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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 StavrosK »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #534
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…

I tried to create a timeTaco countdown for today, but it didn't let me? AFAICT, it only allows for blast-off dates in the future. Also, a little clarity about time format (12 vs 24) and time zone would be nice. Overall though I love the simple UI.

Yep, we're going to fix the UX on that ASAP, thanks! Currently the 24-hour date assumption is a bit confusing.

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 StavrosK »

fapjacks wrote: post #537
Qwertious wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I completely grok why that's there. I don't. Please explain?

Robotic abuse has a tendency to bring cool projects like this to their knees. Any publicly-accessible, readable/writable service will eventually run into this problem.

Tell me about it, I looked shortly after we launched Pastery and saw 100,000 pastes and was ecstatic at the response, but then noticed that some were spam. I deleted all the ones that had spammy terms, and was left with 53 pastes :(

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 syveen »

nikivi wrote: post #10

I am working on a community curated search engine to learn anything most optimally : https://learn-anything.xyz/ Everything is open source and is MIT licensed, both the search engine and the entire database it searches over. There are however many things that we can still do to take this idea further. Hopefully more people join to help us with that. :)

This's really cool :) thank you for bringing this up

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 exikyut »

vanderZwan wrote: post #445
exikyut wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. I need to do some deep diving on LZ myself, to build a highly-compressible custom file format. Would benchmarks from a really old laptop be useful for #98 ?

Probably, because it's trying to be backwards compatible. LZ is really elegant once it clicks, and Pieroxy's approach of growing token size with alphabet is a very neat solution to the problem of the unicode alphabet being huge

Staring into space can occasionally be useful: I just remembered that I nearly forgot about this. I just replied (as you may have already noticed).

Thanks for the info. I'm not quite sure how much investigation I'll need to do, but I can see alphabet-based token sizing being very useful for pure string compression, yeah. XZ seems to be a really flexible format but, unless I'm mistaken, it seems that implementations (such as the `xz` utility) seem to lean toward "one size fits all" instead of packing in+maintaining a "batteries included" basic (or maybe even extended) set of transformations/optimizations. It's kinda sad.

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 stryk »

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.

Oh, wow! I used this website as a reference fairly heavily when getting started with RPis, and still use it quite often (the WiringPi diagram in particular came in handy many, many times as there a whole lot of pins to it)

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 ClimbsRocks »

auto_ml: Automated machine learning at production speeds.

https://github.com/ClimbsRocs/auto_ml

My dad keeps asking me how I plan on making money from this project, given the amount of effort I've poured into it. He grew even more confused once I told him that a company called DataRobot raised over a hundred million dollars to build essentially the same product.

But it just brings me joy to make ML available to everyone.

If you have any feedback, please let me know! I'd love to know how I can make automl better for you.

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 ClimbsRocks »

dmuth wrote: post #90

I built a website which offers real-time statistics for Philadelphia's Regional Rail train system: https://www.septastats.com/ This lets public transit passengers answer questions like: - "My train is getting later and later, is it actually moving?" - "My train is getting later and later, has it actually STARTED its journey?" (sometimes the answer is "no", sadly) - "Is it just my train, or are many trains running lat…

If you've got the data, try tossing it into auto_ml: https://github.com/ClimbsRocks/auto_ml

Super easy automated machine learning in Python. Fast enough to run at production speeds. I'm the author, and would love any feedback you have! The whole point of the project is to make ML available to people like you who just like building things, and think their thing could be better with a bit of ML.

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 Tajnymag »

dumbfounder wrote: post #477
Insanity wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks cool though! ;-) What are the costs associated with that if you don't mind me asking?

Servers are about $1200 per month. (I have about 12tb of SSD on 5 servers). Then there are some misc costs (business costs) that are maybe $200/month.

Wow, that's rather a lot of money for a non-profit project :-o

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 ianopolous »

Currently I spend most of my spare time working on Peergos [0].

The remaining spare time is spent on IPFS related libraries: java-ipfs-api [1], java-multibase [2], java-multiaddr [3], java-multihash [4], java-cid [5]

I ported tweetnacl from the original c to Java: java-tweetnacl [6]

Before that I wrote JPC [7], an x86 pc emulator. As well as an x86 disassembler: JayD [8]

An implementation of a merkle-btree for use in IPFS: [9]

A JS implementation of Reed Solomon erasure codes: [10]

[0] https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/java-ipfs-api

[2] https://github.com/multiformats/java-multibase

[3] https://github.com/multiformats/java-multiaddr

[4] https://github.com/multiformats/java-multihash

[5] https://github.com/ipld/java-cid

[6] https://github.com/ianopolous/tweetnacl-java

[7] https://github.com/ianopolous/JPC

[8] https://github.com/ianopolous/JayD

[9] https://github.com/ianopolous/merkle-btree

[10] https://github.com/ianopolous/ErasureCodes

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