Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

I am learning smart contracts (Solidity)

I'll probably write a few fun "not for profit" games that run on test networks once I have finished my course (so players can grab free tokens from a faucet, then play in the game, no real money at stake).

I am interested in games that can kind of run a bit off chain (I've seen a chess example online that is quite clever in how it avoids the chain until it needs to). I have an idea of an adapted texas-holdem poker game.

I also want to look into how NFTs can be done without needing these big central market places.

Could work together on something, or just keep in touch an encourage each other, ask each other questions etc.

Mainly would want to communicate async via whatever you use, or email. I might be "slow" in the number of hours a week I spend so bear with me!

Contact info in profile.

I'll start off with my prototype:

https://elegant-shaw-2cb49a.netlify.app/votevote

Anyone into electoral methods or game theory? If you've ever watched CGP Grey's videos on electoral methods or seen Nicky Case's *To Build a Better Ballot*,[1] it's very much in the spirit of that. It's mostly a toy that will run a single election in a large number of different electoral methods.

Currently I've implemented ~26 different electoral methods which is pretty neat. However, I've shied away from the methods that voting theory nerds love the most: Condorcet methods. I've implemented Copeland (although there's a mistake I haven't fixed yet) as well as Kemeny Young. However, Kemeny Young is implemented in the most brute force way possible and is O(n!) right now.

Mostly I think I'm just looking for people with a math/game-theory background that would be interested in helping out, but I'm open to anyone interested. I know there's a lot of optimizations I could make to the Kemeny Young algorithm, but I've been hesitant to do so because I can't find the right theorems to make sure certain assumptions are true. For example, I'm quite sure that a subset of weak Condorcet winners would be at the front of the winning path, but I haven't found a textbook that's stated this explicitly and it's been a long time since college so I'm kinda iffy on proving it to myself. I also don't think having to learn the proof everytime just to make sure my assumptions are mathematically sound is the best way to develop such a tool. Thanks

It's all open-source and won't have ads and will hopefully just be a static site so it's really just a hobby project.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

[1] https://ncase.me/ballot/

I'm building an IBM 5150 (original IBM PC) emulator. Most of it is therefore an 8086 (technically 8088 but no difference for this) emulator. I have it successfully booting the BIOS and running BASIC in ROM (Casette BASIC). I'd like to boot DOS. The CPU passes automated tests, but I could use help with the disk support chips (everything is low level emulation right now) such as the floppy controller and more CGA graphics modes. It's just a hobby project—I'm not looking to make it performant, just working.

It's written in poor C++ with SDL.

https://github.com/davecom/DK86PC

Thanks for the initiative. Very useful.

I am developing https://www.interviewblindspots.com/

It is crowd sourced feedback on your interview performance, targeted at software engineers. I am very bad at frontend technologies and could use some help on that front. I frequently get stuck on frontend (CSS). I need someone to consult with and unblock me. My immediate next steps will be to hire a designed to make the looks good, but I will need a frontend engineer to help me implement the recommendations.

I am also working on a blog search engine. I could use some frontend mentoring for that also.

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Hi everyone, I was bored during Christmas and I decided to implement plan9 semantics inside the browser. I have 9p2000 working, file servers and I've imported namespace logic from linux. My objective is to be able to mount one browser into another, and eventually implement a network stack similar to GNS. My objective has been more academic, learn more about operative systems, but this might lead to some interesting places. I would like to get into a point where we can have a browser to browser web, with its own Name System, and applications.

https://github.com/intigos/possimpible