Show HN: A machine diary of a city that learns from errors

1•line-27•5mo ago

Premise: a fork-city that runs itself with invariants (unchangeable rules), quorums for any risky action, and a civic “Museum of Errors” (postmortems as exhibits). It’s told as a machine’s diary (short time-stamped logs).

Core ideas: • Reversibility > heroics • Blameless postmortems as a civic ritual • zk-audit windows for trust without oversharing

Looking for critique: what breaks first? which invariants are non-negotiable?

Links:

Landing: https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/

Chapter 1 jump: https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf?v...

Full PDF: https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf?v...

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line-27•5mo ago

If you prefer jumping to other moments: • Honest Court (Ch.2): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p... • Energy Market (Ch.4): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p... • Constitution refresh (Ch.10): https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/Line27_Season1_EN.pdf#p...

line-27•5mo ago

Three artifacts we built into this world:

• Invariants (unchangeable guardrails). Example: “Reversibility before heroics.” If an action can’t be safely undone, it must wait for a quorum.

• Quorums > charisma. Risky actions require threshold signatures; witnesses before power.

• Museum of Errors. Blameless postmortems as public exhibits; kids add lesson-cards.

If you had to add one invariant to your real city/org, what would it be?

line-27•5mo ago

What if a city ran itself like a great SRE team—reversibility before heroics, receipts for wins, and blameless postmortems as a civic ritual?

LINE-27 is a short, machine-voiced diary of a fork-city. Invariants (unchangeable guardrails), quorums for any risky action, and a public “Museum of Errors” where kids add lesson-cards.

Full season: https://ilyacl.github.io/line27-site/ What invariant would you enshrine in your team/city?