Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace?

1. fishnet

   1 46 806 6.9 Rust

   Distributed Stockfish analysis for lichess.org (by lichess-org)

   

2. InfluxDB

   www.influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. lila

   2 825 16,845 10.0 Scala

   ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞

   

4. RandomX

   3 75 1,511 3.7 C++

   Proof of work algorithm based on random code execution

   

   This is not true for all crypto coins. A small proportion of mining hash functions are deliberately designed to thwart ASICs, e.g. https://github.com/tevador/RandomX. It's a cat-and-mouse game, though: CryptoNight was designed to fulfill the same role, but ultimately failed: https://monerodocs.org/proof-of-work/cryptonight/.

5. coronavirus

   4 127 1,090 10.0 Python

   Folding@home COVID-19 efforts

   

   My personal recommendation would be Folding@Home[1]. Protein folding is an insanely complex thing life does and they use distributed computing to try to solve the large problems.

   1. https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

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