[HN Gopher] Show HN: What Are You Working On?
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Show HN: What Are You Working On?
Hey HN, I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You
Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?dat
eRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Honestly, it's my favorite
topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers
are up to. I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a
headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily
updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in
for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born. I hope
it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it together. I
look forward to hearing your thoughts. Let me know what you think!
Author : egcodes
Score : 45 points
Date : 2024-04-21 11:43 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hackerupdates.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hackerupdates.com)
| bschmidt1 wrote:
| Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my
| favorite part of the site.
|
| Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)
|
| Thanks for sharing, just signed up!
|
| Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in
| parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing
| (https://example.com)" it will attempt to navigate to
| https://example.com) <-- with the paren
| pmdfgy wrote:
| At the beginning I thought I'd find the same info as in a .plan
| file (discovered while reading Masters of Doom, where John
| Carmack explains what he's working on). It would have been super
| cool ! Unfortunately, your page looks more like a #buildinpublic
| twitter page which is not really insightful. Good luck with this
| project.
| dlachausse wrote:
| Masters of Doom is such a great book!
| RACEWAR wrote:
| https://plan.cat
| eternityforest wrote:
| I signed up right away(as SeventhSeeker).
|
| I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just
| about the people building projects rather than biased by what
| random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.
|
| But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to
| balance that.
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| Finding people that vibe on the same things you are passionate
| about is really, really difficult. Feedback and just being
| around people doing stuff I think is super, super important.
|
| One way I'm considering doing this is running a local HN style
| invite only message board. There are lots of FB groups for my
| target activity (fishing) but people are notoriously guarded
| about their fishing spots so I'm thinking maybe a small $5 a
| month membership will keep the tire kickers out and reduce the
| riffraf.
|
| Put it this way, if someone was doing this around here already
| I'd sign up right now. It's not just finding a community, it's
| finding a CURATED community where the things / people you need
| are available for you to interact with.
| andoando wrote:
| Don't have much to show yet, but I am working on a programmatic
| way to create visuals and animations. Think lambda calculus but
| with graphical transformations.
| aeonik wrote:
| Have you seen any work that Parker Ziegler has worked on? He
| has a couple of projects for automatic wrangling of visuals
| when it comes to charting data.
|
| Seems related, but also different approach to this area.
|
| https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2023/supporting-data-journali...
| andoando wrote:
| Holy shit its Gilfoyle.
|
| This is pretty cool but what Im thinking about is more like a
| general purpose language which is primarily visual. Imagine
| for example a for loop has a visual representation which
| shows a visual transformation from 100000 010000 001000
| 000100 000010 000001
|
| and this transformation can be applied abstractly to 1 = red
| circle, 0= black circle, which when run shows a red circle
| moving from the beginning position to its end position.
| aeonik wrote:
| I like your idea a lot. I think it's potentially a major
| missing piece to our systems.
|
| I really hope you are able to map it out.
|
| If you ever need a tester, let me know.
| aeonik wrote:
| Also, I never noticed he looks exactly like Gilfoyle until
| you mentioned it.
| fforflo wrote:
| I'm working on a small Unix-inspired DSL for LLM pipelines.
| temporarely wrote:
| Are you generalizing the output stream beyond raw bytes?
| fforflo wrote:
| Unix-inspired so it's entirely text oriented.
| dirtybirdnj wrote:
| Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is
| awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)
|
| TOO MUCH!
|
| I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year.
| The past two or three months things have been improving a lot
| thanks to meds.
|
| Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to
| buzz:
|
| 1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch.
| Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes
| wrong" and just fucking send it.
|
| 2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG
| TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and
| troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet
| folks their support forum is second to none.
|
| 3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the
| internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors
| and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small /
| lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an
| electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200
| battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.
|
| Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once
| six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing
| smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and
| on my projects at home.
|
| I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed
| self to have some hope and hang in there.
| all2 wrote:
| > TOO MUCH!
|
| You'n'me both.
|
| > I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past
| year.
|
| You'n'me both.
|
| > 1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch.
| Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes
| wrong" and just fucking send it.
|
| Link here at the end of the day?
|
| > Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG
| TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and
| troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING!
|
| Video of it running? I'd love to see what you've built. YouTube
| channels that talk about this stuff are by far my favorite
| channels.
|
| > It feels great to be productive both at work and on my
| projects at home.
|
| Yes! I'm excited for you! Keep moving! Keep seeking joy in your
| work!
| Anon84 wrote:
| Trying to put the finishing touches on a Python package [1] for
| epidemic modeling using Compartmental models. This grew out of a
| series of blog posts I started writing during the pandemic [2]
| based on my professional experience in epidemic modeling in a
| previous life where I was the lead developer for a state of the
| art global epidemic model [3].
|
| [1] http://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik
|
| [2] https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101
|
| [3] https://www.gleamviz.org/explore.html
| busymom0 wrote:
| I am working on an app called Lime Reader. It's an app where you
| can read multiple "forum" like websites such as Hacker News,
| Lobsters, Tildes, Lemmy etc. from a single app with a familiar
| UI/UX. Screenshots:
|
| https://imgur.com/a/3Ip4KVN
|
| The origin of the idea came from my other app called HACK which
| has been an iOS and Android app for Hacker News for many years. I
| figured that I really wanted a similar app where I could read
| other forum like sites too. I have been working on this for a few
| months now and hoping to go live in the next few weeks. Starting
| with iOS, iPad and MacOS. Then Android too.
| mattFromJSToday wrote:
| I'm "working" on a blog, https://blog.javascripttoday.com. I
| recently added lots of updates to the main site.
|
| Have tons of unfinished articles waiting to be published and a
| few other things to create.
|
| I'm also working on jitsujournal.com, which is something I'd like
| to have for myself, primarily. I also launched a chess club in my
| area, which gained massive interest which quickly died down,
| sadly.
|
| With a full-time job, it's hard to maintain everything. :/
|
| Ah, I didn't realize it was a site. Interesting! Are these worthy
| of being put on the site? I'm not so sure.
| aklemm wrote:
| In the midst of searching for what my particular contribution
| might be in the synthesis of Fediverse / IndieWeb /
| $other_such_efforts. Personal web page with some experiments is
| surely first, but if anyone else is like-minded, I'd love to know
| what you're doing.
|
| Discovery, search, UX, advocacy, are all angles I think about.
| Protocols seem to be in a good place, so that's less likely to
| need new work.
| bcye wrote:
| This has (in some way) already been done[1][2][3], though almost
| always focused on the "indie hacker" scene - how will this site
| work differently?
|
| [1]: getmakerlog.com
|
| [2]: WIP.co
|
| [3]: buildinpublic.xyz
| drivers99 wrote:
| There's used to be a site for that called advogato. Looks like it
| was shut down in 2017.
| https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...
|
| (I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you
| could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became
| the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about
| it. Sorry.)
| programjoe wrote:
| "serverless" for realtime video streaming. Just wanted an easier
| way to plug and play code to do some computer vision work.
| atum47 wrote:
| I'm working on a full time job that leaves me almost with no time
| for personal projects. I've created some miner projects that
| address personal issues, and I do miss sharing fun stuff here. So
| I'm glad to say that this weekend i got a new raycaster engine
| going, using DDA algorithm. By the way this raycasting is related
| to the Wolfenstein game, not this modern stuff. Right now i got
| the basic stuff out of the way and as soon as i have more stuff
| I'll share it here.
| kaypee901 wrote:
| I am working on a dependabot setup wizard written in Go.
| https://github.com/kaypee90/dependabot-wizard
| niccl wrote:
| I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards
| manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping
| out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-
| bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get the system turning
| lights on and off in a month or so.
|
| I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-
| related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me
| to get back to work on this project
|
| 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795
| replete wrote:
| Recently I've been building my own life ops system in Obsidian. I
| treat Obsidian like my offline personal CMS.
|
| My CSS snippets for minimal theme:
| https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...
|
| Life ops starter vault (including above snippets), with very
| basic cut down daily template: https://github.com/replete/life-
| ops-starter-obsidian-vault/
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