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

Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 501 posts

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#61

Post by akkartik »

I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions).

The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon.

More details: http://akkartik.name/about

What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Lately I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the sandboxing model. I'm giving a talk about it at FOSDEM this weekend: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing

As a concrete stress test, consider a file browser like Midnight Commander (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137864). How would you craft policies for a file browser that give it just the permissions it needs to scan directories and open files, but prevent malicious code that creeps into it from scanning directories or opening files?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#62

Post by zciwor »

I'm working on a repository of open source hardware designs over at postdrc.com.

I always like to take a pulse check on which components and configurations other people are using for different hardware functional blocks (think 3v linear regulator, logic level shifter, etc.).

Taking inspiration from dribbble and tailwindcomponents applied to open source electronics.

Let me know if you're interested in taking it for a test drive or helping with development. Technology stack is: Nextjs frontend, Strapi backend, AWS tools.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#63

Post by sneilan1 »

I would love to collaborate on stock trading algorithms. I love the inherent beauty in a well designed trading algorithm and the output is like generative art. I have excellent leetcode skills (have spent significant time grinding as a hobby) am a crack mathematician in addition. And I like making money of course.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#64

Post by [deleted] »

aklemm wrote: post #23
panphora wrote: post #8

The web has gotten boring. I'm starting a static web host where every page is remixable by default. One click and you have a copy of any web page hosted on the platform. Not only that, but the front-end code (HTML, CSS, JS) is treated as the source of truth. Whatever changes the owner makes to a page (through DevTools, some custom JS, or clicking a button that does something) is saved permanently to the DB. This make…

Sounds pretty exciting. Be sure to implement Webmentions and IndieAuth and other IndieWeb stuff as a first step so you're not re-inventing things that are solved, but need more traction. The web has gotten boring. This is so true. Before it was boring, it was hard to use, though. I think that's why the federated/decentralized/indie stuff still struggles to find mindshare.

[deleted]

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#65

Post by timlin »

newaccount74 wrote: post #39
personjerry wrote: post #19

I'm ideating around productivity and todo lists, I'd love to talk with and bounce ideas with any UX designers interested in the space! Email in profile :)

One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform. There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform. I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS prod…

Did you try Google Keep? It does exactly what you ask for: sharing a simple todo list with another person.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#66

Post by Void_ »

I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people.

https://focustask.app

Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing.

My email is vojto at focustask.app

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#67

Post by catern »

Distributed software, which accesses and depends on remote resources, is harder to run than local-only software. I'm working on making it easier to run distributed software for both programmers and end-users.

See the main article describing my current vision: http://catern.com/integration.html

My most significant project in this area: https://github.com/catern/rsyscall

My website in general: http://catern.com/ (happy to collaborate on anything on there)

And my current plans: http://catern.com/plan.html

If you're interested, feel free to contact me using the information on my website.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#68

Post by aliljet »

Tepix wrote: post #46
aliljet wrote: post #24

I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…

I'm intrigued by mesh networking, too. I'd like to see an open source implementation of Bluetooth Mesh networking for embedded SoCs like ESP32 that's not limited to a single chip (and ideally usable with MicroPython). This could make cool games possible running on all those hacker conference badges!

Years ago now, I was building baby monitoring tools, and putting BLE implemnentations into place on ESP8266s might have been worse than smoking cigarettes. I swear, my life was shortened, but I love the idea of device-to-device mesh systems. These 802.11ax systems are basically intelligent wireless backhaul systems, the devices that actually connect to the backbone could be boring, but it'd be so cool if devices helped to expand the mesh...

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#69

Post by treasurebots »

I’m working on making robots to collect bottles and redeem the California refund value. Basically so you could bring your bottles to a big mechanical sorter, dump your bottles in, and get maybe like 2c per bottle paid to you, then 3c pays for the cost of transport. Currently based out of Mountain View. My background is in machine learning and I’m muddling through the electronics and mechanics, would definitely like to have help with that stuff or really just find other people interested in this intersection. If interested send me an email at contact@treasurerobotics.com

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#70

Post by newaccount74 »

timlin wrote: post #65
newaccount74 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform. There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform. I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS prod…

Did you try Google Keep? It does exactly what you ask for: sharing a simple todo list with another person.

No, I haven't. Thanks for the tip.

(I've been trying to use as few Google services as possible, but it seems very hard on Android.)

Post reply on HN