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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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I contribute nice versions of free ebooks to the public domain via https://standardebooks.org . Working on a complete Keats collection and Crime and Punishment at the moment.

The library seems to be down.

Oops! I’ll ping the project lead. Edit: back up

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

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I build simple products that helps my daily computer interaction, i never bother to publish them, the only one i published is a Chrome Extension to have an easy managing solution for tabs opened in Chrome. Published it only because some friends wanted to use it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bettermarks/dknlgo...

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

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post #199

I'm writing R5RS Scheme _interpreter_ implementation in Kotlin (previously in Java): https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin/ It is a hybrid of R5RS Scheme + some things from Kawa, Racket and Clojure. It doesn't have a proper name and documentation yet. I'm writing it as a hobby sandbox project, for learning purposes and fun. Trying to keep it simple and easy to understand (some things are not perfect though). Fea…

Cool. You probably already know this, but note that R7RS-small [1] is the most recent small scheme (the spec is not too much larger that r5rs). There are enough similarities that it might be worth supporting it. [1] http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/R7RSHomePage

Honestly, didn't know that! Looks great, thank you very much! I will check it out!

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

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https://www.fibretiger.co.za - In South Africa we got more than 10 fibre networks and almost double the amount of isps. I've put together this site to compare all the packages on all the networks.

If only more s.a ppl can get fibre ! Its like the new goldrush in s.a... who can lay the most fibre !

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

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post #330
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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…

Nice work! This thread is all over the place haha! Did they ever get to meet at the bridge??: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/amhhqthp/

This is amazing!

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

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For me, it's this HN clone I started working on the other day: https://ng-hackernews.lukecs.com/

The advantages of using it include:

1. No need to open a new tab just to view comments 2. It loads a lot more stories at once than HN does, so you don't need to keep going to the next page

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