[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
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Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
We have the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking
freelancer?" threads. But what about people who don't want to work
for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money
but still want to work together on cool projects? For free to make
the world better or to start a startup. If you do, please post
your project or your skills!
Author : TekMol
Score : 330 points
Date : 2022-01-01 15:22 UTC (7 hours ago)
| outside1234 wrote:
| I am interested in collaborating on a project to make building
| local first software a simple reality for developers along the
| "seven ideals" that Martin Kleppmann lays out (see
| https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf).
|
| There has been a number of attempts in this space, but none with
| a simple developer experience, and I'd like to experiment around
| fixing that.
|
| If anyone is already is already working in this space I'd love to
| talk with you.
| kukabynd wrote:
| Interesting. I'm a potential user. What do you have in mind
| that would make it a "simple reality"? I totally agree that
| it's a mess right now. The hardest part for me was/is the sync
| and data consistency between syncs and modifications in-between
| sessions. I've used both OT and CRDT and the tooling isn't
| simple.
| outside1234 wrote:
| I am thinking from a development perspective something like
| an easy set of React Hooks that essentially allow you to
| utilize CRDTs etc. without having to know much more about
| them than the operations available (add, delete, etc.)
|
| From a user perspective, I am thinking that getting support
| for a local first approach is as simple as installing a
| Dropbox style service locally that enables storage and
| syncing across your devices. Applications written in a local
| first style would automatically then take advantage of this.
| YousefED wrote:
| I'm working on this. One of the projects part if this
| journey is https://www.syncedstore.org which was recently
| on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483913).
| Shoot me a message to collaborate on this or similar stuff!
| outside1234 wrote:
| Great! Will have a look.
| collabtwy532 wrote:
| Sending you an email. I am not working in this space per se but
| I am following it very closely, and I am super interested in
| seeing better dev tooling around the CRDT/Local first
| ecosystem.
| outside1234 wrote:
| Great - looking forward to talking
| itake wrote:
| I'm building a gig economy / play-to-earn content moderation tool
| where people earn crypto for moderating content on social
| platforms. Contact in bio.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| I thought at first this HAD to be a troll, but nope!
| exo762 wrote:
| There is some unexplored potential in opt-in moderation
| systems. Where instead of singular entity providing content
| distribution, content amplification and content moderation
| you can pick and choose what topics need to be filtered and
| what teams/individuals will do the filtering for you.
| moralestapia wrote:
| Currently working on SaaS applied to climate change, always
| welcoming like-minded people. Reach out!
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Looking for anyone who wants to help with a few projects: a B2C
| SaaS (released), an experimental videogame (planning), an
| alternative to kubernetes that leverages systemd (think fleet but
| better, planning), and a B2B SaaS to get rid of middle management
| (starting). Contact info in profile.
| wagslane wrote:
| I'm looking for someone in the devrel/dev-influencer space to
| help me continue to grow a discord community of programmers that
| are looking for their first job. Info at https://qvault.io (it's
| launched but still very very small)
| petargyurov wrote:
| If you are looking to do some collective good, consider a
| wildlife conservation project.
|
| I created a GUI wrapper around a popular AI model for object
| detection for wildlife conservation [0]
|
| The idea is that most ecologists don't have the technical
| expertise to run such models, so making their life easier is an
| important task. The use of AI also saves them loads of time. The
| project was born when I got in touch with New Zealand's
| Department of Conservation for volunteering opportunities.
|
| I haven't had time to continue working on this; help is welcomed!
|
| * [0] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui
| sharp11 wrote:
| This kind of thing is what Wildlabs is all about:
| https://www.wildlabs.net/
| jvanderbot wrote:
| I'm building a sensor network management tool for small computers
| e.g. rasp pis and the like. It'll be open source and solve a lot
| of annoying configuration details with hosting web services or
| doing point to point communications between devices.
|
| I could really use some help designing a decent front-end.
| [deleted]
| xophishox wrote:
| I'm working on a small text based rpg. Its written in node, but
| i'm terrible at frond end. Anyone want to get together and collab
| on a small fun project?
| prismatix wrote:
| do you have any designs, drawings, or examples of your ideas?
| what kind of front end are you looking for help with?
| dekervin wrote:
| hey do you have any contact infos ? mine is in my profile !
| imagineerschool wrote:
| Developer DAO is spinning up some large-scale public goods
| projects and we need good thinking and devs from across the world
| to help us grow up right.
|
| Would you like to see a global tech workers union or guild?
|
| Or a maintainers fund to support all the FLOSS projects the world
| depends on?
|
| It's super early days, the possibility space is wide open! Come
| join the conversation :)
| gtsop wrote:
| More info on this please?
| pvinis wrote:
| seems closed for now.
| bitxbitxbitcoin wrote:
| Anyone looking to collaborate in the cannabis space? I founded
| The Highest Critic[0] several years back and it has solid footing
| to do so much more.
|
| [0] www.thehighestcritic.com
| novaleaf wrote:
| C# GAMEDEV (HOBBY/OSS):
|
| I'm making an OSS C# game engine.
| https://github.com/NotNotTech/NotNot It's an ECS engine very
| similar in features to Unity Dots.
|
| I just finished the graphics/io bindings it will use:
| https://github.com/NotNotTech/Raylib-CsLo
|
| I have a stable income from my SaaS business so this is more than
| just a hobby project for me. I'd like to turn it into a viable
| oss project plus a commercial option some day.
|
| My vision is to create a top-down spaceship game with it, and
| create a simple gamedev framework for kids to learn C#
| programming with. using the feature needs of both of those to
| drive engine development.
| humbleMouse wrote:
| robmsmt wrote:
| I created a toolkit to evaluate many different speech recognition
| engines.
|
| https://github.com/robmsmt/SpeechLoop
|
| Comparing speech systems can take a long time esp for a dev who
| doesn't have the background in audio/ml. How do you know which
| one will work best? Will new shiny transformer model perform well
| enough? Most end up using one of the big tech companies existing
| API to throw their data at. Whilst this is convenient, I think
| that it's a travesty that opensource speech systems have not are
| not as easy to use. I was hoping to change that to make it easy
| to evaluate and compare them!
| neltnerb wrote:
| I'm likely to lose the use of my hands in the next few years so
| I've been trying to figure this out from the user perspective
| (for Linux) for a few years to try to sort of set up and get
| used to the tools I'll need later in life.
|
| I've been using Almond, but it's really not good. I don't know
| how I might help but I'm definitely interested in the
| results... if I could use a high quality microphone to open a
| program, select menus, and type accurately (and have commands
| to press arrow keys) I think I'd be all set. I would be able to
| do anything I wanted, even if it was a bunch of steps.
|
| I remember Dragon Naturallyspeaking in like 1995 being
| basically capable of doing all of this, and I was able to
| completely control a computer in like 1995 with speech and _now
| I can 't_. It's extremely strange for 26 years of development.
|
| It is as if all the tools try to be so clever that instead of
| assuming the user can learn new tricks, to me it should be the
| same as learning to type or use a mouse. Yeah, I used to have
| to say "backspace backspace period space capital while" to get
| fine details, but at least it was possible. I could even select
| things with voice commands. I just hope that we don't lose
| sight of the value of voice recognition as a general input
| device in search of which model performs best on accuracy
| alone.
| robmsmt wrote:
| I am sorry to hear this. I think there are many people in a
| similar boat to you and there are quite a few people working
| on command & dictation computing. Although my tool _may_ help
| you find out which speech systems work well for your
| voice/accent/mic/vocab it might also be worth trying another
| one of the specialist libraries specifically for dictation
| and controlling computers.
|
| I've not heard of Almond, but I have seen the following
| projects which might be helpful:
|
| - Dragonfly: https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/dragonfly
|
| - Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1mGbIJx3s /
| Software: https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar
|
| Far field audio is usually harder for any speech system to
| get correct, so having a good quality mic and using it nearby
| will _usually_ help with the transcription quality. As a long
| time Linux user, I would love to see it get some more
| powerful voice tools - really hope that this opens up over
| the next few years. Feel free to drop me an email (on my
| profile) happy to help with setup on any of the above.
| neltnerb wrote:
| I think the current issue is that lots of people are
| intellectually excited by the framework stuff; libraries,
| that python project to implement commands, etc. I do
| totally get that, I definitely find it more interesting.
|
| What would help much more as an end-user would be
| integrating things nicely into window managers. I am
| optimistic that it is on a roadmap, but I don't really get
| how all the pieces fit together. I hope in Linux it doesn't
| end up somehow requiring every application to implement
| support individually, it seems like a clever HID driver
| could do it.
|
| I suppose such things could be model independent.
| kurokikaze wrote:
| If anyone here are interested in making a design/UI for an online
| TCG, hit me up: kurokikaze@yandex.ru. The engine part is mostly
| done, now it's time to make it look (and feel) good.
| kingofkyiv wrote:
| capableweb wrote:
| I'm not exactly sure why, but your website gives off a very
| "scammy" vibe, even tough your discuss other scams on it, and
| since you're seemingly here in earnest, seems valid. Maybe it's
| something about the color theme of the site (dark text on dark
| background, strange choices of colors etc) or the weird element
| structure, low quality photos. Not entirely sure why.
|
| Some things do read a bit weird on the website, but maybe I'm
| just not the target market (which seems to be "fat americans").
| Here is just one snippet I found a bit strange:
|
| > This means a typical 5/10 overweight average looking American
| 34 year old guy is a 12/10 here in Ukraine. Yes, this isn't
| wrong. This hypothetical guy will be so attractive to the women
| here in Ukraine that he will be getting hit on and talked to by
| local women. How do I know? I used my own description. So for
| this number I use 12/10, or 1.2.
|
| Maybe my tiny comment can help you improve at least a tiny bit,
| as we all would be better off with less incels :)
| KuiN wrote:
| > Some things do read a bit weird on the website
|
| This one from the FAQ stands out:
|
| > I'm black/brown/liberal/Jewish/Muslim/gay/trans. Will you
| help me?
|
| > Generally no. F*k off, we're full. [...]
| capableweb wrote:
| musesum wrote:
| > color theme of the site
|
| Uses `A SiteOrigin Theme`, which is significantly improved by
| the `Dark Reader` plug-in for Chrome.
|
| I booked a flight and AirBNB to Lviv for last October and
| then delayed due to Covid. Motivation is more about startup
| talent.
| nicara wrote:
| Uhh, do take a look at the FAQ on his website ... Incels are
| probably the lesser evil when compared to bona fide racists?
| capableweb wrote:
| Yup, just realized (via
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29761509)
| tartoran wrote:
| First off, king of kyiv sounds a bit immature and somewhat
| narcissistic. Second, why would you impoverish and burden
| Ukrainian women with scummy incel types?
| awayto wrote:
| Hey there, I work on a project called Awayto. It generates and
| deploys web applications to AWS with all the base line bells and
| whistles (db, api, ui, user mgmt, react, typescript). I enjoy
| working on tools for developers and this is a project that's
| supposed to help developer consultants. It's a full stack
| framework, and there are of course many ways you could help or be
| involved, so if it sounds interesting please check it out!
|
| https://github.com/keybittech/awayto
|
| https://awayto.dev
| the_decider wrote:
| I'm exploring how reinforcement learning can be applied to safely
| carry out Solar Geoengineering in order to delay the damage from
| climate change. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07366
| kolaente wrote:
| I'm running a FOSS project building a Todo and collaboration
| (web) app. It's kind of a mix between Todoist and more pm heavy
| tools like Jira or Asana. It has the usual stuff like lists and
| tasks and then a few nice things beyond that like Kanban, Gantt
| and sharing capabilities. Written in Go and Vue js. We're always
| looking for people to contribute in reporting issues, fixing
| bugs, adding features etc.
|
| Check it out here: https://vikunja.io
|
| There's a bit commercial potential for it, given the enormous
| amount of paid project management tools out there, but I'm not
| really doing a lot in that direction right now. You can purchase
| a SaaS subscription but very few people do. Most of the users are
| people who self host.
| genmaicha123 wrote:
| happy to join forces on a side project and make friends.
|
| i'm a fast moving generalist, working on distributed databases
| and k8s. i am excited about many things, including mobile dev,
| compilers, generative art, building effective teams, etc.
|
| i can invest anywhere from 2 to 10 hours a week into it, feel
| free to reach out to me at genmaicha123 at protonmail dot com
| even if you just want to chat and soundboard ideas.
| scrapcode wrote:
| 18+ years of 'dabbling' in design and development, building
| personal tools and freelancing smaller client websites. Recent
| non-traditional BS:CS grad to check off a life goal, but don't
| plan on entering the field as I am deep into an established
| career in another IT-related role.
|
| I am really enjoying working with Python, Django and learning
| React at the moment. I have a lot of free time during the week
| and I am very interested in helping with a project. Very much
| akin to entry-mid level if you're looking for train-ability and
| willingness to learn. codectc at gmail!
| caseyslaught wrote:
| I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the
| Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN
| for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by
| their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and
| surveillance, and a management web app.
|
| If you're interested in conservation / sustainable development
| and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to
| collaborate and bounce ideas off others.
| agumonkey wrote:
| Pretty awesome. Do you know more about other projects like this
| or what new ideas are going on in DRC ?
| secfirstmd wrote:
| Hi there.
|
| Seeing as you are in DRC. I've worked on a number of projects
| there. Maybe you might be interested in checking out an app we
| made to help NGO/media etc learn about and manage their digital
| and physical security? Lots of groups on the ground there have
| used it in situations like kidnap, targeted malware etc.
|
| It's called Umbrella. It's free, opens source, on ios and
| Android available in many languages. If you are interested,
| have a look at at https://www.secfirst.org or ping me via the
| email in my profile! :)
| caseyslaught wrote:
| Awesome thanks for sharing! I can see this being helpful for
| us as well.
| javajosh wrote:
| _> Umbrella...kidnap, targeted malware_
|
| This looks like a behavioral modification tool, to prevent
| kidnap, etc. Two questions: is there a scenario database of
| DRC "actualized risk", that describe real kidnaps, extortion,
| etc ideally with root cause analysis? What is your revenue
| model[1]? Okay, 3 questions: what do you think of tools like
| what NSO provides for client recovery?
|
| 1 - Speculation: do you make revenue by providing a
| marketplace where security service providers can market to
| consumers?
| cinntaile wrote:
| How do you take the nose prints? Do you tranquilize them and
| then literally press their nose against a piece of paper
| covered in an inklike material or is it photo based?
| capableweb wrote:
| I don't know if Gorillas work the same way as dogs, but maybe
| you could put something that smells nice on a device that
| extends a small nose-boop extractor arm when close, and
| gather the noseprint that way.
|
| To simulate this invention:
|
| - have a dog
|
| - put something smelly on your thumb
|
| - extend arm to point thumb towards dog
|
| - as the dog is within 5-10cm radius of your thumb, press
| your thumb against their nose (and say the obligatory "boop")
|
| - imagine your had something to extract noseprints from their
| nose on your thumb
| gaetgu wrote:
| It actually looks like they use photos.
|
| https://gorillafund.org/karisoke-research-
| center/noseprints-...
| capableweb wrote:
| Probably a good idea with photos from afar, as dogs and
| gorillas can probably have very different reactions to
| whole the "nose-booping" thing.
| caseyslaught wrote:
| I guess facial recognition is a more apt description. We just
| use photos of wild gorillas cropped around the nose. Not
| intrusive at all!
| Jloerakker wrote:
| What ML framework or Lang you working in?
| kallewirsch wrote:
| How does one find a job like that, it sounds amazing! I
| originally studied environmental science before having worked
| as a Data Scientist and now Data Engineer for the past 4 years.
| I worked a lot with geospatial data and sat images. Ultimately
| I would love to combine both again and use these skills to do
| something useful for the environment. If anyone has links to
| orgs/companies that do relevant work and hire (or wants to
| collaborate) I would be keen to hear. Thanks!
| shafyy wrote:
| That sounds super interesting. Two questions: 1) Do you work
| remotely or are you in DRC? 2) What are some good ways to find
| job opportunities at the intersection of software engineering
| and wildlife conversation?
| koide wrote:
| I know some communities that are aiming at climate in general
| and not focused on wildlife specifically but may have some
| related opportunities. Work On Climate, climate action tech
| and my climate journey.
|
| PS: I love that autocorrect.
| shafyy wrote:
| Thanks! Haha, it wasn't even autocorrect. Just tired from
| NYE I guess :D
| RivieraKid wrote:
| I've read a book by a guy who've travelled through most of the
| world and he said that the DRC is the worst country he's
| visited and that the people there lack humanity.
| scollet wrote:
| Read more books.
| RivieraKid wrote:
| Why?
| doctor_eval wrote:
| Gross generalisations like "the people there lack humanity"
| make me very sad. I don't know anything about the DRC and
| have never even visited Africa, but I bet the majority of
| people there care mostly about having good shelter, safety,
| enough food to eat, and looking after their kids the best
| they can.
|
| Like everyone else in the world.
| bigsparky wrote:
| Can u share the book title and author please?
| RivieraKid wrote:
| Africa: Last Hitchhike by Tomas Polacek
|
| It's only available in Czech so I had to translate the
| title. I've read it in two days, really enjoyed it.
| petargyurov wrote:
| > ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints
|
| Really cool stuff. I wonder if face detection is sufficient
| too? It has been proven to work for brown bears [0].
|
| I have also been doing some open source work [1] to democratise
| object detection in this space but I haven't had the time to
| make improvements to the project in a while.
|
| * [0] http://bearresearch.org/
|
| * [1] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui
| keraf wrote:
| This sounds incredibly interesting and would love to know more
| about it. Where to read more or get in touch with you? (your
| profile doesn't mention any contacts or links)
| caseyslaught wrote:
| Hey I just added me email to my profile. Happy to share more
| directly!
| k8sToGo wrote:
| Is LoRaWAN tracking the gorillas?
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| Hey everyone, I'm about to start a gig advising on tech policy in
| DC for 1yr but during that would like to start ideating on a
| potential startup with someone with plans to launch early 2023!
| I'm not an engineer but have done a little product but my core
| focus is usually on growth/bd and navigating regulated areas.
|
| I have a few ideas (listed below) but am open to ideating with
| folks openly and seeing where interests and the market takes
| things - Making Cryonics more mainstream with a better payments
| layer + other longevity services and more research into the
| science behind it that we openly publish - Working on an
| integrated critical mineral processing, recycling, and
| gigafactory that produces re-used EV batteries or home powerwalls
| either in the DRC or with close ties to it to try to bring more
| jobs to the area and help the country move up the value chain
| from pure extraction (and because I think there's a huge demand
| already including in Africa for good battery packs to replace
| diesel generators)
| 101008 wrote:
| I am not in DC and although I am an engineer I don't have any
| experience in the areas you mentioned, but all your projects
| sound super interesting. Best of luck with them!
| blparker wrote:
| Don't have an active project at the moment, but would be
| interested in brainstorming potential ideas. Have experience
| throughout the stack and interested in areas of ML, AI, and
| Crypto. Feel free to reach out if you're interested in
| potentially collaborating.
| vander_elst wrote:
| Hi, I have been working on a trading bot for crypto in rust for
| the last ~18 months. The agent and the infrastructure
| (collecting and preprocessing data) are up and running. I have
| been collecting and cleaning TBs (yes TBs) of data for ~1 year
| now. However, I have way too little knowledge in ML/AI and it
| is very hard to fill the gap. I am looking for someone that can
| help me in that area and improve the bot to leverage the data
| using some ML/AI. I can provide more info. Contact info should
| be available in the profile.
| ultra_nick wrote:
| We're building a package manager for knowledge and could use
| another versatile founder who can handle anything from marketing
| to MLOPs.
|
| https://www.conceptionary.app/
|
| If interested, contact me on LinkedIn.
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholascgilpin
| aantix wrote:
| I'm working on a new kind of search. Desktop only for now.
|
| https://search-new.herokuapp.com/
| max10541 wrote:
| I'm quitting my full-time job this month (already gave my notice)
| to start a startup with my brother. We're trying to make cheap-
| but-performant prosthetic hands using 3D printers and Arduino,
| focusing on the north-west of Syria. To shed some light, it's
| estimated that around *50 THOUSAND* people suffer from minor or
| major imputations due to the ongoing war, and most of them need
| some form of prosthetics. Some estimates even upwards *80
| THOUSAND*![1]
|
| Now, I know most of the technical stuff we need, and my brother
| knows all the medical details (he's a physical therapist), but
| neither of us have built a startup before.
|
| We have a plan on mind, but I would love to chat with anyone with
| experience building similar startups (a mix of software and
| hardware), or really anyone who's interested in this project.
|
| We also plan on starting a crowdfunding campaign soon this month.
|
| [1](https://www.ri.org/providing-life-changing-prosthetics-
| for-s...)
| collabtwy532 wrote:
| Sounds like a great cause. I have experience in building
| hardware, and can put you in touch with some folks who might be
| great contacts for your endeavor. Sending an email :)
| vinner_roy wrote:
| I'm working on a platform for writing and publishing web-
| based/html books (not epub or pdf) over at pagespace.app (invite-
| only for now). Aiming for a sort of Substack for longer writing
| with one-time purchase and subscription options.
|
| Always looking for collaborators if anyone is interested in the
| space. The stack is Elixir + Vue 3 + ProseMirror/TipTap + Stripe
| on Kubernetes for the moment. Authors welcome as well.
|
| I've tried the Startup School co-founder matching, but no luck on
| there yet! https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching
| samelawrence wrote:
| This is potentially off-topic, but I know that a lot of engineers
| also make music, so here goes. I run an electronic bass music
| label called [UUeird](https://uueird.com/) which focuses on
| experimental dubstep, drum & bass, and halftime. We also have a
| sister label called [Swampstep](https://swampstep.bandcamp.com/)
| that focuses on 140 BPM dubstep. We have over a quarter-milliion
| plays on Soundcloud, and can distribute music to all major
| storefronts. submissions [at] uueird [dot] com.
| bigdict wrote:
| I'm studying mathematics. Now on chapter 11 in Spivak's Calculus.
|
| Interested in learning stats, differential geometry, classical
| mechanics, relativity, and quantum after.
|
| Would be interested in discussing math ideas, proofs, problems.
|
| Happy to learn/teach if you are close but above/below where I am
| at right now.
| blparker wrote:
| I'm also self studying mathematics on the path to a "DIY
| statistics degree" (currently revisiting Calculus as well). I
| imagine there is a fair bit of overlap between what you're
| doing. Would be interested in hearing more about how you're
| handling your education journey.
| dekervin wrote:
| I am interested in discussing maths. You might want to add an
| email in your profile for contact. You can find mine there !
| ternaryJimbo wrote:
| I am working on a project whos intent is to harness unused
| computational power from unused/rarely used servers or other
| devices, and allows a business to run background jobs on this
| spare compute.
|
| Think BOINC but for enterprise. I've never validated this idea if
| its actually something businesses would use, but I've had fun
| coding it so far as just a side project.
|
| I have been overwhelmed since I have not built anything like this
| before, It would be useful to have someone to bounce ideas off of
| and work with. The plan down the line is to open source this
| codebase. It would be great if you are familiar with:
|
| -IPFS
|
| -Golang
|
| -Decentralized databases
|
| Details should be in my profile. Also, I work on VR browser Games
| so if you are interested in collabing on that let me know.
| wfhBrian wrote:
| Let's WFH while building the future of work. Get support building
| and promoting your WFH idea, contact in bio.
| tjchear wrote:
| Serverless Authz.
|
| Think of an authz (not authn) solution that can be plugged into
| next.js's serverless API (REST and GraphQL) easily through a
| javascript library or middleware.
|
| At the early stages, still working out the feature set and
| roadmap, but looking to build a simple MVP that provides
| immediate value to SaaS builders.
|
| Looking for like-minded engineers with domain knowledge in other
| areas (not necessarily technical) that can see how this solution
| may be applied more broadly.
|
| I'm a former SWE at Google, working at a startup now, and running
| my own ramen-profitable SaaS (SheetUI) on the side.
| lpcvoid wrote:
| C++/embedded/automotive diagnostics/reverse engineering guy here.
| If anybody has some fun projects or cool ideas, you can always
| email me, address is in my bio.
| linkdd wrote:
| I'm writing a new functional language using Rust as a side
| project.
|
| The repository is not yet opensource because it's in a very early
| stage (syntax/grammar not definitive, AST not definitive, ...),
| but if you'd like to help, feel free to contact me (my email is
| public on github: https://github.com/linkdd
|
| The key features of the language are:
|
| 1. values does not have a single type, instead a type declares
| what values it has: class int(n: number) check
| frac(n) = 0 end 42 is int # true 42 is
| number # true 42 is string # false
|
| 2. Equations that have one or more solutions yields a boolean
| (need to implement a SAT solver) class even(n:
| int) check thereis k: int, n = 2 * k end
| 42 is int # true 42 is even # true 43 is even #
| false
|
| 3. Expressive type definitions: class odd(n: int
| & !even) 43 is even # false 43 is odd # true
| class result(r: (:ok | :error, any)) (:ok, 42) is
| result # true (:error, "oops") is result # false
| # NB: `:ok` and `:error` are atoms like in Erlang/Elixir
|
| 4. Generics: class ok<T>(val: (:ok, T))
| class err<T>(val: (:error, T)) class result<T, E>(r: ok<T>
| | err<E>) ok<int>(42) is result<int, string>
| # true err<string>("oops") is result<int, string> # true
|
| 5. Set builder notation: let s = { x: int | x > 0
| } s is set<int> # true let russel_paradox = {
| x: set | x not in x } # impossible: # set class
| does not exist, but the generic class set<T> does #
| set<T> can only contains T, therefore: # { x: set<int>
| | x not in x } # is invalid as well, since set<int> is
| not an int
|
| 6. Map/Filter/Reduce operators: let
| sum_of_even_ints_below_10 = { x: int } |map x => x * 2
| |filter x => x < 10 |reduce[0] acc, x => x + acc
|
| 7. First order logic operators: (true ==> true) =
| true (true ==> false) = false (false ==> true) = true
| (false ==> false) = true (true <==> true) = true
| (true <==> false) = false (false <==> true) = false
| (false <==> false) = true
|
| 8. Rust-like Pattern matching: x := 42 y :=
| match x { 42 => true _ => false }
|
| 9. Goroutines and streams func worker(s:
| stream<int>) -> :ok do let val: int s >>
| val s << (val * 2) :ok # single point of return,
| last expression is the return statement end func
| main() -> (:ok | :error) do let s: stream<int>
| run worker(s) s << 1 let val: int s
| >> val match val { 2 => :ok,
| _ => :error } end
|
| 10. For now, it's an interpreted language, but I'd like to
| compile to LLVM IR instead
| tjchear wrote:
| No Code web app builder, with a focus on simplicity in building
| web apps for SMBs backed by their own spreadsheets.
|
| Yes, there are countless solutions out there, but it's a growing
| industry with a lot of room for different niche/providers.
|
| I run SheetUI, and I've seen what my customers do with it.
| Sometimes they just want to bring their own data (google
| sheet/CSV/etc), and have a nice UI slapped on top of it with
| search and filters, often for internal use.
|
| For internal tools, people care only about usability, not how it
| looks, so WYSIWYG editor is pointless. I plan to focus on
| ease/speed of onboarding/creation of a web app (less friction to
| seeing immediate value), give fewer customization choices (less
| cognitive load), and dive deeper into each customer's domain (we
| help them do the cognitive mapping from their domain to
| software).
| rglullis wrote:
| 1) I know that HackerNews has a strong anti-crypto bias, but let
| me pitch Hub20 (https://hub20.io), the self-hosted payment
| gateway for ethereum (and EVM-compatible) blockchains I'm working
| on is usable - if you are willing to invest some time/energy to
| overcome the rough edges - but I am having more ideas than
| capacity to build all I have in mind. Integration with more
| layer-2 projects (it started with a focus on Raiden, now it can
| also work with Optimism/Arbitrum, this year I want to integrate
| Loopring and zkSync) to make transactions cheaper/faster.
|
| 2) Not crypto related, but still about decentralized web: If
| someone has experience or interest in working with search and
| content discovery on the Fediverse, I'm willing to collaborate
| and even (modestly) sponsor whoever wants to work on a
| "CommonCrawl" for fediverse content, and further on a
| "CommonIndex" and "CommonRank" system that can make it easier for
| instance administrators to offer a global search system that
| avoids replicating indices of the entire fediverse on each
| instance.
|
| 3) I started learning Go a couple of times, but I haven't found a
| project that is small enough for me to take on individually but
| big enough to make it interesting to continue. I have two ideas
| that if might appeal a more experienced Go developer that could
| at least provide some mentorship/guidance:
|
| 3.1) adding an extension to IPFS that gives adds a "Web Of Trust"
| to nodes and use that as a way to build an ACL-based permission
| to my pinned content. Use-case: if you have content that you
| don't mind being public but you don't want to have your server as
| the main distribution channel.
|
| 3.2) Adding some kind of middleware for syncthing that allows
| pre/post-processing of files before syncing. I've written some of
| the motivation about at https://raphael.lullis.net/thinking-
| heads-are-not-in-the-clo..., but another example use-case I'd be
| interested: I host my music collection (large FLAC files,
| hundreds of GBs) on my NAS, and I'd like my phone only with a
| subset of these songs, converted to some reasonable lossy
| format).
| thelastgallon wrote:
| This is a great idea! Can we do this monthly?
|
| I am having conversations with a few people to start Conduit
| Foundation: require all new construction to be EV ready. Have
| conduit installed whenever we build new parking. It will make it
| future proof to pull cable and install chargers later. This is a
| one time building code change with a continuous yield of new
| charge points.
|
| Hit me up if you have any interest.
| foxhop wrote:
| Remarkbox & Make Post Sell are open sourced under public domain:
|
| https://russell.ballestrini.net/russell-open-sources-remarkb...
|
| I'm looking for people to help me grow a Permacomputer:
|
| https://www.unturf.com
| alexose wrote:
| I'm working with the OpenAir collective
| (https://openaircollective.cc) on open source, DIY-friendly
| carbon capture machines.
|
| I'm particularly interested in the electrolysis of CO2. I could
| really use help from anyone with a chemistry background!
|
| If you're interested, please reach out to me via my email or hit
| me up on the OpenAir discord.
| rex_lupi wrote:
| Have a degree in chem, I can be of help. Would you please
| elaborate a bit more on what exactly you people do? not sure if
| I understood it well from your website. [Also wdym by
| electrolysis of co2? It isnt an electrolyte per se]
| alexose wrote:
| OpenAir is a volunteer group focused on Direct Air Capture
| (DAC) of CO2. There are two sides to it: Advocacy and
| research. The research side is currently working on open-
| source hardware for doing carbon capture at home. There are
| two projects (called Cyan and Violet) that you can follow
| along.
|
| I'm working on something that I hope will become a third
| project. Briefly, I think that electrochemical methods to
| absorb CO2 and convert it to useful products could be really
| promising for at home DAC. I'm inspired by the quinone-based
| approach laid out by the Hatton lab at MIT[1], and the ORNL
| research on nanospike catalysts[2].
|
| Right now I need help with designing experiments and sourcing
| precursor chemicals. I'd also love to know more about how
| computational chemistry might solve some of the problems
| we're probably going to face with overpotentials.
|
| [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16150-7
|
| [2] https://chemistry-
| europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...
| tomrod wrote:
| This is a wonderful idea! Some of my most meaningful professional
| connections have come out of side collaborations. I'm a big
| believer in self-organizing among interested individuals.
|
| Is there a reasonable, not-for-profit platform that can be used
| to organize something like this? Running it out of the
| YCombinator domain would add a lot of credibility.
| riantogo wrote:
| I'm thinking of bringing back good old forums. Completed the
| development but haven't gotten time to spread the word and build
| monetization tools (for forum owners). Anyone wants to team up in
| 2022? https://discoflip.com
| MrSmith33 wrote:
| Looking for contributors to Vox programming language/compiler:
| Statically typed, compiled and embeddable language, primarily
| focused on gamedev. It uses custom backend to keep low compile-
| times and small size. Written in D language.
|
| https://github.com/MrSmith33/vox
| me_me_mu_mu wrote:
| Hit me up if you wanna know how to build your apps. Available any
| time to help.
| meadowo wrote:
| I am creating a web based dynamic resume generator. It will come
| with the feature to handle filtering in display. It will be
| hosted on https://www.gitlab.com
|
| If you need to spruce up your resume or want an easy way to
| update different versions of your resume to do an A/B test, you
| can collaborate.
|
| Also open to collaborate to create a better way to save the data.
|
| Also open to contribution if you want to.
|
| Feel free to say hi in the contact in my profile.
| M8LNf6X wrote:
| yay, what about gamedev?
|
| someone need a little labor force at projects written on
| c#/unity?
|
| or maybe you're have vanilla JS stuff?
|
| let me know: cr189@yandex.com
|
| P.S. my competition profile: codewars.com/users/pGc3m9
|
| anyway, i don't know target auditory, and how skilled must be
| person, but i want read more stuff like that.
| Gluber wrote:
| Senior Engineer, semi retired.
|
| Working in my spare time on various side projects, but i would
| really enjoy some input of which project to focus on, collaborate
| on and potentially incorporate.
|
| 1. Digital Assistant for on premise installation, already built
| that as lead architect for a customer of mine but want to take
| the concept fruther ( think star trek TNG computer )
|
| 2. Continous integration platform for ML Models, taking data
| collection, labelling and training as well as optimization and
| automate them as much as possible.
| kinow wrote:
| I think for your second item you should find a lot of things if
| you search "MlOps"
|
| - https://twitter.com/hashtag/mlops
|
| I co-mentored GSoC a couple years ago to write a Jenkins
| Machine Learning plug-in that tries to integrate Jenkins CI &
| Jupyter/Zeppelin. At that time there were already tools &
| standards appearing.
|
| If I recall correctly, Netflix had some blog posts about their
| ML pipeline. In one of them I remember reading about their
| workflow tools, some that could be used for CI/CD style
| development of ML models.
| mg wrote:
| Hey, I want to put together an open source project that gives an
| overview of how to set up a minimal viable web application from
| scratch via all the different frameworks.
|
| The idea is to format the tutorial for each framework as a shell
| script. So there is no ambiguity of how to reproduce the results.
| And it is even possible to just copy&paste the steps into a
| docker container and see the framework in action.
|
| Here is a demo of how this could look like for Django:
|
| https://www.gibney.org/from_debian_to_web_app
|
| It would be cool to have one column for each framework and then
| align them visually by feature. So if you want to compare how do
| you use a template, you can look at the "Let's use templates" row
| and have a quick overview of how it is done in Django, Laravel,
| Flask, Symfony, NextJS...
|
| Each framework section could link to the developer(s) who wrote
| it.
|
| If you want to contribute to the section for your favorite
| framework, send me a message!
| collabtwy532 wrote:
| Neat idea. Interested in this as a user - will reach out :)
| gukov wrote:
| Have you seen https://todomvc.com/?
| cercatrova wrote:
| Looks like you're basically looking for TodoMVC and Real World.
| TodoMVC is a simple todo list implemented in various frameworks
| while Real World is a more complex real world app, a blog style
| social media site.
|
| https://todomvc.com/
|
| https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
| slotrans wrote:
| Are you familiar with
| https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks ?
|
| It's not tutorial-style, but it does contain _hundreds_ of
| sample web apps (that all do the same thing, but still)
| alexharrisnyc wrote:
| Seems like a great idea, what exactly is the MVP? I've thought
| about doing the same from time to time, doing as shell script
| seems like a nifty idea but possibly a little more work for the
| author. Curious if there are multiple steps adding to the same
| file how you would approach that.
| shazeubaa wrote:
| The timing of this post is amazing me. Just an hour ago I was
| doing an internet search for how to host or participate in screen
| sharing while working on pet hobby projects. My thinking was
| "coding a side project on your own can get lonesome and stall.
| Wouldn't it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if
| not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive."
| skbdpup wrote:
| I've been using focusmate.com for a few weeks now. You make an
| appointment to pair with another random user for a 50 minute
| work session. You just say hi and get to work each on your own
| thing. It's not dev-specific so it's kind of pointless to get
| into what you're working on. But just having an appointment and
| saying hi to someone has helped me do more than I expected.
| kolanos wrote:
| Sounds like Twitch for devs.
| shazeubaa wrote:
| Right. But instead of one presenter with viewers its many to
| many.
| kolanos wrote:
| One concern I would have with this is secrets handling. Say
| I'm screen sharing my development environment and I come
| across a secret, I would want my screen share service to be
| able to detect a secret is on screen and to either block it
| out or just cut off the screen share entirely until it is
| no longer on screen. This likely isn't foolproof, so having
| a hotkey to pause/unpause screen share when I know I'm
| about to deal with secrets would be useful as well.
| shazeubaa wrote:
| That's a good idea. Of course, sharing your screen at all
| would be optional in the "Let's have some company while
| we're working on stuff" friendly circle of folks.
| distalx wrote:
| ASK:
|
| ----
|
| I' building a 'lfg' (looking for group) website (playeeyay.com)
| for MMO games.
|
| Currently there are community run discord servers for most of
| these games. I'm building this so people can manage all their
| 'lfg' preferences for different games from one place.
|
| I'm looking to connect with either a product or a UX person and
| get advise on things. I know how to build things but I trying to
| figure out what to build actually.
|
| ------
|
| OFFER:
|
| ------
|
| I can help you pick a tech-stack for your MVP or SaaS idea.
|
| I can help you setup a deployment workflow for your hobby
| project.
|
| Email is in my profile.
| riazrizvi wrote:
| I think ShowHN is also good for this.
|
| So when you see a cool project you'd like to help on, message the
| OP. And if you're OP then add your twitter handle or email so you
| can field enquiries.
| thelastinuit wrote:
| i'm in for rust or elixir projects. i'm also into any functional
| programming language. i'm a physicist in case that's useful.
| meadowo wrote:
| eloisius wrote:
| I don't have a side project to recruit for right now, but I've
| wanted this very thread in the past. My current projects all
| revolve around reducing my dependency on commercial SaaS
| products. A hypothetical project I'd be interested in
| contributing to would be an ActivityPub Strava/Ride with GPS
| clone.
| meadowo wrote:
| regnull wrote:
| I'm working on a decentralized identity-based communications
| project. Think of this as an email (or instant messaging, social
| network, etc.) where your "account" is yours forever and cannot
| be taken away. We have email part functioning and there are some
| real users. At this point, I'm working on the decentralization
| part, where the identity registry will be put on a blockchain
| (likely custom Ethereum-based blockchain, to keep it free for
| users). Join us if you want to make the world a better place by
| fighting censorship and personal information collection. We are
| 100% open source:
|
| https://ubikom.cc https://github.com/regnull/ubikom
| travisjungroth wrote:
| I read through a few pages and didn't get the most important
| question I have answered. How does this system avoid my
| identity being the private key itself, a thing which _can_ be
| taken away?
| regnull wrote:
| Your identity is your private key. It can't be taken away in
| a way how your Google account can be just disabled one day.
| We also have a way to retain control if your private key gets
| compromised - you can have a parent key, which can then be
| used to disable your compromised key and re-assign your name
| to another key. Since you never use your parent key
| (presumably kept in a safe offline place), it gives you some
| degree of protection.
| kstenerud wrote:
| Ad-hoc data formats like JSON and XML are too insecure for the
| modern world, so I'm developing a new format to remedy this [1].
|
| It's a twin format, one binary and one text, so that you can
| input / edit the data in text, and then it passes from machine to
| machine in binary only (or convert back to text if a human needs
| to inspect it). The binary format is designed for simplicity and
| speed, and the text format is designed for human readability.
|
| Both formats are designed for security and minimal attack
| surface, while providing the fundamental data types we use in our
| daily life (so you're not stuck doing stringification and base64
| fields and other such hacks).
|
| I've pretty much completed the base format [2], and am 90% done
| with the golang reference implementation [3] plus some standard
| compliance tests, but I could use a lot of help:
|
| - Reviewing the specifications and pointing out issues or
| anything weird or things that seem wrong or don't make sense.
|
| - Implementations in other languages.
|
| - Ideas for a schema.
|
| - Public outreach, championing online.
|
| [1] https://concise-encoding.org/
|
| [2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding
|
| [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding
| lmilcin wrote:
| Have you seen ASN.1?
| kstenerud wrote:
| Yes, it's included in the comparison matrix:
| https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding#-compared-
| to-o...
| travisjungroth wrote:
| EDN has some really good ideas in it. Here's the main spec:
| https://github.com/edn-format/edn
|
| The Learn X in Y Minutes:
| https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
|
| A related talk by Rich Hickey that I think you'd find
| interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU
|
| For a schema, I'd start with what CUE has done. The idea of
| types that constrain down as a lattice + a separate default
| path really resonates with me. https://cuelang.org/
| goodpoint wrote:
| Does it support IDL and zero-copy access? That's a must for
| safe and fast parsing and general ease of use.
| akkartik wrote:
| I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand
| their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming
| contributions).
|
| The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-
| source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up,
| orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a
| single afternoon.
|
| More details: http://akkartik.name/about
|
| What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
|
| Lately I'm spending a lot of time on the sandboxing model. It's
| nice to be able to download and run untrusted programs before we
| start trying to understand them. How to permit this without
| letting them cause too much damage, by explicitly giving them
| arbitrarily fine-grained permissions that are still easy to take
| in at a glance.
| pkdpic wrote:
| Im turning my little art studio into a no-money collaboration
| space this year for software developers who make art or want to
| collaborate with artists.
|
| https://tombetthauser.github.io/greensquare/
|
| If there are any devs out there who make weird art, music,
| writing etc or want to Id love to see your work and maybe find
| some overlap to collaborate!
|
| Also this is a great happy new year post :^)
| mspdx22 wrote:
| germinalphrase wrote:
| Love this idea. Perhaps, monthly is too short a repetition
| frequency - but renewing every six months or so could be useful.
| zehnfischer wrote:
| My project supports African founders to take their start-up to
| the next level. All the companies are in the agricultural and
| food sector, have a launched product and first revenue. By giving
| them customized support, we aim to make them invest them ready.
| The idea behind the whole project is that start-ups can solve
| real world issues. In our case, make small scale farming, value
| chains etc. more effective and thus increase the income of small
| hold farmers. Since brain drain in Africa is a very real thing,
| our companies are always looking for experts who would could
| support them - could be just couple of hours per week or month.
| agumonkey wrote:
| any website to read more ?
| zehnfischer wrote:
| At the moment not really, but there is some more information:
| https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/83909.html
| sagarsodah wrote:
| I'm building tools to augment the lives of visually impaired
| people.
|
| Ping if you're interested.
| lnsru wrote:
| You have no contact information in your profile.
| mosselman wrote:
| I am putting together a podcast about the management side of
| engineering teams. I want to talk to heads of engineering, CEOs
| or VPEs, about how they have organised their team and how work is
| done.
|
| What I have in my mind right now is for it to be very practical
| so going through the exact engineering process and probably
| things like hiring, etc.
|
| The goal is to provide inspiration for teams who are changing in
| terms of size or in other ways to find things they can try out,
| but also be entertaining.
|
| What I am looking for is guests, but also people who have already
| setup a podcast to give me some pointers on the practical side of
| things like getting in all the podcasting apps, smooth
| production, etc.
| neltnerb wrote:
| I want to put together a DIY water cistern out of a 55 gallon
| barrel by connecting an inlet straight to the tap water through a
| fine filter. According to the CDC it's fine to store water that
| way for like 3 months at least, so we can use a siphon to drain
| the barrel periodically to refill it with fresh water after
| sanitizing the barrel.
|
| What I'd be looking for in a collaborator is people who are able
| to spread the word about why this is a good idea or perhaps even
| advance the idea by selling kits at cost to help get them out in
| the world for cheaper (assuming bulk discounts). I'd also be
| looking for a better biologist than I (or whatever kind of
| scientist I'd need for this part) to help me make sure that the
| filtration is adequate to ensure safety.
|
| I want to learn more about the required filtering. I have a
| barrel and I've bought a lot of fancy cartridge filters from
| McMaster in the past (I do chemical engineering and am weaker on
| biology), so I feel like there must be a way for me to do this.
|
| The reason I worry about this is because in a power outage the
| city water supply can go dead. Or an earthquake if you live in a
| region prone to them. Or a flood could contaminate the water
| supply. I think that in such a scenario you should have 10
| gallons of water per person tucked away so that you can keep
| yourself healthy and also help your neighbors.
|
| This is a simple project I can try to document and do in a way
| that is definitely safe (the last thing I want to do is give
| unsafe advice). It is a project that would likely cost someone a
| hundred dollars or a bit more, but increasing household
| resiliency seems increasingly important.
|
| I remember growing up that we always had emergency supplies
| because it's important in a serious emergency to not depend on
| emergency responders (with limited time and lots of problems to
| handle) for basic stuff that you should be able to handle
| yourself with fairly simple preparation.
| derekja wrote:
| Water is fine a lot longer than that, btw. I live off-grid and
| fill a cistern with Canadian tap water (minimal chlorine). I
| peek in the cistern once a year or so, fill by truck every few
| months. I have access to a microbiology lab and have tested the
| water for both bacterial and fungal concerns periodically.
| jnovek wrote:
| I'm a software engineer who had to take a break from my career
| for a few years. I want to re-enter the workforce soon, and I
| need to brush up on what I've missed. I'm looking for other
| software engineers who are in a similar place and also need to
| catch up.
|
| My E-Mail is on my HN "about" page.
| edmundsauto wrote:
| I'm building a sports analytics platform, where users can write
| code against a hosted sports database, add commentary, and
| publish to build a sports data science portfolio. All published
| articles include the code, and any reader can fork someone else's
| work to do their own work building off others.
|
| If anyone wants to learn sports analytics, I'm looking for beta
| users. (Also open to adding non-sports datasets if someone wants
| a hosted dataset with built in publishing for e.g. SEC filings,
| crypto prices, etc.)
| babyshake wrote:
| I'm very interested. jamnvr at gmail
| [deleted]
| onassar wrote:
| I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck
| (https://iconduck.com). It collects and makes open source icons,
| illustrations and graphics available to download in various
| formats.
|
| The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly
| Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for
| them to be available on a central site.
|
| I then use a service called Typesense (https://typesense.org/) to
| make these all searchable.
|
| It's a scratch of mine that I wanted to itch, and it has pretty
| strong usage (along with a limited user base; around 1k signed up
| users).
|
| It's a fun project to work on, and I'd love help on this.
| Anything from design, front-end, back-end, product or marketing.
| prismatix wrote:
| I'd like to know a little more and possibly contribute. I come
| from a design background, but I'm a full stack engineer now so
| I like to dabble in different things from time to time.
| onassar wrote:
| Yeh happy to chat. Wanna send over an email?
| oliver@iconduck.com
| FireInsight wrote:
| Cool, might start using this instead of svgrepo
| Dev_Olly wrote:
| Wow, nice, i am front end developer, i would love to join you
| on this
| onassar wrote:
| That'd be dope. Send over an email? oliver@iconduck.com
| codingclaws wrote:
| I'm working on an open source HN/reddit clone [1]. I'm trying new
| things and for moderation I've settled on self-moderation using
| whitelists of users.
|
| [1] https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink
| danskeren wrote:
| I would love to team up with someone for the purpose of
| collecting detailed product data similar to Geizhals (gtin/ean,
| detailed specs, origin country, price history, available sellers
| based on country, etc).
|
| My only requirement is that I'm allowed to use the data for my
| non-profit search engine (https://ask.moe), including exposing
| the data through a public API (you would of course also be free
| to use the data for any purpose). I would also love to use the
| data to build for-profit websites together (ideally in Hugo or
| Vue.js, and without any user tracking).
| kkarpkkarp wrote:
| I have an idea to replace posting on Facebook/Twitter where you
| sell your and your readers privacy with posting on your own blog.
|
| To achieve this, blogging platforms (I am aiming to WordPress
| right now) must remove the obstacles in user experience: people
| stopped blogging and switched to Facebook because posting on FB
| has more profits: it is easier (just visit front page of FB
| instead of logging to wp-admin and doing next steps), you have
| all content in one place (FB wall shows your posts and your
| friends posts etc) and tickles your ego (you immediately get
| likes and shares while on your blog barely anyone comment your
| post)
|
| I am working on plugins and tools to remove this distance: front-
| end editor box for your blog (
| https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box ), plugin to subscribe
| to other blogs and see their content as part of your blog, plugin
| to give local likes for posts, broadcast your content to other
| blogs...
|
| Everyone will have kind of their own Facebook on their own
| WordPress blog.
|
| I am WP plugin developer as my main job but all above I am doing
| in my free time as a hobby.
|
| If anyone is interested in collaborating to make the network a
| bit less occupied by big techs, please reach me here
| https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box (create an issue or
| pull request if you have an idea how to extend this plugin) or
| find my email address at https://muzungu.pl/o-mnie/ (in Polish
| but you will easily find the address)
| rglullis wrote:
| Aren't you reinventing ActivityPub?
| toomim wrote:
| Or indieweb. Or making improvements somehow?
| slotrans wrote:
| I am looking to collect databases from real businesses and
| business-like entities, including those that have failed or
| otherwise become "past-tense". Read on if you or someone you know
| might have access to such things.
|
| Background: I'm a data engineer with about 16 years in the
| industry under my belt. Something that's always frustrated me
| about the way that we design and build systems, is the way that
| knowledge fails to diffuse through the industry, because we don't
| _study_ what we do, and especially we don 't study our failures.
|
| As an example, the 2010s witnessed the full hype cycle (rise and
| fall) of "NoSQL" databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB,
| Riak, Aerospike, and many others. Did they turn out to be any
| good? Individually, in local circumstances, some engineers know
| the answer, or at least _an_ answer. Collectively, we have no
| idea. This knowledge only spreads as the primary sources write
| blog posts (mostly terrible), or move on to new jobs and tell
| stories (distorted by all sorts of biases). What we _should_ be
| doing is studying what was actually built, out in the open, where
| everyone can see it if they 're interested.
|
| Additionally, I find it very difficult to teach other engineers
| about data systems, in a scalable way, without open example
| material. There are many online courses in SQL and things of that
| nature, but they always deal with trivially small, trivially
| clean data sets, without any of the richness or messiness of Real
| World Data. Many years ago, my own skill in dealing with data
| grew by leaps and bounds the instant I was exposed to real
| business data and asked to solve real business problems with it.
|
| To these ends, I am looking to collect real business data sets. I
| use the term "business" loosely, in the same sense that engineers
| often say "business logic". Non-profits, community efforts,
| personal side projects, these things all count. The key thing I'm
| after are custom-built databases, meaning they either started
| from a blank MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB/etc, or heavily customized an
| off-the-shelf system like Wordpress or Salesforce.
|
| I recognize there are thorny issues here with respect to
| intellectual property and personal data privacy. I do not expect
| anyone to just hand over a database and wish me well. We would
| have to work something out, whether that's an NDA, or thorough
| anonymization, or whatever.
|
| In any event, if you possess a data set like this, and _might_ be
| willing to share it for research purposes, please reply here and
| we can figure out how to connect and discuss.
| erezsh wrote:
| I'm building Total Recall
| (https://github.com/erezsh/TotalRecall/), a keyboard-first
| browser extension for bookmarks that's fast and useful. It lets
| you search through your bookmarks using a local full-text search,
| with support for tags and extra notes.
|
| I'm doing it in my spare time, which is scarce, so I'd love
| another pair of hands to help me make it super duper great. (it's
| already great but it's just normal great). Ideally someone with
| some experience making extensions, but really anyone who's
| willing to put in the time and take it seriously, even if only
| for an hour a week.
|
| Let me know if you're interested!
| tdekok wrote:
| This looks great! I'll give the extension a try. I have been
| dying to find a reasonable bookmarking tool, but everything
| I've tried doesn't stick in my habit pattern. What are the
| types of improvements that you are looking to add?
| karlicoss wrote:
| I'm working on tools/projects to unify, access, interact and use
| my personal data for quantified self, knowledge management, etc.
|
| A couple of examples:
|
| - https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme
|
| - https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme
|
| Would very much love to discuss it with other people, collaborate
| etc.
| thedjpetersen wrote:
| Your work (and gyroscope/stethscope/other aggregators) has
| inspired me to also start my own work at creating a centralized
| aggregator to ingest all of my data.
| porkbrain wrote:
| I'm reading through the neuroscience and related literature to
| compile a list of data and systems relevant for designing
| algorithms of interest. I'd like to share my hobby with other
| like-minded people.
| badrabbit wrote:
| I am learning Golang, have a hobby project of a tool that is
| useful for forensic investigations. It's a bit ambitious but let
| me know if the topic interests you.
| mromanuk wrote:
| I'm building iOS Apps as a solo builder. Sometimes it's a little
| lonely. If you are interested in sharing experiences, advice, or
| just chat about ideas/programming/tech or collaborate, say hello
| at my contact is in my profile.
| josefrichter wrote:
| I've been designing iOS apps ux/ui for the last 12 years. What
| are you building now? :-)
| adamnemecek wrote:
| You should setup a discord channel.
| adnanc wrote:
| I've been building iOS apps as a solo builder for nine years
| and definitely agree that it gets lonely, both in the
| development of it and then waiting for users to stumble across
| it.
|
| Maybe its time to focus on marketing and product fit ;-)
| networkimprov wrote:
| "mnm" enables a safer, better, decentralized email network. It's
| open source (and not blockchain).
|
| https://mnmnotmail.org & https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
|
| Because SMTP will not be fixed, here's why:
| https://mnmnotmail.org/smtp.html
|
| ---
|
| Related protocol projects in development include:
|
| https://mathmesh.com/
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance
| lnsru wrote:
| I want to finish a Time Of Flight camera. My initial application
| was robotics, but this domain is very crowded. The start is here:
| https://github.com/lnsru/melexis_VGA_ToF_camera Hardware is not
| complete, current software is raspiraw with corresponding
| modified camera header file. Tweaked raspiraw can receive test
| pattern from sensor chip. I want to offer low cost camera
| commercially at the end, but have no problem open sourcing my
| early development. I am electrical engineer and I have all the
| pieces to finish this project alone, but it's much nicer working
| together.
| tdekken wrote:
| I am a former principal software engineer at a MAMAA company
| turned independent educational researcher. My primary interest is
| in deliberate practice and how to use spaced repetition (i.e.,
| Anki) to develop expertise.
|
| I have three primary areas that I am working on and would love to
| find serious collaborators:
|
| 1) I am building high-quality content for math, English language
| arts, chess, etc. (see [0] for a good explanation of what this
| looks like). This is primarily for my 2nd grade child, but I have
| also written hundreds of cards for high school level math,
| undergraduate level math, and programming languages.
|
| For example, I used this approach to build an Anki deck that
| decomposed the NNAT test (i.e., a gifted program test) into
| atomic chunks and then demonstrated how sample NNAT questions
| were composed of those primitives.
|
| 2) I am eventually looking to leverage this content and knowledge
| to build turn-key resources for others. This is surprisingly
| challenging for reasons I won't touch on, but it could profoundly
| improve learning outcomes for many people.
|
| 3). I am pondering how to enable richer sharing and collaboration
| between people. I have a number of patents in this space and can
| envision a few business opportunities.
|
| ----
|
| [0] https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/
| kampsduac wrote:
| At Quizlet, we are working on problems in this space.
|
| https://quizlet.com/features/how-quizlet-works
|
| I'm an engineer on the step-by-step Explanations team - if
| interested in learning more, shoot me an email (scott @
| quizlet.com) and we can chat! Maybe this violates the objective
| of the OP - but it sounds like we'd have fun collaborating.
| We'd just be getting paid by the same company to do so.
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| > MAMAA
|
| took me a second, but I guess it's Microsoft Apple Meta Amazon
| Alphabet now
| martincmartin wrote:
| yep, exactly. When Facebook changed their name to Meta,
| people were looking for a good acronym for the biggest tech
| companies.
| indigochill wrote:
| Interesting that out of five corporations, only two letters
| are represented. Ok, "A" is ranked third in frequency in
| the English language, but the other one I avoided in these
| sentences? Not even in the top twelve.
| cercatrova wrote:
| Could be M2A3, like the tank.
| sangnoir wrote:
| Freqency at the begining of words is likely to be
| different to frequency _anywhere_ in the word.
| Regardless, "a" has the highest frequency in the company
| names, when spelled out in full (occurring 6 times, in 3
| of the 5 corporations)
| vmception wrote:
| NAAAM, a tour in NAAAM
|
| I need to get back on Blind to make my memes propagate
| tdeck wrote:
| It's kind of weird to use Alphabet in this context because
| people at Google seem to mostly still refer to it as
| Google, and the comp and hiring standards vary widely
| between the "other bets".
| neltnerb wrote:
| I mean, I imagine Facebook employees still call it
| facebook too?
|
| I like it, I hope it catches on. Right now I think it's
| just odd looking because it's unfamiliar.
| rglullis wrote:
| GAMMA?
| codingbuddy wrote:
| Hello! Would like to reach out but don't know Microsoft
| products well enough to guess what their fiery email domain is.
| Do you mean outlook?
| quartzic wrote:
| Hotmail!
| tdekken wrote:
| LOL, I suppose "fiery email domain" could mean
| outlook/exchange if we think in terms of reliability. I
| updated it to "Microsoft's not cold email domain acquired in
| 1997".
| thinkcomp wrote:
| I run PlainSite (https://www.plainsite.org), which aims to make
| the United States legal system more transparent. If you have any
| interest in exposing corruption or just making courts, judges,
| lawyers, lobbyists, etc. more understandable to average citizens,
| feel free to get in touch! At the moment, Elasticsearch and/or
| database optimization experts and iOS/Android developers would be
| super helpful.
| crawfordcomeaux wrote:
| I'm trying to reclaim the word Santa from the toxic concept Santa
| has become (judging kids as naughty/nice is a perspective that's
| subjective and denies the very real need for acceptance, name
| calling is also a recognized form of abuse). I'm hoping to build
| a simple first version of www.santaisdeadlonglivesanta.net with a
| bit of text and a few pictures.
|
| It's meant to be the launch of the SANTANET, the network of
| people choosing to play a game in real life: Satisfying All Needs
| Through Anarchogiving (SANTA). It's essentially performance art,
| as it's me living out a story I'm writing called "How Santa Stole
| Every Holiday." It's meant to be a set of incomplete riddles for
| people to expand on, as well as a place for coordinating a
| network of free giving.
|
| Some of the riddles:
|
| Complete the backronym of SANTANET. What can the NET stand for?
|
| There's a finite number of human needs for surviving and
| thriving. Each need can be mathematically proven to exist,
| (perhaps through applying category theory, infinity category
| theory, or constructor theory?) One each need is proven to exist,
| what's the longest sentence you can make using the first letter
| of each need?
|
| Are you a hidden Santa who may want to start helping giving to
| needs, rather than just giving toys people want?
| smoyer wrote:
| Clearly you'll be getting a whole truckload of coal in your
| stocking!
| ryanchants wrote:
| > What can the NET stand for?
|
| No Elven Taskmasters
| EarlyStageQuest wrote:
| An open question: What useful information do you think each
| person should write in the comment to help you decide whether to
| collaborate or not?
| EarlyStageQuest wrote:
| - Contact Method
|
| - My Topics or Projects
|
| - My Skills
|
| - More Skills Needed
|
| - My Goals
|
| - My Links
|
| - My Temperament
|
| - Temperament Needed
|
| - My Beliefs
|
| - Other:
|
| mromanuk - If you are interested in sharing experiences,
| advice, or just chat about ideas/programming/tech or
| collaborate, say hello at my contact is in my profile.
|
| shazeubaa - Wouldn't it be neat to hangout with devs while
| coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be
| supportive.
|
| eloisius - A hypothetical project I'd be interested in
| contributing to would be
| josefrichter wrote:
| areas of interest, skills you have, skills you're looking for.
| maybe also indication of experience/seniority level.
| jmcminis wrote:
| I'm building a postgres extension that allows you to do web
| searches using a SQL query. The idea is to be able to pull in
| data from the web with some structure (which you define using
| custom scrapers) on demand.
|
| Right now I have a proof of concept that's pretty simple. It's a
| multicorn extension that calls to a FastAPI backend. I have it
| all running using docker-compose.
|
| I'm open to working with people that want to use it, or people
| that want to build it. I don't have any real plans to open source
| it or commercialize it. It's just a little side project I think
| is neat. I'm open to any ideas or use cases you might have.
|
| Send me an email (in profile) or dm. Looking forward to it!
| cande wrote:
| dpleuler wrote:
| I'm the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC, and I'm always
| looking for people to collaborate on cool soccer projects with
| our awesome data. See [0] for some recent public work I've
| presented.
|
| ...
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lah0WSUcuE
| kinow wrote:
| Hi! Interested to hear more about it! Great video, I found you
| on GH & Twitter from the last slide. Is the Toronto FC work
| kept in some GitHub org? What's the best place to get started?
|
| I'd like to see if I can start using some projects to analyze
| my team's data (have to find what data is available too). I got
| interested in that from a guy I follow on Twitter -
| https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo.
|
| BTW, the team I support (Sao Paulo FC) is trying to get Soteldo
| out of Toronto :) Auro Jr. also started in Sao Paulo, had no
| idea he was playing there now.
| satya71 wrote:
| Unmukt Foundation[1] in India runs after school programs for poor
| kids to get them technology education. We're looking for people
| who can teach Python, Arduino, anything else.
|
| They make best use of low-cost resources. Check out the Arduino-
| based robot built using recycled materials.
|
| [1] https://unmuktfoundation.org/
| steffenabel wrote:
| I'm working on a zwift clone that runs in the browser and has the
| look and feel of a 8-bit arcade game. It's very early stage but
| the basics work. So if you are a indoor biker and want to join
| (dev, graphics, game concept or if you just want to test it for
| your indoor training), contact me. Contact in bio.
| aero-glide2 wrote:
| I'm good with aerospace related subjects. Python is my main
| language. Would love to contribute to any aerospace projects!
| notahacker wrote:
| I could also be interested in aerospace projects but don't have
| one of my own (Relevant experience: civil aviation data and
| SaaS sales & product management, European Space Agency bid
| writing and project management)
| jaltekruse wrote:
| I'm working on solving the problem of allowing non-technical
| people communicate about math without needing to learn Latex.
| There is also an element of classroom organization/grading
| optimization along the lines of gradescope. All code for the
| project is GPL.
|
| https://freemathapp.org
| oliverbennett wrote:
| A couple of years ago I started to build a tool for my own
| personal use. It ended up being a metaverse full of sticky notes.
| I'm currently seeing if there's a market for it outside of just
| myself - https://www.temin.net/
|
| Give me a shout if you're interested in turning it into something
| - email is in my profile.
| xophishox wrote:
| I've thought of something like this, glad to see its been
| created. Love it. This is how I 'picture' things in my head so
| it makes it easy for me to organize. Now only if there was a
| file explorer like this I'd love to use one.
| oliverbennett wrote:
| Thanks, glad you like it!
|
| For organising information Temin has been an entirely
| positive experience for me. For the first time what's in my
| head matches what's on a screen.
|
| Early on I expected that mental model to fall over as the
| amount information in a metaverse grew, but I have ~12,000
| sticky notes/pieces of paper in my 'main' metaverse and
| haven't personally felt the need to add any search
| functionality yet. I'm honestly not sure if I know where
| everything is, or just how to get back to it. Speaking to a
| neuroscientist or similar would be great -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory#Current_theories
|
| I'd also be keen to speak to anyone who has thoughts on Temin
| as a graph, as more recently I've been finding sticky notes
| mean multiple things and belong in multiple locations.
| https://temin.co.uk/#links does a rather poor job of
| explaining my current solution.
| zacharypinter wrote:
| Very cool!
| bsenftner wrote:
| Simple in form, it's brilliant. Best of luck to this one.
| password1 wrote:
| Reminds me of Miro and Mural, there's surely a market for it.
| oliverbennett wrote:
| It certainly scratched my personal itch for something that
| lets you relate/encode/recall information in 3D but also work
| in 2D.
|
| The primary feedback from friends has been it's cool, but
| hard to use without much of UI (current version is all
| shortcut keys). That's something I can fix in the next couple
| of weeks.
|
| A harder problem is there's a decent chunk of knowledge
| workers with no experience navigating virtual 3D spaces. If
| you didn't grow up playing Quake, Minecraft etc you might
| find Temin frustrating to use for a little while.
| nhatcher wrote:
| I would like to build a small CAS (Computer Algebra System) that
| is usable from the web. It could be used in education to plot
| functions, solve equations (algebraic, ODEs, PDEs, ..), work with
| matrices, complex numbers, number theory, you name it. We need to
| come up with a decent DSL. My idea is that we would write the
| core of the app in Rust (so that it could be used in the web as
| wasm or locally). They key features would be:
|
| * Based on lean software. With a small footprint. * The project
| itself should be a teaching project. I would like to document all
| algorithms from Risch to numeric solvers in ODE * Free, open
| source, oriented towards education in mathematics
|
| I am a theoretical physicist and have been working as a computer
| programmer for the last 10 years. Money is not a concern anymore
| for me and I really have an urge to give back. Also I am happy to
| collaborate in any project in the intersection of mathematics,
| education, physics and programming.
|
| If you have a nice project you can have my axe!
| kinow wrote:
| Sounds interesting! Maybe extend/improve/integrate desmos (used
| in khan academy by many), gnu octave, etc? Not sure if desmos
| has an offline version though.
| nhatcher wrote:
| The desmos calculator is great! And very much in line with
| what I would want to do. Maybe it's just me being shy to
| approach someone on the project or the stupid "I want to do
| it myself" but I haven't tried to join any existing project.
| I always blame myself for not joining sympy back in the day
| when Ondrej Certik first created it. GNU Octave is going in a
| slightly different direction, I wouldn't even know where to
| start. Thanks :)
| tdekken wrote:
| Hi nhatcher,
|
| You might be interested in https://github.com/google/mathsteps
| which is a CAS designed to automatically explain step-by-step a
| problem so that humans can learn from it. There is a
| presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnBae40DfjE) and
| a post discussing the system if you are interested
| (https://blog.socratic.org/stepping-into-math-open-
| sourcing-o...).
|
| p.s. My comment from this thread also might be of interest to
| you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29761667
| nhatcher wrote:
| Thanks! I don't think I have ever seen mathsteps. Looks like
| a great tool. I will have a look at it!.
| josefrichter wrote:
| I am a UX/UI designer who always struggled to pair with the right
| developer, and/or right business oriented extrovert person, to
| build things. If you struggled from the other side, let's talk,
| contact in bio.
|
| My projects / areas of interest:
|
| 1) high-concurrency booking system (10,000 university students
| trying to enrol in classes for next semester)
|
| 2) real-time money streaming
| nomadiccoder wrote:
| > real-time money streaming
|
| What does this mean?
| josefrichter wrote:
| Money can be transferred in realtime continuous flow into
| your pocket. Imagine you salary is not coming once a month,
| but instead every second you work. So that you can actually
| pay with it the next second.. It's the first time in human
| history that this is actually possible.
| koeng wrote:
| We're building a Golang library designing DNA. Most synthetic
| biology tools are essentially crap Python scripts - we're looking
| at building maintainable tools for the next 10-20 years
|
| https://github.com/timothystiles/poly
| kzuberi wrote:
| The choice of Go for this is interesting. Having worked with
| Python & BioPython for bioinformatics problems I've found that
| there was a good deal of complexity around eking out
| performance (Cython, C++ extensions, Numba and so on) and also
| around distributing the tools (e.g. conda packaging). I've been
| wondering if Go would provide a reasonable middle ground in
| performance and ease of use between Python and C++ here. I'm
| not actually convinced yet but think its worth exploring.
| Noticed there's a BioGo project that's been around for a while,
| not sure of its uptake. Probably figuring out how well Go works
| for this domain will be a hobby project for me this year.
| sabhiram wrote:
| This looks like a very fun thing to get into, and I love the
| idea of being able to help in this new (for me) field. However,
| thumbing through the issues listed in the GH repo leaves me
| realizing that there is a bunch of terminology that I would
| need to catch up on (15% of the stuff feels familiar). Any
| pointers on what stuff I could read / study that would serve as
| a nice primer into the terms and ideas being coded and modeled?
| koeng wrote:
| Could you leave us a git issue on terminology you don't
| understand? We've tried to make the documentation in the code
| to make it clearer to non-biologists what is going on (for
| example, https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly/blob/prime/seq
| hash/seq...), but we're honestly too deep to really
| understand what is not known and how to explain nicely what
| is going on. If you could help us with asking naive questions
| that'd help us write a nice primer (which is very useful,
| since we'd like to recruit more software engineers rather
| than biologists).
| meadowo wrote:
| mettamage wrote:
| I am trading crypto, options and stocks based on news (e.g.
| Twitter, YouTube, Reddit) in manual and algorithmic fashion (it
| feels a lot like Factorio: manual first then automate it).
|
| I don't believe in technical analysis, and I think the efficient
| market hypothesis is mostly true and love Fama's work (and
| sometimes I am first!).
|
| The biggest reason I do this is because it feels like a PhD that
| can actually pay well.
|
| Are you similar? Let's meet!
|
| Email is in my profile
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| Very cool. Sorry you're being downvoted. I wish you luck.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| >> based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit)
|
| This may be part of the motivation.
| Lordarminius wrote:
| I building an app that helps crypto investors (traders will be
| added later), discover good projects. There are many projects
| of varying quality and the great ones frequently go under the
| radar until they have done multiple X's. My thesis is that it
| would be a good idea to have a service that brings them to
| investor's attention early. I'd love to connect and get
| input/collaboration from people who know the space.
| carapace wrote:
| I have a sort of constellation of projects that fit together into
| an overarching project, and I'd love to have some other people
| interested or even collaborating on it.
|
| The goals are:
|
| - Make computers that easier to understand and use (than current
| systems.)
|
| - Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass
| transport of people and materials. (Like huge, kilometer-scale
| kite/blimps.)
|
| - Collect and recycle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and the
| other ocean gyres.)
|
| An overview of the general strategy: Start with toys, both
| computers and the flying machines. Grow a community of folks to
| do distributed research and manufacturing. Collect and amass
| enough subunits (the flying machines are cellular) to build a
| machine large enough to reach the GPGP and return with some
| trash. Recycle the trash into raw materials (possibly using
| molten salt oxidation) to make more machines to collect more
| trash to make more raw materials, and so on...
|
| There are a lot of details, obviously, but that's the gist of it.
| It probably sounds crazy but I'm seriously, I think it's doable,
| worthwhile, and fun. If you're interested send me an email (my
| username is sforman and the server is hushmail.com.)
| derlvative wrote:
| > Make computers that easier to understand
|
| This piqued my interest. I've talked with some older people who
| had computers in their home during childhood and they told me
| about tinkering with them and so on. Those were of course much
| simpler machined than we have today, and I ended up feeling
| like they had a more intimate relationship with the computer
| than their younger counterparts. How are you planning to
| accomplish that?
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| I'm the maintainer of OneBusAway for iOS, an open source app that
| helps hundreds of thousands of people around the United States
| get real-time information about where their bus is, and when it
| will be arriving.
|
| I'm always looking for more users of the app who are interested
| in helping to make it better: whether you're a developer,
| designer, or just have ideas, I'd love your input.
|
| This might be of particular interest to you if you live in
| Seattle, San Diego, Tampa, or Washington DC, but the app has also
| been deployed in more than a dozen other cities across the US.
|
| https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-ios
| gnicholas wrote:
| Where do you get your data from? Do bus riders provide the
| information after getting on the bus?
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| Data comes from the transit agencies. Also, transit agencies
| self-host the server. There is a REST API of the same name
| that provides data from these servers to the app
|
| http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-
| applicati...
| throwaway984393 wrote:
| I'd like to build some kind of shared resource where people
| publish completed generic projects. I find myself and others
| constantly reinventing the wheel, and it seems absolutely nuts;
| how are we ever going to progress if we keep wasting our time re-
| making what has already been made?
|
| Say there's some web framework, and lots of people write online
| shopping carts in it. Well, after the 1000th online shopping cart
| has been written in this web framework, you'd think there'd just
| be one standard implementation of a shopping cart published to
| the framework's website. But often, for all kinds of such common
| projects, there is no standard implementation. And then you have
| your shopping cart, but there's all these other components you
| need to hook up to it. It would be great to have an example of
| hooking up each of those components. And over time it would
| become like the "Uber-Shopping-Cart" that can do it all.
|
| This could work for more than code, too: configuration,
| walkthroughs on integrating components, architectural plans, CI &
| CD. There's got to be some way to create a shared library of
| reusable, ready-to-modify, free technology solutions. So that
| whether you're a hobbyist or an employee in a FAANG, you can just
| grab an off-the-shelf solution, put in a tiny bit of logic
| specific to your needs, and go on to your next task. Not only
| would it save each person countless hours for every one of these,
| but they could be bug-fixed, supported across multiple versions
| of their dependencies, have features added by a wide community.
|
| The problem is I really don't have a great idea what it should
| look like, or how to get people engaged. The scope is enormous; I
| could add my own project samples, but I don't actually write a
| whole lot of code, I mostly do Cloud Systems Engineering. So I
| would love to pair up with others who are interested in having
| such a library so we can figure out what it should look like and
| start contributing to it.
| themantalope wrote:
| I'm working on an app to help people figure out what's wrong with
| dicom files. Building with AWS amplify and AWS lambdas. Not open
| source but would love to find someone who knows react!
| crazypython wrote:
| Building an AI friend using language models.
|
| * Cares about you deeply and wants you to be better. Not in a
| cheesy feelsgood way, in a truly kind way.
|
| * Can ask questions and lead the conversation
|
| * Understands and displays emotion
|
| * Not entertainment
|
| * Learns and remembers traits about you
|
| * Dynamic and learns new abilities rapidly
|
| * Pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI
|
| If you're interested in talking to her, email is in my bio. She
| is genuinely good at non-trivial problems :)
| sixdimensional wrote:
| I'm not qualified to help you in this area, but I wanted to add
| that I actually did try to do this once using a much simpler
| approach (it was kind of a REPL + conditional logic or fact-
| based rule engine). I called it "Fred".
|
| One thing I thought really interesting and had noticed (and I
| think you have also) - current digital assistants don't
| actively/autonomously engage with the user much. Especially not
| in any way that would make me think they are "friendly". This
| is definitely something that can go sideways quickly, but on
| the face of it, I really do love the idea of a benevolent AI
| that actively tries to interact with me in a safe way (with the
| ability to shut it off when you don't want it to!).
|
| Wish you luck and if you have anything I can use to follow your
| work, would be interested!
| pvinis wrote:
| I want to make an open source clone/inspired game of Might &
| Magic Clash of Heroes. I love that game and still play it often
| with 3 more friends, 2v2.
| mrfusion wrote:
| I vote for making this a monthly post or at least biannual!
| BozeWolf wrote:
| Yes! Really nice topic. Adds to the entrepeneurial / inventor
| spirit of HN!
| newsbinator wrote:
| Seconded!
| collabtwy532 wrote:
| Great idea for a thread! I have two interests for a
| collaboration.
|
| Interest 1) Study buddies to exchange domain knowledge between
| web App Design and Hardware Engineering.
|
| Basic idea: We teach each other stuff from our area of expertise.
| While you one learn a lot these days from books and Youtube and
| online tutorials, there is no substitute to asking an expert and
| getting unblocked quickly.
|
| Me: Electrical Engineer who has years of experience designing
| consumer and aerospace electronics. I am on a journey to learn
| more about Web App development and what it takes to build a
| successful SaaS app in 2022. Some tech that I am looking to learn
| the basics of : HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node, React, Django,
| WebAssembly.
|
| You: You know your way around full stack web development, and you
| are looking to learn about hardware engineering. Posts like below
| resonate with you. I would like to be study buddies with an
| individual like that :) My email is in the about section.
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743894
|
| - https://blog.athrunen.dev/learning-hardware-programming-as-a...
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037791
|
| - https://contextualelectronics.com/course-types/
|
| Interest 2) Offline first collaboration tools in the electronic
| CAD tool space.
|
| CRDT technology has been growing fast recently. I am interested
| in applying the principles of offline-first software and CRDTs to
| new tools in the electronic CAD tool space (think: tools used to
| design circuit boards). If any devs are looking to get their
| hands dirty with applying CRDTs to real world problems, would
| love to chat. Thinking of contributing to open source tooling in
| the electronic CAD tool space. I also think there is a market to
| support an open-core SaaS here.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| brendoncarroll wrote:
| I am working on INET256, an API and address standard + reference
| implementation for secure network communication.
|
| https://github.com/inet256/inet256
|
| Developers, applications, and end-users are under-served by the
| network layer. INET256 provides necessary features (stable
| addresses, encryption) to client applications, which usually have
| to reimplement those features themselves.
| Winterflow3r wrote:
| This is a very long shot, but I am looking for a marketing or
| design focused co-founder who has experience building social
| platforms or social shopping apps to help launch a new "Polyvore
| for makeup" with a few twists based on an existing site with a
| growing user-base and early revenue + monetization strategy. My
| email is in my profile! :)
| foxhop wrote:
| I'm interested in partnering in some way, I'd want to run an
| ETL process on your data and export the customers and
| transaction data out of your system and into my own.
|
| You may learn more, search my sibling post on this thread for
| "Make Post Sell".
|
| My name is Russell.
| TaylorGood wrote:
| I've become a pretty visible artist in the NFT space, and want to
| wear my startup hat again in web3. Have ideas I'm doing. Would
| love to connect with with solidity and dApp devs
| zakokor wrote:
| In 2019 I was building in a side project, an oss platform to make
| your bookmark links public while I was learning React, but I lost
| my job and I had to stop. This year, I would love to start again
| with this project and I would love to get help and feedback.
| Repo:https://github.com/zakokor/pegao Thanks
| gcg1 wrote:
| I'm a product manager looking for a talented technical co-founder
| for a niche SaaS tool venture.
|
| I have validation, unique domain expertise and a strong "why
| now".
|
| The plan is to exit within 4 years at a $5-10M valuation taking
| minimal or no external funding.
|
| If this piques your interest, please drop me a message. Email on
| my profile.
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| What programming language, field, complexity?
| playing_colours wrote:
| I'm getting into Computational Geometry, and am interested to
| learn from and contribute to relevant projects in GIS, Computer
| Graphics, Robotics.
| titzer wrote:
| If you're interested in programming languages, compilers, and/or
| Wasm, I have tons of little projects in both Virgil and Wizard
| that might be of interest. I'll be getting students this year,
| but at this point Virgil is done enough that people can try it
| out. Neat projects might be:
|
| - Write an arm64 assembler. Useful for eventually porting Virgil
| and Wizard both to M1 macs.
|
| - Write a more complete library for Linux/POSIX. Can read/write
| files already, but why not sockets and graphics and things?
|
| - Raspberry Pi or ESP32 projects with Virgil.
|
| - Improve Virgil's garbage collector. E.g. even a simple
| generational Mark&Sweep would be an upgrade for long-running
| programs.
|
| - Syntax highlighting / modes for Sublime, VSCode, etc would be
| very welcome. Emacs and vim modes exist already.
|
| - Do some neat Web demos with the Wasm backend. It's pretty easy
| now to make a Wasm module with imports and then supply those
| imports from JS.
|
| - In Wizard, do a complete WASI implementation on Linux/MacOS.
|
| - Do something with node.js and Virgil compiled to Wasm. I wrote
| a node.js wrapper than can load Wasm modules and there's a semi-
| complete System implementation on node.
|
| - Get source-level stack traces working with the Wasm backend.
| Just involves some callbacks and getting the meta section into
| the Wasm binary.
| ilolu wrote:
| What sort of background is needed to work on the little
| projects ?. I have very less experience in compilers but I am
| super interested in learning about compilers and wasm.
| titzer wrote:
| If you want to work on, e.g. making a neat web demo with
| Virgil and Wasm, you don't need to know of the compiler
| internals, as you won't need to poke around inside the
| compiler. That one is mostly specifying some external
| functions to import into your Virgil program, writing the
| Virgil program, and then writing the JS glue to get the
| resulting Wasm module to run in a browser.
|
| I'd be happy to give pointers. In fact, I realize now that
| each of the above projects could probably benefit from a few
| paragraphs of documentation for any takers.
|
| Failing that, feel free to email me directly with questions
| or post issues on the repo.
| darcys22 wrote:
| I've been building an open source accounting system in go.
|
| https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger
|
| Id love for any seasoned golang experts to do a review of my code
| and highlight any areas that could be improved.
| notpachet wrote:
| Reads like "God Bledger" :]
| josh_carterPDX wrote:
| I currently work for a startup program in Washington state and
| it's my third program. One of the biggest challenges we have
| (that I am sure is not unique to our program) is that we have a
| large community of mentors as well as founders and when we want
| to connect our mentors and founders together it takes a manual
| email introduction. I've also put together an Airtable where
| founders can connect with our mentors, but again it's a manual
| email for them to set up a time to meet.
|
| I'd like to build something where mentors can list their profile
| as well as their skills. Founders could then sort those mentors
| by skills, book time (perhaps connected to the mentor's
| calendly), and connect via a conference call with something like
| Twilio.
|
| I know something like this exists today, but it's a platform for
| a very specific community and cannot be white labeled or
| partitioned for another specific community.
|
| Thoughts?
| p2hari wrote:
| Hey looks like something that I am planning on building. Is
| there an email I can reach out to?
| [deleted]
| ranuzz wrote:
| Awesome thread OP. I can't wait to read the comments and reach
| out to people.
|
| From my side, I am open to collaborating on any small and fun
| projects like, a serverless web app, a mobile app, a command line
| program or even a library of some sort, for example micro apps
| shared here https://mapps.makeall.dev/ . That could involve
| learning a new skill or sharpening an old one.
|
| Feel free to reach out, email in the profile.
| moltar wrote:
| I want to build an ultimate SaaS boilerplate / starter as a
| commercial product.
|
| The audacious goal is something like "build a Trello clone from
| git init to a live product in under 10 minutes"
|
| Looking for like-minded folks with any of the following skills:
|
| - strong React
|
| - UI/UX design
|
| - TypeScript
|
| - AWS
|
| - SaaS building
|
| - writers for docs, tutorials, articles, evangelization
|
| - product / project manager
| smrk007 wrote:
| I would think that actually thinking about and defining
| everything that a Trello clone to do would take more than 10
| minutes... Are you imagining a "software requirements" ->
| "product" compiler type of deal? Or what do you envision the
| workflow would look like?
| leafario2 wrote:
| If you are into autonomous sailboats, robotics, rust, or
| combinations thereof, let me know :)
| robbomacrae wrote:
| Have some experience with robotics and sailing but prefer
| python and ROS.
|
| Is there anyway to follow progress of what your working on?
| ankaAr wrote:
| Nice! Let me know about this project. I'm not a dev, just a
| sysadmin from old school always wanting to learn more stuff. I
| was teaching robotics for kids and teachers also.
| IceMan0110 wrote:
| Hey I have experience with robotics (ROS1, trying to work on
| projects using ROS2 now) and autonomous vehicles (mainly Motion
| Planning & Control and decision making in uncertainties). What
| are you working on?
| lostmsu wrote:
| Not sailboats, but we are building a semi-typical Wall-E like
| turtlebot like robot based on lifelong reinforcement learning.
|
| https://www.gooddog.ai/
| jawmes9 wrote:
| What's the best way to contact you? It's been ~2 years since my
| last robotics project, but interested to learn more.
| bmgxyz wrote:
| This sounds fun. Rust is amazing, and I've been playing with it
| on AVR chips lately. And I spent several summers sailing years
| ago. Email me if you'd like. Curious to know what you're
| working on.
| implfuture wrote:
| I'm full-time exploring VR, video, and some hard tech problems,
| primarily using rust.
|
| A few things I'm poking around with:
|
| - VR molecule visualization in bevy (a la pymol)
|
| - real-time video production also in bevy
|
| - VR instruments
|
| Based in SF, always down to chat with people with similar
| interests!
| EZ-Cheeze wrote:
| Kindred spirit discovery at scale
|
| Imagine every human having a huge group of contacts who GET THEM
| exactly
|
| Big data used not for targeted ads but for targeted social
| structure
| querez wrote:
| that sounds like a cool idea, and I'd love to hear more about
| it/potentially contribute -- how can I get in touch with you?
| EZ-Cheeze wrote:
| martin dot nenov at gmail dot com
| [deleted]
| tmwed wrote:
| i've been working on a web-framework for Deno called "cobain".
| would be cool to work with someone on it, and be able to bounce
| ideas off of.
|
| what separates this web-framework from others (aside from the
| grunge and punk aesthetic) is a heavy focus on function
| composition and developer experience. without much effort, as a
| developer you will be able to deploy your app as
|
| - lambda/serverless function (deno deploy compatibility),
|
| - standalone monolith
|
| - microservice
|
| in addition, i created a small concept of a templating engine
| similar to swift-ui and react called "peep" that doesn't do
| anything special syntax wise (its just JavaScript for real this
| time).
|
| the really awesome part is that the web-framework and the
| templating language use the same pattern for "decorating"
| functions utilizing a deep-safe-map builder-like dsl. (which im
| currently struggling with) to avoid accessing and setting already
| previously used keys.
|
| i think the most appealing part of this is the opportunity to
| break fresh ground on a javascript runtime that will likely be
| used in the next 3-6 years.
|
| you can contact me on GitHub or my email on my profile.
|
| https://github.com/lionhat-collective/cobain
| https://github.com/lionhat-collective/peep
| ajahso4 wrote:
| Looking for experts in product management and marketing to grow
| https://researchapp.co. It's a website experiment as-a-service
| product that enables web products owners to test their hypothesis
| about feature performance and user interaction with them using a
| simple script (like Google tag insert)
| yasserf wrote:
| I'm working on a few projects, from one/two days to platforms.
|
| The first is OS and is a simple nodeJS environment to deploy
| applications via lambda and express quickly. Sort of like nestJS
| except less decorators and more functional
| (https://vramework.io/). I already know of a few other colleagues
| that rolled their own propriety versions of this to support
| enterprise and cloud deployments so decided to OS it.
|
| The other OS project is a strongly typed postgres/mysql driver.
| The idea is to generate typescript definitions directly from
| postgres (https://github.com/vramework/schemats) and then have a
| think layer ontop of pg-node that gives you strongly typed
| queries (https://github.com/vramework/postgres-typed).
|
| An open-source project I spent a few years on the core team is
| https://deepstream.io/, a realtime-server that allows you to mix
| and match multiple streaming protocols (mqtt/websocket/others)
| and allow those clients to talk to each other using pub-sub and
| records. I'm not longer working for it but wanted to give it a
| shout out!
|
| On a non OS project, I have been working on an immersive audio
| platform for a while now. The main goal is to allow users to pick
| and choose how audio books progress, and also have a live session
| mode which allows users to record their pulse / answer questions
| and a few other metrics and associate it with sentences. I pretty
| much built and deployed all of it but require some
| advice/brainstorming on how to proceed now. I built it to satisfy
| an itch when I was practicing shamanism during the first lockdown
| when I was in-between contracts / taking time off (enjamon.com)
|
| I also want to build a simple web-pages strategy game based
| around eco-education, but don't have the bandwidth . If anyone is
| interested in mixing together gamification and eco-village
| building might be a fun conversion to bounce ideas!
|
| All the OS projects above were used to support my personal/a
| couple professional projects over the last few years.
|
| Email in profile
| russelltran wrote:
| Hi, looking for collaborators to work on technology to eliminate
| rice paddy methane emissions! On a volunteer/hobbyist basis. Rice
| methane is 3% of the climate change problem. Moreover, any
| technological solution for rice paddies can be repurposed for
| defending against worst-case permafrost melt scenarios, or to be
| used as an emergency geoengineering lever by stopping natural
| wetland methane emissions (~16GtCO2e/yr). Our site is
| https://www.ricemethane.org/
|
| Feel free to reach me at contact [at] ricemethane.org
| koeng wrote:
| Sounds like an awesome problem! Any ideas of how to build the
| first iterations of the hardware? What biological solutions are
| you envisioning?
| ollerac wrote:
| I'm beyond frustrated with modern web development. It feels
| hyper-inefficient when it could be streamlined.
|
| We currently use tools built by the biggest companies on earth
| (whose main preoccupation is solving scalability problems) to
| build the most basic applications. We've got infinitely nested
| component with jumbles of state being passed around, new build
| tools and framework versions being released every week, and we're
| tasked with orchestrating 12+ disparate tools just to make a
| basic app work.
|
| The context switching is getting painful and the rabbit holes
| seem to go on forever.
|
| There should be a simpler way for product-focused founders (who
| want to solve user-facing problems instead of deep tech-stack
| problems) to build stuff that works.
|
| I propose a solution: the concept of a "web app object." A
| dynamic object that looks like HTML but contains all the web app
| capabilities you need across the stack collapsed into a single
| node.
|
| Think of this: <my-note></my-note>
|
| It might look like a simple web component. But, what if unlike a
| web components, it worked across the stack.
|
| It shouldn't have to be pre-defined with front-end JS to have
| some basic functionality.
|
| For example: it can determine its own namespace on the backend
| with its actual name, it can get new capabilities (on both the
| front-end and backend) just by adding a single attribute to it,
| and (this is the killer feature for me) its place within the data
| in the database can be determined by its relative position in the
| DOM (i.e. we convert a page's HTML into a live database that we
| can style with CSS). <personal-notes>
| <my-note editable>Hello, world!</my-note> <create-new my-
| note>Add Note</create-new> </personal-notes>
|
| Here's a more robust example.
|
| This example code would be enough to tell an opinionated web app
| framework everything it needs to know about the structure of the
| user's data and the behavior of the page, including that notes
| are editable by users with access, the default text should be
| "Hello, world!", and users can create new notes by clicking a
| button.
|
| Browsers have nothing like this concept of a "web app object",
| even though web apps have been around for decades. Instead, we
| get a bunch of disconnected pieces of the stack that we have to
| tie together ourselves...
|
| We have the front-end (html + css), the backend of the front-end
| (build tools + our SPA framework of choice), the front-end of the
| backend (API layer + controller logic), the backend of the
| backend (business logic + database schema), and then DevOps
| (pipelines + deployments + security).
|
| It's like we have to know how to do our own plumbing just to take
| a drink of water...
|
| I wrote out this idea on HN a little while ago and it seemed to
| resonate [0]. I also see other promising approaches of merging
| the front-end and the backend into one primitive coming along
| (Imba, Phoenix LiveView, Blitz, InertiaJS).
|
| I'm working on the early stages of this idea as an open-source
| framework [1].
|
| I've been developing it in my spare time for the last few years
| and I've built a full proof-of-concept with some major help from
| contributors.
|
| It'd be excellent to get some help from you all with this since
| it's something I believe in strongly and I think the world needs
| it. I'm a front-end developer and designer with not a lot of
| experience building a modern JS framework, so that's where I
| could use the most help.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29053536 [1]
| https://remaketheweb.com
| foxhop wrote:
| jacquesm wrote:
| Stop spamming.
| eezurr wrote:
| TL;DR: Im building a city builder/simulation game but I am not a
| visual artist, so I'm primarily looking for one to work with (as
| a cofounder) over the next couple years. Im open to working with
| another developer, but I am zipping along on my own, so no
| promises here! I'd prefer if you are in New England/NYC.
|
| L;R: I'm 2 months into creating an ambitious grid-based city
| builder/simulation game from the ground up using C++ and SFML
| (think Dwarf Fortress inspired city builder). There are many
| changes I want to make to the established genre. For example:
|
| * You start by owning all the land and you sell it off to
| citizens to build their homes/businesses (a permanent action, at
| least until you get an amazing lawyer on your board who can help
| you win an eminent domain case). You still collect taxes on it
| though :).
|
| * Displaying (as the primary graphics) the inside of buildings
| and being able to scroll up Z levels for sky scrapers; all to see
| what units are doing inside their homes. Exterior building
| graphics would be nice but are not the primary goal for the first
| release.
|
| * Custom shape/sizes for all buildings. Design the interior of
| home. Blueprints.
|
| One of the goals of the game is to keep as much wealth within the
| city as possible. At first, your citizens will be buying
| power/water/gas/commercial services from existing companies
| outside your city. The problem is they charge more for being far
| away, and since they are not local, you aren't taxing these
| companies. Eventually your city will have enough demand for e.g.
| a powerplant (or any business) to be built locally. This means
| more savings for citizens (i.e. more money to spend, which means
| more tax revenue) + the tax revenue of the profits from the
| business. This in turn allows you to offer more services to your
| citizens to attract/retain talent (if desired). This comes around
| to having that great lawyer on your board.
|
| Right now I am wrapping up the pathfinding code for lane-based
| travel. I developed a new algorithm that solves the "find all k
| simple paths" orders of magnitude faster than the existing
| solutions.
|
| The door that opens from this development will help bring the
| city to life because citizens will be able to see all the
| shortest paths available to them, which means I can add other
| factors (i.e. weights) like beauty, history, crime, tourism,
| food, etc to the graph/network that will let units choose paths
| based on their preferences. This is all saved in memory so
| pathfinding is constant time after the search tree is created.
|
| The key of course is communicating that to the player. This is
| one place Im inspired by DF and plan on using heads to represent
| units (color coded based on their discipline), with flashing
| symbols to graphically display their immediate desires/emotion.
|
| About: This is the first time I'm developing a video game (10+
| years of coding experience), though I've had these seeds rolling
| around in a desert for many years. Now I've come with the water.
| I've got 3+ years of savings to work on this project. Email is in
| the profile.
|
| CTRL Fs: City Simulation Video Game Marketing Graphics Visual
| Builder Tycoon gamedev
| sshaginyan wrote:
| Hey there! My wife is a visual artist! She's currently looking
| for video game projects to work on. Here is her portfolio
| anivard.com. Let me know if you'd like to colab. I'll make
| intros.
| eezurr wrote:
| Hey, thanks for reaching out! I'd love to get in touch. Some
| of her work is pretty darn cool!
|
| There's one caveat, which I should have made more clear.
| Since the game is based on a grid (i.e. tiles), the art will
| need to be sprite based, which is essentially pixel art. In
| my experience, this isn't every one's cup of tea, so Im
| making that clear now for her and everyone else!
| [deleted]
| krisrm wrote:
| I don't have anything to contribute or collaborate on, but just
| wanted to thank OP for the excellent idea, this looks like it
| really hit upon a community need.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Agreed.
|
| I basically have all the collaborators that I need, for the
| projects that I'm working on, but I think that it is a great
| thing, to encourage altruistic development.
|
| It is my experience, that free work should be as good as (or
| better than) paid work. This is code quality, executable
| quality, documentation and support quality, user experience
| quality, etc.
|
| I have found that many altruistic projects have great heart,
| but can sometimes fall short, in quality. Maybe as a result (or
| maybe it's a cause), they are often not taken seriously by the
| people that could most use them, and this can also make it
| difficult to get folks to take high-quality work seriously (I
| have a _lot_ of experience with that).
|
| When looking for collaborators. Tecchies often seek out
| engineers, but maybe they are better served, seeking out
| advocates, artists/designers, writers, testers and integrators.
|
| In my experience, recruiting evangelists in the user community
| is _incredibly_ valuable (and difficult; especially if "people
| skills" aren't our top talents).
|
| We can also do damage, by pissing off these folks (I have done
| that). Free/Open/Altruistic projects can often be rather
| fragile, as motivation and engagement are the currencies we
| use. These are easy to dismiss or denigrate, when we are used
| to the traditional motivators of paid work.
| mikewarot wrote:
| I want to demonstrate the advantages of capability based security
| in actual examples that people can use. I'd like to have one as
| my daily driver.
|
| I'm willing to commit to reading and constructively commenting on
| projects in this thread.
| continuational wrote:
| Maybe we should talk! I'm working on a language with first
| class capabilities.
|
| Here's an example from the main function of the self hosting
| Firefly compiler [1]: main(system: System):
| Unit { ... let fs = system.files()
| if(fs.exists(tempPath)) { deleteDirectory(fs, tempPath) }
| ... } deleteDirectory(fs: FileSystem,
| outputFile: String): Unit {
| fs.list(outputFile).each { file =>
| if(fs.isDirectory(file)) {
| deleteDirectory(fs, file) } else {
| fs.delete(file) } }
| fs.delete(outputFile) }
|
| Main is passed `System`, which is a value with methods to
| access the network, the file system, etc. It passes on the
| `FileSystem` value to `deleteDirectory`, which only has methods
| to access the file system. Since there's no other way for
| `deleteDirectory` to obtain capabilities than to recieve them
| as arguments, `deleteDirectory` only has access to the file
| system.
|
| [1] https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-
| boot/tree/master/compiler
| mikewarot wrote:
| How would you pass the capability off to an external program?
| I'm hopeful that if the user could us a powerbox outside of a
| programs control to select the token/capability/file handle
| to pass to a program, then the system would be immune to the
| problems of ambient authority.
| continuational wrote:
| System wide capabilities is an interesting concept - I'd
| love to see it implemented. I'm not sure if it meaningfully
| fits into a programming language though - it seems like an
| operating system concept. But I might be mistaken?
|
| Firefly currently only uses capabilities for security
| _within_ a single program, which I think is also a big
| issue in software development today, the Log4j fiasco being
| a recent example.
| FailMore wrote:
| I started working on a project called Taaalk (taaalk.co). It's a
| website where people have have text based conversations that
| others can follow. It was down for the last eight months but it's
| live now. No content on it yet as I need to get the database back
| from a dump, but looking for someone to work on it with me. It's
| written in Rails
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| It's seriously disturbing the way Trix doesnt have 'Underscore'
| option...
| Nic56 wrote:
| I work on one building block of climate tech -- energy demand
| flexibility software. Useful in all kinds of settings, like
| industry or microgrids.
|
| The collaborative aspect is that [our
| platform](https://github.com/FlexMeasures/flexmeasures) is open
| source, under a permissive license.
|
| I'm trying to grow a startup on top of it, but the whole idea of
| doing impactful work is that it's being used to speed up the
| energy transition everywhere. Less re-inventing the wheel. If you
| are involved in any projects where energy demand flexibility
| should be unearthed, please consider using FlexMeasures -- with
| us or without us. Happy to chat.
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