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Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot.<p>The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a single subreddit mostly geared towards tech and startups. It'd be nice to have an equivalent of "subreddits"<p>Zsync's version of subreddits are tags. You can tag your posts. Instead of viewing a subreddit for, let's say neuroscience, you view the tag for neuroscience. This eliminates the need to submit the same post multiple times to many different subreddits.<p>The core challenge is incentivizing/rewarding high quality content (I don't believe in censorship). Users can have custom avatars and links to their personal website and Twitter next to their username, which I believe provides a little more incentive to write a more thoughtful comment vs. your post merely showing up next to an anonymous handle with some autogenerated alien avatar (which you're free to still do if you prefer).<p>Anyone who connects an ethereum wallet to their account will also have a (non-invasive) "Tip" option at the bottom of their comment, allowing anyone to directly tip commenters cryptocurrency (no middleman taking a cut here), offering a financial incentive. I was thinking of some other ideas to use crypto to reward quality, but I wouldn't want to implement anything that could be gamed or exploited ultimately defeating its purpose. Open to ideas though.<p>In the future, we could use ML to offer options to sort comments in more useful ways, such as by sorting by "most insightful". We could determine based on your upvote history the type of content you'd be most likely to enjoy. Anyways I admittedly didn't implement this ML stuff yet, those are just ideas for future improvement.<p>Anyways would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think of this idea, and what would it take to accomplish its mission? Regardless of whether my little project amounts to anything or not, I hope something like this will be made to exist. And thank you HN for not deteriorating in quality even remotely to the extent that Reddit has. It was really sad watching Reddit devolve into what it is today (way before all this recent stuff). We can do better, and now is a better time than ever to shake up the status quo and start envisioning what better platforms for online communities can look like.<p>[1] <a href="https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-reddit-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...</a>
Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Stable Diffusion powered level editor for a 2D game
Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives.<p>How non.io works:<p>1. Free to browse, paid to interact.<p>2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.<p>It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this.<p>Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you <i>not</i> to pay for the time being. I'm still testing the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login:<p>login: hackernews pw: helloworld<p>Edit: Loginless browsing here: <a href="https://non.io/#all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://non.io/#all</a><p>If you want to browse the code or the api:<p><a href="https://api.non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.non.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/jjcm/nonio">https://github.com/jjcm/nonio</a>
Show HN: I made a web app for color grading and film emulation
TLDR: I’m a solo dev with backgrounds in art/photography and made a web app (PWA) for film emulation and color grading.<p>Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce you to a passion project that's been keeping me busy for nearly a year - a color grading and film emulation web app called Color.io (<a href="https://app.color.io" rel="nofollow">https://app.color.io</a>). It's desktop-only for the moment but merging the new engine with my other, mobile first app (match.color.io), is in the pipeline.<p>Color.io is the result of my long standing frustration with how color tools behave in most editing and color grading software, especially on the photographic end. It’s much easier to create completely unnatural looking colors than it is to truly enhance an image in a subtle and film-like way. Most apps work around their engines’ color transform shortcomings by exposing some kind of profile or 3D LUT interface that allows for arbitrary 3D color mappings to be applied to images. The problem with profiles and LUTs however is that they’re a black box and offer limited creative control.<p>My app is meant to act as a middle man in this color process. I wrote a custom color engine on top of ACES (hand ported to WebGL) that uses custom color models and transform operations that are much more suitable for creative color manipulation than cone models like HSL. The engine is controlled by my library of interface tools like custom spline interpolators, color wheels, 2D draggables and more. I also ported a custom libRAW build to web assembly for a logarithmic raw development workflow.<p>The project is still very much in its early stages, and the response since the soft launch has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm keen on using this momentum to make the app better. So, your feedback would be hugely appreciated! Tell me about the features you'd like to see, the ones you're loving, and anything you think needs improvement (all code, design, marketing is a solo gig so I'm sure there's lots to do!)<p>Find me on Twitter (@MON0KEE, <a href="https://twitter.com/MON0KEE" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MON0KEE</a>) or more frequently on Instagram (@monokee, <a href="https://instagram.com/monokee" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/monokee</a>). I'd love to hear from you!
Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams
grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It's for grumpy people who don't like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.
Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams
grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It's for grumpy people who don't like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.
Show HN: Java REST without annotations, DI nor reactive streams
grumpyrest is a Java REST server framework that does not use annotations, automatic dependency injection or reactive streams, and minimizes the use of reflection. I created this because I got fed up with annotation-mad frameworks that you cannot easily understand, step into or reason about. grumpyrest uses the type system to guide JSON mapping and validation, and (possibly virtual) threads for parallelism. It's for grumpy people who don't like what REST server programming in Java has become.<p>I made this because I intend to use it in one of my own projects, but at the same time I want to make it available to others to (hopefully) get some good ideas on how to extend it.
Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
Hello folks,<p>We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.<p>OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gcs/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.<p>We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metrics) and its not simple to do these things.<p>Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - <a href="https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve</a>.<p>We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
Hello folks,<p>We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.<p>OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gcs/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.<p>We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metrics) and its not simple to do these things.<p>Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - <a href="https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve</a>.<p>We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
Show HN: OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative
Hello folks,<p>We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.<p>OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gcs/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.<p>We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metrics) and its not simple to do these things.<p>Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - <a href="https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve</a>.<p>We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
Show HN: Poser – Posix SERvices C framework
Show HN: Poser – Posix SERvices C framework