Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?

• alass

  18 968 0.0 Rust

  "Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization"

I've used https://github.com/kaegi/alass and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's not an easy problem to address automatically...

Video players wouldn't want that in their codebase, maybe if it was available as a C library.

• mpv

  830 26,027 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• OpenVDB

  56 2,428 8.6 C++

  OpenVDB - Sparse volume data structure and tools

  

• snapdrop

  430 17,383 0.0 JavaScript

  A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

it's not a cli tool but https://snapdrop.net/ is local network file transfer

• FilePizza

  68 4,242 0.0 JavaScript

  :pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

For files that are not private I use: https://btorrent.xyz/

People usually recommend https://file.pizza but it just doesn't work for me.

• tldr

  262 48,494 10.0 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

• cheat.sh

  140 37,479 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• PDM

  47 6,584 9.6 Python

  A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

  

There's a PEP for adding support for a __pythonpackages__ directory, similar to node_modules.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

Unfortunately the PEP is from 2018 and is still being discussed. The last post in the comment thread is from February.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...

That's unfortunate; until I went looking for citations I thought it was further along and actually scheduled for the next Python release.

Looks like there is a pip-alternative that implements the PEP, but I haven't played around with it yet.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

• once

  2 6 0.0 TypeScript

  Collect and deduplicate stories (RSS, Hacker News, Lobsters or Reddit) and look at them once. (by batram)

I have written something [once] that de-dupes on just the URLs, you could take this way further with images and content analysis.

This is also manly an app to stop me from scrolling across the same stories on HN and lobste.rs again and again multiple times a day. So it lacks reddit specific features.

[once] https://github.com/batram/once

• elder_launcher

  9 40 0.0 Dart

  A Launcher focused on simplicity and legibility.

You might be able to find a custom launcher that can accomplish this. One such launcher is https://github.com/itsarjunsinh/elder_launcher

• rosie

  4 - -

Something could be based on the "Rosie Pattern Language"[0]. There is already a parser for en_US/en_EU dates[1], which should be simple to extend to date ranges.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/-/blob/maste...

[1]: https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/blob/master/...

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