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

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Post by JNRowe »

mistursinistur wrote: post #309

I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my neighborhood. Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait for transit. Studies suggest that perceived wait time increases by 30%+ when riders are forced to stand while they wait. There's no cheaper way to shave several minutes off of perceived trip time, for every trip. Inspired by https://www.latim…

I really shouldn't ask and then pick favourites, but between you and me I love this.

Now that you've made me think about this, I can only place one bus stop with a half covered "perch" within a few kilometres of my house. All of the others are just a sign in the grass verge, or a wind exposed perspex cover in a couple of cases. Sadly, it hadn't even occurred to me how unhelpful that it is for many of the people that rely on busses.

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

A lot of judges are somewhat corrupt, the difference is how much.

But make no mistake, the power/influence they yield is enormous and i would certainly restrain myself for ever doing this.

A judge ( in Belgium) stopped a documentary about his criminal doings, pledged psychological issues ( and his brother is a shrink) and is now happily drinking beers and enjoying ( forced) early retirement.

He accepted briberies from anyone to influence cases fyi. Some cases are pretty nuts too.

Oh yeah, "there was no proof of any briberies" was the result of many cases. But people who live nearby know a thing or two and there is exactly 0,0% chance that he was "clean".

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

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Post by JNRowe »

as89 wrote: post #241

Glad to see this thread come back! I'll share something of my own, though it's not a tech project. I've been working on translating Japji Sahib - which is the foundational prayer of the Sikhs - into English poetry. The original is a poem, but most of the existing translations are in prose and use Western religious terminology that's not really appropriate to the original. I just wrapped up a first draft of the transl…

Thanks for your original thread, obviously it stuck in my mind.

It has been great to read all the responses again. I've probably spent a few years worth of upvote budget, assuming I haven't tripped some upvote spam detector ;)

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

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Post by ash110 »

I built a social media platform called Igloo - https://igloosocial.com I wanted a platform where I could share like on Instagram, but with restricted people that I can change as I wish so not all my followers have to see all of my content. Been a great learning experience, the first time I built a proper app and a backend of this size all by myself. Don't care if anyone else uses this, I had fun along the way.

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Post by hamburglar »

ryangittins wrote: post #280

https://siftrss.com/ I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch. Originally it wasn't going to be public but I thought, "eh what the heck, it's only a bit more effort to put a simple interface on it." Since then more than 100k feeds have been created and donations have paid fo…

Ooh, this is something I have contemplated making for a while. I think a really good way to get sophisticated filtering is to allow filters to be specified in snippets of JS (or LUA) that are then executed by a sandboxed interpreter that presents the filter with a very restricted “DOM” representing the post+feed metadata. Include things like author and title and body and links, and let the user do whatever filtering logic they want. And if you really wanted to make it user friendly, instead of having them edit the code, give them a blockly UI for the filter editor. You have to limit the CPU time given to a filter to avoid runaways but that isn’t hard.

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

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Post by blago »

I'm working on an rsync app for iOS that will allow me to sync files from my laptop or server over ssh.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who feels that all existing file transfer and cloud apps suck. They are either too slow, or don't allow syncing everything for offline use.

Even if I end up the only user, I'll be happy and my time would be well spent.

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

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Post by impish19 »

FailMore wrote: post #401
impish19 wrote: post #373

https://featureask.com/ It's 2022 and there should be a place on the internet where you can voice opinions/feedback towards your favorite products, and feel heard.

Cool concept, think it's a bit too locked behind a login button. Think you need to let people taste it more before asking them to sign up

Yeah I agree. I'm trying to get my initial users before I open the gates for everyone else.

Maybe just straight up opening the gates is the way to go forward - I'm considering that.

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

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Post by byecancer21 »

qwertox wrote: post #389
byecancer21 wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's in German language and legal stuff, although one may enjoy the renderings of numerous corruption-involved public officials. These were made using AnimeGANv2. https://de.wickepedia.org/Wickepedia:About The felonious judge is named Wicke so this was thought to be the most hilarious domain name. It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who…

> It has been kept low-profile on purpose because analytics enabled amazing observability about who talks to whom, and who is particularly nervous about the matter. You are aware that this goes against the DSGVO? I think you are posting way too much information in this thread. I wish you the best of luck.

I am not the publisher. Correlating times and locations with a sequence of events is no data privacy violation.

Further, this is a research project into how corruption works in practice.

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Post by pmarreck »

kcbanner wrote: post #393

I built a Visual Studio extension that wraps ag (the silver searcher), because I was constantly flipping to the terminal to use it to search the UE4 codebase I work on. The built in MSVC text search is egregiously slow, and even tools like Visual Assist (which search via indexing symbols) take forever to run on the entire engine. It can do a full regex search on the entire UE4 codebase in about ~6s on my SSD. Searchi…

isn't ripgrep (rg) better than ag, performance-wise?

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

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Post by byecancer21 »

jacobriis wrote: post #367
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

If your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're definitely going to prison.

Had ended up in hospital with a potentially lethal complication in connection. It won't be me going to prison.

None of the stuff published so far is writing targeted at the general public, it is directed at people involved who are aware of the details.

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