My guess, over the long run, is that it'll be Cryptopals. Which is funny, because it's just a blog post that we chopped up into email challenges because I didn't want to give [redacted] a bunch of new terminology to use against me in stupid Twitter slapfights. Dumb reason, good outcome.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#412I did many infustracture / bussiness developments over the years
but the most impactful software is mobile app which i build together with my kids
which they did the voices and selecting the images and over all they felt involved in dady's work . the software was to teach them the Hebrew letters. for them it was cool small game , for me it ment allot .
Open sourced it : https://github.com/meiry/Cocos2d-x-Guessing-Game
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#413An idle game about cats
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#414During a centralisation of public school local servers to a data centre, I created a consolidated library enquiry system. It served over 2,000 libraries, had 330 million titles, and had about a million users. It was efficient enough to run off my laptop, if need be. AFAIK it was one of the top five biggest library systems in the world at the time. I was asked to add some features that would have been too difficult in…
> had a far greater effect on the literacy of our state than any educator by orders of magnitude Nice work, but check your ego mate. Seems your growth hacking would have had zero result if those kids couldn't read to start with, so you could share some credit ;-)
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait... they won't try to revive a child unless they can first prove that said child can be revived? Why not just... try to do it regardless and hope for the best? Also, as a new parent, my immediate thought is of course "WHO wasn't watching the kid??"
Just a guess, but it might have something to do with whether the brain is able to be saved vs. just the body.
yes but why wouldn't you try regardless of knowing? In the time you spend gathering temp data, you could already be reviving
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#416Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!
Let's Encrypt is incredible. Thank you!
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#417The company I work for has saved people and businesses in West Africa roughly $1B in banking fees this year.
It's a big company but I'm really proud to have done my part towards this.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#418Wrote del.icio.us and invented tagging. Echoes of my original design are still around (notably account urls being web.site/userid)
And inspired the design of HN!
https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 (credit to joshu)
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#419Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!
I think we all owe you, your co-authors, and the sponsors a big thanks.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#420https://www.inaturalist.org/ While I deserve no credit for its current success, it's been used by millions to: * catalogue millions of plants and animals around the world * tagged image data has become critical for computer vision training models * map species range and impact of various natural changes to biodiversity, with data cited in scientific journals * new species have been discovered through the app previous…
iNaturalist is wonderful!