Friday, January 24, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Snap Scope – Visualize Lens Focal Length Distribution from EXIF Data

Show HN: Snap Scope – Visualize Lens Focal Length Distribution from EXIF Data
5 by kan02134 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I built this tool because I wanted to understand which focal lengths I actually use when taking photos. It's a web app that analyzes EXIF data to visualize focal length distribution patterns. While it's admittedly niche (focused specifically on photography), I think it could be useful for photographers trying to understand their lens usage patterns or making decisions about lens purchases. Features: Client-side EXIF data processing (no server uploads/tracking) / Handles thousands of photos at once / Clean visualization with shareable summaries This tool supports most RAW formats, but you might occasionally encounter files where EXIF extraction fails. In such cases, converting to more common formats like JPEG usually resolves the issue. Try it out: https://ift.tt/og5Vif7 Source: https://ift.tt/4UMuYya

Thursday, January 23, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
44 by t4t | 15 comments on Hacker News.
A year ago I surveyed the internet and noticed there was only one popular space for trans and gender-non-conforming people to meet; Lex. Lex is not well liked by its users. Its software feels heavy and it is full of cash grabs and anti-patterns. It was recently acquired and is sure to only become more hostile to its users as it turns towards profit generation. With this in mind I built t4t, an alternative specially designed for not only queer people, but specifically trans people. It is an extremely lightweight service. I built it with my most ideal stack: Flutter, Svelte, Supabase, Posthog. It has grown in the last year to about 4,000 monthly active users. I think it could grow way beyond that this year.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: SudokuVariants – play and construct different variants of Sudoku

Show HN: SudokuVariants – play and construct different variants of Sudoku
8 by stanac | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I've been working on this Sudoku web app for the past couple of years, on and off during free weekends and afternoons. I started working on it because I was bored during COVID, and Cracking the Cryptic had just become popular on YouTube, which got me wondering how hard it could be to make a Sudoku app. The main idea is for the app to understand the constraints and know how to solve Sudoku grids (and not just be a simple Sudoku drawing/playing app). When it comes to classic Sudoku, the solver doesn't support anything more complicated than X-Wing, but it understands the constraints. At the moment, most of the popular variants are supported: killer, sandwich, arrow, thermo, palindrome, German whisper, kropki, consecutive, non-consecutive, greater than, XV, diagonal, anti-king, anti-knight, even-odd, windoku, renban, and zipper. The only variant I am yet to add support for is quadruple. If any other variant becomes popular, I will probably add it, as was the case with zipper lines during development. A user account is not required to play, but it is required if you want to publish a public grid on the app. The app doesn't collect any PII, doesn't have ads or trackers. Accounts are identified by email hash; I am not storing email addresses or passwords, and OTPs are sent by email. The less I know about users, the better for both sides. The app supports mobile devices, but it works best on bigger screens. It was built using Blazor SSR/WASM (AOT) with SVG for interactive parts. I know there are some performance issues (especially on mobile phones and with touch input), and I am trying to address them. Some of the features I was thinking about adding are classifying grids by difficulty, daily Sudoku, and maybe campaigns (groups of Sudoku grids where users have to solve them in order). If you like Sudoku, or more specifically variants of Sudoku, please let me know what you think about SudokuVariants. URL: https://ift.tt/SDi1UaP Thanks!