[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 553 points
Date : 2024-08-24 22:00 UTC (1 days ago)
| dang wrote:
| (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132906 for a bit of
| recent context)
| em-bee wrote:
| almost 1000 comments suggests that this is very popular. doing
| this monthly would really help, although people may want to
| repost, so maybe some rule is needed for that. probably marking
| a post as "REPOST" or "NEW" would help regular readers find new
| projects.
| hollerith wrote:
| Adding "REPOST" or "NEW" does nothing to ameliorate the
| problem of the same comment occurring over and over in search
| results (particularly hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate searches).
|
| On the other hand, if each repost consists of just a link to
| the original post, or a link plus a few words, that would
| prevent the unpleasantness in search results.
| em-bee wrote:
| fair point, but i think linking to the original post would
| make it more difficult to scan though the page, and people
| would simply not read those posts. might as well ban
| reposts altogether. so i think if reposts make sense then a
| tag is better than a link. if links are used they would at
| least need a short description, so for those that wrote a
| more detailed post at first, a link with a short
| desctiption would make sense, but that would benefit from a
| tag as well.
|
| other tags such as "UPDATE" or "MAJOR UPDATE" could also be
| considered.
|
| maybe something like this:
|
| _Please tag your posts as NEW, REPOST or UPDATE. For
| reposts and updates try not to repost the whole description
| but keep it short and link to the previous post instead_
| celltalk wrote:
| I am trying to get better at trading so I thought it would be
| nice chance to work on my coding skills. I wondered if financial
| indicators actually makes money for a given period.
|
| https://indicatorinsights.co
|
| Made it with React, Vite, firebase via Typescript. It's a really
| different world for sure.
| dzink wrote:
| Your MACD seems to be inverse. It suggests a buy when it should
| be selling and vice versa.
| celltalk wrote:
| Yes, there is a bug somewhere which I could not find so
| far... it is making me crazy. Yet, I will find it at some
| point. Other than that, I am still improving the site!
| mertbio wrote:
| Recently released an iOS that helps you to see your Plausible
| Analytics data on the widgets: https://charsible.app/
|
| Right now making improvements based on the feedback.
| kjksf wrote:
| I'm working on Edna - a note taking app for developers and power
| users.
|
| https://edna.arslexis.io/help
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I'm back to working on an ML app pair (train/consume) for
| Mac/iOS, for finding a certain type of resource.
|
| I tried it a while back, and wasn't too thrilled with the way
| Apple has structured their ML stuff (they basically only afford
| very specific applications, which didn't match my workflow).
|
| It was suggested that I revisit it, so I am.
| gnulinux996 wrote:
| I moved to doing programming for some post production companies
| and I am working on a couple of patches for ffmpeg.
|
| First time writing C and the task has been both daunting and
| rewarding, I am mostly working hls enc/dec and learning about av
| has been a ton of fun!
| udev4096 wrote:
| That's awesome! Do you know of any resources for learning more
| about audio/video compression?
| agentultra wrote:
| Working on an update to `hiedb-mode`. It's an emacs package for
| querying an hiedb index; a database for building IDE tooling for
| Haskell. The update will use `compile` for the display buffer
| similar to how `find-grep` does it.
| cpursley wrote:
| Despite not liking JavaScript as a language nor the Node runtime,
| learning about hybrid static and SSR apps with Astro.js - I have
| to say, I'm impressed so far. Seems like a sweet spot for certain
| types of sites.
| FretLabs wrote:
| I'm finishing up FretLabs, a web app that lets you
| practice/freestyle guitar scales alongside songs. Launching soon!
|
| Promo: https://youtu.be/8709yXI82ms?si=8R_5tkBqwf1UVh9n
| generalizations wrote:
| Building more Amazon scraper websites. Working on a framework to
| minimize the effort of creating them, and currently testing to
| see if I can automate most of the process with Anthropic's
| Sonnet.
|
| The most recent site is https://computerdisplayprices.com
|
| When I'm done, I'm probably going to make a blog post or two just
| talking through the automation I figured out so far. LLMs are
| amazing force multipliers.
| frankacter wrote:
| what toolset do you use for scraping? puppeteer?
| generalizations wrote:
| Nope, just selenium and pyautogui. The priority is to fly
| under the radar, rather than efficiency; for that I needed
| lower-level control. There's a bunch of other stuff I did to
| improve the anonymity, but to download I just open selenium
| at the url, wait for it to load, then use pyautogui to type
| 'ctrl-s' and type in the save directory.
| taiters_ wrote:
| I dusted off an old project today. It's a browser based CHIP-8
| emulator with a built in editor.
|
| https://chip8.dotslashdan.com/
|
| I added the ability to import/export ROMs and finally added some
| of documentation.
|
| ...Plenty bugs left to fix
| ahmedbaracat wrote:
| Working on: https://www.mylondonhomesearch.co.uk/
|
| To help Londoners find their perfect home by filtering for
| proximity to parks, river, PoIs, commute time, etc.
|
| The website is not optimized for mobile and customers have to pay
| to access the functional filters/properties.
| fragmede wrote:
| working on a website showing people how micropayments could work
| today
| is_true wrote:
| can you share it? or at least what you know about the topic.
| fragmede wrote:
| I'll share it when I've made something worth sharing :)
|
| It'd be a basic guide that says do a,b,c,d,e,f,g to give me
| 10 cents, where a-g is
|
| a) create a Coinbase account
|
| b) fund it
|
| c) buy some crypto
|
| d) install a wallet
|
| e) move the crypto to the wallet
|
| f) connect the wallet to my website,
|
| g) send 10 cents my way
|
| it's not going to offer any choices of crypto and wallet,
| just a proof of concept to document that the rails do exist
| today.
| em-bee wrote:
| are you going to cover the whole process end to end, from
| my cash to my friends cash assuming neither of us have a
| crypto wallet yet?
|
| what about transfer fees?
|
| all in all this is way to complex for the average person
| and inaccessible for many.
|
| in some countries mobile money accounts come with every
| phone number, and you can transfer micropayments from one
| number to another even across networks and even
| internationally. and you don't even need a smartphone. any
| feature phone that can send USSD codes will work. that is a
| working micropayment system accessible to anyone who can
| afford at least a feature phone.
| aray07 wrote:
| Working on building a copilot for oncall engineers.
|
| Goal is to automate or reduce the grunt work oncall engineers
| have to do.
|
| Code is here: https://github.com/opslane/opslane
| rboyd wrote:
| I've been working on similar lately. Changepoint detection over
| our metrics time series, and using that to inform automated
| root cause analysis.
|
| I think your work was mentioned on our team channel this week.
|
| I found these papers to be pretty interesting:
|
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02357
|
| Anything else I should be reading?
| mindcrime wrote:
| Right now I'm mostly thinking about AI. Right this minute I'm
| sitting in a cafe reading a book on Multi-Agent Oriented
| Programming with a framework called JaCaMo[1], and later tonight
| when I get home I'll probably spend some time getting my
| Fuseki[2] server loaded with some base schemas (SKOS, FOAF, etc)
| as I slowly start working on getting things set up to explore
| some ideas around integrating symbolic logic with LLM's.
|
| And I took my new quadcopter drone out and did some flying last
| night for the first time. As in, my first time flying a drone,
| ever. The results were... predictable. Let's just say, I bought a
| cheap (< $100) drone for a reason. This thing _will_ wind up
| destroyed. In less than an hour I managed to crash it into
| fences, walls, bushes, cars, dumpsters, the ground, an armadillo,
| Elvis Presley, a 1974 AMC Gremlin, and Nickelback. Well, more or
| less.
|
| It brought to mind this famous scene[3] from the movie Days of
| Thunder:
|
| Harry: I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace
| car.
|
| Cole: Hit the pace car?
|
| Harry: Hit the pace car!
|
| Cole: What for?
|
| Harry: Because you hit every other god-damned thing out there and
| I want you to be perfect.
|
| [1]: https://jacamo-lang.github.io/
|
| [2]: https://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/
|
| [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xll0VOsiE84
| team_dale wrote:
| lol'd at the 1974 AMC,
|
| As an experienced drone pilot - if you can, DJI is unbelievable
| at stopping you from crashing. Start there to get the feel of
| it (and more importantly not get frustrated and give up)
|
| If you want to learn more freestyle without assistance, i can't
| recommend enough getting a simulator on your computer and
| crashing a digital drone a million times first. It's much
| cheaper. I think there is a lot out there now but i used
| Liftoff for many hours before i tried to fly a proper drone
| codazoda wrote:
| I was wondering. I have a DJI and it is stupid simple to fly.
| I've yet to crash mine but I don't fly it a ton. I'm
| certainly not trying to fly it through complex paths like an
| open doorway and into a house or something.
| mindcrime wrote:
| Yeah, I'm flying a super basic drone with none of the built-
| in crash avoidance / navigation / etc. stuff for now. I'll
| upgrade to something fancier later, but for now I'm totally
| satisfied with something I can crash repeatedly and when it
| breaks, throw it away (or salvage parts from it to build
| another drone).
|
| I'll look into the simulator thing. I didn't even realize
| that drone simulators were a "thing" so I had not gone
| looking for anything like that.
| ada1981 wrote:
| I'm working on a screen play called DRONE RACER about kids who
| race human sized quadcopters through the subways of NYC. It's a
| mix of Hackers and Fast & The Furious.
|
| Using a lot of off the shelf AI and pushing the limits of
| what's possible.
|
| Really fun.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _It's a mix of Hackers and Fast & The Furious._
|
| If HN supported images in replies, I'd totally be posting
| that "shut up and take my money" meme right now. As it is,
| I'll just say "that sounds awesome, and I hope it sees the
| light of day eventually."
| t_mahmood wrote:
| Thanks God for HN not supporting inline image.
| spacebacon wrote:
| Same ... no potential to over expose my brain to hyper
| VAD memetic warfare is a feature that keep me
| contributing here.
| sawaali wrote:
| A feature-rich, nice looking audio player for those who don't
| stream music: https://sakunlabs.com/muziqi
|
| It has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on
| what my users want.
| skeuomorphism wrote:
| Was hoping this was for desktop, as ive been using winamp for
| roughly 10 years since it has everything i want, including
| android management support.
|
| Regardless, keep up the good work!
| em-bee wrote:
| my list of features needed for a usable audio player:
|
| for audiobooks the ability to skip forward and backwards a few
| seconds. the best way to do that i found is to swipe left and
| right. short swipe is a short skip, swipe across the whole
| screen is maybe a minute. also the ability to quickly jump to a
| certain manually chosen timestamp.
|
| also for audiobooks, the ability to bookmark positions. not all
| audio books have chapter markers.
|
| for audiobooks and podcasts: list files by their names in
| storage sorted by timestamp or name. many podcasts and
| chapterized audiobooks don't set chapter or episode titles
| correctly. i have seen players where the title was always the
| title of the book or the name of the podcast, making it
| impossible to identify which file was which episode or chapter.
| also author names and even podcast titles are sometimes
| inconsistent, because spelling errors, different authors or
| multiple names for a podcast.
|
| do not assume that the file metadata is consistent or correct
| and make it easy for the user to work around inconsistencies.
| sawaali wrote:
| I think Muziqi ought to satisfy most of these for audiobooks.
| Podcasts is on the list.
| henrycrutcher wrote:
| Working on a stock market strategy tester and portfolio
| simulator. Basically what a lazy dev would want to invest in
| stocks. https://www.equitieslab.com
| skybrian wrote:
| I'm writing a new property-testing library for TypeScript. [1]
|
| I wanted a way to define new Arbitraries that's easier than
| working with .map(), .chain(), .oneOf(), and other combinators
| that require you to think in terms of sets. It has those
| combinators, but you can also write code to randomly generate one
| value at a time. It uses an approach to shrinking that's inspired
| by Hypothesis.
|
| Along the way, I ended up adding a Domain subclass, which also
| does validation like Zod. Not sure where I'm going with that, but
| it's also useful for generating unique keys.
|
| (The documentation isn't done and doesn't explain what's
| interesting about it. Caveat: it's Deno-only, and will probably
| stay that way unless someone wants to help.)
|
| [1] https://jsr.io/@skybrian/repeat-test
| yen223 wrote:
| I'm currently building a mobile-friendly Postgres database tool.
| Think dbeaver but on Android.
|
| Writing and editing SQL queries on the phone can get tedious.
| Rather than just giving users a tiny textfield, I am exploring if
| there are better ways to build SQL queries on a touchscreen
|
| Here's the makeshift landing page: https://getselectable.com/
| rubicks wrote:
| I'm putting qnx cross-toolchains into Debian packages because
| $DAYJOB builds qnx images in ubuntu containers. I've learned a
| lot about cross-toolchains and my appreciation for blackberry's
| technical prowess has never been lower.
| kredd wrote:
| I had this realization that, sometimes, people on my team are
| doing the same tasks in different ways, resulting each of them
| taking different amount of time. In certain scenarios, there is
| an optimal way of doing things, and I don't even know about it.
| Trying to test out if current AI-models are solid enough to do
| comparisons from a screen recording, or just general suggestions
| for improving white-collar workflows. I could see an eventual
| platform that could be built out of it.
| flir wrote:
| Is it possible that you're describing design patterns here?
| kredd wrote:
| Hm, if you mean software design patterns, then not exactly.
| It's probably harder to detect in just coding world, but the
| easiest one I can think of in our realm "checking current CPU
| usage of X service". In my current company, there are quite a
| few ways - logging into AWS -> switching to production
| environment -> going to ECS -> Looking up the service ->
| Clicking on metrics, or opening DataDog -> Dashboards ->
| Service Name.
|
| I understand it's very reductive and simplified, but for
| every task there are alternative ways to reach the goal, and
| from my historical experience, everyone does everything
| differently. Some things can be optimized significantly, if
| others just knew about the possibilities.
| doomroot wrote:
| It's possible they aren't talking about code at all.
|
| "This team member, and this other team member are both filing
| a particular kind of report but are doing so in very
| different ways, is one of them more effecient?"
|
| I like it. Seems like there could be lots of ways to automate
| the creation of SOP for many businesses. I do wonder how high
| level of tasks it could pick up on. Though maybe that gets
| better with a bigger context window.
| kredd wrote:
| This is exactly it! I'm sure I do a lot of things slower
| than others as well, and simply never came across an
| "alternative, but faster" method.
| flir wrote:
| That's fair. Assumption on my part. Hence couched in "is it
| possible..." weasel words.
| myprotegeai wrote:
| A python library for calling an LLM like calling a function
| https://github.com/amoffat/manifest
| erikthiart wrote:
| Created this website for a local rubble removal business.
|
| https://legendsfreight.co.za
|
| I'd love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the
| website to feature prominantly for local search when people need
| rubble removal near them.
| kmoser wrote:
| Not an SEO expert but I've found that adding your business to
| Google Maps will get you many more eyeballs.
| erikthiart wrote:
| Thank you for this.
|
| I created a Google my Business listing.
|
| Will that suffice or is there a specific step required to
| make it available in Google Maps?
| kmoser wrote:
| Google will review the listing and eventually add it to the
| map, no further action required by you. Once they do,
| you'll want to get your customers to write reviews.
| dan_manges wrote:
| A new CI/CD platform. Local CLI (run without git push), remote
| debugger, automatic content-based caching, DAG-based definition,
| and dynamic tasks. It's taken a lot of work to build it, but I'm
| really excited about how well it's working. https://rwx.com/mint
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| how does it compare with dagger?
| Mavvie wrote:
| I haven't tried this yet, but I wanted to say I think there's a
| lot of potential in this space. There's so much friction with
| the current popular solutions...and yet it's so hard to justify
| trying some of the newer and less popular ones.
|
| I wish you luck because there are a lot of good ideas in here.
| Running locally and remote debugger are the most exciting to
| me.
| amir734jj wrote:
| I like the idea, but I have used Azure Pipelines, and the key
| differentiating it from GitLab.ci is its "service connection"
| that enables seamless integration with third-party services and
| a wide range of tasks (PowerShell, pscore, az, docker, etc).
|
| I wish your dependency semantics yaml could be converted to
| Azure pipeline task, job, and stage similar to how typescript
| converts to javascript.
|
| I am saying this because there are very complicated
| infrastructural problems that hundreds of people work on at big
| companies when creating a ci/cd I see you are not focusing on
| them yet but that DAG logic could be applied to existing azure
| pipeline yaml.
| rtpg wrote:
| This seems really neat! I'm a huge proponent of incremental CI
| for any project that gets big enough to care about test speed.
|
| I'd be pretty worried about an abstraction ceiling on the
| caching here relative to something like Bazel, though. Like
| would Mint get mad if I generated 4000 dynamic tasks?
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| I am building a belt tension meter to attach my z-belt idlers to
| on my voron 2.4.
|
| I'm still contemplating what I want the final form to look like,
| but currently it's a 5 kg load cell and a floating idler and an
| rp2040 reading values via hx711.
| sevensor wrote:
| Are you looking at alignment too? Huge impact on the longevity
| of belt-drive systems.
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| No, I haven't considered alignment. I think they're pretty
| well aligned already, but honestly haven't thought about it
| much at all.
| hopfog wrote:
| Working on my game Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox
| with pixel-based physics (think Noita meets Factorio).
|
| I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which
| you can try directly in your browser:
|
| https://lanttogames.itch.io/sandustry
| ksylvestre wrote:
| performance tanked once I started to dig and the screen got
| dark, FPS returned to normal once I was fully above ground
| hopfog wrote:
| Thanks for reporting! May I ask what browser and system you
| are on?
|
| When going underground it starts raycasting shadows, which is
| heavier on the GPU, but the difference shouldn't be that big.
| ksylvestre wrote:
| chrome, windows 10
| BetterWhisper wrote:
| We're currently developing https://www.videototextai.com/ -
| ChatGPT for video and audio. The idea is to get to an all-in-one
| video and audio editing/insights platform. We're actively
| building out new features to fully realise our vision, and we'd
| love to get any feedback from HackerNews!
| sanj001 wrote:
| I'm working on https://github.com/incidentalhq/incidental
|
| It's an incident management platform, similar to Pagerduty,
| Rootly or FireHydrant.
|
| It's the first side project I've open sourced, and I've been
| hacking on it weekends and nights. Hoping to get a few companies
| to start using it to get some early feedback.
| spacecadet wrote:
| Upgrading my private RAG to a Graph RAG. Switching out the slack
| bot UI for a Gradio one.
| rogutkuba wrote:
| Working on my modern take on an API management + monetization
| platform . I want to make it super easy to sell API access with
| all the bells and whistles you need such as; authorization, rate-
| limiting, subscriptions, credit billing, usage based billing and
| a self-service customer portal
|
| https://useultrance.com/
| is_true wrote:
| what do you think about rapidapi?
|
| I think the biggest issue is that when an user makes a
| chargeback they don't pay you. Which makes the 20% cut they
| take a bit too much in my opinion.
|
| Also the marketplace is getting full of people abusing free
| APIs for money.
| rogutkuba wrote:
| Well I am not a fan of RapidAPI for a couple reasons, firstly
| them taking such a big cut of an API provider's business and
| secondly their marketplace feels kinda spammy and low
| quality.
|
| I am trying to build so that there is little vendor lock-in
| (you can export your users to other auth providers, billing
| is integrated directly into your stripe account, etc) so that
| you still have the choice to migrate if you ever feel unhappy
| with the service
| handfuloflight wrote:
| Following along. By the way the LinkedIn in the footer is not
| accessible.
| rogutkuba wrote:
| Oops thanks for pointing that out
| whynotmaybe wrote:
| Mowing the lawn and cutting some branches without touching git.
|
| I'm knee deep into coding 6 days per week as I'm building a
| startup and working right now on an "easy" solution for merging
| xls (yes xls) from some external company with our internal json,
| and I needed to let my keyboard rest for a day.
|
| It's convincing me that our company should allocate a yearly
| budget to donate to OSS for stuff like the xlsx package.
| cpursley wrote:
| Cutting branches sounds a whole lot like git ;)
| tomatohs wrote:
| An AI that can control the desktop. It can see the screen and use
| the mouse and keyboard.
|
| We're selling it to developer teams to help with QA
|
| http://testdriver.ai
| Lordarminius wrote:
| Is this another surveillance tool at the workspace ?
| tomatohs wrote:
| Oh no, it doesn't even run on your local machine if you don't
| want it. It runs on VMs.
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am writing about Graph Reasoning on my Substack (Encyclopedia
| Autonomica - All things Autonomous Agents) because I really find
| the topic interesting and there is not much research.
| shcheklein wrote:
| An out-of-memory dataframe to wrangle unstructured data at scale
| - https://github.com/iterative/datachain
| cperciva wrote:
| FreeBSD 13.4. I should have the release out in early September.
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| hardcore
| s_brady wrote:
| I am working on an agent cognitive architecture based around
| LLMs. Been working on it for a while. The main difference from
| all the dozens out of agentic systems out there is that has been
| designed so that it can introspect fully and it has a machine
| ethics layer based on the work a modern Stoic philosopher. I am
| trying to build a system that I would like to exist.
| handfuloflight wrote:
| Can we follow along on your progress?
| s_brady wrote:
| I might try to arrange that :) Thanks for the interest!
| christophilus wrote:
| A zero-dependency application in Bun. It has a tailwind-like
| layer which can be seen here [0]. It's not production-ready, but
| has been an interesting experiment.
|
| [0] https://github.com/chrisdavies/atomic-css
| ivanjermakov wrote:
| What makes it Bun-specific? Can I use it with node?
| christophilus wrote:
| The Tailwind bit isn't Bun specific, but the unit tests are,
| and the app currently uses (or eventually will use) various
| things such as bun's http layer, password hashing, SQLite
| API, etc.
| michaelsalim wrote:
| Open source presenter software. The idea is anything you want to
| show on screen, all can be controlled through a single page.
| Useful for any events like concert, conference, camps, etc. You
| can also use it for digital signage.
|
| Very early stage right now but I hope to release alpha soon. I'm
| already using it privately right now but there's a lot to do to
| make it user friendly.
|
| https://github.com/Vija02/TheOpenPresenter
| sumeruchat wrote:
| http://cleannews.fyi - Just started this as a side project a few
| days ago but the goal is to get AI to generate a proper newspaper
| while striving to eliminate editorial bias
| jmcgough wrote:
| AI news seems kind of harmful - it can't do investigative
| journalism, so it's taking the hard work others have done and
| rewording it, right?
| sumeruchat wrote:
| Its going to take in info from all the internet and summarize
| it in a factual way.
| ukuina wrote:
| Nice, I was very interested in this space after launching
| https://hackyournews.com about a year ago.
|
| Then I saw the space was crowded with entrants like
| https://www.newsminimalist.com/ and https://myst.news/
| sumeruchat wrote:
| Thanks I had this idea for a while but only with the new gpt
| models I think its executable now. Is there a market for
| this? Either way fun project and I will generate a newspaper
| in 90s style everyday
| ukuina wrote:
| It is a fun project to build for yourself, but I could not
| figure out a viable monetization path.
| ydnaclementine wrote:
| Leetcode for a new job, been at my current place for 5 years. But
| it's actually the perfect thing to do to make your brain come up
| with new projects that your brain would rather do, so I write
| those down for later
| roberja90 wrote:
| Open source interactive video API.
|
| Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about
| 20,000 shoppers a month currently.
|
| Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/ Repo:
| https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream
| traviskuhl wrote:
| https://elwood.studio -- Open Source platform for producing,
| hosting and monetizing video & audio podcasts through
| subscriptions, ads or one-time payments.
| enos_feedler wrote:
| personalized city walks. https://substrait.com Just started
| messing around with chatgpt for generating code and using the API
| to generate the walks.
| ghaff wrote:
| Interesting. There was one app I liked but Bose bought and it
| seemingly went into the bit bucket. I like the person-led tours
| such as exist in SF but it's often morw convenient and
| practical to have on-demand computer ones.
| enos_feedler wrote:
| It was Detour. My idea is continue where they left off by
| generating tours instead of having people produce them. I
| want these to be super personal. You might have a favorite
| movie that was filmed in the city you are visiting. I want to
| generate tours for that.
| ghaff wrote:
| Heh. Not in a city per se but I helped a friend with
| mapping Harold and Maude locations.
| http://www.boffo.us/haroldandmaude/
|
| I'm sort of a map geek and know how to do old USGS stuff.
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Okay this is crazy, but when I went to your website I
| looked at the church picture and thought "I recognize
| this!". I live at Forest and Waverley :D I will
| definitely going to add Palo Alto to my site and try and
| replicate this tour :)
|
| Starting with cities and AI generated guides is a way I
| want to bootstrap this project. I strongly believe the
| best guides will be those created by people who are
| passionate. Your work here is proof of this :)
|
| If you are local to Palo alto still I would love to chat
| with you about the idea. In any case thanks for sharing
| here :)
| ghaff wrote:
| Not my website. A friend of mine from school who was also
| one of the lead Infocom game designers. But feel free to
| ping me. My email should be in my profile.
|
| I'm actually a Cambridge/Bostonite though live about an
| hour West. Peel free to ping me about local stuff. Some
| local Boston movies (e.g. Good Will Hunting) are pretty
| weel documented, others are in areas I probably wouldn't
| go out of my way to visit, but lots of good routes.
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Cool, thanks! I did check but don't see an email there. I
| just added my own contact to my about box. If you can
| send there or update profile let me know.
| kentrf wrote:
| I believe I can do and build anything, but I'm out of juice.
|
| Working as a consultant, but no extra energy or will to create
| anything outside of work.
|
| Kids are getting bigger, and I have time.... but no will, or
| maybe it's just fear, to start anything.
| robg wrote:
| What are you curious about?
| kentrf wrote:
| Thank you for noticing me :)
|
| My interests are many, maybe too many.
|
| In tech, I'm interested in native systems programming, at the
| moment with C++.
|
| Outside of tech, I do quite a bit of "long" distance running,
| swimming and e-biking.
|
| When out on a run, it leaves lot of time available for
| listening on podcasts, mainly technical podcasts.
|
| At the same time, when exercising, I want to publish tidbits
| I've learned, do projects with raspberry pies, arduinos, make
| statistics over time series (power consumption, electricity
| price, internet usage++).
|
| When I'm home, I'm thinking I'll do it later :).
|
| What I'm most curious about, is how people, and I, can stay
| organized. All information feels like a mess :)
| robg wrote:
| What does your personal daily checklist look like?
| kentrf wrote:
| I haven't had any checklist for a couple of months, due
| to holidays and so on. Earlier I've tried various
| formats; post-it, small notebooks, notes, paper, trello,
| notes (iPhone) and keeping it in my mind.
|
| Sometimes the tasks are too large, and will easily take
| days to complete, which puts me off. Sometimes the tasks
| are too small, and I do them there and then. Sometimes
| they are right-sized.
|
| When the tasks are written down, they become 'not
| important' and 'I can do it later', also they are easier
| to stow away out of sight :).
|
| Not to mention there are also a couple of hundred open
| tabs of various stuff I'd like to research... but most of
| them can be probably be closed.
|
| When it's routine, I've got no problems doing stuff like
| making dinner, vacuuming, exercising, getting groceries
| and so on.
|
| But when it comes to projects, and publishing, I feel
| there is no more juice left.
|
| Thanks Rob. It's been a long time since I wrote this much
| for a 'human' and not for a 'machine'. I'll try to
| continue reviving a couple of drafts.
| lylo wrote:
| I'm building a calmer way to produce and consume content.
|
| A delightfully simple blogging-by-email app, Pagecord
| (https://pagecord.com). $20/yr.
|
| A delightfully simple, all-in-one RSS reader (web and PWA),
| Feedgrab (https://feedgrab.net). FREE!
|
| Very early days (built quickly!) but both products are fully
| functional with customers.
|
| I have a lot of ideas around content discovery for Feedgrab.
|
| Give them a spin, I'd love to know what people think.
| rtcode_io wrote:
| https://RTCode.io
|
| We're continuing to develop and refine our core offerings at
| Elefunc:
|
| RTCode.io is our real-time web development playground for HTML,
| CSS, and JS. It provides instant feedback - as you code, you see
| the results immediately. A key feature is our support for in-
| editor Workers, allowing developers to write and test backend
| code directly in the playground.
|
| These Workers integrate seamlessly with RTEdge.net, our global,
| multi-cloud edge network. RTEdge.net offers distributed hosting
| with auto-scaling capabilities, giving developers a powerful
| platform to deploy and scale their applications worldwide.
|
| We're also running rt.ht, which we tout as the world's shortest
| SaaS eTLD.
|
| Our focus remains on providing developers with robust tools for
| real-time web development and edge computing. We're always
| looking to improve the integration between RTCode.io and
| RTEdge.net to streamline the development and deployment process.
|
| If you're interested in real-time web technologies or edge
| computing, we'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any
| questions about our platform.
| Octabrain wrote:
| I'm working on a side project which is a Python library that
| provides of an abstraction layer to manage infrastructure in
| cloud providers by interacting with their APIs. This is something
| I've been developing every now and then for the last months after
| years of working with Terraform and getting tired of the
| limitations of it's DSL (yeah, Pullumi is better but I just
| simply want a generic library with classes representing services
| in the cloud I can call natively in Python without having to deal
| with a 3rd party application like Pullumi is!).
| cdchn wrote:
| So, like, CDK?
| Octabrain wrote:
| Yes, at least conceptually. However, CDK is more opinionated,
| uses Cloudformation and depends on its own CLI.
| jononor wrote:
| Lately I have been working on making MicroPython an excellent
| platform for deploying Machine Learning on microcontroller-based
| sensors. Primarily this is via this open source project:
| https://github.com/emlearn/emlearn-micropython But there is also
| a bit of work needed in the wider ecosystem, like improving
| drivers for accelerometer/microphone/etc, support for data
| formats such as Numpy .npy files etc.
| ubavic wrote:
| I am currently working on a custom markup language called atex.
| It's syntax reminds of latex syntax, but with @ instead \ as a
| special character (very similar to the Lout language, if anyone
| remembers it). Also, the atex language hasn't any predefined
| commands. Instead, all commands are defined via schema specified
| in a separate YAML file. Schema defines commands that can be used
| and means of "rendering" those commands to different targets
| (HTML, Tex, Typst, whatever...)
|
| Just today, I finished first working version of the new compiler
| (https://github.com/ubavic/mint). It is written in Go, and there
| are lot of things on the TODO list, but it works :)
|
| This is actually the second compiler for the atex. The first one
| was written in Haskell and compiled fixed document schema. I used
| it for writing a book on Haskell
| (https://github.com/ubavic/programming-in-haskell).
| Simorgh wrote:
| Working on a voice-interface for messaging. Type-free and voice-
| first with GPT-4o-mini baked in. Dolby Enhancements on the audio,
| too.
|
| I'm using it personally as a transcribed voice-note system.
|
| https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8...
| tslocum wrote:
| Open source online backgammon. Backgammon is fairly niche, so
| there seems to be a lot of opportunity for backgammon software to
| be developed. I'm taking inspiration from Lichess, having enjoyed
| playing chess there for years. Check out the server, client and
| backgammon AI I'm working on at https://bgammon.org
|
| (Source code at https://bgammon.org/code)
| kirubakaran wrote:
| Improved the search feature of https://histre.com/ which is a
| knowledge management tool
| research_pie wrote:
| Currently studying the segment anything model family (1 and 2 &
| everything in-between).
|
| I read the abstract a while ago and I was fascinated by the
| methodology.
| sukh wrote:
| I recently created a custom 220gsm pre-washed cotton fabric by
| twisting thrice a 60s yarn (60/3 Ne) into 20s before knitting. It
| could never be commercially viable so released something similar.
|
| Essentially combining the softness of fine count cotton with the
| weight and durability of a heavier garment.
|
| https://www.marchtee.com/
|
| Also a lot of ERP, warehouse, UI work and fun with Cursor.
| peterldowns wrote:
| I've bought a lot of different T-shirts and I'm always
| interested in trying to find a better (more durable; more
| fashionable; more comfortable) one. My current favorites are
| the Buck Mason Field Spec t-shirts
| https://www.buckmason.com/collections/mens-tees -- could you
| explain how your shirts might compare? I'm willing to buy one
| just to try it out, but since you're the owner, figure I might
| as well ask you for more information -- especially why you
| created a custom cotton fabric.
|
| One thing I like a lot about Buck Mason is that their T-shirts
| are made in America from American-grown cotton, are any of your
| T-shirts made in America?
|
| EDIT: just ordered a variety of your shirts, looking forward to
| trying them out. Very easy checkout experience!
| sukh wrote:
| Thanks for the order!
|
| Buck Mason makes great tees. Our flagship tees use 100%
| American-grown Supima Cotton and are similar in weight to
| their classic Pima ones.
|
| The Heavy Crew is closer to their Field Tee-- ours is likely
| not as heavy but softer and more durable due to twisting two
| fine cotton yarns into one before knitting. They're made in
| our own facility in Southern India.
|
| I've been refining our fabrics for nearly ten years to get
| the best fit and feel, sticking with cotton for its comfort.
| More on our fabrics here:
| https://www.marchtee.com/us/difference
|
| Thanks for commenting on the checkout! We're gradually
| rolling out stateside, so any feedback is welcome--just reply
| to the order email anytime.
| teleforce wrote:
| Great work, for some unknown reason I cannot bear wearing non-
| cotton shirt and cloth, but cotton based clothing is far from
| durable. The best cotton shirt that I ever had until now (in
| terms of wearability and durability) is a mecerized golf cotton
| shirt by PGA Tour (casual wear not for golfing) but now I
| cannot find any golf shirt (PT included) with the same material
| anymore. As far as I'm concerned you have got a winner there
| mate if your cotton shirt is as good if not better than the PT
| shirt, hopefully your clothing materials will be available
| globally off-the-shelf.
|
| Do you mind explaining your sentence here?
|
| >It could never be commercially viable so released something
| similar.
| sukh wrote:
| We do mercerize some of our products, though it's more costly
| with regulated heat. If you're near an M&S, they carry a
| mercerized Polo, but I find it too crispy.
|
| > It could never be commercially viable, so released
| something similar.
|
| Apparel is about scale. You can make a great tee, but fewer
| people will pay $100 versus $30, so finding a balance is
| necessary. Cotton can age well, but the trade-offs (fiber
| blends, uneven yarn, spirality resistance, no ribbed neck)
| often show in tees under $50.
| SuperHeavy256 wrote:
| I think I've seen march tee on instagram!
| nlh wrote:
| I'm a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two
| hobbies and combined them into a real business and I'm having the
| time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here:
|
| https://www.rarity7.com/
|
| About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff -
| hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going
| to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.
|
| The other 50% I'm writing code and building out the tech stack
| for this business. I've written the whole backend for the retail
| site myself, which includes my own inventory management system,
| sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.
|
| I've also built out a research tool which includes an ML price
| prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a
| tabular regression model).
|
| Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and
| there's nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all
| Svelte and they're glued together using a mini framework I wrote:
|
| https://github.com/noahlh/celestite
|
| I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and
| I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it's
| super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I'd
| never give that up.
|
| Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who's interested or
| vaguely interested in numismatics.
| peterldowns wrote:
| This is great, my brother is a history buff and a few years ago
| I bought him a Hadrian coin for his birthday. I'll look through
| this and see if I can find something else he'd be interested
| in, holidays are coming up and I'm always looking for nice
| gifts.
|
| EDIT: is there any way I could set up an alert for when you add
| some non-US currency into stock?
| nlh wrote:
| That's awesome and a very thoughtful gift for him! Yes I'm
| planning on building alerting - BUT - I'm probably not going
| to expand beyond US-based stuff for the foreseeable future.
| It's just the niche I know and even though there's a big wide
| world out there, I haven't spun up my brain to learn about it
| all yet.
|
| If there's any country in particular you're looking for,
| shoot me an email. I know a ton of other dealers in the
| business and I'd be happy to point you to someone who might
| have something he'd enjoy.
| theogravity wrote:
| That's neat and congrats! How long does it take to be part of
| the authorized dealers listed on the site?
| nlh wrote:
| I did it all in about 2-3 years. I was a big collector as a
| kid but didn't get back into it in a serious way until 2021.
| Becoming an authorized dealer is basically, fundamentally
| about building trust. The whole coin industry operates in a
| very old-school relationship-based trusted way. To become a
| member of most professional orgs or become an authorized
| dealer, you need to have 5-10 VERY solid references from
| other members or authorized dealers, and the only way to get
| those references is to be a part of the community, build
| trust, and build relationships by doing business with others
| (which means honoring your commitments and your word and
| writing good checks, etc.). In the end, you need to ask 5-10
| people to personally vouch for you, so they'd better know you
| and actually trust you.
| spirobelv2 wrote:
| wow this is super cool stuff. I see the similarities between
| currencies and trading cards.
|
| seems like you guys also have grading services
| nlh wrote:
| Yes! Very much so. And in fact, the grading services are
| owned by the same parent companies. NGC and PCGS are the big
| coin graders and I think their card graders are CGC and PSA
| respectively?
| Loughla wrote:
| So let's say I have a few hundred silver dollars. Is this a
| tool to help me sort them, or does such a tool exist? Like take
| a picture and it identifies it, looks for common errors, and
| provides a base price estimate?
| nlh wrote:
| There really should be, but the fact is there isn't a tool
| that does this yet. It would not be deeply hard to build, but
| it would mean training a model which means getting good
| enough training data which means taking the time to actually
| do it. It hasn't been done because it requires someone who is
| deeply knowledgable about coins AND someone who knows how to
| train a model and build an app, and the fact is that
| intersection is pretty small (it's me and probably 20 other
| people? Give or take). This is very much on my long-term
| roadmap.
|
| In the short term, the easiest way is to find someone who
| does this (eg me) and just email me some pictures. I'd be
| happy to tell you if you've got anything good. The old school
| neural net between my ears can assist.
|
| (See profile for email).
| Loughla wrote:
| That's fair. I have to imagine that there's a market for a
| product like that. My mind goes to auctioneers and estate
| sales. I know the local auctioneer would kill for a tool
| like that.
|
| Something to keep in mind if you do build that: have a one
| time purchase or month long purchase option. When my wife's
| grandma died, we had to go through her coins looking for
| good ones. I would've killed for something like this but
| for a month.
| efishnc wrote:
| Very cool and super clean website! Talk about your infra
| please!
| nlh wrote:
| Thanks!!
|
| Infra: I was hosted on Google Cloud for a while -- literally
| a single VM running Docker Compose, but I decided I wanted
| something a bit more flexible and interesting, so last month
| I switched everything over to Fly.io and I am _incredibly_
| happy with them. It 's just so easy and fun to manage.
|
| The retail site (rarity7.com) is just a small VM running a
| Crystal server process to handle web requests. Image hosting
| is all done on Cloudinary. My backend / inventory management
| / trading + research engine is a separate Crystal process in
| a separate VM. Both connect to a Fly Postgres DB. There's one
| other service which is a small python process on another VM
| which is doing inference on my regression model. That's super
| lightweight and I don't need any GPUs to do the inference
| (tabular data is nice like that).
|
| Overall it's really nothing fancy and it works quite well. A
| few web-serving VMs and an inference service for my pricing
| model. I train/retrain the model a few times a year on a
| local box (my repurposed gaming rig running a 2080Ti).
| reassess_blind wrote:
| I have a question - I've seen TikToks of people who buy rolls
| of coins from the bank and sort through them for rare
| imperfections then sell them on eBay. I've always wondered
| whether it would be possible to develop an automated system
| where a camera takes high res photos of the coins on a conveyor
| belt, compares to a DB of known imperfections and sets them
| aside?
|
| Is anyone doing this? It's an interesting business model as the
| product is money so you'd only stand to make a profit never a
| loss.
| nlh wrote:
| Nobody that I know of is doing this, and see no reason why it
| wouldn't be possible from a technical standpoint. I think the
| only reason I can imagine NOT to do is that the ROI probably
| isn't that high in reality. Now, granted, I don't watch the
| coin TikToks because 95% of it is clickbait, exaggerate, etc.
| But my actual impression is that there simply isn't that much
| actually-valuable material out there hiding in bank rolls
| (despite what TikTok says).
|
| Most of the people I know who do bank roll hunting and doing
| it because it's just kinda fun and there's a thrill when you
| find a silver quarter from 1964 (worth about $5) hiding in a
| roll of otherwise-normal quarters. But so much of the good
| stuff has already been plucked from circulation.
|
| Having said that, nothing should stop a good hacker from
| doing something just for the hell of it :)
| bluGill wrote:
| If there was a good ROI the banks would do it. It might be
| enough ROI living but it will be a lot of labor for a small
| income.
| fsckboy wrote:
| do you know why vendors take credit cards, square and
| applepay, even though those services charge several percent
| fees? part of it is for convenience for the customer, but
| another part is that shuttling cash around to the bank and
| back is time consuming, risky, and takes you away from
| running your business (let's say you are a breakfast place,
| you don't make your own cups and napkins or farm your own
| eggs and coffee either)
|
| > _product is money so you 'd only stand to make a profit
| never a loss_
|
| you're grabbing the expense part of the business that
| everybody else is trying to shed. Let's talk also about time
| value of money. All the money that you've invested in cash is
| not making money passively as other investments do. Compared
| to putting the money in the stock market, you're losing 7% a
| year on this scheme, plus the expenses of running your
| business, and opportunity cost of not doing something else
| that generates income.
| s0rce wrote:
| I did this for personal collections a while back and went
| through a lot of Canadian quarters to get one from each year
| and never even found the 1991 I was looking for which is
| somewhat rare. I guess if you do it full time or automate a
| bunch maybe you could make money, seems hard though.
| wyclif wrote:
| Cool project! I showed this to my 13 year old son who is a coin
| and bill collector; he loves it.
| nlh wrote:
| Awesome -- thanks! Tell your son to join the Instagram coin
| community if he hasn't done it already - there are tons of
| kids & adults on there and it's a real community that meets
| up regularly at coin shows, etc. Send me an email and I can
| give you a heads-up on some starter accounts to follow and
| get involved.
| samstave wrote:
| That is beautiful!.
|
| One of my favorite design elements is the Guilloche patterning
| on currency, along with the history behind the use of Guilloche
| as a form of anti-counterfeiting.
|
| Your site is very simply visually appealing.
|
| Also - I like to order $2 bills from the bank. You can order
| then, mine delivers them on tuesdays - and they give you a
| stack of brand new $2 sequentially serialized bills. They are
| great for tips and gifts.
| nlh wrote:
| 100% agree! I often get folks asking if their $2 are
| valuable, and tell them exactly what you do -- no, alas,
| they're not worth more than $2, but they are super fun to
| leave as tips because people still get a kick out of 'em.
| pajeets wrote:
| Are 1987 loonies rare?
| profsummergig wrote:
| Am curious how you handle trust.
|
| E.g. someone says the delivery didn't come through. Or that the
| coin is not authentic.
|
| Those are some expensive coins! So was curious.
| nlh wrote:
| Great question. Authenticity is easy - I mostly deal with
| certified coins, which means they've all been authenticated
| and guaranteed by a 3rd party service which stands behind
| their mark (they will pay you for the coin if they make a
| mistake, which does happen).
|
| For shipping, that's just pretty standard across most
| industries - I have shipping insurance and if USPS fails,
| they'll pay for it. But losses happen and it's just a matter
| of business (thankfully they're rare).
| azhenley wrote:
| An autograder for a web apps course at CMU. It is a fun challenge
| to predict everything that can go wrong while still providing
| useful feedback!
| sevensor wrote:
| Learning gnuplot. Astonishingly powerful and versatile,
| criminally underhyped.
| elric wrote:
| Gnuplot is awesome. I've been hyping it up for years [1]. It's
| simple to get up and running with it, and remarkably deep when
| needed. Plays really well with poor man's command line data
| analytics (e.g. cut and awk).
|
| [1] Here's a 2013 blogpost by yours truly
| https://blog.melnib.one/2013/04/01/gnuplot-data-analysis-a-r...
| brainless wrote:
| Open source app to download emails, provide fast search, offline
| access, automatic labels, categories, summaries, surface up what
| needs our attention, etc. (some features need AI).
|
| Starting with emails, calendars and attachments. Integrations for
| Slack, LinkedIn, Stripe, databases, even web crawl are coming...
|
| This branch has updated readme:
|
| https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/feature/prepare_mvp_...
| burner_yall wrote:
| About three months ago I had a moment of clarity when I realized
| that all I did with my spare time was work out, smoke weed, and
| play video games (not at the same time). So I decided to
| reallocate a portion of my video game time to learning artistic
| skills. Largely learning to draw with the classic book Drawing On
| The Right Side Of The Brain, but I've also been making music and
| video games and learning 3D modelling in Blender. I'm not good at
| any of it yet but I'm having a great time.
| billylo wrote:
| A speech-to-speech translation app, with automatic language
| identification. One touch interface to start/stop. No
| configurations required for everyday use cases.
|
| https://3po.evergreen-labs.org
| em-bee wrote:
| a universal translator? :-)
| billylo wrote:
| That's the plan... :-) It can auto-detect 45 languages now,
| including Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and most European
| languages. (like in sci-fi movies, it allows two users to
| share a pair of airpods to talk to each other in different
| languages.)
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenl.
| .. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/3po/id6503194251
| hexmiles wrote:
| A database for my digital life. A place where to store semi-
| structured data and blobs, everything from phone numbers to my
| browser history, mail to photo and yes, also notes with a tagging
| system.
|
| The primary feature that I'm implementing p2p synchronization
| (similar to syncthing, although the prototype use tailscale);
| append-only storage for easy backup and an "api" for easy
| integration/synchronization with external sources like RSS feed
| for example, all working offline.
|
| Right now I'm using various software to manage my digital life
| (Zotero, Keepass, Syncthing) but i want to consolidate since I'm
| having trouble keeping all properly synced and backed)
| kinow wrote:
| I just aggregate everything on Git and found that it works so
| far. Although some listings (short stories, movies) are growing
| a bit too much for simple files. What's the lowest level
| database/filesystem you have to store your data?
| hexmiles wrote:
| Not sure if I did understood the question correctly:
| currently use a sqlite database as a backend for storing
| data, since it make easy to iterate and inspect while I'm
| developing, also sqlite seem to be able to handle blob just
| fine (up to 50MB).
|
| I'm planning to have pluggable backends but the primary one
| will be a append-only log structure within a single file,
| however it should be relatively easy to add a git based
| backend. The reason for using a custom file format is that i
| want add support for a couple of feature to make it easier to
| recover data in case of corruption of both the data and the
| filesystem that host the file.
| readyplayernull wrote:
| I've found that filing out job applications is rather boring and
| takes a lot of my time for just a few applications. That's why
| I'm creating an AI tool to rewrite resumes and automate the jobs
| application process. I previously created a scraping tool for
| Glassdoor and LinkedIn, so this a natural next step. List of
| features:
|
| * Analyzes candidate information
|
| * Examines job descriptions
|
| * Generates unique CVs and cover letters for each job
|
| * Answers specific questions that recruiters ask
|
| * Automatically applies to jobs
| d3m0t3p wrote:
| woaw nice, Do you open source it / make it available in any way
| ?
| treve wrote:
| Yet another open source OAuth2 server (competing with auth0 and
| such):
|
| https://github.com/curveball/a12n-server
| kazcaptain wrote:
| Building several products:
|
| https://teamsays.com -- Team-Changing Anonymous Feedback where
| you can set up a private channel for understanding what's going
| on in your teams.
|
| https://usemanor.com -- AI concierge for real estate brokers.
|
| https://joinsymbol.com -- Manipulate text with translations,
| JSONs, and other revisions with AI. Provides an API for using in
| your apps, etc. CMS on top AI basically.
|
| https://fullmoonchat.com - AI esoterics.
|
| My current strategy is to go inch deep, mile wide. I don't want
| all of my eggs in one basket any more. Basically doing a VC model
| using my portfolio of products.
|
| Holler at me if you want to chat about these products or if you
| have any ideas you want to build.
| a1o wrote:
| Still slowly working on AGS. There's a lot to do and I don't have
| as much time as I used but still doing contributions to it.
| CharlieDigital wrote:
| I've been hacking away at my travel planner side project:
| https://turas.app and recently got around to building out a
| Chrome extension for Google Maps:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turasapp/lpfijfdbgo...
|
| Just returned from a trip that I planned using the extension and
| can't imagine planning it as fast any other way!
| SamEdosa wrote:
| I'm working on https://summ.me
|
| I recently released version 1.0 in July, which allows you to
| voice chat (TTS and STT) with almost any chatbot site (e.g.,
| Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude).
|
| Next, I'm thinking of building a 3D talking avatar to make it
| feel like a personal companion is chatting with you.
| LemurNews wrote:
| Yo! Let's chat. Our visions align and are complementary. Check
| email
| cdelsolar wrote:
| For my startup, a way to debug code errors with LLMs:
| https://codecomet.io - please let us know if you're interested
| and we can show you a demo.
|
| On the side (with very little spare time), a set of Scrabble-
| related apps: for studying, AI, and playing. (See
| https://github.com/domino14 for more info)
|
| I just love code too much.
| ambersahdev wrote:
| Open-sourced, LLM-based, full autopilot for Mac, Windows, and
| Linux.
|
| https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface
|
| Working on testing local LLMs right now.
| philip1209 wrote:
| I decided to write more. Just redid my website to be more of a
| blog, and am committing to publishing every Friday at 9am.
|
| Posts in draft:
|
| - "The next evolution of my product studio"
|
| - "With AI, data isn't evil any more"
|
| - "The AI mullet strategy"
|
| - "COGS analysis on AI products"
|
| - "Two-tier tech companies"
|
| https://contraption.co
| geekymartian wrote:
| A golf swing measurement app using 3 sensors and an esp board.
| Just started practicing golf and made sense to understand how the
| swing works. Claude AI is helping me with some of the coding, fun
| stuff.
| peterldowns wrote:
| I'm working on Devlog -- https://dev.log.xyz -- software that I
| hope will help teams work better by making it more obvious who is
| doing what. It should help answer questions like "what did Sarah
| do last week?" or "who worked on frontend performance in the last
| year?" It's very much in alpha-stage, more a tech demo than a
| product, and I'm not sure if it will actually succeed. My
| cofounder just bailed on me but I'm going to keep trying to make
| it happen. Dogfooding it has made me a better engineer -- I write
| better and clearer PRs -- and as a former Senior Engineering
| Manager, I know it would save me time if I were still managing a
| larger team. But the setup is onerous (you have to connect your
| Github so it can analyze your PRs) and the value prop is more
| vitamin than painkiller unless your team is somewhat
| disfunctional, and no one likes to admit their team is
| disfunctional.
|
| Happy to talk more about this with anyone. If you're at all
| interested in "software to make your team run better" I'd really
| love to hear what you're having trouble with and how your team
| runs, maybe I can figure out a way to help you, even if it's not
| at all related to what I've built already.
| cdfuller wrote:
| Does it only work on PRs, or does it look at git history as
| well? Do you have plans to expand the knowledge it has access
| to?
| peterldowns wrote:
| Right now it only looks at Github PRs, particularly the
| descriptions and titles (although I'm also experimenting with
| the code diff itself), for these reasons:
|
| - Most teams that I'd sell to use Github PRs to write code.
|
| - Looking at PRs, the "common unit of change" of most teams,
| lets Devlog work for teams regardless of how they end up
| merging in changes (merge commits vs squash vs rebase...
| doesn't matter because the PR is what is reviewed and
| submitted)
|
| - I believe that part of being a great engineer is learning
| how to describe (a) what your code does, (b) why you're
| making the change, and the PR title+description is where we
| as an industry expect you to communicate this information.
|
| - A commit history filled with great PR titles+descriptions
| is extremely valuable for your team and only becomes more
| valuable over time, so building tools that analyze this and
| incentivize you to do a better job of writing good
| titles+descriptions is good for your whole team.
|
| I'm extremely open to looking at different sources of
| information (Linear/Jira/Github tickets; the diff itself;
| ???) if it improves the product. What were you thinking it
| should look at?
| cdfuller wrote:
| From my perspective as a dev, the question I find myself
| always asking is "Who's the SME that can I ask about this
| code that still works here?" So for me the benefit of your
| project would be using it basically as an intelligent git
| blame that says who's done what to a particular
| line/file/module/project, and why. If that SME isn't
| available anymore, I'd like your tool to help me build
| context around the issue I'm working on. I'd want to see at
| least git commit message history and authors included in
| the available knowledge. If the repo has docs included,
| even better.
|
| Another reason I would want git history included is because
| I think it would make your product more valuable quicker. I
| see your tool as a way to improve the dev culture by
| promoting the points you mentioned, but it's not clear how
| long it takes it to start to pay off and be able to answer
| some of the more historical questions you've suggested. I
| question, if my team had poor/nonexistent PRs in the past,
| when would I be able to get any use out of it, and would
| there always be blindspots around code that didn't have a
| good PR.
| peterldowns wrote:
| Thank you for taking the time to give me this feedback,
| really appreciate it. I think Devlog has the information
| needed to help answer these questions, but right now it
| doesn't do a particularly good job of making that easy.
|
| > I question, if my team had poor/nonexistent PRs in the
| past, when would I be able to get any use out of it, and
| would there always be blindspots around code that didn't
| have a good PR.
|
| This is a great question and the answer is that with
| poor/nonexistent PRs and documentation, Devlog cannot
| help you other than by incentivizing you to do a better
| job so that it can be useful -- so not that helpful. I'd
| love to find a way to make it better in this kind of
| "cold start" case, that's part of why I appreciate your
| feedback about other potential uses. Thank you again.
| cdfuller wrote:
| My pleasure! I've got a few more thoughts that came up.
|
| It would be nice to know more about how I would interface
| with your product. It's not clear if it's a daily report,
| if it's a text box where I ask "What did Intern #3 work
| on last week?", if it's a chronological page, or
| something else.
|
| Do different people get different answers? Would a CEO
| get a different answer than an engineer if they asked
| what the devops team worked on? Basically do you offer
| different levels of granularity for different user
| profiles.
|
| Love the project and looking forward to watching it grow!
| cardz wrote:
| I am working on https://hacktrack.info a SaaS that alerts you
| when a new CVE or exploit is published for the software you use.
| The idea came to me while working on an incident response team,
| where I noticed that many companies were hacked due to using
| software versions affected by recently published CVEs or
| exploits. Most of the similar solution I know of are really
| expensive or part of a larger product suite.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Snyk and Vulners do this
| syndicatedjelly wrote:
| Writing an NIH SBIR grant to fund a software idea a friend and I
| had. The software we've developed seems to directly match what
| the solicitation is looking for, but it's our first time applying
| for a grant of this type. My friend is a researcher and is
| familiar with NIH grants, so that definitely helps.
| textlapse wrote:
| I have been reading the Reinforcement Learning textbook for the
| past three years religiously- didn't get the concepts clear until
| this week, made it past Chapter 3 finally. The excellent YT
| lectures by David Silver and Emma Brunskill have been helpful but
| it took me a long time to 'get it'.
|
| Next, I will try to build something using RL next but try not to
| use the Gym/Farama stuff to force myself to learn this from
| scratch.
| AudiomaticApp wrote:
| https://www.audiomatic.app/
|
| An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation
| into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and
| Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring
| audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.
|
| My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice
| quality and adding new features.
| spenvo wrote:
| I'm working on https://currentkey.com/ - a way to assign names to
| your Mac's desktop Spaces. I've also been working on a couple of
| games in Godot, but they are pretty far off from being
| interesting-enough to share.
| jalcine wrote:
| I need to clean up this page but I'm working on a local(-ish)
| book collection tool (calling it Livtet for "book head" in
| Haitian Kreyol). https://www.jacky.wtf/projects/livtet/ has some
| notes but https://man.sr.ht/~jacky/livtet is much better. It's
| been fun using Lua to externalize a lot of logic (and I'm looking
| into using https://github.com/teal-language/tl because I love me
| some typing.
|
| Outside of that, I've been blogging a lot more
| (https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/ - August looks so full, ha) and
| now I'm writing about things I'm reading too
| (https://www.jacky.wtf/links/). Been doing this to try to ween
| off social media and rely on places like this to share stuff.
| gagik_co wrote:
| A text-yourself productivity app called tetr. I have always been
| messaging myself notes and thoughts on Signal and wanted
| something that would extend this habit to a funky productivity
| app and also do more advanced stuff like reminders, habits, mood
| tracking, etc.
|
| Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it's been cool
| seeing people use it daily, some definitely a lot more than I do.
| I still feel like it's not even close to its full potential;
| infinite more things to add but most often a joy for me to work
| on.
|
| https://tetr.app/
| indigodaddy wrote:
| Really cool, I think this would be useful for a lot of people's
| workflows, wish you the best/success.
| voiceblue wrote:
| I made https://rascalhq.com, just to experiment with embeddings
| and because I wanted to see what kind of "advice" Shakespeare and
| Warren Buffet would give me for various queries.
| langcss wrote:
| When prompted LLMs Shakespeare said:
|
| You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to
| curse"
|
| The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
|
| "The poorest service is repaid with thanks."
|
| The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
|
| Pretty funny!
| nayeem-rahman wrote:
| Been working on a digital time capsule app for my friends
| birthdays and other big life events. I think there's always
| opportunity to share more moments with people, so I'm hoping I
| can use this and get my friends to use it too
| reducesuffering wrote:
| I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live
| (in the US).
|
| Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels,
| spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way
| to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that
| ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you.
|
| Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them:
|
| https://exoroad.com
| ecuaflo wrote:
| A marketplace for github repos: https://gitsell.dev
|
| You can even buy the app itself on it. It's going to be my
| starter for all other projects too, so I'm adding all the common
| CRUD app features. Also it aims to be lowest cost possible, which
| is free for now. I try not to tie it to specific technologies
| when possible to make it as easy as possible to switch providers
| in the future.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Just curious why sell read only access?
| ecuaflo wrote:
| Read-only makes it so a buyer can't push to main or modify
| the repo configuration. So to stop someone from paying to
| "grief" it in the worst case, and just to stop buyers from
| making changes the owner didn't sign off on in more typical
| cases. They can still raise issues and submit PRs, to my
| knowledge.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| But this is for private repo? Because most repos I interact
| with on GitHub are public and already read only
| ecuaflo wrote:
| Yes it's intended for private repos. As it stands you
| could add a public repo but there wouldn't be much point
| unless you're using it as a way to accept donations,
| though I think GitHub Sponsors is more apt for that.
| Typically when you add someone to a private repo, they
| get full write access.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Interesting use case thanks
| ok_dad wrote:
| Suggestion: have a way to buy as a guest and provide an SSH
| public key to access the repo.
| ecuaflo wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion. May I ask the intent behind this
| feature? Is it to preserve privacy or just convenience with
| your workflow?
| ok_dad wrote:
| I don't have a GitHub account.
| cdchn wrote:
| I recently bought a used Seadoo and discovered the dirty little
| secret of personal watercraft that they don't want you to know.
| Unlike cars with their standardized ODB2 ports, those aren't a
| requirement for PWCs. And the diagnostic scanner
| hardware/software costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. Major
| affront to the right to repair, so I'm ending up doing some
| CANbus hacking.
| codazoda wrote:
| That's kinda surprising. In Polaris ATV's they seem to have
| this built into the interface of the machine itself so you can
| read the codes on its LCD. I don't know how complex they are
| but I assumed they were a bit more open than OBD-II instead of
| less.
| genewitch wrote:
| I've never seen an LCD screen in an ATV; my neighbor repairs
| small engines and stuff like riding lawnmowers and ATVs - i
| hang out from time to time and he's said more times than i
| can count "i got no idea what's wrong with it, probably a
| wiring issue somewhere i gotta track down" or somesuch. Some
| of the machines he's repairing cost upwards of $40,000 so i'm
| not sure it's a price thing.
|
| My point is, i'm sure he would have mentioned how great or
| how awful such a debug console was, at least once, in the
| decade i've known him.
| qup wrote:
| I'm not sure why you think that's a good metric.
|
| I googled it and the first result was an official help page
| about the cluster that says it'll show the diagnostic
| codes.
|
| https://www.polaris.com/en-us/off-road/owner-
| resources/help-...
| cdchn wrote:
| It has an LCD that'll give you a "problem" (low 12v) but
| won't show you sensor values, stored codes, disable limp-
| mode, etc.
| orliesaurus wrote:
| My side project is a Chrome Extension to use Gemini LLMs in
| Chrome's sidepanel.
|
| It's fairly a simple implementation but I am looking forward to
| thinking about monetization.
|
| Right now I have ALMOST 10k user installs. It's called Gemini
| Sidepanel [1] if you're interested in checking it out.
|
| [1] https://lf.gg/gemini
| ignoramous wrote:
| A firewall for SMS.
|
| Scams usually start with messages. Predominantly SMS/email sent
| with links.
|
| ML models exist to determine this, but we are prototyping using
| _Gemma2 2b_ to utilise its natural language understanding to see
| if a better firewall could be built, one which users can talk to.
|
| It has been surprisingly easy to get started on this project:
| https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/genai/llm_inf...
|
| We want to subsequently build a firewall for Calls, too; but
| that's a more challenging problem given its dynamic and _online_
| / realtime nature.
|
| Hope to integrate these two features in our existing _network
| firewall_ open source app.
| ivanjermakov wrote:
| How can I configure my phone to use it? I thought SMSes come
| straight from a carrier and there is not much you can do
| outside of your messenger app.
| nickgubbins wrote:
| sounds awesome - let's chat, i'm building a new b2b carrier
| scottmckenzie wrote:
| I'm a software engineer looking for problems to solve...
| throwaway_1more wrote:
| I am currently working on building a lending platform. My goal is
| to both run it as a product loaning money to businesses and sell
| the software as a service to other investors as well. Very early
| phase, talking to a few friends who are currently in this line of
| work. I have a couple decades of experience myself but as an
| engineer and leader, not as a product or business owner, so if
| you have advice or ideas, please respond here, I would love to
| hear from you.
| jcpst wrote:
| I had surgery for a torn meniscus repair. I'm on the couch for a
| least another month.
|
| I'm using this precious expanded free time to compose music, my
| primary form of artistic expression.
|
| Software-wise, I'm on a platform team for a large company. I'm
| making some performance enhancements to our http client, and a
| plug-n-play library for app devs to easily integrate LLMs in
| their products.
| foreigner wrote:
| I had this done when I was 16. Be sure to finish the whole
| physical therapy regime, even after your knee feels normal
| again!
| AstroJetson wrote:
| Piling on the "Do the Physical Therapy" train, I had this done
| 2 years ago, did the PT work and now back 100%. It's a pain
| (literally and figuratively) but future you will be super happy
| current you did the work. Look into chair yoga, it will help
| you keep all of the other bits stretched out. Good luck!
| ok_dad wrote:
| I'm building a door. I find that mortises (my frame is mortise
| and tenon, the tenons were easy on a table saw) are much harder
| to create if you don't have a proper plunge router. I'm using
| some chisels and it works fine but I have eight mortises to make
| and I've finished 1.5 in about the same number of hours. I don't
| want to buy a plunge router, because I'm unemployed at the
| moment, but it would finish the job in minutes. I guess I'll go
| get to chiseling! Next door I make will use half laps, so I can
| use the table saw for both ends of the joinery.
| g4zj wrote:
| Myself.
|
| More specifically, my mental health. I'm a bit of a mess, and I'm
| not sure I'll be able to properly commit to any external
| endeavors until I'm feeling better inside.
| ok_dad wrote:
| Keep at it, let the time heal you, I'm rooting for you. I was,
| and still am, having mental health issues for many reasons.
| Some are permanent, some are not. I've recently begun to be
| able to engage with hobbies again after at least months, if not
| years. You'll get there too, I am sure. I won't give advice,
| just a friendly note :)
| padraigf wrote:
| That's a good project.
| Geste wrote:
| The best, I'd say.
| hypeatei wrote:
| Me too. I was in a very dark place for a long time until a
| couple months ago. My views on life and death haven't changed
| but I'm not actively rooting for my own death anymore, at
| least.
|
| Embracing the solitude and the mindset that no one is coming to
| save me has sparked a bunch of motivation (out of spite) to
| improve myself. Started to workout regularly which has been a
| huge help for my mind and body. Starting to peel back layers of
| things that happened during childhood now.
|
| Wish you the best of luck on your journey.
| dundercoder wrote:
| Kudos to you! Even just being more aware of your mental state
| is a step in the right direction. Reminds me I need to be more
| proactive in this area.
|
| Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a bit
| of a mess. Life is messy. I once took two years off of regular
| work (we were fortunate to have enough savings to do it) and
| made two music albums, the first album based exclusively on
| hard things that either I or people very close to me went
| through. The process of fleshing out the songs and lyrics was
| incredibly therapeutic for me.
|
| Here's a link to it in case you're interested. I had a fraud
| issue with Spotify, but the album is up everywhere else.
| https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/boudwin/ccCe/
| rachofsunshine wrote:
| > Dunno if it helps, but just know most of us are at least a
| bit of a mess.
|
| Years ago, I tried to quit my job because I was feeling
| terrible about how I was doing. My boss gave me one of the
| best pieces of advice anyone's ever given me:
|
| "You know, Rachel, the suicide rate among founders is..."
|
| This probably sounds like one of the most unhelpful things
| someone could say in that situation, but it was EXACTLY what
| I needed to hear. I didn't need someone to say "oh, it's ok
| to feel bad". I needed someone to say "feeling bad doesn't
| mean you're not strong enough to be great". I needed to hear
| that ambitious people who are trying with all their might to
| be better are still constantly struggling with the idea that
| they _aren 't_ good _enough_.
|
| YC's own founder school doesn't quite put it in those terms,
| but there's a LOT in there about the importance of human
| factors. Arguably more than there is business advice,
| actually. They explicitly say, for example, "don't pick a co-
| founder who has complementary skills, pick one that won't
| drive you insane, because breakups and not lack of skill are
| a more common failure mode". And there's like half a dozen
| videos on how to keep it together when you're stressed beyond
| breaking. It's pretty reassuring.
|
| To really make the point: my company became profitable for
| the first time yesterday afternoon, and I spent a good chunk
| of the 24 hours since then ruminating on how now we might
| fail because I'm not sure where the next bit of revenue comes
| from. Never mind that the things I was worried about one,
| two, three, or four months ago have all gone better than I
| feared - anxiety doesn't care about that. It'll just glom on
| to whatever excuse it can get - see e.g.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40191179
| fragmede wrote:
| damn, that's a good comment you linked
| Flop7331 wrote:
| Yeah, I need that too. I was able to get a therapy appointment
| in October. My last boss at Rent-Seeking Publisher screwed me
| over past the degree of "people used to duel over things like
| this". Also other shit.
| freshpots wrote:
| Sometimes things click and sometimes they don't. Like when
| someone tells you not to worry about the things that you can't
| control. What worked for someone close to me was imagining and
| believing that everything will work out in the end. Over time
| they have seen the positive in life and opened more
| opportunities than when they were cynical.
| rachofsunshine wrote:
| Good for you! It really is the very most important thing, to
| find ways to not be at war with yourself when the world's got
| more than enough things for you to be at war with to begin
| with.
|
| If you ever need someone to talk to (who is also firmly on the
| spectrum + has dealt with severe mental illness in the past +
| is mostly on the other side of it), hit me up anytime. Email is
| in my bio (it's my work email but it'll do).
| hunkins wrote:
| It's an investment, remember that - and one that will pay
| dividends. Best of luck!
| justEgan wrote:
| map directory specifically for finding Cafes in DKI Jakarta,
| Indonesia. The target is to provide better UX than gmaps.
|
| https://kopimap.com
|
| (supports desktop only for now)
| pbnjay wrote:
| API tool to automate all the stuff Postman makes painful:
| https://callosum.dev
|
| Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation
| and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no
| accounts or cloud sync necessary!
|
| Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next
| week or two)
| carl_dr wrote:
| Sounds excellent, joined the wait list.
| ElegantBeef wrote:
| Working on a hot code reloading library for Nim. It's a general
| solution, but specifically for my game framework.
|
| An example of it in action: https://streamable.com/2mxktc
|
| Source code: https://github.com/beef331/potato
| 8organicbits wrote:
| The recent relicensing of Redis to a non-open-source license
| bothered many in the community. But the groundwork for the
| relicensing was laid much earlier. I've been working on
| relicensing monitor to track various projects attributes that can
| affect the ease of relicensing a project.
|
| https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/
| hypeatei wrote:
| Is there a specific reason that Firefox is considered low-risk
| for a rug pull? In my view, Mozilla doesn't seem the same as it
| once was but maybe there are specific reasons the open-
| sourceness isn't in jeopardy.
| PeeMcGee wrote:
| I imagine Firefox would die instantly if it moved to a
| restrictive license. It would be too easy to simply switch to
| a popular fork, and Firefox's userbase are the type that
| would be compelled to follow through with it. Even ignoring
| FOSS principles reasons, most folks are browser-savvy enough
| to understand the implications of such news -- their favorite
| browser is about to kill itself so they have to pick another
| one. Also consider that Firefox would no longer be the
| default browser in most Linux distros, and likely prohibited
| from official package repositories entirely.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| Firefox scores well because it uses a copyleft license and
| the ability to relicense contributions remains with the
| original authors. Mozilla can't unilaterally relicense the
| Firefox code base as they haven't been granted that ability
| by the contributors. The copyleft license means they can't
| slap a new license on top (like a permissive license allows).
|
| The rating criteria was designed to consider legal facators,
| like license terms and CLA, so concerns like Mozilla buying
| an ad company aren't factored in. Those concerns feel more
| subjective to me, but are certainly valid.
|
| https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/projects/firefox/
| jeeyoungk wrote:
| I also think CLAs are eerie and goes against the open source
| spirit, I don't think CLA alone puts a project in "high risk".
| I'm not sure about the FAANG open source projects that are used
| as libraries (Guava, React, ...). These projects fundamentally
| don't jeopardize these company's businesses, and serve to
| increase the developer goodwill amongst the engineers. Nobody
| can predict the future but I can't imagine these projects
| becoming relicensed.
|
| More plausible scenario is them becoming an abandonware, but
| even in those cases the community can carry the torch.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| Agreed, and there's a few projects with CLAs that are ranked
| lower due to mitigating factors, like K8s [1]. I honestly
| don't get why they have a CLA, anyone know?
|
| The impact of developer good will is difficult to measure, so
| I don't attempt it. Redis burned community good will so badly
| with their relicensing that several forks rapidly emerged.
| Seemed like a predictably poor decision to me.
|
| I also don't want to pick favorite companies, because it's
| subjective, companies can change strategies or even sell
| projects off. What if Meta decided to sell React to a patent-
| troll-like company instead of just abandoning it?
|
| [1] https://alexsci.com/relicensing-
| monitor/projects/kubernetes/
| em-bee wrote:
| do you consider the likelyhood that a project will be forked?
|
| for example react is listed as high risk, but at the same time
| i would consider the risk to be very low in the sense that if
| it is relicensed then it will be forked immediately backed by a
| community that is strong enough to sustain such a fork.
|
| i'd go as far as saying that for react relicensing would kill
| the project because the majority of users would go with the
| fork.
|
| for other projects the risk is higher because they don't have a
| strong FOSS userbase that could sustain a fork, and because
| most current users would not care.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| What happens after the relicensing isn't measured as the
| community has already been disrupted. I'm also less certain
| on how to fairly measure and predict fork likelihood.
|
| One challenge for forks is that relicensing doesn't always
| jump from fully-open to fully-closed. There's a lot of "fake
| open-source" and source-available licenses, like the one
| Redis now uses. These may "only impact you if you are AWS",
| so a fork "that AWS can use for free" feels less compelling.
| If React was to relicense, I expect they'd similarly take a
| small step.
| avghaloplayer wrote:
| I am currently working on CyberScraper-2077 its a powerful web
| scraper powered by LLM.
|
| https://github.com/itsOwen/CyberScraper-2077
| langcss wrote:
| https://langcss.com/demo, recent show HN:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318284
|
| This is essentially an IDE with LLM support to help design CSS
| and HTML. Currently Tailwind only but I may add other frameworks
| and Vanilla support.
| handfuloflight wrote:
| Looks good! Do you plan on enabling image to code?
| langcss wrote:
| Do you mean uploading a design as a png and figuring out the
| code? I hope to do that at some point.
| handfuloflight wrote:
| Yes, exactly. Sounds good. Will be following along.
| danielvaughn wrote:
| I'm building a keyboard-driven editor for designing UI. You could
| think of it as a weird bastard child of Vim and Webflow. I've
| been tinkering with it for a while in private, but I'd like to
| shift gears and start working on it publicly.
|
| The editor itself isn't available yet, but I've got a Github
| readme that explains the concept a bit more:
| https://github.com/matry/editor
|
| Eventually I'll do a ShowHN, once I get a stable version that I
| feel comfortable demoing.
| mpduda wrote:
| Working on Pulselyre, a touch-focused Windows app for producing
| electronic music live. It doesn't output audio on its own, but it
| lets you configure various virtual "instruments" on screen that
| can send MIDI note and control messages to other MIDI devices or
| VSTs configured to receive MIDI messages. You can record notes
| and events for each instrument and then loop them over a
| configured number of beats. Also has some other features to make
| creating music easier, like saving/loading note sequences, an
| arpeggiator, receiving input from external MIDI
| controllers/keyboards, and some other stuff. I've been meaning to
| record a demo video, but I'm not actually very good at playing or
| making music myself, so I haven't come up with anything
| presentable yet. I'm also not really married to the name, but it
| works for now...
|
| https://www.pulselyre.com
|
| It's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is
| an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps
| that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a
| main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be
| closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses
| UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a
| much older version of Pulselyre.
|
| https://github.com/Pulselyre/UpbeatUI
| thangalin wrote:
| https://keenwrite.com/
|
| Finished a feature to convert Markdown's fenced divs nested
| within blockquotes into the following XHTML:
| <blockquote> <div class="name"> ... </div>
| </blockquote>
|
| In my novel (see profile), there are stories within the story as
| well as simultaneous actions. I wanted to typeset simultaneous
| events set within a sub-story. Using Markdown, a natural way to
| do this would be: > ::: simul >
| Simultaneous section 1. > ::: > > :::
| simul > Simultaneous section 2. > :::
|
| Sample output:
|
| https://i.ibb.co/R90vZpD/simultaneous.png
| mooreds wrote:
| I'm working on a side hustle to help technical consultants build
| newsletters. Makes me sad when I see a great technical answer on
| a slack that I know will help far fewer people than it could.
|
| So this weekend, I'm building some processes and marketing
| materials and doing some outreach.
| apineda wrote:
| Writing a book using claud engineer littlehtmxbook.com
| serial_dev wrote:
| I'm a Flutter developer starting to be a bit disappointed in the
| tech (and the community) and sceptical if it can really produce
| great apps, so I'm thinking about switching to something new in
| the coming years.
|
| I decided to build a multiplatform app with SwiftUI to test out
| the waters. So far, learning SwiftUI and building an app is
| somehow both easier and harder than expected, but I'm glad to see
| something new.
|
| I'm planning to write a series of apps in the next 6 months, so
| that I build confidence shipping apps with SwiftUI and maybe find
| a smaller contract with it.
| SupermindPT wrote:
| Why are you disappointed in flutter ?
| serial_dev wrote:
| It's certainly not terrible, and I'll probably stick with it
| a year until I learn something else as well as I know
| Flutter...
|
| But to answer...
|
| Main reason, I'd like to ship software that isn't only good,
| but great. To create great apps, it needs to integrate into
| the OS/browser, and my experience with Flutter has been not
| great in this regard. The apps always look and feel a bit
| foreign. I'd rather write 3 separate apps (web, ios, android)
| that feel great, than ship something faster (if even...) that
| is so bad, sometimes I feel it's a spit in the face of our
| customers.
|
| The mobile alternatives became much better: when they
| started, they were (as I remember) significantly better than
| the alternatives. Since then, RN became much better, Swift
| and Kotlin became mainstream, SwiftUI, Jetpack Computer came
| out, and in a couple of years KMP will also offer a pretty
| compelling alternative.
|
| Flutter is spread too thin: I understand why they did it,
| it's great for marketing, and I know people who use it on
| web, desktop and embedded and are happy... To me, however, it
| feels like they added platforms before making iOS and Android
| work and feel great. I hate that I had to debug and pin
| dependencies that broke due to web incompatibility on an a
| mobile only app. IMO, it's so shjt on web it's laughable.
| SupermindPT wrote:
| I am a mobile developer using Xamarin/.NET MAUI for some
| years now. It is not as popular as Flutter but im pretty
| happy with it. In my company all of our apps are
| Xamarin/MAUI too and these are used by hundreds of people.
| MAUI is not perfect, theres still a long way to go, but it
| is getting better. We still using Xamarin because of that.
| bbx wrote:
| For the past year, I've been working on a CSS Masterclass:
| https://cssmasterclass.io/
|
| It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples
| and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video
| tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach
| you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from
| scratch.
|
| I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look
| harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very
| simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few
| things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and
| flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming
| backends much more difficult.
|
| Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year,
| I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.
| elric wrote:
| Sounds great, I know a lot of people who could benefit from
| this.
|
| I think CSS has historically been a lot harder than it was
| supposed to be, because browser support was shit. They were
| slow in adopting new CSS features, and existing features (even
| simple features!) weren't correctly implemented in all browsers
| (looking at you, Internet Explorer!).
|
| Things are better now, for the most part, but everyone seems to
| have migrated to web frameworks, and writing HTML and CSS from
| scratch has become something of a dying skill.
| herrherrmann wrote:
| Sounds nice indeed! By the way: Ironically, I've found a few
| CSS issues on the landing page (input placeholder is cut off on
| mobile viewports) and your personal website (the blinking line
| is overlapping the opened menu on mobile). Hope it helps!
| bbx wrote:
| Indeed, a flex wrap was missing. As for the menu, it looks
| fine on my phone? Thanks for the heads up.
| the__alchemist wrote:
| I'm working on a plasmid (vector) editor called PlasCAD, for
| molecular biology. I'm doing it mainly as a learning project, and
| trying to fill in the gaps where I found limitations in existing
| software. As of last week, it's in a state where the main
| features are there. I'm going to now focus on polish, and adding
| specialty features. Would appreciate any and all feedback!
|
| It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, features, and
| primers, and has some tools like automatic primer creation for
| cloning, primer QC, protein sequence viewing, and interop with
| common file formats.
|
| https://github.com/David-OConnor/plascad
| witslectric wrote:
| Looks useful and thanks to it I now know
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferase is a thing
| deathmonger5000 wrote:
| I'm working on a tool called Together Gift It. Together Gift It
| makes managing group gift events like Christmas easier. I'm
| making it because my family was sending an insane amount of group
| texts during the holidays, and it was getting ridiculous. My
| favorite one was when someone included the gift recipient in the
| group text about what gift we were getting for the recipient.
|
| Together Gift It solves the problem just the way you'd think:
| with AI.
|
| Just kidding. It solves the problem by keeping everything in one
| place. No more group texts! You can have private or shared gift
| lists, and there are some AI features like gift idea
| collaboration and product search. But the AI stuff is still a
| work in progress.
|
| I'm grateful for any constructive feedback.
|
| https://www.togethergiftit.com/
| dzink wrote:
| Have you tried https://www.dreamlist.com
| allenu wrote:
| I'm working on Minders [1], a journaling/notes app. I've been
| using it for a little over a year for daily journaling and
| keeping track of interesting links or ideas. It works like a
| Twitter feed of just your thoughts.
|
| It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I
| want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For
| instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing
| experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI
| could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet
| if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.
|
| Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts
| as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it
| gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of
| it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff
| as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people
| think.
|
| 1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203
| jeeyoungk wrote:
| This is great; how does this compare to Day One? I've been
| using Day One for multiple years (1000 day streak) and was
| wondering if I should stick with this. It does what I want but
| it seems like it's lacking in product development post
| acquisition compared to other offerings.
| allenu wrote:
| Thanks for the interest. It's definitely not at the level of
| polish as Day One yet. I used to use Day One years ago when
| it was still a one-time purchase app, but even back then it
| had nice things like recording your location and local
| weather conditions. I'd love to add simple niceties like that
| eventually.
|
| I'm trying to position my app less like a traditional journal
| and more of a "jot down quick thoughts" place, hence the
| social media-like interface. But I also want to add more
| zettelkasten-like features as well, so it's kind of a shoebox
| app for whatever you want to keep track of for later.
| user3939382 wrote:
| EdTech. Figure out what skills you possess to what extent based
| on how you answer individual questions. Hooks into any LMS.
| d883kd8 wrote:
| I've built a tool that allows anyone to add an AI chatbot to
| their website. There are lots of features I would like to add but
| I'm making the jump into sales and marketing work by starting a
| youtube channel to promote the product.
|
| https://chattysun.com
| dartos wrote:
| I've been working on some Common Lisp binding for webgpu native.
|
| Trying to learn both a bit better along the way.
| runnr_az wrote:
| Working on a convoluted app devoted choosing a baby name for your
| new child... but the underlying library is open source, based on
| public domain data:
|
| https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.js
|
| We're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what
| we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a
| name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible
| names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of
| which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin,
| length, popularity, etc..
| fallingsquirrel wrote:
| I was actually playing around those files today. I know this
| will be a typical HN comment and I'm sorry but, if it takes you
| an hour to load that data into sqlite, you're probably doing
| something very wrong. $ sqlite3 x.db 'create
| table foo(a,b,c)' $ time for year in {1880..2023};
| do sqlite3 x.db '.import yob'$year'.txt foo --csv';
| done real 0m1.359s user 0m1.013s
| sys 0m0.323s $ sqlite3 x.db 'select count(*)
| from foo' 2117219
|
| (Numbers are from Linux/tmpfs/i9-12900k)
|
| Obviously that needs tweaked to store the year in a column, but
| it shouldn't run for more than a few seconds. Those csv files
| are the furthest thing from "big data".
| runnr_az wrote:
| Right on. Outta curiosity, whatcha up to with the name data?
|
| Fair. I'm sure there are waaaay more efficient ways to load
| that into the db. That said, it's one of those things - like,
| where do I wanna spend my time -- sorting that out, something
| I only gotta do once a year and I can basically push "go" and
| walk away -- or something else. It's not like I gotta keep
| turning the crank.
|
| ... and, of course, PRs are welcome :)
| fallingsquirrel wrote:
| Fair enough on the perf, I get it lol
|
| I'm hunting for names that had resurgence in popularity
| because of TV shows/movies. The name that inspired the
| project is Mabel. It disappeared in the 1960s, then
| reappeared the year after Gravity Falls came out and it's
| still climbing.
| https://www.behindthename.com/name/mabel/top
|
| I want to find as many examples of that as I can.
| runnr_az wrote:
| Interesting. So are you just looking at names with a
| dramatic slope / climb after a given year, then trying to
| figure out why?
| esjeon wrote:
| These days, I've been working on a small tool to run GUIX as an
| unprivileged user, so that you can use GUIX profiles as a dev
| environment builder. I didn't do any market research, but AFAIK
| there are similar tools using Nix. Honestly, this is just a toy
| project for fun. I had GUIX on one hand and Zig on the other, so
| I figured, why not try something new using both?
|
| Why not Nix? I just don't like the Nix language. Plus, it seems
| like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes,
| which made me even more convinced in using GUIX. The GUIX folks
| didn't disappoint me, as they utilized the full power of Scheme
| to design a (internal) DSL that is clean and almost reads like
| JSON/YAML. I feel quite confident that it's a better language for
| building devenvs for most people. The only downside is that it
| can get really verbose, but, hey, at least you have full control.
| majoe wrote:
| > Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp
| with their Flakes
|
| Curious what you mean by that, could you elaborate? I thought
| nix flakes to be just a standardised attrset for
| inputs/outputs.
| drekipus wrote:
| I have one that I'm making open source, as a digital montage
| system.. think of the "memories" feature on Google photos or
| iCloud.
|
| I basically want that to be open and free. I'll have an app to
| easily create albums, and have the ability to connect to any
| storage or montage service you like. You could even make your own
| app connect to your own storage and montage service, so it can be
| completely diy. I have a few write-ups but I'm transferring it to
| notion at the moment so I won't link it just yet.
|
| My other idea is a "bill hamper / consolidation" service, that
| I'm doing for my sister. She pays me a flat fee each week and I
| pay all of her bills for her. Gives her peace of mind and allows
| her to save some money without stressing on paying random bills
| tired_and_awake wrote:
| I'm a tech exec who misses their physics roots. In my spare time
| I'm interviewing "materials manufacturers" to come up with a
| viable startup idea. I'm hoping to build a company that leverages
| simulation and ML to accelerate material discovery.
|
| Keeping key bits of the idea to myself. If this admittedly vague
| idea excites you let's find some time to talk.
| mooneater wrote:
| I work for a VC, in case you are seeking funding for your
| startup, Material Science is interesting to us
| robin@agfunder.com
| DavidPiper wrote:
| Senior SWE with Comp Sci + Chemical Engineering background,
| considering a masters in materials science. If you're ever
| looking for someone who can bridge those spaces, would love to
| chat. Email etc in bio.
| frankmatranga wrote:
| Outside of working hours I'm developing a podcast hosting
| platform called Soapbox[0]. I had started my own podcast with my
| college friends and rolled my own RSS feed and site with
| AstroJS[1]. Then realized I could offer the service to others.
| Thanks to modern web APIs I'm going to pursue an in-browser
| recording studio with WebRTC and then in-browser basic audio
| editing. I'm very excited because it's my first side project I'm
| trying to turn into a business (I opened an LLC and everything).
| I'm gratified because it's very different work than my day job in
| fintech. I'm also offering internships to my college's CS
| students and mentoring through that as well which is very
| fulfilling (I'm a recent grad).
|
| [0] https://soapbox.host/ [1] https://wednesdayatninepm.com/
| achristmascarl wrote:
| i'm working on rainfrog, a database management terminal ui for
| postgres.
|
| the goal is to be a lightweight alternative to pgadmin/dbeaver.
| it has vim-like keybindings, shortcuts to preview tables, and
| session history.
|
| it only supports postgres at the moment, but sqlite and mysql
| support are on the roadmap.
|
| https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog
| jdougan wrote:
| Pre-Web Hypermedia
| hexmiles wrote:
| That sound really interesting, is there more that are you
| willing to share?
| j_m_b wrote:
| A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been
| using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to
| hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code
| and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write
| my own virtual machine and create a functional programming
| language on top of it.
| halftheopposite wrote:
| For the past few weeks I have been working on Enhance [0], a SaaS
| to help game developers easily add leaderboards, friendlists,
| store players' data, in-app currency store and purchases, and
| marketing tools such as email list and website builder and
| hosting.
|
| I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put
| much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself.
| But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just
| for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at
| projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already
| existing 3D context.
|
| [0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for
| development)
| Lordarminius wrote:
| 1. I'm writing a book on Git. I did my research and was shocked
| to discover many otherwise tech savvy individuals still cannot
| manipulate Git from the command line, and resort to the use of
| desktop applications (yikes!)
|
| 2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly
| enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.
|
| Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans,
| AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and
| project based learning, covers different languages (we start with
| Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL,
| Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think
| of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.
|
| One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself
| accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.
| Lordarminius wrote:
| I'd your appreciate thoughts on this.
| itissid wrote:
| I am working on a zero trust proposal for location permission on
| mobile platforms: https://github.com/itissid/privyloci
|
| It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much
| rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.
|
| Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.
| ghm2180 wrote:
| Cool, i recall microG doing this. but they were hamstrung by
| the mozilla decision to shut down its wifi based location
| positioning.
|
| I don't thing its easy building that and without that accurate
| poaitioning is hard imo...
| nicksiscoe wrote:
| After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments
| will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to
| student athletes -- aka revenue sharing
|
| We're building the tech that General Managers need to manage
| their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay
| players.
|
| Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service
| mattkevan wrote:
| I'm working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is
| that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share
| comments and highlights and see each other's reading progress.
|
| It's something I've been wanting for a while, for example to read
| a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there's
| lots of other possibilities including author reading parties,
| proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to
| polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.
|
| I'm using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I've used before
| so it's been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been
| an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type
| errors.
| meonkeys wrote:
| Cool! Lemme know if you want help with testing.
| antony_pond wrote:
| Hey man, it is an amazing idea. I have been thinking to build
| something similar.
|
| I am building reading clubs for my custom library - on top of
| crypto tech, and in the process, I have experimented with
| several book reader tech. pdf.js, muPDF and some other tools,
| which one did you settle on?
|
| My lib: https://datapond.earth
| mattkevan wrote:
| That's a fascinating project, thanks for sharing. I'm using
| epub.js as it already has things like annotations and
| highlighting and it's fairly easy to override the book
| styles.
|
| From the research I've done, it seems that most ebook reader
| libraries are old and not very well supported. Haven't
| considered PDF readers yet.
| digdugdirk wrote:
| Ooooo.... Idea! One thing I've always wanted is an
| "asynchronous" book group. Basically, some way to tie the
| questions and conversation to a page or chapter, and then you
| can follow along at your own speed. Just passing the idea along
| since I'll never do anything with it.
| whycome wrote:
| I wish there were discussion websites for media like this. If
| I've finally watched a tv show, everyone is already talking
| about another season. I want some sort of "season one
| insulated forum" or something. For all those that are in the
| same "temporal" spot.
| FrequentLurker wrote:
| Not the same thing but if your show has a subreddit, they
| will probably also have discussion threads for each
| episode.
| sundarurfriend wrote:
| Somewhat similar to r/patientgamers - so r/patientreaders,
| r/patientwatchers, etc.?
| mattkevan wrote:
| That's a cool idea, thank you for sharing. Yes, I want to tie
| conversations to specific locations in the text, but I love
| the idea of being able to set discussion questions as well.
| Will look into that.
| NullParameter wrote:
| Storygraph[1] does this with their Buddy Read feature. My
| wife and I use it to read books together and leave messages
| about different happenings, which only get unlocked when you
| mark that you've read up to that page in the book. It's a
| great feature, and we really enjoy it.
|
| [1] https://www.thestorygraph.com/
| pmarreck wrote:
| good idea!
|
| feature idea- you can see the reading progress of everyone in
| the group to sort of apply some passive social pressure to
| catch up if you're behind
|
| then again, not everyone might be willing to do this since the
| book club might not all be about actually reading the book for
| them
| mbmjertan wrote:
| This reminds me heavily of Perusall, which we used for a course
| in university. Take a look at it for "inspiration" - it might
| be interesting :)
| user070223 wrote:
| same for research papers ( I think there is/are some prototypes
| but no big communities perhaps)
| sorobahn wrote:
| Experimenting applying Meta's V-JEPA [0] architecture for
| representation learning to chess. One of the challenges is that
| validating if the model is learning useful dynamics of the game,
| so I'm using it as an excuse to learn some reinforcement learning
| by using the representations generated by the JEPA model to
| approximate useful Q-values [1]. This method currently has no
| search so I'm planning on comparing with this paper [2] which
| achieves GM level chess without any search. Honestly, Im unsure
| if the full pipeline is stable enough to even converge, but it's
| fun experimenting. I'm bad at chess so I really want to make a
| bot that challenges the best bots on lichess.
|
| [0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-
| feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]:
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494
| Cereal wrote:
| I'm working on a TUI application which allows you to make SQL
| query on CSV files. I'm working on a web base version too.
| _caw wrote:
| I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It
| has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and
| Typescript.
|
| [1]: https://themadhatter.netlify.app/
| zikani_03 wrote:
| I'm working on a platform for recording and managing user
| acceptance tests for software projects. I am trying to build it
| out slowly but in the open at https://github.com/golang-
| malawi/qatarina
|
| Besides building the ideas I have in mind around how UAT could be
| improved for both devs and clients (users). My other goal is to
| encourage more Malawians to consider Go as a programming language
| for shipping solutions in, my Go evangelism has been working
| slowly but I think people need to see something they can
| appreciate to get more people onboard.
|
| Also working on a personal finance app in Flutter for young
| Africans, but that's not public yet :)
| bbkane wrote:
| Working on generating zsh tab autocompletion for my CLI
| framework. I'm finding it difficult because zsh makes completion
| surprisingly complicated and the zsh docs have a lot more
| descriptions than examples. Other CLI frameworks all seem to
| approach this differently.
| ivanjermakov wrote:
| Skimming through this guide:
| https://dolthub.com/blog/2021-11-15-zsh-completions-with-sub...
| it seems to be a lot more convoluted than I thought. Really,
| every external CLI binary that supports completions has this
| autocomplete script?
|
| I thought zsh parsed man pages to get available
| options/subcommands.
| bbkane wrote:
| It seems like they all have DIFFERENT autocomplete scripts,
| some of which subshell out to the tool being completed to
| generate further completions.
| ksylvestre wrote:
| I'm working on a cross-platform file search utility:
| https://ksylvestre.itch.io/mightygrep
|
| I based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer
| receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.
| some_furry wrote:
| I'm building an open source Federated Public Key Directory, so
| that I can then build end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse.
|
| https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
|
| Think: Encrypted DMs for Mastodon. I wrote several blog posts
| about the project and why it matters.
|
| https://soatok.blog/2024/08/21/federated-key-transparency-pr...
|
| https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transpa...
|
| https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption...
|
| Eventually I plan on doing a "Show HN" post when it's built and
| close to feature-complete.
| Akcium wrote:
| Well, it's a shameless promotion but I'm working on my UI/UX
| course. I make it with NuxtJS, so it's a custom platform.
|
| The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big
| application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with
| real-world practice.
|
| https://doing-design-right.com/
| thisisauserid wrote:
| Parallel streaming video ingestion of live events, chunking up
| the video, sending it to Gemini Pro to get get the
| context/narrative/transcription/sentiment, and alerting for
| various things.
| stpn wrote:
| I've been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the
| browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now
| at https://tender.run.
|
| Recently I've been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql
| against this data, and this past week I've been working with d3
| to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick
| preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey
| snowpalmer wrote:
| Pretty interesting take on a finance app! I like the inbox and
| filters on transactions. I'm not sure I understand the benefit
| of storing it all in the browser though. Does the data just
| live in the browser? Does anything store on a server?
| stpn wrote:
| Originally this was a privacy angle - the data is primarily
| stored on your device, with backend storage that's treated
| like backup and sync only. I had plans for e2ee that built on
| this but it didn't turn out to be a big differentiating
| factor.
|
| Working in local-first turns out to be really nice for making
| the app feel super snappy. The responsiveness you see in the
| demo is the performance you can expect in day to day usage.
| ViktorV wrote:
| On JumpHigher [1], an app that helps you improve your vertical
| leaps, just using your phone camera. It's functional already, but
| very early, the algorithm took quite a while to nail ( still far
| from perfect ).
|
| I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with
| startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of
| perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we
| have to be able to launch our own stuff.
|
| Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for
| me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on
| the side for a while.
|
| The main audience for now would be basketball players that want
| to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the
| progress.
|
| 1. https://www.jumphigher.io/
| dtkav wrote:
| I'm working on Relay [0] -- a collaboration plugin for Obsidian
| using yjs to provide live cursors and folder sync.
|
| I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different
| edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I
| think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that
| can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt)
| to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their
| devices.
|
| [0] https://youtu.be/Ol6zDF5vrZo
| daniel31x13 wrote:
| I'm working on a self-hostable, open-source collaborative
| bookmark manager: https://linkwarden.app
|
| Github: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
| purple-leafy wrote:
| Woah that's really cool!
| jmcgough wrote:
| Secondary applications for med school - once your initial single
| app gets processed, every school (out of the 20+ you apply to)
| wants multiple essays from you. The process of preparing for and
| applying to med school is a nightmare and consumed the last two
| years of my life. I've had a lot of really cool life experiences
| because of it though, learned so much about medicine, and done
| some actual good. But I just want to get in this cycle and be
| done with endless essay writing.
|
| I've been working on and off on building an app for learning
| chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish
| applications.
| greenie_beans wrote:
| rehabbing an old bike. also, bookhead, software for bookstores to
| sell online: https://www.bookhead.net/
| boogieknite wrote:
| Apple vision pro app for documenting realtor's pre-listing-
| checklist notes in space and then also exporting notes to LMS-
| required PDFs for submission.
| boogieknite wrote:
| Drupal interface for interacting and managing ArcGIS Online
| services, layers, and tables for people who understand GIS but
| aren't GIS experts to build reports that query across potentially
| unrelated services.
| motohagiography wrote:
| voice controlled browser tab finder/switcher. initial viability
| stage.
| attilakun wrote:
| I made a Google Sheets add-on to evaluate JavaScript inline:
| https://www.evaljs.net/
|
| It uses QuickJS compiled to WASM in the backend to sandbox
| JavaScript execution.
| michaelleland wrote:
| I'm working on building a payroll outsourcing company targeting
| the construction industry. 2,900 employees paid last week! Deep
| ERP integration is our competitive edge.
| wluer wrote:
| I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in
| NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com
|
| I recently left a startup I had cofounded after a few years
| because we were a remote team and I came to the conclusion that
| we weren't going to be successful without working together in
| person. I wanted to make this site to help people like me use
| location as an early filter to find good companies and teams to
| work with. Let me know if you have any feedback!
| ghaff wrote:
| Essentially paying down (with time and money) maintenance debt on
| house and property after semi-retiring. I'll get back into doing
| some "real" work in the fall. Seems to be a pretty common
| pattern.
|
| I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I
| wasn't really in the mood to try harder.
| dr_kretyn wrote:
| I'm in a similar boat but from different reason. Stared working
| on HomeHero (https://homehero.pro). It's mainly focused on
| taking care of home and it's inventory so... maybe it will be
| useful?
| ghaff wrote:
| Thanks. For me it's mostly about getting stuff out of the
| house and doing some necessary repairs/maintenance. I can
| mostly keep track of stuff. I "just" need to get necessary
| jobs done and I've really gotten behind.
| njjv wrote:
| I'm working on updating the yavaca.com site including the backend
| written in golang. It allows users to publish an Out-Of-Office
| (OOO) plan so they can unplug while on vacation. Great for
| maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
| lukeh wrote:
| I'm working on a Swift implementation of 802.1Q SRP. Niche
| interest.
| lukaqq wrote:
| Chillin - Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, I'm working on the
| online video editor, https://chillin.online. Chillin has a
| significant advantage over its competitors(veed.io, clipchamp,
| capcut online), eg it supports mobile devices, offers full
| keyframe support, no watermark high-resolution video exports, and
| supports vector motions. So I feel like I am changing the world
| through this work.
| kenschu wrote:
| I'm working on a new approach to assess engineering candidates.
| Lot's of good HN discussion around this, it's been fun to read.
| https://ropes.ai
| IvanAchlaqullah wrote:
| Currently I'm working on file compression program in Rust.
| Nothing too fancy, it just use common algorithms (LZ77, LZ78,
| etc.)
|
| The only difference here is that the program will switch on the
| fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can
| compress file smaller.
|
| It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty
| good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.
|
| I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it
| a lot.
| mxstbr wrote:
| I've been having a lot of fun building a digital garden for my
| WIP notes into my personal website:
| https://mxstbr.com/notes/digital-garden
|
| My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:
|
| 1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays,
| which hopefully leads to...
|
| 2. Getting more input from people on my ideas
|
| 3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically
|
| So far, so good!
| wmedrano wrote:
| I've been working on a Lisp interpreter in Zig. This my first
| attempt at a garbage collector.
|
| https://wmedrano.github.io/fizz
| spirobelv2 wrote:
| my webframework: https://github.com/spirobel/mininext
|
| (my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity
| but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)
|
| currently busy using it to build things. will document everything
| in detail soon.
|
| https://x.com/spirobel/status/1827231794934247674
| warthog wrote:
| We have been working on AI agents for sales and marketing. Our
| focus is in deep customer research instead of at scale marketing
| or spray and pray motion of outbound emails.
|
| Our purpose is modeled to give sales and marketing skills to non-
| sales people. Just like how Canva gave design powers to non-
| design people.
|
| We believe everyone has to have the skill to sell and market
| themselves or their product. Yet the only trend that does not
| change is understanding your customer/prospect.
|
| AI agents help with this.
|
| Check us out: godmodehq.com
| njjv wrote:
| I'm working on updating the https://yavaca.com site including the
| backend written in golang. It is for users to publish out-of-
| office (OOO) plans so they can unplug while on vacation. Great
| for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Having fun with the
| golang part.
| AndyNemmity wrote:
| Playing with cursor, trying to get used to using it better.
| socketcluster wrote:
| I've been working on 2 projects:
|
| Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/
|
| A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and
| people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on
| Australian market.
|
| It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is
| to help to find good companies which have high (or low)
| concentrations of people with certain skills/attributes.
|
| Saasufy: https://saasufy.com/
|
| A no-code/low-code platform for building apps without code.
| Insnare is built with and runs on Saasufy. This freed me up from
| having to write back end code for Insnare and made the front end
| code very small.
| antony_pond wrote:
| I am working on an open book Library and a "new" D-Licence.
|
| It is an experiment for the exploration of the free aspect of
| blockchain storage, where the book library is now permanently
| hosted on the blockchain, and it's content voted upon by its
| members.
|
| The licence is based on creative commons, and enforces that the
| data is decentralized and doesn't need any account, or wallet, to
| use.
|
| There is also the creation of a new label, the D-Safe label, for
| a safe experience across generations.
|
| A fun side project - which I have been working on for several
| years now - rewriting it fully already 10 times - and been
| restructuring my mental health around it.
| ben_fishbein wrote:
| https://guestcast.xyz
|
| A way to follow creators and not specific podcasts
| Sulk6437 wrote:
| I love it, it's super useful
| dr_kretyn wrote:
| An app for easing house management - HomeHero
| (https://HomeHero.pro). Primarily inventory oriented towards
| easier finds, location hierarchy and related tasks. Currently
| only web, android and Linux as there's been little interest from
| Apple and Windows side
| ianthehenry wrote:
| https://bauble.studio/ is a lisp-based procedural 3D art
| playground that I hacked together a while ago. It's fun to play
| with, but it's a very limiting tool: you can do a lot to compose
| signed distance functions, but there's no way to control the
| rendering or do anything "custom" that the tool doesn't
| explicitly allow.
|
| So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full
| superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitrary shaders -- even
| foregoing SDFs altogether -- in a high-level lisp language. The
| core "default" raymarcher is still there, but you can choose to
| ignore it and implement, say, volumetric rendering, while still
| using the provided SDF combinators if you want.
|
| The new implementation is much more general and flexible, and it
| now supports things like 2D extrusions, mesh export for 3D
| printing, user-defined procedural noise functions... anything you
| can do in Shadertoy, you can now do in Bauble. One upcoming
| feature that I'm very excited about is custom uniforms and
| embedding in other webpages -- so you can write a blog post with
| interactive 3D visualizations, for example.
|
| (Also as a fun coincidence: my first cast bronze Bauble arrived
| today! https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883)
| techno_tsar wrote:
| This is completely nuts. Well done.
| samstave wrote:
| Stunning.
|
| That site needs to be seen. Thats great.
| holden_nelson wrote:
| This is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing.
| turtledragonfly wrote:
| Am I right that the output of the lisp code is ultimately a
| plain GLSL shader (like one might find on shadertoy.com)?
|
| I built a SDF-based rendering system (2D) for my game, and one
| of the big hurdles was how to have them be data-driven, rather
| than needing a new shader for each scene or object.
|
| Would be curious if/how you tackled that problem (:
| ianthehenry wrote:
| Yep! It just outputs GLSL. It doesn't do anything smart --
| it's a single giant shader that gets recompiled whenever you
| change anything, so it wouldn't really work for something
| like a game. I mean, it could handle like basic instancing of
| the form "union these N models, where N<256" but there's no
| way to change the scene graph dynamically.
| jkcxn wrote:
| I've done this for a project where the SDF functions are
| basically instructions, and you can build up instrictions on
| the CPU to send to the shader. and then the fragment shader
| runs them like a mini bytecode interpreter. You can tile up
| the screen to avoid having too many instructions per
| fragment. Kinda wild idea and performance may vary depend on
| what you're doing
| turtledragonfly wrote:
| That's pretty similar to what I'm doing!
|
| The CPU builds an RPN expression (like "circle, square,
| union, triangle, subtract"), and the shader evaluates that
| in a loop.
|
| I wasn't able to find examples of other people doing
| similar, but it seemed too useful to not be invented yet (:
|
| Do you have any links to your work?
|
| I'm writing some blog posts for my approach, but haven't
| finished them yet.
|
| > You can tile up the screen to avoid having too many
| instructions per fragment.
|
| I don't quite understand this part... If a given SDF needs
| N instructions to be evaluated, then how does tiling reduce
| N?
|
| > performance may vary depend on what you're doing
|
| Yeah, fill rate was not good enough with a straightforward
| approach, so I had to cache the evaluated distance values
| to a (float) texture atlas, then use those to render to
| screen. Luckily, standard bilinear filtering on distance
| values produces pretty decent results.
| juhanakristian wrote:
| This is amazing! Thanks for sharing
| rznicolet wrote:
| Aside from bog-standard machine learning for work purposes --
| novels! (Because I apparently can't restrict myself to just one.)
|
| You can see some of my world-noodling about aliens that don't
| need to breathe at: https://rznicolet.com
|
| I've been plotting a series of hard sci-fi novels entirely from
| the point of view of very not-humanoid aliens. In this case, hard
| SF = all real physics except for FTL. First manuscript complete.
| Humans not included in the main series, except as passing
| footnotes. Let's just say that when I originally started, the
| pandemic had me feeling a touch misanthropic. We'll see when/how
| I actually publish these.
|
| I write fantasy stuff, too, though since the blog is relatively
| new, I haven't started adding that in yet. I'm currently wrapping
| a sequel to a finished fantasy work (again, publication approach
| TBD) before switching back to relatively hard sci-fi.
| frompdx wrote:
| My truck. It has sentimental value as my first car. I just gone
| done with the water pump and I just solved my steering "pop"
| issue. Next up is a new steering wheel as the old one is gross
| and sticky. While I'm at it I'm going to install a new turn
| signal/wiper control lever and fix the turn signal auto-off
| spring.
| Loughla wrote:
| Cool! What's yours? I just found a 1984 Chevy Scottsdale for my
| kid. It was my first vehicle and now he'll have one too.
|
| It's a sneaky way for me to limit his time tearing around the
| countryside with friends, because all his money will go towards
| parts and (if I get my way and put in a much larger engine)
| gas.
| mindcrime wrote:
| I just replaced the rear brake pads and rotors on my truck.
| PITA, but it's fun sometimes to get outside, have tools in your
| hands, and work on something tangible.
|
| I have another project lined up for my truck that I'm going to
| get into soon. I'm going to add a secondary high-current power
| distribution bus with a couple of bus-bar distribution blocks
| at convenient points, to make it easier to add accessories.
| I've already replaced one of the battery terminal screws with
| an aftermarket one that adds an extended stud and a nut, where
| you can attach a cable with a ring terminal. And I've got heavy
| duty copper lugs, some #2 welding cable, a hydraulic crimping
| tool, and the distribution blocks waiting on a shelf.
|
| Once that's in place, It'll be very convenient for adding ham
| radio gear, an air compressor, a power inverter and some other
| things I've been chewing on.
| whb101 wrote:
| Talk Shop.
|
| Think Omegle, but only text, and based around common interests.
|
| https://talkkshopp.com
| arjunbahl1910 wrote:
| how do you solve the initial chicken and egg problem, ie if no
| initial users then lesser engagement -> user churn?
| pbsurf wrote:
| https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - open-source maps app
| tdeck wrote:
| I'm trying to make it easier for Blind people to get into
| electronics as a hobby. There are many fascinating hardware,
| software, and UX challenges here that almost nobody is working
| on. Things like reading circuit diagrams, identifying pins on
| components, debugging circuits, laying out things on a
| breadboard, identifying wires, identifying resistors, testing
| components, and much more are largely unsolved Despite all the
| barriers, there are some Blind people who build electronics
| projects, sometimes including soldering, but they usually have to
| develop their own tools and workflows almost from scratch.
|
| Since I'm just one guy with 100 ideas, I have to try to apply my
| skills where they can have the most impact. My current project is
| converting existing circuits from Fritzing format (which is
| usually displayed graphically) into a textual format. I wrote
| about it in these three blog posts:
|
| 1. Premise, ways to represent circuits:
| https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-1/
|
| 2. Why Fritzing? https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-
| schematics-2/
|
| 3. Actual output examples:
| https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-3/
|
| I'm also working on a 3D printed single character Braille cell
| that can be added to any Arduino project, and has only 3 simple
| parts to assemble. Unfortunately I haven't posted about that yet.
| 65 wrote:
| Making fingerboards. Little skateboards you can do tricks with.
| I'm always fingerboarding at work when I take a break from
| programming.
|
| It's a ton of fun, especially writing Fusion 360 scripts to do
| all the parametric modeling of decks and molds. Then 3D printing
| molds with different parameters, pressing decks with veneer,
| making art for the decks, packaging, etc. It's an incredibly
| niche hobby but I've always found fingerboarding and making
| fingerboards to be infinitely creative.
| mysterydip wrote:
| This sounds fascinating and I'm glad you found a niche that you
| enjoy!
| drusepth wrote:
| Do you have any ramps/rails/etc for your desk? That sounds like
| such a good way to give your hands a nice break between code
| sessions.
| 65 wrote:
| Yes! You can make obstacles pretty easily, too. I made a rail
| with a drawer pull I got at Home Depot screwed together with
| two blocks of wood. I use it on my desk all the time.
|
| The cool thing is, you can fingerboard on almost anything.
| Get a stack of books and you can make a stair case. Get a
| piece of a granite counter top sample and you can make a
| ledge. You can use a bathroom sink as a skate bowl. There are
| also lots of companies making fun obstacles with different
| materials. The possibilities are endless.
| cesarbarone wrote:
| A friend of mine started with fingerboard more than 20 years
| ago, and also selling half pipe for fingerboarding made by
| wood. He got a degree on architectures, created a company to
| make half pipes and he made de skate park for Paris Olympics,
| xgames, redbull etc.If you are curious, take a look on
| @insaneramps on Instagram!
| asicsp wrote:
| I hope you have a baby turtle too:
| https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1bkyopc/baby_turt...
| boppo1 wrote:
| Do you have pictures of your process or results?
| benatkin wrote:
| I'm working on writing a sort of code and data playground from
| scratch - with currently only CodeMirror, ProseMirror, and some
| icons as dependencies - so that everything in it can be edited
| live. Everything is web components with the shadow DOM. It is
| sandboxed both as a whole and at the notebook level. The overall
| sandboxing uses a Content Security Policy that allows inspecting
| the URL for following a link, to enable using untrusted code
| (from humans or an AI) and private data without it easily being
| leaked. I've built a resizable split view, draggable tabs with
| multiple panes, and a color picker. It's a few dozen Markdown
| files with code in fenced code blocks and a Deno and Docker-based
| build process. There is a hybrid notebook/playground editor with
| the fenced code blocks changed into links that open the files in
| tabs. It's open source and at https://ristretto.codeberg.page/
| heyarviind2 wrote:
| I have been working on two projects:
|
| - https://formlick.com : A typeform alternative with lifetime
| deal
|
| - https://aye.so : Create your link in bio in bento style using
| the widgets
| chilipepperhott wrote:
| I've been working on a better grammar checker, designed to run
| on-device with next to no resource consumption.
|
| https://github.com/elijah-potter/harper
| firefoxd wrote:
| When the hype was focused on chatbots, I joined a startup that
| built one focused on ecommerce. It turned into a useful product
| that actually help real customers.
|
| Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a
| useful chat agent that resolved real-world problems. So I'm
| writing the guide that I wish I had when getting started.
|
| I'll publish it on github and post here as more progress is made.
| I've created three parts. Part One is a non dev focused which
| explains how each of the moving parts work, what is Ai and what
| isn't. Part two gets technical and explains the tech stack. Part
| three is a bonus section that looks at how Ai assistants like
| google and Siri work and can be improved.
|
| The working title is Automated Agents.
|
| Edit: adding a link for those who want to follow along.
|
| https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book
| cowsaymoo wrote:
| Give us something to bookmark
| jasondigitized wrote:
| Interested in reading it when you are done.
| Nesco wrote:
| The ARC-AGI challenge / Arc Prize. It helps me enjoy programming
| even after becoming PM. I got a bit rusty on structural induction
| for trees, it's now all fresh again. After playing with it a bit
| I am now convinced a A* on the right kind of AST structure will
| be sufficient to make a significant breakthrough in the scores
| slowhadoken wrote:
| A video game.
| Syntaf wrote:
| I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations &
| organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].
|
| We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member
| database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded
| space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping
| giants not willing to iterate on their product.
|
| It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to
| see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.
|
| [1] https://embolt.app
| meonkeys wrote:
| Doing my book tour. Speaking at conferences and tech user groups,
| trying to reach folks interested in self-hosting.
|
| Also working on my homelab. Recently got DocuSeal,
| changedetection.io, and Actual Budget running.
| sim04ful wrote:
| I'm working on a tool directory that lets you run then directly
| without multiple subscriptions.
|
| https://www.arible.co
| ryanchants wrote:
| I'm working on a small website for finding restaurants and
| breweries when you're traveling. It currently has 4 year of Great
| American Beer Fest winners and 3 years of James Beard nominees
| and winners.
|
| It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working
| on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and
| added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple
| awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's
| just 1 results per award.
|
| I'm currently road-tripping through New England and it helped
| find the amazing bakery Norimoto.
|
| https://nomnominees.com/
| culi wrote:
| I also did a road trip and had a lot of mapping ideas. I
| collected a few links on my own website at
| https://culi.page/maps/. The page asks you for your location
| and then plugs your lat/long into the url parameters of various
| useful mapping sites. Here's some of the maps I used
|
| * GasBuddy's gas price heatmap:
| https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&z=8
|
| * iNaturalist to find what species are found in a radius near
| you:
| https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&pla...
|
| * A map of all co-op grocery stores:
| https://grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-directory
|
| * NYTimes extremely detailed precinct by precinct political map
| of the 2016 election:
| https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...
|
| * Windy.com for really detailed weather:
| https://www.windy.com/?LAT,LNG,5
|
| * ProPublica's extremely detailed map of long term production
| of cancer-causing air pollution chemicals:
| https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/#location/LNG/LAT
|
| * EatWellGuide fills a similar niche you do:
| https://www.eatwellguide.org/listings?myLat=LAT&myLon=LNG
|
| * National Wild and Scenic River System's map of rivers:
| https://www.rivers.gov/apps/map
|
| Ofc there's a lot more and many more I haven't added to the
| site yet, but hopefully you get the idea. I have a very large
| collection of maps/sites that can maybe possibly be useful or
| interesting and would like to have a single directory to easily
| access all of them from.
| genewitch wrote:
| I was going to point out the Samoan Cookhouse[0] - "the last
| cookhouse in the west!" but they've been closed for renovations
| for over a year. They'd been in pretty much continuous
| operation for over 115 years when they shut it down.
|
| I hope they open back up, that place was a treasure.
|
| [NUL] https://www.samoacookhouse.net/
| ww520 wrote:
| I'm actually creating a new web framework/library. I know. I
| know. Yet another one. I got sufficiently excited about the
| technology recently that I've dived head first into making one.
| Stay tuned.
| willswire wrote:
| I'm currently working on an open-source project called checkd,
| which is a Cloudflare service worker designed to handle device
| authentication and state management using Apple's DeviceCheck
| API. The project includes an example iOS app and a worker
| implementation to demonstrate how the service can be integrated
| into a mobile app environment.
|
| https://github.com/willswire/checkd
|
| This project has been an exciting way to explore better securing
| my iOS apps. I'm looking forward to refining it further and would
| love to hear any feedback or suggestions from the community!
| gigapotential wrote:
| https://UpVPN.app : A modern Serverless VPN
|
| Currently trying to get new apps for Apple platform published and
| going through App Store review process..
|
| Existing apps are open source here:
| https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
| raytopia wrote:
| I've been working a lot of some games in Python and Panda3D. I
| want to make somethingusing the joy cons as motion controls. Also
| been looking into stackless Python for a text based multiplayer
| game I'm working on.
|
| I need to update my website at some point its been a while.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| A VR game. Still in the concept phase though. It'll be free as
| it's only a hobby project. It might never materialise but it
| doesn't matter. Most of the reward is in the process and the
| learning opportunities.
|
| For work I'm working on AI implementation. Because the vendor
| does all the technical goodness I'm kinda bored. It's also quite
| a crap solution IMO and we're kinda forced to be all positive
| about it because the vendor is closely watching and they have a
| lot of buyin from the top.
|
| I set up a local LLM server too just to feel like I'm actually
| doing something.
| jccalhoun wrote:
| I'm working on converting a jukebox to use a raspberry pi. I want
| to keep using the numberpad to pick the tracks and none of the
| existing solutions that i've found seem to do that. I don't have
| any experience with python and very little with linux so it has
| been an experience.
| leps wrote:
| Keep going! This sounds like a really fun project that will be
| really satisfying when you start to get things working. Not to
| mention the experience gained will be valuable for sure!
| mysterydip wrote:
| Working on a game that parents of young gamers can play together
| without the child being frustrated or the parent being bored :)
| mkoubaa wrote:
| I was thinking of doing something like this. My first idea was
| the parent manages a sort of simulator (farming, civ, city,
| idk) and the child is a little chaos agent that wrecks havoc.
|
| But you might get the reverse, parent frustrated kid bored
| em-bee wrote:
| hah, not sure i want a game that replicates my life ;-)
|
| but i love the thought of exploring this space. hopefully
| there are more ideas
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| It is a good idea. I can't have my kid play poe and I am
| checking out too quickly when I let her play pattern matching
| games. I personally think this is a niche in Steam that has not
| been 'occupied' well yet.
| SupermindPT wrote:
| A .NET MAUI travel app that uses GTFS data to present transport
| info to users and also includes interactive 3D graphics. Not on
| Play Store yet because the app is too big, still figuring out how
| to solve that.
| FujiApple wrote:
| Exploring adding the (novel?) concept of forward and backward
| packet loss heuristics to Trippy [1] as discussed here [2].
|
| [1] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/860
|
| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591945
| worulz wrote:
| I'm working on a web scraper to assist myself and a friend in
| booking courts for our sports activities. It helps book the
| courts when they are released at 12am. This means we can get back
| to sleeping at reasonable times. We have a long term booking, but
| don't always require two courts.
|
| On other things, I've been playing with rustlang. Looking to
| build something with it.
| nkhanh wrote:
| I create mobile drawing app, work same as old snagg.it/sk.itch
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.ngockhanh....
| drusepth wrote:
| I and a friend are working on Elixir Emporium [0], a single-
| player crafting RPG that uses layers of generative AI to create
| and inject new game data as you play.
|
| It started out as just a prototype asking what happens if you
| task an LLM with generating crafting recipes for every
| combination of items in a game (which was already super fun), but
| it's exploded into all kinds of crafting, harvesting, and item
| manipulation systems that literally weren't possible in games
| just 5-10 years ago.
|
| Now we're working on NPC simulations based on last year's
| Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior [1]
| paper. Dialogue and persistent memory are obvious, but we're also
| using the ReAct pattern [2] to give NPCs an influenceable
| decision loop that dictates what actions they take throughout
| each game day. And there's some other fun stuff like quest
| generation and using LLMs as a decision engine to determine if
| certain player actions complete these dynamic quests.
|
| There's still a lot of work to do to make it feel more like a
| polished game, but we've been focused on the underlying systems
| and getting them feeling great and I'm really excited to see the
| game come to life.
|
| [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039840/Elixir_Emporium/
|
| [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
|
| [2] https://react-lm.github.io/
| devbent wrote:
| I'm working on something similar but instead of basing my
| efforts on the generator agents paper I'm basing it on a
| technique I call narrative generation. It requires far less
| context and fewer prompts, and focuses on generating narrative
| aspects and letting the traditional game engine things simulate
| the remainder of the world.
|
| As an example, with the system I am building you only need to
| input what action the player has taken, and all the NPC's
| actions and dialogues will be generated.
| germinalphrase wrote:
| Making swim baits. I started carving and paints fishing lures
| during Covid. It's easy to knock out something that looks like a
| lure, but it's surprisingly nuanced to make something that
| behaves in the water as you want it to. Mass production is
| absolutely the correct way to go about this, but - you know - it
| keeps my hands busy in the evening and I'm improving my carving,
| airbrushing, weighting/buoyancy, etc with each one.
| mindcrime wrote:
| I have a ton of respect for people who can craft beautiful and
| functional baits. I watch Nate Marling a lot on Youtube and it
| amazes me what he can do with a block of wood and some wire.
|
| Do you fish your lures, or is making them just a hobby unto
| itself? If the former, what species are you targeting? I
| consider myself a bass angler, but I honestly haven't a. had
| much time to fish lately or b. had much luck catching bass when
| I _do_ find time to fish.
| germinalphrase wrote:
| I'm in Minnesota, so mainly targeting panfish, bass, and
| pike. Salmon when I can get away for the run. I do fish them,
| but I'm only now getting to the point that my
| crank/swim/glide baits act right. Hand carving right now, but
| may try to start making molds next.
|
| Engineered Angler Lures is another YouTube creator worth
| checking out.
|
| Also, I try not to be precious about them. Give them away to
| friends. Don't stress if they break off. Just make another
| one.
| nullindividual wrote:
| Trying to figure out how to disappear into the ether.
| burnt_toast wrote:
| A desktop app for analyzing Node.js heap dumps. I've had to hunt
| down some for work and I feel like the tooling could be improved.
| vinibrito wrote:
| A nocode web app builder, all included, frontend, backend.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Nothing interesting. But it pays the bills and doesn't demand
| much of my time.
| debo_ wrote:
| I noticed my 2.5 year old niece likes zooming into photos of bugs
| on her mom's phone. I'm making her a little "game" where she can
| flip over rocks and find different bugs and other weird
| surprises.
| cadr wrote:
| That is awesome!
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Best idea in this thread.
| asdw wrote:
| Wow really wholesome and exciting.
| A_D_E_P_T wrote:
| I like this idea. Peaceful, wholesome, meditative, and even
| somewhat educational. You should make it available.
| mikewarot wrote:
| I'm getting to know the ins and outs of GitHub CoPilot, and
| exploring languages and technologies I've avoided. I'm hoping to
| get done with a usable Bitgrid Emulator[1] in Javascript/HTML so
| that I can let people play with the concept and get used to it.
| I've got stuff working in Pascal[2], but that's not something
| most people can deal with. I've also got a ton of other stuff up
| on GitHub that I should poke a bit.
|
| I've spent a lot of time in analysis paralysis and this has given
| me the kick in the pants to get me going again.
|
| As far as new ideas go, I've already spent time learning Verilog,
| and hope to get a chip design through the TinyTapeout[3] before
| too long.
|
| Also, I found out that it only takes a few lines of Python and a
| lot of time to have an AI rate all my photos locally. That's a
| work in progress, should be less than 100 lines all told with
| niceties.[4]
|
| [1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html
|
| [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
|
| [3] https://tinytapeout.com/
|
| [4] https://github.com/mikewarot/RateMyPhotos
| egypturnash wrote:
| A graphic novel about a future world run by benevolent AIs who
| have found that the best way to get humans to behave in easily-
| predictable ways is to manifest as extremely unctuous clowns.
|
| http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/
| witslectric wrote:
| I enjoy. Will try to follow somehow to get notified of new
| chapters
| egypturnash wrote:
| Thanks! I really need to get around to making my Wordpress
| installation email about new stuff.
|
| Right now the best way's either to follow it on Patreon (no
| money needed) or to follow me on Mastodon
| (@anthracite@dragon.style). Or fire up your RSS reader and
| point it at the site.
| tomcam wrote:
| Officially retired. Managing the money I saved to retire on,
| which is more time-consuming and stressful than expected. Working
| on yet another static site generator but stymied by my terrible
| Git/GitHub skills. Studying historical Western secular music.
| Jazz guitar too.
| adityaathalye wrote:
| Happy site-maker-makin'... It is a most respectable yak shave.
| I had such a good time making mine a couple of years ago in
| Bash (https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite).
|
| If Git/Github are interfering, just drop the folder in dropbox
| (or suchlike) and version control like it's 1990 (ssg_2, ssg_3,
| ... ssg_final_final :). Nobody can fire the officially retired
| developer for doing this in 2024.
| tomcam wrote:
| Ha! Love Shite!
|
| > Nobody can fire the officially retired developer for doing
| this in 2024.
|
| Hey! You're right! Lovely idea.
|
| I like the cut of your jib.
| darkwater wrote:
| Would you mind sharing your approximate age? Did you work in a
| FAANG?
| tomcam wrote:
| Mid 60s. Microsoft 1996-2000 but ran my own business for 20
| years after.
| pdfernhout wrote:
| On managing money, given you mention time and stress, have you
| considered the Bogleheads approach (e.g. VTSAX+Cash/Bonds and
| chill)? https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
| tomcam wrote:
| That's what I do. But tbh I came to it late and I am still
| trying to time things a little due to economic turbulence.
| bhickey wrote:
| Designing a diffracting telescope.
| posix_compliant wrote:
| Learning Unity. I want to make stupid little games like I used to
| play on the internet in the early 00's.
| joegibbs wrote:
| I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an
| Empire (https://fallofanempiregame.com), it's a bit like a mix
| between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games
| (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding
| you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing.
|
| It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems -
| you've got combat, resource management, settlement development,
| food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play
| together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline,
| graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.
|
| I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that
| version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been
| released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October
| 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.
| Syntaf wrote:
| Looks really cool & quite in-depth, awesome project. Are you a
| solo-developer or a game studio building this?
| joegibbs wrote:
| Just me, I work on it in my spare time. I've contracted out
| for some of it - some of the UI elements and models, and the
| soundtrack.
|
| All in all I've probably spent $5000 max on it.
| dbacar wrote:
| what kind of a spare time is that, i want one also,
| congrats bro.
| versteegen wrote:
| Whoa. You need to write about how you've accomplished that.
| How long have you been working on it?
| joegibbs wrote:
| I started in uni during the start of Covid because I was
| playing Warband and I wanted to see if I could do
| something like the overworld in Unreal. Then I left it
| for a few months, got the idea of turning it into a
| proper strategy game and worked on an off until this year
| when I really started working on it. I probably put in
| 2-3 hours on weekdays after work and 6-7 on weekends. I
| think that I'm definitely more productive now because I
| have more experience, and I had literally no money at all
| at the start due to not having a job.
| tomcam wrote:
| Wow! Can't wait till the preview drops!
| senkora wrote:
| Wishlisted!
| ahaapple wrote:
| Very attractive!
| xiaodai wrote:
| Rad!!!
| YesBox wrote:
| Steam recently made some changes that are pushing game studios
| away from prologues. Instead, demos can have their own steam
| pages. Plus all hyperlinks will soon be banned.
|
| I also noticed your game has been up on Steam since January
| 2022 and by the looks of it, you've done about zero marketing
| (steamdb.info). Hope that's on the horizon, it's a pretty darn
| important part of game development now!
|
| Love the concept of your game. Reminds me of my favorite roman
| emperor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian
|
| - Fellow game developer
| joegibbs wrote:
| Thank you! If you replace a prologue (as standalone game)
| with a demo, can you transfer the wishlists?
|
| Marketing isn't my strong point, if I ever had the money to
| make another the first person I'd hire would be marketing. My
| boss owns a PR agency and she said she can help in getting it
| out to journalists but that's about it. I tried CPC and it
| came in at about $1/wishlist.
|
| Are there any methods of marketing you recommend?
| spacebacon wrote:
| This is a good start ... A press release may be a good next
| step.
|
| Maybe announce a unique competition with a paid prize (if
| steam allows this).
| YesBox wrote:
| Ask steam if you can swap out the store pages. I've never
| seen it done before though.
|
| $1/WL is good (not great or bad), depending on how much
| your game is going to cost and the projected WL->Sale
| conversion.
|
| I recommend you read through most of the articles and blog
| posts here: www.howtomarketagame.com
|
| It's a good starting place.
| therediterator wrote:
| Just remembered Age Of Empires. Awesome trailer.
| pajeets wrote:
| A feedback: the art and assets feel like they are AI generated
| but an interesting game idea, not sure if it makes sense as
| most the need to defend an empire that took me days to build
| greater than a procedurally generated one.
| emrah wrote:
| Good for you! Graphics and audio (music, sfx) are such a huge
| part of game dev that every time I attempt to get in, I walk
| away shortly afterwards
| zerr wrote:
| Yes, every time I see some impressive demo I realize that it
| is mostly the artwork.
| BigglesB wrote:
| This looks fantastic! Love the premise & well done for what
| looks like an incredible solo effort. I was tech lead on
| Ozymandias & have another minified 4X in the works at the mo &
| putting out feelers with publishers etc. Sounds like you plan
| to self publish this one but I'd love to chat & see if there's
| any way I can help with your launch, whether just through
| advice or via introductions etc. You can reach me at biggles
| (at) bravobravo.games though I may end up finding a way to
| contact you directly first :-)
| slim wrote:
| is there a game where you're the indigenous people and you are
| trying to stop an empire colonizing you ?
| fancy_pantser wrote:
| I wondered this myself and found some. I've played: When
| Rivers Were Trails, Thunderbird Strike, Dialect, Zulu Dawn,
| This Land Is My Land. There are a lot of options in
| boardgames (maybe more than with video games?), such as Burn
| the Fort.
| slim wrote:
| thank you
| darby_nine wrote:
| Most paradox games enable this to some degree. It's pretty
| limited in terms of imagining what this could look like
| outside of the european conceptualization of civilization
| progress but it's there.
| f6v wrote:
| So, you thought that Attila wasn't dark enough?
|
| In all seriousness, there's a constant nagging in TW community
| for more historical games. Pharaoh didn't cut it for the wast
| majority of players. You could capitalize on that, the genre
| would benefit from that.
| joegibbs wrote:
| If this one does alright my next would be a crusades game
| with similar-ish mechanics, feudalism, the pop system from
| Victoria 2, multiple-settlement provinces and realtime
| movement.
| animal531 wrote:
| They recently released Pharaoh: Dynasties which is pretty
| much a complete overhaul of the base Pharaoh game, and is
| pretty much what the game should have been.
|
| They gave everyone half their money back, this free upgrade,
| new factions, bigger map and a ton of changes. Overall its
| been a big push from their side to keep the player base
| happy.
|
| But yeah, there's obviously a big market for historical
| games, from city builders, combat, etc. and I'm here for them
| all.
| f6v wrote:
| A safe generalization about Dynasties is that "no one
| cares". It has about 2.5k players now, same as Attila (one
| of the most controversial titles released 10 years ago).
|
| People keep bringing up Dynasties, but it's obvious CA
| doesn't know how to make successful historical titles
| anymore. They dropped the ball even on 3k which had some
| kind of potential.
| struanr wrote:
| This looks great! It seems to solve the issue I always had with
| civilisation where the game becomes progressively easier as you
| advance ahead of the AI, leading to a late game which involves
| lots of management but little risk.
| kolleraa wrote:
| I'm working on a web app that helps you discover books, movies,
| TV shows, video games, and songs that you'll like. The app makes
| it super easy to describe what you're looking for and then gives
| you a unique set of 10 suggestions on each run.
|
| It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm
| having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some
| great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use!
|
| https://www.yogurrt.com/
| themingus wrote:
| Reminds me of GNOD's Music Map. https://www.music-map.com/
|
| I really appreciate Apple Music links being listed instead of
| just Spotify.
| tillcarlos wrote:
| This works surprisingly well. Just shared it with my sci fi
| group.
|
| Idea: make an email opt-in and then new releases based on old
| preferences. My use case is always to go to DVDs/netflix
| releases, filter for sci fi and then high IMDB.
| SomaticPirate wrote:
| I'm really curious how this works! Obviously I don't want you
| to disclose anything you don't want to.
|
| I assume its some sort of ML? Are you using an external LLM?
| Any insights into building recommendation systems would be
| awesome!
| grif-fin wrote:
| Also curious to know what's sharable under the hood. Getting
| good results, looks good.
| hoqqanen wrote:
| The results of the categories look similar to what happens
| when prompting ChatGPT with "describe a list of
| {genres/moods/etc.} for <content>". Also the links are all
| for query pages on amazon/spotify/etc, which says LLM to me
| (rather than a database). This dynamic schema generation ->
| UI supported query builder seems like a really interesting
| direction. I'd love to see it for the web more generally and
| I bet Exa.ai+LLM of choice would be a pretty good place to
| start. If it's an LLM I'm curious about hallucination rates
| and excited for future web-level RAG in only returning real
| objects.
|
| Also you can supply content which doesn't exist and it will
| automatically infer genre and such (another strong indication
| of LLM). I.e. you can imagine the aesthetics of the kind of
| content you might want by title and then use the UI to
| explore real recs related to that.
|
| PS to the creator: I love the simplicity of the design and
| the execution is inspiring. Sent a dollar for my searches :-)
| kolleraa wrote:
| You are spot on :) - including about potential additional
| and broader use cases for this kind of UI. Hoping I can
| explore that more. Thanks for the tip about Exa.ai!
|
| Also, I'm sincerely flattered that you like the design and
| execution. Thank you for that and for your contribution!
| rufi wrote:
| well done.. i was thinking of same from long time.. great to
| find this.. will be using this.
| kaspermarstal wrote:
| Omg instantly bookmarked.
|
| How to find "Military science fiction series" that are "Complex
| and Strategic" and includes "Space battles and tactics",
| "Action-packed sequences", "Strategic dialogue", "Multiple book
| series expansions", "Futuristic space environment", "Spaceships
| and battle fleets"? Use yogurrt. Never found it so easy to
| narrow down my interests and find new books. Thanks!
| 2143 wrote:
| It's a very cool idea.
|
| However, I gave it "Jane Eyre" (a mid-19th century novel by
| Charlotte Bronte; it's a classic) with the expectation that it
| will return "Wuthering Heights" - another a classic novel
| written in mid-19th century by Emily Bronte (yes the authors
| are related) - among other things. People who like Jane Eyre
| tend to like Wuthering Heights, and vice versa.
|
| But everything it returned were _new_ works - published in the
| last 20 years - of stories that are set in the 19th century.
|
| The only filters applied were: "Preferred: Gothic romance
| novel, Victorian literature, Highly influential classic
| literature, Early 19th-century England ".
|
| So, something seems amiss for now. Nevertheless, it's a very
| cool idea.
|
| (Edited to fix my grammar; English is not my first language, so
| pardon me for any mistakes.)
| kolleraa wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback!
|
| This is happening because I intentionally added a strong bias
| for more recent books. I thought that's what most people
| would be looking for - at least for fiction - and I also
| assumed there were other good ways to discover older books
| (lists, collections etc).
|
| You're absolutely right though, it should give you some
| Victorian lit given your preferences! I'll work on addressing
| this.
| emrah wrote:
| This is a huge gap we have these days. Everything out there is
| incentivized to suggest the most selling stuff rather than
| unique and interesting stuff.
| kolleraa wrote:
| Yeah, this is definitely an important aspect of the problem
| I'm hoping to solve. I've found that selecting interesting
| preferences yields some interesting, non-obvious results "out
| of the box" - but if you really want to go off the beaten
| path try selecting the "Little known" preference under Other
| (and make it Required).
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Bookmarked. It actually does seem to work well for the items I
| have selected. I actually got some interesting hits I feel
| compelled to look up now ( nice call on adding purchase link --
| unobtrusive way to monetize it ).
|
| Nice work!
| highdeserthackr wrote:
| Very nice! Just snagged a number of scifi titles it identified.
| WillAdams wrote:
| c.f.,
|
| https://www.literature-map.com/
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| interesting.
|
| Considered tying it into LibraryThing?
|
| Although they have a recommendation section, I am always open
| to new suggestions. I would also like to steer it to some
| general direction.
| adityaathalye wrote:
| Web app development [1]. I know I know, it's 2024 and my friends
| are doing very cool things with LLMs, but I started a bit late in
| life and am just catching up with the 20th century (and I feel
| just fine about it :).
|
| [1] In fact, I just published a blog post about it! _Clojuring
| the web application stack: Meditation One_ :
| https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...
| theendisney4 wrote:
| Im working on a system/formula that rates and organises human
| expressions/ideas/insights finds and organises relevant data,
| solicits more expert reviews, forges presentation for limited
| attention spans, develops a plan of action and a cost/benefit
| analysis.
| ajayvk wrote:
| I am building Clace https://github.com/claceio/clace, an app
| server for containerized applications. The goal is to build
| something like Nginx Unit, but supporting any language/framework.
| Each app runs in a separate container. App updates are done using
| a blue-green staged deployment.
|
| Clace already supports most python based apps (wsgi or asgi), any
| other language works with a custom Dockerfile. Plan to add
| support for automatically shutting down idle containers, allowing
| for scaling down to zero for each app.
| iamwil wrote:
| I just published the first issue our digital zine, Forest
| Friends. The first issue is on "LLM System Evals in the Wild".
|
| Lots of AI engineerers are doing vibes-based engineering, just
| eyeballing the LLM output and saying "LGTM!". This is a good
| place to start, as we all should look at our data more. But it's
| best to move on from vibes to system evals.
|
| The first issue is on how to design and build system evals for a
| systematic way to gauge how well your LLM app is doing. That way,
| no matter if there are new models, new users, or new queries, you
| can be sure you're continuously improving, rather than allowing
| regressions.
|
| You can buy the first issue here:
|
| https://issue1.forestfriends.tech/
|
| And if you want to keep abreast of the next issue, you can
| subscribe here:
|
| https://forestfriends.tech
| DeskDingo wrote:
| DeskDingo: live chat software for your website. Core features are
| mostly complete. AI chat bot and knowledge base are in beta.
| https://deskdingo.com
| xeo84 wrote:
| I'm currently working on NewsNinja[0] in my spare time, a RSS
| reader app that groups articles talking about the same story and
| optimizes reading time.
|
| I started it a couple of months ago, I was tired of reading the
| same story posted across different news outlets.
|
| Over time I added new features like summarization, the ability to
| hide articles that have specific words in titles, etc.
|
| Currently working on adding custom themes and fonts for the
| reader mode and various customization options.
|
| It's a fun little side project, still much to do to improve it,
| I'll be busy for a while!
|
| [0]https://newsninja.timelabs.io
| ljhsiung wrote:
| I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and
| personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm
| quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of personal
| commentary (https://dynomight.net/advice/) and deep data dives
| into e.g. homelessness and seed oils.
|
| My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive
| need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking
| months to write an article, be it due to laziness or constant
| rabbitholes/google scholar searches about an idea.
|
| Any clue on dedicated disciplined writing time or even
| considering "reducing" the rigor of writing?
| kmoser wrote:
| Over-researching is probably better than under-researching. To
| reduce time spent researching, try imposing a deadline. The
| difficulty will be sticking to it, since nobody but yourself
| will be breathing down your neck.
| justanotherjoe wrote:
| I find when I'm swamped it's because I lack decision making
| skills. It's a soft skill to keep your workload manageable.
| There's no substitute to constantly making decisions. And I
| suspect is the key to being a 10x developer (besides being
| smart)
| mortenjorck wrote:
| Desperately applying to product design jobs as unemployment
| stretches into a fifth month.
|
| Keeping myself marginally sane by building a custom browsing
| experience for my "graphic design reconstructed from dreams"
| project: https://dreambrief.presteign.com/
| sdedovic wrote:
| I'm working on a little site called WGSL Toy, here:
| https://wgsltoy.com/
|
| It's basically like ShaderToy but for WebGPU instead of WebGL. I
| started it as I have been doing some Rust + wgpu development for
| art projects and I need a easy way to play around with shaders.
|
| It's very early in development - you can go and just use it right
| now. But soon I want to support creating an account, saving /
| sharing shaders, and eventually go beyond the featureset of
| ShaderToy by allowing for custom input images / textures.
|
| Code is on github: https://github.com/sdedovic/wgsltoy
| taormina wrote:
| I'm working on a new game. I've been trying to get back to the
| basics of the adventure genre. A fun and engaging story, choices,
| strategic combat and a simple, straightforward approach.
|
| No microtransactions, no advertisements. No networking! The game
| is meant to function completely off line. The game will start
| with a mobile release in probably October and should be available
| on Steam shortly after.
|
| I've been using Flame, Flutter's game engine to develop my app.
| My artists are amazing and have been providing fully animated
| sprites using Spine. I've used Flutter before but this is my
| first time getting into Flame.
|
| If you're curious how it's going, hop on the mailing list at
| https://danger.world to learn more. I'll be looking for my
| initial playtesters here in the next few weeks.
| teamspirit wrote:
| God I miss adventure games. I played more hours of Sierra
| online than I could ever begin to count. Signed up and looking
| forward to updates!
| cdfuller wrote:
| I'm working on FreeInChicago, a site for finding all the free
| activities to do in the city.
|
| I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals,
| museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more
| activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good
| way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've
| always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some
| work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a
| discovery interface.
|
| https://freeinchicago.com/
| bobbiechen wrote:
| Nice! I'm a fan of SF Funcheap https://sf.funcheap.com/ and
| always miss it when traveling to other cities. Another up-to-
| date local resource is something to look forward to.
| cdfuller wrote:
| Thanks for sharing! Seeing someone building something similar
| and being successful is incredibly energizing. I had doubts
| that it would be something folks would actually be interested
| in using.
| elric wrote:
| My city used to have a similar site. It was great. Got an hour
| to kill? Check the site, find a nearby bar with live music and
| head on over.
|
| It ultimately got shut down because no one wanted to pay for
| it, and people started posting spam instead of activities.
| freethejazz wrote:
| Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar
| concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn't work out
| with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it
| quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco and
| building stuff. Best of luck shipping it!
| drhodes wrote:
| Building out a free real analysis course that uses Lean4,
| https://proofbased.org/
|
| I need help finding a full time job in Boston so I can move
| there.. Facing a catch 22 with apartment applications. I have a
| tooth brush and will scrub makefiles for a living wage, I'm not
| picky! (resume in profile)
| armagon wrote:
| I build a computer app to make it easier to do projector sewing.
| This allows you to take a PDF sewing pattern and use a projector
| (often mounted on a ceiling, shining down on a cutting mat) to
| see that pattern at life size. You can then easily cut it out and
| sew it together.
|
| My app is called Project&Cut and can be found at
| https://projectandcut.com.
| kinow wrote:
| Sounds interesting! I have a projector I use for tracing art,
| never imagined it could be used for sewing too. Good luck!
| armagon wrote:
| Thank you.
|
| I do think it has uses beyond sewing; enlarging art, for
| example, or perhaps painting stage backgrounds, or maybe
| laying out patterns for building something out of wood.
| cl42 wrote:
| I've been passionate about superforecasting and AI for a long
| time, so decided to try and use LLMs to structure data about the
| world -- commodities, politics, etc. It's now a startup we're
| trying to get off the ground: https://emergingtrajectories.com/
|
| Most of my days are spent reading the news and working on LLMs,
| which has been a blast. As an example, here's a dashboard that
| tracks major supply and demand shocks to various commodities
| around the world: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/commodities
| sickblastoise wrote:
| This is really neat, have you had any issues with
| hallucination?
| cl42 wrote:
| Thanks for asking! Yes, but we're actively addressing them.
|
| We do a few things under the hood to make hallucinations
| significantly less likely. First, we make sure every single
| statement made by the LLM has a fact ID associated with it...
| Then we've fine-tuned "verification" LLMs that review all
| statements to make sure that assertions being made are backed
| up by facts, and that the facts are actually aligned with the
| assertion.
|
| It's still possible for the LLM to hallucinate in this
| process, but the likelihood is much lower.
| thelastparadise wrote:
| Getting a date with your mom.
|
| (ha ha) no really, an app that aims to help out older, lonely,
| but good people. It's a desperately underserved market. These
| people are often overlooked and we're trying to empathize with
| them via software.
| alabhyajindal wrote:
| I'm working on a Firefox extension that analyses the user's
| browsing data. It tracks visit frequency and time spent for each
| website. I'd like the extension to generate a distraction score
| as well, depending on these two data values.
| theendisney4 wrote:
| Calculating life expectancy would be funny.
| gijoeyguerra wrote:
| Billing platform for an E&S Policy administrator and marketing
| for the small business I work for.
| stevepotter wrote:
| I'm working on a device that records surgery and uses AI models
| to analyze the procedure for things like surgical technique,
| efficiency, instrument usage, blood loss, etc. We're starting
| with using it for medical education because that doesn't need FDA
| approval, but eventually it'll be deployed in operating rooms.
| The goal is to enable every surgeon to perform like the greats
| (most aren't), improve patient outcomes and ultimately save
| lives. We just got into Techstars. Aside from that, dad life in
| suburbia
| anh690136 wrote:
| I'm building a new kind of knowledge management app called
| https://saner.ai/ :0 Where you can connect all your knowledge
| sources, query them with AI and create new content based on them
| with many AI model
| teleforce wrote:
| I am also thinking and planning about similar system for
| interactive and intuitive prompt based queries ala ChatGPT but
| it is for comprehension rather than generating new documents or
| data. The main aim is to have easy access to knowledge and
| information on various government documents on laws,
| regulations, procedures, etc, and since it utilizes some
| confidential documents the contents should not leave local HPC.
| cwood-sdf wrote:
| im making an html renderer for neovim plugins called
| [banana](http://github.com/CWood-sdf/banana)
| jawerty wrote:
| I'm current building web browser AI agents (can do anything the
| browser can do via prompting, logging in, scraping, can code
| websites with the data it scrapes etc.) going to ship next week!
| if anyone wants to join our beta lmk.
| vander_elst wrote:
| Working on Grizol: a syncthing compatible client that allows
| storing data on all backends supported by rclone and exposes the
| data through a fuse.
|
| https://github.com/mseravalli/grizol
|
| The idea was to leverage the syncthing ecosystem while expanding
| some of the capabilities.
|
| It's till quote rough around the edges and needs some polish, but
| the core functionality should be there.
| b2p wrote:
| I am working on a Bitcoin staking infrastructure, using Bitcoin
| security to protect other PoS chains.
|
| We proposed and implemented the MVP for OP-Stack rollups
| (https://bit.ly/op-rfc). The work is based on the idea described
| in this blog post: https://bit.ly/forkless-rollup.
| zulban wrote:
| I just reprioritzed my remaining 300 or so tickets for my chess
| variant AI sandbox game https://www.chesscraft.ca
|
| I recently released a major update involving presigned s3 urls,
| and typically after a big update I pick my favorite issues
| (always fun) for the next big update while I go bug hunting.
| Sometimes I feel like this project is code therapy where, unlike
| at work, I get to do everything the right way and/or my way.
|
| I've also just started strength training at a gym for the first
| time which is already helping enormously with my neck and back
| pain.
| tkubacki wrote:
| Simple mermaid like tool to do animations visualizing algorithms
| etc. All enclosed in html web component player (no coding
| needed).
|
| https://dot-and-box.github.io/dot-and-box/
| Flop7331 wrote:
| I have to cut up a downed tree limb in my yard, make birthday
| invitations for my daughter, and get a job.
| mkoubaa wrote:
| Physical therapy for chronic problems I didn't prioritize when I
| was younger, writing a sci-fi novel, and learning Vulkan.
| stefantheard wrote:
| I'm trying a productized service model for devops (pylonops.com)
| and working on a community platform for moms with my wife (no URL
| yet, but soon!)
| ianmabie wrote:
| I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take
| any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a
| 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in
| touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single
| use iOS apps I've been working on.
|
| TestFlight for now - try it out here:
| https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8
| themingus wrote:
| This is sick and super unique. Gave it a shot, I'll be curious
| how the print quality is.
| lemonwaterlime wrote:
| Working on a SaaS that associates a person/company and their tech
| stack with psychology profiles. The intent is to better connect
| job seekers with companies.
|
| In short, if you want a person with Language A experience, but
| Language B is close enough, my software will provide the signal
| that the candidate is good enough for a closer look.
|
| Example: PHP and Go devs are likely to have similar approaches to
| how software should be built. Ruby and Go, perhaps not so much.
|
| There's more nuance to it, but this is the idea.
| tillcarlos wrote:
| Awesome idea. Like a stackshare combined with a job board?
|
| There was a girl in the valley who make a recruiting service
| based on preferences like environmental/social factors.
| blanking on the name.
| ayewo wrote:
| Were you thinking of Key Values https://www.keyvalues.com/ ?
|
| Founded by Lynne Tye.
| csjh wrote:
| I'm working on a serialization format, somewhat based on apache
| arrow but row-based. Includes end to end typescript type safety,
| and significantly faster than JSON in serialization and
| deserialization. Seems to do fairly well in the native version I
| threw together, but more of a javascript/typescript operation for
| now.
|
| https://github.com/csjh/pest
| jaronilan wrote:
| Almost finished a short story I started writing about a year ago.
| It is about SEO.
|
| Edit: Two from prior published here:
| https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
| cadr wrote:
| I built a midi controller. Rather, I repurposed a Teensy-based
| virtual analogue synth I made ages back that never worked quite
| right. I had taken the amp/speaker out to use somewhere else, and
| it was just sitting in a box. I realized I could just use the
| Control Surface library (https://github.com/tttapa/Control-
| Surface) and change it to a midi controller in no time flat, so I
| did. Now just need to get some time to use it to play with VCV
| Rack.
| jackfhebert wrote:
| A LLM based bot for information literacy. The idea is that it can
| analyze text and images to help folks understand if they should
| believe stuff they find on the internet. And what they need to
| know to understand the subject.
|
| https://info-sleuth.com/
| ekianjo wrote:
| how can a LLM judge what can be trusted or not?
| jackfhebert wrote:
| I would aim more for it helping you to understand what
| questions to ask, as compared to it declaring what is truth.
| spankalee wrote:
| I quit my job in the spring to work on UI design software where
| designers visually build real component and design system
| implementations, and engineers can collaborate by editing the
| code.
|
| The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-
| to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.
| rachofsunshine wrote:
| If you're doing this as a business, you should consider how you
| think this is different from e.g. Figma (for designers/PMs) or
| Framer (for design-implemented-as-actual-usable-component-on-a-
| low-code-site). What you're describing sounds very similar to
| Figma's developer mode, at least framed the way you frame it
| here. Is the idea that, say, the design files are loaded as CSS
| or React components or whatever directly into your site, rather
| than being copied or imported?
|
| (If this is just a personal project, disregard! But "quit my
| job" makes me think you're thinking of this as a business.)
| spankalee wrote:
| Those are indeed very important things to consider!
| seanwilson wrote:
| Only have a screenshot to show at the moment, but I'm working on
| an accessible color palette creator tool for web/UI design:
|
| https://x.com/seanw_org/status/1815442179361317022
|
| There's lots of tools in this space, but the key features of this
| is it lets you easily check the contrast of any color pair (not
| just against white, so you can check e.g. your text colors will
| contrast on off-white shades), it's for creating a full palette
| of colors vs a handful of brand colors (you always end up needing
| lighter/darker variants for things like borders and backgrounds),
| and you can alter how the hue/saturation/lightness varies across
| a whole swatch of colors with a few clicks (being able to
| visualise these curves also makes picking new colors really
| easy).
|
| Feel free to reach out if you think this might be useful to you!
| sunnybeetroot wrote:
| This is great! One feature that I use ChatGPT for is "give me
| the closest foreground color to X that meets AAA accessibility
| on Y background color". ChatGPT that calculates it with a
| python script. Has been super useful. Maybe it could work on
| your site?
| seanwilson wrote:
| Yeah, that's the kind of use case I want to make easy!
|
| One of the tricky parts when working with ~100 colors is how
| you can easily tell the tool which pairs should always
| contrast so it can check them automatically, instead of you
| having to keep selecting pairs to check.
|
| It's simple right now though to make all colors of the same
| grade have the same lightness so you get easy to remember
| contrast guarantees e.g. green-700 will have WCAG AA contrast
| on grey-100, and the same for any 700 (or above) vs 100 (or
| below) pairing.
| Xt-6 wrote:
| A price comparison tool for solar panels and batteries
| thiosphere wrote:
| A concentric semi-sphere structure, made of the least sides, so
| as to farm a parking spot.
| bob1029 wrote:
| I am currently working on developing a procedural, interpreted
| language that is amenable to genetic (evolutionary) programming.
|
| I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are
| biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results
| with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there
| are so many hyper parameters to think about and how they behave
| over time is really hard to predict. I was also struggling deeply
| with how to manage topological concerns like network growth over
| time.
|
| With interpreted evolutionary programs, the memory access
| patterns are so much more ideal with the program counter stepping
| through (mostly) contiguous bytes vs totally insane recurrent
| spiking neural access patterns. You get so many more generations
| & candidates evaluated per unit time that it can make previously
| apparent "dead ends" viable, simply because you don't need to
| have extreme patience to find out anymore. I am discovering that
| iteration speed is the most important thing in this arena. The
| faster you find out how bad a certain parameter adjustment is,
| the sooner you can get to the good ones.
|
| I am also working on an unrelated contract to integrate some back
| office banking systems. Not much worth discussing there.
| john-tells-all wrote:
| I agree visualizing neural networks is challenging. The
| flexibility and consequences of network connections is also
| confusing. If you decide to go down that route again, the best
| work I've seen by far is the recent one by Stephen Wolfram:
| https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-goi...
| Sjpratt wrote:
| I'm working on building an API for getting AIS data for ship
| tracking. I built an app a few years ago for tracking local
| ferries and getting the data was a nightmare, so I'm trying to
| build a simpler alternative.
| markhalonen wrote:
| implementing double-entry accounting for the 10,000th time in
| human history on our ERP/MES product.
| smaps wrote:
| I just started working full time on my mortgage loan officer SaaS
| tool again. I had started building it when I worked for a
| mortgage company in 2017 because I was annoyed at having to enter
| the same data on 6 websites 20-30 times a week. Ended up getting
| some paying customers but somewhat unconsciously avoiding selling
| too many, a personality defect I have since seen.
|
| If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at
| lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix
| an industry problem at a reasonable price.
| collingreen wrote:
| Love this one - I've done mortgage software in the past and
| there is so much room in this industry for improvement. Good
| luck!
| cd3000 wrote:
| I quit my job last year as a CIO and have been working on my own
| consultancy focused on using strategic foresight to help develop
| better strategies.
|
| I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks
| mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers
| reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to
| bundle them together into a SaaS app.
|
| I'm just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to
| my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.
|
| The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to
| string together a series of nodes that do a different task
| through the strategy development process. For example, you can
| generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses
| of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.
|
| I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off
| creating the final output:
| https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3
| sarks_nz wrote:
| I'm working on a Tournament Manager for Pickleball at
| http://pickleballtourneypro.pages.dev because the current
| incumbent is very difficult for non-technical people (aka
| volunteers) to use, and super expensive (10-15% of tournament
| revenue).
|
| Lot of fun ideas, and hopefully will get used by a large variety
| of volunteers.
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| I wrote a musical (or otherwise) pitch guessing game inspired by
| my partner's love for minimalist, but engaging, games like
| Wordle.
|
| Still tweaking it, and it could use some better instructions. But
| the thread's here now so why not.
|
| If you see confetti, you answered correctly. Otherwise the points
| are added or subtracted in a "hot or cold" fashion based on your
| answer's distance from the actual pitch.
|
| https://abitpitchy.com
| wkirby wrote:
| We're working on our contract management system for dev and
| design agencies. Been in beta for a couple months, working as
| always on that elusive product-market fit.
|
| Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our
| clients. Lots of interesting work these days "in" AI, plenty of
| cool stuff going on in health tech.
|
| Got something cool you need devs for? Always happy to talk shop
| -- wyatt at apsis dot io.
| hyferg wrote:
| Reproducing this cheap optogenetic rig to control e. coli gene
| expression using light.
|
| https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.13.499906v1
| rekoros wrote:
| I've been working on (with a couple of friends) a one-click
| observability solution for Supabase: https://supafana.com
|
| This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for
| Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!
| jasondigitized wrote:
| Building a word game for my mom: https://little-riddle.com/
| hm8 wrote:
| My friends and I have been working on building our website --
| https://bigbeans.ai It's leetcode for ML/AI space. We believe
| that a lot of software engineers are interested in learning about
| GenAI and like us learn by solving problems. :)
| therediterator wrote:
| Hey, good work. One small feedback, after logging in (from
| mobile) it took me to the profile section rather than listing
| problems. I was expecting it to redirect to the problems
| section. From there, it was tough to find the section. That
| displays problems.
| hm8 wrote:
| Thank you, I'll address it right away!
| vik08 wrote:
| I've been working on Style.ai, an app that helps you dress
| better.
|
| You add a photo of your outfit and get some feedback along with
| ways to improve it.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-ai-outfit-analysis/id647...
| rajatkulk wrote:
| Still working on Octarine (https://octarine.app). Recently
| released Linux images, so more people could try it.
|
| Currently re-writing a bunch of the bundler stuff and how UI
| takes data in for performance improvements, before shifting gears
| to building the Windows version!
| chaosharmonic wrote:
| I've been building local tracking for job search listings[1] in
| my spare time, along with crawlers[2] as data sources. Mostly in
| bursts though, bc I've been juggling fleshing out the project
| with actually using the data. (On a related note, the current
| working state of the backend hasn't been pushed in a while, and
| still reconsidering the name.) It's mostly been an API up to this
| point, and most recently I've been chipping away at a frontend to
| accompany that, which is _beginning_ to be useful on a personal
| level. In particular, I just got file upload working. But long-
| term, I see it as a hybrid between Tinder and a CRM (and I
| already have "swipe" animations working if not the actual touch
| handling), where you can bring your own data on jobs and
| companies -- however you get that, because I'm sure you can find
| better scraping processes -- and have a way of organizing them.
|
| It's a lot of experiments. On the frontend, I'm dispensing with
| any design systems or styling libraries, and have opted for
| vanilla CSS and hand-rolled animations. I'm using React for now,
| just to get it scaffolded faster with tools I know already, but
| I've been eyeing a few others, for reasons that range from a
| standing curiosity about Web Components to new ones about
| signals. The backend stack is all Deno-based: it includes Astral
| for any scraping needs you might have, uses Oak for routing, and
| leverages kvdex for storage. (I also contributed `model.getOne`
| and `model.updateOne` to the latter as part of initially getting
| duplicate detection working.) My goal is to keep the whole thing
| light on external dependencies, outside of a few pragmatic
| options, and generally work more directly with platform or
| runtime (or in Deno's case stdlib) functionality where feasible.
|
| I otherwise rebuilt my website over the last few months, using
| Lume for static site generation with similar aims about shipping
| something generally lighter (the content there is all Markdown,
| and so far, everything but the syntax highlighting and the ToC
| generation are built by hand). Additionally, I've been using it
| as a home for writing[3][4][5] and not just code, so that I have
| some other things I can show off. (The last one made the front
| page a couple weeks ago!)
|
| [1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/escapeHatch
|
| [2] https://bhmt.dev/blog/scraping
|
| [3] https://bhmt.dev/blog/markdown
|
| [4] https://bhmt.dev/blog/osquery
|
| [5] https://bhmt.dev/blog/sonic_pi
| nabilt wrote:
| I started working on my opensource water meter again
| (https://y-drip.com/). Hardware is basically done so I'm working
| on the backend website for those that don't want to setup their
| own server. More technical details here:
| https://hackaday.io/project/191398-ydrip
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| Very cool!
| moridin wrote:
| Working on an advertising and marketing strategy platform with my
| brother comprising a series of apps that accelerate workflows and
| time to insight using AI.
| ahaapple wrote:
| I'm building MemFree, https://www.memfree.me/
|
| The open source project: https://github.com/memfreeme/memfree
|
| An Open Source Hybrid AI Search Engine: Instantly get accurate
| answers from the internet, bookmarks, notes, and documents.
| Obtain the most precise answers in the shortest time. With one
| click, AI indexes your personal knowledge base, eliminating the
| need to remember or manage it.
| enceladus06 wrote:
| My primary focus is my PhD research.
|
| I'm developing a tool using GPT-4o to help draft outlines for
| small-business and institutional grant applications.
|
| I'm also working on a solution to fix prior authorizations in the
| insurance industry, fix scheduling surgeries due to insurance
| network database inconsistencies.
| ridgeguy wrote:
| I'm a materials science/engineering critter. I'm working on a new
| method of making single-crystal diamond slabs up to 300mm
| diameter.
| tw0shay wrote:
| Work in regulated manufacturing industry, deploying off-the-shelf
| operational technology systems (think Siemens, Emerson, Rockwell,
| Honeywell, Aveva, etc.). Been building a software stack to
| automate building the custom documentation / validation the
| businesses who buy and deploy that software. Excited about its
| potential to cut down and the least favorite part of the job that
| engineers and those businesses have, when trying to improve
| things by deploying software or making changes
| xiaodai wrote:
| A duckdb clone implemented in julia
| Who_99 wrote:
| I am working on turning my theory into a code. I have a theory on
| how the brain works. Do not criticize me, even i know how it
| sounds.
| theendisney4 wrote:
| Makes me wonder what and how many projects and theories there
| are that one probably shouldnt bother to mention.
| underbooter wrote:
| Congratulations.
| tpae wrote:
| blockchain street racing sim game - https://enzo.gg/
| henning wrote:
| Stenography/text expansion app that emulates a Bluetooth
| keyboard. Combines regular character entry, stenography, and fast
| autocomplete using an N-gram language model (lower latency than
| an LLM, more transparent/debuggable, no need to cap vocabulary
| size for embedding).
| henry2023 wrote:
| I'm constructing my house alongside a small crew, who are guiding
| me through the process of welding, erecting brick walls, and
| laying porcelain tiles. While I'm definitely slowing them down,
| it's been an incredibly rewarding experience.
| anonyonoor wrote:
| I'm working on Facebook.js, a new API wrapper for the Facebook
| API.
|
| http://github.com/leftmove/facebook.js
|
| I was working with the Facebook API for another project, but I
| was surprised that a website as popular as Facebook had
| exclusively old API wrappers for it, that all required too much
| setup, and were cumbersome to write code with.
|
| I wanted a better approach using the standards I have come to
| appreciate with modern API wrappers, and so I decided to start
| work on a more intuitive, faster approach for the Facebook API.
|
| My initial launch goal is to allow for programmatic
| authentication, posting, and commenting, all with one setup
| command through a CLI.
| RomanPushkin wrote:
| New computer game for blind and visually impaired people. I have
| computer prototype, but working on hardware to make it happen.
| Unfortunately, hardware isn't easy to tackle, I need to create
| custom keyboard-like buttons.
|
| If you think about games, there is handful of them for blind and
| visually impaired players. But things got more interesting when
| keyboard is your screen.
| asicsp wrote:
| I published a revised version of my "Vim Reference Guide" ebook:
| https://learnbyexample.github.io/vim_reference/Introduction....
|
| Then, I started working on an interactive TUI app for Python
| beginner exercises. I've previously written such apps for CLI
| tools (grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc):
| https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
| mishu2 wrote:
| Professionally, I recently founded a startup focusing on
| education in dentistry. I've developed a platform to discuss and
| interact with cases online which I use for my own teaching, and
| thought other might also be interested. I've made some of the
| custom components (image editor, 3D viewer) freely available:
| https://kigun.org/
|
| Personally, I'm building a website which lets you quickly setup
| personal online dashboards, because I wanted to have an overview
| of all the sites I refresh often on one page:
| https://frankendash.com/
| notamy wrote:
| Myself! I ended up with an incredibly severe health issue due to
| repeated mismanagement/misdiagnosis by doctors over the last 5+
| years, and now that I finally know what's wrong I can treat it
| effectively and maybe even recover.
| jw_cook wrote:
| Congrats on escaping misdiagnosis purgatory. I can empathize.
| Did anything in particular help you finally find the help you
| needed?
| jvanderbot wrote:
| I'm making a cyberpunk-like ttrpg system, that should be roughly
| backwards compatible with the old gear catalogs. But it adds
| better progressions, some fairly innovative (I think) die rolling
| systems that make better use of party skills, and a number of
| ways that roleplay changes the rules, and visa versa.
| kdickey wrote:
| I just (like today) started working on an open-source, self-
| hosted, e2e encrypted, and free password manager.
|
| I'm writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow
| custom frontends. I will also be building "official" frontends
| for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.
|
| The main reason I'm doing this is because I don't like the UI of
| other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the
| security of cloud options.
|
| Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don't have much (not
| even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github,
| https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords
|
| My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with
| the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a
| clean and elegant experience.
|
| LMK what you think!
| denysvitali wrote:
| Honest question, what's wrong with Vaultwarden?
| zhoujianfu wrote:
| I had an idea for this you might want to consider adding: store
| the passwords/keys in the client, no server... but then
| shamir's secret sharing to shard them along your contacts.
|
| So when you open the app it asks you to choose five (?) friends
| you trust (who don't know each other) from your contacts and
| it'll ask them to install the app to help you store your
| secrets.
|
| Then if you ever lose your phone or whatever when you reinstall
| the app you just have to remember at least three (?) of the
| five people you trusted and then will be able to restore your
| keys!
|
| It would also ping the other contacts when open to make sure
| they still have your shards and redistribute them as you
| add/change/delete them.
| Narciss wrote:
| Good luck!
| abhishaike wrote:
| A biology/machine-learning blog!
|
| https://www.owlposting.com/
|
| Rediscovering an old love for writing that I thought had left me
| after highschool, now applied in the field I work in! Recommend
| starting your own blog if you're on the fence + being consistent
| about posting, it's extremely worth it
| frabjoused wrote:
| I'm building an integration platform, think Zapier or Workato.
|
| We've been hand coding full-service integration workflows for 2+
| years on a large B2B agency model, and in parallel have been
| building a platform using what we've learned to build better
| abstractions.
|
| We're at an interesting point where almost all new workflows are
| being built on the platform, and we're serving over 100 clients.
|
| We're prepping for public release in the next few months.
| csomar wrote:
| I am working on a git merge conflict resolution tool. If this is
| a problem you have, feel free to shot me an email. Still very
| early stages.
| emporas wrote:
| I don't know if you are aware of Pijul. It claims to have
| solved some issues with git merge. It is one of the tools i
| want to study, use and test extensively at some point.
| csomar wrote:
| No, but from a quick glance it looks like an alternative to
| git? There might be value in studying their approach. But any
| solution I'll be working on will have to fully work/integrate
| with a regular git workflow.
| emporas wrote:
| Oh, if operating within git boundaries is a requirement,
| then a different version control system is no good.
|
| The claim is, that pijul's merge of code is much better and
| simpler than git. Merges are idempotent and associative if
| i remember correctly. It cannot get much better than that.
| csomar wrote:
| The reality is that most people are using git at the
| moment. I am looking to create a product that I'll be
| able to market and sell (rather something that I have fun
| R&Ding), so the git boundary is a requirement.
| kevin_am wrote:
| I'm learning the course about SEO. I have never heard of this
| term until now.
|
| Although some people say the SEO is dead and does not work
| anymore, I am still spending effort on it and building BMW VIN
| Decoder https://bmwvindecode.com/ to learn by doing.
| randomcatuser wrote:
| nice! i need to learn SEO too. how are you doing it?
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| Analyzing data to assess Frontoparietal - default mode network
| interactions in intellectual disability in autism.
| ahstilde wrote:
| I'm trying to figure out how to safely and effectively add
| hallucination-free LLM generation to medical care at my company:
| https://www.wyndly.com/
|
| Been playing with RAG on my co-founder's medical expertise.
| cowpin wrote:
| Working on https://cowpin.com
|
| For the last decade or longer, I have been using pinboard.io, and
| I wanted to add a few more features. I just launched the landing
| page, and that's a start!
| tunesmith wrote:
| I have this creative writing website where writing friends can
| write branching fiction novels together. Sorta like choose-your-
| own-adventure, but more literary - third person past tense,
| actual characters and narrative arcs. Configurable number of
| choices at the bottom of every chapter, and as you're reading, if
| the choice label doesn't link to a chapter yet, you can write it.
| It's been floating around since 1996 or so, so my big project
| lately has been upgrading it. v1 was perl and gdmb files. v2 was
| php and codeigniter, and it's been limping along there for
| several years. When ChatGPT came out, I rewrote the whole thing
| for scala/play and that was super fun. Moved from ubuntu14 to
| ubuntu20, mysql5.5 to 8.0, etc. I'm done with the rewrite now but
| am still messing around with launching it, upgrading to ubuntu22
| (done today), figuring out if I want to update jvm/scala/play
| before launching, etc. All this for only a group of six writers
| (so far)! But collectively we've written more than 425 chapters
| across a handful of stories, 450,000 words, and had a lot of
| laughs. I even wrote a snazzy graph visualization thing that
| animates the structure of the story maps. After I finish
| launching the thing on hardware/software that actually isn't EOL,
| I might open up membership to others.
| randomcatuser wrote:
| super cool!!
| dzink wrote:
| You may be afraid to launch such a long labor of love to the
| rest of the world and that may be keeping your learning and
| progress down.
| Narciss wrote:
| Love this! Please release it, perfect is the enemy of good
| tunesmith wrote:
| Funny story, I had it released in the mid-90s. There are
| versions of it still on the wayback machine. You younger
| folks might not realize this but there was a time where there
| were a lot of fun internet happenings, and there was no spam.
| People hadn't figured out how to spam yet. There were also no
| T&C's or laws governing membership accounts. The first
| version of my site had no membership accounts. People would
| just create a chapter and assign a password for that chapter
| so no one else could edit it. And it was on GDBM, which could
| only handle one simultaneous connection.
|
| Eventually, two things happened: the site got busy enough
| that people started experiencing errors when trying to
| submit/edit to the same story at the same time, and, spammers
| started realizing they could write chapters about certain
| erectile dysfunction medications. :) They also guessed some
| chapter passwords and overwrote them.
|
| I didn't have a quick fix for this, plus I had ignored the
| site for a while, so by the time I realized, the site was
| overrun with spam and all my authors (who I had no way of
| contacting, remember: no user accounts) had disappeared.
|
| So I took it offline for twenty years. I had copious backups,
| and over time I would reconstruct the story history. I had
| learned php by then from my career, and so I started
| rewriting the whole thing, which was honestly a huge project,
| especially because now every chapter has revision history. I
| had tried relaunching the site a couple of times without
| attracting any writers.
|
| Then Covid happened and I was able to relaunch it and find
| writers. It's been fun since then. I have approximately zero
| commercial intent for this; I can't bear to turn on ads in
| the middle of an immersive reading/writing experience. Maybe
| someday paid accounts for extra features or a share of the
| copyright. My most fun idea for any sort of revenue is
| printed books for completed stories, or a mobile app "reader"
| with more features than ebook software. I think a wide
| release could be counterproductive since all the members
| currently kind of know each other, chat on Discord, and have
| writing nights. So it'll probably be a slow invite sort of
| thing.
| n1c wrote:
| This sounds fun! Every now and then I re-start a similar
| project, but where you just write 3 words at a time in a story
| :)
| tunesmith wrote:
| I like this too! Kind of like those picture drawing games we
| used to play as kids, someone draws the head and neck and
| folds it over, someone else continues the lines... it always
| ends up in something crazy but entertaining.
| rashidujang wrote:
| I've been struggling to find a workflow that can easily extract
| knowledge and insights from audio content on the web and sync it
| with note-taking systems such as Notion, Readwise or Obsidian, so
| I decided to create a system that transcribes the audio,
| summarizes it and shares it with other applications.
|
| Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the
| vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to
| support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such
| as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-
| taking forms.
|
| It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch
| soon!
| drzzhan wrote:
| Reading chapter 3 of taocp (in vol 2). Randomness sparks
| something in my brain for some reason. It's nice to see Knuth
| already said something about what is a random sequence.
| sentinel1909 wrote:
| Compared to the majority of what I read below, I'm a rank amateur
| and have no right to post.
|
| I'll do it anyway, as I need to learn to own where I'm at and
| have a backbone. :)
|
| I'm learning the Zola static site generator and using to to build
| my blog at https://jeff-mitchell.dev. The focus is my mis-
| adventures learning the Rust language.
|
| I've found it a challenge to get off my feet with Zola, but I'm
| slowly figuring things out. Little victory this evening, finally
| figured out how to get images linked in posts to render properly.
| jfil wrote:
| Hey, you're doing great - keep going!
| KTibow wrote:
| Trying to make my own thing that transcribes what I hear
| throughout my day. A lot of it is just finding an efficient stack
| (eg choosing silero instead of pyannote, azure vms instead of
| apis, whisper.cpp instead of faster whisper)
| icdtea wrote:
| I'm working on a little mobile game which surrounds locating and
| collecting VW beetles 'spots'.
|
| I've been spending a lot of time in Mexico over the last year and
| have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW
| Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the
| country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and
| how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape.
|
| I realized I had a sort of hyper-niche problem where I was
| locating Vochos I'd like to shoot when I wasn't carrying my
| camera. I was getting annoyed with using Google Maps to list
| locations I'd like to return and shoot so I spent a weekend
| putting the app together and turning it into a game.
|
| After using the app for a few weeks I've realized the spotting or
| hunting of the cars is the part I enjoy the most about my project
| and when I have the time I'd like to publicize it so others who
| find themselves in Vocho dense area can check it out if they'd
| like!
| foreigner wrote:
| Sounds bruising.
| icdtea wrote:
| Care to elaborate?
| foreigner wrote:
| Sorry, I'm showing my age. When I was a boy it was common
| to play "slug bug". Sighting a Volkswagen Beetle was an
| excuse to punch your friend/sibling in the shoulder without
| retribution.
| icdtea wrote:
| Ahh got you? Now that I think about it I have vague
| memories of such a game, just with another name perhaps.
| myspeed wrote:
| Building blazing speed VPN in less than 1000 lines of code:
| https://github.com/dvasanth/kadugu
| myspeed wrote:
| Building Blazing speed VPN in less than 1000 lines of code:
| https://github.com/dvasanth/kadugu
| henlo wrote:
| I'm building a free library of website components and templates:
| https://uisual.com/. People can simply copy-and-paste the
| Tailwind CSS, Figma, and Framer into their own projects. No
| attribution, no sign up required.
|
| I'm a designer, and this is my first Vue project. Super happy and
| proud of it. This is a way for me to learn coding. I'm working on
| improving the project by adding a simple website builder where
| people can edit the components and templates directly.
| sunnybeetroot wrote:
| Loved this when it was shared in its own post recently. One
| piece of feedback is the bottom toolbar covers some of the
| content on mobile. I think ideally some extra padding on the
| bottom of the site would be needed when on mobile. Example:
| https://imgur.com/a/VXdtJ3m
| darrelld wrote:
| So back in 2021 I built a loyalty platform for a chain of gas
| stations in the Caribbean. Thought it would be a quick
| deliverable, then hands off.
|
| It's turning into a full time side gig that's paid off in handful
| of batches (~$25K and running)
|
| I'm trying to become a loyalty vendor API.
|
| Would really like to work on my own interconnected systems of
| blogging tools and social media. Kinda a blend between having
| your own site and myspace? Not really targeting a market or
| anything like that, just think it would be cool to do for
| personal use and sharing with family and friends
| wyclif wrote:
| I'd really like to hear more about how this works and how you
| got it off the ground.
| CrispinPowers wrote:
| Interesting. Can you share more?
| spuds wrote:
| Helping others with their mental health (after my own struggles).
|
| Worked as a software dev/manager for a decade, went through
| workaholism, burnout, then alcoholism, depression, all that.
| Doing a ton better now, and taking some time off to write about
| what I went through and hopefully help out others going through
| the same thing some: https://depthsofrepair.com/
| nowami wrote:
| This is helpful to me (and many others, I'm sure) and I look
| forward to reading more. Subscribed.
| strzibny wrote:
| I work on three things currently.
|
| Tube and Chill - https://tubeandchill.com
|
| It's something like IMDB for YouTube with recommendations and
| browsability without algoritms.
|
| Test Driving Rails - https://testdrivingrails.com
|
| My new book on testing Rails with the default stack - Minitest
| and fixtures.
|
| Business Class 2.0 - https://businessclasskit.com
|
| A starter kit for Rails apps. I am now slowly working on 2.0.
|
| If you have some comments, especially on Tube and Chill, I would
| appreciate them.
| yqiang wrote:
| I'm building FitBee (https://apple.co/4aGUw5X) - a simple and
| user friendly alternative to MyFitnessPal. It's been really fun
| trying to figure out how to build the most frictionless food
| tracking app possible. I just launched a feature where you can
| get a calorie & macro estimate by taking a photo of your meal and
| am working on several improvements to it.
|
| I have a small amount of experience building iOS apps but have
| never done anything with a backend before. This project is fairly
| backend heavy, so it's been quite a journey learning how to do
| everything from setting up a database to deciphering
| elasticsearch.
| willhackett wrote:
| I'm working on a pretty cool private equity platform at Pactio.
|
| It's probably the most complicated product I've ever worked on.
| The team is incredible & I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly
| talented people. Our head of engineering is a fantastic person
| too, so it makes working here so easy!
|
| In my spare time I'm working on an AI assistant. I thought I
| would try sell it first, but given the ramp uptake I'll probably
| open source it.
| unreppedfounder wrote:
| I'm building www.unrepped.co - an AI-assisted home buying tool
| for buyers without agents.
| randomcatuser wrote:
| Last week I made an in-browser notes editor using TipTap &
| InstantDB! (https://owri.netlify.app/) - the idea is, you can
| keep all the notes locally and publish only the ones you want.
| Some things I'd like: - keep track of your writing streak?
| graphs? - publish your personal site/blog - Write one-off HTML
| websites that're really just docs+links
|
| Basically a pretty+easy editor! I'm really enjoying building the
| small features
| https://owri.netlify.app/share/25a7d985-7cd5-4217-9766-f5296...
|
| Feel free to tell me if there's anything you want!!
|
| New idea: So currently I'm trying to learn leetcodes, but
| thinking of alternative/structured ways to do it. What if there's
| an AI-powered book that's basically like your personal Wikipedia
| into anything?
|
| You start with a topic, it generates you outlines/courses -- and
| what'd be great is if this was social, like you can see what
| everyone else is learning about, what nodes they're expanding...
|
| and make notes on topics and ask questions
| arjun_krishna1 wrote:
| Last week I made my first contribution to an open-source LLM
| vulnerability scanner Garak: https://github.com/leondz/garak
|
| I'm working on adding some more probes checking for package
| hallucination in ruby gems and npm packages
|
| I'm also starting my final year of engineering at the University
| of Waterloo :)
| breckognize wrote:
| I've been working on a better spreadsheet for a while now.
| https://rowzero.io is 1000x faster spreadsheet than Excel/Google
| Sheets. It looks and feels like those products but can open multi
| GB data sets, supports Python natively, and can also connect
| directly to Snowflake/Databricks/Redshift.
| codetiger wrote:
| Super excited to share one of my side projects that's finally
| ready for action! Meet PowerTiger--a powerful, open-source energy
| monitoring solution built around the RPi Pico W and a custom
| built PCB. It's perfect for tracking power consumption in real-
| time across 16 power terminals. Installed it at home to collect
| power consumption metrics using Grafana and Prometheus running on
| RPi home server.
|
| https://github.com/codetiger/PowerTiger
| Foreignborn wrote:
| This is VERY cool. What made you pursue this instead of other
| energy monitoring solutions?
| sidcool wrote:
| Myself. Getting over a burnout and nervous breakdown.
| JoeOfTexas wrote:
| I like leaderboards, and its a bit sad that Redis is the only
| optimal database for leaderboards. So, I'm attempting a drunken
| version of a statistic database that tracks stats and
| leaderboards in realtime. I guess the only major defining quality
| would be that in one step I can get both the sorted scores +
| entire row of linked user data.
|
| For redis this is two steps: `ZRANGE leaderb 1 100` + `GET x1 x2
| x3 x4 ... x100`.
|
| It's mostly a refresher for deep C++ doodling, but maybe I'll use
| it in production for kicks.
| kureikain wrote:
| I'm working on my email forwarding app https://mailwip.com to
| enhance and control my email.
|
| Working on adding many small features such as webhook, email
| parser.
| DDoSQc wrote:
| I've been messing around with an e-ink Spectra 6 full colour
| display. Colours are so much better than Gallery, but the
| contrast isn't as good. Still makes for better looking photos.
| I'm merging support in my DIY smart picture frame project this
| weekend (https://github.com/DDoS/Cadre).
|
| I'm trying to get my hands on a larger display, but man does the
| e-ink public documentation suck. Still looking for some actual
| complete documentation and sample driver schematics for the 13"
| and larger models.
| treyd wrote:
| Have been working on a protocol library [1] meant to be a
| substitute for "JSON-RPC over HTTP/WebSocket". Part of the goal
| is to more natively support byte-oriented data structures and
| reduce overheads. It supports a bidirectional HTTP2-style
| "channel" concept, but without making any assumptions about how
| they're meant to be used. It also can be configured to require
| authentication of the client and/or server, but punts secrecy to
| a lower-level transport protocol. It uses Rust macros to generate
| traits and wrappers to make the ergonomics fairly easy.
|
| Currently I've built a call/response RPC abstraction with it to
| use it for another project that I'm working on. Eventually I'd
| want to add a streaming message system beyond the basic
| call/response pattern. I also might like to ship some easy setup
| to bridge between these protocol abstractions and ZMQ, JSON-RPC,
| be able to behave like inetd, etc.
|
| It's functional enough to use in non-production environments but
| not completely seriously yet. I'm working out the kinks and
| improving the DX by using it for that other project. There's
| still some easy improvements around the byte encoding that I
| still haven't gotten to yet.
|
| [1] https://codeberg.org/treyd/ecksport
| creativeCak3 wrote:
| Scrolling shooter "clone" of Strike Gunner S.T.G game.
|
| https://github.com/thebigG/Gunner
|
| It's got long ways to go before being "complete", but I'm
| enjoying the heck out of working on this. I like working on
| things that aren't tied to money/serious job because they remind
| myself of the joy in programming :)
| bpsagar wrote:
| I'm a software engineer with a passion for pencil portraits
| (https://bpsagar.github.io/sketch). As an artist, I've often
| thought that a companion sketching app could help beginners and
| intermediate artists improve their process.
|
| I'm currently working on an app that provides a step-by-step
| guide to drawing from a reference photo. My goal is to make the
| sketching process more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
| elric wrote:
| As someone who has always been absolutely awful at sketching,
| this sounds pretty interesting. Is there a mailing list or some
| other type of notification I can sign up to?
| bpsagar wrote:
| Thanks for expressing your interest. I've registered the
| domain Portrait.Coach, but it's not live yet. If you're
| interested in staying updated, please share your contact
| details using the form: https://tally.so/r/npNGy3
|
| I'll email you as soon as the website is launched!
| cpburns2009 wrote:
| Catching up with the most recent versions of Minecraft for my
| Prometheus exporter mod, and adding support for more modding
| APIs.
| ralphc wrote:
| I'm one of the people working on Prodigy Reloaded
| (https://prodigyreloaded.com), recreating the Prodigy server to
| work with the client software in DOS and Mac. The new server
| software is written in Elixir.
|
| My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps
| using current news and weather information. The most interesting
| part for me has been deciphering the 1980's era graphics format,
| NAPLPS, which Prodigy uses and making a library to write files in
| the format. I treat the file format as a data transformation,
| taking the NAPLPS file generated so far and appending more
| commands to the end of it. The commands naturally pipe into each
| other in an idiomatic way in Elixir.
| chrisstanchak wrote:
| Web interface as well? Prodigy was great.
| ralphc wrote:
| The Prodigy PC client runs in Dosbox, it's how we do most of
| our testing. If we, or someone, can get dosbox working in a
| browser then it's possible. But when it's displayed at
| vintage computer festivals period-appropriate hardware is
| used.
| shubhamjain wrote:
| I am working on a simple image-hosting service. Imagine Imgur,
| but you can backlink. Additionally, you can resize, crop, and
| optimize images on the fly. Here's a sample PNG being served as
| WEBP[1] reduced from 1.5MB to 75KB (no visible reduction in
| quality, original image [2])
|
| Not a sexy idea, of course. However, I couldn't find any solution
| that fit my needs for my SSG blog. Services like Cloudinary, and
| Imagekit are too developer-focused, and popular image sharing
| websites like Imgur don't allow backlinking.
|
| [1]:
| https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
|
| [2]:
| https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
| KingOfCoders wrote:
| Inkmi - Dream Jobs for #CTOs https://www.inkmi.com
|
| Go/Alpine/HTMX/Postgres, Modulith
| masto wrote:
| I have been making YouTube videos about a project I built a
| couple of years ago. It took a while to find the time and the
| right approach to documenting it, but I'm finally happy with the
| results.
|
| The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second
| is coming out tomorrow)
|
| And it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee
|
| I also recently left the Big Tech world after 11 years at Google,
| so I'm trying to figure out what comes next. (I don't think I can
| make professional YouTuber pay the bills). If it's not
| inappropriate to mention here, my resume is at
| https://hire.masto.me/
| witslectric wrote:
| You could sell these displays probably. I certainly wouldn't
| mind having and playing with one through python etc
| fatliverfreddy wrote:
| I'm working on Cyphernetes [1] which is a new query language for
| working with the Kubernetes API with a focus on highly connected
| operations. It's inspired by Neo4j's Cypher and views Kubernetes
| as a connected graph of resources.
|
| It allows querying multiple resource kinds via their
| relationships (i.e. replicaset owns pod, service exposes
| deployment...) and easily crafting custom response payloads.
|
| Lately I've introduced aggregation functions and the ability to
| visualize query results using ascii art.
|
| This is a daily driver for me and I'm now mostly focused around
| features that will make it a complete kubectl alternative.
|
| [1] https://github.com/AvitalTamir/cyphernetes/
| opendomain wrote:
| I am working on a new type of NFTs.
|
| I found a way to add code to NFTs. The simplest way to understand
| it is that it is similar to Adobe flash.
|
| I know that NFTs are down, but I have invented a way to add
| actual utility. I call them xNFTS - executable non fungible
| tokens. Imagine the famous Ape or Penguin NFTs - by adding my
| technology, the NFTs can change images, play music, or play games
| without installing anything.
|
| I got a patent on the process and they work on any blockchain- or
| even off. the market is down, but I am very excited about tying
| web2 with web3.
|
| If anyone wants to join or learn more, let me know
| mauerbac wrote:
| I'm building a service that helps event DJs engage with
| partygoers and take song requests over text message. It is SMS
| based as guests won't want to download an app just to send a
| request in. https://requestnow.io/
|
| Try the demo and let me know what you think!
| stretch07 wrote:
| this is so cool! I'm recommending this to my friend who DJs for
| a living.
| mauerbac wrote:
| Thank you!!
| jppope wrote:
| We just had a kid... trying to make his entrance into the world
| pleasant.
| svieira wrote:
| Congratulations!
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| A Jenkins replacement in Python (I hate Jenkins with the fire of
| a thousand suns, and it will never die as long as nothing appears
| to take its place). I've dropped it for the moment while I'm
| building a custom truck camper (which will also go on GitHub once
| my FreeCAD plans are done)
| s3arch wrote:
| Making android based TV consoles to play top Android games using
| key mapper mapping from touch to gamepad.
| ChicagoDave wrote:
| Interactive Fiction authoring platform (sharpee) built in C# 8
| and mostly coded iteratively using Claude Sonnet 3.5.
|
| V.01 close to ready.
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| I'm writing a programming language.
| https://github.com/coreyp1/CTang (probably will be moved
| eventually).
|
| It's meant to be a scripting language to be embedded in another
| program, generating HTML. Eventually I hope to make a CMS and
| this be my solution for easy templating.
|
| Technical details: Written in C, the language has an x86_64 JIT
| compiler, but falls back to a bytecode VM so it should work on
| any architecture. The language itself is dynamically typed and
| garbage collected. Currently at 20K LOC (not counting blank lines
| or comments), with good test coverage and checking for memory
| leaks. It's been quite enjoyable!
| twoperkg wrote:
| I am still working on https://textsniper.app
| k2m wrote:
| Wanted to say this is a very cool app. I use it all the time to
| capture information from images. Nice to meet you!
| twoperkg wrote:
| Thank you so much for the kind words about TextSniper! I'm
| really glad to hear you find it useful and use it frequently.
| It's always rewarding to know the app is helping people in
| their day-to-day work.
| patrulek wrote:
| Im upgrading avx2 to avx512 (where possible) in my
| reimplementation of RandomX algorithm:
| https://github.com/patrulek/modernRX
| piotrkaminski wrote:
| I'm building an open source implementation of the Firebase RTDB
| server, that will be wire-compatible with Google's. This means
| that all the (already open sourced) SDKs will work pretty much as
| is, over REST or websockets. Security rules will also be fully
| supported. (The only meaningful caveat is that it's just the
| RTDB, so you need to deal with authentication yourself, and kinda
| shoehorn it into the existing APIs.)
| tomaspollak wrote:
| Figuring out how to add game boxart and screenshots to my
| recently-relaunched MIDI and chiptune player:
| https://pixeltune.org/
|
| It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to
| reliably determine the matching game for files like
| /pub/johnny/midi/games/sc2kmenu.mid, and also to show them in a
| way that fits nicely in the UI.
| tachibana wrote:
| A no-code tool to create/maintain visual end-to-end UI tests.
| Twirrim wrote:
| Nothing new, I've found myself diving in to Project Euler again.
| https://projecteuler.net/
|
| The set of puzzles is really tickling my fancy at the moment, for
| some reason.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| -- I'm still curating my newsletter / post series focused on
| humans and their blogs to help people rediscover that part of the
| web (https://peopleandblogs.com)
|
| -- I'm working on a second newsletter that's more discovery
| oriented but still focused on the personal web space
|
| -- I'm setting up a private, invite only discourse forum to
| create a space where people can hang out and connect in a more
| meaningful way
|
| -- I'm working on a new studio site in collaboration with a
| friend
| briansm wrote:
| Experiments with speech compression/processing. The modern
| approach to this (and pretty much everything else) is to
| transform the input data into a high-dimensional space, throw it
| into a neural net and cross your fingers. (the 'Whisper' STT runs
| in 512-dimensional space!). It works, but it's hardly elegant or
| compute-efficient. There's a certain art in doing things the 'old
| way', even if a million years of evolution decided neural-nets
| were the one true path.
| rojasdiego wrote:
| Is there a place where one can get familiar with your work on
| this?
| briansm wrote:
| God no, the internet SNR is low enough as it is without all
| my failed experiments, lol.
| GauntletWizard wrote:
| I'm trying to bring the encryption benefits of MTLS, the security
| of X509 Name Constraints, and the improvements that have been
| made in the various clients libraries and operating systems to
| TLS behavior into a nice group, so that any small company, or
| even individual, can run their own CA infrastructure that puts
| the bug enterprises to shame (specifically,
| https://enroll.visaca.com/ already deserves a lot of shame).
|
| I'm doing so by making it easier to mint certificates for your
| pods in k8s
| (https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls/-/tree/master), by
| writing documentation on how to create good root certs with cheap
| HSM backed keys, updating cfssl to work with name constraints
| (https://github.com/GauntletWizard/cfssl/tree/ted/constraints),
| and building tools to issue short-lived certificates to
| developers.
| zeta0134 wrote:
| I'm putting the finishing touches on the major engine pieces for
| my NES game Tactus. (https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus) The level
| generation is all working, there's a new raster effect system
| that can do nifty screen-slides and distortions, the dynamic
| lighting is more performant, and I'm at the point where it's time
| to shift gears and start making a bunch of content.
|
| The one zone that's in the game is looking more polished than
| ever, but it's not going to be much of a game if there are only 4
| levels. Next month is all about stage art, enemy design, and
| items to flesh out the new economy systems. Hopefully it all
| comes together, we'll see. It's a ton of pixel art, and I'm still
| learning my way around that craft.
| ckugblenu wrote:
| I've been working on BatchWizard, a CLI tool for managing OpenAI
| batch processing jobs. It lets you easily upload files, create
| batch jobs, check status, and download results - all from the
| command line. Handles multiple jobs concurrently with async
| processing. I built it to simplify working with OpenAI's batch
| APIs. Check it out on GitHub if you're interested:
| https://github.com/cmakafui/batchwizard
| petabyt wrote:
| One of my things is a C-based alternative to react native.
| https://github.com/petabyt/libui-touch Completely unfinished and
| incapable.
| joakim0 wrote:
| I have some side projects that I work on alongside my regular
| job.
|
| - TheFile.Ninja, which is a file manager with the Everything
| indexer built-in for extremely fast information retrieval. This
| allows you to quickly run file queries, and these queries can
| then be saved or even added as folders in the file system. When
| you open the folder, it automatically fills with the contents
| from the query. I have also created a service with LLM/AI that
| translates plain text into Everything's query language. This
| enables you to build very complex queries directly from plain
| text. For example, you can ask if any directories contain a
| certain file, and if this file is found and contains specific
| text, it will be displayed. You can learn more about the project
| at: https://thefile.ninja or watch https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk.
| This summer, I also built three smaller games (not fully finished
| but almost):
|
| - ThrustMe!, a space/underwater cave exploration game
| (https://youtu.be/M0d7CSpEJ1E). It works on Android, Web,
| Windows, and possibly soon on iOS.
|
| - MergeQuanta, a Tetris-like game where you merge matching blocks
| (color + shape) to make them disappear, taking surrounding blocks
| with the same shape along with them. There are also cement blocks
| and bombs. The game works well with touch and stylus but also on
| regular computers (https://youtu.be/VXvpzhi8ySE).
|
| - Flip the Maze, a simple multi-dimensional maze game
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVRB0uAPIE).
|
| What do you think about them?
| rezolva wrote:
| I am adding some more details about the projects.. The caves in
| the ThrustMe levels are fully procedural, every time you start
| the game you will get a new cave. I'll drop a link to a
| playable alpha-build (with bugs and it is untweaked so wait for
| the real release) on the web: https://thefile.ninja/thrust.htm
|
| About QuantaMerge, this game is actually using a Physics engine
| for the falling blocks, it is not a regular Tetris clone..
| meixger wrote:
| How does FileNinja compare to Total Commander?
| rezolva wrote:
| Total Commander was the original inspiration for
| thefile.ninja, but over time the context has moved more and
| more. The program should be easy to handle if you have used
| total commander., same keys, etc. However, the program has a
| much more modern interface and it is above all much faster in
| searches. It is so fast in searches that you can use searches
| as your own folders in the program.
| shikaan wrote:
| A game engine for coders.
|
| It comes with a set of tool for your IDE (currently only VSCode)
| where you can draw sprites, compose music, make SFX right next to
| your code.
|
| It's still not in v1, it's also my first "serious" C++ project,
| and life got in the way lately -- I haven't made significant
| progress in the last month or so
|
| https://github.com/latebit/latebit-engine
| bubblyworld wrote:
| I've been taking a (mental) break from programming and doing a
| lot more climbing, getting back into my body. After twenty years
| of boulder/sport/trad/big wall I've drifted into the dark art of
| rope solo. It's an wild way to climb that really appeals to my
| engineering brain - lots of deep knowledge about gear and the
| mountain intertwined with various logistical puzzles. Very
| rewarding when it works. The latest mission has been optimising
| my system a lot to start tackling bigger stuff.
| pajeets wrote:
| This was refreshing to read. Its great to see many people build
| themselves up on a site fixated on building for others...
| jq-r wrote:
| Thats great to hear. I'm also working on my body after 2 spinal
| surgeries. Doing pilates each day, and additionally weight
| training and cycling on each alternating day.
|
| For a skinny guy who never did any resistance training, this
| transformed my body to a lean, muscular type in what it seems
| to me like overnight. I cannot emphasize enough how good that
| was (and is) for the body. The body at first doesn't like it,
| but giving it a bit of consistency it learns and yearns for it.
|
| The back pains I had are gone and even if they come back here
| and there they are much less intense and more manageable. Doing
| some impromptu exercises for couple of minutes fixes that too.
|
| One of the biggest wtfs I had was when I decided to drill some
| holes in the wall because I was unable to for months after last
| surgery. I've grabbed my battery powered drill from the shed
| and was open mouthed how suddenly _light_ that tool was. I
| literally checked if I 've put the battery on. You don't notice
| the strength gain that much during normal work in the house,
| but do something which you know was heavy before and be amazed.
|
| I definitely credit good people on this site for sharing their
| experiences. At first I thought that only weirdos and meatheads
| do resistance training and always had a mental image of steroid
| laden walking muscles. Then I've read that article where was
| the graph of expected life expectancy for a person taking on
| training in their forties vs not training and it really did
| concern me. As a guy in early forties I didn't want to spend
| the rest of my life with very poor quality of life/mobility. I
| didn't want to be glued to my computer all day long as it would
| virtually be the death of me.
|
| I wanted to write a blog post about this journey (which is
| still short, but memory is fresh;) maybe to help geeks like us
| to see that being in front of the computer all day long is
| terrible. It works when you're young, but it absolutely doesn't
| as you get older. And everyone will get older whatever the
| younger people think. If I knew stuff I know now about fitness
| 20 years ago, I'm sure I would be 5 times more healthier, and I
| wouldn't need any spinal surgeries. But nobody told me anything
| and I thought "doing stuff" on the computer all day long is
| fine. "I'll be mobile and skinny even when much older, what
| else would I need?". Oh boy how wrong was I.
| bubblyworld wrote:
| Awesome, I completely agree - having mobility and use of your
| body is such a blessing. All the best with your recovery =)
| pdyc wrote:
| https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/
|
| it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in
| both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting,
| searching, filtering, and pagination in table view.
|
| Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629
| lormayna wrote:
| I am creating a RAG trained with HN post "Who is hiring". It's
| nothing special, but it's just a simple project to get confident
| with LLMs and prompt engineering
| ahmed_ds wrote:
| I am trying rebuild my virtual assistance business. For the
| longest time I have worked with realtors but the market has gone
| down and finding new contracts are hard.
|
| Trying to move into doing virtual assistance for micropreneurs
| and sideprojects from now on exclusively. Task by task basis or
| regular contracts. Essentially the pitch is assign everything
| that is not sales and product. I think it is a good pitch
| targetted to folks who enjoy building stuff and considers making
| money out of it as a bonus. The moment they start answering
| support emails, and posting product updates they start to get
| burnt out. Trying to specialize in "burn out prevention" tasks
| mainly.
|
| I am trying to figure out a way to get clients. Virtual
| Assistance is cheap and the competition is huge. The services are
| identical which essentially says, I will do what you will need me
| to do.
| hsnice16 wrote:
| Recently after working as a frontend engineer for more than 2
| years, I started doing full-stack, so I am going through the
| language that my new org uses (they are using GoLang) and trying
| to understand backend concepts as well.
|
| I am documenting my learning here -
| https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning
|
| My first task was to write a GitHub action to build and push the
| docker image on AWS ECR. While working on it, I went through a
| good number of blogs, and also used ChatGPT, and finally raised a
| PR. So I thought to write a blog on that, you can read it here -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...
| purple-leafy wrote:
| Also learning Golang!
| jdgauchat wrote:
| I'm working on a server driven UI framework for mobile apps.
|
| Designers can push changes in Figma similar to a merge request,
| which can then be approved by product managers / developers and
| the apps UI updates on every device.
|
| Devs don't have to touch UI anymore but can focus on pure logic.
|
| Any app developed with this doesn't have to go through the usual
| release cycle for UI changes anymore.
|
| This will decrease the time lag of mobile to web and makes it
| easier for us to implement and distribute campaigns.
|
| We're in Alpha and two mobile apps with our technology are going
| to go live next months. A credit card app and a competitive
| player versus player mental arithmetic game.
| CrispinPowers wrote:
| Nice. Please reach out to cp12@gmail.com, would love to talk.
| genericone wrote:
| Keurig for microgreens. A system whereby the user provides power,
| water, and proprietary seed cartridges to a device to manage
| scheduling, succession, water, light, and other environmental
| factors to successfully grow microgreens as easily as possible.
| kaspermarstal wrote:
| I am building an Excel extension that lets me use LLMs in
| formulas. For example, I can write =PROMPT(A1:E1, "Extract
| keywords") in a cell to extract keywords from a row and drag the
| cell to apply the prompt to many other rows. I find this useful
| when I want to use AI for repetitive tasks that would normally
| require copy-pasting data in and out of a chat window many times.
|
| I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a
| systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against
| inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this
| manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it
| sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks
| for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I
| just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks
| like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs
| from anthropic, openai, and google.
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| High impact project with a promise for enterprise clients, good
| luck!
| kaspermarstal wrote:
| Thanks!
| mft_ wrote:
| Huh, I was googling for this exact tool a couple of weeks ago.
|
| Is there anything you can share - about how you're approaching
| it, and your progress? Need any beta testers? :)
| kaspermarstal wrote:
| Yes I am really interested in good use-cases, send me an
| e-mail at kaspermarstal@gmail.com! It's called Cellm,
| implemented with ExcelDna and is fully functional for
| Anthropic models. Currently preparing the repo for public
| release and writing some docs.
| oulipo wrote:
| Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built
| the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!
|
| It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I
| assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a
| non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike?
|
| We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they
| own, and we should fight against planned obsolescence!
|
| Here are a few videos about our founder on the battery itself,
| why we built it, and how to assemble it:
|
| - What is the Gouach Battery:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuW1NPkvNk
|
| - Presentation of the pack:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoCihE0eIA
|
| - Presentation of the fireproof and waterproof casing:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJpt7RDbRM
|
| Here are the juicy bits: https://docs.gouach.com
|
| We'd love some feedback from the e-bike DIY builder community
|
| Oh, and it's launching as a Kickstarter in September and there is
| an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a
| 25% discount on the battery!
|
| You can follow us on Instagram
| https://www.instagram.com/gouach.batteries to get the latest
| news!
| k4rli wrote:
| Would order instantly. I have a bunch of e-scooter 18650
| battery packs that would be nice to convert to an e-bike one.
|
| If Kickstarter is starting in Sept, then I guess it will be
| another 1-2 years.
| samstave wrote:
| >> _have a bunch of e-scooter 18650 battery packs_
|
| Where get?
|
| There is a guy that rides the trail near me thats riding an
| ebike with a triangular battery pack that looks identical to
| one some HNer built here - He's too fast and I havent been
| able to stop him.
|
| Another question for the DIY e-bik crowd, is what kind of OTS
| motor could one harvest, like a motor from an electric lawm
| mower, or edger, weed-wacker? Are there power tools where the
| electric motor is useable? (like how people originally used
| mower engines in goKarts and such?
|
| Also, for fireproofing - mix Powdered Aerogel into a Silicon
| Slurry and dip the battery in that - the silicon and aerogel
| will make a heat sleeve thats quite fire resistant.
| _Microft wrote:
| > riding an ebike with a triangular battery pack that looks
| identical to one some HNer built here
|
| You might be thinking of jacquesm and this bike:
|
| https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/
| briansm wrote:
| I thought the reason the packs are sealed is to stop amateurs
| from swapping in cells of differing voltages, which short each
| other out and cause sparking/fire hazards. There's a reason li-
| ion battery charging is current-limited, they have no internal
| resistance.
| slim wrote:
| from their homepage :
|
| A Fireproof Casing which REALLY Works!
|
| Scared of battery fires? I know that we are!
|
| This is why our Infinite Battery comes with a casing that we
| designed to resist the heat of a fire, thanks to it's thick
| aluminum casing, and a design which dissipates heat quickly.
|
| And YES THIS WORKS! We have put a massive effort in making
| our casing sustain the battery fire, and extensively tested
| it (videos coming soon), so you can sleep safely (and us
| too!!). See our complete fireproof testing on our
| documentation/FAQ
| briansm wrote:
| Prevention is better than cure though. plus you've got to
| consider cell gassing/venting/explosion risk/toxic fumes as
| well as fire prevention.
|
| If they were doing per-cell protection, fair enough (cheap
| 18650's don't have cell protection usually), but I think
| they are still connecting 4 cells in parallel, with only
| serial-bank MOSFET's like in usual sealed packs.
| briansm wrote:
| (if they're using PTC themistors between the parallel
| cells to prevent over-current, it's all good though I
| suppose)
| passwordoops wrote:
| >and extensively tested it
|
| By themselves or independent 3rd parties with deep
| experience in battery safety testing?
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| > _a casing that we designed to resist the heat of a fire,
| thanks to it 's thick aluminum casing, and a design which
| dissipates heat quickly_
|
| Thus turning a difficult to deal with Li-Ion inferno into a
| slightly less difficult to deal with block of superheated
| aluminum, that will happily set on fire anything that looks
| at it funny?
|
| This is always my concern about fire-proof metal casings
| for batteries: where do you put _that_ so it doesn 't set
| anything on fire?
| bittumenEntity wrote:
| As I understand it, it's somewhat the opposite for internal
| resistance. You need to have current limiting in place
| because the internal resistance of the cell is turning that
| current into heat, and heat is the enemy of batteries.
|
| (Probably there's also a complicated chemical reason for
| current limiting that I don't fully grasp)
| s0rce wrote:
| Also spot welded connections work well, transfer reasonable
| amounts of current and don't tend to vibrate off during use.
| We tear down packs at my job and there are warnings inside
| some not to re-use cells for vapes, they really don't want
| you taking these apart. Larger packs like EVs and E-bikes are
| probably worth refurbishing and repairing.
| agumonkey wrote:
| oulipo, gouache.. these are names i haven't heard in a long
| time
|
| jokes aside, i was curious if weld-less 18650 packs would be
| possible... seems like you guys answered that 10 years long
| question :)
|
| kudos
| ulnarkressty wrote:
| It's a very nice concept and I think it's much better than the
| held-together-with-duct-tape concepts usually seen in diy bike
| conversions.
|
| That being said, I am a bit skeptical about your claims to be
| fireproof. Did you try to start a battery fire inside your
| enclosure? Aluminum melts at about 600C, while lithium burns
| much hotter than that.
| ttoinou wrote:
| Could this also be used to create external power stations with
| 230V plugs ? For example to take in a car / van, and recharge
| with solar panels
| gridspy wrote:
| To do this with any DC battery you add a solar battery
| charger to accept the panels and an inverter to turn the DC
| into mains 230V you can use.
| sgu999 wrote:
| Super cool! Any plan on making different form factors? For
| electrified cargo bikes, the battery is better placed bellow
| the cargo [0] so a squarish and flatter pack would be nicer.
|
| [0] This build for example:
| https://danielbuettner.medium.com/building-a-custom-e-cargo-...
| alecco wrote:
| Dude, this is amazing. It deserves its own HN post!
| butuzov wrote:
| this is amaizing...
| pmarreck wrote:
| This is a great idea. I'm actually researching DIY solutions to
| electrifying my boat (I was a USAF electrician, once upon a
| time) and the prepackaged battery solutions are so expensive
| and inflexible. (Granted, for marine use there are some extra
| considerations...)
| samstave wrote:
| Since you have the ESP32 - can you emulate the Apple Airtag on
| it please.
|
| I have a $7,000 Orbea E-bike and I have an Airtag hidden in it.
| Its a great feature.
|
| Not sure if I could redo the Orbead Battery this way because
| its internal to the frame - but it does have an extended
| battery pack option - perhaps this could be wired to use that
| connector as your interface allows for any ebike it seems?
|
| The post recently on HN about the flipper zero being able to
| emulate the airtag is pretty nifty, and you could use these
| guys effort:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287031
|
| ---
|
| I LOVE this project.
|
| I want.
|
| Actually, Can I ask that you add a LORA transceiver network in
| the build since you have the ESP32 (maybe update it to the
| ESP3250?) :-)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w
|
| Imagine being able to lora talk back from your bike to the
| trailhead, or your campsite.
|
| And do you have a better version of Shimano's E-Tube iOs
| crapware?
|
| EDIT: Since you have THIS:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQHZFRHiUdg
|
| The Goauche BMS Tesrt Bench needs its own video/HN post - and
| this is exactly what would be great info to get via a LORA
| messaging for all the telemetries from the pack?
|
| WOW:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEuBDA_xb8
|
| I want to open a Goache Plant in California. Seriously.
| crhulls wrote:
| I'm the CEO of Tile and we are working on a line of products
| for theft.
|
| As a genuine question, I'm very surprised that many people
| don't seem concerned that AirTags alert thieves to their
| presence. If your bike is stolen the thief will get the
| notification, even if they are on Android (with the new
| shared platform rogue tag detection).
|
| I'm trying to understand the user psychology here - not pitch
| our own products.
|
| Do you have any specific features you would like to prevent
| theft?
| yardie wrote:
| The fact that something is being tracked and the thieves
| know it's being tracked is a deterrent itself. Like the
| value of stolen iPhones crashed because activation lock
| made them worthless. So they moved on to Samsung Galaxies,
| until they implemented their own activation lock.
|
| If you steal a bike with a tracker on it you'll probably
| leave it right there for the real owner to find.
| crhulls wrote:
| Of course I know this, but I am trying to go deeper. With
| AirTags and the new standards you literally can find and
| disable the tag for anyone using the Google or Apple
| networks.
|
| I am surprised that people think the benefits of AirTags
| outweigh the downsides given the alternatives, of which
| we are one. I'm mainly just trying to learn.
|
| I also think you probably are overestimating the
| deterrent value. Thieves are not necessarily thoughtful
| and the alerts aren't real time. Once they get the alert
| they might ditch the bike, but if it is back at their
| garage they will probably disable or remove it.
|
| I also am a bit triggered by this line "Honestly, you as
| the CEO should know this." which is on the edge of being
| an ad hominem. Why did you choose to include this? And
| wouldn't you know that I know these things? Like I am
| asking questions to get nuanced user feedback. Do you
| think someone who runs a consumer product company (I
| started Life360, Tile's owner), isn't deeply aware of how
| customers think?
| yardie wrote:
| First, I want to apologize. The last statement came out a
| lot more combatant than I realized. So I removed it.
|
| I was a Tile wallet user until I stopped carrying a
| wallet completely. There are 2 types of thieves: the
| professional and the opportunistic. Opportunistic, the
| majority, aren't doing more than they have to and if the
| bike has a tracker they know about it makes it less
| appealing. And if you can get the casual thief to give up
| immediately then the device has already payed for itself.
|
| The professional will chop it immediately. I see kids in
| my neighborhood with $2000+ Trek Marlins, with all the
| expensive mountain bike parts removed. They simply wanted
| a bike to freestyle on. And doing all that probably took
| hours if not days. The professional is not going to spend
| anymore time than they have to disable a tracker when
| there are better options all around.
| samstave wrote:
| Howdy!
|
| Great to meet you. I have a ton of thoughts on this matter,
| but not well threaded for quick reply: so forgive the
| stream-of-thought nature of the following.
|
| There is no real secret answer to stopping bike thieves,
| because the primary problem is both cultural and
| infrastructure.
|
| We dont have bike culture that allows for safe bike
| leaving-about, and we dont have bike infrastructure for
| safe bike locking-about. ( _Bike Hack SF: Take your nice
| bike into a nice hotel and tip the DoorMan $5 to check your
| bike into luggage check rather than lock it up_ )
|
| So, my airtag is in a case with security bolts under the
| bottle cage - and its more a check that I can know where it
| was last seen. Though I didnt remove the chirper.
|
| What if you could have a TILE that is the fob for this
| battery. Where the battery wont go unless the paired Tile
| Fob is present?
|
| A Lora Tile would be killer If you had a Lora network on
| this battery, with a TILE app infra on top of it and all
| the batteries talked to eachother - you built an anti-
| theft-mesh so all the bikes tiles all tell eachother about
| themselves.
|
| Tile integration with Shimano Motors and e-tube iso app to
| stop the motor from running unless Tile fob/phone app
| present. A magnetic Solonoid crank-shaft-blocker.
|
| And above all else pushing for better bike policies in
| municipalities.
| crhulls wrote:
| We are doing a satellite integration with Hubble Network
| - 24/7 global coverage, no increase in battery life. It
| sounds like scifi but 2 satellites are up. Give us a
| year...
| samstave wrote:
| Hi - Who is 'we' and how can I get involved.
|
| I tried to build this after leaving Lockheed in 2007
| where we built the RFID tracking for .mil as Savi
| Networks..
|
| All the cell integrations (pre IoT) were cost
| prohibitive.
|
| Its wonderful to see how much has taken place in this
| area since a bunch of us tried and failed to get funding
| back then :-)
| samstave wrote:
| I want to build things using Instant DB... I keep finding
| ShinyObjects here, but - Tiles using a LORA Network which
| updates a csv/json style payload and transfers GPS
| through lora messages.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287031
|
| Can you manage TILEs via Meshtastic?
| https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w&t=44s
|
| I think there a lot of interesting things to make bike
| mesh a part of a security fabric - but ensuring that
| there is no way to spy on location data thats not yours?
| Doubt thats possible...
| lanstin wrote:
| Because loosing something to theft is bad but being stalked
| is worse.
| bosch_mind wrote:
| Im curious how Tile addresses this concern for the safety
| of individuals themselves in the opposite direction. I know
| people who have been stalked and assaulted before. Does
| tile have protections against this for people hiding tiles
| in your vehicle or bag?
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| LPI/LPD/LPJ video codec/modems that can operate in the UHF band.
| WalterBright wrote:
| Building an #AArch64 code generator for the dmd #dlang compiler.
| Listone13 wrote:
| i've been making music in my spare time, picked up a guitar
| during the pandemic
|
| https://m.youtube.com/@Listening_Stone/videos
| CrispinPowers wrote:
| Hey guys, I'm currently working on a design handoff solution
| similar to Relay by Material.io, but with support for iOS,
| Android, Flutter, and React Native.
|
| The goal is to streamline the design-to-code process.
|
| Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who's tackled similar
| challenges or has insights on optimizing cross-platform handoffs!
| 4d4m wrote:
| Working on a ton of new music - https://4D4M.com and 4D4M on
| Spotify. Currently exploring production of new genres and some
| hybrids as well as some tech to improve live shows.
| purple-leafy wrote:
| I have just finished an AI design agent [0] that gives UI design
| feedback, but that launch went really poorly.
|
| So now I'm working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to
| build a backend with it
|
| [0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-
| copilot/hgaldpfd...
| SeanAnderson wrote:
| I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as
| well reiterate :)
|
| I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build
| a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants,
| they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and
| survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit
| more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am
| hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health,
| self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use
| the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.
|
| https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
|
| I haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's
| on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my
| head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full
| idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying
| to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a
| coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in
| my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than
| coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase
| sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a
| novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's
| okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the
| project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years
| to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.
| taulien wrote:
| I love ant games and I love Rim World! I think its a great idea
| to combine those into a 24/7 game!
|
| But I thought, its a mobile game. If it was, it would be
| something, that I would definitely try
| aflukasz wrote:
| Interesting idea.
|
| Tip for those looking for some more details on the mechanics of
| the self-care aspects of the game: Some details are present in
| the google doc linked in the repo README.
| _dain_ wrote:
| thanks ants.
|
| thants.
| joseferben wrote:
| https://www.plainweb.dev is my shot at making web development
| simpler.
|
| my bet is that most companies and solo devs only need a single
| process and sqlite to drive revenue.
|
| i'm considering switching from tsx to bun, but i'm hesitating
| because of some missing node 20 api.
| DoubleDecoded wrote:
| https://github.com/andrew-johnson-4/lambda-mountain
|
| Working on verifiable correctness for programs written in LM or
| anything that generates annotated assembly. Basically low-level
| proofs that accessed memory is valid and live or that function
| pre/post-conditions are met.
|
| The goal is that these proofs are compiler agnostic, so more
| people can use them.
| yadav-saurabh wrote:
| https://www.qrgrid.dev/
|
| Qr Grid: The Ultimate Customizable QR Code JavaScript Library
|
| Making an OpenSource Library for developers to easily generate
| and customize QR codes across multiple platforms.
| LeFever wrote:
| This looks nice! I noticed that you mention logos in the docs
| but don't see a way to specify one. Maybe I missed it?
| ziolko wrote:
| I am creating custom hardware for my own SaaS. So far I've
| designed a custom 3D printed case and wrote early version of
| firmware.
|
| It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years
| of working on CRUD web apps.
|
| My work is open source and available at
| https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.
| theapache64 wrote:
| this is really nice
| ziolko wrote:
| Thank you! I hope to see it used in some office in my
| hometown soon :)
| udev4096 wrote:
| I have been working on creating a hosting project where I can
| provide access to lots of private frontends (invidious, redlib,
| etc) and different services (vaultwarden, nextcloud, etc), etc. I
| have been setting up glusterFS (a distributed nfs) which I can
| use in Docker swarm to share the volumes for different nodes. I
| would wanna work on writing a distributed nfs once I am done with
| this small project
| N3Xxus_6 wrote:
| My AI safety startup
| gabigrin wrote:
| Hello! I'm working on a low-code API builder based on Flyde, the
| open-source visual programming language I launched a few months
| ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628285) Unlike
| existing low-code API builders, one can easily eject to a
| ".flyde" source file and run the API wherever they want without
| being commercially vendor-locked
|
| I would love feedback on the new site's direction -
| https://www.getflowcode.io/ (still WIP) Here's the old one, for
| reference https://flyde.app/
| c0g wrote:
| I've been working on robotics for a few months now. I have built
| an arm, started receiving parts for my quadruped, and have
| learned enough RL to at least hold opinions on it (my background
| is ML/LLM training, so a bit different).
|
| Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a
| robot I can take on walks with me that will pick up trash.
| asdw wrote:
| This sounds very cool. I too am exploring RL these days. Would
| you like to share more about your learning path@
| icy wrote:
| I've been thinking/slowly building a service that hosts
| Kubernetes control planes. Bring your own worker nodes. Users can
| get a fully managed control plane (upgrades, HA, etc.) in their
| region of choice and can use whatever workers they want--be it
| cloud VMs, bare metal or your laptop too.
|
| I'll eventually open source the single binary agent that'll
| bootstrap a host into a K8s node. Just run it rootless with a
| join URL and voila!
|
| Also in the pipeline is a global load balancer service (for your
| clusters).
|
| What do y'all reckon? Interesting? Yay/nay?
| solatic wrote:
| Kubernetes is really built on the assumption that workers are
| in the same LAN as the control plane. Long latency between the
| control plane and workers affects workload reliability;
| heartbeats need to be configured with longer timeouts, for
| example. Pod-to-pod communication, where pods run in regions on
| opposite sides of the globe, supposedly on the same pod network
| CIDR, is also going to be flaky. There's a long history of
| projects attempting to take LAN-local designs and make them
| resistant to regional failure by superimposing a LAN on top of
| a WAN and it never works as intended. Furthermore, various
| service meshes already present ways of helping to direct/shape
| traffic between clusters (i.e. between regions), when service
| architecture evolves to truly support multiple regions.
|
| You run a risk of building something that seems to "work" and
| falls apart for non-obvious, head-scratching reasons for many
| or most users.
| icy wrote:
| > Kubernetes is really built on the assumption that workers
| are in the same LAN as the control plane. Long latency
| between the control plane and workers affects workload
| reliability; heartbeats need to be configured with longer
| timeouts, for example.
|
| Yep, and that's why I'm designing this to provision control
| planes as close to the user's workloads as possible (sub
| ~100ms latency, which is plenty acceptable for reliability;
| the likes of Scaleway do similar).
|
| > Pod-to-pod communication, where pods run in regions on
| opposite sides of the globe, supposedly on the same pod
| network CIDR, is also going to be flaky
|
| Certainly, but this is not something that _I_ as control
| plane provider care about -- it 's a design decision the user
| has to account for, and I consider this freedom of choice a
| nice one to have.
|
| I suppose the main sell here (and the few folks I've spoken
| to seem to agree) is the flexibility a decoupled control
| plane offers. Being able to migrate your bare metal setup to
| "managed" K8s; running a homelab cluster without dealing with
| the ops (upgrades, cert rotations, etc.); or simply being
| able to use VMs from cheaper cloud providers.
|
| But yeah, it's definitely a hard problem but solvable within
| the right constraints.
| jh_zab wrote:
| I have started working on some open source actuarial tooling.
| Mostly relevant for non-life pricing.
|
| The open tooling is quite lacking in the sense that one has to
| create a lot of stuff manually. Especially for the evaluations,
| even though most of them are quite common in the actuarial realm.
|
| Also I wanted to tinker with Jax. So I am basing all on Jax,
| polars, seaborn/matplotlib and scipy.
|
| I already have lift plots and Poisson regression in Jax. I'll
| keep adding to it over the next months as time allows.
| indulona wrote:
| I have been working on a platform for digital content creators
| where they can sell their work or build online communities. In a
| few weeks it will be exactly two years since I started. I had a 6
| month break but beside that it was daily grind from morning to
| evening. I'll be going online later this year.
|
| Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project
| had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain.
| I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.
| rhl314 wrote:
| I am working on Loadjitsu (https://loadjitsu.io) It is a modern
| alternative to JMeter.
|
| Have spent the last few months working on the current release.
|
| It uses rust and Tauri under the hood.
| jasiek wrote:
| I'm putting together something to program Anytone AT878 DMR
| radios for amateur radio use using a web browser.
|
| https://github.com/jasiek/webprog-anytone
| tommyzli wrote:
| Just last week I started hacking on a k8s operator for managing
| postgres roles, grants and databases. I really like the
| continuous reconciliation for this scenario, especially having
| previously worked at places that managed this with shell scripts
| or terraform.
| leps wrote:
| This is very interesting! Please share what you can! I've been
| looking at something similar for MySQL for work myself.
| THBC wrote:
| Ah, configurable data loss.
| 383toast wrote:
| I made a Chrome extension that *assists* you in doing Leetcode
| problems. It's like having a buddy give you small hints and ask
| questions to guide you to the best solution yourself instead of
| giving you the answer immediately! I've had many people tell me
| it's helped them a lot.
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/leetcode-buddy/bled...
| nkristoffersen wrote:
| I'm working on a podcast and audio media monitoring and research
| platform. Easily the most complex thing I've built. But still so
| much more to do to make it truly useful. Testing PR and public
| affairs use cases at the moment.
|
| https://listenalert.com
|
| I used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly
| struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance
| on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant
| information. This still appears to be the case for most players
| in the industry.
|
| So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before
| you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis
| plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of
| concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the
| hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the
| hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many
| juicy insights.
|
| Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers,
| testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small
| pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the
| product based on feedback.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Like https://podscan.fm/
|
| being built by
|
| https://x.com/arvidkahl
| nkristoffersen wrote:
| yes, definitely some skin deep similarities! We both
| transcribe podcasts, but what we do after that is very
| different ;-) (also, i'm a fan of his podcast).
|
| There is also more generally Mention, Brand24, Meltwater,
| etc, in the media monitoring space. But all are generally
| weak in the audio media space.
|
| When we stop looking at audio media like a newspaper article,
| things get more interesting.
| TriangleEdge wrote:
| I am building the roots of an open source app for decentralized
| intelligence. Think git but for intelligence. Building it for
| myself since I'm becoming forgetful.
| unspecldn wrote:
| Would love to learn more! I had something similar in mind for a
| while.
| skittleson wrote:
| Bluetooth low engery "wall of sheep" toy app
| https://gist.github.com/skittleson/705624a8f6967187096091cbd...
| palk wrote:
| I'm working on an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google
| Forms (because Google is creepy).
|
| It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional
| branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better
| question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.
|
| I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to
| maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people
| don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also
| makes GDPR way easier for you!
|
| You can try it for free: https://palform.app
| woile wrote:
| I'm working on https://reciperium.com which is a website to host
| recipes, with the twist that uses a specialised language for
| recipes, and you can fork recipes from other users and adapt them
| to your liking.
| harabat wrote:
| In case you haven't heard of it:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20170409015127/forkthecookbook.c...
| corradio wrote:
| I'm working on Polynomial (https://polynomial.so), which is a
| small dashboard for key business metrics. It has open source
| integrations to most popular systems and has Google sheets export
| in case you want to do something with the data.
|
| As a founder, I really needed a simple place to centralize all
| those business metrics. Couldn't find anything that suited my
| needs (everything was way overkill) and so I ended up building
| Polynomial.
| blackbear_ wrote:
| I wanted to record more of my life, but I found that the act of
| noting it down was too cumbersome. Looking to minimize friction,
| I created a Telegram bot that saves all messages you send it into
| a Google Spreadsheet.
|
| Hashtags can be used to split the text into sheets and columns,
| if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very
| handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expenses,
| workouts, mood, period, weight, diet, etc., with the added bonus
| of easy charting and summarization from within the spreadsheet.
| It also supports pictures and other attachments that are uploaded
| automatically to Google Drive and linked into the spreadsheet.
|
| Feel free to check it out, all feedback is appreciated:
| https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
| andeee23 wrote:
| I'm working on a macos virtual microphone app that lets you take
| a real microphone input and apply audio processing effects on it
| like raising the gain, reverb, etc, then using that as your
| microphone in other apps, like for video calls
|
| Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I'm
| using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random
| vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier
| for other people.
|
| I know there's loopback but it costs too much for what i need and
| has a lot of extra features i don't care about, plus i'd still
| need to bring my own vst to it
| LeFever wrote:
| I've been working on a project to make SaaS (and really any
| software) pricing and packaging easier. Think things like plans,
| entitlements, dimensions, metering, subscription migrations,
| onboarding, and experimentation, all completely independent from
| billing and payment processing solutions. We can integrate with
| things like Stripe where we'll mirror products, customers, and
| subscriptions, but it's totally optional.
|
| We're 100% bootstrapped by way of a previous acquisition and just
| very-soft launched after talking to a lot of folks at companies
| of all sizes. Seems like most people end up cobbling this stuff
| together with various levels of sophistication, which is
| basically what we did a few times over at previous companies with
| varying levels of success.
|
| You can check out our solution at https://planship.io.
| winrid wrote:
| Hello! This year I've been working on building an integrated
| registration and live timing platform [0] for my local organizers
| in CA, but it is spreading. Very fun/rewarding project. I hope to
| launch my own cellular-based timing hardware this year which will
| integrate into the timing platform (right now I've reverse
| engineered and now support 5 different chronometers, I never knew
| cross platform serial port comms was such a PITA). Getting
| cellular based timers synchronized should be fun, although I'll
| probably opt for some super simple solution, we'll see...
|
| Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue
| to grow that.
|
| [0] https://sidewaysdata.com
|
| [1] https://fastcomments.com
| koliber wrote:
| I'm scratching an itch. I'm a huge fan of system monitoring and
| alerting when they go down. It allows the engineers in charge of
| the production systems to sleep well knowing that things are
| working.
|
| There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have
| to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app
| stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary
| report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out
| by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send
| the weekly marketing campaign email.With
|
| [I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your
| emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email
| sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll
| let you know.
|
| If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback
| (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you
| heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love
| to know as well.
| simonjgreen wrote:
| A long time ago I built a Nagios script for verifying email end
| to end. It would trigger a test email to be sent from the app
| to a known mailbox and measure the time to receipt in that
| mailbox. Simple but extremely effective, and several times it
| caught a failing in the mail stack somewhere.
|
| It also got used to validate enquires@/hello@/contact forms
| were delivering, especially to set small business owners minds
| at rest.
| gnopgnip wrote:
| We use a similar email monitoring tool from
| https://ert.digitconsulting.net/ It integrates with our RMM. So
| there is definitely a demand for a service like this. But I
| would expect that paying customers will want it to integrate
| with a monitoring platform, more than just a message on
| slack/teams
| swarnie wrote:
| This would have saved me a few times back when on-prem exchange
| was a thing.
|
| Infrastructure goes offline > Didn't get the email alerts >
| Because email altering system was on the same infrastructure.
|
| First indication tended to be a call from the ISP saying they
| lost contact with their equipment.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Working on adding better phrase matching for Marginalia Search.
|
| The way position used to be stored in the search engine was
| approximate, using something like a bloom filter. With this
| change, they'll be stored in an exact fashion using a gamma coded
| positions list instead.
|
| In the phase of dotting t:s and dashing i:s at this point. Hope
| to have it in production in September.
| asdw wrote:
| Amazing. Big fan here. Please keep up the food work.
| artkulak wrote:
| Hey! I'm working on Getgud.io, an AI-powered game analytics and
| anti-cheat platform. Our goal is to provide complete
| observability into player behavior, detect cheaters and griefers,
| and help game developers improve player retention.
|
| Some key features we're working on: - AI-powered analysis of in-
| match player actions to detect anomalies - Customizable rules
| engine for automated responses to toxic behavior - Visual replay
| system for reviewing flagged matches
|
| Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our
| detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to
| see Getgud.io in action.
|
| We support server-side integration for popular platforms like
| Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK
| references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-
| io/getgud-docs.
|
| Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if
| anyone's interested!
| yusufaytas wrote:
| Hi there! We published our
| book(https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/) in May 2024, but
| getting visibility has been a challenge. We've posted on HN
| before and are currently using Amazon ads, but the results have
| been underwhelming so far. Any advice or strategies for improving
| our reach would be greatly appreciated!
| 3np wrote:
| I think you need to work on the pitch a bit and probably tone
| it down. Multiplying the promises under "Skills and Insights
| You'll Acquire" with "Who This Book Is For" just seem wildly
| unrealistic for one book and an oversell.
|
| I get the vibe of a "become a 10x developer from scratch and
| land a rock star job in a month" bootcamp. 2/3 of your audience
| are likely to have seen enough of this already to be turned
| off. Meanwhile, perhaps some more junior will be intimidated
| and say "not yet" by the supposed advanced level (the material
| is also targeting people 10-20 years ahead in their careers
| after all...)
|
| If you write another book in the future, I'd suggest splitting
| it into a couple more focused ones, rather than trying to cover
| all these dimensions for all seniority levels at the same time.
| wzyoi wrote:
| Right now I'm working on withdrawing money from cs.money and
| Steam balance.
|
| It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health,
| time, and dedication to withdraw it.
|
| On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.
|
| The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy
| skins and sell them somewhere else.
|
| On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance
| and sell them locally.
|
| I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.
|
| Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for
| cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).
| victorbjorklund wrote:
| damn. That is a lot of skins. Yea, make sense to try to
| automate that. Approx how much time does it take to turn it
| into money?
| tromp wrote:
| I've been trying to fit Loader's number, winner of the BIGNUM
| BAKEOFF contest [1], into a tweet (280 bytes). Yesterday, I
| finally succeeded [2].
|
| Btw, I just noticed that Bignum Bakeoff has the same acronym as
| Busy Beaver. How appropriate!
|
| [1] https://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt
|
| [2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-
| a-n...
| pattle wrote:
| I'm currently working on https://brickranker.com/
|
| It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and
| minifigures. For example see
| https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list
| of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.
|
| You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value
| at https://brickranker.com/collections
| fullstackchris wrote:
| I'm working on a framework to convert code into video, with a
| focus on helping creators and software educators. Ultimate goal
| is that you could automate nearly any educational coding video
| you could think of. Stretch goal is to fine tune an AI so that a
| step by step video could be generated from a blog post, book
| chapter, etc.
|
| https://codevideo.io
|
| also see fframes https://fframes.studio/ - not mine but similar
| "declarative code to video" framework
| ruuda wrote:
| The RCL configuration language, https://rcl-lang.org /
| https://github.com/ruuda/rcl. Lately I'm working on support for
| floats to complete the json superset promise. Also I added a
| shorthand for "query --format=raw" to make it more useful as a jq
| replacement.
| pplonski86 wrote:
| Im working on MLJAR Studio, new Python editor perfect for
| beginners. It has set of interactive code recipes with Graphical
| Interface. You can create scripts with it. Additionally, it
| automatically install and import missing packages. It is a kind a
| new way for visual programming. Most of recupes are ML and AI
| focused. You can read more on https://mljar.com/docs
| Antoninus wrote:
| Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
| leps wrote:
| Been working on a small temperature and humidity sensor using
| cheap components and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Using
| https://gokrazy.org/ to turn it in to a little appliance.
|
| I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom
| on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla
| paper.
|
| I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have
| access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the
| dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series
| over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass
| WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like
| DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.
|
| It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking
| forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I
| can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone
| has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really
| small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!
| emrah wrote:
| I'm working on a single-file executable version of Fivetran you
| can run wherever you like, for free, without needing an account.
| It may or may not be OSS, we'll see.
| xeonax wrote:
| A stock price analytics webapp. That gets data from various
| sources. And is able to bulk analyse historical data. Made for a
| friend. But now used by more peeps.
|
| https://stonks.aeonax.com Only for India tho
| r_singh wrote:
| Hey. I'm building https://www.unwrangle.com to make it easier to
| scrape data from ecommerce and other sites that are hard to
| scrape.
|
| It's like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to use
|
| Currently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like
| Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data
| immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.
|
| The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API,
| Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and
| scrapers with AI.
|
| There's a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all
| flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape
| any site that just works without the need for any config or
| complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR.
| Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I'm
| bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following
| months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and
| conduct marketing experiments.
|
| What I find interesting about it: I'm offering easy ways to
| scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like
| Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build
| crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would
| normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and
| using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I'm thinking of
| doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are
| doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc.
| and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for
| the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a
| parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to
| collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a
| synchronous API approach
| s16h wrote:
| My wife and I are building Spruce, a Slack app that autocorrects
| typos in your messages: https://spruce.so/
|
| The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the
| type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other
| messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is
| a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling
| her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs
| and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So,
| on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The
| idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT +
| Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and
| she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12
| hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)
|
| Some random learnings, top of mind:
|
| 1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5),
| can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help
| from a technical person.
|
| 2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast
| as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce
| autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other
| products, I feel incomplete.
|
| 3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still
| my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for
| myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious
| grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this
| after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for
| prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and
| another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all
| intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at
| least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's
| not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to
| twice a day. Anyway, feel free to give it a try:
| https://spruce.so/
|
| P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has
| because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages
| everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.).
| Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to
| remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.
| levmiseri wrote:
| Trying to expand on a quirky travel website populated by AI
| content. Working on adding countries, regions, areas (e.g. ski
| resorts), etc.: https://meoweler.com
|
| The quality of the generated content is surprisingly good, but
| there are many stereotypes and mistakes that I'm fixing in the
| next mass generation pass.
| elric wrote:
| I haven't been working on much at all lately, struggling from
| bore-out at work. 8 hours of boredom a day is surprisingly
| exhausting, and it's spilling over into the rest of my life.
| Starting a new gig next month, hopefully things will pick up
| again.
| kshantanu94 wrote:
| I felt that
| maccard wrote:
| I had a bit of a tough time towards the end of my last job, and
| felt a similar ennui. If you can, I'd highly highly recommend
| picking up a completely unrelated hobby to fill your non work
| (and occasionally work, when you're in that limbo) time. I
| couldn't believe the effect it had on me, and it meant that I
| started my new role feeling refreshed and optimistic, rather
| than just diving into it like I normally do.
|
| Personally, I hit the gym for 4 months, mostly to fix the lack
| of sleep that came with the restlessness and lack of mental
| exercise.
| lbrito wrote:
| Big tech made me feel like that. Hope you feel better at new
| gig.
| RantyDave wrote:
| Working on visualising sailing performance by scooping data out
| of the onboard network (basically the same as the one in cars)
| and uploading it to a web app. https://www.see-sailing.com/
|
| My race yesterday: https://app.see-
| sailing.com/b/nmea/2024-8-24-11-34-21
| kinow wrote:
| Looks interesting! Haven't done any sailing since leaving
| Auckland, but here in Barcelona there are also quite a few
| sailing yacht clubs. There might be some serious market for
| this. Good luck!
| kshantanu94 wrote:
| Still working to get my one-way video interviewing startup off
| the ground - http://www.vesume.net
| allabtai wrote:
| 0ptimizing building apps with an ai stack at https://aiswe.tech
| gpattle wrote:
| Working on building the largest database of LEGO minifigure user
| ratings at https://brickelo.com/
| allamaso wrote:
| https://github.com/Trint-ai/TrintAI I've been working on
| integrating different opensource tools and ML models to create
| TrintAI. TrintAi is a powerful open-source tool for transcribe
| and understand speech with multiple capabilities.
|
| This is an open-source alternative to paid services like:
|
| AssemblyAI Deepgram Gladia Google Cloud Microsoft Azure RevAI
|
| With trintAI you can build your own custom workflows &
| integration for speech-to-text transcription.
|
| The main features are:
|
| - Speech-to-Text Transcription: Converts audio files into
| accurate, readable text in real-time.
|
| - Summarization: Provides concise summaries of long audio files
| or transcripts. This feature extracts the most important
| information and key points from the text, allowing you to quickly
| understand the main takeaways from meetings, calls, or any
| extended audio content.
|
| - Sentiment Analysis: Detects emotions within the transcribed
| text.
|
| - Language Identification: Detects the language spoken in the
| audio file and can transcribe in multiple languages.
|
| - Diarization: Identify and distinguish between different
| speakers within an audio recording.
|
| Give it a try! it is open-source. Your feedback is very
| appreciated!
|
| Cheers
| gpattle wrote:
| Working on building the world's largest database of LEGO
| minifigure user ratings at https://brickelo.com/
| amenghra wrote:
| Nice! You could put a button to save or purchase the ones that
| the user likes? Or pair up with
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345139.
| denysvitali wrote:
| SSL certificate expired, fyi
| gimliapp wrote:
| https://gimli.app/
|
| I'm working on my Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap DevTools browser
| extensions.
| valryon wrote:
| Working on a new game with some friends: CTHULOOT, a multiplayer
| coop game. Imagine Overcooked x Zelda 2D. We have a demo on
| Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/
| scilaaverkie wrote:
| We are working on building a funding subscription for impact
| innovation called Marabou (https://marabou.pro/). Our plan is to
| allow people to subscribe starting from $50 per month and receive
| equity in innovative startups that benefit either human health
| (biotech, femtech, healthtech, longevity, drug repurposing) or
| environment(climate tech, adaptive tech, renewable energy,
| mobility, agriculture).
|
| - Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc
|
| - And here's WHY we do that
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...
|
| Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find
| cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we
| already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment
| and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.
|
| - Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/
|
| - And a video where we talk about it
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9s
|
| So my days are now filled with talks with rare disease
| foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be
| willing to support us.
|
| Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or
| the campaign itself!
| tunn3l wrote:
| I'm currently working on an Art Project stemming from the mixture
| of cellular automata and neural networks in Rust. The YouTuber
| Emergent garden has already implemented this idea but I wanted to
| go much deeper. With different coloring algorithms, neuron types,
| time travel values, arbitrarily connected networks, crazy
| activitation functions etc. I just uploaded a very short showcase
| of it here:
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D2dOTHpzo
|
| Watch my blog https://tunn3l.pro for the full project release!
|
| Cheers!
| hansoolo wrote:
| I just +1ed for the mix of automata + beat :)
| laktak wrote:
| I rewrote https://github.com/laktak/chkbit in Go because Python
| packaging was so frustrating. With Go you can just build for any
| platform without spinning up multiple VMs.
| graz wrote:
| https://wegrok.review
|
| I'm working on trying to make code reviews easier, faster, and
| more powerful. Adding rule based automation to check for common
| errors.
| ibizaman wrote:
| I've been working on the same side project since nearly a year
| now.
|
| Self Host Blocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks is a
| modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on
| best practices. The manual can be found here
| https://shb.skarabox.com/
|
| Compared to others, its goal is to make best practices easy, be
| declarative, robust and fully featured.
|
| I'm a self hosting and data sovereignty advocate and this project
| is my contribution to this space.
|
| Best practices easy is made by adding a layer on top of the stock
| nixpkgs modules that make for example Vaultwarden easy to secure
| (/admin behind SSO with Authelia) and easy to backup. One doesn't
| need to understand how to setup Authelia nor what folders to
| backup. That is taken care for you.
| https://shb.skarabox.com/services-vaultwarden.html
|
| Declarative is taken care by NixOS but it goes further than the
| stock nixpkgs modules. For example it installs the needed
| Nextcloud apps for LDAP and SSO fully unattended.
| https://shb.skarabox.com/services-nextcloud.html#services-ne...
|
| Robust thanks NixOS being a declarative OS, for example by adding
| a grub menu for every new deployment, making rollbacks easy. But
| also thanks to extensive tests that for example validates that
| the SSO integrations do not break on upgrades.
|
| Fully featured because for every service it provides, it makes
| setting up the reverse proxy, backup, LDAP, SSO, etc. easy and
| importantly in a standardized way thanks to contracts I'm adding
| https://shb.skarabox.com/contracts.html
|
| All of this is not meant to stay in this project though. I'm
| slowly working towards upstreaming everything into nixpkgs. I'm
| starting with upstreaming a feature that allows out of band
| secrets to be interpolated into config files easily
| https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328472 I make extensive use
| of this is Self Host Blocks already.
|
| Finally, I'm using this project for my home server and one in my
| parent's place. So I'm using it in "prod" already.
| ivicac wrote:
| I am working on ByteChef(https://github.com/bytechefhq/bytechef).
| It is an open-source, low-code, extendable API integration and
| workflow automation platform. It automates daily routines that
| require interaction between independent business applications.
| ByteChef maintains automation definitions in an easy-to-
| understand workflow format.
| aetherspawn wrote:
| We're building an off the shelf software and ECU that allows you
| to convert anything to EV (classics and low volume OEMs) with
| enough tweakable knobs to suit every application.
|
| There are some players in this space already, but we have
| repurposed some OEM grade hardware that we usually reserve for
| the big players and so we can offer differentiating features such
| as DC fast charging, bidirectional/V2X, and things like this to
| the retrofit market.
|
| B2B to start with.
| le-mark wrote:
| What is "ECU" and "EV" in this context?
| _0ffh wrote:
| When I hear ECU, I think of Electronic Control Units for cars
| - EV would be Electric Vehicle then.
| aetherspawn wrote:
| Electric vehicles, and control modules.
| brunosutic wrote:
| I'm working on a paid Ruby gem for bespoke Stripe subscription
| integrations. It cuts down integration time from +6 months to
| less than a day, and handles many Stripe API pitfalls.
|
| Stripe has a "developer friendly" and "easy to use" reputation.
| But, since 2019 the EU regulation has stepped in and made things
| more complex with 2nd factor authentication for payments
| (3DS/SCA). This made payment integrations way more complex.
| Integrating Stripe subscriptions now easily takes 6 man-months
| (I'm being very optimistic here).
|
| Also, there are some basic scenarios that are hard to get right:
|
| - Creating a paid subscription and ensure a customer _always_ has
| a card on file (this one is almost impossible). - Upgrading a
| free ($0) plan to a paid one. - Upgrading paid plans, eg $10 to
| $100 /month and ensuring immediate payment. - Guarantee customer
| Tax location, keep the flow simple.
|
| I made a video analyzing Stripe integration of a successful SaaS
| company (+$100M valuation). I first paid $30, then upgraded to
| their highest $2000/month plan - for free!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXp7V4nanU
|
| The gem I'm working on is intended to be used with Ruby on Rails
| apps. It covers all the above mentioned hard cases, and irons out
| many more Stripe API kinks. And yes, it handles the basic-but-
| impossible "ensure customer _always_ has card on file if they
| start paid subscription ".
|
| After buying the gem you can hand-off the task to the junior
| developer (it's that simple). They follow the integration
| tutorial: follow the steps for Stripe dashboard config, do the
| local env config, done.
|
| The product (Ruby gem itself) is ready. I'm now working on the
| web app, tutorials etc. If anyone wants an early, guided access,
| please email me - contact is in the profile.
| vinc wrote:
| Interesting idea, getting Stripe to work perfectly in
| production for a global product is not as easy as it was, it
| really takes a while to fix all edge cases.
| brunosutic wrote:
| Sometimes it's not about the "edge cases" and handling Stripe
| quirks. The main design consideration for global Stripe
| integrations is SCA/3DS or "payment confirmations".
|
| If you implement something, then add SCA/3DS "payment
| confirmations" later on, I think it's impossible to fix that.
| vinc wrote:
| The main pain point I remember from my biggest integration
| was getting all the webhook events right. There was also a
| thing about the order in which the events were received
| sometimes.
| austin-cheney wrote:
| Last month I built a node based web server that can proxy and
| redirect anything where the blueprint is a tiny config file in
| json format.
|
| I am going to expand it to provide a health dashboard of
| connected sockets, supported domains, and traffic analytics as a
| web service.
| anikdas wrote:
| Is it open source?
| austin-cheney wrote:
| https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver
|
| This is a personal project for my house only without any
| commercial aspirations, so features I do not need are not
| included.
| else42 wrote:
| I have been working on a little price tracker for the Hetzner
| Dedicated Server auction (https://radar.iodev.org/). Using
| Sveltekit for the first time, and decided to go frontend only
| with duckdb-wasm.
|
| I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the
| site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can
| flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn't change
| much (eg. no normalization) since it's not really needed. It also
| turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few
| megabytes. I haven't written much SQL in some time and duckdb is
| very powerful.
|
| Most of the texts are AI generated as I'm usually very bad coming
| up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the
| other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it's
| less of a problem.
|
| I guess it's pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.
|
| It's a fun little project.
| danielheath wrote:
| That is interesting!
|
| Overall I find it a pretty cool tool - though I don't quite
| understand the red/green lines on the chart (is there a
| legend?).
| else42 wrote:
| No, I haven't figured it out yet with D3 :D
|
| Green line: minimal price, red line, highest price (for the
| selected criteria). Middle one is the mean.
| d1sxeyes wrote:
| An app for sharing photos with a large group of people while
| still preserving the privacy of the people in the picture who
| don't know each other.
|
| Our kid's nursery school posts a lot of photos to Facebook, and
| we've asked them not to post photos of him. They're (mostly)
| respecting our wishes, but we still have a bit of FOMO over the
| pictures of kids having fun, and wish we could see pictures of
| our son having fun too.
|
| The goal is that the nursery would be able to upload photos and
| parents can see only their own child's face, other children are
| pixelated.
|
| Still early stages but got a working prototype, and I'm enjoying
| the building process.
| RobinL wrote:
| Just recently released version 4 of our free library for data
| deduplicating/linkage at scale. After four years working on it,
| finally getting to the stage where I'm really happy with both the
| performance and the API design.
|
| https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink
| xenospn wrote:
| I'm working on a trip planner for vegans. This is designed to
| solve my particular problem as a full time (vegan) nomad who
| likes to stay in walkable cities.
|
| I noticed that sometimes, I book accommodations in a new city
| without realizing I'm very far from the nearest vegan restaurant,
| having to walk for a really long time to get food, and sometimes
| getting there after the kitchen is already closed.
|
| The planner helps me find hotels/airbnbs that are within 15
| minute walk of at least 3 different vegan restaurants - makes my
| life so much easier!
| lynx23 wrote:
| A reimagination of SuperCollider architecture.
|
| * No need to invent a new language, use Python! * Use JIT to
| _compile_ a SynthDef to a proces function! * Eliminate block_size
| at runtime by compiling a version of each primitive for every 2^n
| block size. * Watch the compiler do unrolling, vectorisation and
| merging loops.
|
| Besides, its fun! https://github.com/mlang/mc1 (Nothing to see
| yet)
| taylorius wrote:
| One of my hobbies is trying to predict foreign exchange prices
| (usually EURUSD tbh, but others as well).
|
| I enjoy finding out the actual best-case performance of various
| technical analysis indicators, and popular "systems", by
| optimising the indicator's parameters to find the best long term
| performance. I also design my own indicators and systems in the
| same way.
|
| To this end I have a C++ ImGUI desktop app with charting
| capabilities, and optimisation using differential evolution. The
| app has its operation driven by a c++ class that controls all
| aspects of its running, by means of various callbacks.
|
| This enables me to test lots of strategies quickly, exploring the
| parameter space with the optimisation functions.
|
| I've considered open sourcing the app, though I'm not sure there
| would be any interest. The codebase would need cleaning up first
| anyway! :-)
| jjpell wrote:
| I've created a two player wordle style game. https://twordle.app
|
| The backend is a web socket server written in go and the frontend
| is solidjs. Two technologies I've been wanting to use properly in
| a project for a while. Would recommend this to anyone wanting to
| improve their understanding of go's concurrency model. I've
| really enjoyed working on it, if anyone can think of any
| improvements please let me know!
| bqc wrote:
| I'm interested in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) using algorithms,
| starting with basic trading algorithms like RSI Divergence and
| Arbitrage. I'm utilizing the Binance API to retrieve ticker data.
| If anyone has experience with this or is interested, I'd love to
| connect and discuss.
| andersource wrote:
| Preparing my PyCon IL workshop, a competitive platform where you
| write code to solve simple games (think snake, pong etc.). Here
| are some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/VDKfmjO
|
| After it's done I hope to add a demo to my blog.
|
| Cheers for all the interesting work going on here!
| joostdecock wrote:
| I've been working on something to handle the "plumbing for your
| observability". It's a way to collect, stream, and route
| observability data that can get it from and into a wide variety
| of systems.
|
| It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at
| traditional on-prem infra.
|
| It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for
| streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).
|
| Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code:
| https://github.com/certeu/morio
|
| Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source
| project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).
| mirekrusin wrote:
| I believe typescript / js is missing standard library and find it
| rewarding to work during weekends on those lower level
| libraries/modules with no/low dependency fanout, publishing them
| here [0] when they're ready to see the light.
|
| They're driven by what problems I see at work and while playing
| with other weekend projects so coverage may be asymmetric (some
| parts are well covered, others that should be are absent <<ie.
| documentation>>).
|
| I find definition of success as just "working on it" very
| pleasant.
|
| [0] https://github.com/preludejs
| lakrizz wrote:
| i've been working on a webhook to instant messaging service
| called https://hooks.im after reading about a similar project
| here on hacker news (i think it was
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144227). you can create
| webhooks, get a receiver-url that you can send your webhook
| invocations to and receive webhooks via im (currently only
| telegram). i've also added a jq-like template engine to reformat
| the request bodies (if wanted) to extract specific information.
| (only works for json bodies, obviously)
|
| this is all in super early non-peer-tested alpha (if anything),
| so feel free to try it out and give feedback :)
| anshargal wrote:
| I'm working on QA Sphere https://qasphere.com/ - a lightweight
| tool for managing software testing. It's built for QA engineers
| to document functional test cases and track execution, manually
| or via automation.
|
| Test management tools are nothing new, but I'm focused on making
| this one fast and easy to use, without the bloat. The goal is to
| help smaller teams adopt solid QA practices without the hassle.
| arthur_sav wrote:
| I built a chrome plugin to scrape data.
|
| It's pretty good for List and Lead extraction.
| https://pandaextract.com/
| anthony88 wrote:
| I'm working on a file manager more specialized for developers.
| https://www.antcommander.com
| sercanov wrote:
| Working on distribution of that mf
| https://apps.apple.com/app/id6529520663
| risyachka wrote:
| In the process of making the best AI short video generator.
|
| Trying to get some reps with Llms and image gen models.
|
| https://getclipify.com
| plank wrote:
| Navigation using photos. Did not like existing apps, so made an
| app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org)
| background map, and shows your position on that photo during your
| trip.
|
| Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded
| pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)
|
| Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added
| them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).
| humdaanm wrote:
| I was working on reading the comments on this post, and got tired
| of scrolling with the mousepad. I had not used any of the LLMs in
| a few weeks now and wanted to see how they fared for writing a
| web extension to let me browse hacker news via arrow keys and the
| "prev" and "next" comment buttons. My goal was to write 0 lines
| of code myself and rely solely on copy-pasting(successful in my
| eyes). ChatGPT 4o disappointed me on getting a final product, but
| Claude Sonnet blew me away enough to push me to pull out my
| credit card to subscribe to a pro plan.
|
| All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you
| browse a hacker news post via arrow keys:
| https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.
|
| (While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still
| active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a
| fix!)
| Ono-Sendai wrote:
| Substrata - an open source metaverse project.
| https://substrata.info/
| https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata
|
| Custom 3d engine, opengl / webgl, Lua scripting, voice chat.
| Mostly in C++.
| jascha_eng wrote:
| Working on Kviklet: http://github.com/kviklet/kviklet
|
| My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was
| managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the
| process. Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing
| the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete *
| form users, forgetting the where clause.
| m4tthumphrey wrote:
| This is a very cool idea! I don't work in a team big enough for
| this anymore but I would have loved this in previous roles!
| jascha_eng wrote:
| Thank you! This was initially a startup idea but it was very
| hard to sell a cyber security solution with a very bare bones
| product to companies large enough to have this problem.
| Because the required features of such large orgs are just too
| much for such an early stage team.
|
| So I'm now doing it a bit as a side project but I hope to at
| some point also offer a paid version to fund development long
| term.
| elric wrote:
| I'm loving this. This could be generalised to other manual
| actions as well, e.g. stuff like the K8S API.
| jascha_eng wrote:
| Yes, I already thought about this. In theory all "production
| access", be it ssh, k8s commands, database access of any kind
| or even a ruby shell could go through such a a flow. It's a
| bit of a pain to integrate well with everything though, but I
| have a lot of plans, will just take some time to mature :D
| taulien wrote:
| Hi!
|
| In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create
| unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do
| not break existing functionality.
|
| But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.
|
| Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts,
| bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from
| the business perspective, it does not make sense to have
| developers create automatically executable tests to make sure,
| the website is configured as it should be.
|
| And its often not the developers who change the configuration.
| Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.
|
| These people often do not know if they configured something
| correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if
| an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a
| misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has
| a test coverage of 100%).
|
| So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that
| the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if
| everything is working fine.
| pierreyoda wrote:
| I've been working on a Hacker News TUI reader written in Rust
| [0].
|
| I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most
| notably a components-driven architecture [1].
|
| There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many
| comments that I should be able to clear with some more
| multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and
| other distribution solutions.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli [1]:
| https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture
| joshka wrote:
| I see that's tui-rs based - check out Ratatui as a maintained
| fork. https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli/issues/1
| tapanih wrote:
| I am currently working on a htmx plugin for JetBrains IDEs [0].
|
| [0]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24844-htmx-pro
| mathteddybear wrote:
| When I was in FAANG I picked up Skyrim modding as a hobby, and
| this year I'm working on monetizing it, in style.
| dsalaj wrote:
| My interest in sound design and music production took a
| surprising turn and I now spend my weekends studying alien
| vocalization. More specifically, figuring out how to synthesize
| believable alien vocals and make them expressive and customizable
| enough to be a tool for anyone who needs that sort of thing for
| their creative work.
|
| I am releasing everything for free and the first "instrument" and
| sample pack with previews/videos is already available here:
| https://neuromorph.gumroad.com/l/alien_vocalization_study_1
| mo_42 wrote:
| A compiler from SQL to type-checked C++ to speed-up an ML
| pipeline.
| berlinmonk wrote:
| https://github.com/jhspetersson/git-task
|
| Local-first task manager/bug tracker within git repository which
| can import issues from GitHub and sync task statuses.
|
| Pretty much work in progress, made for fun and to help while
| programming on a plane.
| Decabytes wrote:
| A flutter based solo rpg that is a Hack of IronSworn. It is set
| in a world 40 years after an event called the arkfall, and where
| alien Arks crashed landed on earth bring with them many new flora
| and fauna and terraforming the earth at the sites of the crash.
|
| The setting is like retrofuturistic version of 1998 with
| survivalist elements.
|
| I've been enjoying flutter, and Have found it easier than other
| cross platform GUI technologies I've used. Dart is pretty easy to
| learn too and I'm considering it for other non flutter based
| tools as well
| michelangelodev wrote:
| I have a CS background and work as a data scientist, but my hobby
| is Christian apologetics:
|
| http://saintbeluga.org
|
| This is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:
|
| https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...
| aapoalas wrote:
| A data-oriented JavaScript engine called Nova
| (https://github.com/trynova/nova and https://trynova.dev/),
| basically trying to answer the question of "what if everything in
| the JS engine heap was stored in vectors in creation order?" This
| has some interesting properties; it's basically an ECS kind of
| engine.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| This weekend, just designing a new type of lithography exposure
| process platform for hobbyists. Getting sub-micron 3-axis
| repeatability is an interesting problem, as one explicitly
| considers where to source economical mechanical precision.
|
| Mostly just bored waiting for my Tungsten sample shipment to try
| in a new metal 3D printing process (at $90/in^3 you figure people
| would just air mail it, but nope cause it is a fire hazard.)
| Container rail transport work stoppage means I may get time to
| entertain low priority vanity projects.
|
| Also working on a physics inertia puzzle so embarrassingly
| stupid... I refuse to post it lest it wastes 1 minute of someones
| time.
|
| Kind of like this ear worm... these kind of problems are
| annoying... lol =3
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM
|
| ( don't click this link, seriously )
| venk12 wrote:
| I'm creating a series of video tutorials to get people started on
| neurotechnology and brain-computer interface design. You can
| check out the playlist here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBm6iuVBaQ&list=PLJYQoZIKDl...
|
| My ultimate goal is to bring brain signals to the browser and
| develop neuro-apps, all in public. I share updates weekly on
| LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-tether
| ejs wrote:
| Building this with Elixir: https://flexlogs.com
|
| I've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to
| applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one
| that uses the log stream instead of agents/daemons.
| rossant wrote:
| Building a GPU scientific 2D/3D visualization library scaling to
| millions of points www.datoviz.org -- have been pursuing this
| idea for ~13 years!
| 0xrandom wrote:
| reading answers here just inspired me so much
| aszantu wrote:
| Trying to find a solution for my inability to digest plants
| https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum/blob/ma...
|
| latest success seems to be probiotic for oxolate-digestion, which
| now helps me digest green salad. For a test I tried green onions,
| but got anxiety back. Being able to digest onions and garlic
| would enrich my food choices a lot.
|
| I doubt there's money to be made from all this material, except I
| could offer some coaching, but pretty much everything I know is
| in this little repo
| Etheryte wrote:
| Reading the repository readme, on one hand I feel incredibly
| sorry for you, on the other super excited that you've found
| something that works for you. Depression is such a wide catch
| all term and there are countlessly many underlying reasons that
| can lead to it. Unfortunately that also means that curing
| depression is always a bespoke effort, every person suffering
| with it is different so it's very hard to try and figure out
| what helps. I had no idea food could be linked so strongly! I
| hope what you've found is sustainable and leads you to a better
| tomorrow.
| aszantu wrote:
| spread it around, everybody knows someone with depression and
| if 30% of ppl respond to change in diet you'll improve the
| world a lot
| stefanvdw1 wrote:
| I got tired of all the pop-up's, long stories and accounts needed
| on cooking sites so I'm building a web app that helps you
| organize all your favorite online recipes in one place.
|
| It also helps you discover new recipes that other users have
| saved.
|
| https://eatfeed.app
| Instantnoodl wrote:
| A "slay the spire"-like deck builder game that can run in the
| terminal, but with full mouse support + images:
| https://github.com/BigJk/end_of_eden
|
| And my long-time project. A Dungeons & Dragons utility to use
| Thermal Printer for handy Printouts: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
| rozenmd wrote:
| I've been working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) for
| the past 3.5 years - this year I've been focusing on "finishing"
| my MVPs.
|
| In particular, I've been building functionality for status pages
| to make it more useful for software teams.
| moxel wrote:
| Just finished a blink reminder app https://blinktracker.app a
| couple of days ago. Monitors your eyes' blink frequency with a
| camera and also reminds you to take regular screen breaks.
|
| Somewhat ironically after giving up smoking I take too few breaks
| and get blurry/dry eyes after long days. The app is a bit
| overengineered and comes with an api in case you ever wanted to
| start controlling stuff with blinks. Currently Windows only.
| vinc wrote:
| Working on a web app to check various metrics on cloud servers
| (or virtual machines on-prem) and suggest optimizations to reduce
| cloud waste (and costs). I'm basically automating a good part of
| the infrastructure maintenance I was doing as a full-stack dev in
| my previous job.
|
| There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I
| want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time
| devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.
|
| The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be
| like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure,
| just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.
|
| It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest
| Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was
| mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of
| the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server
| name is a good motivation!
|
| Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery
| (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations
| because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when
| you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.
|
| The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page
| right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate
| on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking
| about open-sourcing it.
|
| I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain
| points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out
| to me!
|
| https://cloudcheck.cc
| aszantu wrote:
| I'm looking for new ideas for my witch.inc comic strips, it's
| like IT-Crowd, but for witches and wizards. I kinda ran out of
| them after I quit my tech-support job. Doing database
| administration now but it's not as rich in corporate slip-ups
|
| https://ko-fi.com/album/New-Album-J3J512CD1A
| em-bee wrote:
| how is that for a motivation to work in a dysfunctional
| company? ;-)
|
| try reading the dailywtf. plenty of slipups there
| aszantu wrote:
| will look into them, stealing ideas!
| rikroots wrote:
| Thank you for asking! Excitingly, I'm working on maintaining and
| improving my canvas library. Which is not news because I spend
| much of my spare time doing this exact same work.
|
| However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library
| - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't
| think other canvas libraries have yet got around to
| considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm
| spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette
| (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little
| bit faster ...
|
| (Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)
|
| [1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/94
|
| [2] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/96
| tducret wrote:
| Hi fellow hackers!
|
| Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host
| Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.
|
| No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).
|
| - You just write plain markdown
|
| - Add a script import at the top
|
| - Upload
|
| Check it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/
| lifeinthevoid wrote:
| I'm working on an Open Source SQLite VFS extension with modern
| encryption using libsodium. Using the VFS instead of adapting the
| source like SQLcipher is not straightforward but feasible. I hope
| that a modern encryption library, extensive testing and using
| vanilla SQLite source can convince users to give the extension a
| chance.
| y_gy wrote:
| Hi! I'm working on https://UpdateMaker.com. UpdateMaker is a
| super-simple widget for delivering in-app updates and
| notifications to users.
|
| As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates,
| but making front-end updates requires a whole production deploy,
| and a backend notification service is a lot to set up.
| UpdateMaker makes it easy to manage updates without an
| engineering cycle.
|
| UpdateMaker lets you copy-paste our widget into your website, and
| then you can push update notifications to your users. You can
| customize the look and feel, schedule updates, track user
| engagement, and make it conditional on pages the user might
| visit. We manage all the cookie-handling so the user only sees
| updates they haven't seen before. It's been super useful for us!
|
| From there, UpdateMaker also automatically exports all your
| updates as a changelog that you can publish for your users or SEO
| :)
| bagas31pro wrote:
| https://bagas31.pro/microsoft-office-365-full-crack/
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| Few recent side projects:
|
| - a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex
| legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about
| events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to
| them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the
| timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow states. It is very
| helpful, because the amount of events and data was too much to
| handle mentally. I am using Django/HTMX/AlpineJS.
|
| - a dance event calendar for dance events in Finland, where both
| artists and venues can add events. The data is stuctured, which
| allows me to make views for each performer, venue etc. Mostly
| Django, but some HTMX/AlpineJS as well for complex screens
|
| - for the dance event calendar, I have created a support site
| that uses ChatGPT to handle two first steps for incoming support
| emails/questions. First it categorizes the question, and then
| tries to answer it based on FAQ. If it fails, it summarizes the
| issue (and possibly asks few basic questions related to it) and
| forwards it to me.
| Igor_Wiwi wrote:
| Get another word - https://getanotherword.com
|
| Simplistic thesaurus and synonym finder.
|
| Built with Flask and bit of jQuery
| minajevs wrote:
| I am working on an https://evy.app/
|
| Evy is an app for collectors, both professional and casual, to
| help them keep track of their items and share it with the world.
| Currently there are either overly complex inventory management
| systems, which are overkill for casual collectors, or generic
| social platforms, which are "fine" for everything, but great for
| nothing. My goal with Evy is to fill this gap by offering an easy
| way for any collector to manage their items.
|
| In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically
| for collectors.
| chegra wrote:
| https://arcprize.org/ I am trying to climb this leaderboard for
| the arc competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-
| prize-2024/leaderboa...
| Max-Ganz-II wrote:
| Replacement system tables for Amazon Redshift.
|
| Thinking a free and paid version.
|
| Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so
| it's slow, and so a six day history only.
|
| Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-
| and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in
| Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.
| crohr wrote:
| I'm working on https://runs-on.com, a self-hosted solution to get
| 10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners with support for Linux x64 and
| arm64. This month I've been refining Windows support and
| hopefully this gets fully shipped before Aug 31st!
| waiwai933 wrote:
| We're really looking forward to Windows support - I don't think
| any Actions runners vendors supports Windows at the moment and
| we were looking at building our own runners as a result, but if
| this launches soon, we'd be very keen to try it out!
| crohr wrote:
| Thanks, I'll ping you when it's available!
| anty wrote:
| I'm integrating daily steps walked into my workout/nutrition
| tracking app EverBeat for Android. I've noticed that this is an
| important metric for many people interested in losing some
| weight.
|
| I estimate burned calories on the minute-to-minute level for all
| activities, which is a fun challenge.
|
| For the steps to calories conversion, I require time and distance
| walked. Unfortunately it's surprisingly difficult to get some
| kind of distance information from Android. Google Fit API
| provides this data, but will be killed soon. The RecordingAPI
| will hopefully provide this in the future, but not yet...
| seky wrote:
| I have a. suite of tolls for developers:
|
| https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode
| and vice-versa conversion),
|
| https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML
| and need to clean it up),
|
| https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so
| well-formed HTML and need to fix it),
|
| https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a
| text),
|
| https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a
| text),
|
| https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),
|
| https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),
|
| https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),
|
| https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and
| unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).
|
| https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code)
| notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).
|
| Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have
| frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the
| backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.
| Scotrix wrote:
| I'm working on a few things:
|
| - Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta
| data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog
| post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ
|
| - A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is
| a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as
| possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily
| challenges in groups and let's you grind thousands of items, it's
| a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively
| and not polished at first, see more details here:
| https://yasl.at/XnoDtY
|
| - And last but not least I started to build a not yet published
| simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted
| database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB,
| Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query
| and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.
|
| The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic
| tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used
| for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's
| mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead
| of defining it simply via a configuration and the available
| offerings are charging large.
|
| I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web
| interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned
| and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a
| simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to
| the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted
| again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first
| version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming
| weeks...).
|
| ---
|
| Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the
| analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems
| with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an
| existing solution which does what I'd like to have).
| tobsias wrote:
| I love the analytics dashboard idea.
| atemerev wrote:
| An integrated Palantir-like system for political campaigning,
| oppo research, narrative management etc.
| elmigranto wrote:
| iOS app to discover dog-friendly places in Amsterdam.
|
| https://www.instagram.com/doggable.app/
|
| We have over a 100 places now, and are getting ready for closed
| beta in September. You can sign up by emailing hello@doggable.app
| or DM-ing us on Instagram @doggable.app.
|
| The app is developed live over at Twitch.
|
| https://twitch.tv/elmigranto
| thiht wrote:
| I'm working on a test integration tool. You write your tests
| declaratively using YAML (ie. setup the environment, databases,
| etc., load fixtures, make api calls or db calls, and check
| assertions), so it's completely language agnostic, which makes it
| perfect for grey-box/black-box testing. This way of testing also
| ensures you're testing functional, business cases, and gives
| great stability on an exposed interface, because everything runs
| with real dbs, real queues and so on. From experience, this way
| of testing hits the perfect balance between reliability,
| usefulness, maintainability (when done right), and verbosity (at
| a previous company we replaced the tests on all of our layers
| with this kind of integration tests and it ended up being the
| most stable code base and test harness we ever worked on).
|
| I'm currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible,
| and then I'll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats,
| etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and
| bring more value to the tests.
|
| Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and
| sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since
| I've never done this before.
| hitchdev wrote:
| Thats interesting. You had almost exactly the same idea as me:
| https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory
| thiht wrote:
| Yeah I didn't came up with the idea first, at my work we used
| an in house solution[1] but it had lots of shortcomings (hard
| to read output, hard to debug tests, virtually no
| documentation, and the code was very hard to extend and fix).
| My plan is to fix all these issues and more :)
|
| [1]: https://github.com/ovh/venom
| notpushkin wrote:
| Hey HN! I'm still working on my Docker Swarm dashboard, Lunni:
| https://lunni.dev/
|
| Lunni essentially takes docker-compose.yml and deploys it on a
| server. Currently we're using Portainer as the backend, which in
| turn just runs `docker stack deploy`. I'm reimplementing the
| stack deployment code from scratch which will allow us to support
| latest Compose spec and extend it as we need (and perhaps support
| orchestrators other than Swarm in the future).
| sandruso wrote:
| https://snaptail.dev - during the past few days I was exploring
| concept of single source file applications where you can hide the
| build system.
|
| I've cobbled together this tool which hides nextjs build system
| and allows to work with just single file.
|
| It works great for fast prototyping or building an internal/local
| apps.
|
| edit: repo: https://github.com/rybarix/snaptail
| arichard123 wrote:
| I'm trying to solve loneliness and improve civilisation.
| em-bee wrote:
| what is your approach? please elaborate
| eashish93 wrote:
| Hi guys, For the past few months, I'm working on a form builder
| called minform with focus on UX and themes. Current form builders
| too restricted when comes to styling. It's free for unlimited
| submissions with paid plan for team feature.
|
| You can try here without signup: https://admin.minform.io/try
|
| Site: https://minform.io
| klausjensen wrote:
| Working on a virtual file system with Dokana (C#), to enable a
| cloud-backed storage solution in the video editing space. It is
| kicking my ass.
| conzept wrote:
| An opensource, semantic topic exploration system, which can use
| any remote REST datasources (and soon self-hosted, custom
| TypeSense datasources).
|
| See: https://conze.pt - this is an encyclopedic showcase, but
| could be used for any other information system, eg. a cultural
| archive.
|
| Development news: https://x.com/conzept__
|
| Docs: https://conze.pt/guide/user_manual
|
| Feedback welcome! I'm aware that the mobile experience needs
| work.
| JTrehan wrote:
| I'm currently working on a PDF search engine that will index and
| then search through several thousand pdfs. As a tabletop role-
| player and former researcher, I've always wanted a simple tool to
| do this, and I hope I won't be the only one to benefit from it.
| This is my first project of this scale and I hope to be able to
| show it here soon.
|
| On the technical side, it's a desktop application coded entirely
| in java with a javaFX interface. No AI or online data uploads,
| just the Lucene search engine and PDFium for PDF rendering.
|
| Here is a very short demo : https://youtu.be/CGo9JRUByGA
| mittermayr wrote:
| I've been realizing that while I've found an incredibly effective
| solution to a problem I keep having, it does not automatically
| lend itself to becoming a wildly thriving business. If the
| problem that is being solved is a somewhat infrequent one (once a
| year or less), and not applicable to a super-wide audience (think
| Facebook), then it simply won't result in enough business to
| commit to fully.
|
| I built a domain hunter (with availability checks) for .com
| domains based on idea prompts and while I see people purchase
| domains all the time through it, they won't even shell out $3 to
| get any extras or a list of more than three domain ideas or so.
| Zero willingness to pay anything, but high success rates on
| search and result conversion.
| Ylpertnodi wrote:
| >they won't even shell out $3 to get any extras or a list of
| more than three domain ideas or so.
|
| Are the extras worth $3? I think this may be an interesting
| article...too cheap to be of value. Of course, without knowing
| more, it's hard to judge: more info needed.
| thip wrote:
| I've been making an RGB LED version of the game 2048:
| https://hackaday.io/project/197115-tiny2048. It's only a little
| side project but I've been having fun doing it!
| patrick91 wrote:
| I'm working on a social website where you can share the soft
| drinks and sodas you try, similar to untappd and maybe swarm,
| it's not yet ready to share, but I'd love to know if there's any
| people here that might want to try it (my email is on my profile)
| wczerniak wrote:
| Nice thread! A lot of interesting projects. Fingers crossed for
| all of them
|
| On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at
| simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as
| one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal
| calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm
| finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider
| has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a
| huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But
| first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now.
| I'm having way to much fun with this one
| mantegna wrote:
| Working on plump.ai - job-seeker's AI hiring agent. Think you
| have a personal career manager who searches for better job
| opportunities, applies you to them, speaks with recruiters on
| your behalf up until the interview scheduling, and does it 24/7
| without involving you until real human action is required.
| augustinemp wrote:
| A companion that you chat with to keep track of your health
| symptoms. I was inspired by seeing family members go to their
| doctors appointments and not knowing the important symptoms to
| report in their short appointments.
|
| Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will
| take your history and record your symptoms, then you can ask her
| to summarise it before your appointment.
|
| Try out the prototype on WhatsApp: +1 (516) 734-6593
|
| (It's not HIPAA compliant and shares data with LLM providers
| currently, so best to use a fake patient profile if you're
| interested)
| carlnewton wrote:
| I've been working on Habitat for the last 4 months. It's a self-
| hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it
| to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
|
| - The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-
| social-net...
|
| - A build update and plan:
| https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
|
| - The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
|
| - The project board:
| https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
| artiscode wrote:
| I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get
| their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy
| front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers
| attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer
| who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I
| don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for
| v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a
| boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.
| a6kme wrote:
| You are probably not spending time yak shaving and over
| engineering which is time well spent in understanding the
| problem and building the business :)
| bsenftner wrote:
| I'm working in the final features for an office productivity
| suite with deep AI integration. I think the current slapping of a
| chat window on software is pretty tame, if not lame. So, in
| addition to that chat window that replies with conversational
| chat, I've got over a dozen integrated into software tools LLMs
| that when you ask them things, their output is programmatic and
| either modifies the data of what you're working on, or or
| performs some type of modification to the software tool in use.
| The tools include a complete word processor, where the AI knows
| the word processor's API and can directly manipulate the document
| in the word processor, likewise for a spreadsheet, and there is a
| "prompt engineer" interface where one can clone, modify, and
| create new LLM Agents that have deep access to the APIs of the
| tools, the data in the tools, and the wider application
| framework.
|
| This has been in development for 3 years, and I've got an
| immigration law firm using it, with about 1/3rd of the LLM agents
| being immigration law specialist agents of some type.
|
| I'm just wrapping up transforming the system from being
| immigration law specific to being generic, capable of operating
| in any industry. I previously made a "do it yourself: build your
| own home solar energy system" as a proof of concept that this
| framework could be modified in such a way, which I put online for
| a few months and then took down, having proved what I wanted.
|
| I've got multiple creative writing 'bots: legal, technical
| documentation, creative writing, and code authoring. I've got
| multiple spreadsheet 'bots: create any standard spreadsheet form
| on demand, reverse engineer and explain complex spreadsheets, and
| co-author spreadsheets interactively with the human user, guiding
| them through the understanding of the spreadsheet being built.
| I've got foreign language translation agents that allow people
| without a common language to speak to one another through the
| voice transcription interfaces.
|
| And the users are never copying and pasting LLM outputs from one
| place to another, that integration is built in to the business
| logic of the software: ask a chatbot to write a document, the
| output does directly to the word processor and the document is
| created, likewise for spreadsheets, likewise for talking to the
| "projectBot" and asking "what's the state of this project?" and a
| detailed report is generated.
|
| I've also been making the app itself multi-lingual, and multi-
| skinned so it can be refaced for different cultures,
| demographics, and industries. I've been calling it "AI CMS" but
| that is meaningless to far too many. I'm considering calling it
| "Midom Office AI" because that sounds like "my dumb AI" and I'm
| generally sarcastic, considering an anti-gushing sarcastic
| marketing angle on the software. Rather than everyone's else's
| over praising, I'll have just some confident smuck referencing
| how he's got an entire team of AI experts helping him, enabling
| him to be calm and cool in the face of all the deadline
| pressures, he sips lemonade while his AI team works for him, and
| not him for it. We'll see what my "marketingBot" says...
| padraigf wrote:
| Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working
| title is American Football Insights. It's a hobby project, I'm
| not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this a few
| years ago, and I found that analysing the stats, you can gain
| insights, which you can't really from just watching the games. It
| was prompted by the upcoming NFL season.
|
| Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local
| DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one
| place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I
| thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to
| gain by pulling them together?'.
| DarrenDev wrote:
| I'm building a developer tool for working with FHIR APIs called
| "Vanya Client".
|
| - https://vanyalabs.com/
|
| FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use
| all around the world by healthcare, health insurance and medtech
| companies as well as researchers working with healthcare data.
|
| Vanya grew out of my own frustrations as a developer working with
| FHIR. I wanted an easier way to see the data behind the APIs. To
| say Postman is not ideal for working with this data is a major
| understatement.
|
| We're a few months away from a commercial release, and have an
| MVP available for download right now. We're very much building in
| public and have a strong user base already all around the world.
|
| Just finished a Sunday morning release of the latest version.
| Looking forward to the next 6 months!
| anon012012 wrote:
| I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org
|
| This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of
| knowledge.
|
| It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung
| fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories
| (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you
| can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the
| graphical tree.
|
| This is all generated on-the-fly with Claude 3.5. There is no
| limit to what knowledge you might explore.
|
| The killer feature is that it is totally free and does not
| require to login. Just click the link and have fun. I'll keep it
| free like that, as long as I can.
|
| I hope you like it guys because it is the best project that I
| have up my sleeve.
|
| Enjoy!,
|
| Pierre
| cyrillite wrote:
| This is a very fun idea and I've had similar thoughts, without
| yet turning my mind to execution. Bravo. Is there somewhere I
| can follow more of your work in the future?
| anon012012 wrote:
| Hi cyrillite. Send me an email with "subbing" as object:
| pierre.treeofknowledge@gmail.com Then I will gladly send you
| what I got, whenever I get it. I will not forget. Thank you,
| friend!
|
| I'll probably make a full blog soon for added convenience.
| (it'll be about AI products & production)
|
| If you want a bite of some of my other work here is a AI game
| I made & which got totally ignored:
| https://lywald.itch.io/the-fall-of-mankind I tried to
| monetize it, that was a bit lame, but in the next few days
| I'll release it as free.
| john_minsk wrote:
| This is super cool!
|
| As a marketing spin for this - consider packaging it into
| Nvidia NIM format and make it generate 3D graph as 3D OpenUSD
| scene. From where I'm standing this route has a lot of
| potential.
|
| Also if you never looked into it there is a project called
| wikidata. There each object contains a unique ID and hierarchy,
| which helps build semantic web. Exploring their data using your
| interface might be effective. (please check similar projects
| though as an idea seems straightforward and someone might have
| already done that for them)
| anon012012 wrote:
| You're a legend mate I know nothing of what you say, but it
| is very interesting. It is time I brush up my skills and I
| thank you very much for the clues! I'll look it up.
| zbshqoa wrote:
| I like this project but I don't think I agree on the 3 branches
| that I see when I open the website.
|
| Science is not a standalone category. In fact science is
| directly connected to mathematics which is directly connected
| to philosophy (through logic for example)
|
| We might argue that also art is an extension of philosophy
| (e.g. finding objective or subjective beauty).
|
| Probably Claude doesn't agree with this definition.
| exe34 wrote:
| I would think more in terms of a network myself, but it gets
| harder to visualise I imagine.
| anon012012 wrote:
| I agree with you. Truth is this was the first branching
| generation which I generated, and so I kept it for the sake
| of history. If you manage to create a better "starting
| branching tree" which looks nice and feels nice then I might
| take you up on this.
| fastneutron wrote:
| Very cool! Is the code open source?
| anon012012 wrote:
| Thanks, fastneutron! I might give you the code if you send me
| an email and you explain your intentions. No problem. For
| now, it is not full blown open source because I don't want
| the added headache of managing that (double checking security
| & quality... I have no time for this is a sideproject).
| gchaincl wrote:
| Congrats, pretty amazing work! Loved it!!
| anon012012 wrote:
| Thanks!
| dcsan wrote:
| Hi I've been working on something similar but using podcasts as
| a starting point for concepts. I wonder if we might
| collaborate? Link in bio, anon!
| sathyabhat wrote:
| Looks nice. Tried to search for "Guitar" and I got a 500
| Internal Server error.
| anon012012 wrote:
| I'm sorry guys but my API key is out of funds until
| tomorrow's or maybe tuesday's paycheck. I'm only a student
| and so my money is very limited. I'm sorry this is pathetic.
| I didn't expect to have so much trafic these last few days,
| and then with this thread. Come back soon!
|
| What do you think that I implement BYOK (bring your own key),
| does that interest anyone so that it is never down for them
| but they have to pay Claude on the side? Is anyone
| interested?
| fynis wrote:
| Please do implement this, cool tool for branching
| knowledge, good name.
| mikodin wrote:
| Definitely implement BYOK - although people may be
| skeptical because it's not running locally
|
| A side note - put on the site this exact message and then
| include your venmo or something - I bet you'll get
| donations :)
|
| I've had this exact idea for quite some time, I'm glad that
| someone is making it!
| WillAdams wrote:
| Making a note to try this when it's not slashdotted
| (hackernewsed?).
|
| This sort of thing is _very_ interesting to me, and I rather
| desperately want something like to this tied to listings of
| books.
|
| I would like to read more diversely --- at one time I was
| trying to read one book from each LoC division, starting at the
| top/broadest (so A--Z), then iterating down, but this got to be
| exhausting because it was difficult to determine which book to
| read.
|
| A later effort was to read biographies of famous people to my
| children in chronological order as they were growing up --- dry
| run was the very simple set of U.S. Presidents --- but again
| researching and ordering was a big problem.
|
| So, my hopes for this are that it includes
| footnotes/references/links to supporting material (perhaps
| affiliate links on Amazon would be one way to fund things?) and
| that it is possible to click through to find information on
| specific technical topics as well as general explanations.
| hopfog wrote:
| This seems really cool and I'm excited to play around with it
| once it's up and running properly again. These type of things
| are my favorite applications of LLMs.
|
| A while back I made something similar in the form of an
| incremental "clicker" game where you split things ad infinitum:
| https://lantto.github.io/hypersplit/
| donspio wrote:
| https://zimly.app is an open-source S3 media backup app that I've
| been working on in my free time.
|
| The last few months I've been trying to get the real-time upload
| speed to display nicely, which proved to be harder than
| anticipated. But I think I've got a good solution now and might
| roll a new release today.
|
| My goal is to have a few thousands downloads by the end of the
| year. Marketing is hard, also because it's less rewarding than
| programming features, so I tend to pick a new feature instead of
| writing a blog post or polishing the website.
| zoltrix303 wrote:
| Jobchef.io is a SaaS I've worked on for a little while and
| recently released.
|
| I have a background in marketing and HR in large company, this is
| my first venture into programming after learning to code on my
| own (VBA -> Automate the boring stuff -> coursera -> React & a
| lot of help debugging from a very generous friend.)
|
| Releasing a full working product was a great milestone, but so
| far market fit is still quite unclear.
| fahad19 wrote:
| I'm building Featurevisor:
| https://github.com/featurevisor/featurevisor
|
| It's an open source tool for declaratively managing your feature
| flags, a/b tests, and remote configuration for your applications
| and services.
|
| Has SDKs for JavaScript, Swift, and Kotlin already.
| arc_of_descent wrote:
| https://betweenthespread.com/
|
| A stock screener. Plan to have lots more features soon.
| b00bl1k wrote:
| I'm working on a library for LoRaWAN to make it easier to create
| node devices. It's mostly done, but still needs documentation and
| examples.
|
| https://github.com/b00bl1k/uwan
| yeahsure wrote:
| I'm working on a new design for a site I run just for fun.
|
| It's a simple site for streaming local radios from my city,
| Mendoza (Argentina): https://www.radiosdemendoza.com.ar
|
| It was built with WordPress, and the new theme is using Tailwind
| and AlpineJS. I hadn't used AlpineJS before, so this project was
| a great way to experiment with it.
|
| I don't have any monetization on it, and I'm not sure if I'll
| pursue that for this site.
|
| Next up, I plan to build a Chrome extension. I have limited
| experience with that, so it should be a fun challenge.
| is_true wrote:
| Maybe you can try https://wxt.dev/ or plasmo for the extensions
|
| Do you know if there's a way to get info about programming
| (show names and schedule) from the streams?
| yeahsure wrote:
| Yes, I've been considering both options! WXT seems to fit my
| use case better at the moment, so I might give it a try.
|
| As for stream names, I've looked into it as well, but from
| the limited research I've done, it seems like only paid
| services are available.
|
| I doubt there's a way to get the radios' programming since
| these are mostly small radios with very basic websites and
| online presence. Best I can get is an MP3/AAC stream and
| that's about it.
| fernandohur wrote:
| https://synthql.dev: An alternative to PostgREST focused on the
| React-Node-PG stack. Main advantage right now is it gives you end
| to end type safety: you can write type-safe queries straight from
| your component that directly access your database.
|
| Why SynthQL? My experience working for +10 years on enterprise
| SaaS is that a quite often you just want a database and a way to
| fetch data from it. Backends will quite often get in the way
| adding abstractions and layers upon layers of transformation
| between DB objects to domain objects to DTOs.
|
| If you ever feel like you just want to talk to the database
| directly, give SynthQL a try :)
| nickgubbins wrote:
| Hey HN! I'm working on Voop - a b2b phone network, leveraging
| eSIM & web-based UI we're turning company mobile connectivity
| into a SaaS. Has been really fun as an engineer getting into the
| telco stack - networks, switches and traffic routing take me back
| to university - and commercially it's been fun negotiating with
| the mobile networks to get wholesale access. Launching later this
| year in the UK and US next year, can't wait to get it off the
| ground.
|
| One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in
| Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on
| whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl
| certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain.
| After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it
| for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.
| xipix wrote:
| Bungee is our audio stretching library. It can change music tempo
| and pitch effortlessly in real time on all common devices and
| browsers.
|
| Bungee is unique in its quality, performance and controllability.
| Every media player, DAW, video editor should use something like
| Bungee for smooth scrubbing and audio slomo.
|
| Try it with one click:
| https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo
|
| So far we have several licensees of the Pro edition with more on
| the way.
| brennerm wrote:
| Currently working solo on the MVP of https://web2ebook.com/.
|
| It's a tool to scratch my own itch, which is converting all kinds
| of web content into ebooks and send them to my ereader.
|
| Currently focusing on web pages/Atom/RSS feeds but I may extend
| it later e.g. into transcribing videos + extracting image
| highlights.
|
| Feedback/ideas are already appreciated. :)
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| Working on my lisp interpreter and freestanding programming
| system. I've more or less finished my ELF patcher and am working
| on the loader/linker that will form the basis of the foreign
| function interface of the language. This also laid down the
| ground work for working with binary structures from within lisp.
|
| I'm also studying electronics and trying to learn circuit and PCB
| design. I want to buy an uconsole and make boards for it. I
| contacted the uconsole's power management IC manufacturer and
| they actually sent me some GPLv2 Linux drivers! I intend to clean
| it up and port the features to the existing kernel driver so I
| can upstream it.
| bittermandel wrote:
| Working on a new PaaS called Molnett (https://molnett.com/).
| Trying to replicate the development productivity you might have
| at larger tech companies like Google, Spotify and more.
|
| Kind of struggling to wrap my mind around how we can avoid having
| EBS-style network disks as part of our product offering. We are
| convinced that it's a operational nightmare to maintain and it's
| better to provide other tools to achieve the same results. For
| example, instead of running Postgres on EBS or local disks, we
| use Neon to run it on top of S3!
| graphoarty wrote:
| I built a simple teleprompter web app to help record talking head
| videos with the front camera of my MacBook this week.
|
| Link: https://camprompter.app
|
| The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right
| below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're
| talking to the camera.
|
| Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.
|
| I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in
| the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I
| just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical
| step.
|
| Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the
| text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.
|
| Fire up PhotoBooth and try it out!
|
| PS: Press F for fullscreen.
| elric wrote:
| Oh, wonderfully simple, might use it for recording voiceovers.
| Might be useful to add some kind of syntax for pauses, like a
| blank line between paragraphs.
| tevlon wrote:
| I'm working on Xona AI (https://xona.ai). I want to democratize
| the generation of 3D visualizations for interior and exterior
| design. We will launch next week on ProductHunt :)
|
| Very excited.
| folli wrote:
| An open source alternative to Strava (a fitness tracking app that
| allows users to share their running, cycling, and other workout
| activities using GPS data).
|
| https://cubetrek.com
| bluehatbrit wrote:
| I'm working on a library and accompanying notebooks to process
| secondary school exam results (UK). My father has been doing this
| for years for his trust and has a fantastic spreadsheet that
| spits out loads of data for each school.
|
| I've recently taken a new job working closely with some data
| scientists so wanted to skill up a little. So far I've got an
| elixir library which can calculate Attainment 8 and Progress 8.
| They're formulas provided by the DfE to understand individual
| student progress, and the schools ability to progress students.
|
| It's just a bit of fun, and is letting me experiment with some of
| the various elixir data libraries and livebook. At the end of it,
| his trust is going to plug in some anonymous data and see if they
| can get more insights than this mega spreadsheet.
|
| It's also nice to be doing a side project which isn't aimed at
| being a business.
| zer0tonin wrote:
| Currently working on game development in Godot. We're making
| Dice'n Goblins, a dungeon-crawler RPG inspired by classics like
| Etrian Odissey and Wizardry VII, with a cartoon aesthetic similar
| to Paper Mario. The twist is that you have to collect and use
| dice to beat the monsters that crawl inside the dungeon.
|
| A demo should be available very soon, meanwhile you can wishlist
| it on Steam:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/
| anacrolix wrote:
| https://github.com/anacrolix/possum
|
| concurrent disk-backed cache supporting efficient direct file
| I/O, transactions, and snapshots using file cloning and sparse
| files
| markles wrote:
| I've been learning io_uring for fun and 0 profit by building a
| web-based game using only the Rust standard library. I create a
| simple WebSocket server and am now creating async from the ground
| up. I'm documenting it all:
| https://github.com/kilroyjones/series_game_from_scratch
| aziis98 wrote:
| I'm tring to write a minimal tool in Go to deploy and manage CD
| for my self-hosted projects.
|
| I've tried many things but still none fit exactly my needs (I
| deploy many static websites so I want that to be effortless but I
| still want to be able to do continuous deployment on git+docker
| based projects). I know about Dokku and is probably what I should
| have learned to use but this way I can also challenge myself on a
| medium Go project
| kaveet wrote:
| I'm working on planning next year's Square Foot Garden and
| building some tools to help me figure out staggering and
| succession planting--trying to be self-sufficient this year. I'm
| also working on a cookbook that focuses on "composable" meals and
| minimizing kitchen waste.
| Devraj4522 wrote:
| I am working on revamping my past project built last year
| https://www.loom.com/share/95c8aa93d24648dca8d61837104fe31d?....
| Making this more apealing and user friendly, until I found a new
| project idea to build a better project.
| westcort wrote:
| I made this bookmarklet, which will speak highlighted text in the
| browser regardless of platform. It also makes the initial letters
| of each word bold. This is the code:
|
| javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection
| = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) {
| alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var
| encodedSelection = document.createElement("div");
| encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent =
| encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var
| words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var
| speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var
| word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1;
| var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" +
| word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span
| style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize,
| word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart +
| lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span
| style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord +
| " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow =
| window.open("", "_blank");
| newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken
| Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1'
| max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content'
| style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-
| height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"%20+%20formattedText%20+%20"</p
| ></body></html>");%20var%20rateSlider%20=%20newWindow.document.ge
| tElementById("rate-slider");%20var%20utterance%20=%20new%20Speech
| SynthesisUtterance(speechContent);%20rateSlider.addEventListener(
| "input",%20function()%20{%20utterance.rate%20=%20rateSlider.value
| ;%20window.speechSynthesis.cancel();%20window.speechSynthesis.spe
| ak(utterance);%20});%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%2
| 0})();}();
|
| Also: https://pastebin.com/zuRVpiVh
| SuperHeavy256 wrote:
| How do I get it to stop narrating? It's going on and on
| westcort wrote:
| Just close the original article's window and it will stop
| narrating.
| blackbrokkoli wrote:
| Trying to innovate digital language learning by building actual
| learning _games_ , not just gamified apps.
|
| Currently experimenting with a game build around the old
| classroom method of Total Physical Response -- you can see a very
| early prototype here: https://kolja-sam.itch.io/the-tpr-game-gala
| alfredgg wrote:
| I am working on improving a system to inform citizens about the
| public benefits for which they are eligible [0]. It's hold by
| Barcelona City Council.
|
| It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people
| that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could
| access. It is an old base code that uses OpenFisca for the back,
| and React for the front. However, it's quite fun though.
| Currently I'm working on make it more stable as there are still
| some parts that could break the process.
|
| [0] https://lesmevesajudes.barcelona.cat/
| she11c0de wrote:
| https://defguard.net/ - open-source SSO service built with rust
| on top of wireguard & OIDC. It's been a lot of work but we're
| slowly gaining traction and nearing the 1.0 release.
|
| Some of the features: * OpenID Connect based
| Identity Provider * OpenLDAP synchronization - currently
| supporting users and groups synchronization * MFA with
| TOTP, email, WebAuthn / FIDO2, crypto wallets * wireguard
| client GUI integrated with OIDC, supporting multiple locations
| (https://defguard.net/client) * secure enrollment &
| onboarding * yubikey provisioning
|
| Currently we're working on external OIDC providers integration.
|
| Our github: https://github.com/DefGuard
|
| (edit: formatting, github link)
| rudasn wrote:
| Really like what you guys are doing, keep it up! :)
| ssernikk wrote:
| I'm working on a pretty simple, chess-based strategy game. It's
| fun to work on it while I have time during summer vacation.
|
| https://arx.wyczawski.dev
| aghhelmut wrote:
| https://imagetool.dev/
|
| An Image Tool for web developers.
|
| With ImageTool, you can: - Search multiple stock photo sites with
| one tool - Generate 500 images with AI - Edit images - Compress
| and convert images to .webp
|
| It also helps you bulk edit images.
|
| The goal is to help web developers speeding up their workflow.
| entropyie wrote:
| Myself
| CarpeQueso wrote:
| I just started working on an engine for turn-based table-top
| games like Dominion, 7 Wonders, Catan, etc.
|
| During university, I spent some time working on an AI agent to
| play Dominion, but a very large part of the work was building a
| way to simulate the game.
|
| The goals are:
|
| - Develop an engine that's efficient enough to use in simulations
| (for training AI agents or analyzing the game). - Still emit
| events that can be used to visualize the current state of the
| game when real people are playing. - Create primitives that are
| easy to distribute across a network for remote players/agents.
| t_sashi wrote:
| Hey guys, I'm working on https://pages.any-stack.com/.
|
| AnyStack Pages is aimed at making it easier and simpler to host
| static websites with free SSL protection and CDN. Websites can be
| hosted by uploading a zip file of the site contents or a single
| html file. It's currently in closed-beta for limited users every
| week.
|
| Next Steps: Full launch with support for adding custom domains
| and premium features.
|
| Happy to chat about this if you are interested in getting early
| access or for any questions and suggestions.
| IliaLitviak wrote:
| We are building a hybrid aircraft to connect cities with high
| speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport
| infrastructure.
|
| It's a powered 55-seater auto gyro - an electric helicopter
| during take-off and landing and a conventional turboprop regional
| "plane" during flight. We are at a "works on paper, let's start
| prototyping" phase: basic assumptions are verified by people from
| industry, a development plan is in place.
|
| My co-founder is an experienced high-power electric propulsion
| engineer and he's currently developing our power train. I am in
| charge of the business/operations/relationships side. We are
| currently looking for a third co-founder to lead aircraft design.
| withinboredom wrote:
| > an electric helicopter during take-off and landing
|
| Surely this would make it significantly heavier? Wouldn't
| traditional fuel do better in terms of weight (and
| reliability)?
|
| > high speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport
| infrastructure.
|
| Is this meant for rural transport? Looking around my urban
| landscape, there isn't really a place to land something like
| this.
| IliaLitviak wrote:
| When thinking about take-off/landing you have to take into
| account the powertrain, fuel, noise, power-to-weight ratio
| e.t.c. With modern electric motors, batteries, BMS' e.t.c. we
| are at a point where system weight is comparable (the battery
| is relatively small, motors are quite light and powerful),
| but all the other things - noise, efficiency, time between
| overhauls e.t.c. is much-much better.
|
| Long-term vision is to build-out a network connecting large
| metropolitan centers to smaller places, unlocking swaths of
| real estate. You can live in Albany and fly to
| Manhattan/Boston/Syracuse in 30 minutes whenever you need to
| report to office/go to a concert/visit a non-emergency
| doctor's appointment. Vertiport can be located on a floating
| pier, on the roof of an existing transportation hub, on a
| plot adjacent to a bus/tram terminal e.t.c.
| withinboredom wrote:
| I've spent many hours under helicopter blades and can
| assure you that most of the sound comes from the blades,
| not the engines, when landing, hovering, and taking off.
| Also, there is going to be a point where you have to
| transition from an electric powertrain to a fuel powertrain
| and that handoff has to be absolutely perfect while
| hundreds of meters in the air. (Think grinding gears in a
| manual transmission car.) You could do something like a
| liquid clutch or something, but that is one more thing to
| fail and introduces inefficiencies. It is honestly probably
| better to go with traditional jet engine technology, at
| least at first, to verify the business model. Then, spend
| some time innovating.
|
| I'm willing to bet that innovation in blade design will get
| you much further than innovation on the power train itself.
| IliaLitviak wrote:
| The beautiful part is that our powertrains are completely
| separate. You fly up/down using rotor. You fly forward
| using turboprop. The only transition that occurs is
| change in pitch of rotor blades to go from "powered"
| state into "passive autogyro" state. No complex clutches,
| no rotating mounts (like on Osprey). Completely separate
| independent systems. It also provides some measure of
| redundancy.
|
| You are right that most of the noise comes from blades.
| And yes, there is some awesome blade design progress,
| especially for auto-gyros. Also there are a lot of
| specific things like low rotational speed, lack of tilt
| and other stuff that plays well into less noise in our
| specific application. But no, we won't be as quiet as
| multicopters, especially those with ducted fans. That's
| ok, this is a reasonable trade-off - manageable noise
| levels, a lot less complexity, lots of lift.
| lpfeifer wrote:
| Great concept. Where can I find more info?
|
| And out of curiosity, how did you decide on 55 seats?
| IliaLitviak wrote:
| We are far from public yet, but you DM me on LinkedIn, I'm
| always open for a chat!
|
| It's a sweet spot. Large enough to be useful, small enough to
| have reasonable refuelling times.
| dorianmariefr wrote:
| https://rubygems.org/gems/dorian and all
| SuperHeavy256 wrote:
| My friends and I are working on https://supermemory.ai, an AI
| second brain to help you remember content from saved webpages and
| notes
| skp1995 wrote:
| We are working on https://aide.dev/ an editor forked from VSCode
| which allows you to utilize LLMs to speed up coding.
|
| Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better
| copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which
| encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload
| tasks to AI.
| 3np wrote:
| Is there some technical limitation that forced you to make Aide
| as a fork, rather than a VSCode extension?
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| v cool to see more alternatives to cursor popping up
| plg wrote:
| weapons apparently
| https://www.ft.com/content/17f16071-87e0-4675-a152-6d6285b97...
| absoul wrote:
| I am working on the first Moroccan social network:
| https://rasderb.com
| ItsBob wrote:
| A drag and drop hosting solution for .NET projects - Like
| tiiny.host but for .NET.
|
| Should be ready for early adoption in a month or so.
|
| It was one of those shower thoughts along the lines of "I wonder
| if it's possible to drag and drop host .net projects..." :)
| marvinblum wrote:
| I'm still working on our privacy-friendly web analytics tool
| Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) like a madman :) I've been doing
| this for 3 1/2 years now and I'm still super motivated,
| especially because it's challenging from a technical point of
| view, and very rewarding (I live off it now).
|
| There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing
| department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy
| space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started
| working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite
| well with our existing product. I think it's always a good
| starting point to solve your own problems.
| guzik wrote:
| Unsurprisingly, I don't see many hardware projects here.
|
| If anyone's looking to share their story, I'd recommend
| IndieHackers, but for hardware-focused startups/projects, check
| out howtoware.co. (I'm not affiliated with the site's owner in
| any way, but I really like the concept and want to help spread
| the word to my fellow hardwarers).
| detourdog wrote:
| My hardware project is the 100 year computer. I believe the
| next phase of computing will be focused on maintainability and
| longevity. This is different from the development phase of
| computing that currently surrounds us.
|
| The next wave of interesting hardware development will be
| focused on form factor. Devices of the future could be any
| shape or size.
|
| The first version of this device I have completed but not fully
| documented is an 8 unit mixed use apartment building. I
| converted each of the 7 classrooms into studio apartment the
| 8th unit is my development studio.
|
| How can a building be a computer? My perspective holds that a
| building is a machine that needs a differential engine to
| optimize the resource usage of the occupants. This perspective
| with the idea that some circuits should larger not smaller to
| aid operational understanding.
|
| The building is done enough and I need a break so I think my
| next form factor will be mobile sensor network and focused on
| individuals and small groups.
|
| I think developing for a sailboat will be a good complement to
| the building. The both serve the same purpose but one is
| extremely resource constrained and in a harsh environment.
|
| Currently identifying all the current sailboat tech for a
| refit. The devices I'm looking at range from RADAR to sine wave
| inverters. A very rich tech environment. Looking forward the
| fall.
| _Microft wrote:
| Cool, this look great, thanks for sharing. Scanning the front
| page, I actually think the maker of this [0] is active here on
| HN and [1] also made it here before.
|
| [0] https://howtoware.co/invisible-computers
|
| [1] https://howtoware.co/wyldcard
| vax425 wrote:
| Howtoware looks like a rabbit hole for me. Thanks for the tip!
|
| I sell my hardware projects on Etsy, mostly LunaKrons, the GPS-
| enabled moon phase clocks, and also a few "Game of Life"
| displays.
|
| Https://digitalhorology.Etsy.com
| franze wrote:
| https://gpt.franzai.com
|
| AI over email.
|
| Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable
| email forwarding (not yet possible)
|
| Mailto:gpt@franzai.com
|
| Hey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting
| them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.
|
| Will only implement minimal spam protection and a simple opt out
| and see what happens.
| em-bee wrote:
| this example seems to simple. if i write that, why would i not
| write the invitation myself?
|
| ok, i get it, it lets me avoid having to address the person
| directly, especially for people who are insecure or just
| overthink what to write, but is this really healthy?
|
| where will it end? using AI to write love letters?
|
| on the other hand, you could leave out the email sending
| feature (and this avoid any spam problems) and just send the
| generated text as a reply that i can then forward.
|
| a generic email interface to send AI prompts sounds useful.
| encouraging people to write personal emails using AI not so
| much.
| hrkucuk wrote:
| I am working alone on MyApps [1], an app of apps where you can
| spawn any number of pre-defined "app windows" into a zoomable,
| pannable infinite 2D space. Currently it only features a clone of
| PureRef. It runs Gundb in the backend, providing a privacy
| friendly, p2p syncing organization tools.
|
| [1] https://github.com/hrkck/MyApps/wiki
| tyleo wrote:
| My personal site https://www.tyleo.com
|
| After years of having the New Year's resolution, "make a personal
| site." I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It's
| live and I'm filling it out with things I've done over the years.
| rajuljain883 wrote:
| Hi, I am Software Engineer from India, I am working on
| https://shoutmemo.com to collect, manage and showcase customers
| testimonials using embed widget on website. It can also import
| testimonials from socials like twitter. This is my first side
| hustle. It is still in beta stage.
| nicity wrote:
| I work with my small team on the exclusive co-op game Sixth
| Force, about father and son. Father is AI network developer and
| son-teenager is the artist. They find themselves trapped inside
| an AI network simulation and need to get out before the network
| takes over the world :). Btw your wish listing on Steam is very
| much welcome to finish the game
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/2830090/Sixth_Force/ :)
| bilsbie wrote:
| I'm trying to start a few projects. (Email in profile if you want
| to discuss or team up)
|
| Playing with toy LLM models to see if there's a way to identify
| gaps in knowledge and guide training.
|
| Thinking to do a kaggle challenge soon. (Is there a way to join a
| team?)
|
| Maybe do a chose-your-own-adventure style interactive story to
| teach python to beginners.
| n1c wrote:
| I'm tinkering away on a turn-based web game that will ideally mix
| Counter-Strike with something like Door Kickers / Frozen Synapse
| etc.
|
| Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them
| executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!
|
| It's slow going between a full time job and family life but
| really great to expand my mind into something that isn't "web
| dev".
| bear_blaster wrote:
| I made a personal, self-hostable read-it-later service that fits
| my needs. Just for fun I gave myself the constraint that I
| couldn't use any JS, so it's all done with static html templates
| in Django. It also archives all articles so you never have to
| worry about link rot. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx
|
| And now, because I have a problem, I've completely pivoted and
| I'm rewriting it from scratch as a SPA because I wanted to try
| using Pocketbase for the backend and extend it so I could learn
| Go. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx-v2
| gnastygnorc wrote:
| I've been working on a pretty basic who's that pokemon game for a
| little while. There's quite a few online but none quite scratched
| the itch for me.
|
| Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy
| with how it's coming together.
|
| https://whos-that-pokemon.gicelascona.org/
| dnoberon wrote:
| I'm working on a metadata catalog aimed towards scientific data.
| After standing up an enterprise data platform/lakehouse for
| science and laboratories, I've been really depressed by the
| current offerings and the massive oversight they have when
| dealing with scientific data. So I thought I'd change that. We're
| targeting not only the right kinds of data, but also
| connectors/integrations that reflect where most science data
| lives at these labs.
| vertnerd wrote:
| I am building my very first computer game, Tungsten Moon, a
| VR+desktop spaceflight simulator with realistic physics and
| engineering, inspired by Orbiter, Eagle Lander 3D, and a little
| bit of Subnautica: https://tungstenmoon.com/
|
| I am using the Godot engine: https://godotengine.org/
|
| The playable demo is already available today on Github:
| https://github.com/Eccentric-Anomalies/Tungsten-Moon-Demo-Re...
|
| We're releasing the demo on Steam for the first time in a few
| days, followed by an early access version probably in October:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104900/Tungsten_Moon/
| joshsharp wrote:
| Still working on https://exist.io, a platform for quantifying and
| tracking data about your life. We've been around for about a
| decade now and seen many competitors come and go -- this niche is
| definitely not at the peak of the hype cycle any more. On the
| other hand, Apple Watches have normalised tracking body stats
| like activity (and sleep to a degree), and yet we think there's
| still so much more that can be done with that data. We're still
| (always) working on improving our insights and correlations to
| find better ways to use the data to optimise your health, mood,
| productivity, and so on. But not with "AI" :)
| mvkel wrote:
| > but not with AI
|
| Why not? Seems like the perfect use-case, which isn't true for
| a lot of other "AI" companies.
| b_shulha wrote:
| Hey,
|
| Working on the open source alternative to Heroku -
| https://ptah.sh (https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server)
|
| Already have some success: we use it for our other 3 projects,
| thus saving us some cash. :)
|
| I have the 1-click apps marketplace, backups and, soon,
| monitoring.
| b_shulha wrote:
| Also, I have created the Vendor Stories -
| https://stories.ptah.sh - the curated list of success or
| failure stories when people are meeting the huge corporations.
| conradklnspl wrote:
| We've been building https://www.datafragment.com, a tool that can
| help you get prospects for your product. It lets you search the
| web's HTML code.
|
| Some of our current users use it to find Wordpress websites with
| specific versions of Wordpress, others to find websites that use
| niche-market tools, ones that are not covered by incumbents such
| as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith. We're currently focused on the French
| market.
|
| Curious to hear your thoughts, if you are looking for new ways to
| find prospects.
| crbelaus wrote:
| I (along with a friend) am working on an Elixir-based built-in
| error reporting and tracking solution: https://github.com/elixir-
| error-tracker/error-tracker
|
| I wrote a post explaining the reasons for building this when we
| already have multiple third-party SaaS providers:
| https://crbelaus.com/2024/07/31/built-in-elixir-error-report...
|
| It boils down to simplicity. While error reporting is extremely
| valuable for most projects, it is absent from many. The most
| common reason is that this requires entering SaaS territory. Most
| solutions are provided by third-parties that require you to
| subscribe and pay for the privilege of tracking your errors. Cost
| is the main noticeable downside. Data protection (GDPR, HIPAA,
| etc) is another.
|
| The Elixir community is providing great feedback and it was
| covered both in a YouTube video
| (https://youtu.be/TNmSVjGyZx0?si=yd6kOwa2ZpxUyFad) and a Podcast
| (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/215).
| shiftyck wrote:
| Hi! This year I quit my corporate job to work full time on
| https://crucialexams.com/. This month I am working on expanding
| our new offerings at https://pmpready.com/ and
| https://vitalnursingexams.com/. Our platform provides a fun way
| for students to test their readiness for industry certification
| exams like the PMP, BCEN, CompTIA, AWS and more. Written in
| ASP.NET, MySQL as backend and good old Javascript/Bootstrap for
| the frontend. Nothing fancy, works great!
| jawmes8 wrote:
| This is great, I'm currently studying for Security+ and will be
| using this. Where are the practice questions from?
|
| Thank you!
| sleno wrote:
| www.papertalk.xyz
|
| Made it to the front page of HN a few months ago with a less
| polished version. Still trying to build consistent traffic and
| engagement. Any feedback is much appreciated!
| 6Az4Mj4D wrote:
| I am trying to build a algotrading system for myself. I have
| reached the stage where it acts as my co-pilot and I can read
| graphs and take trade, but I am now stuck to make it fully
| automated.
| sanat wrote:
| Right now there is an enormous surge in applicant demand.
|
| Talent teams face the challenging task of handling high-volume
| inbound channels, while maintaining an excellent candidate
| experience, and dedicating time to high-value recruiting
| activities.
|
| So I'm working on Hirevire(https://hirevire.com/) to help
| automate the screening rounds so that talent teams can spend time
| interviewing only the best candidates.
| NicoJuicy wrote:
| B2B e-commerce, I mostly have partnerships with small POS
| companies that don't have a diy e-commerce solution.
| doompilot wrote:
| Working on an open mouth animatronic you can prop on a desk or
| hang on a wall.
| therepo90hn wrote:
| financialpanda.pl
| Mathnerd314 wrote:
| I've been working on an exercise database, using ChatGPT. I got a
| list of all the interesting exercise qualities, then I turned
| those into measurable data fields, and now I'm organizing the
| 600+ fields. The goal is to build the ultimate exercise database
| with 50K+ exercises.
|
| But lately I took a break and worked on running (GPX run file
| analysis) and habit tracking. The eventual goal is to package it
| all together into one integrated PWA / mobile app.
| JansjoFromIkea wrote:
| Working on making my first personal website since I was about 16;
| not totally sure how to get the balance of personal and
| professional down fully but I feel like it's going to be very
| good at encouraging me to refine my side project experiments
| instead of just dumping them on github and maybe posting them
| here.
|
| Will probably try to self-host because why not.
|
| Also doing my first Java based project since school; surprised
| how okay it's been going so far.
| jamesmcq wrote:
| WebForge IDE - develop for the web on iOS.
|
| Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos,
| and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev
| tools.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424
| dmilicic wrote:
| I'm working on my personal website (https://dmilicic.com) and the
| accompanying blog post about it.
|
| I decided it was time to have a personal website as a software
| contractor and brand myself online as the state of IT is still
| uncertain.
| durraniu wrote:
| I am working on an app for creating stories with illustrations in
| a revealjs slide deck.
|
| The idea is that a user would handwrite or type the first
| sentence of a story they want to write. This sentence would be
| used by llama 3.1 as a prompt to make a short story. Then the
| story is fed to stable diffusion to create image illustrations.
| Finally, all of it is combined into a slide deck that users can
| see in the app and also download if they want.
|
| I am using Shiny and Quarto for this project.
| startages wrote:
| Working on an audio watermarking system.
|
| I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values: - The
| original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally
| and requested using an ID ) - The data that needs to be printed
| into the audio file.
|
| The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that
| you can use later to extract the same data you sent before.
|
| It's currently being tested on a production website, will wait
| for feedback, improve, and create an actual service out of the
| API.
| vekker wrote:
| Working mostly on https://www.ledsreact.com/ these days
|
| We built a radar-based device for (gamified & fun) agility
| testing and training with accurate measurements, for top
| athletes. Works without wearables or expensive and
| complex/location-restricted setups like you have with timegates
| or LPS sytems.
|
| If anyone here is into sports science & tech, feel free to get in
| touch! (laurens@ the domain above) We're looking for a sports
| scientist / product manager to strengthen the team, a marketeer
| with affinity for sportstech, resellers & partnerships, and of
| course, more customers :-)
| maxoid wrote:
| Hello everyone!
|
| Not sure if I caught the train but still. My name is Max, a
| software developer based in Central Europe, and I'm working on my
| course "Building Command-Line Interface App from Scratch in Go"
| (this is a working title).
|
| In this course I want to teach how to write CLI application from
| scratch in Go without any external dependencies (exception:
| driver for DB).
|
| This is not another one course about how to write CLI app using
| Cobra or any other command-line builder library. Instead, in my
| course you're gonna write your own Cobra-like command-line
| builder library (package) to build command-line interface
| application from scratch.
|
| Thus, you will know how to build an API for building CLI like
| Cobra and you can use it later on for your future projects. I
| will also talk about Command-Line Interface Guidelines showing
| how to make powerful, useful and easy-to-use command-line
| application which you can use every day in your workflow.
|
| The course is still work in progress and I don't even have a web
| page for it. But I do have my newsletter where I share best
| resources about Go. By subscribing to this newsletter you will be
| notified once course is ready to launch. Also, everyone who's
| subscribed to my newsletter and will be in first batch to buy a
| course gets a 50% discount.
|
| So, if you are interested in this kind of stuff join the waitlist
| for course in my newsletter on https://kovalevsky.io
|
| P.S. I also have daily base newsletter about Go - Daily Golang.
| If you subscribe to this newsletter you will also be notified
| once course is ready to launch you and will get 50% discount to
| buy the course - https://kovalevsky.io/daily-golang.
| david_2107 wrote:
| Goodreads doesn't let you sort books by rating so making a tool
| that does:
|
| book-filter.com
| imglorp wrote:
| Goodreads is Amazon so its ratings are suspect, like everything
| else on Amazon.
|
| It would make a ton of sense to have a third party rating and
| review site with some kind of dependable reputation for
| posters. You could still affiliate link to books for site
| revenue.
| elric wrote:
| I'm confused. Goodreads does in fact let you sort books by
| rating?
| BigOCaml wrote:
| FortisAI: App for Powerlifters to get more out of their lifting
| data (https://www.fortisai.app/)
|
| - velocity tracking with your camera
|
| - automatic video trimming
|
| - workout tracking
|
| Currently working on an LLM for chatting with your lifting data
| :)
| bambax wrote:
| I'm trying up standup comedy this summer -- open mics for now.
|
| I thought it would be absolutely terrifying to be in front of a
| bunch of strangers and try to make them laugh, but it turns out
| if you're prepared, it's not that hard. Open mic crowds are
| benevolent and don't expect you to be the next Richard Pryor or
| George Carlin anyway, and I don't "engage" the public at all; I
| just tell my jokes.
|
| I try to come up with new material each time so there's some work
| to do, but it's fun.
| fruit_snack wrote:
| If it doesn't psych you out too much, trying to engage with the
| crowd maybe once per set or every other set could be a good way
| to force the habit and make it easier over time.
|
| Not that it's necessary for all styles, but when I've been to
| comedy shows in the past the people who are able to deal with
| the crowd really well are always the most impressive to me :)
| malshe wrote:
| Good luck! I am happy to know that you don't do crowd work,
| which has become fashionable now. I remember Big Jay Oakerson's
| roast where someone pointed out that crowd work is what you do
| when you don't have any material :)
|
| Crowd work almost always comes down to race or profession of
| the audience. It can be funny only in so many ways.
| bambax wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| Lee Mack has a great anecdote about his beginnings that he
| told on the Graham Norton show:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbpagijVkk
| chairmansteve wrote:
| This makes me think a non tech "What are you working on" would
| be nice.
|
| Getting away from screens for a while would benefit some of us.
| fsniper wrote:
| I have a few projects laying around. But currently I am working
| on an iptv player for Android. I learned about Jetpack and found
| it fascinating than the xml based old process. So I started
| playing around and learning Android development. And lo and
| behold, I ended up with a more than mvp IPTv player. Now I am
| considering if I should be putting it as open source software, or
| maybe publish it to the Google store. I am considering a Google
| Tv counterpart where you can share data between instances on the
| same network. That's one of a huge pain point to input data on
| the tv.
|
| Any ideas to implement?
| barrenko wrote:
| Working, well, ideating, on an embedding solution (read blatant
| scraping) for various kind of forums and then hybrid search +
| LLMing over it. Need to devise a UI as well in lieu of the new
| gpt chat modalities.
| rudasn wrote:
| I'm experimenting to figure out the simplest setup possible that
| allows me to expose an internal web service (eg localhost:3000)
| to the public Internet (eg app.example.com).
|
| A million ways to do this, of course, but I'm focused on using
| wireguard so that eg only my wireguard peers can get access to my
| local service, and for internal traffic (ie vpn).
|
| At the moment I'm settling on having a simple script that I can
| run on a host alongside wireguard. The script will function like
| `wg-quick`, parsing a wireguard config file and handilng the
| routing stuff behind the scenes, and returning a cleaned up
| config to be passed to `wg`.
|
| Ideally, the wireguard configs could be generated by some other
| tool or service, like https://wirehub.org, and automatically
| fetched and applied to the running wg interface.
|
| So, a one liner on a server with a public IP and the services
| exposed by your wireguard peers can be accessed via a custom
| domain name while still respecting internal wireguard routing
| rules (based on AllowedIPs).
|
| If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about it, I
| would love to! My contact info is in my profile.
| hyperbolablabla wrote:
| This is what ngrok does right? I'm really interested in how
| this works, I've never looked into it before. Presumably it
| requires some kind of dynamic DNS updates if you don't have a
| static IP?
| rudasn wrote:
| ngrok, localtunnel, pyjamas, the list is endless..
|
| Yeah, many ways to do it, one is running your own DNS server
| and have wireguard connections use that DNS server.
|
| I want to avoid having DNS issues, so I'm thinking more like
| this:
|
| 1. DNS CNAME *.internal.example.com 123.23.45.67
|
| 2. On 123.23.45.67, run wg.
|
| 3. On 123.23.45.67 , run nginx. nginx must be in the same
| network to do geo blocking on Wireguard peer addressess.
|
| 4. Create one nginx server config per service to map domain
| names to upstream servers. Use variables for upstream
| servers, allow nginx to start even if upstreams unreachable.
| Add internal locations for custom errors (Forbidden,
| Unreachable, etc).
|
| 5. When connecting to 123.23.45.67 via Wireguard (ie, Peer
| Endpoint = 123.23.45.67), ensure 123.23.45.67 is in the range
| defined by Peer AllowedIPs.
| _bramses wrote:
| A few months back, I posted an essay here about how I think we
| are entering an age where the personal library will become an
| asset class unto itself [1]. This is due to a combination of the
| advent of semantic search and the revival of personal knowledge
| management in the deluge of our age.
|
| As such, I've been working on the software to bring this vision
| to life, which is called Your Commonbase (a portmanteau of
| Commonplace Book and Vector Database).
|
| In short, the purpose of the work is to create a data structure
| that works the way _humans_ store, retrieve, and share
| information. By making these three elements as close to zero
| stress as possible, you catalyze creativity through remixing and
| augmentation of memories. My hypothesis is a lifetime building a
| Commonbase creates an idiosyncratic system, filled with the
| interpretations of an individual or a group. This individualized
| structure then creates demand that others want. I.e, a curation
| of all of the books you have read, organized by the marginalia
| you have added to them. This is a system people would pay for,
| and also a system that becomes more valuable over time.
|
| I've been "working in public" by posting updates on my site [2],
| and am just beginning a small waitlist alpha testing phase (email
| me if you want in!)
|
| [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192359
|
| [2] - https://www.bramadams.dev/
| tenahu wrote:
| This sounds interesting, but I do not totally understand your
| description. Could you explain further what you are building?
| _bramses wrote:
| Sure!
|
| The problem with existing knowledge management systems is
| that they all eventually become victim to scale the operator
| can no longer manage.
|
| Consider two scenarios:
|
| Scenario 1:
|
| You have a chaotic system of notes, dispersed throughout
| random pieces of paper and digital notes on your phone and
| computer. You have a relatively easy go of it when saving new
| notes (its as simple as pressing "New Note" or pulling out a
| new sheet of paper), but as you add more notes to your system
| it becomes harder and harder to find a particular piece of
| information. The cost of adding stays the same, but searching
| goes up and up. Scenario 1 causes us to eventually succumb to
| chaos.
|
| Scenario 2:
|
| You have an extremely rigid system of tag management,
| headings, sub-headings, sub-subheadings and sub-sub-
| subheadings. This taxonomy makes it easier to find
| information...at first. The problem with these systems is
| that they require a ton of manual maintenance, and they also
| make it easy to find certain "classes" of information, but
| fail at geo locating others. Much more perniciously, this
| scenario eventually stifles creativity as it falls prey to
| too much order. The cost of searching stays roughly the same,
| but the cost of insertion goes up and up.
|
| (I am personally guilty of creating a system like this btw
| [1][2]).
|
| Both of these systems eventually begin to become inert
| holders of information, as the processor (us), begin to fear
| them and stop working with them.
|
| IMO, the closest technology to managing human information
| well in my opinion is well over two thousand years old, the
| commonplace book [3]. Simply put, a commonplace book is
| extremely resilient to chaos due to its centrality of
| information, but even people like John Locke had to create
| indexes to fully utilize them [4].
|
| This changed recently with the advent of vector databases[5].
| It turns out that commonplace book entries are the perfect
| form factor to benefit from an address in vector space, since
| entries are atomic. In simpler terms, the vector processing
| layer handles the order, allowing our system to "live" and
| assign headings/tags/etc. as it evolves. Vector databases
| love commonplace books as well, because many vector solutions
| have way too much noise as they chunk and store useless
| information at quite a disappointing ratio.
|
| My system differs from current offerings because it makes no
| attempt to automize parts that are meant for the human, and
| makes no attempt at making humans do the work computers
| should be doing. Ergo, creating a type of symbiotic
| relationship.
|
| Finally, a note on why I use the term "asset". An asset
| should become more valuable over time, and particularly, each
| individual component of the overall asset class should be
| worth more (e.g. $1 in a bank account of $20 is inherently
| less valuable than $1 in a $20MM bank account, because it
| grows slower). So in our scenarios above, the transmutation
| of information to knowledge peaks out at a logarithmic curve,
| subject to the scale issues I mentioned before. Old entries
| appear less frequently in even the most ordered systems, and
| when they do, it is only in one particular context. My system
| stores time of entry in the metadata, but since I use vector
| addresses, the information is accessible in many different
| ways (dog can be found when query == canine, fido, perro,
| mans best friend, etc...). An informational asset should
| scale linearly, and each action of create/read/update/delete
| should _improve_ the health of the overall system.
|
| There's much, much, much more I could say here, but I'll stop
| for now :)
|
| [1] - https://github.com/bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-
| vault-...
|
| [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034414
|
| [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
|
| [4] - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-
| method...
|
| [5] - https://openai.com/index/introducing-text-and-code-
| embedding...
| aproductguy wrote:
| Just soft launched my app for landlords to manage their rental
| properties. It is targeted to Canadians with a focus on Ontario
| to start.
|
| https://boredlandlord.com
| hermannj314 wrote:
| Smart assistant for kids that takes on the personality of their
| toys. Christmas gift for my nieces and nephews, so I am building
| four of them.
|
| Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed
| enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and
| some custom interactive software.
|
| I just started this project about two weeks ago, but I've been
| tinkering with the hardware side of electronics lately and this
| is the culmination of about 18 months of various hobby projects.
| conradbez wrote:
| Hey guys, at Dispensed are working on Vending as a Service.
|
| For $100 we ship a vending mechanism for you to put on your own
| custom vending box.
|
| We then provide online marketplace and payment services (Shopify
| for vending machines) so your customers can use their phones to
| buy products from your vending machines.
|
| Great alternative for products that don't justify big $10k
| vending machines.
|
| http://about.dispensed.app
| zebomon wrote:
| I'm not sure I understand what you're actually doing with this.
| I think that adding photos of the components you're shipping
| would make the page clearer.
| mjac wrote:
| I'm working on a workout API and native apps (iOS/Android) for
| Strength Level [1] as another interface for my.strengthlevel.com
| [2]. Strength Level helps you understand your relative strength -
| how strong you are for your bodyweight.
|
| Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java.
| Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage
| and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature
| matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.
|
| It's challenging as:
|
| - Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync
|
| - We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first
| version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync
|
| - Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level
| [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a
| future version
|
| [1] https://strengthlevel.com/
|
| [2] https://my.strengthlevel.com/
|
| [3] https://runninglevel.com/
|
| [4] https://rowinglevel.com/
| tristanMatthias wrote:
| Just downloaded! I've been using Strong for a while to seems to
| take some inspiration from that. Thanks!
| mjac wrote:
| Thank you! Native apps not released yet but you are welcome
| to try the web app at my.strengthlevel.com
| ronyfadel wrote:
| I am working on https://vidcap.app/
| edgarasben wrote:
| Hey, I am working on a website/leaderboard to discover trending
| accounts on X. Would love some feedback on where I could take
| this further.
|
| BigOnX.com
| WillAdams wrote:
| Trying to use Literate Programming to create an OpenSCAD library
| for a Python-enabled version of OpenSCAD which is able to create
| DXF and G-code files for creating CNC projects:
|
| https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
|
| big things are reading:
|
| _Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason_ by David Hirsch and
| Dan Van Haften
|
| and
|
| _A Philosophy of Software Design_ by John Ousterhout
|
| and getting the code to an actually useful state and then
| creating CNC joinery which isn't possible with other tools.
| drrkrr wrote:
| I'm working on a browser racing game: https://boxracing.net/ -
| check it out!
| vax425 wrote:
| I'm boxing up LunaKrons to get ahead of this year's gifting rush,
| and I'm really pleased with how the packaging is turning out.
| ryukoposting wrote:
| I'm working on readjusting after getting married. It was a big
| wedding, and for a whole web of reasons I'd rather not post on a
| public forum, I was responsible for a lot of the cat-herding
| leading up to the big day. Best day of my life, and my wife and I
| are overwhelmed with joy. Yet, now it's been a week and I'm still
| sitting here thinking "...wait, what the hell was I doing 6
| months ago?"
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| congrats
| sujayk_33 wrote:
| I've overlooked the importance of having a good virtual presence,
| I believe it's better to be noticed and be an average developer
| than being very great but working alone. The former is more
| impactful and not that I intend to be average but I'm starting
| and would love to have a long impactful journey. so focusing on
| having noticeable social handles.
|
| I didn't like web dev very much but now I'm enjoying Django a
| little so I intend to swallow Django and pull off some products
| maybe as I don't intend to have a regular job for the rest of my
| life and build what interests me.
|
| So yeah, I've been pushing some Django projects and getting
| better at it.
|
| If you wanna follow along or learn Django, here lies my journey
|
| https://github.com/JUSTSUJAY/Django_Projects
| rorylaitila wrote:
| I started publicly inventorying and documenting my collection of
| vintage print advertisements (https://adretro.com).
|
| The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The
| backend will be Lucee and MySQL.
|
| I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start.
| There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take
| a lifetime.
|
| I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to
| process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management
| of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database
| available to other collectors.
| toisanji wrote:
| I'm testing out generative cartoons and media. I want to see what
| is possible with AI and media and if the content can be engaging.
| Long term I want to create content that could be used in a
| holodeck. Here is what has been published so far:
| https://www.youtube.com/@distarkmedia Would love feedback :)
| witslectric wrote:
| Vertical tabs for firefox and lots of features. I use it myself
| in all my firefox profiles. It can be displayed as a sidebar or a
| popup. Which means you can use it in big windows and small
| windows.
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
|
| Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar
| to ripgrep
|
| https://github.com/madprops/goldie
|
| Last game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react
| in different ways.
|
| https://github.com/madprops/cromulant
|
| Last big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat
| with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown
| parser.
|
| https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown
| everlier wrote:
| Building a toolkit to save hours of time when working with LLMs
| locally. For example, adding a TTS or Web RAG to the Open WebUI
| setup both are a single command.
|
| https://github.com/av/harbor
| maz1b wrote:
| I'm working on an invite-only, personalized medical education
| platform called MedAngle, particularly for emerging economies. I
| started it in my third year of medical school, and we're now at
| 90,000 doctors/medical students, along with over 100 million
| questions solved and billions of minutes spent studying and
| excelling.
|
| I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed,
| medical, and dental education. I am the first doctor + full stack
| technologist in the country. It's super rewarding. No funding,
| just off our immensely low price point that things are still
| growing quickly. All software written in house.
| cmauniada wrote:
| very cool!
|
| Love seeing Pakistani builders make strides :)
| adelowo wrote:
| I'm working on a OSS version of a relationship hub for founders
| and investors. Think deck and Data room management, investors
| updates amongst others.
|
| Really really early days but progress can be followed at
| https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak
| hvidal wrote:
| I'm working on my tech interview platform:
| https://onlineinterview.io/ It is a free platform that allows
| people to develop on the browser using multiple programming
| languages, draw on a shared board and talk over video.
| nnurmanov wrote:
| I am working on my YC application, not the application itself,
| but the MVP.
| mtkd wrote:
| https://hypv.ai ... prototype ecom platform like Big Commerce
| etc. but with all the Algolia-type predictive stuff baked into
| the bare metal so can target content at a much more granular
| level than trad platforms and has visibilty on much higher-
| resolution signal data
| zschuessler wrote:
| I have been working on porting concepts of the Windows 10/11
| taskbar, tray, and window management, to macos. With emphasis on
| simplicity, speed, and function inspired by Linux Mint MATE.
|
| It has been a wild ride. Often frustrating but rewarding. Some
| days I may spend 10 hours solving an API for which app is
| frontmost at a given second. Sure, there's a system API for that,
| but it doesn't even remotely cover edge cases that exist. And
| many times with no answers out there on how to do something, it
| feels like I'm the first, so finally solving it is a great
| endorphin rush.
|
| Part of the complexity is I wanted the app to be completely
| pluggable, kind of like Obsidian. The app communicates events to
| a local socket server in full duplex, which enables cross-plugin
| communication (but also cross-app!). Plugins access the app's
| JavaScript system bridge API for pubsub and system calls through
| a Webkit interface. Edits are hot reloaded and instant, no
| compile time necessary. The first time I could change my "Start"
| menu in real time through JavaScript/CSS was quite a feeling.
|
| Sadly, I couldn't leverage existing tools like Tauri or Electron.
| They don't have adequate system bridge APIs available, and would
| be more work to leverage instead of less. They are too general,
| whereas this project only builds to macos. Therefore it can be
| much more complicated (and useful) by design.
|
| I originally set out to be more productive in macos. But I've
| also spent time making prototypes for fun. A desktop widget
| system, real-time system color theme set from Spotify album art,
| live video desktop backgrounds from Twitch/YT, a Destiny 2 macos
| system theme, etc.
|
| I plan to open source it and build a community around it one day.
| _huayra_ wrote:
| I haven't used MacOS in years and have been forced to use
| Windows for work. I'm curious: what's great in the Windows
| layout that isn't in MacOS?
|
| Coming from Hyprland and even KDE, Windows seems to be lacking
| a bit out of the box, but maybe I'm missing something deeper
| about how it all works.
| zschuessler wrote:
| To some degree OS productivity is subjective based on what
| you grew up with. Your neural pathways form around a certain
| way of work management and it becomes hard to change that
| after ten years.
|
| I'm naturally biased then to early Windows and MATE-esque
| environments. And, it's worth noting that I despise Win11
| overall, so a better comparison is indeed Linux Mint MATE[1].
| Part of the project inspiration is to never use Windows 11
| again, actually!
|
| Before I started the project I wrote down what I consider
| productivity boosters for me:
|
| 1. _Fast_ context switching between open apps and windows,
| natively. All open apps are in front of me by way of the
| taskbar, always, and never hidden. I never have to think
| about where to find my immediate work. I can group apps, pin
| them, and create custom behavior for them.
|
| 2. System tray apps for things that you interact with often,
| but aren't necessarily immediately working on. Macos has
| something similar but it isn't really pluggable or widely
| used yet, and nowhere near as customizable. With Win10 I can
| add, remove, or hide system tray apps based on how I use my
| workstation best.
|
| 3. Optimized Start Menu. I press a button, I get access to
| things I've favorited, recent apps/files, and categories of
| apps I use often. It is highly customizable in Win10, while I
| struggle to have something as efficient in macos (even though
| macos global search is wonderful!).
|
| I feel like the old UX rule of "don't make me think" applies
| heavily here. The macos app dock is a great example of this.
| You're forced to think about what you want to do with 10-20+
| options glaring at you. Disabling the dock is the first thing
| I do on a new Mac ;)
|
| Lastly, Win10 lets me customize my system to a high degree as
| my needs change. I just don't get that with macos, nor have I
| found apps that hit the mark for me.
|
| I'm curious about your own experiences if you care to share
| :-)
|
| -
|
| [1] Linux Mint MATE:
| https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_vanessa_mate_whatsnew.php
| blondelegs wrote:
| A database that basically acts like a modern day "virus scanner"
| for deep fakes. I believe that virus, malware and such that trick
| people into handing out information- making false decisions as we
| have seen with companies would be better suited if they had
| something like a heuristic threat score assigned to them. Yes we
| have websites that can tell us but it's not the same as a virus
| or malware scanner. I think we need to add it to a database.
| Block those sites to protect consumers, companies so they don't
| make bad choices. Just like in malware we see if a signature ,
| deep fakes from bad actors also have signatures. It's so many
| things. From signal- coding- so I was working on that. Maybe
| foolish or a waste of time. But I am going with to. Was playing
| with app development for cars to protect data. But might be a
| push against Nissan- Ford- Chevrolet-Kia- etc who like to steal
| data to make money off it. They control the interface. No VPN are
| allowed and no encryption allowed on infotainment system. So you
| have to do work around to keep your data out of their hands.
| That's all.
| yevlasenko wrote:
| Working on https://www.shareback.com , team of 2. Been working on
| it for a few years, trying different ideas. We are trying to
| build something that we'd be happy to use by ourselves so it's
| been an interesting journey of self-discovery, research and
| coding. Also my partner in crime is non-technical and sometimes I
| kind of forget that people might use software in very different
| way to how, for example, I would do.
|
| Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I
| could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or
| controls that I cant see in the gym)
| pknerd wrote:
| Though I am not actually _working_ on anything concrete(facing
| analysis paralysis. Also, as a coder, I have no idea how to deal
| with the sales site) this should turn to a monthly post
| samstave wrote:
| +1 on monthly post.
|
| --
|
| Also, Should be a messier version of this as a monthly post
| where people like you and me post "hey I dont have a project in
| mind per se, but wanna throw some things out there and maybe
| hit on a collaboration? Or at minimum idea path validation?
| _Microft wrote:
| You're lucky! Not only has OP been posting that for a while
| already but dang is also supportive of it.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=david927
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| Learn Japanese by reading on iOS and macOS: Manabi Reader
|
| Currently working on adding manga and YouTube support, and
| figuring out how to expand it to all languages
|
| https://reader.manabi.io
| morajabi wrote:
| Making a fast, easy to use native work chat app @ noor.to
|
| It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links,
| without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app
| yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than
| Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over
| enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that
| work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc
| bloat.
| sebnun wrote:
| Building a language learning app. https://langturbo.com
|
| Currently focusing on building native apps using React Native.
| Finding limitations with the platform and considering dropping
| the whole thing and start building with Swift and Kotlin instead.
| csouzaf wrote:
| I'm really struggling to understand how it works. Can you give
| more details about it? Love the general idea
| sebnun wrote:
| Sure. So the main idea is:
|
| 1) You find podcasts about topics you care about
|
| 2) You listen and read and try to understand the meaning with
| the help of translations and the definitions in context of
| the words in the sentence. (You can click each word to get a
| definition in context)
|
| 3) Over time you mark words as known
|
| That's basically it. You learn with context using content you
| are interested in. I'm working on adding a SRS to the app and
| a feature to improve your pronunciation using the language
| shadowing technique.
|
| And as mentioned, building native iOS and Android apps.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| https://blr.today - Working on an open-source stack to curate
| events happening in Bangalore. It curates events from multiple
| sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging
| them nicely, and making all event data available as calendars you
| can subscribe to.
|
| Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the
| scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license
|
| My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:
|
| 1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-
| quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money
| by listing lots of events.
|
| 2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize
| them on the aggregator platforms.
|
| 3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.
|
| 4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not
| captured.
|
| I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally
| getting around to it.
|
| [0]: https://blr.today/about/
|
| I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.
|
| https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
|
| If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:
|
| * A physical variable fuzzy clock
|
| * A curl impersonation proxy
|
| * A Whisper UX Design Pattern
|
| * Mobile App Traffic RE Platform
|
| * One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute
|
| * Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites
| radeeyate wrote:
| I've recently been working on SparkShell: https://sparkshell.dev
|
| It's an online development platform similar to other things like
| Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create
| projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add
| libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't
| have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours.
| I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch
| it pretty soon.
| pbhowmic wrote:
| I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that
| uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of
| applications to Kubernetes clusters
| jokoon wrote:
| Still slacking before I decide to work on that character
| controller for my minimalist, low-poly counter strike clone, with
| Godot.
|
| I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the
| parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.
|
| I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.
|
| I modeled guns.
|
| I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to
| mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in
| gdscript.
|
| Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how
| much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very
| fast paced.
|
| I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a
| module for it.
|
| Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.
| ggambetta wrote:
| Re. client side prediction and server reconciliation, may I
| recommend https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-
| architecture....? Even if you don't roll your own solution, it
| might be worth understanding the theory so you can use these
| libraries correctly.
| jokoon wrote:
| Yes, I read this already.
|
| Although implementation is not easy, so I'd rather use
| somebody else's.
| n1c wrote:
| That sounds cool, I'm also tinkering away on CS inspired
| things. lmk if you'd be keen to share notes.
| jokoon wrote:
| I spend a lot of time thinking about game design.
|
| Sorry, I am not going to share notes about this unless I am
| making money for it.
| 0xc0der wrote:
| I have been recently thinking about the NP-complete class of
| problems particularly the knapsack problem (it is easy to
| understand and attack). And I think it is really solvable in
| polynomial time. I actually tried and posted my solution here.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341608 a bit of feedback
| would be really helpful.
| mbmjertan wrote:
| Your solution is not an exact solution to the knapsack problem,
| but a (relatively well known) greedy heuristic approach towards
| the problem. It is a good approach towards a solution, but the
| knapsack problem isn't as trivial as it seems.
|
| For a counterexample, imagine you have a ton of items that have
| a weight of 10^-20 and value of 1, and a single item that has
| the weight of whatever is the capacity of the knapsack (so it's
| only thing that fits if it's inserted to the knapsack) and the
| value of +infinity.
|
| All items have their cost [?] 0, so whether you fit all of the
| "light but valueless" items or the single "heavy but extremely
| valuable" item depends on how you sort when costs are equal.
|
| An improved heuristic would take the value into account more
| than just having it as a factor, but it's not easy to design.
|
| I would recommend finding an open course on algorithm design
| and analysis and going through the lessons while trying to
| extrapolate approaches to problems instead of just solutions to
| them.
| 0xc0der wrote:
| > Your solution is not an exact solution to the knapsack
| problem, but a (relatively well known) greedy heuristic
| approach towards the problem.
|
| can point me to where to find more about this.
|
| > For a counterexample, imagine you have a ton of items that
| have a weight of 10^-20 and value of 1, and a single item
| that has the weight of whatever is the capacity of the
| knapsack (so it's only thing that fits if it's inserted to
| the knapsack) and the value of +infinity.
|
| that is rather an extreme example. i do not see the how it
| affects the validity of the solution in most cases.
|
| > I would recommend finding an open course on algorithm
| design and analysis and going through the lessons while
| trying to extrapolate approaches to problems instead of just
| solutions to them.
|
| implementing solutions is the concrete result of
| extrapolating approaches and choosing the best one to
| implement. and that is the pragmatic approach.
| kbrecordzz wrote:
| Tried to rewrite the Javascript 3D library three.js to make it
| smaller and more specialized for my game. Today I'm ending that
| and instead starting to write a 3D engine from scratch with the
| knowledge I learned from this rewrite process. Less object
| orientation and code organization, in order to get to the core of
| what happens in the machine (the phone/computer). There is enough
| complexity in the OS+browser to get through to use the device's
| full power, so I at least try to remove all complexity possible
| from the code. Make it use less memory, download time and CPU
| time, and also make it go through the Javascript parser and
| bytecode converter as smoothly as possible. Then minimize the
| number of draw calls (that's often what takes most time in the
| GPU) so I can render more varied graphics at the same speed (if
| less time is spent on sending data back and forth to the GPU,
| more time can be spent doing cool stuff in the shader code, I
| guess?).
| jfil wrote:
| Working on:
|
| - Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I
| took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with
| economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you
| interested? Please get in touch!
|
| - Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the
| "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is
| done, now working on a writeup.
|
| - ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on
| making mobile-friendly imagemaps
| Swain123 wrote:
| That sounds interesting. What are you planning to do knowing
| the patterns? And isn't the data private?
| jfil wrote:
| I am making the data available for others to use for academic
| analysis and/or supporting legal action. The large Canadian
| grocers are known to price-fix and collude, and it would be
| interesting to see if there are any patterns in their pricing
| movements. (My contribution is "getting the raw data")
|
| The data was posted publicly online on the merchants'
| websites.
| nazcan wrote:
| To confirm, it is just posted in the sense of crawling the
| web site, right? They don't post structured data I assume.
| lbrito wrote:
| Ooo, that is interesting. There was a website that kind of did
| that, but you could only compare single items at any given
| time, which kind of defeats the purpose (if it is to save
| money).
|
| Ideallly I'd like to see something like a personal basket where
| you can add your recurring stuff (eggs, milk, etc) and compare
| the subtotal among local grocers. Bonus points if you add in
| value of store points + credit card bonuses (which might be
| significant, like 5% for Amex cobalt at a market coded as a
| grocer VS 1% for non grocer code like Walmart).
| jfil wrote:
| I'd like to do something similar to the "personal basket" as
| a way of comparing "value" at different vendors. Thinking of
| using $/100g of common sandwich ingredients to demonstrate
| how much "making the same sandwich" at different stores would
| cost you. I'm not aiming to use this data for a
| product/commercial endeavour, though.
| jfil wrote:
| Ideas:
|
| - A "vibe shift" has occurred at work. Separately, my own
| thoughts have been more unkind/uncharitable towards others.
| Recently I realized that the two are connected. Isn't it funny
| how the vibe-shift trickled down to affect my own mindset
| without me even noticing?
|
| - I think that Google is going to fall apart soon. Before they
| do, they'll cut money-losing boondoggles like, oh, Google Maps,
| Google Books, Google Groups... Who will step in to save all
| that data? And what does a post-Google world look like in
| general, anyways?
|
| - AI is incapable of the kind of impact that is being promised.
| But we are still going to have a period of ~2 years until
| corporations realize it (it sounds like AI companies will run
| out of cash at that point). Until then, we're going to have a
| lot of layoffs because Mike-the-MBA thinks AI can do people's
| jobs. What should normal people do? Sit tight and sit out the
| game for 2 years until things stabilize?
|
| - All of the above is part of a crisis of meaning that people -
| and esp. tech workers - are having. There's an enormous
| opportunity for Government jobs to become prestigious again. It
| used to be a mark of pride to work for the Government. You
| don't need to burn out and become a woodworker to "do real
| things": your local city government has plenty of "real things"
| for you to do in a real community.
| mliezun wrote:
| Working on serving HTTP requests for Python apps from Go:
|
| https://github.com/mliezun/caddy-snake
| mattrighetti wrote:
| I wanted to learn more about htmx so I created a very dumb
| project https://mettag.ulry.app that fetches meta tags of passed
| urls and displays them nicely in the UI (also provides APIs
| because why not?). Still have to finish it, especially the err
| handling part, but it turns out I quite like htmx!
| ICodeSometimes wrote:
| a pocket knife search engine: https://knifegeek.io
|
| i like knives
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| Mostly just learning Finnish. I tried to get started on the
| Georgia Tech online master's in CS, but between that, a quite
| stressful full-time job, and a happy pregnant wife, I just found
| it was stretching my nerves too thin.
|
| I'll come back to it once I'm farther along in my language
| learning journey and want to take my foot off the gas pedal a
| bit.
| techas wrote:
| I'm building a travisher [1]. Both wooden body and iron.
|
| I found it amazing the importance of the small details in old
| woodworking tools and how toolmakers solve problems and improve
| tools. Particularly in very simple tools.
|
| [1] e.g https://travisher.com/product/travisher-wood/
| adulion wrote:
| https://datasignal.uk
|
| I've been working on an exciting project called DataSignal, where
| I'm developing a sophisticated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and
| enrichment system. This system is designed to identify and
| extract key entities from blocks of text, such as names,
| locations, or organizations, and then provide rich contextual
| information about them. The goal is to transform raw text into
| meaningful data that users can easily understand and leverage in
| various applications.
|
| The real magic of DataSignal lies in how it delivers this
| contextual information. It can be seamlessly integrated into your
| workflow through a browser plugin, which instantly highlights and
| explains entities as you browse the web. For developers,
| DataSignal can be embedded directly into a webpage via
| JavaScript, enhancing the content on the page with dynamic
| insights. Additionally, it offers a REST API, allowing for
| flexible and customizable integration into other software
| systems.
|
| Whether you're a developer looking to enhance your application
| with smart text analysis or someone who wants to streamline
| research and data gathering, DataSignal is poised to bring a new
| level of insight and efficiency to text analysis. This project
| aims to make complex data more accessible and actionable,
| transforming how we interact with and interpret information.
| edverma2 wrote:
| https://thetickerscreen.com
|
| A huge sports LED ticker screen. It's been an interesting
| experience. Hardware is hard. But people love it when they see it
| and seem to be really excited for it.
| shrubbery wrote:
| I recently deemed my last project - qtile-bonsai
| (https://github.com/aravinda0/qtile-bonsai) as 'complete
| software', with a final release.
|
| It is a layer on top of the qtile window manager that allows for
| more advanced window arrangements - especially subtabs. It was an
| itch to scratch and I use it myself.
|
| I am now diddling about with Rust and thinking of trying my hand
| at a PDF parser library. It's sort of nice when there's an
| established specs document - like all the requirements are
| clearly laid out and you don't have to spend time thinking about
| the scope and product design.
|
| I can implement as much as I want to, have tests, and come back
| another time when I feel like it.
| cabinguy wrote:
| I know my project is unworthy of upvotes from HN, but I've been
| working (hard) on a simple real estate site
| https://davegooden.com. No big deal. No real tech. Just lots of
| work and lots of potential upside.
| wtf242 wrote:
| still working on https://thegreatestbooks.org
|
| been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads
| import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm.
| would love to collab with a data scientist on ways to improve my
| algorithm. https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank
| wj wrote:
| Building some personal finance tools. I don't like how many
| personal finance sites seem to be built around hawking credit
| cards and insurance rather than focused on helping people build a
| budget and get out of debt.
|
| https://freefinancialwellness.com/
| gr__or wrote:
| I'm finally frustrated enough by the state of coding that I'm
| developing my own coding environment and language. The leading
| question is: What if UI was first-class while programming?
|
| Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write
| about it on my blog (https://watwa.re) at some point
| WillAdams wrote:
| Which environments/systems have you tried?
|
| A search of your site doesn't have a match for "Literate
| Programming" --- I've found it a benison when developing, esp.
| in that it allows me to review code which already exists, and
| to create a structural index while writing which allows a
| quick/easy check if a given module already exists in a context
| where it should --- managed to make a system for this w/ a bit
| of help from generous folks on tex.stackexchange:
|
| https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...
|
| https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...
|
| and as the readme shows, I am fascinated by the idea of
| visualization of code:
|
| https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...
|
| (probably because of reading Herman Hesse's _The Glass Bead
| Game_ (originally published as _Magister Ludi_)
|
| I'd give a lot to have a programming system for METAPOST/FONT
| (or some other graphical language) which both allowed drawing
| in the view and then editing the textual representation of the
| code causing the view to update (yes, I should use
| http://tikzedt.org/ )
| indulona wrote:
| Jonathan Blow approves :D
| jbaiter wrote:
| A small tool to align two versions of a video with each other,
| that have the same video (e.g same cut of a show or movie), but
| different audio tracks, so that the audio track from one can be
| merged into the other. The primary use case is to merge native
| BluRay rips that only have native language audio with dubbed
| audio from DVD or VHS rips. Should help simplify my media
| collection and cut down on storage.
|
| Uses the scenedetect Python library to locate scene breaks and
| then uses perceptual hashing to find points for alignment. Also
| will include a small webapp to debug and adjust things manually
| in difficult cases.
| abe94 wrote:
| Apart from working on my start up, and open source project
| https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker (open source firebase
| cloud messaging) I've been writing a short sci fi story, sort of
| like a techno thriller inspired by michael crichton, called
| Panopticon. Its set in our time frame and is all about
| encryption, three letter agencies, and a race against time!
| Here's a link with the first 20 pages if anyone is interested!
| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRI4X5fCUpwurUDvKmvzJpT7...
| spirodonfl wrote:
| I'm cooking... Essentially a way to mock up any layout with
| design for any interface (web, mobile, desktop, whatever) and
| then save the layout in a portable format so anything can read
| it. The data is formatted so that you can re-create the layout
| natively.
|
| https://youtu.be/P_4mhMB-0L8
|
| -Uses WASM under the hood (blazingly fast) -Exportable into a
| simple format for desktop, mobile or web use - @htmx_org
| integration included -Pluggable into any existing front-end or
| back-end (React or Laravel, etc...)
|
| For now, the work of re-creating the layout lies on programming
| but I will start building plugins so that it lessens or removes
| that need.
|
| Website soon!
| danielbekele wrote:
| I'm working on a platform that allows students to view and work
| on relevant past exams from anywhere, gamify and track their
| scores, and maybe add some LLM integration to discuss answers and
| ask follow-ups.
| dewski wrote:
| I've been working on Don't Double Book Me
| (https://dontdoublebookme.com) the past few weeks out of
| frustration with keeping my personal and work Google Calendars in
| sync.
|
| Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars
| in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming
| more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was
| paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep
| 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations,
| etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.
|
| I really needed a way to sync my calendars _privately_ , without
| all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even
| more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew
| I could provide a similar service.
|
| Here's what makes me excited about it as a user:
|
| Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any
| time for a pro-rated refund.
|
| Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling
| unlimited calendar syncs.
|
| Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls
| outside your specified working hours.
|
| Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the
| nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.
|
| Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a
| meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it?
| The time block on your other calendar is removed.
|
| My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to
| user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work
| calendars more efficiently.
|
| Thanks for checking out my new project.
| asdf6969 wrote:
| I don't have a personal calendar and my work calendar ends at
| 5. I think your market is a lot smaller than you think. The
| kind of people who ask friends to book time on their calendar
| are considered freaks anywhere outside of tech hubs
| vb234 wrote:
| I think if you have young kids and in the 40s where the need
| for healthcare appointments go up there might be a demand for
| this product.
| wdpt wrote:
| Not only ^ this, but also working with geo-distributed
| teams
| asdf6969 wrote:
| They try to work with me but I cancel their meeting
| requests and deal with them through email. We should all
| be doing this
| dewski wrote:
| But not everyone uses their work calendar for personal
| reasons, some prefer to keep their personal commitments
| private.
| asdf6969 wrote:
| I put a generic "out of office" block on my calendar if I
| have personal business and it's rare enough that I don't
| get why it needs a solution. Maybe other people are
| scheduling things during work hours a lot more often than
| me?
| dewski wrote:
| That totally works if it is rare for you! The last 2
| months I've had a few things I've added to my personal
| calendar that synced with work calendar: lunch with a
| family member, dropping off or picking up car from
| service, haircuts, contractor stopping by, dentist, vet
| appointment, etc. It's nice to not worry about it since
| it marks me as Busy right when I create the event.
| asdf6969 wrote:
| I'm sorry for being negative. I just wanted to rant about
| people who try to schedule friendship on a calendar.
|
| This sounds reasonable and I wish you good luck
| dewski wrote:
| Don't Double Book Me isn't some crazy startup idea that needs
| funding, I am not shooting for the moon with this. Feature
| development was basically done in a few weekends and I like
| that it solves a single problem well. There is definitely a
| market for people who need a tool like this. Look at Reclaim,
| Calendly, Clockwise, CalendarBridge, OneCal, etc, which have
| successfully tapped into this market but are focused on
| selling to teams.
|
| I designed it for individuals balancing personal and
| professional commitments. I work somewhere with a heavy
| meeting culture, nothing I can really do about that. I found
| myself double booked often with personal commitments I had.
| Consider a scenario where you need to attend your child's
| school play, but you forgot to also block off time on your
| work calendar, now your colleagues think you're free and
| invite you to something. You've been double booked.
|
| Events outside your working hours aren't synced, protecting
| your personal time and privacy. The default setting is to
| create events on a destination calendar with the summary
| explicitly being "Busy" without any other information, but
| you can change it so it mirrors the event details should you
| choose.
| semireg wrote:
| While owning a printer is still a curse (1), and software
| continues a cloudward spiral (2) I've made solid progress on a
| local-first indie barefoot app for designing and printing labels.
| I just shipped a new feature where you can use modern JS to build
| logic for each label, modifying variables, hiding and showing
| objects, formatting dates, etc. More at
| https://label.live/guides/add-logic-with-script-variables
|
| [1] https://aftermath.site/printers-suck-so-bad
|
| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41300888
| tobinharris wrote:
| An online tool for product managers that helps them turn written
| app specifications into something more interesting and visual.
|
| https://appflows.ai
|
| It doesn't save anything to the cloud. It supports markdown. It
| currently doesn't using an LLM but I'm sure that will sneak in at
| some point. One day, I'd like to have it generate wireframes
| using AI.
| zn44 wrote:
| Building transcription app that lets me dictate notes to notion.
|
| Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to
| establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to
| ramble as i work will make this easier.
|
| At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles
| recording on global keyboard shortcut.
| chris_l wrote:
| My current project is TrendBowl (https://www.trendbowl.app) which
| summarises trending entities across multiple sources on the web,
| including Mastodon and Wikipedia. On a 24 hour basis you can see
| which terms are relevant in different languages and sites.
|
| It is implemented in Go, Python and JS, with support from
| Postgres, TimescaleDB and Kubernetes.
| Ethan_Mick wrote:
| I've been working on Lorcast (https://lorcast.com/) a Scryfall
| like search for Lorcana. Scryfall offers a powerful search engine
| and query language to search for Magic: The Gathering cards.
| Lorcana is a new card game by Disney that also has a competitive
| scene. As the number of cards grows it will become more important
| to have good search _and_ good APIs for the community to build
| with.
|
| It's been a breath of fresh air to work on something that I have
| no plans to monetize. I just want to build something useful for
| the community to use and that has allowed me to be relaxed with
| building it.
|
| Anyways, if you play Lorcana I encourage you to check it out! The
| game is lots of fun.
| dominis wrote:
| Cloud Infrastructure Autopilot.
|
| https://ber.sh
| Rendello wrote:
| I've been building a web extension for an Inuit language
| (inoktitot qanioyaaqpait).
|
| Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with
| long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet,
| and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and
| well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input
| on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet
| is used in casual writing.
|
| Tom Scott has an awesome video about how syllabics work[1], but
| breifly, the shape of the character determined its inital
| consonant spund, and the rotation determines its vowel sound. So
| pi = pi, po = pu, pa = pa, ti = ti, to = tu, ta = ta, etc. The
| word "Inuktitut" becomes inoktitot in syllabics.
|
| Transliterating between the two is fairly simple, but there are
| edge-cases around dialects and whatnot. The more interesting
| problem from a technical perspective is having a web extension
| that can detect Inuktitut on a web page (in wither writing
| system), and transliterate that into whatever writing system the
| user desires, whilst never accidentally transliterating the other
| text on the page ("inhabitants" could be picked up and
| transliterated as "inhabitants", for example, even though that
| makes no sense).
|
| The project is mostly using Rust via WebAssembly, which has been
| a lot of fun to work with and has let me do some awesome things,
| like avoiding heap allocation and using compile-time hashmaps to
| do conversions on the text. The build system has to do a lot and
| I eventually settled on python. Right now I'm trying to wrangle
| JS and the DOM (there's a lot of edge cases to deal with), and
| that's been difficult as it's not my wheelhouse.
|
| 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4hI_METac&t=15s
| goldfeld wrote:
| It looks like a great language to work with.
| Rendello wrote:
| Inuktitut, Rust, Python, JS, or WASM? :D
|
| Inuktitut is very cool. I'm not a speaker so I'm relying
| heavily on research, but I've always loved making tools for
| syllabics and working with text generally.
| goldfeld wrote:
| Then congrats all the more on this work, I had assumed a
| motivation from attachment also. As for the tech stacks and
| langs yeah they're fun, but I meant in how abstract
| Inuktitut looks, I guess the human language in the loop is
| the real meat of the problem and of the "working with".
| jspittman wrote:
| Multiple iOS Apps.
| tristanMatthias wrote:
| I am building what I like to call PAI. Personal AI that ingests
| all your online information into a knowledge graph and is
| connected to your tools, all running locally. Will eventually
| build an off the shelf consumer device capable of running all
| this locally.
|
| You can talk to it over a e2e encrypted reverse proxy (using
| Signals double ratchet protocol) so you can access it on the go
| safely and privately.
| rodrigobellusci wrote:
| That sounds amazing! I'd like to give it a try
| sroussey wrote:
| Off and on, I've been working on something similar. How can I
| learn more about what you are doing?
| rprtr258 wrote:
| simple process manager for linux https://github.com/rprtr258/pm
| it is inspired by pm2, but much simpler without any js and js
| integrations
| julien040 wrote:
| I'm trying to push the boundaries of SQL by building Anyquery[1].
| It's a SQL query engine that allows you to run queries on
| anything (GitHub, Todoist, Parquet, Google Sheets, logs, emails,
| etc.)
|
| It's mental gymnastics to transform different data sources (e.g.
| a spreadsheet) into a SQL database with write support, but I do
| enjoy the journey and learn a lot from it.
|
| [1] https://github.com/julien040/anyquery
| idrios wrote:
| I've been learning how to use Blender. For a long time I've
| thought that working with things in 3D could be made simpler by
| having an app where your phone is a sort of 3D cursor, and e.g.
| for modeling you could use your phone as a sculpting knife by
| moving it around in the air.
|
| So I spent some time trying to make an app that allows you to do
| that, but can't shake the thought that such an app would work
| better as a Blender addon/plugin rather a standalone app. And I
| also am trying to figure out how people work with 3D currently,
| to see if such a tool would even be an improvement over existing
| tools.
| azeirah wrote:
| Logitech recently released a pen for this kind of purpose.
|
| It's meant to be used with virtual reality headsets, I'm not
| sure if their pen can be made to work outside VR.
|
| Do you need help with integrating your app into blender as a
| plugin? If so, please do reach out. I'd love to help.
| mail@laura.fm
| idrios wrote:
| Cool! Didn't know about the pen, though I've seen clips of
| similar tech being used.
|
| I've got a long ways to go with this app though so it's still
| just a pet project. The position tracking is very suboptimal
| right now, so I need to switch to a better library. And then
| I need to start adding actual actions because right now the
| app is just a glorified object viewer.
|
| I'm insanely flattered that you think it's interesting
| though. Very motivating to me.
| txutxu wrote:
| I'm writing a book. A novel. By hand (this is, no AI involved,
| just me and vim).
|
| Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is
| a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-
| published books.
|
| After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly
| finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few
| more reviews and retouching.
|
| I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and
| my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR),
| fortunately we have still a few savings.
|
| I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I
| intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and
| friends.
|
| Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second
| and third parts.
|
| In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow
| without working for another person. I would like to avoid going
| to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and
| kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of
| job offers request for docker/kubernetes.
| phainopepla2 wrote:
| When you say "by hand" do you mean with a pen and paper rather
| than typing it out? If so, can you say something more about
| why?
| als0 wrote:
| He says he uses Vim, which is on the computer.
| phainopepla2 wrote:
| He edited his comment to add that detail after I asked
| txutxu wrote:
| Sorry, edited to clarify. I mean avoiding AI.
|
| Mainly I use vim. But yes, sometimes I also use a traditional
| notepad with a soft ink pen. To avoid myself some screen
| time, because I'm out of home, or just to make some use of
| it.
|
| I think the output flow is about the same using pen and paper
| than using vim, at least for me.
|
| The original "By hand" did mean "without AI
| help/inspiration".
| goldfeld wrote:
| I'd love to read when it's available or in preview mode!
| The mental organization I think that develops when writing
| on a notebook is far worth the trouble of typing it on vim
| later, especially for fleshing out scenes and redrafting.
| txutxu wrote:
| Not sure if call it mental or physical organization, but
| there is more crossing out of words and whole sentences,
| words that I try to fit into small spaces, or arrows
| to/from outlined areas below with more space. Like:
| +--------------+ | abcd abcd a | | bcd
| abcd.--\ | | | | | efgh ijkl
| | | | ijkl m nnn | | | | |
| | +-------+ | | abc a | |
| | abcd | +------+-------+
|
| A technique that I don't know what to call, is the
| horizontal brace. Like the ASCII 123, but horizontally,
| to insert something between two words, above or below the
| line.
|
| A handicap of the notebook, is that you can't find
| historical data/names/dates so easy, or synonyms... but
| as I iterate a few times over the text after the first
| draft, those gaps can be fixed latter while typing the
| text.
| asdf6969 wrote:
| bullshit
| zakokor wrote:
| I've been working on https://65words.com by myself for 6 months.
|
| 65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in
| the language you're learning.
|
| The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having
| the opportunity to think about how you'd express something
| without the pressure of the moment.
|
| There's no hidden science behind choosing 65 words. I found it's
| achievable even on a very busy day.
|
| The goal is to help learners practice daily and build confidence
| through consistent effort.
| omginternets wrote:
| I'm learning freeCAD by making a radiator fan shroud for my 1990
| Mazda MX-5. I have no idea what I'm doing.
|
| If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.
| bilater wrote:
| Alot!
|
| I have apps that pay my rent such as YOU-TLDR - Transcribe and
| Summarize YouTube videos you-tldr.com
|
| Shorts Generator - Text to Automated Shorts In Minutes
| shortsgenerator.com
|
| Snoop Hawk - Automated Web adn Reddit Marketing snoophawk.com
|
| You can find all my projects here hackyexperiments.com
|
| Currently I am exploring the idea of chatting with more than one
| AI. My assumption is it makes the interaction more life like and
| less lonely and I think in the future everyone will hav a group
| of AI friends. I made a quick loom about it here:
| https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/1826831221554643324
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| I'm writing a series on how to understand golang if you're an
| experienced TypeScript developer.
|
| I've worked with several teams now who wanted to adopt Go for the
| backend, but the team's only extensive type system experience is
| in TypeScript. They tended to hit very similar pitfalls and want
| to coerce the type system to behave like what they're familiar
| with, and inevitably they wound up with inflexible and error-
| prone architecture.
|
| They also failed to accomplish any kind of holistic, 30,000ft
| view architecture because implementations were too often sent off
| the rails by not understanding the language deeply enough. That
| was often in part due to type system confusion inherent to how Go
| implements certain data structures (particularly slices), which
| leads to the sprawling repetitive Go code people dislike so much.
|
| I did all of this too, so I feel like my insight and experience
| would be valuable to share. I actually wrote 90% of it last year
| and felt like a goof, like, ahhh what am I doing obviously
| everyone else figured out Go faster than I did and this writing
| is just telling people how incompetent I am. Haha. But then I
| worked on another project and the situation was exactly the same.
| I actually used my draft content to help the team understand how
| I see the problem, and how to get past the mental traps that they
| were in.
|
| Fundamentally it comes down to "learn the type system/language
| properly", but it's not quite so blatant or unhelpful. One of the
| problems with TypeScript methodologies is that they're so
| ridiculously flexible, but go is not at all in the same ways, yet
| they have just enough superficially in common to trick you into
| thinking otherwise.
|
| So, my series essentially elucidates the similarities,
| differences, and what's totally absent in Go from the bottom to
| the top. It's interesting because they really are remarkably
| similar in some ways, which is precisely why it can trip
| newcomers up. Knowing why that's a trap makes you a far, far
| better Go developer. Along the way it also reveals details about
| TypeScript that some people might not be fully aware of (at least
| several in the team I shared the drafts with said so), which
| could be helpful.
|
| I mostly need to muster the courage to hit publish now. My
| confidence has taken a beating in the last year or so!
| atum47 wrote:
| Minimal blog platform. I'm creating one for myself but I'm making
| it generic enough that other people could fork it and make one
| for themselves. PHP and vanilla JS, as usual.
| koskeller wrote:
| I'm working on a lightweight tool that corrects grammar using an
| LLM: https://correctly.app
| renegat0x0 wrote:
| I am working on rss reader / web scraper
|
| https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
| arwhatever wrote:
| I'm working on a CI/CD tool that runs scripts in the some of the
| most popular programming languages rather than YAML.
|
| My motivation has been some recent jobs/roles in which no-
| pipeline-feature-gets-denied YAML scripts have grown unmanageably
| large.
|
| I'd be interested to hear of any pitfalls that any of you might
| foresee. Other than this is a pretty hefty undertaking - that
| much I can already see on my own. :-)
|
| https://fluenci.co
| chrisfrantz wrote:
| A couple years in, we're still building Loops (loops.so), email
| for software companies.
| chxxnxr wrote:
| Super polished looking product -- any success in getting
| companies to use it? Work at a dinosaur that would never think
| of abandoning the microsoft ecosystem; wondering what the
| target is for something like Loops.
|
| (I did try taking a look through the website and saw
| integrations posted more prominently than users?)
| dparksports wrote:
| Working on the concept of Computer 2.0 idea by Andrej Karpathy.
|
| Basically it is an AI computer. It is nothing like we have seen
| before.
|
| May open source it soon. With working zero hallucination (need
| additional evaluations).
|
| Works with all devices. Created a MVP, air-gapped for military
| use, but it can be used for anyone including businesses/consumers
| who need an on-prem AI computer.
|
| It has zero lag or zero second delay in responding your
| questions, and does not use any third party AI cloud platform.
| This is critical, because some of our customers have restrictive
| requirements for their data and they can't have anything of their
| customers to be placed on these cloud platforms. (eg. OpenAI,
| Google, Apple).
|
| Adding additional features including Self-Teach, Cloned
| Personality, the holographic UI Wear, makes calls on behalf of
| the user, uses voice imprinting, edit videos, autonomously, for
| content creators and remembers 100 years of your life. And, more.
|
| The UI Wear uses the exotic sensors I used in military to make it
| light and performant unlike Apple Vision Pro. Imagine interacting
| with something like "Jarvis" from Ironman. Quiet similiar but
| much more grounded in a sense that it's simpler and logical.
| Also, you can take it with you to play fast action sports or play
| games like Dragon-Ball-Z type game with your buddies. And it
| lasts a day, not two hours, on a full charge.
|
| You can interact with the Personal AI Computer without the UI
| Wear, but it takes you to another level of experience.
|
| Currently, doing it solo and looking for a cofounder who has
| experience in large distribution, logistics, creating polished
| commercial hardware, etc. Even if you don't these experiences,
| please contact me, if you want more info, interested, and/or want
| to work for this startup.
|
| Some sample photo to help you on imagine.
| https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwsdyvjkIcTk41JFXK...
| njx wrote:
| Working on https://www.crawlspider.com
|
| Better visualizations and improvements for internal link building
| fhd2 wrote:
| I'm working on a command line billing/invoicing system. I
| couldn't deal with the ones I've tried (too heavy on UI, too
| difficult to automate stuff with).
|
| So far I just use it for my company billing, but it's quite
| delightful for me: My process is to save the services we provided
| in CSV files (exported from time tracking in org-mode, but you
| could use any tool that supports exporting), then I run this over
| it and it creates PDF invoices, and stores all the data (which I
| query occasionally, e.g. for quarterly VAT payments).
|
| Technologically it's weird, the invoice templates are written in
| LaTEX, and the code is in Common Lisp.
|
| I don't think about turning it into a business, but I think I'll
| open source it once it's a bit less messy. For now, I just focus
| on implementing the features I need (about 1-2 per quarter now).
|
| I kinda doubt it, but if anyone is interested in command line
| billing tools, I'd be excited to talk about it. Contact info is
| in my profile.
| prestonlibby wrote:
| This is super interesting to me as I have been focused on
| picking up Emacs and Common Lisp this year for my own freelance
| and startup workloads. Would you ping me or reply here if you
| do end up open sourcing this?
| fhd2 wrote:
| Sure thing! Also happy to just provide access to the repo as-
| is, just write if interested. But it's 20% duck tape and
| prayers, still.
| lkrubner wrote:
| I am working on a strategy game. I call it The Lost Age Of
| Abundance. A multi-player, real-time war-and-economics game. It
| is the kind of game that most developers would typically take a
| turn-based approach to, but I think turn-based games are mostly
| boring, so in this case it is real-time. My plan is that at least
| 100 players can play at once, but perhaps I might be able to get
| that up to 1,000.
|
| There are some unusual things about the game. To win, you have to
| conquer all of the land. However, no player is ever knocked out
| of the game. If you lose all of your land, you can simply become
| a guerrilla leader and engage in guerrilla warfare, in the hopes
| of turning your situation around. Being a guerrilla leader is
| difficult, but if all of the guerrilla leaders form an alliance,
| they might have the strength to reduce the power of whoever is
| winning at that moment. Every player starts off as a Noble Lord
| but you can become a Priest or a Communist or an Anarchist. (The
| Anarchists have a unique way of winning, which does not involve
| conquest.)
|
| I have been working, for months, on the economics, which are very
| complex and I think very interesting. All prices start off
| randomized (within certain bands) so there are no "good units" or
| "bad units" only those that are under priced or over priced.
| There is an economic cycle that runs once every 60 seconds. It
| takes all purchases and turns the money spent into inflation.
| Specifically, the percentage of total world GDP that was spent on
| a particular product is the inflation rate, so if all of the
| players collectively spent 2% of their income buying swords, so
| 2% of total world GDP was spent on swords, then the price of
| swords goes up 2% for that minute. In this way, with players
| buying what is under-priced and thus driving up prices, the
| prices are pushed to their rational levels. Also, the inflation
| rate tells you something important about what other players are
| doing. If you notice the price of horses is going up at an
| alarming rate, it means one (or more) of the players is spending
| heavily to build a large cavalry force. The economics are
| entirely deterministic, based on the activity of the players,
| there are no random events. There are no randomly generated
| earthquakes or floods or NPC invasions. Every change arises from
| the actions of the players.
|
| I was originally going to give the game the historical setting of
| the Chinese Warring States period, but then I decided to go with
| more of a fantasy theme. But there is nothing overtly fantasy in
| the game, it's simply that there are many myths, which the
| peasants might genuinely believe, that explain how the Empire Of
| Abundance was transformed into the Ruined Lands. The peasants are
| looking for some leader who can restore the Lost Age Of
| Abundance. The peasants (NPCs) will switch their loyalty to
| whoever they think can win. Occasionally some peasant will become
| a True Believer, in which case their loyalty is fixed for the
| rest of the game. That means even if their chosen leader is
| defeated and becomes a guerrilla leader, the peasant will remain
| loyal to them, and secretly send them small amounts of money, to
| help them recover.
|
| If your peasants think you are doing a terrible job with the
| economy, they will emigrate to the lands of one of your enemies.
| You can seal the border, to stop the emigration, but the peasants
| treat this as tantamount to putting them in prison, so their
| morale will plunge. If their morale gets low enough, they will
| switch their loyalty away from you and to any nearby guerrilla
| leader.
|
| There are 3 games in this game:
|
| 1. the military game
|
| 2. the economics game
|
| 3. the spy game
|
| The military game and the economics game are entirely
| deterministic. At no point does the software "roll the dice".
| Combat is as deterministic as in the game of chess.
|
| The spy game does use probability. If you torture a peasant then
| there is an 80% chance they will tell you the true. If you are
| wondering if one of your peasants has become a True Believer for
| one of your opponents, you can torture the peasant to get them to
| confess. There is an 80% chance that whatever they tell you is
| the truth.
|
| I have almost zero graphics for this game, so I think it will
| only appeal to a limited set of people who are interested in a
| game with a very dynamic economics system. The point of view is
| basically that of a ruler sitting on their throne in their
| capitol -- they only hear the reports brought to them by
| messengers. They cannot see the economy, they can only read the
| reports and graphs given to them by their court scribes.
| Likewise, with battles. In that sense, the whole game is a bit
| abstract, but I hope it will appeal to some niche that wants
| something complex.
| XCSme wrote:
| I'm slightly pivoting https://uxwizz.com, to focus more on the
| text-to-SQL feature to generate graphs/charts and export them.
| It's a lot easier to create custom dashboards like this, and it's
| also easier for me to implement the "UI" to create the embeddable
| charts using AI text-to-SQL instead of a visual SQL editor.
| user070223 wrote:
| Looking into better compression algorithms inspired by ML, LLM
| techniques under different constraints. For example if the
| receiver has a prior knowledge because future devices will have
| some foundational models that already understand higher level
| concepts like how a human looks or speaks, do we really need to
| send the entire recording or just the "words", "intonation" etc
| and reconstruct it on device.
|
| Fabrice Bellard and other has done some work in this domain
| https://bellard.org/
| codr7 wrote:
| Not so much working as playing around with. I could tell you
| about work, with the risk of boring you to tears.
|
| A custom Lisp and a web backend reference implementation/template
| in C#, as well as a frontend in React to dogfeed the backend.
|
| https://github.com/codr7/sharpl https://github.com/codr7/hostr
| https://github.com/codr7/hostr-web
| gibsonf1 wrote:
| Conceptual AI: https://graphmetrix.com/ (Common Lisp)
| ctas wrote:
| Would be interested to learn more about how and why this was
| coded in Common Lisp, in particular which value it provides
| specific to the problem being solved compared to other
| languages.
| gibsonf1 wrote:
| Ability to write at a very high level (and macros),
| incredibly fast when compiled, ability to use the repl on a
| live server for diagnosis and patching functions, language
| design choices work extremely well for parallel recursive
| hierarchical inference.
| shove wrote:
| I've been slowly adding puzzles to a little game I made. Shout-
| out to a few HN commentators who gave early and helpful feedback.
| https://shovemedia.com/letters
|
| still needs a name :/
| mailtousman wrote:
| While filling the application form, I am facing this issue on
| Y-Combinator
|
| " Y Combinator Go Back! 500 Error That didn't work. Sorry about
| that. We've been alerted and will investigate.
|
| "
|
| I was working on application registration process.
| _jcrossley wrote:
| Building Mujo, a minimalist musicians' practice journal for iOS.
| It integrates time tracking, note taking, and task management
| into a familiar metronome UI/UX. I dearly love it (1400+ hours
| logged!) and it's slowly building traction. https://mujo.app
| fraboniface wrote:
| I'm developing Weavus (https://weavus.app) as a way to take my
| events away from facebook. It's a social app (mobile only for
| now) where events are the main element and the home screen shows
| your upcoming events. The philosophy is no feed, no ads, no
| addiction, just your real social life.
|
| The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events,
| like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm
| planning to add more. I realized groups have similar needs to
| events, so I added them as well (think small private groups, not
| massive communities).
|
| All of this is stil very early in development and it definitely
| needs some more work before a Show HN, but we've found it very
| useful for weekends and holidays already.
|
| Consider it an open beta, so feel free to give it a try and give
| me your honest feedback :)
| gamerDude wrote:
| Love the idea and I see multiple people working on what I hope
| can be the future of meetup.com. Good luck!
| fraboniface wrote:
| Thanks for the kind words! The app only has private events
| and groups for now, but public ones like on Meetup are
| definitely the next big step.
| dindresto wrote:
| Any plans to support ActivityPub?
| fraboniface wrote:
| Not in the short term, I'm working alone on this and don't
| know much about decentralized protocols so I can't work on it
| yet. Also, Weavus is not a social media: there are no posts,
| just events, groups and their content. So not sure it's as
| relevant.
| goldfeld wrote:
| So I have started creating a new keyboard layout based on Dvorak;
| but more a text generation and expansion engine, with snippets or
| abbreviations in vim.
|
| Initially also on Emacs as a minor mode, the concept is to write
| in a shorthand of greek letters, mapped like to a Dvorak
| distribution, that stand there as a code, as variables or latent
| values, expanded upon a key combination to one of several
| languages: German, Hebrew or Yiddish. Text can stay code-mixed
| indefinitely. The greek letters are a preform, condensed by
| layers of translation and transliteration, a hybrid con, and the
| keyboard layout itself, dynamic and not static, is dual: for
| every greek letter in the layout correpsonds a hebrew letter or
| diphtong or diacritic mark etc. It is a merge and disambiguation
| of both Dvorak/Programmer Dvorak and Yiddish Klal.
|
| I really don't know if it may seem useful to someone, but I've
| been itching writing a bit jargon in a system like this for some
| weeks.
| novaleaf wrote:
| godot csharp (C#) game engine tech / middleware. If you are in
| the seattle area or want to collab on hobby stuff with
| questionable financial upside, ping me.
| JesseTG wrote:
| I'm working on a screen reader/narration service for retro games,
| called groan. https://github.com/JesseTG/groan It's still in
| development, but I intend to post more about it once I fix some
| related bugs in RetroArch.
| dwrodri wrote:
| I am building a TCG card management app as a way to keep my
| machine learning skills sharp and to learn iOS development.
|
| Pretty standard CRUD flows + plenty of opportunity to get comfy
| with iterating and deploying software on iOS.
|
| This app will basically be the playground for me to work on: -
| Frontend / UX - Computer vision (scan in cards w/ Camera) -
| recommender systems (what cards are good suggestions to add to
| this deck?) - Clustering (what decks are similar to this deck?)
|
| Websites like TappedOut and Archidekt are great products, but as
| someone who plays casually and doesn't do much to keep up with
| releases I find assembling fun Commander decks from singles to be
| quite a time investment, and I'd like to see if I can focus in on
| that UX specifically for myself.
| erik101 wrote:
| Although I am currently 16 and the summer vacation is coming to
| an end, I have made big progress during these few weeks. My
| mission was to build an app with the help of the Flutter
| framework, and I have succeeded!
|
| The app's website is vid-note.com, if you would like to check it
| out. The value of the app is that one no longer has to watch
| endless videos but can find exactly what one needs about a
| certain topic within the notes that we offer. What is good to
| know is that most of the notes are centered around business and
| self-improvement for the reason that we, the founders, are
| interested in these topics. We understand that many would advise
| us to let an LLM write the notes, but for this project, we have
| decided to sway away from the flawed results that LLMs bring with
| them.
|
| This is the first venture my business partner and I have decided
| to pursue, and we look forward to finding out if we must pivot or
| preserve. For those wondering, the app has been approved for
| external testing on the App Store, but we have decided not to
| make the jump yet, simply because we still have to handcraft a
| few notes ;). We predict that a release on the Play Store will
| soon follow. Cheers.
| mrose11 wrote:
| Creating/capturing network diagrams and Infrastructure as Code
| from cloud providers.
|
| Create one, the other comes with.
| wwilim wrote:
| Automating my bills with Azure Functions so that I never forget
| to pay them and I avoid angering the property manager
| brazed_blotch wrote:
| A bluetooth and USB-C modification kit for the iPod Classic:
| https://moonlit.market/
|
| I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was
| refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free
| time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which
| required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to
| manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype
| and manufacture the second revision.
|
| That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be
| assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the
| business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide.
| A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a
| little.
| foxhop wrote:
| https://github.com/russellballestrini/flask-socketio-llm-com...
|
| just made an battleship game today, look at research for for more
| zelo wrote:
| I'm working on android app that exposes camera stack trough
| http/websocket API.
|
| The idea is that phones have very nice cameras and lot of media
| processing power and such API could enable hackers to easily
| incorporate capable camera stack in to their projects without
| android development experience in any language they like.
|
| There are millions of working phones in the drawers battery
| backed, with plenty of computing power, nice cameras, hardware
| acceleration, good connectivity (WiFi, ethernet over usb), that
| could get new purpose.
|
| Previously I was working on automated photogrammetry rig and this
| is perfect use case for that.
|
| If you see other use case for such API share your ideas.
|
| If you think that's cool idea to develop and would like to help
| write me at hn@zelo.pl
| lengfeld wrote:
| I'm working on a multi repository management tool that should
| suck less then repo or git-submodules. See https://subpatch.net
| :-)
| dumbashco wrote:
| keeping ahead oF OIG resulting from bad coding. Once cleared,
| will share my dumb ass error here & at gh
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