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New top story on Hacker News: Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders
Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders
16 by kdragon | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I have been seeing a lot of shilling for mastadon lately, so I thought I would step in and shill Nostr for a bit. https://ift.tt/xSDsh1M Fun facts about Nostr: * Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is an odd acronym, but I like it. * Nostr uses websockets and relays to build a really simple P2P network. We also steal a few ideas from bitcoin (ECDSA ids, schnorr-signed events). * Relays are simply dumb data stores for events that clients publish and subscribe to. * Clients don't trust relays to be honest, so all events are self-signed. Your pubkey is your userid. * It is stupid simple to build a Nostr client. You can easily do it in less than 400 lines of JavaScript. And it runs in the browser. (shameless self plug) https://ift.tt/xYmjWTu * Nostr is powerful enough to host chat apps very easily. Here is a rip of Telegram, running on Nostr: https://anigma.io * There's a lot of fun things you can do with Nostr. Check out all these cool projects! https://ift.tt/SjtyrcO * We are constantly discussing how to improve the protocol. Come join the conversation here: https://ift.tt/TxfI0tS https://anigma.io https://damus.io https://ift.tt/fI1HVeP Thank you for reading my nostr shill post. I did not create nostr, nor do I get any monies for promotion. I just think it's really cool and I have a lot of fun building stuff that punches though nats. If you have any questions about nostr please feel free to ask. Also, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope we're all feeling fat and sassy today. :-D

Thursday 24 November 2022

Wednesday 23 November 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
Show HN: Unclutter – Reader mode, but better
24 by phgn | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Hey everyone! In the last months I've been working on Unclutter, a modern reader mode browser extension. In contrast to all existing approaches, it unclutters articles by modifying their CSS instead of extracting the text content. This results in a more visually pleasing result that reuses the original article style. The idea is to remove friction so you use the reader mode more often. There are a few more features around saving articles automatically and taking highlights -- more details are on the website. The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, mostly from organic web store traffic. Monetisation has proven to be hard and for freemium there would need to be much higher numbers anyways. Do you think I should keep working on the project?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Benthos Studio – A modern take on Yahoo Pipes
Show HN: Benthos Studio – A modern take on Yahoo Pipes
26 by mihaitodor | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Benthos Studio lets you plug and play various components to build a Data Streaming pipeline through a graphic interface. It also allows you to mock inputs to emit dummy data and run the rest of the pipeline to inspect the output of each step. The project is running https://ift.tt/PBzC3Mn under the hood.

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Monday 21 November 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old?
Ask HN: Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old?
18 by taubek | 13 comments on Hacker News.
Why is my two day old submit on HN frontpage shown as 1 hour old? Here is direct link - it says 1 hour old https://ift.tt/Gb2pHPT And in list of my submits I can see that I've submitted link two days ago https://ift.tt/nCmcUy2 Title of my submit is Service Resilience — part 1: Startup Technology

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation
Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation
26 by ritinkar | 7 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever. It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself. Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system. Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage. Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here. Thanks.

Monday 7 November 2022

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization
Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization
9 by rishabhpoddar | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at https://supertokens.com (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization. Our users are web developers, and a prominent and adjacent pain point for our users is authorization. Developers typically implement two independent solutions for authentication and authorization. Offering AuthN and AuthZ in a single solution is something we’ve been thinking about for the last few years. Quick primer, authentication is knowing who the user is, and authorization is knowing what the user has access to. A physical analogy: A person enters a building. Authentication means reading their ID card and knowing that the person’s name is John. Authorization means knowing which floors, offices, and files John has access to. With increasing privacy and data complexity, companies like Netflix[1], Slack[2], and Airbnb[3] have built out their own complex authorization systems. To build our user roles product, we started with a first principles approach of covering authorization use cases using scripting languages such as XACML and OPA. But looking at existing solutions built by talented teams like Oso[4], Aserto[5], Cerbos[6], Strya[7], we realized that while these were powerful solutions, they were often overkill for most early to mid-stage companies (especially on the B2C side). We went back to the drawing board, reached out to our users and after dozens of conversations, we realized that most authorization needs require the ability to 1. Assign and manage roles and permissions 2. Store roles in the DB and session tokens to make it readable on the frontend and 3. Protect APIs and websites based on these roles and permissions. And so, we built user roles – a simple RBAC authorization service that focuses on the balance between simplicity and utility. It doesn’t cover many complex cases and we’re not looking to displace any of the authorization incumbents. But you can add AuthN and AuthZ using a single solution, quickly. In the near future, we’ll be launching an admin GUI where you can manage your users and their roles with a few clicks. We’d love for you to try it out and hear what additional functionality you’d like to see. What are your favorite authentication providers and what do they get right? - [1]: https://ift.tt/DGdfXl1... - [2]: https://ift.tt/O5IxEFN - [3]: https://ift.tt/3slayob... - [4]: https://www.osohq.com/ - [5]: https://www.aserto.com/ - [6]: https://cerbos.dev/ - [7]: https://www.styra.com/

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