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hREA

A ValueFlows / REA economic network coordination system implemented on Holochain and with supplied Javascript GraphQL libraries

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A ValueFlows / REA economic network coordination system implemented on Holochain and with supplied Javascript GraphQL libraries

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-01-23 22:34:36 UTC to 2021-11-12 23:50:09 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2021

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What Hacker News says

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> Also get tired of the aspirational rants of how it is going to fix supply chains and offer banking to the underserved communities. And yes, I understand banking, supply chains, and crypto enough to know that that will never happen. agreed. have you heard of hREA [1] and http://valueflo.ws, led by Bob and Lynn from http://mikorizal.org, and others? it's sort of an open source SAP alternative designed as local-first networked software. "Radically distributed supply chain systems". it uses the REA accounting method [2] to implement LETS and mutual credit type economic networks for cooperatives / small business ecosystems / commons based peer production / any transitional/solidarity economies. Bonfire is also implementing the Valueflows vocabulary on ActivityPub [3]. [1] https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea [2] http://www.jeffsutherland.org
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In Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon
hey thanks for your question. so transitioning people over to a world of distributed apps is difficult because it essentially asks people to run the distributed apps completely on their own devices. that is a big shift (and responsibility) that we are not used to in the client server reality of today. so for all the people who might struggle with this (like my mom), but who still want to enjoy these new apps, Holo (again, stupid name, but this time it's the org who stewards the open source holochain library [1]) came up with a strategy that allows people to rent out some spare processing power on their computer/home-server, to host holochain applications for the above-mentioned people (so sort of like an Airbnb for AWS). they even ran a successful crowdfund that sold a million dollars worth of hardware for committed early adopters (plug-a
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nd-play home servers) [2]. so essentially the Holo hosting network is IPFS (and Holofuel is like Filecoin), but instead of hosting someone's files, you are running encrypted app code for them so that they can take part in the app/network, without having the required technical chops (the holofuel currency measures/represents processing power). the FAQ does a good job of explaining it a bit more: https://holo.host/faq/ i'm not super interested in the whole holo thing (they did a filecoin-type crowdfund to pre-sell hosting credits), yet i am glad they did it because it meant the team could ramp up development. they are already alpha-testing now. about marx and engels. i am personally most excited about the potential for http://valueflo.ws on top of holochain (library called hREA) [3], because it will allow us to move away from today's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, into a new paradigm of Network Resource Planning (NRP) software. i hope it will have a big impact and enable the growth of the democratic and transparent supply chains of the next (socialist) economy. > How does it relate or differentiate with the GNU/Net project? What naming schemes does Holochain support and could it theoretically interop with the GNU Name System? [0] i'll take a look at it, i'm not too familiar with GNU/Net. [1] https://github.com/holochain/holochain [2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/holo-take-back-the-intern... [3] https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea
In Offline First
> When the average person can't write a short story, can't draw, can't do anything creative (in the generative sense), but instead relies on consuming pre-packaged experiences for entertainment The cause of this is the continued capitalist enclosure and privatization of science and technology. "Place Silicon Valley in its proper historical context and you see that, despite its mythology, it’s far from unique. Rather, it fits into a pattern of rapid technological change which has shaped recent centuries. In this case, advances in information technology have unleashed a wave of new capabilities. Just as the internal combustion engine and the growth of the railroads created Rockefeller, and the telecommunications boom created AT&T, this breakthrough enabled a few well-placed corporations to reap the rewards. By capitalising on network effect
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s, early mover advantage, and near-zero marginal costs of production, they have positioned themselves as gateways to information, giving them the power to extract rent from every transaction. Undergirding this state of affairs is a set of intellectual property rights explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime." [1] Only a system that honours actual material scarcity of all resources (and thus the immaterial abundance of written/drawn knowledge: blueprints, trade secrets+patents ('intellectual property'), any other type of human knowledge; enabled through the zero-marginal cost of digital reproduction), can change this: hREA (by Mikorizal): http://mikorizal.org/futures.html + https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea holochain: https://developer.holochain.org/docs/concepts/1_the_basics/ [1] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
In Tech barons like Jeff Bezos want to colonize space and the oceans
Something that really blew my hair back is hREA (formerly Holo-REA) - which is a combination of the Resources Events Agents (REA) accounting method, together with the distributed application framework holochain. It can help us move from corporate Enterprise Resource Planning software to follow (material) resources, to Network Resource Planning software, where all resources are stewarded in the commons based on open access and mutually consenting agreements/protocols. And holochain makes it all easily evolvable and unenclosable. It's one of the most exciting projects I've come across. hREA is aimed at creating a radically inclusive supply chain system. It is fully open source and being developed here: https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea This is a fun intro: http://mikorizal.org/futures.html
In Cargill open-sources Splinter, its ‘blockchain-like’ supply chain software

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