Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

601–610 of 960 posts

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

#601

Post by danuker »

bladegash wrote: post #579
danuker wrote: post #573

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Especially if “doing it for fun”. That’s not admirable, it’s disturbing. I see you are attempting to take away the "hacker" in "hacker news". I see this as social engineering, for a good cause.

Good cause according to who? The OP? You? How about the other people that have received and live with judgements from this official? And sorry, but social engineering is pretty unethical if you ask me, and has nothing to do with the name of the site.

Exposing a corrupt judge is among the most noble goals a citizen can have. The more incentive judges have to act fairly, the better.

I am not sure you read the story correctly. But I'm pretty sure a judge will get due process - not abusive penalties.

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

#602

Post by orbifold »

byecancer21 wrote: post #590
nairboon wrote: post #576

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Das liest sich wie ein Krimi! So do you want this to go public yet, or are waiting for further actions by some of the involved courts?

I expect all cases are going to be retried. As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias. This matter is currently pending. I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting orders of magnitudes…

Well this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.

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

#603

Post by lukaszkups »

For the last couple weeks I'm working on my HTML5-based game that I eventually plan to release on steam (it will be my 1st commercial gaming project and one of very few games on steam that are web-based, without using actual element) - I don't really care about the sales as it's my side gig that I've just wanted to create because of lack "Into the Breach" or "Mech Commander" related games available these days.

Here's the link to the actual demo: https://lukaszkups.itch.io/monolith-wars

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

#604

Post by zeckalpha »

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.

Was that sent by the poster or someone they are targeting?

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

#605

Post by bigpeopleareold »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #306
Rumudiez wrote: post #78

My day job. Personal projects get a little more heart, but "success" to me is usually intrinsic, not extrinsic. I'm probably a little weird when it comes to motivating factors, but not alone.

Have you considered using "will the skills I hone here help me with my side projects?" as a way to decide which job to apply for? I don't have enough data to say it's a good idea, but so far I'm liking it.

It's always been the reverse for me - side projects have tended to give fresh input that my day job doesn't provide.

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

#606

Post by prohobo »

danuker wrote: post #596
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/

Augur or Kleros could be used for the final voting process on a "debate". It'll be interesting, and I wonder how best to promote "the wisdom of the crowd".

Never heard of Aragon before, thanks!

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

#608

Post by bigpeopleareold »

Rumudiez wrote: post #78

My day job. Personal projects get a little more heart, but "success" to me is usually intrinsic, not extrinsic. I'm probably a little weird when it comes to motivating factors, but not alone.

I feel this way too. Success is measured in just "is my employer happy with what I do?"

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

#609

Post by DictumMortuum »

https://stats.dictummortuum.com/#/prices/

I'm doing some work on a website that compares boardgame prices. I scrape about 10 boardgame stores in Greece and save them in a database that I've got in a raspberry pi. Then I try to associate the listings with games that are on boardgamegeek.com and then I put them online.

This has a couple of interesting problems. E.g. scraping data, associating scraped data to a basepoint, so that I can group them with the data from other stores, how to save the data in a website that is basically serverless, etc.

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

#610

Post by byecancer21 »

orbifold wrote: post #602
byecancer21 wrote: post #590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I expect all cases are going to be retried. As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias. This matter is currently pending. I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting orders of magnitudes…

Well this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.

Honestly not so sure. This appears to be a fairly corrupt nation as a baseline so many may find this matter not all that surprising. His appointment a few years ago was controversial within legal circles.

Unlike SCOTUS, Constitutional Court here is by law not entirely at liberty whether to take a case but who gets to interpret the statute. Of course it will be claimed this court can do however it wishes.

To fully convince the public the course of this case was far outside the norm certain data from this court will be helpful, which of course they refused to release voluntarily and the federal data protection authority, meant to enforce something similar to FOIA, claimed to have dropped a matter due to clerical error. This might suggest the matter is already a known political problem at the federal level, but one can only guess. Strangely enough, getting the info will ultimately involve suing the top court (administration) in a lower court.

One thing to keep in mind is that this nation is one without genuine separation of powers. Any matter ends up being citizen versus the state, not citizen invoking one part of the state to check on the power of another part.

Post reply on HN