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st0le··on That XOR Trick (2020)
Another fun trick I've discovered.

`XOR[0...n] = 0 ^ 1 .... ^ n = [n, 1, n + 1, 0][n % 4]`

st0le··on Show HN: Anyquery – A SQL query engine for anything (CSV, GitHub, Airtable,etc.)
This is an amazing idea! Love it.
st0le··on Ask HN: YouTube keeps switching watch history back on
Did you happen to enable "recommendations" in Youtube Mobile App? That would implicitly enable it. I don't have Trending/Shorts because its disabled.
st0le··on Deno Cron
https://sentry.io/welcome/ ?
st0le··on Show HN: Jwt.is – JSON Web Token Debugger
also https://jwt.ms (fully client side, hosted by Microsoft)
st0le··on Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete
IIRC They were acquired by Amazon. They have a paid offering for shared team environments.
st0le··on Show HN: Launched my side project, an online code compiler
The python code sample starts off with C/C++ style comments.
st0le··on Ask HN: HN App for iOS
I use Starling.[1]

[1] https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/starling-for-hn/id1386611974)

st0le··on Show HN: PingQuick – Turn your Python function into an API
No idea how to call the api.
st0le··on Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline
Ultimate plumber can do this.

https://github.com/akavel/up

st0le··on Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline
`gum choose --no-limit`

https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

st0le··on CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library
Also since ripgrep is already installed "grep -v" can be replaced with "rg -v"
st0le··on Show HN: Webhooks That Email You
Reminds me a of a short lived project websocket.email. Instead of webhook, you could listen on websocket for emails. Might be a Pro feature for your project.

https://github.com/websocket-email (there's no server anymore, but client lives on GH)

st0le··on Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says
There's a Black Mirror episode with this plot.
st0le··on Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses
I had this idea to basically have the Budgeting app look at the notifications on my phone or emails from the bank to parse the transactions details automatically.

On iOS if an app exposes a Shortcut, I could setup a Shortcut Automation to automatically add an expense when a new email from my bank shows up. Would need some REGEX or LLM ;)

st0le··on Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
Is there a similar tool that can trigger a command when the output of command changes or the stdout has some kind of string?

I understand this is shell script territory, but a cross-platform tool would be ideal.

st0le··on Show HN: Processing Nginx Logs with Python
The GeoIP provider seems to provide a batch API. You can query upto a 100 IPs in a single request.
st0le··on Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
One of my most common workflow is I copy the name of a "resource" and have to type out some diagnostic queries.

So I have espanso trigger on a shortcut and autofill queries with the clipboard being used as a placeholder.

st0le··on Show HN: I built vanishdb.com which lets you create a sandbox DB with one click
Quick Feedback. Have a button to download the whole form as a json or dotenv file.
st0le··on Show HN: Loop, run a command in loop and nothing else
Someone had the same idea and name :)

https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop

st0le··on Show HN: WebReducer – micro event sourcing cloud function
This is pretty nice. Doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

- Do you get what it is?

It's a tiny serverless nodejs platform that comes baked in with a global state store. Supports updates via websockets as well.

- What would you use it for?

If I had to use this for home automation, perhaps have it remember if the "light was on or off" to get toggle functionality to something that doesn't have it.

Reminds me of napkin.io except for the websocket endpoint.

st0le··on Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
https://www.visidata.org/
st0le··on Ask HN: Fun and unexpected applications of Computer Science?
I find animated sorting algorithms and game solvers (maze solving , tic tac toe , sliding puzzles ) using search algorithms fun to watch.
st0le··on PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
Fair warning to everyone reading this. Listary is now effectively abandonware.
st0le··on Is this the simplest sorting algorithm?
Did you see the inequality sign?
st0le··on Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#
Thank you for your work. I definitely think it's much better than most solutions out there. I was exploring trying to get it to work with espanso[1] (also written in Rust) but haven't had much time.

[1]: https://espanso.org/

st0le··on Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written entirely in C#
Used to use FZ but it relies on the user to move windows around. More of a passive window manager.

I've been using komorebi[1] but it's rather clunky with the ahk dependency. I'll have to try Glaze and give it a spin.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

st0le··on Ask HN: Is Google Down for You?
Yes.
st0le··on Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
Fun fact: Powershell 5.1 has a `Convert-String`[1] cmdlet that is a Flash Fill implementation for CLI. You can do these inferences in Command Line.

[1]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

st0le··on Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools
Does a Task mean a Task Config or Task Run/Execution?

Does the free-tier come with an "executions" limit?

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