document was in Latvian, but the site claims it does support Latvian and I did check the correct language before recognition.

</comment><comment><USER3> I wonder if it can do captchas ...? Didn't manage to do it's own.</comment>


Older programmer's plight working in a startup - <AUTHOR> https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4caue0/older_guy_new_job_at_startup_is_taking_its_toll/ <comment><USER2> I've worked in a startup with this frat mentality. While the founders think it builds camaraderie, it is quite toxic and I really don't believe leads to more productivity or better quality work.</comment>


Chernobyl's Tragic Legacy  - <AUTHOR> http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl <comment><USER2> Wish I could downvote this. Single cases, no matter how tragic, do not make a sweeping condemnation. Do we stop selling cars because a million people a year get in car accidents and die messily? No. Should we stop building nuclear power plants because, thirty years ago, some idiots built a really, really terrible one and a few thousand people died messily? No.

And, yes, I know that I'm going to get flamed for this. Go ahead. It needs to be said. If we want our species to survive the next hundred years, we need to get our heads out of our emotional rear ends.

<comment><USER3> Wish I could downvote this. Just because we need nuclear energy to survive, doesn't mean you need to demote this massive and tragic accident to a statistical blip made up of "single cases".

<comment><USER4> Who told you "we" need nuclear energy to survive?

<comment><USER3> I was basically conceding that point to the parent, since that is not central to the point I'm trying to make. I personally think that we as humans have ample ingenuity to solve our future energy needs, I just don't want to see a world where accidents like Chernobyl and Bhopal (and their many unfortunate victims) are essentially swept under the rug as a cost of doing business.

<comment><USER2> Agreed! That's why I think that more people should realize how many deaths are attributable to fossil-fuel air pollution: millions per year.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> A UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008

<comment><USER6> To add some perspective <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster>

This is not to belittle Chernobyl. But to provoke thought and discussion on why a disaster of this scale has such a negligible mind-share.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Relevant conversation on a previous thread: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374194></comment>


Should I spray tan before my VC meeting? - <AUTHOR> http://www.quora.com/Should-I-use-spray-on-tanner-before-a-VC-pitch-in-order-to-seem-more-relaxed-and-less-needy-of-funding?

<comment><USER2> Are you meeting with Snooki?</comment>


NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975 - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/science/spacex-nasa-return.html <comment><USER2> Pretty impressive. And by that I mean boring return to earth, which is impressive in that it is made to seem so "easy."

On the plus side, my friend from Lockheed-Martin who bet me dinner at one's favorite restaurant that Boeing would be the first when the contract was announced, now owes me dinner, so there's that.

I had hoped see Starship hop 150m today[1] however that seems to have been scrubbed.

There is a really good lesson here for folks which is ignore the people saying you won't be able to do something and just execute. They can't argue with results.

EDIT: updated the link to point to the live camera pointed at the Starship SN5. Not sure what happened there. [1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbM7Vsz3kg)

<comment><USER3> > On the plus side, my friend from Lockheed-Martin who bet me dinner at one's > favorite restaurant that Boeing would be the first when the contract was > announced, now owes me dinner, so there's that.

I read somewhere that Musk have managed to hire top of the cream engineers of America's aerospace contractors, and NASA for very small money, relatively speaking, after NASA got its original "new crewed mission" project cancelled.

And the irony is, that he got money for first SpaceX launches from NASA, and got a lot of engineering made for him for free at NASA as well.

<comment><USER4> It seems to me SpaceX's secret sauce is continuous iteration on vehicles that actually fly. It's hard to see how Boeing or Blue Origin can develop expertise with any confidence their designs will work, except, apparently, by going very slowly. Of course, Boeing has somewhat of a track record, but Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX and still hasn't achieved orbit.

<comment><USER5> I agree with this. It seems pretty clear to me that SpaceX's key innovation is one of management -- namely rocket engineering using software-like iterative methods. The driving force of course is Musk, who comes from software but moved into hardware where we see the exact same iterative development at Tesla.

There's no reason that other launch providers can't be doing what SpaceX is doing, but they aren't. They continue to design and build using more traditional and conservative aerospace management approaches.

Blue Origin is run by somebody with a background in finance and retail.

ULA by a former mechanical engineer.

Arianespace is run by a former policy guy turned exec.

Rocket Lab is run by an engineer.

Scaled Composites (I know a different kind of beast) is run by an aerospace engineer.

and so on.

<comment><USER6> _I agree with this. It seems pretty clear to me that SpaceX 's key innovation is one of management -- namely rocket engineering using software-like iterative methods. The driving force of course is Musk, who comes from software but moved into hardware where we see the exact same iterative development at Tesla._

This is old stuff. They called it "skunkwork".

<comment><USER7> And Skunkworks was very successful too. Are they still using the same approach, though? I'm getting the impression they're not what they used to be.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Random boats swarming is absolutely insane

This is a RESCUE operation and they're getting in the way.

Not to mention, there's still plenty of extremely poisonous UDMH on that thing.

<comment><USER9> All previous splashdowns have been much further from shore and, moreover, done by squadrons of US Navy ships, so this really hasn't come up before. You don't really take your bass boat up to an aircraft carrier a few hundred miles offshore.

I expect they'll have more than one Coast Guard vessel on hand next time, and will probably look into not publicizing the landing zone.

<comment><USER10> It'll be hard to not publicize the LZ. NOTAMS (aircraft exclusion zone) and maritime exclusion zones are public documents. They're essentially map coordinates for the LZ.

I think you're right about there being some CG vessels around for the next landing.

<comment><USER9> True, though they could publish several zones and not announce which will be used. Though the transponders from various ships would eventually give that away.

But even if it's not technically secret there's a big difference between a NOTAM and putting out press releases with specific locations, which they did this time.

<comment><USER11> There's an easier way, board, arrest, seize the boats and impose heavy fines and bans next time.

<comment><USER9> There's no legal basis for that outside territorial waters. Which is why that was not done this time.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Here is the livestream: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-l6f4wcv2I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-l6f4wcv2I)

If it is live, go back to roughly 2:45 EST. If it is no longer live, it should be around 7h15m in the VOD.

(I really wish you could link to a time on a livestream, or even better, create a "Clip" like with Twitch.)

EDIT: Well it is streamed on Twitch so here's a clip: [https://www.twitch.tv/nasa/clip/CourteousPatientVelociraptor...](https://www.twitch.tv/nasa/clip/CourteousPatientVelociraptorTBTacoLeft)

From which you can also click "watch full video" which puts you at the exact right time in the full VOD.

</comment><comment><USER13> The lack of drama is what dramatically displays the maturity of SpaceX technology.

Congrats, I'm looking forward to the next steps. And I am so sorry american citizenship is required to apply for SpaceX jobs :-(

<comment><USER14> If it were considered mature it wouldn't be on the front page of HN.

<comment><USER15> "First privately owned round trip to the ISS". Its obviously still a first, but its not a technical first, but an economic first. Hacker news focused on both technical and economic things, so this still is interesting for it, but that doesn't mean it is a new tech.

<comment><USER16> Perhaps the first reusable manned capsule? (Unless there's another)

<comment><USER17> The Soviet TKS capsule was designed to be both manned and reusable, but it never flew manned in the end as it never took over from Soyuz as originally planed.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Proud to have played a part in advancing access to space.

You don't quite get the historical significance of what you are working on until you get to see it in context.

I'll always look back at my work at SpaceX as one of the highlights of my journey through engineering. Among other things, it is because of this that we are now working on a project for NASA's Artemis mission and will likely deliver hardware to the moon starting next year and possibly every year until 2026 or thereabouts.

<comment><USER19> Hats off to you for putting in work at SpaceX and NASA to advance humanity. The work you do is more valuable then any of us can begin to comprehend until we're much older, wiser, and a multi-planetary species.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> Vostok, Mercury, Voskhod, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, Shuttle, Shenzhou - and now Crew Dragon. We still have progress, ladies and gentlemen.

<comment><USER21> How is it progress if they all do the same thing?

<comment><USER22> It's progress because the spacecraft and the vast majority of the launch vehicle are reusable and affordable. But I agree it's still only incremental. And nothing close to the scale and ambition of Apollo. Hopefully Starship will change that.

<comment><USER20> > And nothing close to the scale and ambition of Apollo.

I'd argue Apollo, as spacecraft, is left behind. Far behind, and the scale of today's works is way bigger. You can't compare Sno-Buggy - a towering automotive achievement of its time - with modern Toyotas in numbers, development resources spent, functional richness, versatility of uses.

Apollo was different because it flew away from a low Earth orbit - a first for manned spacecrafts. And Starship maybe will fly even farther - qualitatively - than Apollo - in this sense it's a big step, yes. But making what was nearly impossible 60 years ago routine and affordable isn't unimportant or cheap.

<comment><USER22> Oh sure, but I think even Dragon won't make it _quite_ routine. It's cheaper than Apollo per-seat by slightly better than a factor of 2 (Saturn Ib plus the Apollo command module was ~$500 million adjusted for inflation compared to ~220 million for Dragon Crew per launch), but the routineness is not much different than apollo during its prime.

That's why Starship is the most important step. It's like Apollo in scale of the launch, but will be launched much more often. And the vehicle itself can be refueled, which means you can send ~100 people to the surface of the Moon and back instead of just 2-3... And perhaps can send people all the way to Mars. And for maybe a tenth the price of a Dragon run to LEO.

THAT is transformative. Orders of magnitude more ambitious while being an order of magnitude cheaper per mission. Dragon is still just incremental, although probably a necessary step along that road.

<comment><USER20> > THAT is transformative.

We may argue about what is transformative - first orbital flight, first flight above LEO, first lunar landing and first hand-off of expedition on a space station all are.

From question "do we have progress?" we switched to "do we have big step up or not?". And if you look at achievement during 1960-s, all subsequent steps were incremental over previous, from technological point of view. Yet people managed to do something which wasn't done before - and to have a period in time, roughly 1960-s, when, if you compare what you had before that period and after, you have accumulated achievements which seem like a lot.

Yes it's a lot. Yes it was built on top of what was possible by then - with a lot of efforts during 1960-s. Yes we plan to have similar situations soon :) . However - even though we don't have Starship yet, and no matter if Crew Dragon is needed for that (it is), we still have progress right now.

Only instead comparing years 1960 and 1970, you have to compare 2005 and 2020. Shenzhou was a refined descendant of Soyuz, with corresponding limitations learned later, while Crew Dragon is a clean sheet implementation of what we know about capsule flight, a complex dance of engineering and economy. Discounting it as an insufficiently ambitious is a little like dismissing ITER just because it's not going to support itself economically, so can't be economically scaled.

In other words, I'm not talking about Starship here, focusing on Crew Dragon.

<comment><USER22> It's fair to point out Dragon/F9 is an advanced vehicle that is improving the state of the art after about 50 years of stagnation. The change in sign from negative (stagnation) to strongly positive is worth noting, even if it's relatively incremental vs Starship.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Are those bozos who piloted their boats into the recovery area breaking any laws?

<comment><USER24> No, it's international water and they have every right to be there.

<comment><USER25> Try getting close to a warship in international waters and you'll find that right has some... functional limits, though.

<comment><USER26> Devil's advocating: I did exactly this several times in my sailing career. Military vessels are regulated by the same international laws and rules as all other sea navigation subjects.

Fellow sailor crossed the course of Turkish submarine while under sail (meaning he had a right of passage). It was in Turkey's waters (!) about 10 years ago. Instead of changing course they made an emergency dive exercise.

<comment><USER27> > Instead of changing course they made an emergency five exercise.

It's gotta be fun to have three dimensions of freedom available when making course changes.

But man, I'd freak out if I were on the sailboat watching that happen!

<comment><USER26> Me too! But he is a racer and was ready to do a quick tack just in case.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> Elon as CEO delivering on so many things is pretty amazing. I always think once you are lucky, twice you are good.

<comment><USER29> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell)

<comment><USER30> I'm so sick of this. Yes Gwynne is great, but to deny or downplay that Elon is by far the most important person at the company is just nonsense that she wouldn't even agree with.

I hate to talk against here because she is awesome. But this social trick where everytime SpaceX does anything, the Anti-Elon crowed have to truck out the 'actually its all the enlighted levelheaded female president' not the 'nasty meme-obscessed man child asshole' is actually responsable for all the success argument, its so fucking tiered and inaccurate.

You didn't go there fully but the amount of people who argue that SpaceX achieves what it does despite Elon is just stagering. People seem to believe any bullshit if it confirms their bias.

Again, I love Gwynne she is great and so are others who work at SpaceX now or have done in the past. They achieve what they do as a team, at the same time its no question who leads the team, who makes the most important choices, who owns and controls the company.

<comment><USER31> I actually like to use Gwynne Shotwell as a great example between Tesla and SpaceX.

There's no doubt that Elon is gifted from the engineering and vision side. But Gwynne is the one that actually (paraphrasing her words) turns his seemingly crazy vision into an actual project with milestones and how to get there. I think they complement each other really well.

You can see how much of a mess Tesla is, without having someone like that to complement Elon's skills. SpaceX (also because of the domain) seems like it is run by a grownup.

Tesla on the other hand seems like it's run by a bunch of people who excel at the tough engineering challenges (contrast the cars themselves with the service experience), but have less interest in the easier stuff (running a well stocked service center). Look at the way they confusingly change pricing so often.

Tesla needs an Elon Musk but they badly need a Gwynne Shotwell.

<comment><USER30> > You can see how much of a mess Tesla is

Based on what objective metric?

<comment><USER31> Numerous manufacturing delays, the dismal perception of their service centers (I'm a part of Tesla owner groups and nothing gets people riled up like talking about their service experiences), the constantly changing prices, the consistently missed deadlines.

Let me be clear. I own a Model 3, and I love it. I also own Tesla stock. And I cheer when their sales go up.

My criticism is from wanting them to be better. They've got all the really difficult stuff right (the car is amazing, comfortable, and we all love it). It's the easy stuff that's "boring grown up stuff of running a business" where they need a lot of help.

<comment><USER30> > Numerous manufacturing delays

SpaceX has that and they have Gwynne. So do pretty much all other car manufactures, specifically with electric cars.

Having great service while scaling is insanely difficult. Just having some other influentual manager is not gone magically solve that incredibly difficult problem.

Overall the company has been anything but messy, rather they have been executing pretty well, better then most people expected.

<comment><USER31> For what it's worth, I feel they are also doing things that are tougher than most other companies. And actually moving the industry forward in some ways.

I don't know what people expected but I expect them to miss deadlines with the harder stuff where they're trailblazers (like autopilot).

But building a reliable car is largely a solved problem. Even Elon has admitted they over engineered the manufacturing before they had to just use more people.

<comment><USER30> Tesla had issues with manufacturing, like everybody. That is why there are not more car companies. But they have mastered this and massively improved each generations, go look at the tear down of the 3 and the Y. They have managed to make China Model 3 cheaper and have achieved pretty good margin.

They continue to innovate and have been strategically investing in becoming a battery provider and building and expanding factories in all the important markets.

And building EV at good margin is defiantly not a solved problem.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER32> SpaceX is a hopeful story in today's time

<comment><USER33> Can anyone share why they are "inspired" by these events? Honest question.

With all of the real problems occurring on Earth today, I cannot help but feel this is just ego-driven madness. The time, resources, and energy being poured into such projects could have been spent building a better world for us today --with results that we could (and would) see in our lifetimes.

Instead, are we merely spread humanity across the galaxy in centuries to come --if at all? For what purpose?

<comment><USER34> I'll explain why I downvoted you. Basically, I feel the exact opposite. I've been a been depressed of late with the feeling that America can't really _do_ much anymore. The pandemic made clear that what feels like simple things, like producing sufficient quantities of PPE, are simply out of reach as a nation. This is just one example in a long list of problems (climate change, mass shootings, healthcare, etc.) that I feel like the US is not equipped to address.

But SpaceX gives me hope that we _can_ actually do "big things" again. On the contrary, with all the other problems on Earth, this launch gives me _more_ hope that we can tackle some of those problems. I mean, it's not like the resources that go into launching space ships would just shift into, I don't know, school lunches or something.

I think this is especially relevant to the HN crowd, where a common lament that all the technical wizardry of silicon valley got us over the past 20+ years was smartphones and facebook, but not real "hard" problems. Feels inspiring to see there are companies out there that can really address things that really are rocket science.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> "NASA team, thanks for flying SpaceX"

They forgot to add "For our frequent flyer program members, your mileage accounts will be updated in next 24 to 48 hours"

Also: "Seats are spacious, entertainment system is top notch, big screens, good internet connection except during descent. After landing they didn't open the exit for half an hour. Good food. Overall 4/5, would recommend".

</comment><comment><USER35> As a Russian-American this doubly pleases me. As a Russian I have found Rogozin's "trampoline" comment distasteful, and I think they should fund Roscosmos much better and come up with new stuff instead of relying on 40 year old Soviet designs. Now they might. And as an American, I'm in awe of the fact that SpaceX is possible in this day and age when companies live and die for quarterly profits and internet advertising is considered to be a respectable thing to do, and I especially love that a private company is running circles around bloated government bureaucracies and ULA that's feeding from that money pit.

</comment><comment><USER36> Great speech by Elon afterwards. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3J-muBiVQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3J-muBiVQ)

</comment><comment><USER37> Does it go from Crew Dragon to Crewed Dragon when it's occupied, or is that a typo?

<comment><AUTHOR> > _Does it go from Crew Dragon to Crewed Dragon when it 's occupied, or is > that a typo?_

Autocorrect typo. Fixed. Thank you.

<comment><USER37> I'm actually kind of sad, I would have liked that as a convention.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER38> Congrats to the NASA and SpaceX teams. Awesome public/private partnership!

</comment><comment><USER32> I'm now wondering what the maiden 'success' voyage of The Boring Company would be...

Would they have to dig 100 miles in a day or something to show the world something as impressive? Thoughts?

</comment><comment><USER39> My partner and I are convinced we could hear the splashdown in sync with the visual.

If that was real, how? (340 m/s)

If the sound wasn't real, what was it?

<comment><USER40> You don't see real-time, delay is added, and there is sound sync, they may have delayed the image so the sound is synced

</comment></comment><comment><USER41> A great triumph for private industry and the privatization of space exploration!!!

</comment><comment><USER42> Why bother with a helicopter? How far is the recovery boat from Pensacola?

<comment><USER9> It allows them to go straight to the airfield, where a jet will be waiting to take them immediately to Houston. They have facilities as JSC specifically for evaluating and managing returning astronauts.

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> Holy cow. This feels so surreal. I don't think things will stop feeling this way, and I don't really want them too.

I still can't believe the moon landing was only fifty years ago.

<comment><USER44> 50 years to get from "the moon" to "low earth orbit but cheaper" isn't that impressive in the grand scheme of things.

<comment><USER45> The Wright flyer to Apollo 11 was about 60 years, for reference.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER46> SpaceX is a no nonsense execution machine. Kudos engineers. You make us proud.

</comment><comment><USER47> I hope SpaceX officials and astronauts get a fete at the White House. In the old pre-virus-gathering days they might have merited a parade. Although I dont like the current occupant of the White House, I do like their interest in space.

</comment><comment><USER48> imagine being stuffed in those seats for 19 hours.

<comment><USER49> What if you have to pee or a number two?

<comment><USER50> It's not the most glamorous fact, but astronauts have diapers

<comment><USER51> True, though Crew Dragon also has a "washroom". (likely acts more like a vacuum than anything though)

<comment><USER25> It's reportedly dubbed the "Commode O' Dragon", which I find greatly entertaining.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> Has the crew exited the module?

<comment><USER25> Yes, they're exiting now.

[https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290016670287765505](https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290016670287765505)

[https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290017288729407488](https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290017288729407488)

<comment><USER19> Phew - glad to see them come out safely!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER52> Private vessels in the vincinity of the capsule, one waving a Trump flag? WTF.

[https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290001444968505344/ph...](https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1290001444968505344/photo/1)

<comment> matt-attack What's honestly wrong with that? If I owned a boat in the area, I would have though to cruise out take a look. What exactly would be the problem?

<comment><USER53> It's a dynamic rescue operation so you could easily end up in the way. It's also a space ship so there's toxic fuel and gasses involved.

So lots of obvious problems and probably a few more that are less obvious.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER54> It looks like billionaires are the most effective way to deploy resources in today's world. Spacex and Jio are great examples.

<comment><USER21> Don't forget WeWork

<comment><USER55> And Theranos. And Enron. And Lehman Brothers. And Bernie Madoff.

<comment><USER54> Exactly my point, we need actual billionaires in control.

<comment><USER56> Elon was only worth ~150 million dollars when he started SpaceX. Obviously he should have stepped aside and waited for Bezos to do it.

<comment><USER57> Jeff would have barely qualified, as he was only worth ~$1.5B in 2002, when SpaceX was started.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER58> Is this also how they're going to have people come back from Mars? Seems like a very inefficient method, with the parachutes and all...

<comment><USER25> No, Starship is designed to return to land using rockets.

<comment><USER59> In theory the Dragon could be too, but it was much faster and cheaper to have it splash down with parachutes instead.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER60> First: That's absolutely fantastic. Congratulations to everyone, etc.

Second:

I'm a bit disturbed that they are using Chromium + some javascript framework as the UI layer in the Crew Dragon.

There was a sequence when Bob and Doug were debugging the local UI layer. I guess it was a good thing that didn't happen at a critical part of the flight.

Edit: And I write this having spent 10 years working in a browser company in an engineering/engineering management role. I believe I have a decent understanding of the risks.

Going with a browser-based UI for something as critical as this is insane, IMHO.

<comment><USER61> Browsers are the new operating system. This trend is only going to become more ubiquitous over time.

<comment><USER36> It's not used as an operating system, only as a GUI.</comment></comment></comment>