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For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

https://forgoodfirstissue.github.com/
21•Brysonbw•3h ago

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gleenn•1h ago
This is an awesome idea, and it's cool to see it broken down by language so you can quickly find things you could actually help on (instead of slowing down a project as a newbie in any specific technologies). In the back of my mind it's hard to connect how these applications or tools help. Reading a few titles unfortunately gives me the vaguest of ideas of who or what I'm helping though (even if the second drop down lets you select "solving hunger" etc etc, I still don't see how or why or where this project is used without digging in. Even then, I randomly picked one and this was the best summary I got /from inside the git rep/ - "CREDEBL SSI Platform This repository host codebase for CREDEBL SSI Platform backend." I really wish everyone spent a little more time actually writing titles and descriptions that gave even the smallest amount of additional context. I feel like most of us programmers have our heads in the technology so quickly that even as an empassioned technologist with 30 years of experience I have not even the slightest clue what that project does or the problem it solves. This is so true for things as simple as git commit messages to readmes to whatever. The project meta-data is important. Fill those little text boxes in with a bit of substance. The AI overlords will thank you as well as your future self in a few years when you don't have the context front-and-center like you did when you threw this project together.
8cvor6j844qw_d6•27m ago
I started with fixing typos in documentation.

I'm still not unsure if I should include it as part of my answer when asked if I contributed to open source projects or I should only mention bugfix.

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

https://www.starlink.com/
18•thallium205•1h ago•5 comments

Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose

https://www.sdstate.edu/news/2025/08/can-grapevines-help-slow-plastic-waste-problem
261•westurner•7h ago•150 comments

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

https://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058
294•Avshalom•7h ago•298 comments

A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821
34•stmw•1h ago•3 comments

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

https://nickyoder.com/johnson-lindenstrauss/
21•lawrenceyan•1h ago•4 comments

Which NPM package has the largest version number?

https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/
42•genshii•2h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework

https://daggerjs.org
44•TonyPeakman•4h ago•27 comments

Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

https://stephenfollows.com/p/which-colours-dominate-movie-posters-and-why
59•FromTheArchives•2d ago•9 comments

US taxpayers to pay billions in fuel subsidies thanks to Big Beautiful Bill

https://www.wired.com/story/us-taxpayers-will-pay-billions-in-new-fossil-fuel-subsidies-thanks-to...
34•billybuckwheat•47m ago•2 comments

Analyzing the memory ordering models of the Apple M1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383762124000390
58•charles_irl•3d ago•5 comments

Page Object (2013)

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html
19•adityaathalye•4d ago•2 comments

OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/08/06/ocsp-service-has-reached-end-of-life
157•pfexec•10h ago•46 comments

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-025-06815-2
391•redbell•18h ago•148 comments

For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

https://forgoodfirstissue.github.com/
21•Brysonbw•3h ago•2 comments

Titania Programming Language

https://github.com/gingerBill/titania
65•MaximilianEmel•7h ago•15 comments

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-what
338•sebg•4d ago•141 comments

Learning Lens Blur Fields

https://blur-fields.github.io/
9•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Death to Type Classes

https://jappie.me/death-to-type-classes.html
3•zeepthee•2d ago•0 comments

Gentoo AI Policy

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy
118•simonpure•6h ago•93 comments

Why We Spiral

https://behavioralscientist.org/why-we-spiral/
266•gmays•15h ago•72 comments

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-from-scratch/
268•Bogdanp•14h ago•49 comments

Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine

https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/?page_id=45
55•smartmic•3d ago•34 comments

Trigger Crossbar

https://serd.es/2025/09/14/Trigger-crossbar.html
52•zdw•7h ago•7 comments

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)

https://svg.nicubunu.ro/
149•caminanteblanco•14h ago•84 comments

AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

https://blog.3mdeb.com/2025/2025-09-11-gigabyte-mz33-ar1-blob-analysis/
32•pietrushnic•8h ago•5 comments

Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

https://news.itsfoss.com/peertube-7-3/
33•MilnerRoute•2h ago•6 comments

Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-cannabis-quadrupled-diabetes-million-adults.html
135•geox•7h ago•73 comments

Introduction to GrapheneOS

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.html
157•renehsz•4d ago•155 comments

Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

https://anycrap.shop/
1061•kafked•1d ago•313 comments

Read to forget

https://mo42.bearblog.dev/read-to-forget/
158•diymaker•16h ago•46 comments