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Show HN: WinBorg, a beautiful alternative to Vorta for BorgBackup

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Reversible Computation as a software construction paradigm

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How can I grep for lines containing foo AND bar, foo OR bar?

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New year's resolutions are arbitrary, and that's okay

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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

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33•alienchow•1h ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

https://www.openchaos.dev/
347•stefanvdw1•13h ago

Comments

kittikitti•12h ago
This is a very interesting experiment where I hope the metamorphosis is more like a butterfly than Kafka.
Esophagus4•8h ago
Yes, this could end up either turning into a Linux or like when Microsoft released Tay and Twitter users taught it to be a Nazi. Or anywhere in between, really.
jibal•6h ago
It really can't for numerous reasons, one of them being that PRs have to be fairly low effort, and this will be even more so if the popular "merge daily" PR is voted in. People talk about this "evolving", but it's nothing like biological evolution or genetic algorithms. It's just a linear sequence of small changes, and without either planning and central authority or some stable fitness function (the ecological environment in biological evolution) the changes are directionless.
fc417fc802•3h ago
> some stable fitness function

The participants could always vote to add a test harness and CI/CD to vet pull requests against.

jibal•24m ago
That has nothing to do with a stable fitness function ... an external set of factors that determine which changes allow offspring to survive. This thing doesn't have offspring (or always has exactly one offspring and then the parent dies) and it survives until the whole thing collapses.

And I think they already have what you describe or something like it ... PRs have to build and survive CI.

sighansen•12h ago
Really interesting. I wonder if something good will come out of it. It feels like twitch plays pomemon.
stavros•12h ago
If you want to see a speedrun, I made the same thing around a month ago:

https://theboard.stavros.io

mappum•12h ago
Excited to see how this plays out, I made something similar a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286
drdeca•1h ago
Oh man, I was going to try and find that to link to it. I can’t believe it was 10 years ago… I really enjoyed following that for a while. Thanks for making it.
BinaryIgor•11h ago
Are guardrails, CI/CD, to make code at least compile-able and require minimal quality standards also possible to change via PR or managed somewhere else? With this possibility, it might went into oblivion indeed!
6r17•11h ago
I mean.... it's the spirit of the project to eventually be able to reach to that state. I freaking love that project woaw hahaha
noncoml•11h ago
Reading through the comments, it’s remarkable how many of us have had the same idea at some point

Beautifully executed

electrodisk•11h ago
confused, what is this and what’s going on exactly?
jedberg•10h ago
Click through to the GitHub link at the bottom, which has the README. It explains everything.
phreack•10h ago
https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Anyone makes a PR, there's a vote and highest voted one gets merged every week. It's marvelous.

meltyness•10h ago
Like reddit but nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
libertyit•10h ago
Genius.
Dinux•10h ago
I'd expect even more chaos, let an LLM build the features and people vote.
oniony•10h ago
I honestly thought that this is what it was initially.
deadbabe•10h ago
Is most code not written by LLMs these days anyway?
Kinrany•8h ago
Most code by lines, perhaps, but not most code that works and is useful
genghisjahn•7h ago
Says who?
all2•6h ago
Says anyone who has tried to do anything requiring the smallest amount of computer science or computer engineering. These models are really great at boilerplate and simple web apps. As soon as you get beyond that, it gets hairy. For example, I have a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding. Just those two features required a lot of hand holding. Figma Design nailed the UX, but the actual guts/business logic I had to spend time on.

I expect that this will get easier as agentic flows get more mature, though.

Then the only place that novelty will occur is in the actual study of computer science. And even then, a well contexted agentic pipeline will speed even R&D development to a great degree.

One very bad thing about these things is the embedded dogma. With AI ruling the roost in terms of generation (basically an advanced and opinionated type-writer, lets be honest) breaking away from the standards in any field will become increasingly difficult. Just try and talk to any frontier model about physics that goes against what is currently accepted and they'll put up a lot of resistance.

lucb1e•4h ago
> a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding

Wut, what's the purpose of that? Is this just a toy learning project? Would it be to make money off of people who don't know that an ad-free version of HN exists at news.ycombinator.com? Will you try to sell it to Ycombinator?

K0balt•3h ago
I’ve been pleasantly surprised how useful it is for writing low level stuff like peripheral drivers on imbedded platforms. It’s actually-simple- stuff, but exactingly technical and detail oriented. It’s interesting that it can work so well, then go wildly off the rails and be impossible to wrestle back on unless you go way back in the context or even start a completely new context and feed in only what is currently relevant (this has become my main strategy)

Still, it’s amazingly good at wrestling the harmony of a bunch of technical details and applying them to a tried and true design paradigm to create an API for new devices or to handle tricky timing, things like that. Until it isn’t and you have to abort the session and build a new one because it has worked itself into some kind of context corner where it obsesses about something that is just wrong or irrelevant.

Still, it’s a solid 2x on production, and my code is arguably more maintainable because I don’t get tempted to be clever or skip clarifying patterns.

There is a level of wholistic complexity that kills it though. The trick is dividing the structure and tasks into self contained components that contain any relevant state within their confines to the maximum practical extent, even if there is a lot of interdependent state going on inside. It’s sort a mod a meta-functional paradigm working with inherently state-centric modules.

jibal•6h ago
The name of the person who said it is on the left above the comment.
bigstrat2003•1h ago
Says anyone with a modest level of skill at programming. It doesn't take a genius programmer to realize these things are terrible at writing code.
stavros•8h ago
Behold: https://theboard.stavros.io/
fourthark•10h ago
The end product is... just the website?

I feel like I'm missing something.

danr4•9h ago
It can evolve into anything based on community votes
drdaeman•8h ago
It’s an absurdist art software project, devoid of any consistent intent or purpose beyond the operating principles.
Towaway69•8h ago
codified dadaismus
ivanjermakov•8h ago
It's not a product, it's a social experiment for programmers.
patcon•8h ago
So it begins?

Once you have governance that people stick around for, you can decide to do anything

fwipsy•10h ago
Twitch plays Github?
lucb1e•10h ago
I don't get the title. Do I understand correctly this is basically "Twitch plays Github" without Twitch?
mistrate•6h ago
yea
repeekad•6h ago
GitHub plays GitHub?
tedivm•10h ago
When I used to play Screeps[1], a MMO strategy game where you programmed to control your units and buildings, a group of us setup a player that was managed in this exact way called Quorum[2].

If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].

1. https://screeps.com/

2. https://github.com/ScreepsQuorum/screeps-quorum

3. https://www.gitconsensus.com/

4. https://pypi.org/project/gitconsensus/

polyomino•9h ago
They should automate reading hacker news comments and generating PRs to address them
staticassertion•9h ago
Open a PR and suggest this.
jibal•7m ago
You can't just "suggest" something in a PR, you have to provide the change.
strangescript•9h ago
This is cool, but once a week seems a little slow
Kinrany•9h ago
The frequency should be adjusted based on the number of participants
lucb1e•4h ago
Request merging the change you wish to see!
Kinrany•8h ago
It could merge any PR that reaches a set number of upvotes
throawayonthe•8h ago
there's a PR for that! :p

https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos/pull/51

Towaway69•8h ago
is it forkable to have even more chaos?
fullstackwife•8h ago
Should votes get invalidated after major change in the ongoing PR?
alexpadula•8h ago
Sorry to be a party pooper I just don’t get the point.
izietto•8h ago
I don't think there's a point. You can always submit a point, if it gets voted you will have your point
stingraycharles•7h ago
This is exactly the point.
Towaway69•8h ago
It's a bit like bigtech but instead of product people voting on what gets merged, everyone gets a vote here.
alexpadula•8h ago
You know it’s kinda like a lottery the more I read it lol! If the repo got super popular and had lots of traffic say.
anishgupta•8h ago
> The website IS the repo. The repo IS the website. I wonder if we get something productive by end of 2026 from this repo. Who knows, maybe we solve AGI
Eldodi•8h ago
Would have been even more absurd if code AND PRs were all AI generated by different coding agents
appplication•8h ago
Nothing is stopping that from happening tbh
jibal•6h ago
It's not possible to generate anything productive this way.
lucb1e•4h ago
Wikipedia basically works this way. And instead of it being directly public, it goes through a voting process. One might argue it's actually much more curated than Wikipedia :P
jibal•33m ago
No, it doesn't work anything like this.

> One might argue it's actually much more curated than Wikipedia

Well duh. It's vastly more "curated" since Wikipedia isn't curated at all, almost anyone can change anything at any time but changes are supposed to reflect consensus (in theory, but there are numerous rogue agents who violate the rules) and it's a single instance with a linear set of changes that only occur once a week, whereas WP is a seething mass of constant change--but with a tight fitness function due to the (again theoretical) requirement that all changes must reflect reliable sources, not the whims of the editors--totally the opposite of OC. (There are additional policies and various governing groups but these make WP even less like OC). It's beyond absurd to liken OC to WP.

SubiculumCode•8h ago
Firefox warns of a security threat when I visit the site.
WithinReason•7h ago
Merging the security threat is yet to be voted on
omoikane•5h ago
Maybe Firefox is prescient, just waiting for someone to create a problematic pull request that does something untoward while simultaneously locking everyone else from submitting pull requests (and get a bunch of bots to upvote it in the last second before the merge window closes).
stingraycharles•7h ago
Am I the only one who's noticing that this "open chaos" project's most voted PRs are to add structure to the project (e.g., calculate +1/-1, etc.)?

I guess people just desire a certain amount of structure to their chaos :)

aalimov_•4h ago
“Convenient chaos”
hmokiguess•2h ago
Can’t have one without the other
bji9jhff•5h ago
Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

lexx•4h ago
Nomic vibes indeed
bshanks•2h ago
See also PerlNomic: http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...
flyrain•5h ago
I guess this is one sign that coding is drifting to an art, given the LLM is invading.
oooyay•5h ago
A lot of engineering disciplines are a mixture of math, art, and science. Programming was no different, but I do think some people built up an identity that reinforced a difference that wasn't there to begin with.