[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 84 points
Date : 2024-09-29 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
| Dachande663 wrote:
| Working on my first foray into DML-based speakers. Low
| expectations, but more enjoying the fun of learning a new domain
| (and it's a distraction from building garden furniture). Got
| various exciters, panel types, mount ideas ready, just taking the
| time out of the evenings.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Let us know how they sound.
|
| I'm happy with boring old full-range.
| mmarian wrote:
| Google Sheets add-on for quickly generating forecasts on
| seasonal, time series data:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUdTCxURgg . Submitted it to the
| Google Workspace Marketplace a few days ago, hoping it'll get
| approved soon!
| nolan879 wrote:
| Working on a HomeAssistant plugin to control my home from my
| Macintosh SE/30. Compiling with retro68 and using my bluescsi for
| wifi.
| vinc wrote:
| Sounds really cool! Do you have a page describing your project
| with some pictures? It's funny I checked your post history
| before asking and found that you made the same comment I'm
| doing today to someone doing something similar one year ago! Is
| it what got you started?
| minajevs wrote:
| Still working on https://evy.app/ - app for collectors, both
| professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items.
|
| In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically
| for collectors.
| mjomaa wrote:
| Working on https://achromatic.dev - Next.js 15 SaaS boilerplate
| focused on web app functionality.
|
| Just added MFA via authenticator apps + recovery codes today.
| keb_ wrote:
| Working on actively trying to quit reading HackerNews.
| kylecazar wrote:
| I see you are making strides
| doubled112 wrote:
| I've found if I announce I want to make a change I'm more
| likely to follow through. Maybe they are trying it out?
| timeon wrote:
| Is it open-source?
| nomad86 wrote:
| Why?
| kmoser wrote:
| Start by creating an AI to read it for you and summarize the
| discussions, so you have less to read.
| keyle wrote:
| Try silent quitting HN, or living with your eyes closed! Worked
| for me, for 5 mins.
| smokel wrote:
| One way that worked for me in trying to quit Reddit was to edit
| /etc/hosts, and redirect it to localhost.
| 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
|
| Limiting my Reddit intake this way actually worked, but I don't
| feel the need for HN yet.
| joshdavham wrote:
| If you find you're spending too much time on hacker news, you
| can actually set anti-procrastination settings in your profile.
| I use them and it's definitely helped a lot!
| cryptoz wrote:
| I'm getting LLMs to _modify_ your source code by writing code
| that modifies the Abstract Syntax Tree of your code rather than
| the code itself. I wrote a simple blog post to explain it:
| https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m...
|
| My initial goal is to let users make webapp prototypes and
| iterate on them by writing tickets for the AI to complete.
|
| I for some reason call it Code+=AI: https://codeplusequalsai.com
| magicalhippo wrote:
| I've just played with local models mostly, but I've found it
| difficult to get them to follow every part of the instruction.
|
| For example they're oh-so keen on doing math themselves, even
| though they're shit at it and I instructed them _not_ to do any
| math.
|
| It's also hit and miss if they implement the right method or
| not, even with low temperature.
|
| In my case I was experimenting with translating simple word
| problems into matlab scripts, so a resultcould be computed.
|
| Do you find the AST approach helps? Or is it mostly just
| throwing compute at it, ie larger more better?
| cryptoz wrote:
| I'm still pretty early in terms of figuring out if this
| approach is better for larger projects. I can confidently say
| it works great on small things - for small changes on small
| files the AST approach works pretty well. You can say things
| like "add a click listener to the button that calls a
| function to tally the user's score" to a simple game and it
| will do it. That is, less than a minute after typing the
| prompt, you will see the code update in the editor and see
| your preview-webview update with your changes applied.
|
| However, I have noticed that the AST code quality heavily
| depends on how common it is in the training set. I think I
| will have to add documentation to it through RAG or something
| - because OpenAI's models that I'm using seem to have limited
| experience writing esprima for JavaScript for example.
|
| So it's hit or miss. In some cases I do feel like I'm
| throwing stupid compute at solving small problems and it's
| unnecessary - however, as I work on the project, it is
| getting better and better at successfully making the
| modifications. Some of that is me improving the prompts, some
| of it is OpenAI improving the models themselves, and some of
| it is the infrastructure I'm building for the project itself.
|
| I did notice a huge improvement when o1-mini released. It is
| dramatically better at writing the AST code than GPT-4o or
| 4o-mini. I haven't tried Claude 3.5 yet but I've been hearing
| it does an exceptional job at code writing - not sure about
| my AST requirements though!
| Procrastes wrote:
| New for me, I guess:
|
| - Doing a massive tech modernization for a global nonprofit.
|
| -Ghostwriting educational email courses for agTech founders who
| want to convert more customers or investors.
|
| - IF I'm good and get my chores done, I may let myself build a
| better way to apply for agTech grants.
| jamifsud wrote:
| Working on https://www.brief.news - a completely personalized
| daily newsletter on the topics you're interested in. We've just
| launched the ability to add custom topics, so you can create a
| newsletter on anything now!
| Daniel_Van_Zant wrote:
| This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a
| RSS option.
| CuriouslyC wrote:
| I'm working on an AI outlining tool in preparation for NaNoWriMo.
| pwatsonwailes wrote:
| Building a narrative interactive novel/RPG thing. Wrapping music
| composition this week, writing about half done, game engine
| built, art finishing around Christmas.
|
| Aiming to launch next summer, with various media.
| rahilb wrote:
| I'm chipping away at bugs and adding features to my app Reminder
| Sync for Obsidian! https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/
|
| Currently working on supporting dataview tasks format and
| multiple reminder lists.
|
| The app supports any markdown backed notes app, but I fear I may
| have limited its appeal by including Obsidian in the app name.
|
| Edit: previous discussion
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919
| itsgrimetime wrote:
| CV pipeline to get some additional realtime stats for an annual
| Mario Kart 8 LAN tournament my friends and I run, hoping to be
| able to get real time race position tracking and other stats like
| boost/drift %, per-player item distributions, average time to 10
| coins, and whatever else we can think of (and make work)
| petesergeant wrote:
| Neat. I'd love something that could watch my wife and I play
| and confirm I really do get hit by more blue shells than her
| TravisHeeter wrote:
| You're going into first place too early. You kinda have to
| cruse in 2nd until the very end to avoid blue shells. Better
| yet, stay in 9th as long as possible - that's the highest
| position you can get the good drops like Blue Shells,
| Bullets, etc. But I think you can get red shells in 2nd, so
| just save those till the end.
| kylecazar wrote:
| I'm just starting a project to automate XBRL tagging
| hamandcheese wrote:
| I am working on (yet another?) DuckDB gui, with an emphasis on
| devops-y/back office workflows.
|
| I want to join data from AWS with other sources and present a
| nice data-table UI, and perhaps allow taking some basic actions
| on a row, defining some filters, etc.
|
| Have you ever tried to copy-paste data out of the AWS console?
| Truly a terrible experience.
| carbonimpact wrote:
| Working on https://carbonimpacthq.com
|
| We are building out the Vanta equivalent for sustainability and
| climate disclosures.
| Daniel_Van_Zant wrote:
| Gnosi: https://www.gnosi.ai/ . Y You can auto-generate a
| constantly updated encyclopedia from a set of documents and
| conversations with an AI about those documents. Trying to make
| the process of having a Zettlkasten or personal notetaking system
| frictionless.
| transformi wrote:
| Looks promising. Do you have any success stories from using
| this took?
| huslage wrote:
| Working on getting communications back online in western NC. We
| are about to post a fundraiser to deploy 10 5G sites by the end
| of the week.
| Pannoniae wrote:
| I've been recently working on a Minecraft-like sandbox game at
| https://github.com/Pannoniae/BlockGame.
|
| The tech stack is .NET and OpenGL.
|
| Progress has been a bit slower than I wanted mostly because I've
| been sick but we'll get to an MVP some day!
| xixixao wrote:
| I'm working on a replacement for file coreutils (touch, cp, mv,
| rm) which prompt before deleting by default and have a more sane
| api overall. Intended for interactive use on the CLI. In Rust.
| doersino wrote:
| On writing some blog posts about things I've built lately (both
| at work and in my own time). Helps a lot with diving more deeply
| into topics than what's reasonable for a "just needs to work"
| implementation.
|
| Recently, a fairly detailed one on doing something semi-obscure
| with directory services on AWS.
| https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/sadwsp.html
| jmpavlec wrote:
| Love the domain name! I should start blogging as well. Seems
| like it would help in a similar way as teaching others.
| nomad86 wrote:
| I'm building a hotel reservation system on tripoffice.com
| totemandtoken wrote:
| Just trying to get my personal site up and going:
| https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Like the film _Rashomon_ , had not heard of _The Rashomon
| Effect_.
| onion2k wrote:
| A basic CRUD app around goal setting as a test for how AI tools
| can help write web apps to see how a modern web team could
| leverage this stuff to go faster, and maybe identify some missing
| pieces I could build one day. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Copilot
| etc are genuinely great if you can already write code. They
| really let you blast straight through the mundane bits and focus
| on the hard stuff.
| bediger4000 wrote:
| Trying to figure out a bizarre performance drop in a merge sort I
| wrote for one of those daily coding problems.
|
| https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-1/
|
| It seems that adding one node to a linked list causes a
| repeatable performance drop. That is, linked lists of say 2^21
| nodes sort faster than lists of 2^21 + 1 nodes.
| raghavtoshniwal wrote:
| Built a hardware device that sits between any computer and any
| printer and reads what is getting printed.
|
| Primary use-case is to read receipt data from legacy POS systems
| without having to write software integrations.
|
| Figuring out how to commercialise. Reach out if you have ideas!
| h2odragon wrote:
| fond memories. we did tv guides for a local cable system for a
| bit in the early 90s. they had a customer db, but no "export"
| beyond sending print jobs to their bigarse line printer.
|
| but it was a parallel port and i had use of a luggable with a
| bidirectional parallel port so i'd haul that in once a month,
| hook it up, and have them run a "hello customer" fake billing
| run, which was hoovered up and stripped down to the address
| list we needed to mail to that month.
| jmpavlec wrote:
| Working on my side project https://gametje.com. It's an
| alternative to Jackbox games but it has a lower barrier for
| entry. All you need is a device with a web browser to play (also
| works with Chromecast). I'm trying to write some better tutorials
| for the early games I created to make it easier to get a feel for
| the gameplay. Also trying to work on the ui/ux flow to make it
| easier for people to understand what it is and how to create and
| host a game.
| BetterWhisper wrote:
| https://www.videototextai.com/ - an AI transcription,
| translation, chat with your video/audio platform. We are very
| close to releasing an update where it is possible to caption any
| video in any language - perfect for making social media content.
| armagon wrote:
| I'm building a greenhouse. The frame is done, and I've got
| plastic and a door on it. Next, I'd like to build boxes to hold
| soil and allow for easy watering.
| p44v9n wrote:
| This sounds so nice!
| joshdavham wrote:
| Got any progress photos?
| whiplash451 wrote:
| Sounds cool. Care to share the design?
| m1aw wrote:
| I'm working on this food logging app / personal health dashboard
| that I'm building for myself.
|
| I was asked to log my food by a dietician I'm working with,
| because I was constantly feeling hunger after cycling training.
|
| But all the solution out there were quite complex to input data,
| and I just want to write down plain text with some additional
| markup and be able to generate some graphs and recognize some
| patterns out it.
|
| Decided to do it T3 and throw in all those weird technologies
| just to see what's out there.
| guiambros wrote:
| Started my masters at Georgia Tech [1] this summer. Still in the
| first semester, but really enjoying so far. Just not much spare
| time on nights and weekends, but it helped me cut down the time
| spent on social/news/etc.
|
| [1] https://omscs.gatech.edu/
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| Good luck! How is it going? How long did it take for them to
| accept you? Asking because a friend applied in July and still
| not heard back from them.
| guiambros wrote:
| Thanks! Loving it so far. It has been a long time since I
| graduated, so using the first semester to get used to a
| regular study schedule again.
|
| The program is massive (like, 1500+ students in my ML4T [1]
| class alone; the largest in GT's history), but academically
| rigorous, with a supportive community, active discussion
| forums, cool projects, and a small army of TAs. And very
| affordable, compared to all other programs out there.
|
| It takes a long time for them to process applications, but
| they seem to honor their deadlines. I got my invitation a few
| days before the "you should hear from us until this date",
| and know other folks were on the same boat.
|
| Hope your friend gets their invitation soon.
|
| [1] https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-7646-machine-learning-trading
| dijksterhuis wrote:
| - Taking Octachainer and making my own CLI implementation to
| learn Rust https://www.elektronauts.com/t/octachainer-v1-3/45320
|
| - hacking around with FunDSP (turns out it's pretty fun), again
| to learn some Rust https://github.com/SamiPerttu/fundsp
|
| - Giving up Arma3 gamemode dev maintenance for a large-ish
| community, but hanging around to teach people git/github and
| provide wisdom / teach how to do software dev (a lot of folks
| have minimal software experience). Although debating whether to
| straight up leave the community.
| fwsgonzo wrote:
| I'm currently trying to implement an in-editor sandboxing/modding
| solution for the Godot game engine. It's hard work trying to make
| everything work the way people are used to having it, and even
| competing with GDScript.
|
| https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox
|
| I originally started on it just to get into Godot.
| neverartful wrote:
| Working on a data exploration and visualization tool for SQLite.
| Some of the features include: ER diagram, browse table data,
| charting (bar, column, line, pie, scatter).
| fragmede wrote:
| On Mac, pbcopy and pbpaste don't work with images. I've written
| one that does in python, so I can right click on an image in
| Chrome, hit copy, then do _pbipaste > foo.png_ and have it work.
| And then also do _pbicopy < foo.png_, and then be able to paste
| in Preview or whatever.
|
| it's incomplete but https://github.com/fragmede/pasteboard-image
|
| I'm in the middle of rewriting it in rust so it's easier to
| install.
| notnmeyer wrote:
| a task runner/build tool thing, https://github.com/notnmeyer/tsk
| switz wrote:
| I spent a week building a website that is a repository of
| timeless content. It generally consists of old magazine articles
| (though not exclusively) that you can pick up at any time and
| will bring value to your life. I notice most of what we consume
| on daily basis is ephemeral and not all that valuable outside of
| the moment, whereas ever-present content is always valuable.
|
| The unique angle here is that each article includes a hand-
| written summary explaining why the article was meaningful to the
| curator. This gives you a quick window into the piece without
| being overwhelming.
|
| Since this is a free website mostly to be shared with friends and
| family, I implemented user login via "phone number" to save and
| submit articles, but without a one-time token. So it's "password-
| less" for now; a trust-based system.
|
| It's basically 'done' - but I'm not sure that I want to share it
| publicly for the aforementioned reasons. I've been using it on my
| subway rides to read more interesting stuff. So far so good.
|
| screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/8kIrgBt.png
| vintagedave wrote:
| From that I'm guessing you don't want to open it to random HN
| folk, but if you ever do, it sounds a great resource and
| something I'd love to participate in.
| switz wrote:
| For anyone that wants access just shoot me an email (it's on
| my HN profile).
| dubme1 wrote:
| Working on https://aliveai.app/. It is a simple wrapper frontend
| around a complex ComfyUI workflow. There is a lot of different
| things you can generate with StableDiffusion but I wanted to make
| it as easy as possible to create photo-realistic images of
| people.
|
| The App is mostly being used for generating NSFW images though
| (which is ok).
| ecuaflo wrote:
| Anyone know of a community where you genuinely try each other's
| stuff and give feedback? Sometimes lose motivation aimlessly
| guessing what people want without having users to give actual
| feedback.
| dandrew5 wrote:
| Adding optional user sign-in to my word replacer browser
| extension: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/word-replacer-max.
| This is a precursor to adding generative replacement suggestions
| based on search terms. Even further, I'd like it to eventually
| analyze and de-trigger/disarm the copy on websites more broadly
| without having to define specific words or phrases.
| nagisa wrote:
| Working on an extension to my recently purchased outdoor
| AirGradient unit to add an atmospheric pressure sensor, a second
| temperature/humidity sensor, some connections to an external rain
| gauge and a way to power the unit without going through USB.
|
| Many of the sensors and connections are small enough that I could
| have spun another PCB to replace the VOC/NOx module it comes
| with[1], but SGP41 ain't cheap & I wouldn't dare to desolder one
| from the existing module. So instead I'm going to try to use the
| extension I/O connector AG board has. Am currently waiting for my
| PCBs to arrive.
|
| Speaking of PCBs. It is wonderful that it is possible to get 5
| units of a prototype for a price of a coffee or two.
|
| [1]: https://www.airgradient.com/shop/#!/SGP41-TVOC-NOx-
| Module/p/...
| balaji_raghavan wrote:
| A browser based no frills TODO list for managing and sharing
| multiple lists without having to login or sign up:
| https://www.computedigit.com/list.html
| bilater wrote:
| React Email Generator: https://reactemailgenerator.vercel.app
|
| Just write a prompt and get the perfect email template for your
| use case.
| mjAxi0m wrote:
| Working on Perseid (https://perseid.dev), a framework that allows
| web developers to ship full-stack apps in minutes, using their
| favorite stack.
| devgoth wrote:
| Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up
| a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed
| from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi
| being slow and I just want to build something around an API.
|
| I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux
| vintagedave wrote:
| That sounds potentially really neat for mocking API calls.
| atum47 wrote:
| Trying to mimic mode 7 (Mario kart graphics) using canvas and
| JavaScript.
|
| It is fun.
| gnuser wrote:
| Taking my metaverse/game to alpha and crowdfunding.
| solomonb wrote:
| I just picked up an old Sheldon Lathe. I got it for $200 and
| hauled it myself with a drop trailer. Its going to need a lot of
| work but its a beautiful old machine.
| keyle wrote:
| I am busy rebuilding my music studio with only gear from the late
| 90s/2000. It's much more fun to relive my youth and with patience
| less expensive than I thought.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| ADAT?
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Oh those were golden years in the studio, hope you have a lot
| of fun. Just casting my mind back to the setup we had in '99:
|
| Juno 106, Korg Monopoly, TX816. Prophet 5, Seq Circuits Pro1,
| Novation bass station, 909, Korg Wavestation (rack), Korg M1,
| EMU sampler (EIII rack IIRC), Atari Mega 4 + Cubase for seqs, a
| IoMega zip drive for storage that killed every other project
| with click of death, and fucking midi cables and audio snakes
| running everywhere... great days.
| joshuaheard wrote:
| I'm developing a scuba diving app for the Apple Watch Ultra. It's
| an algorithm and graphical user interface that provides critical
| real-time information to recreational scuba divers while scuba
| diving. (Nautosys.com)
| Cyph0n wrote:
| A tool that makes it easier to run Docker Compose projects on
| NixOS. It's essentially a Compose backend that targets a mix of
| NixOS + systemd + Podman/Docker.
|
| https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| Prototyping a reactive UI library using DataScript[1] as the db
| and LWJGL as the rendering layer. I just want to see what
| happens.
|
| 1. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
| flir wrote:
| I'm just dipping my toe into the Typescript water, with a rehype
| plugin that helps me turn markdown into
| <figure><img><figcaption></figcaption></figure> HTML.
|
| The code's done, the yak shaving of packaging it as an npm module
| continues.
| davidtos wrote:
| Working on creating Java bindings for io_uring. Trying to get
| some better performance by batching downcalls and making the API
| Java friendly.
| terrib1e wrote:
| A scavenger hunt app for couples
| kidproquo wrote:
| iOS game to learn rhythm and drums [0]. It's MIDI based. Midi
| files to use as the tracks to practice on and Midi controllers to
| use as input. Here's a demo with my son on electronic drums [1]
|
| Tech stack: Swift, UIKit, SpriteKit
|
| [0] https://testflight.apple.com/join/Sy5573Uw
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/RN2RRewR9B4?si=ic-_dmwp2sJGh94D
| vinc wrote:
| I'm working on my hobby operating system written in Rust. It is
| completely text-based, but the console was lacking a scrollback
| buffer until this week. It's a simple feature, really, but having
| to redirect anything that outputs more than one screen to a file
| to read it was a pain. I'm happy to finally have it!
|
| This weekend, I also made good progress on user-space memory and
| found a workaround for some issues I had. I still need to
| implement it the right way, though. After a few years on the
| project, the thing that is giving me the most trouble is grokking
| the concept of page tables.
|
| https://moros.cc
|
| https://github.com/vinc/moros
| codr7 wrote:
| Same, same:
|
| A custom Lisp: https://github.com/codr7/sharpl
|
| A backend on top of Postgres: https://github.com/codr7/hostr
|
| And a frontend in React: https://github.com/codr7/hostr-web
| _neil wrote:
| A real-time interface for my Fantasy Premier League... league. It
| calculates point totals up to the minute, which the official app
| lacks for some reason (can take hours for final point tallies).
|
| It's mostly an excuse to play with data processing with duckdb,
| remote APIs, and Pocketbase.
| jonyt wrote:
| Getting my historical fiction novel published. I finished writing
| it a couple of months back. Extremely short plot summary: guy
| deserts from the Roman XI legion, goes back home only to find
| that his entire province is about to revolt against the Roman
| Empire at the height of its power. It's one of the most
| spectacular feats of collective self-immolation in human history
| and it had a large effect on human history. I think not enough
| has been written about the role of abject stupidity in human
| affairs. This book is an attempt to correct that.
| vintagedave wrote:
| That sounds really worth reading! Please post it on HN when
| it's published (or do you have any links / info now?)
|
| I know it's fiction but the way you phrase it makes it sound
| like this might be inspired by a true revolution, is that the
| case?
| jonyt wrote:
| Thanks! It's historical fiction so 90% true :-) The novel is
| set during the First Jewish-Roman War[0] and I tried as much
| as possible to adhere to what we know of actual events.
| There's a good case to be made that the effect it had on
| Judaism greatly impacted the development of Christianity.
| Plus it helped crown the Flavian Dynasty. I have just a short
| blurb and the first chapter here[1]. I'll definitely post
| more about the book and the process if I manage to get it
| published. There are quite a few aspiring novelists here so
| it might be encouraging to them.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War
|
| [1] https://jonyomtov.me/the-deserter
| terrib1e wrote:
| A scavenger hunting app for couples. I have it working but I'm
| trying to figure out the gamification aspect.
| p44v9n wrote:
| A native MacOS menu bar app that gives you a deep breathing
| reminder every hour:
| https://github.com/p44v9n/deepbreath/releases/tag/v0.0.4
|
| Functional but a few small bugs to iron out, then want to get a
| nicer welcome screen up and submit to the Apple App Store. Would
| love any feedback!
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Still researching trust. It's the deepest philosophical rabbit
| hole I've ever fallen down, but am now coming up for air.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Diverse opinions and even conflict in small groups can be
| productive provided there is trust. I'd love to understand
| trust better. Got anything to share or places to start?
|
| I've been on a deep dive on the philosophy of harmony for a
| long time. Just submitted my second major article on "harmony
| of opposites" that deals with the role of conflict/tension in
| harmony.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| > philosophy of harmony
|
| Very interesting!
|
| Alignment of interest and principles of conflict resolution
| and diplomacy are where I got to with "dynamic trust systems"
| at the moment. The whole project is to kinda push "beyond
| authentication". Yes I'd love to share some as I've been
| seeking proof-readers in some security communities. If you DM
| me via cybershow,uk (email in footer) we can chat.
| jll29 wrote:
| from a someone'S slide from the 1970s:
|
| "Knowledge of origin creates trust. Knowledge of capabilities
| creates trust."
|
| I'd add "a mental model of someone's motives creates trust".
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Both of these! And spot on with (mutual) motive analysis to
| come up with an "alignment" matrix.
|
| I was inspired some time ago by Stella Rimington's writing
| (ex MI5 chief) that "identity" is actually a very poor basis
| for trust and authentication. It's unnerving watching the
| whole zero-trust show organise itself around notions of
| strong identity (as opposed to role and earned trust), which
| might turn out to be a rather silly thing to do.
| jph wrote:
| Assertables: Rust macros like `assert!` for smarter testing,
| easier debugging, and faster refactoring.
|
| https://github.com/sixarm/assertables-rust-crate
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Rewriting my "UHF" app -- a personal TV channel that plays video
| content I have on a hard drive to a schedule.
|
| Also beginning to build a piece of furniture for "The Lab" (man-
| cave?).
| ejs wrote:
| Working on cleaning up my wood shop and trying to finishing my
| hand-tool wall.
|
| Also building an easier way to add real-time metrics and
| monitoring to web applications: https://flexlogs.com
|
| Also, this little side project for less overwhelming weekly
| goals: https://carpeweekem.com
| oxedom wrote:
| Recently got exicited about transforming my Tensorflow.js Parking
| mointoring application to a more general webapp that can do many
| things with Computer Vision, as well as upgrade from YOLO7.
|
| https://github.com/oxedom/parker
| korben-benoit wrote:
| Trying to finish this ultralight airplane with started to build
| with my father 14 years ago!
| bhl wrote:
| Prompting GPT to do rich text editing.
|
| Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it
| to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as
| possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc
| later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to
| semantically merge docs for you haha).
|
| So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which
| have an easier position/coordinate system to work with: just
| line-col or row-col.
|
| Rich text is usually stored as trees with json or html. Have seen
| a paper (https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/) that represents
| it as a flat array.
|
| Difference in approach would then be: is it easier for gpt to
| work with diffs or with operations/tool calls?
| yawnxyz wrote:
| wow could you please share more of this work? I've been
| wondering how to make a diff tool / simple text editor for
| academic writing
| isaksamsten wrote:
| I've been developing a plugin for the Neovim text editor called
| sia.nvim, inspired by the Egyptian deity Sia.
|
| You can check out the GitHub repository here:
| https://github.com/isaksamsten/sia.nvim.
|
| I also have a few screen recordings showing its capabilities.
| I've been using it for about six months to enhance my writing.
|
| The plugin leverages a language model to suggest text
| improvements, features a split-view interface, and allows users
| to select the edits they want to keep from a diff.
|
| It's still a bit rough around the edges, and the code is quite
| messy since I'm still learning Lua and the Neovim API. However,
| I'm gradually improving it whenever I find the time.
| yusufaytas wrote:
| I'm working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/
|
| We've experimented with various approaches to promotion,
| including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's
| been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the
| audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in
| front of the right people.
|
| And marketing is really hard!
| Sajarin wrote:
| What is the unique value proposition of this book? How does it
| stand apart from the numerous amount of other books on the same
| topic?
|
| Marketing is hard when there isn't a clear brand. Branding is
| hard when you don't have a very simple and clear differentiator
| to promote.
| yusufaytas wrote:
| Thanks for the questions! I hear you it does sound like a
| generic book name. Well, we have the domain and we couldn't
| really name it to something else as we think software
| engineering has many elements and we wanted to cover them.
|
| Our book isn't just a technical book on software development.
| Instead, it goes into the life aspects of being a software
| engineer such as migration and parenting.
|
| Many of us have wished for mentors who could guide us beyond
| the technicalities, offering insights into personal growth
| and career navigation. Recognizing this gap, we've created a
| resource that provides practical wisdom.
|
| By taking a holistic approach to software engineering, we
| address both personal and professional development in a way
| that few other books do. This unique blend sets our book
| apart, offering a clear differentiator that defines our
| brand.
| joshdavham wrote:
| Any resources you'd recommend to learn marketing (esp. comming
| from a software background)? Asking for software friend who's
| having trouble marketing his software business.
|
| (Also good luck with your book!)
| yusufaytas wrote:
| I found An Entire MBA in 1 Course really helpful. It actually
| goes through core business principles, covering everything
| from marketing and strategy to finance.
| https://www.udemy.com/course/an-entire-mba-
| in-1-courseaward-...
|
| It looks like marketing within large companies is vastly
| different from marketing for smaller initiatives.
| purple-leafy wrote:
| - browser extension development framework from scratch
|
| - doing a few SQL courses
|
| - NAND to Tetris
|
| - Graphical programming
| b8 wrote:
| Getting a job in cybersecurity again.
| chr15m wrote:
| I'm working on an online drum machine for
| https://dopeloop.ai/beat-maker and the web version of a game
| called Asterogue https://asterogue.space
| koskeller wrote:
| Working on book summaries product - https://brieflane.com
| cushychicken wrote:
| A little stable of websites.
|
| www.fpgajobs.com
|
| www.firmwarejobs.com
|
| www.reportCardcomments.com
|
| www.primeribcalculator.com
| vyrotek wrote:
| Building some prototypes of games with Godot. Mostly enjoying it.
|
| A few gripes with the GDScript language though. Might switch back
| to C#.
|
| https://godotengine.org/
| bilsbie wrote:
| How did you settle on godot?
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I'm working on software that isn't source-available (as of now,
| anyway).
|
| I've written an app that is aimed at a specific demographic (so
| I'm not linking to it), and I'm developing an improved backend
| admin app.
|
| This involves mostly Swift, using UIKit, to produce an app that
| will run on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. The backend is PHP, and
| doesn't need much work.
| vintagedave wrote:
| I've been building a copilot for an underserved language, and
| paused that in March with a little time since spent making a full
| language service: something where you can parse and resolve
| methods and types, and generally query for useful info. Perhaps
| it's the root of a LSP server in future.
| memset wrote:
| I built a service that lets you bolt an oauth/oidc provider onto
| your app with a single callback.
| https://github.com/poundifdef/connectivly
|
| It lets you use whatever you're already doing for auth, and lets
| you become an oauth provider, or issue tokens instead of people
| passing API keys, on top of that.
|
| The more interesting aspect of that you could use it to bolt on
| an entire app store or ecosystem on top of your existing product
| or api.
|
| (ping me if you want to look at this more seriously from a
| business perspective!)
| BoingBoomTschak wrote:
| Trying to bring the finishing touches to a Common Lisp SSG I made
| during a handful of vacation afternoons
| (https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/make-website) and filling the
| resulting website (https://world-playground-deceit.net/) with
| more content. More motivated by #2 now that the generator does
| 99% of what I need.
| MurageKabui wrote:
| I'm working on a scripting interface for android that's based on
| js https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo
|
| Basically a mobile app with an integrated IDE and terminal with
| custom commands tailored to execute js code that interfaces with
| native android features
| mappu wrote:
| I've been doing a new Qt Widgets binding for Go -
| https://github.com/mappu/miqt
| joshdavham wrote:
| Just finished a python package for a 'readability' calculator for
| Japanese: https://github.com/joshdavham/jreadability
|
| Not the most impressive project, but hey, some of my friends
| found it cool!
| cosmez wrote:
| Avalonia version of my terminal Redis client
| https://github.com/cosmez/RedisMan
| jll29 wrote:
| I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence
| research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine
| learning - search - natural language processing".
|
| Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3 MEUR GPU cluster.
| Also looking for Ph.D. candidates and contract developers. (The
| hard part is spending the money wisely but in 8 weeks - it is a
| time-limited government budget that "expires" - while teaching
| writing papers and writing grant applications.)
| bbor wrote:
| Wow, just had to comment because this one is hilarious.
| Everyone else has the typical "I built my own accounting CLI"
| or "I'm thinking about maybe publishing my devtool", and you're
| over here casually describing your _building_. I just have to
| say: well done, that sounds like quite the life! The world will
| no doubt appreciate your toil one day, even if you feel
| stressed in the short term. IDK why, but your comment makes me
| want to share one of my favorite quotes: Only
| with time will the period of my real influence begin and I
| trust that it will be a long one, for I am firmly convinced of
| Seneca's promise: "Although envy imposed silence on all who
| lived with you, those men will come who will judge without ill-
| will and without favour."
|
| - Schopenhauer's Doctoral Dissertation, _The Fourfold Root_
|
| I'd throw my hat in the ring as a philosophy-minded SWE who's
| coming up on the end of my runway while writing my book on
| unifying symbolic+connectionist AI (going for ~1y now), but
| your choice of currency tells me you probably don't have a need
| for any of us yanks. Instead, I'll send you my very strongest
| best wishes from across the ocean! And while I'm at it, I'll
| endorse my absolute favorite paper ever written on search, in
| case it sparks some ideas: Simon & Newell's _Human Problem
| Solving_ (1970) https://github.com/vlall/Ai-
| Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20... . If you're not already
| teaching it, ofc ;)
|
| This quote in particular pops into my head at least once a day:
| The problem solver's search for a solution is an odyssey
| through the problem space, from one knowledge state to another,
| until his current knowledge state includes the problem
| solution.
| bilsbie wrote:
| Can you explain this a bit more. What's the triangle? What type
| of contractors are you looking for?
| theGnuMe wrote:
| [delayed]
| zeta0134 wrote:
| Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's
| devlog:
|
| https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m...
|
| Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a
| proper economy, with gold gain and shops to spend the gold in. It
| also now supports PAL and Dendy systems, which is especially
| wonky due to the different framerate, but helped a bit by this
| being a rhythm game. As long as the music plays at the correct
| tempo, the rest of the game adapts its speed and "feels" correct
| at the lower framerate.
|
| Tons of work left to do, most of it pixel art (I'm learning as I
| go) but it's progressing quite nicely.
| naveen99 wrote:
| Working on an alternate reader and similarity search for hacker
| news: https://hn.garglet.com
|
| Some features:
|
| Search user profiles
|
| Find similar comments
|
| Find similar stories
|
| Find similar users
|
| See user karma next to their comments
|
| browse comments in chronological order on stories
| jcun4128 wrote:
| Kind of stopped writing code for a while. Been a few months.
|
| Going back to the basics... a ToDo app
| alexlll862 wrote:
| I just started building a small website for structural engineers
| with various tools on it (eg. capacity of a steel column). I have
| spent thousands of hours in the past building fancy excel (incl.
| vba)and mathcad documents for personal use and this is my first
| time trying to do it with "real" code. I went with Blazor and c#,
| so far it looks like a good choice. The long term goal if the
| projects is a success and becomes popular would be to have a FEM
| engine for 2D frame structures running in the browser client-
| side.
| desideratum wrote:
| torchtune (https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune) - a PyTorch
| library for fine-tuning LLMs, particularly for memory-constrained
| setups. Try it out and fine-tune Llama3.1 8B on a single RTX
| 4090!
| cwmoore wrote:
| Working on a puzzle book series (for lovers, maybe)
| https://www.kakurokokoro.com
|
| It's a pretty bad hack of HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, saved
| by Laravel, trying to print slightly larger than A5 paper for a
| major on demand publisher standard paperback, with browser Print
| to PDF settings, and is unwieldy but to the point, has an ISBN as
| well as being NP-complete. Discovered for myself that the number
| of permutations and derangements of the same length are related
| by the ratio of Euler's Number e.
| NunoSempere wrote:
| I'm working on a foresight and emergency response team to see
| large calamities coming before they happen, and hopefully be able
| to do something about it. We put out weekly minutes at
| https://blog.sentinel-team.org
| fabianlindfors wrote:
| I've been experimenting with customizing Postgres to run on top
| of FoundationDB, which to me would be the dream combination of
| Postgres' top-notch feature set and ecosystem with FoundationDB's
| unique resilience, scalability and transactional guarantees.
|
| Haven't written up anything about it or published any code yet,
| but it's working pretty well and I haven't even had to fork
| Postgres with all the extensibility it offers!
|
| My email is in my profile if anybody would like to chat about it
| storywatch wrote:
| Currently shipping some updates to https://storywatch.org, think
| of us as Goodreads or IMDB for web fiction and fanfiction, rather
| than traditional dead tree books. If you are fans of books like
| Worm or HPMOR, give us a try.
| franky47 wrote:
| Helping React devs move their state to the URL, in a type-safe
| way.
|
| nuqs [1] started as a Next.js-only library, but recently I've
| been working on supporting all major React frameworks & routers
| (Remix, React Router, plain React with Vite etc).
|
| [1] https://nuqs.47ng.com
| zelphirkalt wrote:
| Org-mode grammar (PEG parsing) for GNU Guile. Still at the very
| beginning, but hoping, that over time I can add more and more
| things, to make it a useful library for things like a minimal
| static blog based on org mode files or if any git hoster wants to
| have a good parser for org mode files to render readmes ...
|
| That, and my personal website, using only HTML and CSS, and
| trying to keep it minimalistic, yet nice looking.
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-
| size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a
| pain in the butt, especially with no garage and in the cold.
| Ideal would be no wood and minimal framing, but i'm not a
| mechanical engineer, so it's hard to calculate the forces
| involved, so over-building feels necessary. If anyone is a
| mechnical engineer, and bored, and would like to contribute their
| skills, I really want to open source the result so anyone can
| build it, using basic parts you can find at the big box store. So
| far I have a crappy model in FreeCAD and a lot of research
| material.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I'm working on https://nuenki.app/, a language learning tool. It
| teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting
| translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as
| you browse HN etc.
|
| Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL
| (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid
| that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for
| text that is far from the user. Also experimenting with Gemma 2
| 9B via Groq to go in between them, but it's bad at following
| instructions and I don't quite trust the quality numbers I'm
| seeing for it (they're benchmarked with gpt-4o as a judge).
|
| I'm also trying to work out marketing. I'm not good at it, and I
| dislike it, but I need to get good at it. Currently considering
| Reddit ads for awareness, some content marketing going over the
| technical details (there's some fun language processing and
| performance optimisations), and... I feel that's not enough, but
| I'm not sure what to add to that.
|
| I'm running on very little budget (I just left school and I'd
| rather not go into my limited savings over this), so I can't
| afford to just throw money at ads.
| gshklovski wrote:
| This is awesome!
| bilsbie wrote:
| Really cool! I wonder if you could use AI to do other useful
| things in the text of webpages.
| jacques_chester wrote:
| 1. SPC kit [0]. Once made it to the front page! [1]
|
| It's an SQL library for doing statistical process control (SPC)
| calculations.
|
| This has been a labour of love for about 2 years now. I work on
| it sporadically. Recently I got more disciplined about what I am
| working on and I am slowly closing the gap on a first 0.1
| release.
|
| 2. Finding work. As much fun as it is to tinker, I am nursing the
| standard crippling addiction to food and shelter. I am also
| nursing an increasing loathing for LinkedIn and wish to be free
| of having to check it.
|
| [0] https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612775
| crockeo wrote:
| I've been messing around with a graph-based interface for task
| management over in https://github.com/crockeo/ekad. The
| interesting branches are:
|
| - `main`, which currently houses a custom interactive graph
| visualizer built on top of the great `vello` from linebender
| (https://github.com/linebender/vello).
|
| - `ch/typescript`, which has my attempts at joining a more
| traditional task manager with a graph visualization.
| cddotdotslash wrote:
| I've been working on https://wut.dev in my spare time.
|
| It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where
| everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table,
| with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and
| a debugger for access denied errors.
|
| It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-
| side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm
| taking it yet, but it's been fun to hack on!
|
| There's a live demo here:
| https://wut.dev/?service=ec2&type=instances&demo=true if you want
| to try it out.
| spencerchubb wrote:
| are you designing the UI for every service by hand, or doing it
| programmatically somehow?
| cddotdotslash wrote:
| Thankfully programmatic. It's a common UI table widget,
| essentially, and I've written some custom code to handle
| multi-region support, updating the AWS credential handler,
| pagination, and response processing. From there, it's a
| matter of plugging in some common options for each AWS
| service: the service name, SDK method to call, pagination
| property (annoyingly, AWS API has numerous ways of paginating
| responses), etc. Takes about five minutes to add a new
| service.
| loufe wrote:
| I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a
| mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the
| last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to
| size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam.
| I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the
| inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp
| to that (so it could be painted on).
|
| To fit on a trailer (the mushroom's cap is 11.5ft wide) the cap
| comes off the stem and the edges of the cap are two half-moons
| which have fixed mounting points where threaded rod sticks
| through some welded washers, and a nut is put on in place. I was
| too last minute to install the 200 WS2811 pixels and have them
| run some cool patterns, before the music festival I brought it to
| came time, but even just a lantern on top (another painters tarp
| covered the cap's metal-frame, and everything was spray painted)
| looked great.
|
| Super fun project. Expensive, but I learned a lot, got to be
| creative, and I'm happy to try out new things and make the best
| of my before-children time. Also, it was such a joy seeing people
| croud around the mushroom (and site beside the mushroom man
| inside) at night during the festival.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| That's incredible - do you have any photos of this anywhere?
|
| I learned to weld awhile back, but haven't pulled the trigger
| on purchasing all the stuff I need.
| dowakin wrote:
| Working on validating a startup idea I had 12 years ago. It's
| like Pingdom for ads, periodically checking if your ads are being
| blocked by AdBlockers.
|
| I always thought the idea was somewhat weak, but not enough to
| discard entirely. So, along with a friend, I built a prototype
| over the last two weeks, and now we're trying to validate it:
| https://scanningfox.com/
|
| I'm enjoying using Elixir for this project. As a long-time Erlang
| dev, I was initially skeptical about Elixir, but Phoenix.LiveView
| has changed my opinion.
| Jonovono wrote:
| Liveview is so much fun. I want to build more things with it.
| henadzit wrote:
| I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure based
| on AWS (think Heap or Mixpanel but all infrastructure is in your
| AWS account and you own the data). It's incredible how much can
| be done just by combining AWS services.
|
| https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics
| rixed wrote:
| Finishing a web map widget suitable for geo-data visualization.
| makebelievelol wrote:
| Working on an alternative to character.ai, they recently updated
| their UI and a lot of the fan favorite features are gone.
|
| https://makebelieve.lol
| spaceman_2020 wrote:
| Would suggest better AI model images on the homepage
|
| Flux models look far better than these older stable diffusion
| ones
| SLKerrigan wrote:
| I'm building android app for Teenage Engineering OP-1 (original)
| backups
| thebestmoshe wrote:
| I'm working on a generic way of getting human input within any
| automated workflow.
|
| The forms can be dynamically generated within the workflow, and
| then call back with the response.
|
| The docs still need some work and I plan on adding some video
| demos, but here it is so far.
|
| https://humaninput.app
| gigapotential wrote:
| Building Serverless VPN, among the most recent work is an open
| source iOS app: https://UpVPN.app/ios
| 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!
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| Dance calendar (Django app, with some AlpineJS/HTMX).
| Approximately 80 admin pages + 20 end user views + 100 admin
| views. 2M page loads/month during the summertime. This is in
| production.
|
| For the dance calendar, support site with good first-line AI
| support based on FAQ answers.
|
| Ad management platform for the dance calendar. Sites like this
| have specific requirements for placing ads that are not well
| supported by AdSense etc. I would like to have an alternative for
| smaller players for the header bidding used by the larger
| players.
|
| Separate webapp to store happenings (messages, emails,
| descriptions, documents, etc.), tag them and show them on a
| timeline, allowing filtering the events visible on the timeline.
| Django/HTMX/AlpineJS. This is for a legal battle I am having.
|
| A tool for describing workflows using the Unified Service
| Management (USM) model. The method is to frameworks (ITIL etc.)
| what open source is to commercial software. I am currently
| working on cross-referencing tool to map ISO 27k requirements to
| USM statements. I have developed my own formal language for
| defining the requirements. The end goal is to automate validating
| many ISO 27k requirements.
| devgodev wrote:
| Working on DRAAS AI. Data analysis for geolocation compliance.
|
| https://www.draas.ai
| hypertexthero wrote:
| Finally learning piano and drums after playing guitars for years.
| Thinking of own musical voice for first song, EP, and album. Made
| this chords poster to help: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/
|
| Working on a default home.html page for my web browser with most
| used links, note pad, drawing pad, and forms for quickly creating
| posts for static sites that I'll publish shortly. It would be
| nice if Firefox let you define a custom page for new tabs as well
| as new windows, instead of only Blank Page and Firefox Home
| (Default).
|
| Usually have the relationship between work and play in mind, and
| how many of my favorite games have elements of compounding
| interest in rogue lite game modes where a little bit goes a long
| way with saved progression.
|
| Harvesting four varieties of potatoes planted in the garden
| earlier in the year. Thankful to be able to work outdoors
| listening to the wind and nature.
|
| Thinking about the difficult, important work of nurses and
| caretakers while helping to manage care for an elderly relative.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Easy Data Transform v2 ( https://www.easydatatransform.com ). It
| is GUI based data wrangling tool for people who aren't (or don't
| want to be) programmers. 20 years of running a 1-man software
| company in January.
| sim04ful wrote:
| Stack Frontend: NextJS, Tailwind, NextUI, Rust (via wasm-bindgen)
| hosted on Vercel
|
| Backend: Rust, Axum server, LMDB hosted on Alwyzon, Cloudflare
| for CDN caching and SSL.
|
| https://www.arible.co A growing directory of useful productivity
| tools accessible without multiple subscriptions or registrations
| swax wrote:
| I'm working on a Sketch Comedy Database website:
|
| https://www.sketchtv.lol/
|
| https://github.com/swax/SCDB
|
| Just a fun little CRUD app built with Next.js, MUI, Prisma
| Postgres. I'm adding Halloween sketches now, if you know some
| good ones feel free to add them, or anything else :)
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to
| be good with every model outperforming the market on both
| absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live.
|
| Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022:
|
| Model | Return | Max drawdown
|
| -------------------
|
| S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56%
|
| VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48%
|
| VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12%
|
| VIX TA Advanced | 35.20% | -22.96%
|
| VIX Advanced | 33.39% | -23.93%
|
| VIX Basic | 24.29% | -24.23%
|
| TA - Mean Reversion | 22.30% | -19.92%
|
| TA - Trend | 27.07% | -24.98%
|
| This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are
| not high frequency trading models. Most of them only change
| signal once every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the
| models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they
| go to cash.
|
| One of the pros of this macro swing-trading/hedging style is high
| tax efficiency, by holding a core ETF long position that never
| gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal
| value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your
| account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and
| you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The
| cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256
| contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term
| capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.
|
| The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom
| built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level,
| VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price,
| etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion
| TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic
| (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary
| policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot,
| etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid
| overfitting to the best of my ability.
| agumonkey wrote:
| I've been curious about doing algotrading for both the data
| engineering aspect and the quant. Do you have suggestions about
| books or others sources to get inspiration from ?
|
| Is this a one man venture or do you have a group discussing
| edges ?
| sabareesh wrote:
| If so good why are you selling it as a service ?
| sabman wrote:
| I am working on https://geobase.app/ which is a platform for
| geospatial full-stack developers.
|
| We have created workflows that a specific to the geospatial,
| mapping and GIS industry use cases. This is currently in private
| beta but going live in a few weeks. It is built on top of
| supabase's self-hosted stack.
|
| We were recently also featured on motherduck's blog
| https://motherduck.com/blog/pushing-geo-boundaries-with-moth...
| oulipo wrote:
| Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built
| the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!
|
| - Ride Sustainably with the World's First Repairable Battery
|
| - Refillable in 5 minutes (just buy $150 worth of new cells every
| 3 years or so, when they're depleted)
|
| - Be Worry-Free thanks to the Fireproof Casing! There's been
| waaaaaay too many lithium fires!
|
| It's launching as an IndieGogo in one week and there is an offer
| for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25%
| discount on the battery!
| agumonkey wrote:
| btw do you plan to leverage your pcb connector plates for other
| kinds of batteries ?
| oulipo wrote:
| Yes! More models coming soon, also scooters, mopeds,
| powertools!
| epolanski wrote:
| I'm working on an application that I'm writing for myself (no
| release ambitions for the time being) that focuses on spaced
| repetition applied to chess.
|
| It's similar to chess puzzles but with a twist: positions and
| moves are explained, there's a wider variety of exercises (such
| as excluding all the bad moves explaining why, improving the
| board position, and many others).
| 1bit_e wrote:
| https://www.chesspuzzlebot.com/
|
| I made a website where you can play chess puzzles against
| Stockfish.
|
| I had the idea for a website where you can play chess puzzles,
| but if you make the wrong move, the puzzle turns into a game
| against Stockfish. This opens the door to either find alternative
| solutions or fail miserably (at some point you realize you are
| not following the puzzle any more). I think its a more engaging
| way to play puzzles!
|
| This is my first online project, feedback is highly appreciated!
| tamimio wrote:
| Made my own company that provides services and consultations in
| drones, robotics, and even cybersecurity. Very slow business at
| this stage, if someone is in the same field or went through the
| same stage, any tips are welcome.
| microbug wrote:
| do gov work and print money
| polymonster wrote:
| https://github.com/polymonster/diig
|
| A music digging app for record collectors, with instagram style
| feed for listening to new vinyl snippets
| brotchie wrote:
| Reverse engineering my e-bike's head unit and motor controller to
| build a custom head unit out of a Raspberry Pi with oled touch
| screen (head unit will also be used to control LED patterns on
| the bike).
|
| Used a logic analyzer to work out the protocol between the head
| unit and the motor controller (uart at 9600) and used a ESP32 to
| man in the middle the protocol. Currently reverse engineering the
| meaning of the bytes in the packets sent between the units.
|
| First attempt was taking apart the head unit and attaching a
| debugger to the exposed serial debug interface (Cortex M0) chip,
| but looks like the manufacturer had disabled flash reading by
| setting the flash security bit.
| cynicalpeace wrote:
| I have my side project: https://www.vidwiz.ai
|
| Think "Cursor, for videos"
|
| Very crowded space, but it's been fun making it!
| andrewstuart wrote:
| I just launched https://www.crowdwave.com a week ago, it spent 24
| hours on the front page of HN.
|
| Lots of people have visited but a launch on HN isn't enough on
| its own. I'm trying to figure out how to get the word out to more
| people to kickstart it. The goal is for it to be a community that
| people return to as part of their daily online life. That's not a
| programming problem so it's hard (for me).
| Yoric wrote:
| A toy compiler for analog quantum architectures.
|
| Also, on my spare time, a tabletop role-playing game.
| maxander wrote:
| My primary project the past couple weeks has been applying the AI
| interpretability technique from Anthropic's famous paper this
| past summer (you know, the Golden Gate Claude one) to single-cell
| RNA-seq data. What works on one huge, inscrutible vector space
| ought to work on another, right? In either case, a fun way to
| keep in practice, both for comp bio and deep learning.
|
| My side-project, in essence, the bash '&' operator for cases
| where the first process is already running. It took me months of
| searching before I could believe that this doesn't already exist,
| but there you go. I gave in to feature creep, of course, so it's
| a bit more than that now (I made a ncurses-based dashboard?
| Why??) but someday soon I'll make it public.
| mrln wrote:
| The few times I built TUIs with ncurses I wondered: why do I
| have to program so much by myself? ncurses is so basic, I
| didn't have too much fun building UIs with it (more than once).
| Is there a wrapper or a more modern alternative out there that
| provides containers and widgets like most GUI frameworks do?
| aveday wrote:
| I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to achieve, but
| you can simulate the bash '&' operator for a running process by
| pressing ctrl-Z to suspend the process and send it to the
| background, then running 'bg' to continue the process in the
| background.
| pierrebarre wrote:
| I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/ A subdomain / CT
| search engine.
| solresol wrote:
| Writing up a paper for my PhD on machine learning with non-
| Euclidean loss functions.
|
| Taking over the affairs of one of my elderly relatives now that
| she can't manage by herself.
|
| A project with a medical insurer for adjudicating insurance
| claims using LLMs.
| sahillavingia wrote:
| Shortest.com - AI writing my test suite for me, so I can focus on
| shipping features
| wslh wrote:
| I'm currently working on a new blockchain technology called
| Roughchain. Earlier today, I shared the whitepaper in this HN
| thread [1], and I've already received some valuable feedback.
|
| The core architecture is split into two components: a
| timestamping signing service and a P2P gossip network. By
| decoupling the gossip network, I'm simulating its performance
| using a Monte Carlo approach. With a basic gossip protocol, the
| simulation reaches ~10k TPS on a 100-node, randomly connected
| network (not fully connected), and I see a lot of potential for
| further protocol optimizations.
|
| Initially, I considered a more resource-intensive approach using
| Shadow [2] for more realistic node simulations, as outlined in
| this discussion on libp2p's Gossipsub stress metrics [3].
| However, the Monte Carlo method allows me to simulate the network
| more efficiently without needing to deploy full nodes.
|
| In parallel, I'm exploring game-theoretical concepts for
| selecting signers and ensuring the system remains open to new
| entrants. One paper I'm currently diving into is "Collusion,
| Efficiency, and Dominant Strategies" [4].
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687715
|
| [2] https://shadow.github.io/
|
| [3] https://discuss.libp2p.io/t/rough-stress-metrics-for-
| gossips...
|
| [4]
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089982561...
| nhatcher wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.ironcalc.com as a side project.
|
| A spreadsheet engine with an open source permissive license. I
| have high hopes for it but I'm still in early stages of the
| project.
| Ancalagon wrote:
| Ohh this is awesome! Thanks for sharing! How much time per week
| do you work on something like this?
| nhatcher wrote:
| I work a little bit on it every day. I guess somewhere around
| 15 hours per week. Glad you like it.
| fguerraz wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.zonehero.io/ to deliver a cost
| effective alternative to AWS native load balancing (ALB).
|
| We already had a PoC which saved our customer 50% vs ALB (in
| their case that's more than a million dollars a year), we're now
| working on tooling and scaling the solution up!
|
| Next we want to bring wasm modules to the lbs, to do edge traffic
| curation, bring your own model, etc.
|
| In technical terms, we offer a fully managed control plane for an
| optimised version of envoy running on EC2, and we react in near
| real time to avoid unnecessary cross AZ traffic (the key to the
| costs savings).
| briandilley wrote:
| Building an electric 1973 Ferrari Dino to compete in the battle
| of the builders at SEMA in November. Lots of fun electronics and
| software, as well as mechanical challenges to overcome.
| kizunajp wrote:
| After a long break, I'm working on writing about Japan things I
| find interesting: https://onefromnippon.com/
|
| I'm hoping Japanese vending machines will be an interesting topic
| for the next post.
| tetris11 wrote:
| Open source doorbell camera software running on Raspberry Pi
| Zero. Face recognition and motion detection already built-in, so
| I've set it up so that I get a message on element when someone is
| at the door and a video of any motion longer than 5 seconds. Not
| fully optimized yet.
| tobilg wrote:
| I'm building https://sql-workbench.com in my spare time.
|
| It's a SQL Workbench in the browser, based on DuckDB WASM. You
| can query remote and local datasources, such as CSV, JSON or
| Parquet files.
|
| You can also visualize the results, and share the queries via
| URL. Let me know what you think!
| WarLord81 wrote:
| have a button for run query - people look for something to
| click, and for copy, reset, add to tooltip and the location
| should not change for button and text should not misplace
| things on page.
| davefol wrote:
| I'm working on a 2D computational geometry library with a focus
| on irregular part packing in Rust. IE laying out laser cuts for
| wood or water jet for metal. https://crates.io/crates/babushka
|
| I've got some nice types set up and a no fit polygon algorithm.
| Working on the genetic algorithm for packing a la svgnest.
| gamache wrote:
| Tuilet: a TUI for Toilet, the premier ANSI text generator,
| written in Rust. https://github.com/gamache/tuilet
|
| Are you an IRC shitposter? Isn't it hard to experiment with
| Toilet/Figlet fonts and flags? Well _not anymore._ Presenting
| Tuilet: a front-end to Toilet written by us, for us.
| cylo wrote:
| Built a site that will follow development of popular upstream
| open source projects on a daily basis and uses AI to summarize
| the commits and attempt to make it easier to track what's going
| on with the project: https://gitpulse.org
| ianthehenry wrote:
| https://bauble.studio/ is a programmatic 3D art playground that
| I've been working on for a while now, and I'm pretty excited
| about it! It's based around signed distance functions, which are
| a way to represent 3D shapes as, well, functions, and you can do
| a lot of like weird mathematical distortions and operations that
| give you cool new shapes. Like average two shapes together, or
| take the modulo of space to infinitely repeat something... it's a
| really fun and powerful way to make certain kinds of shapes.
|
| SDFs are very cool in general, and widely used in the generative
| art communities, but kinda hard to wrangle when you're writing
| shader code directly. They are really _functions_ , but GLSL
| doesn't support first-class functions, so if you want to compose
| shapes you have to manually plumb a bunch of arguments around. So
| Bauble is essentially a high-level GLSL compiler that lets you
| model SDFs as first-class values, and as a result you can make a
| pretty cool 3D shape in just a few lines of code. And then 3D
| print them!
|
| I need to do some actual work to promote and publicize it once
| I'm done with the documentation and implement a few more
| primitives, but it's very close to done!
|
| The docs have lots of examples of the sorts of things you can do
| with SDFs: https://bauble.studio/help/
|
| And for examples of some "art" that I've made with it recently:
|
| https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839061056301445451
| https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839649510597013592
| https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883
| nextcaller wrote:
| Making a tab manager for powah usahs
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
| thenipper wrote:
| Bookbinding class. Its really fun to make things with my hands!
| tdba wrote:
| A new kind of document editor which blends features of word
| processor and jupyter notebook. Email me (see bio) if you want to
| try it out.
| hlship wrote:
| I've been building some friendly CLI and web tools around the
| terrific Dialog interactive fiction language.
|
| https://github.com/hlship/dialog-tool
|
| Learning Svelte for the web UI part.
| tauntz wrote:
| Just harvested my chilies and first time trying to ferment a jar
| and pickle a bunch as well.
|
| Trying out https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021581-pickled-
| jalapeno... but using lots of different chilies instead of only
| jalapenos. In-progress pic: https://ibb.co/XFBpyYV
| KPGv2 wrote:
| I'm working on my second novel (genre fiction, both superhero,
| for fun, no interest in publishing--read: i'm not that good yet)
|
| Last year i wrote a novel about what it'd be like if you were the
| parent of a teenage superhero, but all you saw was the aversion
| to touch, panic attacks, unexplained absences, and falling grades
| (they're obviously lying to you about what the problem is, but
| you don't know why!).
|
| And how would you handle discovering that it wasn't drugs or her
| being a victim of assault, but was instead so much worse: that
| she's the one fighting for her life on the news all the time?
|
| I've just started writing my second, which is superheroes arguing
| over what to do about one of the villains, who turned good and
| helped them defeat a Big Bad. The story is still in early stages,
| so there's plenty more ideas to come up with still.
|
| For a stay at home dad like me, writing is really enjoyable as a
| hobby because I can do it at the soccer fields while my kids
| practice for two hours, or I can do it while they're at a gym
| playing, or at night when they're asleep. I don't have to
| schedule out a three-hour block to meet up with buddies for
| tennis a month in advance.
| theGnuMe wrote:
| [delayed]
| greenie_beans wrote:
| taking one last editing pass on a novel, gotta get some folks to
| read it this week.
|
| also, bookhead - inventory and e-commerce software for
| booksellers: https://www.bookhead.net/
|
| just finished an mvp. gonna try to find some users during the
| next month. email me at sam@bookhead.net if you wanna be a beta
| user. you can list those old books you've always thought about
| selling! just add the book to the inventory and it'll be listed
| on ebay, biblio, and your bookstore's custom e-commerce website.
| 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 cofounded a remote startup in 2021 that I ended up leaving
| after a few years because I found the remote culture to be very
| isolating and I didn't feel like it would lead to a successful
| company. Many companies have started implementing return to
| office policies that unfortunately don't make sense for a lot of
| employees. I wanted to build this site to give people the power
| to find good jobs, companies, and teams that are convenient for
| them. Let me know if you have any feedback or want to post a job
| on it!
| mlhpdx wrote:
| I'm working on figuring out what I will be working on.
|
| Friday was my last day at my now previous employer and I'm
| looking at the wake of promising projects I've let lay idle. Do I
| want to seek funding and dive in full time on something? I think
| yes, but that's going to be hard mode because I don't fit the
| profile.
| milquen wrote:
| I'm going to be a dad next year, so I've been thinking about how
| to baby-proof areas of my house while allowing my cat freedom of
| navigation.
|
| My wife is an English teacher, so I've been building little
| educational games for her to try in the classroom. My latest
| attempt is a proof-reading game https://frogs.cool Currently I'm
| using wikipedia articles but I'm working on adding a variety of
| age appropriate texts in different genres.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| This game is cool, and well executed. I'm curious about the
| other games!
| nicwolff wrote:
| Building a contextual ad-targeting engine to replace Grapeshot
| which Oracle is shuttering, uh, tomorrow.
| zitterbewegung wrote:
| I'm working on a production version that allows for the cloning
| of identification cards with or without RFID using a 7 color
| epaper display I call psychic paper. Raw BOM is ~$100 I presented
| it at skywalks and defcon 32.
|
| The hardware and software is really all built out the real thing
| is to find the right epaper display (4.01 inch 7 color display)
| and an easy way to display the badge. I moved to a pimoroni
| instead of waveshare due to an easier way to program the system .
| See https://github.com/zitterbewegung/psychic_paper
|
| If you want to follow the development see
| https://discord.gg/xE4TmkSc
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Building a web app that lets me do math and chemistry problems on
| an infinite canvas with a drawing tablet. After finishing the
| problem, I can open up an integrated text editor (with vim
| bindings) that lets me create Anki flashcards about the problem,
| letting me copy different portions of the handwritten/hand-drawn
| stuff onto the flashcard.
|
| I developed a very simple compiler to specify flashcard content.
| Anything inside brackets is considered the "back" of the
| flashcard (cloze) in Anki. The @n references the nth group in the
| canvas, and copies those svg paths into the flashcard.
|
| Example card: How do you solve for x in this
| problem? @0 // handwritten text of 2x = 4 [
| Divide both sides by 2, them simplify ]
|
| This project was a response to the lack of systematic review in
| my college's STEM classes. I would practice a lot, but forget how
| to approach certain problems on exams. The hope is to have a
| digital space where I can be reasonably productive in solving
| practice problems, but also lets me easily integrate with SRS
| tools.
|
| I wish educators and educational institutions would make an
| attempt to incorporate SRS into classes. I think it would help a
| lot of students, especially for cumulative final exams.
|
| Edit: Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Yaq7vBx
| laconicmatt wrote:
| Working on a Run N Gun for the Wonderswan Color. Starting making
| "retro" games about 3 years ago and have been really loving it.
|
| After successfully completing my first game, Strife Sisters - a
| strategy RPG, I decided to try out a new genre. Although I'm
| having fun working on this style of game, part of me wishes I had
| stuck with the same genre since I still had a lot of ideas to
| work with.
| Loughla wrote:
| Why the wonderswan, if you don't mind me asking?
| gom_jabbar wrote:
| Deepening the primary literature review for Nick Land's thesis
| that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical at
| https://retrochronic.com/
| sotix wrote:
| I've been making a survival-horror Playdate game called Plight of
| the Wizard[0]. You're a wizard that fights off an endless horde
| of enemies by using the crank to rotate around and cast spells
| quickly. It's my first game, and it's been a lot of fun building
| out the mechanics. It's in a good state, so I'm figuring out if
| it needs anything else.
|
| [0]: https://sotix.itch.io/plight-of-the-wizard
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| Currently in the middle of moving, but very recently added full
| phrase search to marginalia search. And paged search results too.
| steveybrown wrote:
| I recently noticed how much Apple Maps has improved in recent
| years so I decided to throw together a little app using it. In
| addition, I set out with a goal of using tools, frameworks and a
| hosting provider I had little to no experience with. I learnt a
| ton and developed opinions across a few areas so I see it as a
| success.
|
| I don't expect to add much more to the app and I'll probably kill
| it in a few months as it'll likely cost me more to run it.
|
| https://mapmag.app
| maxweylandt wrote:
| Just uploaded the most complete and fine-grained dataset of
| Parliamentary election results for my country, Namibia.
| (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...)
|
| Official data sharing practices are poor - results are are often
| in the wrong format or not available at all. I had to be quite
| resourceful to put this all together. As I transition out of
| academia I hope this sort of data helps others do interesting
| work.
| delduca wrote:
| A 2D game engine in C++ that can be scripted in Lua to create
| small games together with my son.
|
| Game (WebAssembly, use WASD):
| https://play.carimbo.cloud/1.0.2/khromatizo/henrique/0.0.27/...
| Engine: https://github.com/khromatizo/carimbo
| atilimcetin wrote:
| I've started writing a technical book about "how to develop a
| game boy emulator from scratch". :fingers_crossed:
|
| I'm using typst[1] for my writing journey.
|
| [1] https://typst.app/
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| I am working an Instagram reel downloader savreel(.) app to learn
| SEO. I have gotten 37 clicks so for in the last month. I am on
| Twitter as @cornfieldlabs
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