Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release Hi everyone! I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt) I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end) This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together. Some projects that we will be making A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new. You can buy the book from https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt You can get a free sample chapter from here: https://ift.tt/3bXnrFc You can learn more about my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me (For detailed FAQ, you can head over to the book website: https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt) March 5, 2021 at 12:58AM
Show HN: Launch VM workloads securely and instantaneously, without VMs Hello HN! We've been working on a new hypervisor https://kwarantine.xyz that can run strongly isolated containers. This is still a WIP, but we wanted to give the community an idea about our approach, its benefits, and various use cases it unlocks. Today, VMs are used to host containers, and make up for the lack of strong security as well as kernel isolation in containers. This work adds this missing security piece in containers. We plan on launching a free private beta soon. Meanwhile, we'd deeply appreciate any feedback, and happy to answer any questions here or on our slack channel. Thanks! April 29, 2021 at 07:50AM
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