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szafranekon Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://www.libib.com/. It comes with a mobile app that has a barcode scanner with an option for manual entry.

Yes, some older books, especially in languages other than English, are not in its database, leaving you with the manual option, but it will let you index the books that are there in no time.

szafranekon How does a relational database work? (2017)

All I see is: "Error establishing a database connection".

Is it some terribly ironic post?

szafranekon Scientists Release Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in High-Security Lab

You may find the details of how this works in the original paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245

szafranekon How Raganwald Lost His Crown

Probably another typo: "planet our side" -> "planet our size"?

Also, this is a beautiful piece of writing! I love it.

szafranekon Show HN: News from Reddit

Cool idea!

At the moment I can't see how old are the items – I really miss dates.

Also, pagination with Next/Prev buttons is ambiguous. Replacing the labels with Older/Newer would make it clear, in which direction in the timeline I'm moving.

I very much like the summaries. It would be great if they had unique URLs. This way I could share the URL of the story summary.