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Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack | Remote (some US states) or hybrid | Full-Time | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a software product studio and research lab embedded in the Harvard Law School Library, with a mission of bringing library principles to tech. We are currently working on projects including web archiving, remixable education resources, and AI as a new way of accessing knowledge. As a member of our engineering team, the Senior Software Engineer will work across our various tools, applications, and experiments. The ideal candidate will have experience building performant, testable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant products and tools at scale, for audiences both technical and non-technical.

You can apply here: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/#sse-fs. Please include a short cover letter explaining how your career trajectory and interests align with our work and mission.

Harvard eligibility is weird: we can hire hybrid near Cambridge, MA, or remote only if you live in the states of CA, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA, VT and WA.

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab | Senior Product Designer | Full-time & remote friendly | Cambridge, MA | https://lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/#uxd

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab is a product studio building open-source tools and services for open knowledge, available to everyone and in the public interest.

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our product team and help lead the brand and visual development of our lab and its products. Promising candidates will have a strong visual design portfolio and experience in user research, brainstorming, and wireframing products from inception to high fidelity. This is an opportunity for a design lead to utilize their craft toward helping positive ideas travel further and faster.

Apply at the link above or feel free to send us questions at lil@law.harvard.edu

I don't have favorites, but Spritely is definitely an equal favorite for the projects we support at the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Others HNers may also be interested in include:

* Internet Archive's Democracy's Library https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-library/

* Distributed Press
https://distributed.press/

* Guardian Project
https://guardianproject.info/

* MuckRack Document Cloud
https://muckrack.com/

* Harvard Library Innovation Lab
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/

* Human Rights Data Analysis Group
https://hrdag.org/data-publication/

Longer list here: https://ffdweb.org/explore/#partners

Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Engineering Director | ONSITE (hybrid) | Full-Time

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring an Engineering Director, in-person/hybrid in Boston. This role leads six engineers and works with LIL leadership (including me) to bring library principles to technological frontiers. This is a great chance to lead a team building cool, mission driven stuff. We’re looking for someone with a mix of deep technical skill, particularly with user-facing web software, and people/organizational skills to support a wide range of people and projects. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/#ed

One interesting feature of DuckDB is that it can run queries against HTTP ranges of a static file hosted via HTTPS, and there's an official WebAssembly build of it that can do that same trick.

So you can dump e.g. all of Hacker News in a single multi-GB Parquet file somewhere and build a client-side JavaScript application that can run queries against that without having to fetch the whole thing.

You can run searches on https://lil.law.harvard.edu/data-gov-archive/ and watch the network panel to see DuckDB in action.