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The few times our hardware had reached the front page have basically made our startup viable. It was only two days ago, but https://pibox.io
We figure HN is one of the toughest crowds. If we can make a hardware product y’all don’t completely dislike - we’re on to something!
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19584921 And wasn't even my post!
A long time ago I found myself teaching Computer Graphics at my alma mater. Over the following years my approach to the subject evolved, and I really got the hang of it. After I stopped teaching, I took my notes, handouts and slides, and made them into a series of articles that I put on my website, where they remained in relative obscurity. Hacker News managed to find it every once in a while, and it was generally well received, but nothing came out of this. Until April 2019, when that post made the HN front page again, except this time it caught the attention of an editor in No Starch Press.
Long story short, my materials are now a book, Computer Graphics from Scratch, sold by No Starch Press [0], and also available for free on my website [1].
This genuinely wouldn’t have happened without your support. THANK YOU, HN community :)
[0] https://nostarch.com/computer-graphics-scratch
[1] http://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch
The infamous top comment from the HN Launch of Dropbox [1] which has been widely discussed and dismissed over the years.
This is the comment that got me onto thinking: "how awesome would it be to have a software capable of decoupling the UI from the actual storage" so you wouldn't be tied to one vendor and do so by implementing a simple programming interface [2]
I did open source my solution [3] and have refined it over the year with plugins that implement storage for any storage you could think of like SFTP, S3, Samba, WebDAV and many more. Most of the money is coming from enterprise who need help to join authentication, authorisation and storage in 1 complete solution to do things like SAML based SSO on S3, 2FA layer on a samba server, audit capabilities, ....
The part i'm super proud of is it feel faster to browse Dropbox from my app than it is from Dropbox itself [4]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
[2] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/a91df1637d...
[3] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
[4] the technic that's used consist in caching the list of files/folder in indexDB and render the content of a folder with the data coming from indexDB first then refresh it with the new data essentially making a visit to an folder you've seen before be instant without any loading whatsoever. It's very simple but it seems nobody else is doing it