News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

muramira

muramira on Hacker News

Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college students

Posted by muramira on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:40PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.joinfabfriends.org

Hey HN, I'm a Rwandan-American software engineer. I was fortunate enough to make it to the US, build a career here, and have opportunities that changed the trajectory of my life.I've been thinking for a long time about how I could give something back.So I built joinfabfriends.org.The idea is pretty simple: think GoFundMe, but specifically for Rwandan college students who need help paying for...

( Read More... | no comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college students on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:22AM (#49282038)
P.S. Tech stack, since someone will ask: good ol’ Django/Python, Postgres, and React. No blockchain:)

Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college students

Posted by muramira on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:19AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.joinfabfriends.org/donate

Hey HN,I'm a Rwandan-American software engineer. I was fortunate enough to make it to the US, build a career here, and have opportunities that changed the trajectory of my life.I've been thinking for a long time about how I could give something back.So I built joinfabfriends.org.The idea is pretty simple: think GoFundMe, but specifically for Rwandan college students who need help paying for...

( Read More... | 1 comment | on HN )
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:10PM (#26215146)
Lots of people here are shitting on mongodb(maybe rightly so). But I think the biggest problem is that the developers making the decision on what kind of DB to use just do not understand these tools. I always recommend reading Designing Data Intensive Applications as soon as you have an inkling that you will be asked to make such decisions in the near future.
Re:Where the Bodies Are Buried on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:53PM (#20488300)
Thank you so much for posting this.
Re:PacktPub – every book / video for 5$ on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:24AM (#15970948)
Got an elixir book from them and learned alot.
Re:The Future of RethinkDB on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:22PM (#15623335)
Dude, really thank you for your hard work on this. Out of curiosity, how did you pull it off?
Re:New MongoDB and Python course just launched (free) on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:22PM (#15453127)
I took the class and highly recommend it, especially if you want to get up to speed on mongodb over a weekend.
Re:Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015) on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:22PM (#15437157)
Yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428526 hit number 1 on HN. Having read the two books, I strongly believe that they not only complement each other, but also must be required reading for any data engineer.
Re:Designing Data-Intensive Applications on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:52PM (#15429663)
Really loving the book. Definitely a must read for the data engineers. I would add that redbook.io is another great read.
Re:Ask HN: Data pipelines and ETLs on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:30PM (#15235292)
Basically, we improved a shell scripts based ETLs with lambdas. Now we barely can maintain them, and when a something breaks, it takes an engineer an inordinate amount of energy and time to get them fixed. Since we process about 0.5 to 1.5 TB of time series(IOT) I was thinking about an architecture that combine AWS kinesis and airflow

Older »