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New comment by andrenarchy in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

andrenarchy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:00:30 +0000

Happy to share details! Typesetting is a big item (for us becoming even more due to production of accessible publications), language editing, (meta-)data curation, technical infrastructure and software development (peer review systems, hosting, metadata and fulltext deposits, long-term preservation, maintenance, plagiarism and fraud detection), editor training/onboarding, editorial support, marketing, and of course our staff running all of this also wants a salary.

Some keep repeating that Diamond OA is superior because publishing is free for authors and everything is immediately OA. And indeed it is, but only if you have someone who is indefinitely throwing money at the journal. If that's not the case then someone else pays, for example universities who pay their staff who decide to dedicate their work time to the journal. Or it's just unpaid labour so someone pays with their time. It's leading to the same sustainability issues that many Open Source projects run into.

New comment by andrenarchy in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

andrenarchy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:55:51 +0000

CEO of EMS Press here (publisher of the European Mathematical Society). Like most society publishers, we really care about our discipline(s) and want to support researchers regardless of whether they or their institution can afford an astronomical APC or subscription rates.

Good publishing costs money but there are alternatives to the established models. Since 2021 we use the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model where libraries subscribe to journals and at the beginning of each subscription year we check for each journal whether the collected revenues cover our projected costs: if they do we publish that year's content Open Access, otherwise only subscribers have access. So no fees for authors and if libraries put their money where their mouth is then also full OA and thus no barriers to reading. All journals full OA since 2024. Easy.

New comment by andrenarchy in "Parsix: Parse Don't Validate"

andrenarchy — Sun, 16 May 2021 03:00:27 +0000

For TypeScript there is the pure functional https://github.com/paperhive/fefe

Less boilerplate than the other solutions I know... for example it allows you to define types easily just by writing a parser/validator ("transformation" in fefe terminology).

New comment by andrenarchy in "Show HN: Verify JSON using minimal schema"

andrenarchy — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:54:17 +0000

You can also use fefe (https://github.com/paperhive/fefe/) to validate any data with its pure functional and minimalist approach. Bonus: it's 100% type-safe automatically if you use Typescript.

Stellar Network: Growth and Decentralisation

andrenarchy — Thu, 16 May 2019 01:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@SatoshiPay/stellar-network-growth-and-decentralisation-e99c52ade798

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19925436

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Fefe – Zero-hassle validation with functional TypeScript

andrenarchy — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/paperhive/fefe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855836

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Despite the constant negative press envfefe – parse env vars nicely in Node.js

andrenarchy — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:39:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/paperhive/envfefe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806307

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrenarchy in "Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?"

andrenarchy — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:01:38 +0000

If you use javascript to extract the token from the URL then you can simply pass it via the hash ("fragment") part of the URL. The hash portion is only interpreted by the user agent and never sent to a server (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5). This is how we solved it at paperhive.org.

Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?

andrenarchy — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/is-your-site-leaking-password-reset-links

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777896

Points: 174

# Comments: 89