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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 sleepingadmin »

nix23 wrote: post #696
sleepingadmin wrote: post #657

I have a honeypot network that collects a good amount of attackers, but I also have multiple other sources of attacker infos that let me build a threatfeed that is unlike any other. ISP scale SOC, ISP DDOS, etc. My threatfeed is insane, every firepower I add it to ends up blocking virtually all threats. Better yet, everything is fully automated. Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-pr…

>Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-profit membership. Why?

Nonprofits in Canada must write a mission statement. Once approved, you are legally obligated to follow.

Mind you, im a tech, not a lawyer or boardmember or whatever.

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

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Post by tormeh »

exikyut wrote: post #688
tormeh wrote: post #667

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BEAM is not fast. You're probably going to get better performance with Node.js. It is however really really low-latency. But that doesn't help with handling load. Anyway, even so I'd guess bandwidth or the database is the issue.

> BEAM is not fast > It is however really really low latency I've been interested in Erlang for a while, and reading this is intriguing. Taken literally the above makes no sense :) but it also kind of... does, sort of, and I would like to understand how this works.

There's often a tradeoff between latency and throughput. Think GC algorithms or IO buffers. The Erlang project has historically chosen the far left end of this spectrum. They also haven't cared about numerical performance at all, delegating that to C code.

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

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Post by Charlieholtz »

melony wrote: post #357
jvanderbot wrote: post #123

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HN hug of death. And well deserved, I had a great time with this one.

Isn't elixir supposed to scale better than this?

yeah so I'm seeing a ton of "(Postgrex.Error) FATAL 53300 (too_many_connections) remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections", which I'm guessing means the pool size is too small? Although I've tried upping that, CPU, and memory, and none have seemed to fix it. My devops skills still aren't great so if anyone has any ideas on how to help, let me know!

This might be a good opportunity to change the server to try out fly.io

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

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Post by slhomme »

https://getgumball.com

My wife and I started an online/offline shop last year. When our very first orders came in, it was the best feeling ever! I wanted some kind of celebration device that would turn on and play some celebrating music each time this happened. So I started learning IoT / hardware and build a cool retro-looking police light that I can plug into our WooCommerce/Shopify/Zapier accounts (or really anything else with webhooks). This was such a fun project and people wanted to get some for their own. So I'm working on making it a "real" product. I don't care if it becomes a "success" or not, I'm already so happy to use it for my own and my friends.

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

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Post by nix23 »

sleepingadmin wrote: post #701
nix23 wrote: post #696

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why doesnt this succeed? I can't share it with anyone outside our non-profit membership. Why?

Nonprofits in Canada must write a mission statement. Once approved, you are legally obligated to follow. Mind you, im a tech, not a lawyer or boardmember or whatever.

Ah, i see, i was thinking something along the lines.

Thanks for answering.

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

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Post by elorant »

I built a small project that parses tickets sites and generates reports for venues’ attendance. I know that the data are not accurate because venues keep a percentage of tickets for themselves and there’s no indication how many of those are eventually sold. Despite that it provides a very good indication as to which plays are the most popular and whatnot, although you can’t really tell how many tickets exactly were sold. I built it out of curiosity, and there are a few venues which were interested in the data although not accurate because they can spot trends. So although as a project it never took off, and it never was meant to, it helped me earn some contacts and insights. I don’t plan on upgrading it because there’s not much that can be done.

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

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Post by kamarg »

wila wrote: post #690

A programmer's text editor for a language called DataFlex, written in DataFlex (well some parts are in C++ for performance reasons) https://projects.vdf-guidance.com/projects/hammer It's only 21 years in the making :) Oh and I should mention that it is my main programmers editor for a variety of languages (not just DataFlex)

This is only the second time in fifteen years of professional development I've seen someone say they work with DataFlex. What makes the language attractive to you compared to all the other languages that are around and see significantly higher adoption?

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

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Post by dhr »

slhomme wrote: post #705

https://getgumball.com My wife and I started an online/offline shop last year. When our very first orders came in, it was the best feeling ever! I wanted some kind of celebration device that would turn on and play some celebrating music each time this happened. So I started learning IoT / hardware and build a cool retro-looking police light that I can plug into our WooCommerce/Shopify/Zapier accounts (or really anyth…

This is so awesome!

Any recommendations on how to get started learning IoT and hardware?

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

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Post by exikyut »

mNovak wrote: post #170

https://bytebucket.co I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to bench…

This is great, except it's showing me listings for laptops with 8GB of SSD storage and 935GB of RAM.

A flag button may be the most useful practical reaction to this problem. That way you can outsource the problem of faulty reports - and best case scenario even build up a following of trigger-happy users who are helpfully inclined to click the flag button in the future when the occasional glitch sneaks through.

Publishing the parser may also honestly be a good idea as well. Not the whole site, just the parser specifically - maybe with instructions on how feed in the results of small-scale scrapes (~100 pages) - so people can understand exactly what it's doing and provide feedback.

This is a very community-oriented sort of project IMHO, so by definition you'll wind up with a small following of stragglers if you hang in there; by the same token, it's possible (gain, best case scenario) that leveraging the spare cycles the community might be able to bring to the table may make it viable to maintain a level of quality that would otherwise be very hard to sustain long term.

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