Impartial algorithmic redistricting. I wrote code to process the Census data into impartial compact districts for all the state US House districts and State Legislature districts. It's mathematically great, but politically inconvenient, but I'm proud of it.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#182I’m writing a reimplementation of Escape Velocity in JavaScript and it runs BEAUTIFULLY in the browser.
I don’t care if nobody plays it. I am in love with everything I’m learning by making a game rather than robotics software.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#183I’m writing a reimplementation of Escape Velocity in JavaScript and it runs BEAUTIFULLY in the browser. I don’t care if nobody plays it. I am in love with everything I’m learning by making a game rather than robotics software.
link? I'd love to see it!
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#184Either I am doing some very wrong, or very right. Individually, I don't care about any of the projects.
- Hub20: self-hosted, open source payment gateway for crypto [0]
- Communick: XMPP/Matrix/ActivityPub-provider-as-a-Service [1]
- An e-book for people that want to get into crypto but are (rightfully) weary of all the scams, the baseless hype and all the get-rich-quick schemes.
- A yet-to-reach MVP website to help curate, fund and collaborate with open source projects
The idea for me is always to keep making the things that are interesting/rewarding on their own, and expect that on aggregate these become bigger than whatever single "obsession" could end. It is what Daniel Vassalo calls "a portfolio of small bets". Done right, there is always something to learn from these projects.
[0]: https://hub20.io
[2]: https://areyouinterested.co/site/rational-investors-guide-to...
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#185I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com
This is an interesting mechanic, and I like the Arkanoid+Tetris kind of feel, but I have NFI what's going on. Why are there lasers? What determines how much lasers there is? What determines where the start point will be on the next go? A bit of explanation and polish could really make something great here.
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#186https://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…
That is a seriously good concept. Your metric works too good though, compared to the refresh rate of the listings so all the good stuff is sold out. If you had a mailing list I would definitely subscribe.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#187https://spinup.dev
A simple website deployer that has free server-side analytics on deploy.
It was a pandemic side-project, and I was mostly just interested to see what was involved in building it.
I made a paid plan and integrated stripe because I liked the idea of it possibly paying for its own infra costs at some point. I have some ideas for features I want to add for fun, hopefully in the next couple months.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#188I’m writing a reimplementation of Escape Velocity in JavaScript and it runs BEAUTIFULLY in the browser. I don’t care if nobody plays it. I am in love with everything I’m learning by making a game rather than robotics software.
link? I'd love to see it!
I’ll Show HN when it’s in a very basic arcade playable state. The engine and systems are almost all done. But I’ve got to actually type in all the ships and weapon stats and such.
Maybe two weeks. :)
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#189When I want to re-watch one piece from the episode 1 I can't find any good source, the one that has complete list of episode is from pirate site, but you know how pirate site, tons of pop up ads, so I made https://stream.yui.pw, basically just scrapper site from the original pirate site, but no ads, easy for me to navigate, and pretty good use case to learn react and I'm pretty happy about it because I could use it on my own.
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#190When you plug a Macbook in with the included two-prong power adapter, sometimes it buzzes slightly when you stroke it gently (ground loop). Im working with a factory to make a grounded duckhead adapter to fix this. https://ibb.co/P4Bjstg
Wow. I had never experienced this until I moved from US to NL. It sometimes really bothers (scares?) me. If you have two Macbooks side by side, and you touch them both at the same time, you can get an even bigger sensation. Now since you're in this area of expertise, do you think it's possible that on rare occasions I could lightly stroke another human (let's say in a bed, on a waterbed (water filled rubber container…
The sensation comes from the Macbook case voltage differing from that of ground, and finding a path to ground through your body. Sometimes, when you feel the sensation coming from the computer, if you lift your feet off the ground the sensation stops. This is because you are no longer a path to ground.
It's totally possible for this path to ground to go through two humans, making it feel like their skin is buzzing! For example, if your friend is in bed using a Macbook, they're insulated from ground and thus at Macbook case voltage. If you stand on the ground beside them and touch them, the current now finds a path to ground through both your bodies!