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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by skulk »

eezurr wrote: post #164

I've been working on a city builder/simulation video game for the last few months. If that's something you're curious & passionate about, send me an email (see profile). The game is built from the ground up with SFML and C++. The graphics are sprite/tile based. The game is top down, 2D, and will display the interior of buildings so you can watch your citizens live their lives. You'll be able to change z-levels for mu…

Since you're inspired by DF, are you going to do a similar macro/micro split simulation that DF does? I thought this was one of the most interesting aspects of the game and implementation: how do you give the illusion to the player that other civilizations are evolving in a way that's not unlike the evolution of the player's fort without actually doing the CPU-crushing fine-grained simulation outside of the player's map?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by catern »

remram wrote: post #127
catern wrote: post #67

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…

I read this comment 3 times and skimmed both links but I still have no concrete idea what you're building.

Can you say what left you confused?

I'm surprised, I thought https://github.com/catern/rsyscall is pretty self-contained and self-explanatory (if unclear on what exactly rsyscall is useful for), and I thought http://catern.com/integration.html is quite detailed (perhaps excessively so).

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by onassar »

Would love support / collab on an open source project I'm running, Iconduck (https://iconduck.com/).

I'm actually working right now with someone from the HN community to build a Figma plugin, as well as someone else who's doing research.

Anyone who finds open source icons and illustrations interesting, would love your help :)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kevmo314 »

remram wrote: post #170
kevmo314 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using WebRTC makes the file "live", in that it publishes from the current timestamp instead of when the publishing started. In principle I think BitTorrent can be adapted to this, but essentially the output "file" doesn't hash correctly so I think it would be a lot of hacks to the point where it's avoiding actually using most of the parts of BitTorrent anyways. In particular this is evident on the DHT, my understandi…

I missed the "live" part in "live video cdn". Got it, thanks. I've used apps like Ace Stream and I know BitTorrent Inc launched a live streaming service a few years back [1] but I can definitely see the appeal of better, web-based solutions. I also know PeerTube has a Live feature now, but I have no idea how they do it. I think they use WebTorrent (at least for the non-live videos). [1]: https://arstechnica.com/infor…

Yeah I saw that and I tried it out as well, my experience was it was pretty high latency. My understanding is they were shoehorning HLS into BitTorrent so latency is governed by the longest segment length. Unfortunately there's a tradeoff if the segment length is too short then BitTorrent starts not behaving well and if it's too long then HLS will increase in latency. It's really cool tech though and especially doing it back before WebRTC was really a thing was an achievement.

My goal for the CDN is to make it lower latency that it could be used for video conferencing. In practice I have more of a one-to-million distribution in mind but it's a cool puzzle.

If you're interested, I'd love to talk more! I'm in NYC if you happen to be too, I love meeting people interested in live video :)

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Post by iKenshu »

Void_ wrote: post #66

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

This looks amazing, how can I help with marketing?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by bruceb »

treasurebots wrote: post #69

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 t…

Might try experimenting with changing the reward. Instead of money, every 25 bottles means a tree is planeted or something. The 2cents a bottle isn't much of motivation for regular people. Easy for me to suggest as I don't have to figure it out, but maybe something to consider.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by impish19 »

Hi, I'm an ex-big-tech employee working on FeatureAsk.com

It's 2022 and yet if you ever think of a feature for an app or a product you use, there's no good place to voice it and feel heard. I want to change that.

Looking to collaborate with fellow engineers and people with a strong product/growth sense.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by snarkypepperoni »

yboris wrote: post #102

My 4-year old project Video Hub App is MIT open source charityware desktop application (TypeScript, Angular, Node, Electron) and I'm happy to have people contribute PRs. I'm unsure what a "collaboration" would look like, but perhaps there are some who would like to assist, rather than take a lot of responsibility. I'm thankful and thrilled for whatever you're up for. My project for the year is adding facial recogniti…

I'm interested in assisting. I have experience in TypeScript, Angular, and Node.
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