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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by d3suu »

I'm not a professional software developer, it's just my hobby.

Story is, I wanted to make some simple website project using Java, so I had to use some sort of web framework since I've read that CGI should not be used for medium sized project (like very simple social network, or whatever stores and handles data server-side). All the web frameworks I tested for Java (Javalin, Spring, something else I dont remember name of) used Maven, which I'm not familiar with. Why not create my own web framework then? Insert xkcd 927 With knowledge about HTTP protocol, I started making simple framework which uses sockets and regex for request handling, and allows developer to create simple endpoints. Main point is simplicity. It doesn't need any dependencies, just compile it to JAR, import to Your project, and that's it. Project itself is faaaaaaar from perfection, however it works as far as I tested it, and I think young/beginner developers would find it fun and easy to use in private projects.

Framework is in very early development stage, many things might change.

https://github.com/d3suu/antiframework

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by andybak »

https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra-upm

It's a library and design system for creating and exploring geometric forms in surprising ways.

I'm yet to figure out who it's really for and how it should be presented (A polished app? A design tool? A web app? Something purely generative without much interaction) but I find the results endlessly fascinating and creatively stimulating so I keep plugging away at it

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by byecancer21 »

Eezee wrote: post #587
light_cone wrote: post #556

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking. To me, it echoes "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by La Boétie. Powerful people are just people. They are powerful because we are collectively granting them that power. This is…

One of the documents shared on the page is a letter to the constitutional court of Germany where the plaintiff explains how not taking his case constitutes a mortal sin for which the president of the court will go to hell and lectures him that he cannot visit church services anymore. It is very hard to take the rest seriously if the same person is claiming the corruption.

This was a fun thing sent three days before the election, which his party was expected to lose. The same judge was vice-leader of this party until his appointment and is known to be ultra-catholic.

Such writing is obviously not directed at him but rather at his staffers. At the lower courts the same tactic actually worked to change staff willingness to make themselves an accessory to crimes. An interesting consequence is later decision were not served correctly because no staffer wanted to put any identifying information on there anymore – this is however a legal requirement for certified copies.

Note I am not actually accusing the top judge of a crime but merely of inappropriate bias.

I am well aware it is important to convey the events in manner understandable to the general public. This has not occurred yet as I had no immediate plan to go public. Before HN the site was only known to a small circle of lawyers.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by grvdrm »

The number of newsletters out there is overwhelming, but a newsletter is my side-project relevant to this thread. Called The Teardown:

https://theteardown.substack.com/

Recently writing more frequently and focusing on the intersection between every day technology use and health (physical, mental). I like to dissect my own life to help describe that interplay in more detail. And I hope some of you can relate to the stories about experimenting with technology as you grow up and navigate adult life.

Some recent favorites:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/the-different-internets

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/is-it-better-to-look-stup...

Two older posts:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/wanted-just-friends-the-t...

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/paul-grahams-essay-about-...

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by danuker »

prohobo wrote: post #567

I'm working on a Yahoo Answers clone that forces users to enter Oxford style debates revolving around Yes/No questions, and everything is run by a smart contract and stored on IPFS so it's censorship-proof. I'm calling it Yokel Answers right now.

You might draw some inspiration from Augur[0] (prediction markets) and Aragon[1] (governance and collaboration).

[0] - https://www.augur.net/

[1] - https://aragon.org/

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by joefife »

Yanu-3452 wrote: post #517
can16358p wrote: post #478

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What did I just read?

I'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum I visited. Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering something that will "change history" yet very difficult to follow the detail of what they're saying.

It does sound insane, but sometimes these things are founded.

Just a few months ago, a local government body finally awards as millions to someone their formed chief executive had been persecuting for two decades. During that time, the random member of the public was imprisoned. This case involved multiple corrupt people.

If it wasn't for the happy conclusion, I'd have said this was the tale of a lunatic.

The podcast is at https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/68

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by xigoi »

dimitar wrote: post #429

There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…

Wait, how is this technically possible?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by josefrichter »

Charlieholtz wrote: post #150
wsinks wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was SO CLOSE to finishing the tale about the Officer Spider who ended up free his former employee of his biggest constraint, TIME, but... then it crashed. I really want to finish that story!

Damn! Sorry about that. I’m upping the servers right now. Can’t wait to hear the end of this inspirational tale :)

I’d be curious to hear what went wrong and took the server down. Elixir apps usually handle these traffic spikes just fine.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by bladegash »

byecancer21 wrote: post #583
bladegash wrote: post #582

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Why do you believe it is your position to give any official ultimatums just to meet your own perceived sense of Justice? The way your are speaking about this is to right your own feelings of injustice, not anyone else’s, yet you do it under the auspices of doing what’s best for everyone else. Do they get a say in this as well?

You interpret this as an ultimatum, I see offering them a way out as being nice. At the same time one has to assert seeing through obvious b-s. What is appropriate gets decided by lawmakers not judges. Once judges willfully violate the code they have stepped outside their assigned role. This quickly became more of a political problem than a legal one, and what is right is ultimately for voters to decide. Whether I am…

You can try to wordsmith and twist the logic all you want. Telling someone “resign and do what I want, or else” is an ultimatum and bordering on blackmail. It is an ultimatum that is directly counter to your stated goal as well, which to “allow the voters to decide”. That’s you deciding for them.
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