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Show HN: I've been building this thing http://ift.tt/2tsD2YY

Show HN: I've been building this thing ...it's an image proxy that does on-the-fly image processing for animated GIFs. This is the site: http://ift.tt/2ursBSF And here are docs with examples: • http://ift.tt/2ttF4rJ • http://ift.tt/2s9H1pC • http://ift.tt/2ts6AWY • http://ift.tt/2s9PRn6 • http://ift.tt/2tsoxV7 • http://ift.tt/2s9JgZU (my favorite) • etc. etc. What do you guys think about the whole thing? I would love some feedback before I open it to signups. Does it look OK? Would you ever use such a service? What could I improve? June 30, 2017 at 09:55PM
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Launch HN: Feather (YC S17), painless furniture rental for people who move a lot http://ift.tt/2s5TOtj

Launch HN: Feather (YC S17), painless furniture rental for people who move a lot Feather ( https://rentfeather.com ) is a furniture rental company, setting out to provide stylish, affordable furniture to people and startups that move frequently. I've moved 5 times in 6 years living in New York, and each time I spent an overwhelming amount of time at IKEA buying, schlepping, and assembling furniture I didn't exactly want. And at the end of each lease, I found myself with furniture that didn't travel well to my new apartment, and often had to scrap it, only to return to IKEA again to furnish my new apartment. It was a cycle of buying things I didn't really want, that didn't really last - and I'm sure many of you have gone through the same trouble. That gave me the idea for Feather. Click a few buttons and your furniture is delivered, fully assembled, and placed in the room of your choice. And importantly, when you're ready to move, tap a button and we'll c
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Show HN: Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game http://ift.tt/2s2VzLH

Show HN: Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the AI's threat-weighing algorithm, Completely redid the tutorial system, Added some real basic (and I mean BASIC) "animations", Redid the in-game UI (several times), And most importantly, HUNDREDS OF BUG FIXES. For everybody who didn't see the original thread, Meatshields is a free, online, turn-based strategy
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Launch HN: Kyso – the easiest way to share Jupyter notebooks (YCSS) http://ift.tt/2sTjBZ8

Launch HN: Kyso – the easiest way to share Jupyter notebooks (YCSS) Hi HN, We're the founders of https://kyso.io We want to make it really easy to share data-science within teams, and we've started with Jupyter notebooks. We render the notebooks really nicely, so you can embed interactive visualisations like Bokeh, and Plotly plots. Another nice thing is we allow you to hide the code for non-technical readers, so you basically get a beautiful data blog. Look at https://kyso.io/laura/ for some examples. We really want to hear your feedback, let us know what you think! June 20, 2017 at 11:38PM
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Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours of Time http://ift.tt/2tFshPK

Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours of Time Hey! I’m Blaine from Solve ( https://www.solve.com ) and we're in YC's current batch. We save international travelers hours of time by greeting them at their arrival gate, expediting the immigration/customs process, and making sure they're safely in their vehicle heading to their destination. We’re available in nearly 500 airports around the world, and we help with departures and connections too. Our service sounds like it'd be expensive, but it is actually quite reasonable for someone who's already traveling internationally. For instance, our service for two people arriving in London costs $225 and in Hong Kong it costs $210. It's about $75/person from there. Many of our clients are business travelers and families, but we can help anyone who values their time and/or wants some extra assistance getting through the airport. I stumbled upon this idea when a friend and I were flying from Seou
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Show HN: Interview with Vincent Chen (writer of YC's Post “How to Get into VR”) http://ift.tt/2siAzPq

Show HN: Interview with Vincent Chen (writer of YC's Post “How to Get into VR”) Last week, we got a chance to interview Vincent Chen, project lead at Rabbit Hole and writer of the YC blog post "How to get into VR" ( http://ift.tt/2pIjA8w ). Was amazing to get his thoughts about his past work and future plans in the VR space. Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/hhGoqVI6_6o?t=90 * Our green screen started glitching a little bit of the way through, but we think the content is still super valuable. June 19, 2017 at 08:54PM
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Show HN: Lost Ethereum http://ift.tt/2spXoPM

Show HN: Lost Ethereum Hi guys, I've written the first proof-of-mistake crypto token on top of Ethereum. You can see it at http://ift.tt/2tgDZ3N It's basically a proof-of-burn substitute for users who mistakenly sent to the wrong address. It requires a web3 enabled browser, i.e chome with MetaMask, Parity, Mist, etc. This let's the web interface seamlessly interact with the Ethereum network. Let me know what you guys think. June 19, 2017 at 02:26AM
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Dota 2 TI7 Immortal Treasure II 2017 chest opening (With all rares!) [Gi...

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Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go http://ift.tt/2rsdDyt

Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go Hey HN! I’m Derek of Py ( http://ift.tt/2sAyOyf ). Py is an education app for iOS and Android that teaches topics like app development, building websites and data science. We're in the current YC batch. My co-founder Will and I have been friends since high school. We've been frustrated for a long time with the way existing learning platforms teach coding. They tend to be one-size-fits-all solutions that don't make learning to code a fun experience. Also, most platforms don't personalize content based on a user's prior skill level or behavior within the product. We think personalizing content is key. We customize the content that users see and make it game-like to encourage people to spend more time on concepts they’re struggling with. We also believe that interactivity is super important. Rather than passively watching a video, we want users to engage with the content. I’ve found from personal experience that I’ll wat
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Show HN: Top HN articles in human-read podcast format http://ift.tt/2rdglnh

Show HN: Top HN articles in human-read podcast format Hi HN, Like many of you, I found myself discovering dozens of great posts on HN and never actually finding the time read them. I used to save every cool link to Pocket, but… well… same story — I rarely found the time to read them. So I thought it'd be great to listen to the top articles, the same way I listen to podcasts. Initially, I tried out narrating articles with latest text-to-speech synthesis from Amazon and Google, but it was still pretty bad. Especially with long form content. So I thought I'll do this with real humans, real voice actors. So I made ReadByHumans. [1] We are starting out by narrating top articles from HN and some longer cryptocurrency white-papers. Giving away 3 top articles from last week and we’ll be sending one more audio article weekly. In future and at scale, we’d love to narrate any article or a document, on demand and with only a few hours turnaround time. Would love your feedback! What type of
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Show HN: I made my first product demo video http://ift.tt/2s1e8ib

Show HN: I made my first product demo video I'm a Product Designer for Nudge Rewards in Toronto and have created my first product demo. From Sketch, to Origami, to Final Cut Pro and everything in between. Anyon e willing to take a quick look and give me feedback? Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KB_MkvhPk June 9, 2017 at 03:04AM
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Launch HN: Hermes (YC S17) – We help improve online-dating conversations http://ift.tt/2rtMjhY

Launch HN: Hermes (YC S17) – We help improve online-dating conversations Hi HN, we are the founders of Hermes, a company that provides reliable, affordable, and instant dating/relationship advice for any situation. We started Hermes because it’s the resource we wish we had years ago. The two of us had that sinking feeling in our early 20s that we’d missed our best opportunity to date because while everyone seemed to have thriving dating lives in high school and college, we were preoccupied by more “nerdy” endeavors. Having focused on career at an early age, we were relatively clueless about dating. We spent years dissecting dating and learning the skills piece by piece, like it was an engineering problem. The skills and confidence eventually clicked for us. We discovered rules we could follow to help us navigate the messy world of modern dating. Looking back, we saw no reason why it had to be a grueling 10-year process. We started blogging about texting techniques and Lior coached dati
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Show HN: Ask anyone for book recommendations or give one http://ift.tt/2ryHty5

Show HN: Ask anyone for book recommendations or give one I'm a regular visitor of books-related subs on Reddit and my fomo regarding an excellent book goes out of control whenever I see related threads on HN. I've noticed that a lot of people want book recommendations but they don't want the "best" books in a field. They are looking for something that falls in their area of reading interest and something similar to what they've read earlier and liked. --> In the absence of any context of what a person has been reading, it becomes difficult to recommend a book to him. --> On the other hand, if I know someone likes reading biographies, my first reaction on discovering a great biography is to either message them about the book or try to "sell them the idea" of reading this book. Both the approaches are easily forgotten. So to make asking for book suggestions easy, I've added this feature on ShelfJoy, called Recommend a book. Now, you can simpl
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Show HN: Objective-Reinforced GANs http://ift.tt/2rwgMKy

Show HN: Objective-Reinforced GANs A new GAN is in town! A combination of RL + Generative Adversarial Networks that lets you specify objectives for generating data. For example: "I'd like my generated poems to have fancier words" or "I'd like my generated molecules to have higher solubility." Define simple rewards and ORGAN biases the generative model for you. arXiv: http://ift.tt/2rzcjJb GitHub: http://ift.tt/2qSyYfu June 3, 2017 at 11:18PM
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