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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set

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Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set
17 by bmalicoat | 6 comments on Hacker News.
My friend and I just finished this project last week. I'd love to hear your feedback. widget.json brings a dynamic window to the web to your device's home screen. It's kind of like RSS for widgets, you make a widget.json for whatever web data you want and then subscribe to it in Widget Construction Set, our iOS widget.json viewer. We've made image of the day and word of the day widgets, Youtube channel widgets that show the latest videos, RSS widgets, Prometheus counter widgets and more. You can imagine a GitHub CI widget showing the last build status with a link to view it. Friend groups could make a shared scratch pad of text and images. Househoulds can make a shared TODO or grocery list widget. Widgets can use local device launch schemes which enables widgets to initiate text messages, calls, emails, shortcuts apps, and more. With this, you can make a widget that shows images of your favorite people and when you tap their image it FaceTimes them. If you're worried about Twitter, you could even make your own one-way Twitter replacement where your text and images show up on your followers home screen! Ideally, sites add a widget.json feed alongside their RSS feed. widget.json files have a one-click subscribe link to easily add them to Widget Construction Set. This gives sites and creators a simple, direct connection to their users without the need of building a separate app or having their users remember to visit their site. For Patreon or other user-supported creators, they can offer private widgets that are only granted to their supporters. We couldn't figure a way to make a business on this, but we liked what the technology enabled so we're releasing it all for free, with the exception of a one-time $2.99 purchase to view private widgets. Though since the widget.json format is open, if $2.99 is too steep, people are free to make their own private widget viewer as well. Widget Construction Set: https://ift.tt/4PhUzO7...

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better

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Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
25 by phgn | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone! In the last months I've been working on Unclutter, a modern reader mode browser extension. In contrast to all existing approaches, it unclutters articles by modifying their CSS instead of extracting the text content. This results in a more visually pleasing result that reuses the original article style. The idea is to remove friction so you use the reader mode more often. There are a few more features around saving articles automatically and taking highlights -- more details are on the website. The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, mostly from organic web store traffic. Monetisation has proven to be hard and for freemium there would need to be much higher numbers anyways. Do you think I should keep working on the project?

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old?

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Ask HN: Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old?
19 by taubek | 14 comments on Hacker News.
Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old? Here is direct link - it says 1 hour old https://ift.tt/KvxtUj2 And in list of my submits I can see that I've submitted link two days ago https://ift.tt/P2H0AOZ Title of my submit is Service Resilience — part 1: Startup Technology

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?

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Ask HN: Does GDPR and CCPA Apply to Hacker News?
39 by corette | 35 comments on Hacker News.
Hacker News refuses to delete public comments or submissions even when users request that they do so. HN says it may consider deleting specific comments if a user emails them and explains why a specific comment or submissions should be removed. Isn't this a clear violation of GDPR and CCPA? HN will anonymize usernames, but that does not remove personally identifying links or data from comments and submissions. Will this ever change? Will it ever be possible for a user to be completely deleted from HN (remove all comments and submissions)?

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A GitHub business card generator

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Show HN: A GitHub business card generator
30 by scastiel | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I built this small app for fun, to play with image generation thanks to Vercel’s new library [1]. You enter your GitHub username (or anyone’s), and it generates an image with a few info about your account. [1] https://ift.tt/WQyuaev...

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation

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Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation
28 by ritinkar | 9 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever. It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself. Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system. Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage. Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. Thanks.

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New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving

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Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
291 by michaeltimo | 21 comments on Hacker News.
It's been a month that Jadi (real name: Amir Emad Mirmirani), an Iranian geek, has been imprisoned in Iran's most notorious prison called Evin in Tehran. In Iran, he is one of the most famous people active in the field of programming and computer education. In his personal blog[0], he has been writing about technology and society for years. He has also a YouTube channel[1][2] to teach and encourage Iranians to programming and Linux, and a podcast[3] that has been explaining technology and science news along with his comments for several years. All this in a country with a dictatorial government where standing in the right place has a heavy price. His arrest occurred on October 5, a few days after the recent nationwide protests[4] began in Iran. Arrest at home with beating. The reason for this is not yet clear, but it is probably due to his efforts to increase awareness of the society about Iran's internet censorship system, and his positions against a company called ArvanCloud. Many claim this company help the government of Iran in implementing the internet censorship's system (something like Great Firewall of China). In Jadi's own words, this company has made it possible for the government to turn the Internet into an intranet at any moment and block people's access to international services. Something that happens in every demonstration in Iran including right now. The reason I am writing here is to raise awareness about him, which may lead to his release. All this may be nothing more than a false hope, but it is what I can do. From the news he covered in his podcast, it could be guessed that he is one of the regular readers of Hacker News. Perhaps hearing your support here will boost his morale behind bars in Evin. The prison which is also known as Evin University due to the number of educated political prisoners [5]. [0](Persian) https://jadi.net/ [1](Persian) https://www.youtube.com/jadimirmirani [2](English) https://www.youtube.com/geekingjadi [3](Persian) https://ift.tt/rdazbuG [4] https://ift.tt/BNPoV2H [5] https://ift.tt/lCHafTb

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization

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Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization
10 by rishabhpoddar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at https://supertokens.com (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization. Our users are web developers, and a prominent and adjacent pain point for our users is authorization. Developers typically implement two independent solutions for authentication and authorization. Offering AuthN and AuthZ in a single solution is something we’ve been thinking about for the last few years. Quick primer, authentication is knowing who the user is, and authorization is knowing what the user has access to. A physical analogy: A person enters a building. Authentication means reading their ID card and knowing that the person’s name is John. Authorization means knowing which floors, offices, and files John has access to. With increasing privacy and data complexity, companies like Netflix[1], Slack[2], and Airbnb[3] have built out their own complex authorization systems. To build our user roles product, we started with a first principles approach of covering authorization use cases using scripting languages such as XACML and OPA. But looking at existing solutions built by talented teams like Oso[4], Aserto[5], Cerbos[6], Strya[7], we realized that while these were powerful solutions, they were often overkill for most early to mid-stage companies (especially on the B2C side). We went back to the drawing board, reached out to our users and after dozens of conversations, we realized that most authorization needs require the ability to 1. Assign and manage roles and permissions 2. Store roles in the DB and session tokens to make it readable on the frontend and 3. Protect APIs and websites based on these roles and permissions. And so, we built user roles – a simple RBAC authorization service that focuses on the balance between simplicity and utility. It doesn’t cover many complex cases and we’re not looking to displace any of the authorization incumbents. But you can add AuthN and AuthZ using a single solution, quickly. In the near future, we’ll be launching an admin GUI where you can manage your users and their roles with a few clicks. We’d love for you to try it out and hear what additional functionality you’d like to see. What are your favorite authentication providers and what do they get right? - [1]: https://ift.tt/VMbIRSG... - [2]: https://ift.tt/m5lQc98 - [3]: https://ift.tt/DrLW1vu... - [4]: https://www.osohq.com/ - [5]: https://www.aserto.com/ - [6]: https://cerbos.dev/ - [7]: https://www.styra.com/

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a volumetric audio visualizer

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Show HN: I made a volumetric audio visualizer
16 by rslice | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I'm developing Hyperstep[0], a spatial language for music production. I find using existing DAWs frustrating because they don't allow me to navigate and operate intuitively on the latent spaces behind my musical ideas. This is why I've decided to build my own set of "seeing tools".(Bret Victor)[1]. I'm also convinced that by framing music as processes and interactions in the 3D world, spatialization and mixing should become fairly pain-free. I'm still early in development and I would love to build this into an actual product that can be integrated into existing DAWs or even turn it into a musical framework itself for AR and VR experiences. If you're interested in working on it or if you simply want to know more, feel free to contact me. [0] https://ift.tt/JpjXFtG . [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ

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