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Hey HN! Last year, we introduced Gitopia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36511096) as a decentralised alternative to GitHub. Today, we're excited to announce Gitopia DAO - a protocol-level solution that brings true decentralised governance to open source development.

Why We Built This

The open source ecosystem faces three critical challenges we've observed:

1. Personal liability risks for maintainers (think recent Tornado Cash developer sanctions)

2. Dangerous dependencies on individual maintainers (remember the node-pre-gyp crisis?)

3. Centralised decision-making that creates single points of failure

While existing platforms excel at managing code, they often overlook the human elements that make projects successful. Even fundamental processes like improvement proposals lack standardisation – from EIPs (Ethereum) to BIPs (Bitcoin) to PEPs (Python), each project reinvents the wheel.

What Makes Gitopia DAO Different

Unlike traditional repository permissions or basic voting systems, Gitopia DAO integrates governance directly into the protocol layer:

- Every critical repository action (merges, releases, collaborator management) can be protected by governance proposals
- All decisions execute on-chain for complete transparency
- Built-in treasury management through secure module accounts
- Weighted voting system that can be configured by the community

How It Works

1. Create a DAO for your project

2. Configure governance parameters (voting period, quorum)

3. Set which repository actions require proposals

4. Assign weighted voting power to members based on their roles

For example, a typical structure might look like:

- Core maintainers: 100 votes

- Active contributors: 50 votes

- Community members: 10 votes

These weights can be adjusted through governance proposals as roles evolve.

Getting Started

- Documentation: https://docs.gitopia.com/dao-tutorial

What's Next

This is just the beginning. We're working on:

- On-chain license management

- Standardised improvement proposals across projects

- Enhanced security features with verifiable attestations

- Expanded governance capabilities

We're excited to hear your thoughts and feedback. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Reach out to us

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mVpQVW3vKE

Telegram: https://t.me/Gitopia

Email: hi@gitopia.org

Forum: https://forum.gitopia.com/

Website: https://gitopia.com/gitopia
Fun fact, comments like this give me the impression this place is turning into reddit.
> albeit files are slightly overly compressed
I agree, pretty sure the host upload is at fault here.

> What light source did you use
A simple LED strip light, you know those flexible ones. They were glued on the inside (just the bottom panel) of an aluminium box 30x40x8cm and then a frosted acrylic panel was placed on top. While the light color is not that important I chose a neutral white. But I reference each scan images white balance from a reference image of the light table so it gets compensated anyway. Worked like a charm when I still shot analog. Gone digital now unfortunately as the costs just rose too quickly as a college student. Still miss my Fuji GX680 sometimes, but I'm also really happy with my Fuji X-Pro 2.
You keep alluding to these regulatory restrictions which supposedly force this kind of behavior from Google - please go ahead and tell us what those are.
How far away are you sitting from that monitor? Mine is about 3-4 feet away from my face and I have not had the same experience.
totally this! maybe a 10 anniversary thing next year..
Why did I hire these people if I cannot delegate responsibility to them?
Whoever said it first was lying.
> that illustrates practical necessity of reading comprehension for the average person

Does it? In practice, the average person, even the above average person, hell, even the greatest minds, will typically seek the services of a lawyer when buying land exactly because they lack the comprehension necessary to avoid the tale you tell. And once you are outsourcing comprehension, literacy doesn't really buy you anything.
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2015/10/nazi-germany-was-hig...

>Germany had the world’s finest elementary school system, the highest literacy rate and the best universities; by 1913 more books were published annually in Germany than in any country in the world.

Believing that authoritarianism stems from lack of education is a flawed ideology.
Yeah, Notoriety/Clout/Social Status.
super interesting , actually I am also a contributer of the https://github.com/bddicken/languages and after I had tried to create a lua approach , I started to think of truffleruby as it was mentioned somewhere but unfortunately when I had run the code of main.rb , there was virtually no significant difference b/w truffleruby and main.rb (sometimes normal ruby was faster than truffleruby)

I am not sure if the benchmark that you had provided showing the speed of truffleruby were made after the changes that you have made.

I would really appreciate it if I could verify the benchmark

and maybe try to add it to the main https://github.com/bddicken/languages as a commit as well , because the truffleruby implementation actually is faster than the node js and goes close to bun or even golang for that matter which is nuts.

This was a fun post to skim through , definitely bookmarking it.
It seems to me that your main mistake here is assuming that parties like the US Democratic Party, the UK Labour Party, the Canadian Liberal Party, etc. are left-wing. They aren't. They've been practicing "Third Way" politics for decades now, and there's very little left-wing about their proposals. IMO this is the source of a lot of public discontent with these parties: They don't offer a true alternative, just a diet version of the same policies that largely harm the public.

> Was Bill Clinton "right wing" because of his free trade politics (eg NAFTA)?

Yes! This is the point. Who benefited from Clinton's economic policies? It certainly wasn't the employees of the companies who offshored production because they were incentivized to by NAFTA. By capitulating to the right on economic issues and trying to differentiate only on the basis of social issues, the Democratic Party ceded its strongest argument: That turbo-capitalist (as you put it) economic policy only benefits corporations and the wealthy, and harms labor and the country as a whole. Democrats as a party cannot credibly make that argument anymore, because they're fully complicit. A few politicians carry lonely torches for actual left-wing politics (e.g. Bernie Sanders), but for the most part, there's close to zero power behind left wing ideas today.
But then you just end up writing HTML anyways.
OpenID Certified OIDC Relying Party Implementation for Apache HTTP Server 2.x
I was curious how this worked without violating the copyright of the originals. I was imagining something akin to tracing over the original game assets and calling it a libre replacement, but it seems like they actually did it in a reasonable way:

>New art is being drawn in the style of the original game, using the original 8bpp palette. The graphics should be a similar but distinct version of the object in question - no graphics may be copied at all from the original. The new sprites do not have to be the same size as the original, but need to be similar so as to fit into the game as expected.

https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Archive/Community/Graphics%20Rep...
The margins on 100$ bottles are already pretty amazing. No need for extra revenue there
They sorta have this already for copyright strikes, but I guess porn was judged to be a more impactful offense?
JavaScript-based APIs have the lowest quality scores among all languages
Is it really arguing in good faith to put hypotheticals side by side, on an equal footing, with evidence?

Maybe the Pax Sinica won't play out that way at all -- who knows.
Sinkholes Around the World – In Pictures
What should take it's place in the checks and balances the US government depends on?
Where would you route the connection to the additional 4 groups of chips around the die? The PCIe connection needs to be there too, and they also may not like power delivery going through them
It depends on definition of full bootstrapping process. At some point, someone has to bootstrap in raw assembly but we don't need to do that in 2024. If I write a bootstrap compiler in c on a machine that can run c, I can write an alternate backend for any assembly language (that supports the necessary compilation features) and thus produce a compiler implemented in any assembly language without directly writing any assembly.

Taking this process to the extreme, no one could ever bootstrap anything because eventually you're bootstrapping mineral extraction.
Web dev used to be fun and FREE. Now almost every thing cost something. The stupid AI bubble will pass. We need real content, NOT AI BS!!!
You're last line is why Larry Wall made Perl. I feel you!
PyMyFlySpy: Track your flight using its headrest data
Thank you so much. I just read this with him and he's all gunned up.
I know a woman who is absolutely sure there are half-lizard/half-human “people”(?) living in the sewers of New York, which she knows about from a secret news group. Some theories are absolutely BS and crazy. She’s even a nurse, so understands DNA, etc, and this also contradicts her very deeply held religious beliefs. _Something_ is going on to get people like her to believe things like this.
Offering pro bono software help (Kiwi developer living in Latam)
Hey HN,

I'm a software developer from New Zealand, recently relocated to São Paulo (Brazil), where I'll be based indefinitely -- at least until January.

I've spent most of the last year working full-time as a founding developer at a high-growth startup, so I'm taking a break before my next full-time gig.

As a result, I have a lot of free time, and I want to use it to broaden my skills and help people I usually wouldn’t.

So, I’m keen to get involved in anything with an cool, experimental or socially-beneficial angle.

Non-profit/open-source is preferred, but I’m also happy to help with people’s sidegigs or early-stage startups.

I’m looking for diversity — I want to do a bunch of small hackathon-style projects, quick fixes, etc.

Does anyone have (or know someone who has) a project that I could help with?

I'm good at most technical things:

- Websites incl. basic SEO/SMO

- Shell scripts and automation

- DNS & domain management

- Proofs of concept and MVPs

- Technical writing incl. tutorials & translations

- Data scraping and visualisation

- Project planning and estimation

- Technical interviews, quote review

A recent video I posted on LinkedIn about this: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7269424508296388608/

To be clear, I'm not looking to sell anything. I’m looking to decompress.

I enjoy working with new ideas. I enjoy doing things I’m relatively weak at, like sales and project planning. I enjoy projects that immediately ‘give back’ something (even though I realise many for-profit projects indirectly make the world a better place.)

And as a former founder, I get a satisfaction from helping others with their bootstrapped startups and sidegigs.

Getting a couple mini-projects under my belt would be the perfect way for me to cap off 2024 and head into 2025 feeling refreshed.

So please, don’t be a stranger…

If you’ve got a cool project and need tech help — even something that’s only tech-adjacent — I’ll be more than happy to help.

- Telegram: https://t.me/gringokiwi

- GitHub: https://github.com/gringokiwi

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesscaur

Best,
James
Yes, but when you do manage to get people to "say what they mean" I had the following response from a frontend bloke (me being on the "backend" side, even though I never refused to work on frontend per se): "I don't like you and I don't like your stack, I want to make decisions regarding frontend without consulting with anyone, I want to get promoted for running a team which overcomes any hindrances related to either how the product actually works or that human collaboration requires communication."

It is not about "nog being able to collaborate" - it is about refusing to do so.
"don’t violate people’s privacy"

Did you asked the kids in the videos (who are grownups or teenagers now) if they are ok with random strangers watching their kids life?

Also I would doubt, that most people were aware, that they were uploading the video to the general public.

So there are surely worse things going on, but I also felt uneasy after watching such private videos.
The automation should be setting flags on videos. Users should have preferences for opting in or out of flags with reasonable defaults. If there is a jurisdictional requirement in a users location YouTube sets the preference to disabled according to the law and shows a link to the regional law so users understand.

Hence abuse is a local thing too. One can be getting flagged in one region but not in another. ‘Abuse’ amounts to getting certain flags auto-applied in some locations or whatever. Should not affect the account itself though.
It depends on what the objective is.

Is the objective to ensure people are safe from potential dangers? Sure.

Is the objective to maximize profits for capitalist society and minimize costs? Then banning every useful but potentially harmful substance that isn't proven to kill people is a drag on society.

I'm not even joking. It sounds horrible but policy makers are always making such trade offs. The "scientific", "evidence based" language is just used to placate the masses from realizing this fact.
That's far from the only number that looks weird. If this site is legit - a point I'm not conceding - it could be that these numbers are the average of some large number of systems, and the tests are not properly controlled for any of the other factors that might affect performance. Amount of memory, memory speed, single vs dual channel, overclocking, CPU cooler, even ambient temperature could all be having an impact on the score, and certain types of CPU could be more likely to be biased in a particular direction.

It's also possible for some of the CPUs that their sample size is really small - so one or two overclocked or hotboxed systems could completely throw off the result.
S3 support would be absolutely killer.
For me, a particular kind of certainty is a prerequisite for joyful programming. I too get the most out of the solutioning, not the annoying details that need to be clarified by documentation, but if I don't personally clarify those details, I no longer have a certain kind of baseline confidence in my program; a feeling of what parts are more likely to be the source of bugs and what parts aren't; a feeling of how much I grok each part of my own program. Without that, personally speaking, the joy is drained from the solutioning thereafter.
This isn't entirely accurate. Psychopathy involves impaired affective (emotional) empathy as a core trait, while cognitive empathy remains intact or can even be enhanced. This is slightly different from autism, which typically shows impaired cognitive empathy but intact affective empathy.

Psychopathy is not about choosing not to feel empathy - it's a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent deficits in emotional responsiveness and empathic concern for others (meaning they can't). -"opathy" is usually a disorder outside of one's control.
I disagree. We all are eager to make binary yes/no decisions. Presidential pardon exists for a good reason and it exists in many countries.

People elect a president, prescient uses pardon power. Political pardons are not always morally wrong. It has been and will be abused, but it also does good.

System is not broken just because people in the system are broken. If we want to defended democracy, we must allow people to choose corrupt, disgusting people. They mirror the people.
One of the vids I looked at was some guys warming up for a league basketball game, pretty cool. Another was of a small child riding a scooter, I can think of a lot of ways that might be uncool.

My take away is this: I took a video of my grandson's birthday party recently using my cellphone. I haven't uploaded or sent it to anyone yet. Has my cell carrier already captured the video without my knowing it? In the corporate world the only privacy that matters to them is their own, not ours.

I've read that digi-cams were making somewhat of a comeback, maybe that's good.
Make a high quality website and submit it to Google. It still works very well.
"Culling the weak" is what a dictator-for-a-day does first? Surprised pikachu face
I am glad that I do not live in a country that is number 50 in every important metric, but citizens say "we are best".
Said military was also filmed live with empty pistols and training magazines on chest rigs, so it was clear that they were never on the President's side. SK has mandatory military conscription and so implication of waving around scary but empty guns was immediately understood and shared by local citizens.
Show HN: Play quarterback in VR throwing a real ball
How many TOPS/W and TFLOPS/W? (T [Float] Operations Per Second per Watt (hour *?))

/? TOPS/W and FLOPS/W: https://www.google.com/search?q=TOPS%2FW+and+FLOPS%2FW :

- "Why TOPS/W is a bad unit to benchmark next-gen AI chips" (2020) https://medium.com/@aron.kirschen/why-tops-w-is-a-bad-unit-t... :

> The simplest method therefore would be to use TOPS/W for digital approaches in future, but to use TOPS-B/W for analogue in-memory computing approaches!

> TOPS-8/W

> [ IEEE should spec this benchmark metric ]

- "A guide to AI TOPS and NPU performance metrics" (2024)
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2024/04/a-guide-to-ai-tops... :

> TOPS = 2 × MAC unit count × Frequency / 1 trillion

- "Looking Beyond TOPS/W: How To Really Compare NPU Performance" (2023)
https://semiengineering.com/looking-beyond-tops-w-how-to-rea... :

> TOPS = MACs * Frequency * 2

> [ { Frequency, NNs employed, Precision, Sparsity and Pruning, Process node, Memory and Power Consumption, utilization} for more representative variants of TOPS/W metric ]
reposts. every day a new one.
I find it interesting that techspeak has a way of turning verbs into nouns. Ask, invite, compute.
Thank you for the constructive feedback! You're absolutely right about the title format - I'll style the suggested format for future posts.

Regarding the 'Free' mention - I apologize for any confusion. We offer a free trial period rather than a completely free product. I'll make this clearer on both the main page and pricing page to avoid any misunderstanding.

Here's our correct Instagram profile link: https://www.instagram.com/prismix_inc/

Thanks again for helping me improve the presentation of our product!
Pay tell, how much did the "space pen" get in development money again?
It's provocative because the implication is that it's a "problem" that needs to be "solved" when in reality there's a free market, if you think that an area needs a grocery store then start one up, you'll probably find that there is just isn't the demand.

Everyone needs to have a life, to have a life in the United States outside of a few very specific areas requires a member of your family to have a car.

> I barely use mine (<1,000 miles per year)

Right, so you obviously don't live in a food desert, presumably you're in NYC or San Francisco or the DC area or some other place where you can just use the metro for everything, this is not the case in the vast majority of the US, it's not even the case in most of Britain or Europe.

My grandma has to walk 15 minutes to get to her nearest food shop, one day she won't be able to make that walk, does she live in a food desert? No, she's just old, we'll help her out!
There's also a new film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonhoeffer_(film)
Same reaction here, I just watched a bunch guys playing with crabs in the kitchen sink to the soundtrack of riotous laughter.

10/10 I saw something real online
Fresno has a homeless problem. So why is it rejecting state-funded housing?
There are two things here, first off no one is suggesting that youtube needs to have American call center reps available for every 9 subscriber channel, they're saying they need to have some kind of non-automated support staff. Secondly, this isn't just a youtube thing, google in general is famous for underinvesting in support. There's no reason to think that youtube wouldn't be in the exact same position if it was wildly profitable, like say GCP.
Have you used the FlexTight line of scanners? I've been able to get really great results from my Precision II.
Given that most cities are built and the distances are set, that isn't going to be easy. Yes, they could run more buses, but.
Linking is very parallelizable: see the mold linker for a demonstration.
Scientists and engineers produce first carbon-14 diamond battery
Yeah totally fair.

I think I respond to how I hear it used to describe other people with just different experiences. Like I feel there's a degree of empathy to someone voting because they can't get a job, and are skeptical of "experts" that may be out of touch, not because they have a deep intellectual grasp of the issues.
The current Republican party is the product of a decades long effort to purify and drive out liberal elements. The Rockefeller Republicans are long gone. Romney is gone. Murowski and Collins can’t even be counted on to stand up for women’s issues.

The Democrats on the other hand are beholden to corporate interests which limits how far left they can go.
Can't you just cache the context?
Reminds me of what I understand from the „Usagi Electric“ Bendix rotating drum -memory-computer execution :)
They don't spend $0 on live customer support, they spend X%.

At their scale there will always be high profile stories like this unless and until they spend enough to support every single user who runs into problems with their automated systems. Spending that much is completely cost prohibitive, so we should never expect to reach a point where we stop seeing stories like this.
I don't think it is invading their privacy-with-a-big-P (after all I have no idea who these people are or where the lived etc), it is more just socially it felt inappropriate.

I think if a young family was sat on a park bench doing this and you went and sat on the bench between the mother and the father it would be considered at the least incredibly rude and inappropriate. Even if they are in a public place and you are not technically violating any laws, you'd still be acting in a way that most people would disagree with.

This is what it felt like to me.
Weirdly poignant and beautiful, but also feels a bit wrong to watch.
I really wish we would stop being distracted by what corporations are doing with our data, and shift the focus to what governments are doing with it.

It's true of course that corporations often collect and sell this data to the government, so we should focus instead on the data collection at it's source - on our devices. However the data is collected, and whoever collects it - the government will get and use it for their own purposes.

Corporations just want to sell you more stuff. The government wants to control you.
> The average person, even the above average person

So, people who are likely to be literate will seek out assistance when they realise they don't understand something? One might wonder if their literacy has anything to do with that...
IIRC, the lead up to WW2 was incredible poverty, and debt to France and others following WW1. So it was easier to just go to war than pay back the debt.
> The carbon-14 diamond battery works by using the radioactive decay of carbon-14, which has a half-life of 5,700 years, to generate low levels of power. It functions similarly to solar panels, which convert light into electricity, but instead of using light particles (photons), they capture fast-moving electrons from within the diamond structure.

I wonder the costs…