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cubedesk
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Over Covid, I got really into solving the Rubik’s cube. I couldn’t find any minimalistic apps to help me time myself and learn algorithms. So, I ended up writing an app for myself, which I later showed off on Reddit.
People really seemed to like the design, so I cleaned it up a bit and made it available to everyone. The site (https://cubedesk.io) has been free to use for 3 years and has 50k users.
Most recently, I've been working on an email marketing platform to help me email those 50k users. I noticed that emailing all those people was expensive and tedious, so created and launched https://cc.dev
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Cubedesk or Cstimer?
cubedesk.io
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Idk if this counts but I built myself a Rubik's cube timer and eventually made it public:
https://cubedesk.io
It was a weekend project which I used for several weeks before sharing it on Reddit. The feedback was so good I decided to make it public.
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Tell HN: I got my first open source PR after 5 months
this one? https://github.com/kash/cubedesk/pull/129 by https://github.com/afedotov ?
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://cubedesk.io - the chess.com of Rubik’s cubes
I started this as a side project about two years ago and now it has about 1k daily active users. Users time themselves solving the Rubik’s cube, practice on the trainer, and 1v1 others.
Technically, it’s generating some money from the Pro feature, but not enough to run the servers. So I pay out of pocket every month. It has a lot of fans and supporters so I’d never shut it down, but it’d be nice to at least break even.
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csTimer Data Deleted part 2
or you can export cstimer's solve to a file and import to cubedesk.io instead.
- Show HN: The Lichess.org of Rubik's Cubes
ghidra
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Show HN: A Ghidra extension that turns programs back into object files
[1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/tree/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
I've been working on a specific reverse-engineering technique called _unlinking_ [1] on-and-off for the past 16 months or so. I'm on my third prototype (first a set of Ghidra scripts written in Jython [2], then a fork of Ghidra [3] and now a Ghidra extension [4]) and I've started a blog in order to document it [5], which side-tracked into writing a whole series of articles on reverse-engineering to introduce the topic.
What for, you may ask? Basically I'm trying to decompile a PlayStation 1 video game and I've quickly decided that dealing alone with multiple +500 KiB executables of complete utter spaghetti code wasn't going to work. Instead, I've decided that I'd rather divide-and-conquer the problem, so I've been tooling up to split executables into relocatable object files, in order to decompile those one at a time and _Ship of Theseus_-style my way to success.
Ironically, all of that stuff is so not done that I don't even know what meaningful feedback there could be. My prototypes do work, but only for 32 bit little endian statically-linked MIPS executables. The articles on my blog are draft-quality. As for the decompilation project itself that started all of this, it hasn't seen much progress due to all of those side-quests. The overall topic is so esoteric that so far I've only managed to hear about one group of two persons that tried to do anything remotely similar and one another anecdotal account [6] that this particular skill is very uncommon among reverse engineers.
Personally, I'm starting to think that maybe I could've actually reverse-engineered and decompiled the game in the time I took to get here. I've also tried to engage with Ghidra to upstream the foundations of my modifications in my fork, but after some back-and-forth it became clear that my prototype-grade stuff wasn't industrial-grade and couldn't be merged in its current state, which is why I'm currently reworking the code in my fork as a Ghidra extension.
To those that want to provide feedback after reading all of this: beware, I've had a lot of fun going down that rabbit hole, but this is one hell of a time sink _and_ a particularly tricky mind-bender.
[1] I don't actually _know_ what's the actual name for this technique, given that there are so few resources on it out there. I do know I didn't invent it.
[2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-scripts
[3] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/tree/feature/elfrelocateble...
[4] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-extension
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081#36590078
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232&p=3#35740761
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
- The relocation synthesizer for MIPS: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/blob/feature/elfrelocateble...
- The Ghidra analyzer that leverages this synthesizer: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/blob/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter/Ghidra/Features/Delinker/src/main/java/ghidra/app/analyzers/RelocationTableSynthesizerAnalyzer.java
What are some alternatives?
notebooks - Just various notebooks I sometimes write to help me, no unifying theme
depsdev - CLI client (and Golang module) for deps.dev API. Free access to dependencies, licenses, advisories, and other critical health and security signals for open source package versions.
digraph - Organize the world
Pinout.xyz - Source files for the Raspberry Pi Pinout documentation website.
endoflife.date - Informative site with EoL dates of everything
SaunaControl - Makes a Sauna think it's a web server.
exhibitor - Snappy and delightful React component workshop
dizquetv - Create live TV channels from your own media. Access the streams using the simulated HDHomerun tuner or the generated M3U URl.
zillion - Make sense of it all. Semantic data modeling and analytics with a sprinkle of AI. https://totalhack.github.io/zillion/
ratarmount - Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
Zusam - Private groups to share messages, photos, videos, links with friends and family.
cardboard - 💽 Cloud storage + management platform for analog video files