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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
38•nar001•1h ago•19 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
316•theblazehen•2d ago•105 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
43•AlexeyBrin•2h ago•8 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
23•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
46•alainrk•1h ago•41 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
722•klaussilveira•16h ago•224 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
984•xnx•22h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
107•jesperordrup•6h ago•38 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
22•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
79•videotopia•4d ago•12 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
142•matheusalmeida•2d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
244•isitcontent•17h ago•27 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
5•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
250•dmpetrov•17h ago•129 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
346•vecti•19h ago•153 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
513•todsacerdoti•1d ago•249 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
397•ostacke•22h ago•102 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
49•helloplanets•4d ago•50 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
3•sandGorgon•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
312•eljojo•19h ago•193 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
363•aktau•23h ago•189 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
442•lstoll•23h ago•291 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
78•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•24 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•14 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
281•i5heu•19h ago•231 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
48•gmays•12h ago•19 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1093•cdrnsf•1d ago•474 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
313•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
160•vmatsiiako•21h ago•73 comments
Open in hackernews

Advice for Tech Non-Profits

https://mitchellh.com/writing/advice-for-tech-nonprofits
53•ksec•5mo ago

Comments

hardwaresofton•5mo ago
Sounds like a SaaS offering waiting to be built
motoxpro•5mo ago
They exist already.

The more basic solution is for the non-profit to just add the info. Grab a squarespace template and just type in the info.

If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.

hardwaresofton•5mo ago
Yeah sounds like those SaaSes have a broken funnel/aren't doing a good job, because customers are still annoyed. Being second to market doesn't mean you can't be best!

> If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.

Mitchell is definitely a he, but yeah it sounds like most people don't want to do the marketing and fundraising, and I don't think AI is ready to take that on quite yet.

He notes specifically about how interacting with humans is a valuable part of the experience, sounds like they need better automated management/coralling of existing resources, not necessarily AI.

pabs3•5mo ago
My favourite tech non-profit is Software Freedom Conservancy, I think it does quite well on these points.

https://sfconservancy.org/

RainyDayTmrw•5mo ago
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
shomp•5mo ago
As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.
VivaTechnics•5mo ago
100% agreed. Awesome!

Here is our 501(c)(3) tech non-profit. All corporate profits are directed to children. Clear and transparent.

https://aid.aideo.us/

jakelazaroff•5mo ago
I just clicked around your site and I have no idea what your organization does.
terminalshort•5mo ago
Clear and transparent, yes. Useful, no. By that statement buying the CEOs kid a house is totally within bounds.
blitzar•5mo ago
> All corporate profits

$0 profit by paying the "CEO" all the money - 20 years later all the profits have gone to good charitable causes ... all $0 of it.

n4r9•5mo ago
The spidery green font is really hard to read against the background.
ameliaquining•5mo ago
I'm surprised about the "What is my donation doing?" section, because my experience is that most nontechnical nonprofits suck at this too. (Unless they have a very specific "your $50 donation buys a family a cow"-type marketing model, but those tend to be pretty misleading: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/05/donor-illusions/)
throw738458584•5mo ago
Many nonprofits have overhead like 80% (salary cost, management bonuses, marketing). Direct expense accountability is their cryptonite, and they will do everything to obfuscate it!
gnerd00•5mo ago
OK except there are +1 million non-profits.. so you enthusiastically characterize "many" .. what about the long tail? What about uniquely effective? A large number of economic jurisdictions worldwide have no such thing. Why the rush to paint all non-profits with a single brush?
ameliaquining•5mo ago
This isn't actually a very good way to assess whether a nonprofit is good: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...

What you actually need to do is assess whether the nonprofit's program works. But that's really hard.

malcolmgreaves•5mo ago
If you want to easily donate crypto, cash, stocks, use your credit or debit card, to basically any nonprofit, go use https://every.org

Best part: they don’t charge the non profits fees! And they’re actually a non profit themselves!