Hey HN! I built ProRead to solve the problem of getting stalled by walls of text in books or losing the big picture while reading.<p>Key features:
• Start from a bird's-eye view, then zoom into any level of detail
• Interactive knowledge maps show how concepts connect
• Seamlessly navigate betw...
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Hey HN! I built ProRead to solve the problem of getting stalled by walls of text in books or losing the big picture while reading.<p>Key features:
• Start from a bird's-eye view, then zoom into any level of detail
• Interactive knowledge maps show how concepts connect
• Seamlessly navigate betw...
Show Lobsters: Compare book prices between different Amazons (and the Book Depository)
(piranhas.co)
I built this in order to satisfy a personal need, i.e. to find the cheapest place where to buy books from.
There are quite a few competitors out there already, but none of them quite lived up to what I wanted.
Recommended Reading: ``The Art of UNIX Programming'' and ``The UNIX-HATERS Handbook''
(verisimilitudes.net)
This article is also available over Gopher with selector `2019-04-15` for the text document.
Show HN: Decide your next read from any booklist basis your Goodreads history
(bookrecommendations1-hcr77cz3ga-el.a.run.app)
Hello all! I am a fintech product manager inspired by this community to build things.<p>The motivation to build this came while going through NYT's List 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I wanted to see which one I could pick as my next read. I realised that I couldn't get through the de...
I created this tool over the weekend because, as someone interested in AI and technology, I find many research papers on arXiv fascinating but often incredibly dense and difficult to understand due to the heavy jargon and technical language. I wanted to make these complex topics more accessible to l...
I've been working on a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've come to call "All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short.<p>It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique ...
So, I made this. It's a readable feed reader that promotes interesting content based on articles you vote for.
This is not a finished product, I'm trying this "release early" thing hoping to get some opinions. The timing seems right with Google Reader disappearing.
Readable.cc is open-source (...
I'm the author of this work in progress. It can be scary to give advice to other programmers. I thought folks here would have some perspective to share on that. [Email me here](http://a.quil.la/5SAPC) if there's anything you'd like to see in the book! Thanks.
_PS: First submission -- happy to be ...
Over the last few years, I've built a web site that allows people to create recipe books automatically. The web site (now in beta!) separates recipe content from its presentation.
Last year I collected, with permission, shy of two dozen recipes from /r/recipes and related subreddits, to provide e...
I find I do around 90% of my fiction reading around Christmas and New Year (mostly because I get days to just read, nothing else; and also because people give me books), so usually have quite a queue. Right now it seems a bit empty though.
So I thought I'd ask what are some good books people have...
As mentioned in a couple of comments recently, I've begun writing a new book. I'd love to get feedback from the Lobsters community about it, particularly regarding the [outline][]. If you're interested in seeing some actual text, take a look at [this pull request][text].
Is a book like this inter...
This came up in the thread about the book @joshuacc is writing ([see the Prose for Programmers thread here](https://lobste.rs/s/anujad/prose_for_programmers_book_wip)). I wrote a tool for my book, [Effective Python](http://www.effectivepython.com), which has a lot of similarities to [Donald Knuth's ...
Heya Lobsters!
I'm Marvin, a rails developer and the author of the book shared here.
Wanted to show you this e-book that I have been working on lately. It's a little iPad/iPhone thing with some awesome that you'll probably like. I hope.
Good/bad either way, wish to hear your thoughts on i...
In my case, [Thinking in Systems: A Primer](http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557). Half way through the book and already deep concepts sinking in.
[Here](https://learn-anything.xyz/) is the search engine. And [here](https://learn-anything.xyz/computer_science), for example is a mind map for learning computer science.
The idea is that a person can type what he wants to learn and the most efficient path to learning the topic is shown.
I [a...
2017 is about to finish. What were the best books you have read this year that you would recommend to other lobsters users? If possible explain why.
My favorites:
- Data Intensive Applications
- Weapons of Math Destruction