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Show HN: I've built a child monitoring app with mitmproxy and WireGuard Hi! I've been working on a child monitoring service and I'd really appreciate your input on it. The structure of the service is pretty technically interesting. It sets up a wireguard VPN on the child's Windows account, and then routes the traffic to our server. From there, we use mitmproxy to break open the TLS, inspect the packets, and then re-encrypt them. Currently all images are passed through an ImageNetV2 model, and for sites like reddit or google, individual links/communities are analyzed and we remove the content if it violates the filters without impacting the overall browsing experience. Coming soon(ish) will be a 8B uncensored llama3 model, which will allow parents to create custom filters for filtering content. I've always felt like child monitoring systems are missing the bigger picture when it comes to content filtering. I certainly remember being a little kid (9-ish) and coming ac...

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Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website: https://docmost.com Github: https://ift.tt/PGgmCso Documentation: https://ift.tt/SH8iUWg I would love to hear your feedback. Thank you. https://ift.tt/PGgmCso June 29, 2024 at 10:57PM

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Show HN: Tool to grow your Threads following by crossposting your tweets If you’re active on Twitter and want to build up your Threads presence, this tool that I am building might help What it'll do: * Automatically copy and post your tweets to Threads using the approved APIs. * Super easy to set up and use https://crosspo.st Please join the waitlist / comment here if interested. Thanks https://crosspo.st June 28, 2024 at 11:13PM

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Show HN: Dorkly: Open Source Feature Flags Dorkly is a free open source Feature Flag backend for LaunchDarkly SDKs. It uses simple yaml files stored in GitHub as the source of truth. Full disclosure: made by a former LaunchDarkly employee + current fan. https://ift.tt/F4bz1Q0 June 26, 2024 at 10:58AM

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Show HN: Git Is Coming to Puter, "The Internet OS" https://ift.tt/okcOQ3y June 26, 2024 at 10:52PM

Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour I 3d scanned the Tomb of Nefertari and am building this guided virtual tour, trying to bring in photogrammetry of artifacts that I've made at various museums. It crashes sometimes still on mobile devices. I wasn't able to take photogrammetry photos of the artifacts from the tomb in the Museo Egizio in Turin because they were traveling while I was there (and now the museum is closed to install a new roof anyhow), so I tried to include comparanda from other museums where I had scanned artifacts. I tested the same dataset with 3d Gaussian Splatting but that had lower resolution results for great complexity in frontend code and reduced performance on older devices. [3DGS tour: https://ift.tt/rpMI2a6... ] Moving forward, if anyone's working on the same idea, I didn't find a good path to monetization through web-based 3d content, so I'll take the high resolution photogrammetry of spaces into Unreal and switch to d...

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Show HN: JobBoardBox – One stop shop for job boards worldwide https://ift.tt/BywKc64 June 22, 2024 at 11:56PM

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Show HN: Feedback on Sketch Colourisation Hi I am looking for some feedback on our new project "Sketch Colourisation". The envisioned UI and objectives are -- * An artist should have greater control on how to colour a sketch. While a text-to-image model lacks this fine-grained control, a per-pixel colourisation pipeline makes sketch colourisation a laborious process with high-entry barrier. * What if an artist only draws a mask for a local region and specifies the colour palette for that local region? Then a neural network figures out how to colour the overall sketch -- while maintaining those local colour palette. [I would really like a feedback if the above UI (i.e., mask and local colour palette) makes sense to users/designers. As researchers, we often have the wrong idea of what is desired by end-users.] * On the exact implementation of the above concept, we designed a no-training based neural network framework -- and also make sure it runs on a Nvidia 4090. In other word...

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Show HN: I made the world's first bilingual job board https://ift.tt/w7vglkC June 19, 2024 at 11:12PM

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Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space Hello HN! Here's Billard. It combines music and physics into a unique creative tool, as I explore various unconventional methods for generating music. Most traditional music composition tools revolve around the idea of a repeatable pattern. Billard is a webapp that never repeats itself. It generates music automatically based on the collisions of balls in a 2D space. Collisions trigger notes (or chords) in a given key. One can add balls or move them (y-position is pitch); the app remembers its state between reloads; or it can be reset with the 'init' button on the top left. Gravity can be adjusted in real time to change the behavior of the balls. It owes a lot of inspiration to Brian Eno and Erik Satie (inventor of musique d'ameublement , or "furniture music"). Some may think the lack of pattern makes it not musical enough -- but this lets it be listened to —and watched— for a while without bore...

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Show HN: Papermusic (draw an instrument, then play it) This was a fun experiment to try PaliGemma (open vision-language model). I found that PaliGemma performed better than Gemini Flash for this type of specific image task, especially around latency. (~0.9 seconds for PaliGemma inference on a VM, vs. 3-4 seconds for Gemini Flash.) Would love feedback on ways to potentially improve this setup. https://ift.tt/QDIFYBb June 17, 2024 at 09:56PM

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Show HN: b2v.xyz – Protection against impersonation attacks Hi HN, I’m the founder of https://b2v.xyz , a service that protects organizations against impersonation attacks. The problem I’m trying to solve stems from the following observation: while end-user authentication methods are becoming more advanced as cybersecurity evolves, organizations aren't experiencing the same improvements when we reverse the roles, i.e. when organizations authenticate themselves to their users. This imbalance leaves a gap in secure communications that B2V aims to close. Bad actors have countless ways to pose as trusted entities — through phishing, smishing, vishing, and more. These catchy terms may sound trendy, but the technology to combat them often lags behind. While some larger companies do offer some customised solutions such as in-app notifications, most approaches are still reactive, such as updating email filters after an attack is detected or requesting takedowns of fake domains long after t...

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Show HN: Searchable Kubernetes CSI provider listing https://ift.tt/5BhtPKN June 17, 2024 at 12:35AM

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Show HN: I Made a Project Management Software for Freelancers After about 2 months of coding and many late nights I just finished building this simple project management tool that I designed to be specifically for freelancers. Tell me what you think, I am trying to get better at building with NextJS, thank you for any feedback. There is a 10 day free trial if you want to buy it outright. I made this as I didn't like the other tools out there and thought about how the tool could be specialised for freelancers. https://ift.tt/ldEbHW8 June 16, 2024 at 12:05AM

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Show HN: ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress https://ift.tt/Xg3evnB June 11, 2024 at 10:49PM

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Show HN: Hexbase – Find colors based on perceived difference I created this tool to help choose and remix colors with precision. Input reference colors, adjust their weights, and get suggestions as similar or different as you need. Differences are calculated using the CIE ΔE* metric. One use case could be finding a primary brand color aligned with your brand values but distinct from competitors. Thanks for taking a look! I hope it sparks some ideas. It’d be great to hear thoughts & feedback. https://ift.tt/gwpihVZ June 3, 2024 at 09:04PM

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Show HN: Chess Twist I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess. Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information. From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling. It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another. https://ift.tt/eKbzt8C June 1, 2024 at 02:11AM

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