Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by musesum » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #102

kingofkyiv wrote: post #97

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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 m…

> 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.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by sagarsodah » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

I’m building tools to augment the lives of visually impaired people.

Ping if you’re interested.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by onassar » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by codingclaws » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by lostmsu » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

leafario2 wrote: post #10

If you are into autonomous sailboats, robotics, rust, or combinations thereof, let me know :)

Not sailboats, but we are building a semi-typical Wall-E like turtlebot like robot based on lifelong reinforcement learning.

https://www.gooddog.ai/

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by crawfordcomeaux » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by themantalope » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

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!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by mikewarot » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

continuational wrote: post #66

mikewarot wrote: post #57

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.

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…

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by robmsmt » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

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!