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How Health Workers Can Love Their Devices

wweiss1230 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:32:51 +0000

Article URL: https://za.virtualhospitalsafrica.org/blog/how-health-workers-can-love-their-devices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865077

Points: 2

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New comment by wweiss1230 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

wweiss1230 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:29:25 +0000

I'm working on a telemedicine system connecting patients with remote doctors in rural Africa.

https://www.virtualhospitalsafrica.org/

While medical records systems in much of the developed world are still shared via fax, we think there's an opportunity to leapfrog existing systems and have a cloud-based source of truth.

Ever Frustrated Online?

wweiss1230 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:22:18 +0000

Tell us about it! I’m Will at More Human Internet [1], a nonprofit group of digital activists promoting civility, transparency, and the greater good. We’re looking to briefly meet with people to get a sense of what things are impacting their online experience and how we might help. DM me if you’re interested or leave any quick comments below!

[1] https://morehumaninternet.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918543

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wweiss1230 in "Show HN: See Something Broken Online?"

wweiss1230 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:53:28 +0000

Hi all! I’m Will, the founder of More Human Internet, a non-profit organization of digital activists using web technologies to promote civility, transparency, and the greater good.

We’re incredibly excited to launch Roar! a free, open source browser extension to make it easier to give feedback online.

We’d be honored if you could try the extension and let us know what you think! All feedback is welcome and please reach out if you’re interested in volunteering with us!

Show HN: See Something Broken Online?

wweiss1230 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://morehumaninternet.org/roar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792925

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:01:40 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. Agreed that the platform will get adopted based on what it helps people do.

The goal is to create a direct link between the people on websites and the people building them, website maintainers.

Where that ties in with the purpose is that if all this information about how websites are doing well by their users (or not) is in public view, maintainers have an incentive to answer directly to them.

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:56:58 +0000

There's a feedback widget in the bottom right on the main page

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:56:25 +0000

We appreciate the feedback! The mobile experience needs work, we'll get right on that ;)

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:55:53 +0000

A number of mechanisms will need to be in place to prevent that: a general flagging/reporting system, requiring a certain amount of karma before posts are automatically made public, a strong community that enforces guidelines on feedback being constructive all would help

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:00:27 +0000

I'm similarly skeptical they can be fixed with a chatbox. We're working toward a public platform where issues can be made visible on a broader scale. For those websites that would invite such feedback and be early adopters, we're creating a widget for them to do so. Eventually, people might come to expect this sort of public discourse.

New comment by wweiss1230 in "The time has come for a more human internet"

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:30:37 +0000

We think so! The feedback mechanism will be public, giving people the ability to voice their feedback on a broader scale

The time has come for a more human internet

wweiss1230 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:20:42 +0000

Article URL: https://morehumaninternet.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24768336

Points: 12

# Comments: 23

Let's Create a More Human Internet

wweiss1230 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:02:56 +0000

Article URL: https://morehumaninternet.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24041137

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wweiss1230 in "Volunteers wanted to build More Human Internet"

wweiss1230 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:27:41 +0000

Great points and thanks for the encouragement.

Certainly the internet would be a lot better if larger tech platforms were more responsive to the feedback of their users, but you're right that there are entrenched interests that might work against that. We do plan on opening the platform up so that the public can report issues directly to morehumaninternet.org even for websites who have not signed up. At that point, if many other websites are having success in engaging directly with the public and if there's enough demand for certain issues to be looked at, maybe those larger platforms will see that it's in their best interest to respond.

As for integration with Github issues, I definitely like the idea of having the platform feel like a universal way of feeding feedback to site owners, but of course those site owners may use any number of tools internally to track issues (Github issues, JIRA, Trello, etc.) so we'll want to integrate with those platforms. We are planning on allowing users to upvote other users' issues to make it easier for site owners to know which issues are higher priority. To support that, we'll need a publicly accessible link to the issue at morehumaninternet.org but that same issue can be kept in sync with a corresponding card/issue/ticket in some other system.

New comment by wweiss1230 in "Volunteers wanted to build More Human Internet"

wweiss1230 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:23:00 +0000

Thanks for the feedback ocdtrekkie, I agree that this should be clearer. We'll work to provide a clearer picture of what the platform would do. In general, we're building a public issue tracker for the internet.

Volunteers wanted to build More Human Internet

wweiss1230 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:52:07 +0000

Article URL: https://morehumaninternet.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965610

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by wweiss1230 in "Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz"

wweiss1230 — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:35:09 +0000

Love the site, love the favicon - nice work!

New comment by wweiss1230 in "Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born"

wweiss1230 — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:12:40 +0000

Quoting the study "Geographic choices were important: first-generation immigrants were more likely to settle in areas with higher mobility prospects for their children. When we compare children growing up in the same US region, the intergenerational gap between immigrants and the US-born is reduced by 70%. When comparing children growing up in the same county, we no longer find an intergenerational gap between the children of immigrants and US-born individuals. In other words, immigrant children did not earn more than others who grew up in the same location. Rather, their parents chose to live in locations that offered high mobility prospects to all."

On Coffeemakers and Software Development

wweiss1230 — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://will-weiss.github.io/development/2017/06/20/on-coffeemakers-and-software-development.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14598084

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by wweiss1230 in "DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS"

wweiss1230 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:58:00 +0000

How can I, a proficient web developer but one with little experience working directly with its underlying infrastructure, help in whatever effort is being down to thwart this and related attacks? I feel a moral obligation to help as these attacks seem a grave threat to our economy and could cause unrest given the current political climate. Thanks.