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

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MPV

#Audio Player #Media Player #Video Player 227 social mentions

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SubSync

Try SubSync, open source movie subtitle synchronization app. https://subsync.online/ Discussion on HN (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794153.

#Video & Movies #Cloud Storage #eCommerce Platform 7 social mentions

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Snapdrop

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

#File Sharing #Cloud Storage #Secure File Sharing 227 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

Structural regular expressions awk as described here: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf But maybe it is not that small... I would like to have a simple app that would let me define a time, a beep sound and a pattern. So I could have a one beep timer [1] and an interval timer [2]. I use those for exercise, but I'm not entirely satisfied. Something that would crawl GitHub and look for Android play store links in READMEs, then it would offer a search over repository name, description and the README. I would use this first to search for Android apps. I know about F-Droid, but I'm lazy and there are things in the play store that are not in F-Droid. Also it would be easier for me to find apps to recommend to my family/friends, who will not install F-Droid. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thrvg.beeponcetimer - like this, but without this introductory screen and single button to reset and restart the timer [2] https://greggman.github.io/interval-timer/ - I use this, but I would just want to set a single parameter: time between beeps and let it play in a loop until I stop.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1161 social mentions

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FilePizza

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.

#Secure File Sharing #File Sharing #File Uploads 35 social mentions

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ßTorrent

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.

#Torrents #BitTorrent #Cloud Storage 4 social mentions

#Mac #Productivity #Text Expander 51 social mentions

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SMMRY

Good idea! May be worth a look at using this[1] API for something like this - it's what the autotl;dr reddit bot[2] uses. I'm generally impressed by how much it is able to condense articles while delivering a pretty accurate summary - see examples at the bot user /u/autotldr[3]. Might not work well enough if you try squeeze whole articles down to 1 sentence (for a title), though. [1] https://smmry.com/ [2] http://autotldr.io/ [3] https://old.reddit.com/u/autotldr.

#Text Summarizer #Education #LMS 26 social mentions