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mekarpeles

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Hi, I'm Mek (https://mek.fyi). I run OpenLibrary.org over at the Internet Archive.

I'm an entrepreneur, an advocate of non-profits, 2022 & 2023 Berkman Klein Center affiliate, and a PhD dropout. I helped run tech for Hyperink (YC W11) and Ark (YC W11) and co-founded Hackerlist.net + Baybo.

I am passionate about non-profits, open source software, GNU/Linux, teaching and education, and spreading knowledge across the lands.

My mission is to enable others and to curate a living map of the world's knowledge.

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  2. Serious Language Learning with AI (fullyparsed.com)
    16 points 5
  3. Introducing the Open Library Explorer (blog.openlibrary.org)
    217 points 38
  4. Internet Archive raises National Emergency Library: 1M free books no waitlist (cnet.com)
    19 points 3
  5. Internet Archive: Donate Ethereum and Democratize Open Library's Bookshelves (blog.openlibrary.org)
    21 points 1
  6. Internet Archive Announces Lead Eng. Role for Archive.org

    Dream role? Preserve & Empower digital freedom. The Internet Archive just announced a lead tech position for their main Archive.org website. Be one of five engineers behind one of the world's top 260 websites. ##…

    16 points 0
  7. Reverse engineering FPGAs (proteusisc.org)
    2 points 0
  8. Hackerlist: 1st Batch (last call) (hackerlist.net)
    21 points 5
  9. Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers (wired.com)
    9 points 1
  10. Ask HN: Views for top weekly / monthly stories?

    Has anyone considered providing (or does there already exist) a Hacker News 'weekly' or 'monthly' view whose exponential decay function is structured to show the top stories on a weekly or monthly basis (rather than by…

    1 points 0
  11. OpenJournal - Discuss academic papers (open source) (hackerlist.net)
    63 points 31
  12. Whitehouse's Open Access Promise: 1 Year countdown (news.yahoo.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Python LazyDB - A better 'shelve' module (mekarpeles.github.com)
    3 points 1
  14. Waltz: make web.py apps in 3/4 time (github.com)
    3 points 1
  15. Show HN: Freelance Hacker Network (hackerlist.net)
    83 points 41
  16. Ask HN: Your favourite style guide?

    I was laying in bed and suddenly found myself wondering, what are the best examples of style guides for different languages. As a python enthusiast and moderate Google fan boy, I thought I'd take a look at how Google…

    9 points 9
  17. Hacker Rap Battle, Come at me Brogrammer (hyperink.com)
    8 points 3
  18. Ask HN: Help us choose our next book

    Hyperink just had its press release today http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/27/andreessen-horowitz-sv-angel-back-next-generation-digital-book-publisher-hyperink/. To celebrate and honor our hacker roots, we're asking the…

    5 points 2
  19. Discern Neural Networks for Ubuntu (patternsinthevoid.net)
    1 points 1
  20. Using RESTful APIs (babolabs.blogspot.com)

    I wrote a basic introduction to understanding HTTP and using RESTful APIs for people who are unsure how everything fits together. The format is not that of a research paper and is instead intended to serve as a basic…

    16 points 7