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   Waymo simulation is teaching self-driving cars invaluable skills(engadget.com)

   2 points by niko001 9y ago|0 comments
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   Australia's 3D printed rocket engine is being tested(businessinsider.com.au)

   2 points by niko001 9y ago|0 comments
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   Ask HN: What are some cool self-hosted tools like Sendy?

   1 points by niko001 9y ago|1 comments
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   by niko001 9y ago

   http://www.leftrightcenter.io/ I'm working on an alternative to Google News that shows the same event from multiple news outlets/perspectives so that you can draw your own conclusions. Let me know what you think!
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   by niko001 9y ago

   This has worked well for me, too. I saw an influx of "How to offer a time-based trial version on Android" on SO and developed a trial SDK as an answer: https://www.trialy.io/
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   by niko001 9y ago

   I often run into situations where I want to schedule a meeting with someone, but don't want to go through the hassle of configuring a professional appointment scheduling tool (such as doodle.com). The idea of cal.tf is to email a link
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   Show HN: Cal.tf – Share a private link to your Google Calendar(cal.tf)

   4 points by niko001 9y ago|1 comments
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   by niko001 9y ago

   Adding a free trial period to your app increases IAP conversion rates [0], but I've always found it a lot of work to implement a trial - once you're done developing the core of your app, you want to publish it as soon as possible,
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   Show HN: Trialy, an Android library to create a free trial period(github.com)

   3 points by niko001 9y ago|1 comments
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Hey HN! I've built a tool to combat Fake News in a semi-technical way: LeftRightCenter.io allows you to check out the latest news from multiple sources. It shows the coverage of a single event from multiple news outlets from the entire
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    Show HN: LeftRightCenter.io – Breaking news, from multiple angles(leftrightcenter.io)

    4 points by niko001 10y ago|1 comments
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Thanks for chiming in, Ian! Google Patents is awesome :-)! You're right, there are a number of edge cases where the expiry date is incorrect - the USPTO even provides a patent expiry calculator [1] (as an Excel file, no less ;)...). Fo
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Next project: Patent fetish site? ;)
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Thanks for spotting that! I'll switch it over to S3/CloudFront soon
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Thanks, I'm glad you like it :) I've kept it really simple - the patentsview.org API spits out JSON, which I'm feeding into the (awesome!) DataTables jQuery-plugin. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. I'm planning a HN-s
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    by niko001 10y ago

    Thanks for the feedback :)! The patent in question was granted on 1996-12-31, which means it should have expired on 2016-12-31. The status on Google Patents says "Expired - Fee Related" so I'm guessing they didn't pay a
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    by niko001 10y ago

    The majority [1] of patents are never commercially exploited or licensed - I wanted a way to browse recently expired patents to find hidden gems and get inspired by existing inventions. The site uses the recently released USPTO-API [2] to f
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    Show HN: Explore ideas whose patent protection expires today(patentsexpiringtoday.com)

    546 points by niko001 10y ago|142 comments
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    Show HN: CTRL-F App – Search printed documents with your camera(ctrlf.io)

    3 points by niko001 10y ago|0 comments
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    by niko001 11y ago

    TweetSnip deletes your tweets that carry a #Xm hashtag after x minutes (or d=days, w=weeks, mo=months). Startups can use it to tweet out discount codes that expire after a certain time or run "power sales" for a limited time. It m
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    Show HN: TweetSnip – delete specific tweets after a certain time via a hashtag(tweetsnip.com)

    6 points by niko001 11y ago|1 comments