Iron Arachne: https://gitlab.com/ironarachne/iron-arachne-js
Playing with procedural content generation for games is a ton of fun, and I've learned a great deal so far in the three iterations of this.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; GMO would take way more convincing. However, there are tastes that are indeed only found in the 'old' seeds, so there is do see the aversion non-GMO from customer side. In terms o…
> It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; You are delusional if you belive this. You actually think that putting some vitamins, minerals etc.. in your hydropnic system is enough to immitate the insanely complex environement of real soil? You are the example of peak arrogance: you think you can take a few thi…
Why are you so angry?
Aqua- and Hydroponics have been successfully used to grow food for a very long time now.
If you have any evidence of food grown this way lacking any nutrients, please provide it.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#283Terrain2STL - http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/ Creates 3D-printable elevation maps of Earth's surface. I originally made it because I couldn't find a tool to make a particular 3D model I wanted, and then decided to open source it. However, to use the code you need to download ~80 GB of elevation data, which I thought would be a stumbling block for a lot of other hobbyists, so I put together a little web interface and…
This is awesome. My next print is gonna be a model of the mountains that surround my house
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#284Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
The Dutch are apparently the second largest vegetable exporter in the world (!) using these kinds of techniques. Lots of interesting research happening at Wageningen University and Research. A greenhouse that keeps getting mentioned is Duijvestijn Tomatoes. Further reading here if you're interested: 1. https://www.dw.com/en/could-high-tech-netherlands-style-farm... 2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/…
Ah yes, the Dutch and Belgian tomatoes: they're atrocious. I'm from Eastern Europe, and our local variety of tomatoes is way tastier. Or any other variety for that matter.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#285Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
Sounds like you care quite a bit. Although perhaps here you're defining success as monetary as opposed to adding reliable knowledge.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#286https://myhikes.org
It's a platform for hikers, backpackers, and outdoor enthusiasts to share trail information via GPX files for interactive maps and elevation charts, notes, trail features, points-of-interest, and pictures.
After 6 years and almost 800 individual trails written and tracked (of my own), it seems like this project is a total waste of time some days. Other days it's super exciting to see traffic and knowing folks are out exploring something new. I also never thought anyone would pay money to support the site, so no complaints.
It's also a great way to stay in shape.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#287Any of my weekend projects: https://tducasse.com/posts/the-weekend-project/
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#288I have a slow burn substack newsletter for the morbidly obese who are contemplating carbohydrate recovery. It’s never going to make any money and I don’t spend as much time on it as I want to but I’m glad I put it out there.
https://hopeforthemorbidlyobese.substack.com/p/can-you-reall...
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#290I took over the maintenance of 0bin.net, and FOSS client encrypted pastebin.
By design it's anonymous, so no account, and no tracking, hence not an obvious money maker.
But I like using it, and I feel no pressure to make it better or fix it, so I can work on it once a year and just be happy.