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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by donohoe »

https://article.rocks

This is my swipable curated news feed. I only tested it on my iPhone 6, bookmarked to Homescreen. Outside of that your experience might vary.

I've been redoing it every few months for the past 3 or 4 years. At one point it included summation text and opened inline AMP links for articles that had them.

It's an automated curation of content I like and includes some basic sentiment analysis and popularity metrics.

The content is interspersed with a custom ad template just for fun. When there is enough content it includes mediative looping gifs/video.

It scrapes content, rewrites headlines, throws images through random filters to good/bad/artful effect.

This is my entire morning subway commute.

(Feedback always welcome)

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by iwebdevfromhome »

SuperMovies Rank: https://movies.teslark.pw

Just posted this a couple of days before! Not much notice but still it was worth a try.

It's a tool to help people create their list of favorite superhero movies and share them with everyone.

It was a fun way to get myself more familiar with React

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by iwebdevfromhome »

CM30 wrote: post #195

Wario Forums and absolutely anything else associated with it: https://warioforums.com Yeah, I know it's not particularly fancy, nor does it involve any clever coding tricks or interesting features. However, it's literally the only community on the internet dedicated to the series, and one I've decided to run for a minimum of two decades to make sure said franchise finally builds a decent fanbase. Is it going to make…

Awesome! But looks like it's down now :(

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by tradersam »

azdle wrote: post #148
stavros wrote: post #12

Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…

Thank you for pastery. Best pastebin I've ever found, use it more than any other.

Thank you as well, going to start using it regularly.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by gadgetoid »

https://pinout.xyz

A somewhat interactive GPIO pinout for the Raspberry Pi.

Not so much out of sheer joy, but because I needed it.

It started as a basic way to explore each pin and its available alt-functions.

Listings of add-on board pinouts were added later for people who want to use multiple boards- or perhaps connect them to a different host.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by snickerbockers »

kevinschumacher wrote: post #246
snickerbockers wrote: post #191

For almost a year, I've been writing a SEGA Dreamcast emulator called WashingtonDC. It's slow and it doesn't play any games yet, but it can boot the firmware menu and display the animated "spiral swirl" logo. https://github.com/washingtondc-emu/washingtondc

How'd you name that?

DC is the acronym fans usually use to refer to the Dreamcast.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by spondyl »

I'm building a wiki for a little known South Korean mobile game I enjoy and it's fun both learning how to manage and build a Mediawiki install.

It's also a great excuse to suck up all the lore and properly analyse character conversations and what not!

Now I just gotta see if I can get some official looking art renders authorised for release from the devs since a press kit was never released

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by amingilani »

ssanders82 wrote: post #124
amingilani wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I one quadrupled my capital with a betting bot running a martingale strategy. Then I made it run overnight and lost all the funds. Turns out there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run. With a martingale strategy the chances of losing are miniscule but if you play 10,000 rounds at a 0.01% of losing, you're going to lose once. And that's when you lose all your capital.

I don't think the fact that your coin-flip martingale strategy didn't work is evidence that "there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run".

No, but over the long run, no betting system can guarantee a positive return. If you run enough simulations, you will inevitably lose. The Wizard of Odds[1] did a great piece on this and it's definitely worth a read.

Also, if you believe to have a betting system that does work, VegasClick[2] runs a $30k wager against your $3k if your system can survive at least 11 of 20 200,000 round games. It's easy money.

[1]: https://wizardofodds.com/gambling/betting-systems/ [2]: http://vegasclick.com/gambling/betting-system-challenge

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by ryandrake »

gadgetoid wrote: post #255

https://pinout.xyz A somewhat interactive GPIO pinout for the Raspberry Pi. Not so much out of sheer joy, but because I needed it. It started as a basic way to explore each pin and its available alt-functions. Listings of add-on board pinouts were added later for people who want to use multiple boards- or perhaps connect them to a different host.

Cool, I've used that site, nice reference.
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