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

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

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Post by hef19898 »

Mine is sword making, and I will share the results with people doing it full-time and also the local HEMA people. Once I am done, so. That will really take a while, due to injury and time constraints. The material is there already!

The most tricky part is heat treatment. The only supplier I found able to treat sword blades, due to length, is using induction hardening. On paper, that seems to be a pretty good way doing it. Penetration depth can be controlled, almost no deformation. Funny thing is, nobody seemed to have tried it so far. Curious to see how it works out. Maybe I make a blade for destructive testing, but we'll see.

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Post by TheNewAndy »

wh-uws wrote: post #32

My hacker news comment notifier lol https://hacknotescenter.com/ I need to do an about building blog post but I basically just made it to get better at kubernetes design doc writing, and play around with hasura, next.js, vercel and a bunch of other tech toys.

Neat. I think I just signed up. If your notifier works, then you will know this immediately.

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Post by piazz »

jlelse wrote: post #118
piazz wrote: post #94

https://piazza.photos/ This past month I built a photojournal blog to host my street photography & assorted other shots from this crazy year. I both wanted a place for my photos to be viewable in higher resolution than Instagram, as well as to establish an ongoing chronological log of my life as it unfolds - as some kind of crazy experiment I will probably soon regret. I built this from scratch with Next.js and Types…

I like your photos! It would be nice if one is able to follow your site using RSS :)

Thank you! And yes, 100% - RSS is near the top of my list of features I’m going to add next.

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Post by austinjp »

zcbenz wrote: post #64

A native GUI library https://github.com/yue/yue . It was a disaster when I announced it on Hacker News, and I got numerous harassments from strangers. But anyway 3 years since then and I'm still working on it. Edit 1: 2 => 3 years Edit 2: If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog on the mistakes I made http://cheng.guru/blog/2018/02/18/lessons-learnt-from-open-s... .

Not a disaster at all, it looked really interesting to me. Hope it progresses to wherever you want :)

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Post by smaddock »

Tired of walled gardens and increased limitations of Chrome extensions, I'm building enough of the web extensions API to let me run them in my own desktop browser. Eventually I plan to build products from this project.

https://github.com/samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell

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Post by [deleted] »

ayewo wrote: post #113
huhtenberg wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: the disaster - had to look it up [1], but it didn't help that you didn't answer any of the (pretty serious) questions raised in response to your announcement. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15218067

> "... but it didn't help that you didn't answer any of the (pretty serious) questions raised in response to your announcement." Please be kind. This thread is about self-promotion. There's no need to dig up his past just to flog a dead horse.

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Post by GlitchMr »

Code evaluation service https://pastebin.run/

I'm too lazy to open text editor, save a file and run a compiler, so I wrote a service that allows me to do that easily in a web browser. It's kinda buggy, and probably unusable for anyone that isn't me, but it's on the internet anyway.

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Post by austinjp »

DataCrayon wrote: post #91

My books on https://datacrayon.com/shop/ fit that description. Although they’re no where near breaking even if I account for even 20% of my time, I’ll continue to work on them because I want to see them finished. I’ve priced them as “early access books” where the price grows as the content does as a way to gain some kind of interest and support the work!

Corrected link for the lazy: https://datacrayon.com/shop/
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