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

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Post by muixoozie »

burntsushi wrote: post #878
pmarreck wrote: post #851

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely. The dude who developed ripgrep spent like 2 man-years on it full-time, apparently. Interesting (long, detailed) blog post about it: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

I don't think it took that much time. If you count the time involved in the regex engine though, you might get a bit closer. :-)

Thanks for all your hardwork! I've been dabbling in Rust and doing toy projects, but have years of experience in other languages. Are there any rust projects you recommend contributing to that have a good community?

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Post by TheMightyLlama »

Over a year ago I became hugely frustrated with the narratives that were being presented to us. Every 'social media' platform as well as 'news' platform presents us with an undifferentiated feed of news. The problem with an undifferentiated feed is that we, as consumers, can never get a solid view on what's happened or is happening on a single event.

Moreover, the existing platforms encourage doom-scrolling and keep our attention focused on one page for advertising clicks. As far as I'm concerned this is one of the most socially harmful and divisive anti-patterns created.

So, I started developing a site which presents a chronoglogical list of events each of which has, in chronological order, all the news articles, tweets and youtube videos I can find which are related to that particular event reliable sources where possible. Not exactly curated, but not clickbait either.

Looking at the site quickly I've got 317 articles for 'Partygate: The Sue Grey Report'. The 'Guinea Bisseau Coup D'etat attempt'? Around 30 articles in arabic, english, spanish, french and portuguese. The Kazakh protests? probably around 300 in more than ten languages. And there are currently 977 events. This grows every day as I find more sources.

To my mind this is an unbelievably valuable resource, and I want everyone to have access to it. I have plans to expand this much further and the only dev is me.

There's still a ton of features I want to add before I put it out there including internationalisation, accessibility support (The difficulty in finding a chronology of news for an event which people with screen readers experience boggles the mind)

If I were to share it here today it would most likely get hugged to death. But rest assured that this audience is the first I will introduce it to.

Edit: I should also add that I am also looking for investment to increase the 'dev' team. But I'm more the idea / prototype guy. How does one start and yet protect the idea?

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Post by erhosen »

I've written Tactris for myself during pandemic, for long zoom meetings with my colleagues. I've noticed, that the game doesn't occupied all of my attention, and even more - boosts cognitive skills.

> The rules are simple: you have 10x10 field and two different shapes to draw. Each your move will randomly regenerate one of the shapes. The main goal is: build the lines, collect points, and struggle with other users in the leaderboard.

No ads or collecting data, no internet communications (except GameCenter integration, which is optional).

If you find it interesting - feel free to rate the game in the AppStore!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tactris-tactical-puzzle/id1537...

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Post by robalicious »

I built a Chrome extension that popups up a general knowledge quiz when Google Analytics is loading...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buffer-buddy/ehngg...

If you work in GA on a large website I'm sure you'll appreciate it.

Ufortunately I didn't put much effort into promoting it. Nevermind!

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Post by yasserf »

I just embarked a multi month project of building a medium aquaponic system in Egypt (40 cubic meters maybe) which ended up going way over budget due to local labour skills and inflation. Still though, something about trying to have a closed loop farming system is pretty satisfying.

Wouldn’t do it again here though! Was almost as stressful as being a founder with zero of the ROSI

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Post by rikroots »

Rather than spam yet another link to my Javascript library, I'll instead link to the website of a hobby I've invested over 30 years - writing poetry[1].

There's no money in poetry, and yet the world of poetry continues to insist that the only way to move a poem from the poet's mind to the reader's eye is by publishing it - either in a literary magazine, or a pamphlet/collection, or an anthology. An alternative route, through newspapers and magazines, has collapsed in recent years. Sharing poems via social media - in particular Instagram - has shown some promise, but the end goal still seems to be some sort of publishing deal with the traditional suspects. Maybe TikTik poets will be able to break the cycle?

Whatever. I decided long ago that I didn't want to play that game. I enjoy writing poems, and I enjoy sharing poems with friends, family and whoever else might be interested in it. I built the first website to host my 'self-published' works back in the early 2000s; much of my coding learning and skills developed from the work I've done on this, and similar, hobby sites[2].

One nice thing about my approach is that the British Library regularly snapshots the site as part of its mission to capture/archive .uk websites. My words won't die when I die - though I doubt they'll be of interest to future generations.

[1] - The RikVerse - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - I've documented the work I did to create this latest version of the site in a series of blog posts, starting here - https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/2020/02/01/Recoding-the-RikVerse...

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Post by thunderrabbit »

I'm working on my first animation piece: a full length stop motion movie of characters building Marble Track 3, a working rolling ball track made of wood and glue. (popsicle sticks, chopsticks, toothpicks, etc.)

I've been working about 2 hours per week since 2017. 10,000+ frames taken so far. At 12 frames per second, the video runs about 14 minutes.

It all started after I uploaded a video of Marble Track 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUqu6QE7bw (nsfw language) and some people asked me how I made the marble track.

This URL will show (a playlist of the snippets showing) in great detail exactly how to create a marble track.

https://mt3s.marbletrack3.com/

The snippets are still silent, given that filming isn't even close to completion.

On the same channel, there are behind the scenes videos of me creating the track. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiQhB8J_KI2LYQ7dsexfLw

I have done some livestreams and recently some "summary" videos, done in a timelapse style.

Because work on the track takes a lot of time, almost every piece has its own name, and the site https://www.marbletrack3.com/ aspires to document all the pieces, and show which characters made which parts of the track.

While I am hoping the project organically gains visibility and financial support, I am not pushing for that so I retain creative freedom. In any case, I will keep making the movie of characters making Marble Track 3.

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

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Post by psd1 »

LecroJS wrote: post #873
dbetteridge wrote: post #867

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pgbouncer is your friend for postgres dB's with lots of client connections. Larger pool size only helps if they're freed up quicker than they are used.

Would you mind elaborating on the second point? Is this unique to larger pools? My inclination is that this would be true for pools of all sizes

I suspect GP meant: increasing pool size is only prolonging the inevitable

I've also observed on other DBs that you can increase the connection pool but it shifts the problem to other resources.

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

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Post by songeater »

scarecrowbob wrote: post #856
songeater wrote: post #843

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are amusical people in this world for whom making music (ie keeping pitch, keeping rhythm) is difficult in such a basic way that it’s hard to explain to others who just “get it.” Sort of being dyslexic I suppose. I can tell you from personal experience 2-3 years was not enough for me me on the violin but maybe 4 would have been. Oh well maybe it’s the “diligence” I didn’t have enough of. Anyway- I only disagree…

Added for clarity: folks should be able to make music however feels fun for them, as far as I am concerned. I really like self-generating sounds created by modular synths. If coding is fun and feels rewarding for folks, my feeling is that AI or whatever is a wholly legit thing. Have fun and keep at it.

Thanks!

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

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Post by LecroJS »

psd1 wrote: post #908
LecroJS wrote: post #873

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind elaborating on the second point? Is this unique to larger pools? My inclination is that this would be true for pools of all sizes

I suspect GP meant: increasing pool size is only prolonging the inevitable I've also observed on other DBs that you can increase the connection pool but it shifts the problem to other resources.

Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense
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