[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2022)
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2022)
What are you working on? Any new ideas you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-08-01 17:18 UTC (5 hours ago)
| mindcrime wrote:
| I'm really interested in exploring some AI ideas related to
| emobidment. To that end, I needed a "body" to put an "AI" in. So
| I started out by gutting out an old boombox, and putting a
| Raspberry Pi, a USB powerbank, and a USB charger in there. I also
| built a power supply multiplexer board that can allow switching
| from the battery to the charger, and back, without causing the Pi
| to reboot. And that stage is pretty much where I am. Getting that
| multiplexer thing built proved more challenging that I expected,
| but that's a story for another day.
|
| Next steps are to start adding sensors to allow the "AI" to
| experience the physical world. Plans include:
|
| 1. GPS module, so it can experience motion and sense its velocity
| and location in space, etc. The same board also happens to be a
| cellular data board that will allow the device to upload data to
| the cloud.
|
| 2. One or more accelerometers for more localized perception of
| motion / orientation in space.
|
| 3. One or more cameras for vision. Ideally two so it can do
| stereo vision and have depth perception, etc.
|
| 4. One or more microphones to receive audio.
|
| 5. Anything beyond that is getting into pretty speculative area,
| but I can imagine adding sensors for temperature, barometric
| pressure, and other environmental factors, and even get into
| "senses" that humans don't really have, like sensing IR,
| ultraviolet light, electromagnetic radiation, magnetic flux
| density, etc.
|
| Now obviously a Raspberry Pi doesn't have enough computing power
| to do a whole lot from an AI perspective, so the basic concept is
| to have the data being received by the box pushed to a remote
| server, where complex training and reasoning stuff will happen.
| Modules can then be pushed back down to the box so that some
| operations can be executed locally. That's where both Wifi and
| cellular data come into play. One of my "next steps" right now is
| to get the cellular data board configured, and figure out how to
| get NetworkManager to seamlessly switch between that and the
| various Wifi AP's that will be available depending on where I
| take this thing.
|
| Anyway... there's a lot of speculation to all of this, and a lot
| of it is still very fuzzy in my mind. But the basic concept is
| simply to focus on the idea of how an AI can learn from
| physically experiencing the world in a way that's loosely
| analogous to the way a human does. If you've read any of Ben
| Goertzel's stuff and are familiar with his whole "baby AI"
| notion, then you may recognize some spiritual kinship in terms of
| thinking. I've been heavily influenced by Ben's work, and by
| OpenCog[1]. In fact, OpenCog (or some parts of it) may become
| part of this project before all is said and done.
|
| [1]: https://opencog.org/
| Sp4mBo7 wrote:
| This sounds like a really fun project!
|
| rasp pi cluster could add more computing power for cheaper.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _This sounds like a really fun project!_
|
| Yeah, I'm fairly excited about getting into it.
|
| _rasp pi cluster could add more computing power for
| cheaper._
|
| Well, I don't have room in the physical case for more Pi's as
| it stands, and TBH, I'm not terribly interested in running a
| cluster at home. It might mean spending some money, but I'd
| rather just do it all in the cloud. One advantage to that is
| I can easily scale things up and down dynamically, and I can
| use a mix of CPU and GPU (or even FPGA) instances without
| having to go out and buy a lot of expensive hardware.
|
| Not to say that I would _never_ bring part of it "on prem"
| and run out of my home, but right now the cloud approach
| feels more manageable.
| egypturnash wrote:
| I just finished grinding to meet the submission deadline for a
| contest Webtoons is running. The chance at 50k and a development
| deal sure made it worth pretending I had a work ethic for a
| couple weeks when my Patron campaign was gonna pay me for it
| regardless.
|
| https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-sins-of-chloe-fran...
| if you would like to read a story about a witch and her demon
| girlfriend punching a rich white asshole.
|
| I'm gonna take a break for a few days, maybe draw some self-
| indulgent porn, then clear out my commission queue and start
| working on the second half of that story.
| wakahiu wrote:
| NNextDB - a blazing fast, open source, vector search database for
| building AI/ML applications.
|
| https://github.com/nnextdb/nnext
| kevinmm wrote:
| Very cool. How does this compare against Millvus, Weaviate or
| Qdrant?
| jshawl wrote:
| Proving identity and authentication with public keys:
| https://proof.im/jshawl
|
| Signing a session claim to "log in" means I can authenticate
| users without storing any sensitive information.
| Sp4mBo7 wrote:
| Custom scraper, crawler, fuzzer, etc. its lame but im enjoying
| myself.
|
| Found a new (to me at least) directory traversal on a webserver
| the other day. was pretty jazzed about it.
| necmttn wrote:
| Gumroadable.com a tool to turn everyday used apps content to
| gumroad.com products. Starting with notion MVP
|
| Later on planning to add figma plugin & github repo support for
| paid software or source code.
|
| The reason is I want to be able to sell ebook while I'm writing
| and collect feedback from the audience who's bought on presale.
| Cyph0n wrote:
| I've been working on needle[1], a CLI tool (and associated
| library) that can detect openings/intros and endings/credits
| across TV or anime episodes. It decodes audio, fingerprints it in
| chunks, and then compares chunks across files to find common
| sequences.
|
| The end goal is to use the library to build a Jellyfin plugin
| (C#) that handles skipping intros. I think I've figured how to
| call a C library from C#, but there is a lot of work to do to
| actually get a functional plugin.
|
| [1] https://github.com/aksiksi/needle
| chenshuiluke wrote:
| This is an amazing idea
| Genbox wrote:
| At the moment I'm working on FastHash[1], a pet project of mine
| to port a few high-performance non-cryptographic hash functions
| to C#.
|
| I'm also trying to build FastLinq, a value-by-reference Language
| Integrated Query (LINQ) optimized for high-performance scenarios.
| It is kind of a weird mix as LINQ in .NET is known for its high
| overhead.
|
| Finally, I'm working on an Office setting synchronization
| application. I heard a podcast with Paul Thurrott complaining
| about the lack of sync solutions, so I thought I would do one for
| fun.
|
| [1] https://github.com/Genbox/FastHash
| frozencell wrote:
| If I say, a few people will copy?
| gregorymichael wrote:
| That's not the greatest risk to your project.
| nocommandline wrote:
| A GUI for Google App Engine - https://nocommandline.com
|
| Also currently thinking about building a Python 3 search library
| to be used against Google App Engine. Google deprecated the one
| from Python 2 and recommends using Elastic Search (which means
| you're no longer dealing with a Serverless solution)
| mdcds wrote:
| I'm working on my competitive programming skills.
|
| Looking to get back into doing TopCoder after a 10 year break.
| dcx_fndr wrote:
| Marketing tech app -- https://datacx.ai/ It's still early days
| but after being away from the marketing space for a few years,
| I'm so surprised at how little has changed. I want to help
| promote a better way to collaborate on analytics, starting with
| ecommerce and moving to broader CDPs.
| username_exists wrote:
| There are always plenty of ideas, the hard part is figuring out
| which ones are worth any of my time. Right now I'm working on a
| spreadsheet that turns everyday spreadsheet users into
| programmers. The absurdity of the ambition is not lost on me.
| linkdd wrote:
| Currently working on https://kubirds.com , a Cloud-Native
| Supervision Engine. Think alerting similar to
| Nagios/Icinga/Centreon but as a Kubernetes Operator which can run
| almost any Docker image.
|
| We are also building on top of this a trading bot with a FinTech
| company, and a SaaS website monitoring service for non-tech
| people.
|
| We are also considering building, still on top of Kubirds, a No-
| Code notification automation/aggregation platform ->
| https://1-click-notify.carrd.co/
| thirtywatt wrote:
| I'm working on Cling, a training community for rock climbers.
|
| Rock climbing is a complex, metric-driven, and growing sport that
| doesn't have good-enough tooling in tech. Outdoor vs indoor is
| very different, so we're focused on significantly improving the
| climbing gym experience for now.
|
| https://www.cling-app.com/
| heliodor wrote:
| What made you choose to build an iPhone app before an Android
| app? I'm curious where that debate stands in the last few years
| as I haven't seen the arguments for a long time.
| csomar wrote:
| A general purpose profiler: https://github.com/pyroscope-
| io/pyroscope-rs
|
| If someone is interested in this space, feel free to reach me!
| david_allison wrote:
| * I was part of a team organising the International Linguistics
| Olympiad. Got some post-event business to sort out
|
| * Fixing AnkiDroid to migrate to Google's Scoped Storage model
| without trashing user data:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki
|
| * Improving the largest bilingual Manx <-> English Corpus +
| Search Engine. It's recently become the #1 point on the Isle of
| Man's 10 year language plan, and will probably end up informing a
| new dictionary for the language
|
| * Generating a machine-translation system using the above,
| probably also adding Manx to FLORES-200
|
| * (maybe) Generating a Text to Speech engine for another language
|
| * Moving my book over to my new laptop, and grinding it out to
| completion
|
| * Scraping websockets to improve the accuracy of bus timetabling.
| Eventual aim to improve the experience of using the bus to reduce
| the number of cars on the road. Probably some F# webservice
| handling most of it, with React Native (web)app, distributed via
| NFC tags/QR code.
| lawgimenez wrote:
| I'm currently migrating our app to SwiftUI which I target for
| next year's release. And then after that migrate our Android app
| to Jetpack Compose.
| bobblywobbles wrote:
| A lots of fun things, feel free to connect with me on Github if
| anyone would like to chip in and help:
|
| - An Electron template with built-in secure features. I regularly
| maintain and update the template so it's supported with newer
| versions of packages. - A collection of free, public-domain
| recipes. I've wanted to do some version of this for _years_, but
| am finally getting around to do it again. This time, I'm paying
| chefs to create recipes for me that will be licensed as public
| domain.
|
| [0] - https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template [1] -
| https://github.com/reZach/open-recipe-project
| mguerville wrote:
| Harvard CS50, I was coding a bit as a kid in the late 90's in
| BASIC, and have been in tech most of the past decade, but never
| went beyond HTML, CSS and grabbing a basic script off Stack
| Overflow since then, so now I'm trying to learn the foundations
| of CS and eventually teach myself a language or two so I can
| evolve from building mini projects in no-code tool to making more
| meaningful things and more powerful apps.
| onurgenes wrote:
| Currently working on adding email sending capabilities and of
| course reply checking too for https://nureply.com
|
| Aim is making it an email drip campaign tool with best UX.
| deivid wrote:
| A handheld, esp32-based implementation of the pico-8[0] console.
| Basics work already, sidetracked into writing a terrible Lua to
| C++ compiler to squeeze some extra performance out of some
| pathological-case games.
|
| Lives at https://github.com/davidventura/picopico
|
| [0] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
| readonthegoapp wrote:
| I put together a landing page for this idea i've been thinking
| about:
|
| https://MyApartmentFamily.com/
|
| The idea is to make apartment living less lonely, and generally
| increase goodwill between apartment neighbors.
|
| Non-apartment people are not being excluded, but I think
| apartment living has lots of unique issues that homeowners -
| even, say, townhome and condo owners - do not have. And,
| realistically, you have to start with a focus on something --
| some one thing -- in our case, it's apartment-living.
| mikewarot wrote:
| I just restored some backups from 1995, and am digging through
| that archive to see if I can pull out the multi-tasking libraries
| I wrote for Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS. No practical use, mostly
| nostalgia.
|
| I didn't document things as well is I should have, of course I
| was the only user, and had no thought that future me would be
| looking at it 27 years later.
| adamrmcd wrote:
| Coincidentally, I was just looking at backups from my BBS from
| the same era.
|
| I wish I had a way to retrieve the data, assuming it's even
| still good.
|
| I remember using a parallel port driven magnetic tape drive to
| record them. Probably a device that tar(1) was originally
| designed for :)
|
| What medium did you use?
| thepra wrote:
| I'm still working on collAnon[1], a private discussions
| platform(behind a PWA) with bias avoiding intent through
| temporary anonymity of the answers(which also means that
| discussions have an end date).
|
| In the latest development I decided to change route and make it
| freemium, with all the previous premium features now available to
| everyone.
|
| This is to make it more appealing to try this kind of discussions
| that are not your usual way and give ample breath to use all the
| features until this platform finds its audience I hope
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
|
| [1] https://collanon.com
| Insalgo wrote:
| On wearable for developers and researchers: https://aidlab.com
|
| It's not a new idea but we've done one huge pivot this year
| focusing more on a b2b/healthcare market
| allenu wrote:
| I'm still working on Fresh Cards[1], a flashcard app I've written
| for iOS and Mac.
|
| I'll admit that it started out as "yet another spaced repetition
| flashcard app" but over the past few months, with constant UX
| refinement, I've forged a unique approach (IMHO) to how you
| review your cards and browse your deck. I've received a lot of
| good feedback from users in my Discord, so I'm constantly
| changing things up to improve it.
|
| [1] https://www.freshcardsapp.com/
| guytv wrote:
| Looks nice, but could not find a way to import my anki deck?
| allenu wrote:
| I have some documentation how to do that here:
| https://www.freshcardsapp.com/help/sharing.html#import
|
| I will say that the Anki import isn't 100% at the moment, but
| works reasonably well for simpler decks (ones that don't use
| HTML or javascript). I'd like to get to 100% Anki
| compatibility, but it will require some additional features
| to be implemented first, like a templating system.
| adamnemecek wrote:
| I've been working on an IDE for music composition
|
| https://ngrid.io
|
| Launching soon.
|
| Join the discord https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG
| vladstudio wrote:
| thinking about converting my new tab extension -- https://new-
| tab.vlad.studio/ -- into a real website, accessible from any
| browser, not just Chrome. As always, it is harder than it seems.
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