[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 : 324 points
Date : 2024-09-29 20:16 UTC (1 days 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?
| SoftTalker wrote:
| It can easily be a huge waste of time while still feeling
| like it's enriching. And even if it is enriching, if it gets
| in the way of other stuff you really need to to be doing,
| then it's a problem.
| keb_ wrote:
| Hit the nail on the head. I've quit every other social
| media site with the exception of HackerNews. And while some
| would argue HN isn't social media, I would disagree; I'd
| argue most of what makes HN so popular _is_ the commenters.
|
| I've found that in this regard, HN is no less addictive to
| me than a site like Reddit. I impulsively check it when I'm
| bored and find myself wasting time in long comment threads
| that over the years I have found more and more pessimistic.
| Still far better than Reddit, but the pessimism gets to me
| to a point where I can't help but feel jaded. Anyway, I
| just don't think it's good for me anymore.
| 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!
| fiatpandas wrote:
| Keep us posted!
| 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.
| jamifsud wrote:
| Working on it, shoot me an email (joe at domain) would love
| to get your feedback on the format / contents!
| 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?
| Daniel_Van_Zant wrote:
| Yeah! I am a computational neuroscientist and I was trying to
| understand this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01678 so I
| had added the paper to my personal Gnosi and was asking
| questions about it. I had added this paper
| https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34512508/ to my Gnosi a few
| months prior after reading through it and completely
| forgotten about it. As I was asking questions Gnosi started
| making connections to this earlier paper and helping me
| understand the new paper in the context of this older paper I
| had already read and understood, as well as giving me some
| ideas on using thermodynamic neural networks as a toy model
| for how Parkinson's can be created by poor management of
| entropy.
|
| Understanding something new more easily and making new
| connections and coming up with new ideas is exactly why I
| have worked hard on maintaining a zettlkasten for the past 6
| years, but Gnosi allowed me to make the same kinds of
| connections much more frictionlessly.
|
| We have similar success stories from our alpha users which
| include folks interested in anthropology, complex systems,
| UAP studies, physics, philosophy understanding new tech for
| startups, etc.
| 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_.
| totemandtoken wrote:
| Yeah, the rashomon effect was named after the movie. Actually
| I'm trying to update that particular article with data so
| check back again in a few weeks.
|
| Also, as an artist, I love the domain name for your sites :)
| 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.
| kmoser wrote:
| Does it have to do with when garbage collection is triggered?
| bediger4000 wrote:
| I don't think so. There's no garbage generated during the
| sort, which is what I'm timing. I'm sure that GC runs during
| the sorts, but it won't do significant amounts of work
| because of that.
|
| A C-transliteration of my original Go algorithm shows similar
| overall performance, with performance drops at the same list
| lengths.
|
| Forcing garbage collection right after each sort (releasing
| all references to the sorted linked list) didn't change
| anything, either: https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-
| investigation-10/
| poorlyknit wrote:
| The fact that it happens 1) at/around powers
| of two 2) regardless whether using GC or preallocating
|
| makes me think its got to do with cache sizes. For example, the
| M2 macbook has around 16MiB of cache, which gives you
| approximately 2 million ~ 2^20 nodes where each node has a 64
| bit number and a 64 bit pointer.
|
| The jumps in your measurements could be related to the cache
| hierarchy. On Linux (probably macOS too) you should be able to
| run "perf stat ./mergesort" to show you the hitrate of your
| CPU's caches.
|
| I'd be interested in a follow-up post :)
| bediger4000 wrote:
| Thanks for reading my blog post and thinking about it. I
| thought of cache as well, the 3 machines I'm running
| benchmarking on are all very different. The M2 Macbook has
| 128-byte cache lines, as opposed to the other 2 machines,
| which have 64-byte ache lines. The old Dell R530 has level 1
| through 3 caches, the others have only levels 1 and 2. I'm
| still trying to understand CPU caching and see if I can
| correlate it to the performance drops somehow.
|
| The linked list nodes are 16 bytes, and both 8-byte fields
| (.Next and .Data) get read and written during sorting. Up to
| a point, larger node sizes,which I would thing would change
| caching, don't change where the performance drops occur:
| https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-7/
|
| Sorting an already sorted, or reverse sorted list, doesn't
| exhibit the performance drops either:
| https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-9/
|
| A purely recursive mergesort doesn't show the performance
| drops: https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-
| investigation-3/
| 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.
| msyea wrote:
| Have a look at the Internet Printing Protocol. I built a NodeJS
| app that pretended to be a printer and could receive real time
| transactional data from a legacy POS/software. No drivers
| required... supports HTTP auth... all OS's have great support
| for it.
| 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?
| fhk wrote:
| Cool! You should consider aquaponics
|
| https://github.com/fhk/plantz
| 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
| ash-ali wrote:
| I'm super skeptical about online degree programs. Although it
| seems you're enjoying it; gl!
| guiambros wrote:
| I think it's fair to be skeptical, and there's certainly a
| fair share of poor educational programs out there.
|
| Having said that, like anything in life, you get what you put
| in. And at least in the case of GT, their online program is
| exactly the same they have on campus; same content, same
| projects, same academic rigor. The only difference is that
| on-campus has many more classes to choose from.
|
| Of course YMMV. I don't really care about the degree itself;
| doing it for purely personal enrichment.
| 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).
| andrewlevver wrote:
| I love this idea - it's got a nice dose of nostalgia to it as
| well
| 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).
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| If you imagine some people recommending this to their
| colleagues for work purposes, you might consider adding a 'hide
| NSFW' toggle, and having it turned on by default.
| 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.
| kristopolous wrote:
| This would be nice. I gave up on trying to do things externally
| a long time ago. I get wildly demotivated and deeply believe
| all I ever do is waste people's time and irritate them.
| 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.
| jcgrillo wrote:
| Awesome! I have a South Bend model 420 toolmaker restoration in
| progress, I hope to finish this winter. Old lathes are great.
| solomonb wrote:
| Right on. Before getting into tech I was a carpenter and I
| always wished I had an opportunity to try my hand at
| machining.
| 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.
| keyle wrote:
| That is a heck of a setup you had!
| asciimike wrote:
| Where do you source vintage audio gear from?
| keyle wrote:
| ebay and other local sources, but mostly ebay and patience,
| for the buyer protection.
| 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!
| promoterr wrote:
| Didn't try yet - however did you consider ppl are working /
| having meetings / etc - simply don't want to see anything on
| their screen they don't expect? What about proper notification
| & maybe 'blinking' icon in appropriate area? Setting could
| contain even sound and/or small menu appears similar to Battery
| status..
| 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.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| I want something like this that will add comments and suggested
| edits to Google Docs.
| bhl wrote:
| One insight I've gleaned from working on this project is that
| I'm convinced web dev will trend towards well-designed and
| modular components with accessible state and mutators.
|
| LLMs will then have a set of these components to dynamically
| route and build interfaces with.
|
| Component libraries are already popular and more time will be
| spent inside of them than managing the glue that is outside.
| ckrapu wrote:
| I do this with Cursor for research work
| 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.
| WarLord81 wrote:
| The summary on your site looks like something from Chatgpt
| 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.
| dennis_jeeves2 wrote:
| How's it going?
| 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
| greenie_beans wrote:
| nice, those types of books are perfect for a summary. i never
| read those, huge waste of time to read the entire thing. always
| search for a summary.
| 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?
| vyrotek wrote:
| I tinkered with Unity for years but it always felt...
| complex. I mostly do 2D games I always felt I was fighting
| the IDE. C# is what kept me around though. But Godot's IDE is
| very noob friendly. Especially if you're not doing a lot of
| crazy novel things. There's a lot of sensible defaults and
| functionality.
| Razengan wrote:
| I love GDScript and have been working a components-based mid-
| layer for Godot: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot
| 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:
| The conjoined triangles of success
| Amir6 wrote:
| What's the best way to contact you to refer potential PhD
| candidates?
| 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.
| Daniel_Van_Zant wrote:
| What made you decide to build for the NES specifically at
| opposed to building for a fantasy console with similar
| restrictions but more usability like the Pico-8?
| zeta0134 wrote:
| For this particular project, I was initially inspired by the
| way Gauntlet II draws huge fields of enemies, using the trick
| of placing them on the background layer. I wondered if CotN's
| mechanics could be imitated using that technique, and then I
| realized that the nature of the rhythm tracking meant I'd
| have more than a single hardware frame to process updates.
| That made the project possible _at all_.
|
| Separately, I enjoy the process of writing 6502 assembly and
| working with hardware restrictions. It's nice that I can hand
| someone a real cartridge, to plug into their almost 40-year
| old game console, and it just works. There's a certain
| nostalgic magic there that's thrilling in its own unique way,
| that a modern fantasy console just doesn't deliver on. (The
| Pico-8 is delightful in its own way, of course. It's a great
| little toolkit.)
| 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.
| emporas wrote:
| An org-mode grammar for tree-sitter exists already. Why not use
| this instead of making your own? Tree-sitter however is LR
| parsing, not PEG, is it not powerful enough?
| 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.
| asciimike wrote:
| Mind sharing the resource material? I've looked into this
| briefly, seems like a common-ish path for flat bed trucks is
| using a surplus S-280 (e.g.
| https://www.ramims.com/products/S-280C-G).
|
| I really like both:
|
| - https://www.dirttrailswanted.com/overland-peanut (S-280
| route)
|
| - https://wabisabioverland.com/ (custom build, both in house
| and contracted through: https://totalcomposites.com/)
| 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.
| zeugmata9 wrote:
| This is great! I wonder if you could make a text-to-speech
| button as well
| laconicmatt wrote:
| This is a really brilliant idea. I've been learning a language
| recently and almost everything is either too hard or way to
| easy to be useful.
| mountainriver wrote:
| Very cool idea!
| vanjajaja1 wrote:
| awesome! i am also exploring "low effort language learning"
| space and making an app. would be interested in bouncing some
| ideas, got a social handle to share?
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Yep, my Discord account is `alexc.j`
| antiatheist wrote:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/toucan-by-babbel-la...
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Toucan has a similar concept, but it works on individual
| words rather than sentences. Beyond a smaller scope, it's
| also quite difficult to accurately translate single words
| without context - Nuenki has it disabled by default.
|
| The tradeoff is that Toucan is free, and translation is quite
| expensive.
| hydrolox wrote:
| looks cool,it would be useful to have transliterations for non
| latin alphabet languages,or at least pinyin for Chinese, since
| learning characters is somewhat orthogonal to the words.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I'll put that on the todo list!
|
| Would you typically have the pinyin above the Chinese
| characters (like Furigana) or show it separately?
| indigo945 wrote:
| I'm also learning Chinese, and I honestly wouldn't care for
| Pinyin all that much. (Once you get to an intermediate
| level of Chinese, you'll want to learn characters anyway,
| because that's how Chinese is written in the real world.)
| That said, a hover option to transliterate and translate
| individual words (instead of the whole sentence at once)
| would be great.
|
| For a more practical complaint, in the Nuenki browser
| extension, the settings window has a primary-colored
| (green) button in the bottom right that says "Log out", but
| has no "Save" button. I almost clicked "Log out" when I
| just meant to confirm the settings I had made!
|
| Edit: Also one question, if I may - how large is the
| context window for the translations? I noticed that the
| Chinese it generates sometimes feels a little unidiomatic,
| but I'm not sure whether that's due to too little context,
| the fault of the translation engine(s) used, or just my
| feeling as a non-advanced Chinese learner being off.
|
| Edit 2: Some of the translations are definitely just wrong,
| too. Again, might be the fault of the engines - after all,
| machine translation, even in the age of LLM, is not
| perfect.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I can't really translate individual words (translation is
| done on a sentence-by-sentence basis, so I don't have
| that data), but I could do transliteration. Perhaps
| hovering could transliterate, clicking could translate
| the whole sentence, and clicking again could reset it.
| It's difficult balancing the amount of things people want
| to do with the text (listen to audio, translate the word,
| translate the sentence, and transliterate the word) with
| how few input methods there are + text shifting.
|
| The context window is only that sentence. It would be
| technically possible to increase the context window, but
| it would make it impossible to cache and increase
| translation costs even without that. Unfortunately the
| development of Nuenki has been defined by mitigating the
| cost of translation - before I had my many mitigations my
| prototype burned through six euros of credit in a day -
| so it's not practical to expand that context window.
|
| I'll definitely recolour that button. Thanks for
| mentioning it!
|
| The incorrect translations are the engine's fault. The
| version you're using uses
| https://www.deepl.com/en/whydeepl . Looking at my quality
| data for the new update (which adds Claude and Gemma as
| translation sources in some circumstances), that'll
| improve a little soon but ultimately not by much.
| supriyo-biswas wrote:
| Would be really useful to have some way to hear the translated
| sentences so that you can also learn how it's supposed to be
| said - would be very useful for learning Japanese.
| koliber wrote:
| How cool would it be if it worked together with an adblocker.
| Instead of blocked ads, it would show language learning. Two-
| for-one.
| jwdeque wrote:
| Very clever.
|
| Toucan [1] does something similar (but I think only at a word
| level, not sentences), so might be worth looking at what they
| do in terms of marketing.
|
| Also, have you considered throwing in a spaced repetition
| component to the process? Really helpful when building an
| _active_ voc.
|
| [1] https://jointoucan.com/
| anonzzzies wrote:
| Are you adding safari support? It's fairly trivial technically
| as there is a convertor template for xcode to chrome extension
| -> safari extension.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I'd like to, but I don't have a Mac. I'll probably do it in
| the future, but right now I'm focused on other parts of it.
| noiwillnot wrote:
| Some feedback: I was about to try now (paying) but currently I
| can only install it in my desktop (no iOS support), and I am
| very worried about the idea of giving full access to a close-
| source unpopular extension with not-very-clear ownership.
|
| I think it would go a long way to create some trust to show who
| are you in the webpage and maybe open source the extension too
| (the backend is not as importa nt).
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| That's a fair point, I should mention who I am on the
| website. I didn't even think to include that!
|
| Here's my github: https://github.com/Alex-Programs
|
| I'm considering open sourcing the extension. I don't want
| people to be able to copy it wholesale, but realistically
| that's unlikely and I'm going to write some blog posts on the
| technical details anyway.
| disparate4927 wrote:
| Please do! i would love to contribute, ive been looking for
| something like this for some time but didnt want to install
| toucan since its closed-source and i dont trust it
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| There was/is an extension for FF to do a simple dictionary
| replace.
|
| Not good for anything serious, but fun.
| dkindler wrote:
| Hebrew please :)
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| DeepL doesn't support Hebrew, but I just did some testing and
| my dev build can do it via Claude, albeit with higher
| latency.
|
| I'm not sure what the quality is like though.
|
| If you'd like I can contact you when I've added support for
| it. What's your email/discord?
|
| Mine is alex@nuenki.app / alexc.j on Discord.
| monkfish328 wrote:
| Love it! Like Toucan but with LLMs.
|
| Looking forward to being able to save specific words/phrases
| for future review + audio functionality + pinyin for Chinese
| please :)
| 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.
| paddy_m wrote:
| I'm using ag-grid for my project too. I did a bunch of work
| to make configuring it more declarative... so you can have
| pinned rows that read from a different data source for
| summary stats, so you can specify custom renderers for each
| column. how have you found ag-grid to use?
|
| https://buckaroo-
| data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/inde... I need to
| clean up those examples.
| xono wrote:
| Cool. Thanks for sharing.
| 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.
| asciimike wrote:
| Where/how did you learn welding? Have been considering doing a
| community college welding course (as they have all the
| equipment, instruction, etc.).
| brk wrote:
| MIG is really just a glue gun for metal. For things where
| structural integrity isn't critical you MIG stuff together by
| watching a couple YouTube videos and then going at it.
| winrid wrote:
| (note that of course mig can be great for structural
| things, it's just easy to get started)
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| What I appreciated about metal shop class is the casual
| (software-like?) attitude towards toolmaking. Would that
| step go better with a jig? Weld one up on your workbench,
| and then angle grind everything off when you move to the
| next phase...
| loufe wrote:
| I was using my dad's shop and MIG welder, so he was able to
| give me an intro. A buddy of mine is a millwright and came
| over and kindly taught me some tricks which brought me welds
| up to an acceptable quality.
|
| After learning, I'd have to agree with one of the other
| responses, learning by Youtube is probably feasible. It's
| safer than I expected (less concern about touching metal in
| the ground path) though I'd strongly recommend investing in
| quality gloves, a quality helmet, and good thick pants, and a
| long-sleeved shirt / overcoat.
|
| I thought about taking a course but I found this way of
| learning a lot more fun and engaging (if you're fortunate, as
| I am, to have experienced people in your life).
| kashkhan wrote:
| you can get cheap welders and use flux core so you don't even
| need gas shielding.
|
| something like this works well.
|
| https://a.co/d/8XMYx7j
|
| for thin steel or aluminum you really do need shielding gas.
|
| https://youtu.be/X4WkDDnvS7g
| 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
| schreckgestalt wrote:
| The concept is certainly intriguing. However, there appears to
| be a slight incongruity between the term "Serverless VPN" and
| the visual elements displaying phrases like "Server Created" or
| "Connect quickly on available server capacity."
|
| This juxtaposition creates a somewhat amusing contrast.
| 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.
| chuckwolfe wrote:
| I absolutely love htmx and it fits into Django's mvt pattern
| very well.
| 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 ?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| For inspiration, I highly recommend "The Man Who Solved the
| Market" about James Simons and Renaissance Technologies. Some
| of Ernie Chan's books are great for learning about the
| basics, but ultimately finding an edge is the most difficult
| part. Books can teach you some of the best practices for
| researching edges, how to avoid common pitfalls in
| backtesting, etc, but no book will ever lay out the details
| of any strategy that contains alpha of course.
|
| Grizzly Bulls is currently a one man (and wife) venture :)
| agumonkey wrote:
| > Grizzly Bulls is currently a one man (and wife) venture
| :)
|
| best of luck
|
| ps: i was starting an ernie chan youtube binge watch, i
| hope i'm strong enough to follow :)
| rr808 wrote:
| I've looked before for good online communities but never
| found one, I'd be interested if anyone has a source. The best
| people work for hedge funds so wont disclose anything and the
| individuals out there mostly are clueless or lucky, I suspect
| its too hard to find an edge without the resources of a large
| firm.
| sabareesh wrote:
| If so good why are you selling it as a service ?
| amelius wrote:
| It would make more sense to start a fund.
| C0d3G4rd wrote:
| Could you explain why?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| I expect the long term CAGR for the top models to be in the
| 20-40% annual range. That's certainly high enough to get
| wealthy over a couple decades, or sooner if you are already
| starting with 8 figures, but it's not overnight Roaring Kitty
| style fast money. Grizzly Bulls' growing revenue helps even
| out my overall income, and I could definitely see it growing
| to $10M+ ARR over the long term, very significant even with a
| 9 figure net worth.
|
| The models are not HFT. Swing-trading the most liquid
| instrument in the world (ES futures) has extremely high
| strategy capacity, well into the billions or perhaps 10s of
| billions, so selling signals does not (currently) in any way
| negatively impact my own returns.
|
| The alternative would be to start a hedge fund, but that's an
| expensive and highly regulated endeavor that appeals to a
| different audience.
| wruza wrote:
| _The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom
| built_
|
| Do you run it with good volumes or are these returns "as if"?
| WorkerBee28474 wrote:
| > Do you run it with good volumes or are these returns "as
| if"?
|
| This trades the S&P 500. The SPY ETF along trades 21 billion
| dollars a day of volume. He'd probably need to trade a
| billion dollars to impact it.
| wruza wrote:
| Ofc, but as far as I understand algotrading, you don't need
| to move a market for other bots to abuse your scheme
| eventually. Works on real non-toy money since 2022 and
| works on your napkin simulation since 2022 is a huge
| difference.
| mzmoen wrote:
| Where are you sourcing your data from/what are you trading
| through?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| I use Interactive Brokers for automated trade execution and
| as data source for real-time ES and VIX data. Data for the
| other indicators comes from a wide variety of sources. One of
| my favorites is https://fred.stlouisfed.org/.
| octopod12 wrote:
| wont your strategies incur short-term cap gains ? so, they will
| have to outperform the S&P 500 index to account for it.
|
| great start, and good luck.
| bdjsiqoocwk wrote:
| You have a point, but it still makes sense to report before
| tax performance. Before tax performance depends on model
| only, but after tax performance depends on model and the
| user. this website couldn't report that even if it wanted.
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Yes, but that's why the preferred method of implementation is
| using the S&P 500 futures (ES and MES) as the hedging tool
| during sell signals. With this method, you hold your
| preferred ETFs/stocks of choice forever and continue to
| accumulate unrealized gains indefinitely. Then on sell
| signals, you sell ES and MES of equivalent value to your long
| holdings to effectively go market neutral.
|
| At the end of each year, you'll only owe taxes on the net
| result of your hedging with futures, and futures are section
| 1256 contracts so they are taxed as 60% long term gains / 40%
| short term gains regardless of holding period. In practice,
| I've found that this usually works out to an effective
| capital gains tax of less than 15% of annual profits. If a
| strategy returns a gross 30%, then the after-tax return would
| be about 25.5%.
|
| Also, if you implement in a retirement account which many of
| our members do, capital gains are irrelevant.
| chirau wrote:
| Does your book have a digital version?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Not yet, but I plan to write a revised edition incorporating
| some of the feedback I've gotten in the near future. I'll
| include a digital version with it.
| idk1 wrote:
| How would I even go about starting investing using this? Let's
| say I have a trading212 account or similar? Where do you even
| start? Do you have a "how to get started page" assuming someone
| knows little about investing.
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| https://grizzlybulls.com/how-it-works is the best page I have
| explaining the basics, but I probably need to be more
| accommodating to complete beginners. Grizzly Bulls is
| intended to be a great complement to the buy and hold passive
| indexing strategy that most people use.
|
| The easiest way to use Grizzly Bulls is to hold VOO in any
| brokerage account, sell it when the model generates a sell
| signal, and then rebuy it when the model generates the next
| buy signal. A slightly more advanced but more tax efficient
| approach would be to open a margin account with futures
| trading permissions and sell S&P 500 Futures (ES or MES) of
| equal value to your VOO during sell signals, then repurchase
| the contracts you sold during the next buy signal. With this
| method, I've found you can usually reduce your overall tax
| burden to less than 15% and you'll only owe taxes on the net
| result of your futures trading.
| angoragoats wrote:
| Sorry for the total newbie question here -- I'm familiar
| with options and have traded them a little bit (though that
| was a long time ago). I've never traded futures before.
| With your "more advanced" approach, can you help me wrap my
| head around what the possible outcomes are of
| buying/selling the futures contracts? What is the impact to
| me if I, for example, hold $100k of VOO in my brokerage
| account, sell futures amounting to $100k total on a sell
| signal, and then I'm "called" (sorry, don't know what the
| correct term here is) on my futures? Am I wrong in thinking
| that I'd be required to cough up $100k or my VOO shares?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Good question - you won't be "called" or anything like
| that in this scenario as you are effectively market
| neutral. If VOO goes up, your ES/MES futures value will
| go down accordingly and your account's net liquidation
| value will remain unchanged and well above your
| maintenance margin figure.
|
| The only way to really drop below your maintenance margin
| is if you are either leveraged long (i.e. more than 100%
| long) or short (i.e. less than 0% long), and the market
| moves significantly against you. In that scenario, your
| broker will automatically start liquidating some of your
| positions.
| angoragoats wrote:
| That makes sense from the perspective of my
| brokerage/margin account, thanks! I guess I was also
| curious about the futures themselves; since they're a
| contract to buy/sell just like options, would I ever be
| required to take an action, assuming I'm holding the
| futures contract at expiration?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Oh no, you are never required to take an action with
| equity index futures as they are cash settled every
| quarter. So whether you have an open long or short
| position at expiration time, it will automatically
| disappear from your account with your balance left
| exactly as it should based on the settlement price.
|
| However, this does mean that you'd need to open an
| equivalent position in the next quarter's contract to
| maintain your hedge, if one was open, at expiration time
| which is regular trading hours opening time on the third
| Friday of expiration month.
| angoragoats wrote:
| Got it! Thank you so much for the info. Interesting
| stuff!
| eps wrote:
| Do they work in non-bull regimes?
| pyrrhotech wrote:
| Yes, in fact non-bull regimes are where they earn most of
| their relative outperformance. During buy signals, it's
| impossible for the models to outperform as they are long the
| S&P 500. During sell signals, they are in cash with the hopes
| of rebuying lower (doesn't always work out as they are of
| course imperfect). When the market is rising with low
| volatility, there aren't as many opportunities for
| outperformance.
| 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...
| zeehyt wrote:
| Amazing stuff!
| 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!
| agumonkey wrote:
| Pretty cool. As much as I love soldering, it's gonna be
| cool not to have to.
| 02sth wrote:
| Is hardware open source? I would love to go through schematics
| to see how it works.
| 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.
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| What kind of motor does your bike have?
| brotchie wrote:
| Don't know the exact motor (Have yet to pull the back wheel
| off and inspect) but the motor controller is a Dongguan Jing
| Hui Brushless DC motor controller. The controller "head unit"
| is a Tian jin Yolin YL90T-H.
| 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).
| guywithahat wrote:
| That's my experience too; HN gives you a ton of views but no
| actual users. It would probably work if I was building a dev
| tool
|
| Is crowdwave a reddit/HN competitor? Admittedly it's hard to
| tell just from the front and about page
| 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?
| maxander wrote:
| Sadly, I think the modern alternative for ncurses-based
| interfaces is javascript.
| 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.
| maxander wrote:
| Yeah I was unclear there - I meant the other use of the &
| operator, 'foo & bar' where bar starts after foo completes.
| AFAIK, if you ran foo by itself, there's no way to make bar
| automatically run after foo completes.
| arjvik wrote:
| think you mean && there :)
| pierrebarre wrote:
| I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/ A subdomain / CT
| search engine.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| How do you discover non public subdomains?
| 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...
| lagniappe wrote:
| im doing something similar to your project, but on libp2p. it's
| okay so far.
| wslh wrote:
| Is your project public?
| 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.
| promoterr wrote:
| nice one.. few 'tests': - probably menu with save/export is
| still under development
|
| - in FF when typing quickly - latest 'char' is not displayed,
| although 'sometimes' is there (and visible when hit <enter> ) ;
| in Safari behaves correctly; TorBrowser last 'char' not
| visible/nor there even after <enter>
|
| - when speaking about <enter>ing data - I am used to moving by
| 'arrows' keys to right/down..
|
| - when speaking about 'jumps' over the blocks - I didn't figure
| it out at all eg(Ctrl+arrow)
|
| - why repetitive 'EUR' formatting is not doing also
| unformatting?
|
| - 123 menu is still 'active' after choosing some format (should
| disappear)
|
| Well well.. classic DEVs - 'I am doing QA for myself..' or even
| worse: 'There is Jon' - another DEV who's checking after me..
| Find proper QA - it's worth - ALWAYS.
| nhatcher wrote:
| Hi, many, many thanks!!! You are absolutely right, I need a
| prper QA person.
|
| This is a one person band ATM. So it's not QA, its technical
| writing, it's marketing, dev ops, search for funding, design,
| you name it.
|
| I am in conversations with a couple of professional folks I
| work with in the past to do proper QA.
|
| Also, this is not a realesed product yet. I'm just working on
| it.
| promoterr wrote:
| Don't forget to incorporate also collaboration feature -
| and feel free to show that to Proton group -
| https://proton.me/ - there you can find things you need ;)
| 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.
| promoterr wrote:
| sounds interesting - any pics/project site?
| briandilley wrote:
| you can follow us on instagram:
|
| Vehicles: https://www.instagram.com/current.losangeles/
|
| Labs: https://www.instagram.com/currentlabs.losangeles/
| 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.
| asciimike wrote:
| I'd love to bring a Japanese beverage vending machine and drop
| it off in the middle of a reasonably populated US city and see
| how quickly it gets used (or, unfortunately, destroyed). Would
| only accept Yen (and ideally Suica/Pasmo, though unsure if
| those would work properly?).
| 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.
| tobilg wrote:
| Sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to say...
| 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 really are _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!
|
| 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
| bwhaley wrote:
| I really want to look at your art but it's on twitter so I
| can't!
| ianthehenry wrote:
| oh yeah good point. i probably shouldn't link to that
| anymore. it's all on mastodon too!
| https://mastodon.social/@ianthehenry
| jamilton wrote:
| FYI, the default file errors out!
| ianthehenry wrote:
| So if you've ever loaded Bauble before you might have a stale
| and no-longer-working version of the tutorial cached in
| localStorage -- if you just clear out the script and refresh
| it will restore the default one. If that's still erroring,
| please let me know!
| DavidPiper wrote:
| Not OP, but I've aso loaded Bauble before, and clearing
| localStorage didn't help (Firefox, macOS)...
|
| (torus :z 60 30 | twist :y 0.07 | rotate :pi :y t :z 0.05 |
| move :x 50 | mirror :r 10 :x | fresnel | slow 0.25)
|
| error: script:16:1: compile error: unknown symbol twist
| in evaluate [lib/evaluator.janet] on line 81, column 7
| in bauble-evaluator/evaluate [lib/init.janet] on line 8,
| column 12
| ianthehenry wrote:
| Oh yeah if you clear localStorage like from dev tools,
| Bauble will re-save the script before refresh, putting it
| right back where it was. But if you like cmd-a backspace
| to empty the contents of the script and then refresh
| it'll load the default.
| tomthe wrote:
| Thank you, I really like the default tutorial how one can play
| with it. Is it possible to visualize data with this?
| ianthehenry wrote:
| Depending on the data, maybe? SDFs aren't great at rendering
| large numbers of enumerated objects -- something like a point
| cloud would be prohibitively expensive, so I wouldn't think
| to use them for like traditional graphing.
| Bloedcoins wrote:
| this is really great:
| https://mastodon.social/@ianthehenry/113223607547344491
|
| How did you do it? Whats the shading factor?
| ianthehenry wrote:
| Thanks! Here's the source: (color r2 (vec3
| (fbm 8 :f (fn [q] (rotate (q * 2) (pi * sin (t / 100)) + [t
| 0])) (fn [q] (cos q.x + sin q.y /)) q (osc t 30
| 30 10) | remap+)))
|
| Basically taking the function (1 / (cos(x) + sin(y))) and
| adding it to itself 8 times, each time scaling and rotating
| the input a little more (:f).
|
| I'm curious if it looks the same on all GPUs because it kinda
| relies on floating point precision errors to give it that
| film-grainy textured effect. And it definitely divides by
| zero sometimes.
| andrewlevver wrote:
| I think this is awesome and have already sent to a few people
| ianthehenry wrote:
| hey thanks!
| 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!
| rnoorda wrote:
| I took a bookbinding class on a whim at university, and it's
| still a hobby I enjoy. I would love to have a dedicated space
| for all the big equipment one day, but it's easy to make
| notebooks with just a bone folder, awl, needle, and thread.
| thenipper wrote:
| Yeah I'm liking how 'simple' it is if you don't want to get
| super involved. Plus I've got a small woodshop so I can build
| myself some tools to help the process.
| 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
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| Good luck. I had mixed results making hot sauce. It seemed the
| first bit seemed to go well but always got off flavored
| later...
| mythrwy wrote:
| Me too!
|
| I have made 2 batches of fermented pepper sauce already this
| year and going for a third today. I include onions, carrots and
| garlic in the ferment. Getting great feedback on it.
|
| Here is my chilis (because they are awesome and I'm really
| proud of them): https://ibb.co/8czYf6R
| 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:
| Those are good book premises. I'd be interested in reading
| them.
| 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!
| singlepaynews wrote:
| Could I post a job in Seattle?
| 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!
| bqmjjx0kac wrote:
| > They have long tongues, that they used to catch bugs.
|
| Shouldn't "that" be "which" in this sentence?
| probablypower wrote:
| Should be any of:
|
| - They had long tongues that they used to catch bugs.
|
| - They have long tongues that they use to catch bugs.
|
| - They had long tongues, which they used to catch bugs.
|
| - They have long tongues, which they use to catch bugs.
| etrautmann wrote:
| FWIW, most baby proofing you can do after month 12, after some
| minimal baby proofing at 6 months (depending on kid and space).
| They truly can't get into much trouble before 4-5 months. Much
| of what I worried about prepping for was far easier to do once
| you actually have the issue at your feet but you have time.
| sakras wrote:
| I really enjoyed playing that! Just did the frog and the eye :)
| Seems like a good thing to mindlessly do for fun
| kelnos wrote:
| On the topic of cat freedom... I had the opposite problem. A
| few years ago, for a while I had to separate our two cats so
| they wouldn't fight while we weren't home (long story, but we
| couldn't let them fight each other like most cats will do for
| fun, due to some medical reasons).
|
| It was basically impossible. I wanted to set it up so one cat
| could be downstairs, and the other upstairs, so one wouldn't
| feel like they were being "punished", by being closed in a
| bedroom and only having that small area to roam in.
|
| I built a "gate" for the top of our stairwell, the height of
| the railing, out of carboard and some pet-safe window screen
| material. First one of the cats managed to wriggle under it, so
| I reinforced it and gave it a "skirt". Then the other cat
| climbed up the screen mesh, and I found her just sitting there,
| perched on top of it.
|
| Eventually I managed to make it sturdy enough. But then one of
| the cats realized he could jump over it.
|
| I mostly gave up after that, and focused on training him not to
| fight with his little sister.
|
| So this is a long winded way of saying: your cat might not
| really be bothered by things like baby gates. Might actually
| view them as a fun challenge to be (fairly easily) overcome.
| Unless of course your cat is older and/or has mobility issues.
| milquen wrote:
| Yeah, my cat is getting older and a total wimp at jumping
| over things. So I will have to figure out a way. Of course
| this is all an excuse to build an elaborate ramp or tunnel
| system.
|
| On preventing cats from climbing things, apparently attaching
| a rolling bar at the top is very effective:
| https://catrollers.com
| d1sxeyes wrote:
| As a father with two cats, there are only really two things
| that have been an issue: food and litter trays. We solved both
| by putting them into commode-type things (the litter trays were
| more complex than the food, we had them made specially with a
| labyrinth entrance to stop an arm snaking through and picking
| stuff out).
| 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
| dcan wrote:
| That github link gives a 404 - is the repo private?
| zitterbewegung wrote:
| fixed thanks.
| 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
| rablackburn wrote:
| Nice. SRS integration is my ultimate yak-shave when learning
| something new.
|
| > 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.
|
| Some of us try to. But when teaching middle-high school aged
| children the problem is almost always one of motivation and
| engagement rather than tooling and methodology.
|
| You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
| Worst case scenario you try to enforce SRS activities and some
| students develop an aversion to an incredibly powerful tool.
|
| My sweet spot was something like "here is an app called Anki,
| here is a deck of content we will cover in this class (tagged
| by week), try it out and see if its useful for you". Even then
| I was slightly conflicted because I've always wondered how much
| of the utility I've gotten from SRS came from sitting down and
| making the decks myself...
| tobinfekkes wrote:
| Can confirm this is wicked cool! Keep up the good work :)
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Thanks!
| 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?
| laconicmatt wrote:
| I have a soft spot for obscure gaming consoles (couldnt tell
| you why). So, after I made my PC Engine game, I kind of
| landed on either Wonderswan or PCFX and the Wonderswan had a
| really awesome tool chain made for it recently* whereas the
| PCFX still has some way to go for development.
|
| *https://wonderful.asie.pl/
| 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.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| I would like to add what on the p. 3 you probably want to add a
| percent of the vote difference, it can help for 'at a glance'
| 'analysis'.
|
| Great work anyway, and it's interesting how the errors (and not
| the errors) in the vote coubt manifest. Thanks!
| 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/
| pacomerh wrote:
| wow this sounds like a really fun project. These are the kind
| of projects that excite me honestly. I find it really difficult
| to get excited about working on projects that are perceived as
| popular lucrative business ideas.
| adamfaliq wrote:
| Can you email me when you're done writing the book? Or at least
| document the development somewhere? Really interested to read
| this.
| 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
| organically. I am on Twitter as @cornfieldlabs
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| it's https://savereel.app
| mepian wrote:
| I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system
| that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online.
| The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the
| permission to do this. I'm also going to mirror all Symbolics
| documentation on the same domain.
| wkirby wrote:
| I'd like to drop some cool tech thing, but mostly just working on
| balancing running our company and being a new dad.
| MrVandemar wrote:
| I'm working on a timed audio description script for the 1994
| science-fiction / adventure film "Stargate" for blind and low-
| vision audiences.
|
| There are a lot of older films that are not audio described, and
| so every now and again I pick a film and write a script, and
| another volunteer records and mixes the narration track.
|
| It takes about 2+ hours to describe about 20 minutes, and the
| film itself is 2 hours.
|
| Sample: 68 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:33,169
| They step through doors marked "Research Laboratory". The wheel
| shaped cover stone towers over them, mounted upright on the wall.
| The disc in the centre has a cartouche, a vertical panel of
| symbols. Jackson stares up at it open mouthed.
| miki123211 wrote:
| Blind person here.
|
| Where are you publishing this? a???ov??t.net?
| MrVandemar wrote:
| Yes. You can find our version of "Aliens" and "Alien 3"
| there, along with Audio Introductions (Pre-show audio
| description) for each, which I _highly_ recommend. Also the
| TV shows "The Bureau of Magical Things" and "The Secret of
| Sulphur Springs".
|
| I publish the scripts under a Creative Commons licence so
| anyone can legally record and mix their own versions if they
| like. I believe it's possible to run the subtitle files
| through a braille reader as the film runs for a different
| experience, but I've never heard of anyone who tried that.
|
| That said, we are experimenting with legal distribution by
| releasing the timed unmixed narration on Youtube and, in
| theory, you should be able to sync the narration to a
| (legally purchased) copy of the film.
|
| AMA if you like.
| RobMurray wrote:
| Another blind person here, Thanks for doing this!What is
| the censored URL above?
|
| I've had the idea for a while that it should be possible to
| have an app listen to the movie audio and synchronise the
| AD track automatically. I think I even heard of such an app
| but it wasn't open and I haven't heard about it since.
|
| Almost every time I watch something with my family I wish
| that the AD could be separate so we can listen at a normal
| volume without the boomy describer's voice which is almost
| always far too loud.
| ideasman42 wrote:
| https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng
|
| Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font.
|
| Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque,
| the glyphs are stored in a TOML file, edited in Blender and
| exported using FontForge.
| wanderingmind wrote:
| I'm learning to deweed our lawn space. Its strange feel to have
| visual proof of what happens when you neglect your
| responsibilities even for a short time.
| mikewarot wrote:
| I got long covid back in 2020.... my back yard turned from a
| lawn into a forest... it's amazing how fast Nature takes back
| over. Especially when you live on a former farm.
| catwhatcat wrote:
| Tangentially, if you're still suffering from long covid, I
| heard recently how nicotine patches were helping reduce
| symptoms over 2-3 weeks. I can't recall the original article
| (perhaps it was here) but here's an NIH post on it
| https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36650574/
| __mharrison__ wrote:
| Training folks from around the world to use pandas for data
| analysis and ML. Training folks on who to apply ML to their data.
|
| A course on using modern Python constructs and tooling. (uv,
| coding with AI, pytest, type annotations, etc).
|
| A book on interviewing for Python coding jobs.
|
| Planning next book on either catboost or duckdb.
|
| Ideas that I'm thinking about: how AI helps established
| programmers and new programmers.
| paddy_m wrote:
| You're being a bit shy, I'll help :)
|
| Matt Harrison wrote Effective Pandas, the guide to writing
| elegant pandas code and avoiding many common pitfalls. Keep up
| the good work
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Pandas-Patterns-Manipulatio...
| exfildotcloud wrote:
| https://exfilcloud.com was me playing with E2E encryption without
| authentication.
| reducesuffering wrote:
| I'm working on a project to help people find the best place for
| them to live or move to (USA right now). You can filter based on
| 50+ metrics, compare side by side, and just look up random facts
| about all US counties and states currently.
|
| https://exoroad.com/
| mikewarot wrote:
| I'm plugging away on my BitGrid project.... a Turing complete
| stripped down version of an FPGA without routing fabric and
| _with_ added delays (for reasons). I 'm learning KiCad 8.0, so I
| can do schematics and build a prototype cell out of TTL.[1]
|
| I'm also re-acquainting myself with Verilog so I can do an ASIC
| prototype through TinyTapeout. The main question that I hope to
| answer is just how much power a bitgrid cell actually consumes,
| both static and dynamic. If it's low enough, then it'll give
| Petaflops to the masses, if not.. it's a curiosity.
|
| Along that path, I've learned that the configuration memory for
| the LUTs is going to consume most of the silicon. Since it's all
| just D flip-flops... I figured I could dual-use it as memory
| without loss of generalization. You can virtually add 2 bytes of
| memory in a cell in any of the 4 directions... so I call it
| IsoLinear Memory.[2] ;-)
|
| I should be able to make the deadline for TinyTapeout 9, in
| November. Meanwhile I'll update my emulator to include Isolinear
| Memory, and figure out how to program the damned thing. My
| stretch goal is to figure out how to program it from
| TinyGrad.[3].
|
| If nothing else, it'll be good for real time DSP.
|
| [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL
|
| [2]
| https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL/tree/master/IsoLine...
|
| [3] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad
| apsears wrote:
| How is ChatGPT with verilog? Analysis, debugging and/or
| generation?
| mikewarot wrote:
| I hadn't even considered trying to use ChatGPT with Verilog.
| I strongly suspect it will get in the way. My design is
| pretty darned small, just a grid of uniform cells, with not
| much else in the way of I/O, etc.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| I was using DeepSeek Coder and Claude for verilog quite
| successfully back in June - saved me a lot of time creating
| testbenches. Probably better now. I need to try the latest
| Gemini 1.5 pro to see how it does. I used DeepSeek Coder to
| create a testbench for some legacy verilog code that was
| poorly documented - it did quite well, better than I was
| expecting. It even collected repeated code into tasks which
| kind of surprised me.
| yqiang wrote:
| https://fitbee.app I'm continuing to build the nutrition tracker
| I've always wanted myself [1]
|
| This month the focus is improving food data quality & search
| relevancy. I'm also starting to experiment with some more
| advanced generative AI use cases in the realm of providing
| suggestions on what to eat & analysis of your diet.
| abraxas wrote:
| This looks enticing! Do you have or plan to have an Android
| version of it too?
| nurbo wrote:
| https://blog.faangshui.com/
|
| Helping folks prepare for their coding interviews.
| pyromaker wrote:
| I've been working on Pyro - a video gallery & community creator.
| It's a tool that lets you create a video-based (your own
| YouTube?) community but you can collect videos from many sources.
|
| https://www.pyro.app
|
| Here's a video site I created using this tool - a startup pitch
| video site
|
| https://video.heystartup.com/
| marvinblum wrote:
| I'm working on our privacy-friendly and GDPR compliant web
| analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) :)
|
| 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). We just
| released a major update, making funnels more flexible and easy to
| use. One of our goals is to make analytics easy to understand
| also for non-marketeers.
| brynet wrote:
| Making rent.
|
| https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
| jeeybee wrote:
| Hi everyone!
|
| I'm currently enhancing the documentation for my project,
| PGQueuer.
|
| About PGQueuer: PGQueuer is a minimalist, high-performance job
| queue library for Python, leveraging PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY
| for efficient job management. It's perfect for handling
| background tasks and managing workflows with simplicity and
| reliability
|
| https://github.com/janbjorge/pgqueuer
| Narciss wrote:
| Been working on https://consciousness.social, a social media app
| focused on providing a first-person experience of human society
| as a whole.
|
| It's the kind of thing that could only exist because after I
| built the theory behind it, I went into software engineering and
| learned how to build web apps, so that I could build strange
| stuff like this.
| lihaoyi wrote:
| Working on a next-gen Java build tool, Mill https://mill-
| build.org/mill/Java_Intro_to_Mill.html
|
| There's been a lot of innovation in build tools for other
| languages recently: turborepo, nx, poetry. Also Monorepo build
| tools like Bazel, Pants, or Buck. Mill aims to bring a lot of
| those innovations to the JVM ecosystem which is currently
| dominated by old stalwarts like Maven (circa 2004) or Gradle
| (2008), which although improving definitely have the weight of
| legacy holding back their potential
|
| Mill brings things like automatic task caching, side-effect-free
| build tasks, automatic parallalization, automatic detection of
| task dependencies, task sandboxing/isolation, and other things
| that are table stakes in modern build tools, along with a concise
| strongly typed build language with excellent IDE support to make
| condiguring your build easy and safe (no more yaml!)
| dmitrygr wrote:
| Designing a CPU out of vacuum tubes
| asciimike wrote:
| I'm scared to ask, but how big is said CPU (and how many kW is
| it putting out)?
| dmitrygr wrote:
| TBD, most likely a 4-bit ALU, but it will boot linux via
| emulation :D
| yoav wrote:
| I've created a startup lab [1].
|
| I'm currently building an Electron/Tauri alternative that uses
| Bun called Electrobun [2].
|
| As well as a hybrid code editor + browser which is built on
| Electrobun called co(lab) [3].
|
| I'm also going to be open sourcing some other stuff that powers
| Electrobun and co(lab) including an optimized bsdiff
| implementation I wrote in zig, and a NoSql database designed for
| rapid prototyping.
|
| Meanwhile I also spend around 3-6 months a year helping
| friends/fellow alumni with their startups. Typically unblocking
| hard technical problems or driving large refactors and
| process/culture changes. Currently midway through my 3rd.
|
| [1]: https://blackboard.sh
|
| [2]: https://electrobun.dev
|
| [3]: https://colab.sh
| dandigangi wrote:
| Taking a break from learning Go/Rust to learn Polish. Lol
| abraxas wrote:
| Well, that's... uncommon. What made you take the leap? Met the
| love of your life who is from Poland. As a Pole I'm both
| honored and impressed but would like to understand your
| motivation. People who don't move to Poland rarely want to
| study the language.
| dandigangi wrote:
| That's it! My girlfriend is Polish and would be great to be
| able to speak with her family. A lot of my friends are Polish
| too. She has translate between her family and me currently.
| It's been very hard to learn though. Haven't liked Duolingo
| so far so going to try Babel. If not that I may take classes.
| abraxas wrote:
| Why won't she try to teach you?
| asciimike wrote:
| Two things:
|
| - Practicing CAD and 3D printing: building a go pro mount on my
| bike computer mount for a light
| (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1836892842716750221), an
| oil filter wrench
| (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1840051449625018870), etc.
| I like the idea of needing a specialty car/bike/etc. tool and
| being able to quickly model and build it in hours vs having to
| order an often fairly expensive tool that takes days to show up.
|
| - Import/export (specifically from Japan to the US): In
| particular, importing kei vehicles >25 years old as well as
| specialty roasted coffee. Both of which have a lot of specific
| regulations and intricacy, and while I've done a lot of reading
| on how to do them (e.g. this doc on importing a kei truck:
| https://wittymelon.wordpress.com/portfolio/diy-how-to-import...).
| If anyone has connections to people who have imported kei
| vehicles to the US, I'd love to chat!
| 7thpower wrote:
| An app to let people generate images of them and their children
| in Halloween costumes.
|
| Similar to PhotoAI but much more limited in scope. Wanted to get
| more experience implementing auth and payments, creating LoRAs,
| and some different regulations.
|
| Also wanted something that was timeboxed where I could step away
| when the project is over.
|
| Should be ready to start accepting users next week, then will
| have to figure out distribution. If I make any money it will be a
| cherry on top.
| jasondigitized wrote:
| Tell us more about the implementation. Are you using Flux to
| train a halloween theme?
| 7thpower wrote:
| No, I actually found it does a pretty good job with costumes
| out of the box, so just training on the subjects and then
| using an LLM to make specific prompts.
|
| My daughter has gotten a kick out of being able to have
| pictures of her in any costume but has started to notice the
| dimpled chin that Flux applies to just about every face it
| generates.
| joseph wrote:
| I've been working on https://github.com/cloudboss/easyto, a tool
| that converts docker images to EC2 AMIs.
|
| I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines
| from images created with easyto.
|
| One is
| https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for
| managing Concourse CI.
|
| Another is
| https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su...,
| to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.
| abhgh wrote:
| Working on a library that helps benchmark Active Learning (AL)
| techniques [1]. This is a form of Machine Learning, where you
| want to learn a supervised predictor but you don't have labels to
| start with, and labeling comes at a cost that you need to account
| for (the term AL can have broader connotations but this is the
| popular one). We feel the area suffers quite a bit from poor
| benchmarks, which my colleague and I wrote up about in a paper
| [2]. To run the many experiments in the paper we had to write a
| fairly comprehensive codebase that makes it convenient to swap
| out different bits and pieces of an AL pipeline, which we'll be
| polishing up now.
|
| PS: If the work is of interest and you want to avoid reading the
| paper, I have a blogpost too [3].
|
| [1] https://github.com/ThuongTNguyen/active_learning_comparisons
|
| [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15744 (this was accepted in
| EMNLP'24)
|
| [3] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/inactive_learning
| breck wrote:
| A non-toxic, intelligent, trustworthy successor to the web that
| works offline, called The World Wide Scroll.
| https://wws.scroll.pub/readme.html
| kristopolous wrote:
| The relationship to the internet we had with dialup was
| healthier.
| breck wrote:
| I think you are right!
|
| Just as London industrialized heavily and then pulled back in
| the late 1800's (https://ourworldindata.org/london-air-
| pollution), I think we are at peak Internet age right now.
|
| In the future we will just have our own copies of most of
| what we want, and will go back to living closer to nature.
| meel-hd wrote:
| Sick! Use deno to port it to an executable rather than
| requiring nodejs to install
| breck wrote:
| Oh this is an interesting idea. Hadn't thought of this,
| thanks.
|
| Not a top priority right now (focus is on bringing genius
| content to the WWS), but definitely something to keep in
| mind.
| firefoxd wrote:
| I'm writing a book publicly: Automated Agents [1]. When I first
| joined a startup building a chatbot for customer service, there
| was a lot of noise and hype. We built a decent product and our
| company went from 3 people to 30 in 2 years. We resolved millions
| of customer service issues. The book I'm writing is the guide I
| wish existed when I was getting started.
|
| It's still a draft, but the main goal is to serve as a guide for
| both technical and non technical folks.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book
|
| Ps: I shared it in the previous thread last month as well
| lukaqq wrote:
| https://chillin.online, Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, no
| watermark, faster than competitors such as Veed, Clipchamp,
| Capcut, mobile support
| threatofrain wrote:
| I've been working on drone fleet control software from scratch,
| could definitely use some help. Right now I'm looking for algos
| that optimizes for long straightaways for pathfinding.
| yarg wrote:
| Have you looked at the way that ants do it?
|
| Depending on fleet size, you'd get some useful emergent
| properties from a mesh-net.
| jaronilan wrote:
| Just finished a third short story.
|
| It is about SEO:
| https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
| excsn wrote:
| Hey everyone! I wanted to share what I've been working on lately:
| an app called Unlearn Stress [1] on iOS [2] and Android [3]. It
| came out of my own struggles with stress and trying to find ways
| to cope. Some days are just rough and while I've had some luck
| with doctors, I've found that stories, especially ones read in my
| own voice, and breathing exercises really help lift my mood. The
| app is simple, works completely offline and there's no data
| collection like other apps.
|
| My next idea is to use SSML to better control some of the speech
| and add delays where needed.
|
| [1] https://www.excsn.com/apps/unlearn_stress
|
| [2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unlearn-stress-with-
| stories/id...
|
| [3]
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.excsn.andr...
| atif089 wrote:
| https://www.voyago.io/ is a social travel discovery platform that
| matches your interests with your friends for perfect
| recommendations
| zzyzek wrote:
| I'm working on an extension to the Modify in blocks Model
| Synthesis algorithm [0] and the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
| [1] called "Punch Out Model Synthesis":
|
| https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis
|
| Here's a gallery of sample outputs from the algorithm:
|
| https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis/blob/main/r...
|
| I have an online demo of the algorithm in action for different
| tilesets (it's a little rough, so be warned):
|
| https://zzyzek.github.io/PunchOutModelSynthesis/
|
| The idea is you take an example image, chop it into little
| segments and infer tile rules depending on the overlap. It's very
| much old fashioned "machine learning/artificial intelligence"
| (that is, without any neural networks involved). There's also a
| demo of tile rule inference idea here:
|
| https://zzyzek.github.io/TileRuleHighlighter/
|
| [0] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
|
| [1] https://github.com/merrell42/model-synthesis
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| Writing some fiction that I've wanted to get to for years.
| Releasing a chapter at a time.
|
| Trying to decide on My Next Big Technology Project. I might have
| already decided, but I'm not ready to share for psychological
| reasons. I would like to do it in the open, but I have no idea
| how to build an audience. Maybe I just get started and hope I'm
| not totally boring.
| kmoser wrote:
| Definitely just get started and see how it goes. Maybe also
| start with a "Sign up to get notified when we launch" form on
| your website, to generate some interest and start building a
| mailing list.
| actinium226 wrote:
| I'm trying to create a space startup in NYC.
|
| Right now my main idea is an orbital transfer vehicle powered by
| solar sails
| justanothersys wrote:
| i'm writing https://aesthetic.computer which is a 'social
| computer' designed as a more open and integrated alternative to
| existing kids media networks like roblox and tiktok
|
| recently discussed here on hn:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526754
|
| and i'm currently seeking funding to support another year of
| development (just enter the command 'bb')
| instb3at wrote:
| I'm currently spending most of my time building a social media
| posting platform for https://hellokea.com. This will be an
| additional tool for small businesses, complementing their
| helpdesk solution. It's been interesting to build the entire UI
| using htmx, aiming to make it comparable in performance and user
| experience to SPAs.
| selvan wrote:
| Working on - "real-time conversations in rich video streaming".
| Have created rich video composition, mixing, streaming studio
| (http://www.thecheerlabs.com), working on to bring real-time
| conversations that can be mixed in real-time for
| streaming/recording.
| thom wrote:
| Writing a screenplay about the Peace of Philocrates, the entire
| history of which is somewhat hilarious.
| adaisadais wrote:
| Building in the college NIL space.
| laconicmatt wrote:
| Would you be willing to share more? That seems like a very ripe
| (can't think of a better word) place to be working in.
| adaisadais wrote:
| How long do you have?!
|
| A friend of mine pitched me this idea of "onlyfans but for
| NIL" and I've been running with that idea.
|
| It's been an insanely tangled web but there's some crazy
| stuff happening and I think it can be a big business.
| asdev wrote:
| I recently built a Chrome extension that helps you summarize the
| comments on HackerNews posts using AI: https://github.com/built-
| by-as/FastDigest
| bizzyskillet wrote:
| A sort of "Aquarium Trampoline"! I'm securing LED ropes to my
| trampoline walls in the shapes of various sea creatures, and they
| light up cleverly depending on accelerometer readings on the
| canvas. No pics yet sorry!
| ramshanker wrote:
| Mission Vishwakarma 2035.
| nevernothing wrote:
| AI Playlist Generator for YouTube powered by GPT-4o to create
| playlists with text descriptions:
| https://playlists.at/youtube/generate/
| scoofy wrote:
| Still working on the golf course wiki: https://golfcourse.wiki
|
| Currently finishing up the tournament software and getting ready
| for beta testing with some local clubs. This should eventually
| allow frugal clubs to operate golf tournaments extremely cheaply
| because no data needs to be licensed if they add their own
| course's data to the wiki.
| FORTNITEMASTER wrote:
| Can you make a website that can block the blocker app for the
| board of ed and can you also unblock webs with blocked webs on
| them?
| p-o wrote:
| Decided after all these years to start to create open source
| libraries around things I've worked with in the past.
|
| As worked a lot with Kubernetes in the past, I started with
| creating a Kubernetes Operator alternative to external-dns I call
| Phonebook: https://github.com/pier-oliviert/phonebook
|
| It lets you control DNS record like you would any other native
| resources in Kubernetes through CRDs. Open-sourced it last week
| and there's already a bunch of features that are planned for the
| operator" - cert-manager's support for DNS-01
| challenges - More support for other providers -
| Increase support for each provider that already exists -
| etc.
|
| Check it out!
| achristmascarl wrote:
| added support for mysql and sqlite (in addition to postgres) to
| rainfrog, a database management tui:
| https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog
|
| they haven't been tested as extensively as postgres though so are
| still considered unstable!
| empressplay wrote:
| Still working on turtleSpaces (a 3D extended implementation of
| Apple Logo) https://turtlespaces.org
|
| We're actually starting to get users!
|
| Also, we're going to start working on a 2D arcade game builder
| that uses Logo as its scripting language
| montyanderson wrote:
| Single-file vector database in C. Lots of work to do!
|
| https://montyanderson.net/projects/vecdb
| MailleQuiMaille wrote:
| My book. Halfway to the first draft !
| mishu2 wrote:
| Photography is a hobby of mine. After putting it off for years, I
| finally decided to start sharing my photo collection with friends
| and family.
|
| This resulted in another side project, https://mishmash.photos/
| -- a website to organize, share and collaborate on albums
| (because I always lose photos when going on trips with friends).
| There are better apps out there for this, but this one is mine.
|
| Sample album:
| https://mishmash.photos/share/84f83b09-0a24-4d13-b436-8131ee...
|
| Tech stack is django, htmx, bootstrap and a Stripe integration,
| to keep things simple.
|
| (There's no free tier; from reading this website I know offering
| free image upload usually ends badly.)
| henning wrote:
| A stenography app that lets you type regularly on a QWERTY
| keyboard but also lets you do stenography when you hold down and
| release multiple keys at once. It's intended to make it easier to
| use a computer and write code while using steno when typing
| English words than Plover does.
| iknownthing wrote:
| I building a web app around a tool I originally built for myself
| for interview prep. It basically lets you generate interview
| questions then practice them in a leetcode-like interface that
| includes an AI tutor chat ui. The tutor is aware of the question
| and the user's attempt at a solution so far and is instructed to
| give hints rather than simply providing the user with the answer.
| I personally use it as well. https://hinterviewgpt.com
| kunley wrote:
| Own streaming service for an internet radio, but that's not
| opensourced atm. It's Go and it seems to be amazing fit.
|
| That makes my other project a bit lacking attention, but I will
| get back to it - a configuration language BCL
| https://github.com/wkhere/bcl . Parser is based on a vm beauty
| from the 2nd part of Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters book.
| WillAdams wrote:
| (Still) working on an OpenPythonSCAD library for modeling 3D
| cutting with a CNC router:
|
| https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
|
| Trying to re-write the whole thing in Python, but am stuck due to
| variable scope issues.
| 4lb0 wrote:
| I'm doing https://bialet.dev a web framework for simple web apps
| with idea to get back to have a fully static HTML first, and then
| you code the dynamic part.
|
| It's based on the Object-Oriented scripting language Wren, it's
| fully integrated with SQLite, and it has a sort of JSX for the
| HTML (it's actually strings and interpolations, being part of the
| language).
| chaibiker wrote:
| Working on eliminating the health vs. desk work tradeoff:
| https://www.movably.com/
| a_t48 wrote:
| A new robotics framework - https://basisrobotics.tech/
|
| Very testing and production focused. Biggest competitor is ROS
| though there's some others popping up now. Our first public
| release is going to be within a month, I'm excited.
| mountainriver wrote:
| Cool! I've been looking for ROS alternatives
| a_t48 wrote:
| Please add yourself to our contact list via the "Contact Us"
| link - can notify you when it's out.
| jawerty wrote:
| Im currently working on AI agents that control my chrome browser,
| I have a desktop app with a chat where it does various tasks for
| me like research/posting on sm/finding free ebooks for me. All
| using open source LLMs and custom code for the auto web scraping
| / interactions.
| segmondy wrote:
| how does it control your browser? as in know what button to
| click or form to fill?
| est wrote:
| I made a web metronome to learn music
| https://lab.est.im/metronome/
|
| source code at https://github.com/est/metronome
| douge1 wrote:
| Quant finance alpha forecasting with alt data and LLMs
| neveroddoreven wrote:
| What kind of alt data?
| chewxy wrote:
| I'm working on my scifi novel. I had started writing it when LLMs
| started taking off - I had been doing AI for two decades and I
| was well-placed to be in a good position to profit with the rise
| of LLMs, but I ended up gaining nothing much and I was depressed
| about it - so I started writing instead. Been picking at it for
| about a year before befriending an editor who encouraged me to
| keep writing. He's helped me developmentally edit it to a point I
| am now ready to work on my second draft.
|
| It's a hard scifi novel with mild existential horror tones that
| is borne mostly of maths jokes. At one point the main character
| tries to escape the matrix (reality). But the matrix is
| defective, so the best way out was to orthogonalize the subspace
| and reduce the matrix to its eigenbasis instead. Most of the
| scenes are based on similar maths jokes.
|
| Tentative name is Diagonalization of the Meta (I had previously
| called it The Metaverse).
| wslh wrote:
| What is your GTM strategy?
| chewxy wrote:
| At this point I'm writing mostly for myself. GTM strategies
| for novels... that's an interesting way to think about
| things. I've not thought about it just yet. Happy to hear if
| you have any ideas tho.
| bidder33 wrote:
| good title!
| chewxy wrote:
| Thanks :)
| asteroidburger wrote:
| I have an experimental aircraft, a Vans RV-14, that I've been
| working on for far too long. I have all the expensive parts on
| hand, I just need to finally finish putting them together.
| taleodor wrote:
| A system to manage software metadata and SBOMs in particularly.
| This is based on our existing relizahub.com and will implement
| upcoming Transparency Exchange API -
| https://github.com/CycloneDX/transparency-exchange-api/
| 147 wrote:
| I'm working on https://chivesbot.com/, a GitHub Slack app.
|
| I was frustrated by GitHub's official Slack integration and the
| lack of certain customization and filtering capabilities. For
| example, I wanted to be able to send all production deployments
| to a specific Slack channel, but I couldn't.
| weddingbell wrote:
| I'm waiting for my company's layoff...
| apexkid wrote:
| I am working on Zipshot. http://zipshot.co -- The goal is to make
| the best free screenshot & OCR app for mac.
|
| This is my side project because I needed an app like this for my
| daily use and I hate the fact that every other good app is paid
| even though maintaining such an app really doesn't cost anything.
|
| Zipshot solves several problems: - Easy to use
| shortcuts like cmd+shift+1 - No desktop clutter as images
| are uploaded to Zipshot cloud. - Share via links. -
| Powerful editor and figma style comments for annotations. -
| OCR that works without the internet on 11 languages. -
| Slack & Gmail integration. - Context aware naming. -
| Serious privacy measures. - One click data download.
|
| Who is it for: - Users who take 5+ screenshots a
| week with mostly the purpose of sharing it with their team or
| friends.
|
| I am improving it every week. Here are the things I am working
| on: - Make the on-boarding and permission seeking
| workflow simpler. - Speed up the app for apple silicon
| devices. - Support OCR for rotated text and include more
| languages.
|
| Here is an example demo: https://app.zipshot.co/bp4jr1
| 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
| few days)
| stevage wrote:
| About to start work on a side project. A map-driven web database
| of films, TV series, books, thatre and computer games based on
| where and when they are set. So if you want to watch something
| set in 1880s Paris, you can. Or you want to see something set in
| China in the 17th century.
|
| Cute names welcome :)
| lostsock wrote:
| ChronoCine? Maybe ChronoCine map?
|
| Or GeoChronoCine abbreviated to GCC?
| stevage wrote:
| Probably looking for a name that is much more approachable
| for a wide audience. Along the lines of "take me back" or
| playing with where/when or time/place or something like that.
| nelsondev wrote:
| Bee There (logo is cute honey bee) tag line, Be there now,
| be there then
| ConstrPlus8561 wrote:
| https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/
|
| I'm working on an open-source web app to visualize barbell lifts.
|
| Basically trying to provide the best motivation and resources to
| help people invest in their physical strength which is crucial to
| health and longevity.
|
| I'm keeping it strictly based on user Google Sheet data - because
| over the years I've changed apps and it's always hard to get your
| data out.
|
| So far I have:
|
| - lots of charts
|
| - an cgpt wrapper to talk to your lifting data and get lifting
| advice
|
| - the best strength calculators (in my opinion)
|
| - a strength ranking system for squat, bench press, deadlift and
| strict press.
|
| Tech stack:
|
| - Next.js on Vercel
|
| - ShadcnUI components (the charts are great)
|
| - nextauth
|
| - Tailwind CSS
|
| - ChatGPT 4o
|
| https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/
|
| https://github.com/wayneschuller/strengthjourneys
| sambaumann wrote:
| I'm building an app to help organize information in Genealogical
| research (family trees/family history) - a few months ago I
| started doing some family research and I was struck by how many
| of the resources are owned by one company (Ancestry). I want to
| have an option that isn't within that ecosystem, and none of the
| other solutions I found had exactly what I wanted in terms.
|
| The plan is to open source it once I feel good about it.
|
| I don't have anything to show off yet but maybe by the time this
| thread comes around next month I will :)
| c-smile wrote:
| I am working on Sciter.GLX - Sciter Engine (HTML/CSS/JS) combined
| with OpenGL runtime working on all platforms, even on those that
| do not support OpenGL natively (e.g. Windows/ARM and MacOS).
|
| Sciter offers access to OpenGL as by WebGL/JS as by native OpenGL
| API access.
|
| Idea is simple: pretty much any 3D application needs some form of
| 2D UI/Chrome. And so Sciter.GLX provides just that - HTML/CSS/JS
| UI with <webgl> islands.
|
| Sciter.GLX is also about direct support of as Wayland as X11 on
| Linux.
|
| Check preview: https://sciter.com/sciter-glx-generation-4/
| Prcmaker wrote:
| Amongst a couple of guitar builds, I'm reverse engineering a
| bronze woodworking plane from the 80s/90s, a good friends dad
| used to make them. It's taken me over a decade to track one down,
| so I'm hoping to produce a set of models and drawings before
| passing on the original to my friend to hand down to their
| pending child.
| divyamchandel wrote:
| Trying to figure out is there a way for specialized data generate
| / preperation for agents within an organization.
|
| Most of the startups are unable to document things properly
| because of the nature of business and speed. But everything is
| available in conversations over emails / slack and calls.
|
| Can we prepare a brain like graph which is context aware and
| understands the business and product?
|
| Thoughts?
| kdavis586 wrote:
| I'm trying to learn Rust and thought going through a Chip8
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8) implementation would be
| fun.
|
| For anyone who's wondering the specification I'm following along
| with is "Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference v1.0"
| (http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM)
| compootr wrote:
| Something with a very fun exploit on almost all domains :)
| jcgrillo wrote:
| Current near-term projects:
|
| - Major house renovation. Air sourced heat pumps are in, but the
| kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom are WIP. Subfloor, insulation,
| and drywall are the current focus. Also replumbing domestic cold
| and hot water in the entire house. Adding a brand new backup
| condensing gas hydronic system for when it's too cold for the
| heat pumps.
|
| - Building a rear bumper for my 80 series Land Cruiser (4x4 Labs
| DIY kit).
|
| - Building a press brake for my 20 ton shop press to bend some
| brackets to mount a backhoe to my tractor.
|
| - Rustproofing both cars (80 series and diesel W210 Benz) before
| winter. Rust reformer primer, POR-15, and various Noxudol waxes
| and some Blaster Shield. New front and rear bumpers for the W210,
| painting front and (new) rear bumper on the 80.
|
| - Working on something I'm tentatively calling "Swage" which is
| all about compact (think: nearly the information-theoretic
| minimum number of bits) representation for o11y data (metrics,
| traces, logs).
|
| - Refactoring a PID controller crate I wrote a while back to be
| less bad and more good (in particular, trying to use funty to
| make it generic over fixed and floating point numbers).
| zakm wrote:
| A vscode extension that aims to be "vim for code' meaning that it
| has first class motions for programming concepts like functions,
| arguments, etc. quick demo:
|
| https://youtu.be/owuuFxDBQh4?si=tqYi-RqvFQa6kI8h
| p2hari wrote:
| Just saw the video, looks cool. multi language support would
| also be awesome. Nice work. all the best.
| yawebnw wrote:
| I'm almost finished my modular MIDI Controller software for
| iOS/iPadOS. I am hoping to offer a good compromise between ease
| of setup and power. Hopefully I get this is on testflight in
| about a week or two. Best I can share is some screenshots right
| now: https://imgur.com/a/s80g0Iv
|
| Really hoping to do this right as an indie dev with a good
| website, video promotion, marketing, etc. Probably free but with
| a one-time IAP for unlocking features. Worst case scenario this
| helps me land new jobs :p
| ahstilde wrote:
| Professionally: I'm continuing with Wyndly [1], my YC startup. I
| believe more and more in a future without any allergies.
|
| Socially: I'm trying to connect people more, so I'm starting a
| social club [2]. If it just ends up with people meeting up in
| meatspace regularly, then it's a win.
|
| Personally: well, my wife just purchased 6 pieces of flatpak
| furniture, so I'm building it!
|
| [1] https://www.wyndly.com [2] https://www.nycfounders.club/
| kolleraa wrote:
| I'm working on a web app that helps you discover new things to
| read, watch, listen to and play.
|
| You start with either an example or a brief description. Then,
| you'll get relevant preferences to select from. Your
| recommendations are based on the preferences you select. Every
| run is different.
|
| I've added some new features along with support for
| blogs/newsletters and podcasts over the past month, and improved
| the recommendations generally.
|
| https://www.yogurrt.com/
| r3tr0 wrote:
| https://yeet.cx/discover
|
| A dynamic runtime and package manager on top of Linux's BPF
| virtual machine with a SQL interface for visualizing system
| information in real-time.
|
| Interesting combination of low-level systems programming, low-
| level frontend programming, real-time networking and computer
| graphics.
|
| Still filling in index.
|
| A good example if you want to try:
|
| https://yeet.cx/@yeet/execsnoop
|
| We're also hiring: work@yeet.cx
| Ken_At_EM wrote:
| Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning to put our wireless
| telemetry receiving capability into overdrive.
| 42lux wrote:
| Mostly working on generative AI and tuning it to 100% product
| reproduction. It's harder than you might think especially with
| more complex subjects like cars. Training custom controlnets is a
| pain just because of the sheer size of the datasets needed.
| Subject LoRas/DoRas are pretty much solved though.
|
| Here is an example[0] in 6k resolution from two weeks ago done
| with just text conditioning. The controlnet elevates the
| precision even more up to 99%, the last 1% is easier fixed in
| post. Which isn't optimal but a good way to go for now.
|
| [0] https://42lux.de/amg-gt-63
| Ken_At_EM wrote:
| Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning/ML Pipelines and getting
| familiar with the AI tool ecosystem so my team and I can put our
| commercially successful wireless telemetry receivers into
| overdrive.
| paul7986 wrote:
| I want to work on smartglass apps like
|
| - Go to aquarium, look in tank, put glasses in info mode via a
| gesture to see the names of the fish in the tank. Learn more
| about them then on my phone.
|
| - Have glasses keep score of any real life game you are playing
| from pickleball, to a card game to any game that has a score and
| requires vision to keep track of it.
|
| Guess i could start creating such on the Vision Pro. Im thinking
| either idea will be created and or built into the smart glass
| winner but hmm maybe they are lame ideas..
| kurttheviking wrote:
| my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop!
| the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure
| the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease,
| sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the
| initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our
| point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)
| edm0nd wrote:
| That sounds pretty cool!
|
| What kind of margins do book stores typically have?
| kurttheviking wrote:
| at full retail price, you're often looking at 40-50% for
| books...but then everything goes on sale at some point.
| sideline merch (think the stuffed animals in the kids
| section) can get 60%+. but after rent, expenses, etc. we're
| just hoping to break even in year 1. the math suggests its
| possible but we're about to find out empirically. in the end,
| most evidence also suggests there are a lot easier ways to
| make $30k net a year. but it's a community project as a much
| as a business.
| bigfatfrock wrote:
| more power to you finding something you love and providing
| so lovingly to the community, money be damned, it's all the
| other things that truly matter!
|
| my wife and I when visiting a new place specifically seek
| out the local bookshop and buy something, her heading into
| the nonfiction section and me into fantasy/scifi. always a
| pleasure.
| kurttheviking wrote:
| yes exactly, my wife and i are the same way. some of the
| other shops we talked to were surprised at the amount of
| foot traffic from people who for one reason or another
| just happened to be in the area. anyway, we will have a
| full 8x13' room for scifi/fantasy; that's my section
| too...we could probably use more space for that. :)
| greenie_beans wrote:
| the aba does a yearly survey and last one i read, 2% profit
| was the average
| kurttheviking wrote:
| yup...it's razor thin. the ones that we found doing well
| are very, very good at community engagement in events and
| partnerships with local schools, community colleges, etc.
| greenie_beans wrote:
| do you need ecommerce software for your store? i posted
| about making an app for booksellers:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691388
| joeevans1000 wrote:
| You are wonderful!
| kurttheviking wrote:
| thanks! my wife and i both really like local bookstores and
| often stop into them when we travel. and you know, you only
| live once...so why not.
| swaptr wrote:
| Awesome! Are you planning to build a bookshop or something more
| like a library?
| kurttheviking wrote:
| we have a really great local library system where i live so
| what we're working on is definitely more a local store. we'll
| have a mix of titles based on our knowledge of community
| preferences (my wife is also a writer and knows much more
| than me about the local scene), seasonal titles (e.g.
| featuring new and old horror titles in october), plus events
| like author readings and educational seminars.
| hallman76 wrote:
| I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA
| also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the
| community surrounding it. Best of luck to you!
| https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliation)
| 101008 wrote:
| I hope you succeed. This would be a dream of mine, have a cozy
| bookshop, with maybe a cafe, or something like that. The world
| deserves more bookstores, they are beautiful and each one is
| unique. Honestly, I wish you the best and, as someone who would
| love to live it through but possibly won't, I'd love if you
| start a weekly newsletter telling what you are doing/learning
| in the process!
| kurttheviking wrote:
| yeah, it was the same for us. really one day we woke up,
| talked about it, and agreed, why not. worst case, i'll work a
| few more years than i had originally planned or whatever.
| best cast, we have delivered a valuable service to the
| community and can work on it for many years. my wife will be
| full time and it's very much her dream too. i hadn't thought
| of the newsletter but that's such a good idea...stay tuned, i
| might dm you.
| shiroiushi wrote:
| >sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves
|
| I've heard that IKEA "Billy" bookshelves are very popular,
| including among people who heavily customize them into
| creations that look nothing like the original.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Or, why not buy them from the shop that's closing? Or buy the
| whole business?
| shiroiushi wrote:
| That does seem like it would be the easiest route, but it
| seems that if that were an option, the OP probably would
| have done it already. I wonder if it wasn't an option for
| some reason.
| kurttheviking wrote:
| yeah it wasn't an option for a variety of reasons. for
| instance, landlord of the prior location will subdividing
| and reletting the space and that work will take time to
| complete. another consideration is remaining inventory
| tends to be the stuff that doesn't sell well anyway and
| even at a steep discount that inventory occupies valuable
| shelf space.
| seafoamteal wrote:
| That's lovely. I'm still in university, but one thing I've
| wanted to do since I was a kid is to have a small bookshop or
| library later in life. Thanks for showing me it can be done!
| anonzzzies wrote:
| Ah, my wife and I have always wanted to do the same. We would
| like to make it a bookshop for dog charity. Hope we get there
| some day as well. Keep up the good work!
| rsktaker wrote:
| I'm working on a private social media app for (me and my) friends
| who workout together. Making a beta version of the app with
| flutterflow (low-code, bit buggy) to see if it is what I think it
| is.
| mips_avatar wrote:
| I am trying to use a decoder encoder to generate rift transforms
| for delta compression of binary file updates.
| bob1029 wrote:
| I am working a contract job to integrate some banking back office
| concerns (pays bills), a Unity RTS game and a machine learning
| project.
|
| The ML project is probably the most interesting. It is seeking to
| use evolutionary/genetic algorithms with novel computational
| substrates such as spiking networks and Turing machines. Things
| that would (by intent) run poorly on someone's GPU farm. I figure
| I might get lucky looking under rocks no one seems to care about
| anymore.
| eli_gottlieb wrote:
| I got notified my NeurIPS paper was accepted this past week, so
| I've been doing the brush-ups that'll have the manuscript set for
| camera-ready. Preprint on arxiv with the title "Divide-and-
| Conquer Predictive Coding" at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834
| shwetank wrote:
| I'm working on Voohy (https://voohy.com), a platform for
| leadership development.
|
| It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who
| want to do it right. I'm solo bootstrapping it.
|
| It has a combination of learning resources (courses, research
| paper insights etc) and tools.
|
| While the learning resources are for helping you with knowledge,
| the tooling aspect is for developing the right habits for staying
| a good leader.
| magicbuzz wrote:
| I'm working on a solar forecast for my off-grid PV installation.
| It's a small install of 1kWp (2 bifacial panels) with a 4kWh
| battery. I chew through about 25% of my battery each day and so a
| forecast of the next few days or so is very useful to help me
| decide whether I can dip heavily into the battery or whether I
| should be a bit more conservative about power use.
|
| https://tim-burgess.observablehq.cloud/pvoutput/solar
|
| SolCast (solcast.com.au) has a free API for home users and also
| some historical data. So it's essentially just some D3 code
| running on Observable.
| cebert wrote:
| I was excited about the Cloudflare announcements this past week.
| I primarily use AWS in my day job, but I wanted to broaden my
| knowledge. This weekend, I started building a simple to-do
| application using Durable Objects and the newly announced zero-
| latency SQLite storage. In just a few hours, I familiarized
| myself with Cloudflare and got the basic CRUD operations working.
| Next weekend, I plan to add WebSocket publications and a few
| other features, and then write a blog post about it. It was a
| great learning experience, and I'm impressed with what Cloudflare
| is doing.
| chuckwolfe wrote:
| This is really cool, I wasn't even aware Cloud flare is working
| on these kinds of things. Thanks For the news
| venky180 wrote:
| I am working on creating a framework for statistically
| identifying and measuring racial disparity in the criminal
| justice pipeline. This involves collecting, cleaning, and merging
| data from various government sources such as the FBI, DOJ,
| prisons, police stations, Sheriff's offices, county jails, etc.
| zeugmata9 wrote:
| sounds great. is this data easy to come by?
| venky180 wrote:
| Not really. The government agencies kinda make it hard on
| purpose to access this data. But, I am fortunate enough to be
| collaborating with experts who have been collecting this type
| of data for years.
| theptrk wrote:
| The "me database" tracking my gps for physical location, urls
| visited, etc..
|
| This way I can search through all my physical and computer
| activity to answer questions like: how many times did I go to the
| gym last year? or how many leetcode questions did I do this
| month?
|
| Wrote a summary here (https://theptrk.com/2024/09/27/me-database-
| master-plan/)
| TechDebtDevin wrote:
| Nice I plan on doing this for a whole year, hopefully 2025, but
| with lots of sleep data possibly with openBCI components and
| other devices and see if I can gain insight into some weird
| health phenomenons I've been experiencing.
| theptrk wrote:
| Oh nice. I feel like so many things affect my sleep including
| diet, mood, how long it's been since I doom scrolled. I
| wonder if any of that can help you investigate.
| josters wrote:
| I also played with this idea of a Memex [1] a few times
| already, but I always struggle with the actual usefulness of
| the data. Most of the time, the greatest fun for me is setting
| up the systems and seeing it all come together in a single
| database, but I tend to fall behind as soon as it is manual
| work to keep something updated.
|
| For location, I found that the easiest and most privacy-
| friendly way of doing this without wrecking the battery of my
| main phone was to get a cheap used Android phone with dual GPS
| (a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G) on which I have PhoneTrack [2]
| installed and then pipe the GPS points to a PostGIS database on
| my local network [3] when I am home.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex [2]:
| https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.eneiluj.nextcloud.phonet...
| [3]: https://github.com/gitc23/phonetrack-server
| Alacart wrote:
| https://approximated.app - reliably automating custom domains and
| their SSL certs at scale. For SaaS, marketplaces, platforms,
| outbound services, etc. who have a lot of customers that want to
| connect their own domains.
|
| Currently working on:
|
| - Further improving the embeddable DNS widget (to help/automate
| users updating their DNS records) that launched last month
|
| - Rolling out the new hybrid self hosted version that allows
| traffic and certs to only go through your servers, while getting
| the full benefit of the cloud version
|
| - Tinkering with some AI ideas for improving the existing WAF
| features (tricky, but potentially powerful)
|
| - Making Edge Sequences (pattern matching and rules applied at
| the edge) more flexible and powerful with more composable options
| and ways to match requests
|
| Recently hit a milestone of over a million domains served!
| joeevans1000 wrote:
| Patent trolling https://doesmyscreenwork.com.
| bilater wrote:
| I just revamped my app Shorts Generator and added a slick new
| layout. It makes it even easier to go from Text to viral video in
| minutes! See a demo in my post here:
|
| https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/1840578869847580815
|
| Link to app => https://www.shortsgenerator.com/
| maytc wrote:
| A tool to auto-translate images and PDFs.
| wenbin wrote:
| Still working on ListenNotes.com and PodcastAPI.com --it's been a
| 7-year journey so far.
|
| When I was younger, I admired those who could build 12 startups
| in 12 months. Now, I have more respect for the ones who stick
| with the same project for years (or even decades) :)
| kyleperik wrote:
| An experimental programming language that uses pattern matching
| and pipes.
|
| https://git.sr.ht/~kylep/pipes
|
| Just a toy, but I like playing with novel semantics and paradigms
| which break out of the procedural/functional/oop styles.
| dh1011 wrote:
| I am working on "Subscription Manager," a simple single-page web
| application that allows users to manage their recurring payments.
| It provides a summary of your expenses, including weekly,
| monthly, and yearly totals for all your current subscriptions.
| Additionally, it features notifications through NTFY to notify
| when a subscription is dued for payment.
|
| Here is the Github repo of this project:
| https://github.com/dh1011/subscription-manager
|
| This is a self-hosted open-source project, licensed under the MIT
| license.
| tracerbulletx wrote:
| I'm writing an open source and light Notepad like text editor
| front end for local or Anthropic LLMs to have a little more
| control over my experience with them. It persists tabs with local
| storage unless you create an account then you can save and sync
| docs and do vector search on them. https://modelpad.app/
| https://github.com/SteveCastle/modelpad
| justEgan wrote:
| With the rich cafe/coffee culture in Indonesia, I decided to
| create a map directory focused specifically in showing cafes.
|
| https://kopimap.com
| richardbui95 wrote:
| I'm developing a tool called Sheetany that allows people to
| easily convert Google Sheets into websites.
|
| Sheetany is a website builder that helps you quickly create
| websites directly from your Google Sheets without design or
| development skills, for blogs, directories, job boards, and more.
|
| https://sheetany.com
| ziofill wrote:
| I'm taking a crack at ARC-AGI. Very curious to see where I land.
| Razengan wrote:
| A framework/library/layer/whatever for Godot:
| https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot
|
| Still quite a bit of work to do but I wanted something that could
| be a one-stop shop for all kinds of 2D games. So you could use it
| to make something as varied as say UFO 50 [0] or any of the
| arcade games from the 1980s-90s.
|
| I've always thought there should be more genre-specific _"
| editors"_ instead of just _" engines"_. Because even with the
| most powerful engines you still need a TON of boilerplate and
| Google-fu to make all the basic mid-layer stuff that's necessary
| in almost all games.
|
| The editors and toolkits that came with StarCraft, Warcraft 3
| etc. enabled solitary creators to make some of the most popular
| games in the world like DotA, CounterStrike, even spawning entire
| new _genres.._
|
| And I've always loved the "composition" paradigm: A workflow
| where you'd think about the basic behaviors that your in-game
| objects and characters will have, write them once, and then wire
| them together in many different ways.
|
| And Godot has been the perfect starting place for that! Its
| editor is good enough and customizable, and its node hierarchy
| system fits perfectly with the idea of Lego-like components. I
| wanted to make something like Godot Nodes but for _gameplay._
|
| Hopefully soon I will have my ideal engine to actually make my
| actual game... :')
|
| [0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
| eigilsagafos wrote:
| I'm working on a state library for JS/React very similar to
| Recoil and Jotai. Have been using both but struggled with
| different performance issues that I was able to overcome seeing
| 10x to 100x improvements in some cases. I'm working on
| documentation at the moment and plan to open source soon
| skeptrune wrote:
| I haven't had much time, but I've been hacking on a CLI based
| blogging framework called rot.
|
| I want it to be fully piloted via CLI for setup, deploys, and
| common actions like creating new posts. Bonus features would be
| random post, analytics, and view count routes built in.
|
| Just having fun with it. I'm not sure if people beyond myself
| will want it.
| smcn wrote:
| We recently soft launched the new https://feetr.io website as
| well as our stock market AI, and are knocking our pan in to fix
| the little bugs that have been uncovered in addition to migrating
| more of our existing code to the new system.
|
| Over the weekend, we trialled the AI on Reddit[0] and got 300
| comments more than expected, so we're doing the above while there
| are a lot more eyeballs on us.
|
| Super stressful but we're getting there.
|
| 0:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortsqueeze/comments/1fr9ae1/give_...
| some_furry wrote:
| I'm gonna buck the trend a bit:
|
| I'm not working on anything. I'm resting.
|
| I'll resume my previous projects in due time, but for the next
| few days, I only have my employer's problems to deal with, and
| have none of my own.
| CreepGin wrote:
| OneJS, JavaScript for Unity. Currently working on bringing
| "Jupyter Notebook" directly into the Unity Editor.
|
| https://onejs.com
| antiatheist wrote:
| That's pretty awesome, wasn't expecting typescript support too,
| and thought it would just be bound to the Unity/C# API but
| you've added support for rendering modern React into Unity as
| well.
|
| If this was made for Godot I'd pay you.
| CreepGin wrote:
| Tyty! To be honest, Godot and UE have been very tempting. I'm
| just too deep into Unity at this point. Even I'm surprised
| that their years of fiascos didn't shake me off. But it looks
| like things are getting better over there.
| ibx22 wrote:
| I'm learning QOL hacks to live without a city water supply for 10
| days! Should be interesting. Our town just lost its water supply
| after Hurricane Helene destroyed the water supply pumping
| station.
|
| And working on a member-owned social network that runs from users
| countertops to foster dynamics that make for a better social user
| experience.
| vijitdhingra wrote:
| A chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using
| LLMS! helps avoid a bunch of copy-pasting into ChatGpt.
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rocky-ai/fdjoklehji...
|
| 1. Summarize Articles - Get concise overviews of content from
| sources like HackerNews, Reddit, and more. 2. Quick Information
| Lookup - Effortlessly locate key details on pages such as
| developer documentation, car forums, and beyond. 3. Personalized
| LinkedIn Outreach - Craft customized outreach messages for your
| LinkedIn connections with ease. 4. Review Analysis - Analyze
| feedback and reviews from platforms like Airbnb, Amazon, and
| others for quick insights.
| sifex wrote:
| I'm currently finalising a Security Operations app that
| centralises triage for security alerts (North / https://north.sh)
| into an intuitive interface that better helps Security Operations
| teams, MSSPs & SOCs.
|
| It tries to deal with alert fatigue via some nice de-duplication
| techniques (via customisable aggregation and correlation rules),
| manages and runs detection rules against different logging
| platforms (Elastic, Splunk and ALA/Azure) with Validation and
| Simulation testing, and will lower the time that it takes to
| determine malicious activity by presenting as much relevant
| information per security alert as possible.
|
| Hopefully to launch sometime before end-of-year. If you're
| interested, I'm always free to talk via alex@sinn.io, or sign up
| to the newsletter.
|
| https://north.sh/
| AutoAPI wrote:
| I just relaunched PostalAgent which lets you send postcards
| online by circling neighborhoods on a google map and then
| refining using demographic filters
|
| My free plan offers an all in price which includes design, print
| and mail to your customers door for less than any competitor
|
| https://PostalAgent.com
| aaronblohowiak wrote:
| In general, an automated system to catalog, store and retrieve
| trading cards (magic for now, Pokemon next.) Right now, working
| on computer vision recognition of magic cards, but I'm trying to
| tackle the hard edge cases that many other projects and products
| don't (revised vs unlimited, multiple reprints in The List,
| automatic language detection, etc etc.)
| ianbicking wrote:
| I've been hacking on a LLM-based text adventure this weekend:
| https://github.com/ianb/intra-game
|
| It's like the fourth or fifth time I've made an attempt at this,
| each time learning something along the way. This might not be a
| success either... but I can tell I've made progress.
|
| Right now I'm struggling with how to manage different events and
| different agents. Actually making a "winnable" game with "a
| point" is also hard!
| piazz wrote:
| I'm working on an Anki Addon that streamlines the hell out of the
| card generation process using LLMs. You can define a schema of
| prompts for your note type & fields, where each prompt can
| reference other fields, and use it to generate things like
| translations, example sentences, mnemonics, for tens of thousands
| of cards in batches or in the fly as they're reviewed. These
| generated fields can reference other generated fields so it's
| actually a fully fledged DAG under the hood! It also supports TTS
| in 50+ languages. Soon adding image generation support.
|
| https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1531888719
|
| It's a paid service at $5/mo with a free trial. Just cracked
| $50/MRR! Baby steps, but the value is clearly there. Need to
| tighten up a couple things, especially the web presence and
| onboarding, before I start marketing more. The tragic irony is
| that I'm spending all my language learning time building this
| (alas there can be no other way).
| john_minsk wrote:
| This is amazing.
| herunan wrote:
| I was wondering why this wasn't a thing yet. And here it is!
| piazz wrote:
| Same! There was another add-on that sort of did it, but it
| was broken with modern versions of Anki. Was very surprised
| nobody built this yet.
| josters wrote:
| This is really nice! I couldn't find it in your feature set and
| maybe it is there, but I am looking for a way to do Anki card
| reviews without looking at the screen.
|
| The other day I was on a 6h solo road trip and thought how
| useful it would have been if I could just open Anki on my phone
| and do my daily reviews without direct interaction. With a
| combination of TTS/STT and some background noise reduction this
| would be a neat feature: card appears, word/sentence is spoken,
| I have 60s for a response which is evaluated and automatically
| rated, then repeat. Maybe also find a way to keep the screen
| black to prevent distraction.
| piazz wrote:
| That would be really cool. Unfortunately there's not much you
| can do on mobile with Anki extensions, so what you've
| described would have to be a standalone app. You could
| definitely wire up TTS fields with this add-on, but you'd
| still have to manually rate your answer.
| seangransee wrote:
| I'm building an infinite realtime canvas for people all over the
| world to collaborate on pixel art. Not a business by any means,
| just pure fun!
|
| https://everyonedraw.com
| TimeWasterPro wrote:
| I've been writing a program to finally convert my handwritten
| notes to text. It's a lot harder than it sounds given that HTR
| performs way worse than OCR. I got something that works about 95%
| of the time.
| moxvallix wrote:
| I have spent the last year or so restoring a Minecraft skin
| editor site, that had gone offline for good. I had used that site
| for years to make my own skins as a child, and while I hadn't
| used it in a couple years, I still had friends that relied on it
| to make their own skins, and were greatly disappointed losing the
| site.
|
| Starting from a wayback machine archive, I hacked some much
| needed improvements in to the minimised jquery-based, javascript
| (a right pain but an excellent learning experience). I
| implemented a Rails backend for the gallery, and have since been
| slowly improving it, replacing assets, and growing a community
| around it.
|
| We recently hit 10k skins on the site!
|
| I am working on rewriting the actual editor from scratch, and
| releasing the code as open source once all original assets/code
| have been swapped out.
|
| If anyone wants to check it out: https://needcoolershoes.com/
| (The editor doesnt work on mobile, but the gallery does)
| atlgator wrote:
| Just a Sunday project but there's a limited release product
| dropping in October. One of the online retailers uses Shopify, so
| I wrote a bot to alert me when it comes in stock.
| dools wrote:
| Platform upgrades that will allow me greater control over
| billing, and automated provisioning, for BenkoPhone
| https://www.benkophone.com/
| zeugmata9 wrote:
| Made a simple word game: https://wordwheel-pied.vercel.app/
|
| And went to a fun climate-themed hackathon, would like to make
| that a regular thing.
| hsnice16 wrote:
| After working for more than 2 years as a frontend engineer, I
| recently started doing full-stack and the org is using Go so I
| had to learn that, have kept all my learning in one place -
| https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning
|
| Also, I completed a few AWS-related tasks right after starting
| full-stack. I have written blogs mentioning what I did to help
| others.
|
| Lambda function to access RDS, S3. And, Eventbridge in AWS -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/lambda-function-to-access-rds-s3...
|
| Use private AWS Aurora with DBeaver using SSH tunneling -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/use-private-aws-aurora-with-dbea...
|
| Build and Push the docker image on AWS ECR using GitHub actions -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...
|
| There is one more blog that I have found, that has helped a lot
| of folks.
|
| Write your own Telegram Wallet bot -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/write-your-own-telegram-wallet-b...
|
| I also created a KPI card component that I listed on Gumroad, but
| sadly it was a flop idea. https://hsnice.gumroad.com/l/pdnbo
|
| And, in the last GitHub streak is coming back -
| https://github.com/hsnice16 (POV, your org has added your
| personal GitHub username in the repo)
| dogtorwoof wrote:
| I wish I was working on something. How is it that I can't think
| of anything? My mind goes blank. Maybe it's a side effect of
| being burnt out from my job.
| oneepic wrote:
| It's a huge space, so I wouldn't say it's easy. Also several
| ideas will just not be interesting to you at first, and many
| others will only be revealed as uninteresting after a while (ie
| you hit a problem you aren't interested in solving).
|
| One idea might be to learn something new, if you don't have a
| project. Think about a textbook or a class, or online texts, or
| just some interesting popsci at the local bookstore/library for
| example. any might work depending on your style.
| paddy_m wrote:
| I am working on Buckaroo[1] - the data table for
| jupyter/dataframes that I have always wanted. Buckaroo combines a
| performant table capable of scrolling through 1000s of rows, with
| summary stats and histograms. All configurable and extensible by
| users. never type df.head() again. give it a try, I'm eager to
| hear feedback.
|
| Recently I have been working on the low-code UI. I find myself
| looking up and typing the same pandas (and polars) incantations
| over and over again to explore and modify data. The low-code UI
| allows simple transforms of data (search, remove column outliers,
| show only outliers of a column, group by) to be perfromed with
| just clicks. You can also view the generated python code. This is
| powered by a json-flavored lisp interpreter, but users never have
| to type lisp code.
|
| [1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
| habosa wrote:
| Lately I've been working on GitGuard (https://gitguard.dev/)
| which is a flexible way to write approval rules / workflows for
| your GitHub PRs. Think GitHub's branch protections but with the
| power of a toy programming language.
|
| Also my long-term project (4 years or so) has been CodeApprove
| (https://codeapprove.com/) which is a much better code review UI
| for teams on GitHub.
|
| So, yeah, I am pretty into making GitHub better for teams!
| bbourn wrote:
| AI for Electronics; www.zenode.ai
| sveske_juice wrote:
| I am working on a new Computer Algebra System (CAS) tool, which
| is a programming language focused on math called Openbirch
| https://gitlab.com/Sveske-Juice/openbirch.
|
| It will probably be licensed with some open source license like
| GPL or MIT. Right now there really isn't much functionality, but
| i hope that it someday will be as good as other existing CAS
| tools like Maple and WolframAlpha.
|
| The main motivation for this project besides from learning, is
| that there really isn't any modern open source alternatives to
| the leading CAS tools (at least that i know of).
| anandijain wrote:
| that's awesome! I wrote a Mathematica like cas about a year ago
| and it was definitely one of the most rewarding projects I've
| worked on.
|
| I didn't get to look too deep into the source. Do symbols in
| openbirch self evaluate like in Mathematica?
| guywithahat wrote:
| https://www.parentcontrols.win/
|
| An AI parent filter, which can remove and modify page content in
| real time. It's designed for kids using their first computer, and
| is fully launched (although only available on Windows right now).
|
| Admittedly we're looking for seed funding and may not stay open
| forever, but the tech itself is really cool, and we get really
| strong positive reactions from parents once they learn you can
| use this to filter out quasi-political content in addition to
| adult/graphic content. We're entering an age where all content
| can be modified in real time, and I think Parent Controls Win
| still has a lot of potential.
| e-clinton wrote:
| Namebrand-Check, a browser extension to help me sort out BS
| brands on Amazon from legitimate ones. This is something I
| struggle with regularly. Unless you know the category real well,
| you may miss that KEEN is a great brand for durable shoes for
| kids, or example.
|
| Using an LLM to do the brand ranking with great results so far.
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/namebrand-check-for...
| BadGeekChris wrote:
| I am currently working on interpretation of LLM. How to we
| construct the structure of LLM. I am also interested in the local
| deployment of LLM, offline version of ChatGPT. How to we use RAG
| to improve not only the accuracy but also the richness expression
| of LLM.
| BadGeekChris13 wrote:
| I am currently working on interpretation of LLM. How to we
| construct the structure of LLM. I am also interested in the local
| deployment of LLM, offline version of ChatGPT. How to we use RAG
| to improve not only the accuracy but also the richness expression
| of LLM.
| DigiEggz wrote:
| Working on a few major changes for my turn-based MMORPG. It uses
| HaxeFlixel for the client and SmartFoxServer for the backend.
| I've had fun working on it for about four years now.
|
| Relevant links: https://jamcloud95.com
| https://github.com/DigiEggz/smartfox-haxe-client
| vednig wrote:
| End to End Encrypted Personal Cloud - cloud.doshare.me
| chown wrote:
| I am working on making using LLMs easy for everyone. Focus is to
| make users productive rather than having them configuring their
| environment to death. Wrote this app for my wife who, even as a
| smart software engineer, was getting overwhelmed with AI and
| LLMs.
|
| https://Msty.app
| bombi wrote:
| Very Nice! I have a request...can you possibly add MemoryRAG?
| DontNoodles wrote:
| I have been slowly but steadily working at building a mobile
| Planetarium over the past year. I want to take it to the students
| of my community. The existing mobile Planetarium kits are
| inflatable ones that are noisy, flappy and rather expensive. I
| have based the frame of my dome using pvc pipes tied together
| using reusable zipties and figured out the projection surface
| using gores made out of EPS sheets. These steps I have completed.
|
| I considered both multi-projector setup as well as single
| projector based on a fisheye lens and have decided to go with the
| later due to ease of use as well as cost. But getting the right
| lens in my corner of the world is proving to be near impossible.
| There is a specific lens that is suggested but the original
| manufacturers have no stock and the only used lens available on
| US eBay is proving impossible to order. So, that is where I am
| stuck at: twiddling my thumbs.
| Gud wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.stonkys.com. Not really Slashdot, not
| really Hacker News. I always like programming and I was always
| curious about the world. I figured, why not make a tech/politics
| website _I_ would like to use?
| weworkjs wrote:
| i've started this sideproject weworkjs[0], which categorize
| comments on the WhoisHiring thread by location, roles,
| technologies, and summarizing them.
|
| [0] https://weworkjs.com/about
| rishikeshs wrote:
| I'm currently working on a Static HTML Comment system for my
| blog[1]. I recently moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and
| wanted to move away from Disqus. The goal is to build a backend
| that receives the comment, forwards to Telegram for approval and
| then push a code to Github for rebuilding the site. I've
| implemented a POC currently with Google Apps Script, but trying
| to build a robust backend with Flask. Preventing spam is also yet
| another puzzle.
|
| [1] https://rishikeshs.com/
| kamalkishor1991 wrote:
| https://diagramix.ai A diagramming tool using AI
| Saigonautica wrote:
| I designed an electronic board game, very similar to Settlers of
| Catan.
|
| There are some electronic Catan builds out there, but I found
| them really expensive -- e.g. opting for a smartwatch screen +
| microcontroller for every game tile (of which there are 19).
| Beautiful, yes -- but not my style.
|
| Instead, I went for 8-segment displays for numeric tile values,
| and RGB LEDs to display terrain types. It adds up to 342 LEDs to
| control for the full board, from a single central
| microcontroller. When you turn it on, it sets up the board for
| you. Pressing a central button "rolls the dice", and it will
| flash the tiles that produce resources as per the game rules. Or
| cue special actions on certain rolls.
|
| I really enjoy cost-optimizing prototypes, so this was good fun.
| I got it down to about USD 20 for a single, ready-to-play unit,
| including solid brass game pieces (it helps that I'm in Asia). I
| still use the deck of cards from Catan for now, but plan to
| replace it with something sci-fi themed. Maybe "Asteroid Miners".
|
| The only thing I'm not 100% satisfied with is that the board is a
| little cramped -- it's a bit over half the size of the original
| Catan board. The PCBs had to fit within 100mx100mm -- I used a
| bit of a weird PCB geometry so that the board is composed of 3
| identical subunits, rotated a few degrees to maximize it's
| surface area within a 100mm square.
|
| I'm not planning to sell it. I just had a slow month, so it's a
| good time to learn to do new things. I never make any money with
| hardware, but I love how whimsical electronics can brighten
| someone's day. Sometimes that earns me a client -- and if not,
| it's cheap entertainment for me that keeps my skills sharp and my
| morale high.
| cmdrk wrote:
| This sounds really cool! Please post it to HN!
| osm3000 wrote:
| I am working on Omie, https://webapp.omie42.com/, yet another
| language learning tool :D
|
| You start by learning the words: It augments the repetition
| aspect of Anki with added context to the words (random example
| sentences for each work, each time). I curated / generated the
| set of words in advance. Then you move to practice these words in
| chat about different topics (soon voice conversation as well).
| You get a feedback in each turn about what your mistakes, without
| interrupting the chat.
|
| I am using DeepL for translation (I am not liking it though,
| since it is very narrow strict definitions. I will be exploring
| OpenAI for that soon). For chat, OpenAI GPT-4o.
|
| This is my first webapp. I used HTMX + AlpineJS, Python, Supabase
| (Auth, S3, DB), and hosting on my PI.
|
| It's work in progress, but I need to start finding core users to
| give feedback. I am not really sure how though. I had some tough
| experiences on Reddit and Discord (understandable tbh).
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| I quit my job to focus on Manabi Reader full-time, for learning
| Japanese by reading (and next via YouTube). Has its own SRS
| flashcards or you can use its Anki integration on mobile and
| desktop.
|
| https://reader.manabi.io iOS/macOS
|
| It tracks every word and kanji you read to show you what you need
| to learn in order to read something new. It assembles your own
| personal corpus of example sentences as you read too, and will
| soon show you "i + 1" sentences to learn. No AI slop, just native
| immersion.
|
| I'm also finishing an update now that automatically reviews
| flashcards that appear in texts you read. I find this more
| enjoyable and effective than slogging through context-light
| flashcards.
| fishcakes wrote:
| We are building a new kind of venture capital investment firm -
| Empros Capital.
|
| We are hiring for two roles:
|
| 1. People that have a technical background and want to become
| investors.
|
| 2. People that have an extraordinary background outside of
| technology (especially in writing or other liberal arts) and a
| deep interest in technology and want to become investors.
|
| Please get in touch if interested! My email is alex at ...
| shaklee3 wrote:
| My kids' elementary school has a running club that I manage. In
| past years they pay a subscription to a company that's quite
| expensive to track laps. I decided to implement some software
| that's better and runs on an rpi.
|
| It's working very well, and the kids like it more because it has
| audio feedback on laps and time.
|
| Besides the cheap USB qr scanners there's no expenses either.
| sponno wrote:
| I don't need this app, but sounds look a cool project? Can you
| share more details? How does it tack laps?
| shaklee3 wrote:
| Thanks for the interest. I will post it publicly soon, but
| right now it's on my private github. Basically it's a small
| python app running on a raspberry pi with 2 USB QR scanners.
| It uses sqlite with a database of QR codes assigned to the
| students. They wear lanyards with those codes on them. When
| they start running it logs their start, and every lap they
| can again. It tracks personal records, total laps, laps per
| day, and time per lap.
|
| We've received a lot of positive feedback from the kids
| compared to the old system that was using proprietary
| software. The problem with that software is it used cell
| phones for scanning codes, which is very error-prone and
| takes a long time to register on some phones.
| iamwil wrote:
| Been working on issue 2 for Forest Friends Zine. The first issue
| was on system evals, and it was well received. I also learned a
| lot about how these RAG systems are built. The second issue will
| either be about UI to gather user feedback or tool use.
|
| https://forestfriends.tech
|
| https://issue1.forestfriends.tech
| jansan wrote:
| I am working on a vector graphics editor https://www.hyvector.com
|
| Basic features are implemented, it is fast and already quite
| stable and slick. For the first version all that is missing is a
| website and feedback channels.
|
| There are major features in the pipeline and I hope that one day
| I will be able to make some money with this project.
| hamytphm2022 wrote:
| I'm working on https://mindpal.space/ - a platform for anyone
| (even without technical backgrounds) to build AI multi-agent
| workflows as internal AI productivity tools, lead generation
| tools, or extra income sources.
|
| Within just 1 year, we have acquired more than 1500 paid
| customers.
| bnrdr wrote:
| Just FYI, your landing page is pretty hard to use on mobile. As
| you scroll down the page the content keeps jumping around
| because of the typing effect at the top of the page overflowing
| onto two lines
| mark336 wrote:
| I'm working on a tech news summary site:
| https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads. Its mainly tech news,
| but I also am putting tech news that is relevant to its stock.
| And will put some finance news.
| churros_train wrote:
| I read about things I don't understand all the time, and the best
| way I know to train myself to retain information is to actively
| take notes directly on the thing I am reading on.
|
| Using a highlighter or annotation type tool, if you will.
|
| So I decided to build an annotation tool for all public webpages!
| Playground demos of how it will work: -
| https://www.contextdive.com/snapshot?snapshottedId=47692b19-... -
| https://www.contextdive.com/snapshot?snapshottedId=3557f52f-...
|
| ^These are previously snapshotted page, you can highlight
| anywhere and leave a comment by right clicking for the context
| menu
|
| \PS: I still don't have persistence of comments working yet since
| its a playground, but would love to hear feedback if anyone would
| like to use it.
| pdyc wrote:
| csv viewer with charts https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline
| jankovicsandras wrote:
| Free and open source Okapi BM25 search for Postgresql implemented
| in PL/pgSQL, so it works without extensions.
|
| https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25
|
| Might be useful in hosted/cloud Postgres, where you can't use
| Rust extensions.
| jjuliano wrote:
| Gitops orchestration tool to create manageable and predictable
| shell scripts in YAML. It uses shortest-path first graph to
| calculate the run-order based on its dependencies -
| https://github.com/jjuliano/runner
| Instantnoodl wrote:
| Thermal Printer as D&D / TTRPG utility:
| https://github.com/BigJk/snd
| davidatbu wrote:
| I'm working on an "offline first" Github client. The things I
| want to achieve are:
|
| 1. Background sync of repo state/PRs/issues/etc.
|
| 2. Ability to do "optimistically updates" when creating/editing
| PRs/issues etc.
|
| The short to medium plan is to implement a CLI interface. But I
| hope to abstract the core into something that can be compiled to
| wasm such that a web UI that has optimistic updates everywhere,
| and is "offline first".
|
| I'm doing this post to see if folks have seen similar projects
| around, I'd prefer not to build something that's already built.
| safar_so_far wrote:
| I'm a big fan of Aseprite (pixel art program). I was curious how
| things work internally in pixel art programs and recently I
| decided to build my own.
|
| I develop it in my spare time (for already 3 weeks) and you can
| check it here: https://github.com/SafarSoFar/pixelater
|
| I build it with C++, ImGui for GUI and raylib for graphics,
| mainly for texture writing. Hope you will like it!
| iceman_w wrote:
| I'm working on pivots.fyi (https://pivots.fyi/).
|
| It tracks 1000+ startups that have been founded in the last 3
| years and showcases how their product, mission, team size,
| founders, etc. evolve week over week. It is interesting to see
| how quickly early stage startups pivot.
|
| Looking for feedback/suggestions about how I can make this more
| useful.
| mraza007 wrote:
| Love the UI very simple and minimal
|
| How do you find the data if you don't mind sharing
| iceman_w wrote:
| Thanks! The data is collected by continuously scraping the
| startup's website and their YC page.
| Diropek wrote:
| I wish i could see which ones became big in the past 3 years
| based on profit
| hansoolo wrote:
| What does status mean in your pages case? I saw e.g. Fileforge
| go inactive, but their website looks pretty active. How do you
| determine the status?
| elorm wrote:
| They are currently listed as inactive in the YC directory. I
| guess the status section works for accelerators like YC that
| provide status updates.
| cmdrk wrote:
| Over the last 20 years people have asserted Erlang would make a
| great language for an MMO server backend. I've been working on
| building an open system around that idea, integrating with Godot.
| It's slow going (a few years old now!) but I've got a framework
| that serializes everything with protobuf, builds a lot of the
| client libraries for Godot on the fly, and works over ENet (UDP)
| and WebSocket (HTTPS). Have a general abstraction for "tick-
| based" games that's starting to feel nice, and thinking about
| turn-based games with some general state machine functionality.
| Working on some demos and documentation this week. Maybe present
| it at a conference and see if anyone else wants to walk this path
| with me?
|
| Otherwise I've been thinking a lot about using Erlang as a
| control plane in the scientific/hpc realm. I often fantasize
| about a single system image on the BEAM for running functions as
| a service, talking to object stores etc.
| pronopython wrote:
| I'm working on https://github.com/pronopython/rugivi RuGiVi-- an
| adult python PyGame app to fly over and zoom in and out of a huge
| image and video collection.
|
| My app can handle landscapes of hundred of thousands of images at
| once. The last major feature addition was the ability to handle
| video files. These are presented as a collection of still frames
| within the "world". Currently I am trying to find bugs within the
| media loading scheduler mechanism.
|
| The work is quite hard, because despite good installation numbers
| (pypi) and clones (github), there's literally no feedback
| whatsoever (bugs, questions etc). If this is because of the
| adult-use aspect or if this is normal I can't tell but would
| suggest the first reason. So I have to come up with possible
| problems people might have all by myself. Any feedback is highly
| welcomed!
| nradk wrote:
| I'm implementing a Scheme interpreter in Rust as a way to learn
| and get bettet in both of those languages (but mainly Rust). I
| picked the R3RS specification of Scheme as it looked like the
| simplest one, but I've been surprised by the complexity of
| numbers in Scheme.
|
| This is the most excited I've been about a programming project in
| years, and I'm looking forward to the fun and the learning. And
| I'm really curious to see how slow my intetpreter is going to be
| compared to the industrial-grade ones.
| emporas wrote:
| Someone has implemented a Scheme interpreter in Rust. Steel
| Scheme. I was studying that project a year back.
| kbrecordzz wrote:
| Achieving compatibility with all web browsers >2012-2014 and
| onwards (= those who support TLS 1.2 HTTPS and WebGL), for a 3D
| game.
|
| Also, finding new inspirations for the game. I like how Minecraft
| uses vertical depth and how peaceful and stressless it is. Maybe
| I'll get inspired by that.
| sponno wrote:
| I got so upset with Docusign being too expensive and unfair, that
| I quit my last startup to build a new one.
|
| I built a complete platform over the past 3 years, that doesn't
| require a subscription and you only pay for what you send. Give
| it a go if you need to send a document that needs to be signed.
|
| https://goodsign.io
| john01dav wrote:
| I have been looking for something like this, but the pricing is
| too high for my use case. It needs to be comparable to just
| printing the document and signing with pens, or it's not
| generally worth it to me. It seems wild to me that something
| that in principal could be basically free costs so much.
| sssilver wrote:
| I generally sign my documents using macOS's built in Preview
| app. I guess I pay for it when I purchase a MacBook but I get
| a whole lot more value.
|
| What do web apps like DocuSign offer that Preview doesn't?
| sponno wrote:
| Preview works great for one people signing. Not so helpful
| for people sending. GoodSign helps businesses to make sure
| that when the send a contract it does get signed and they
| don't forget about it (GoodSign keeps reminding you to
| sign). It allows two different people to sign at the same
| time and it doesn't matter what order. The document is
| saved forever, securely so you don't lose it.
| promoterr wrote:
| Well, yeah he forgot to mention Mail app (also runs on
| Mac) where you just click on Gray/Blue star "Sign" - and
| it's signed. But that's only the message right? Well -
| you should sign PDF before as well. Then - it's done.
| Don't get us wrong - I don't even check your project -
| which definitely deserve to exists - just saying - maybe
| it's not for everyone...
| KolmogorovComp wrote:
| For the curious, the price is $1.50/envelope, which seems
| very reasonable (I'm not affiliated). [0]
|
| > It needs to be comparable to just printing the document and
| signing with pens
|
| When you factor in the price of buying a printer, and move
| the printed doc around for multiple persons to sign, it is
| comparable if not cheaper.
|
| [0] https://goodsign.io
| turblety wrote:
| > When you factor in the price of buying a printer
|
| I don't think that's a fair comparison, as you would have
| to compare buying a printer and pen, with buying a computer
| and internet connection.
| dpc050505 wrote:
| You can also print stuff for like 5c a page at the
| library and get some cool books while you're there.
| turblety wrote:
| Can also use the library computer too.
| C0d3G4rd wrote:
| One could make the argument that the time, effort and
| coordination that it takes to go to the library and also
| coordinate a counter signature is more expensive than the
| cost per envelope.
| chirau wrote:
| This is nice, but I think it would be even better if you had
| some sort of unlimited plan or volume price (I see the $1k
| offer but that still is pretty high). A person conducting a
| survey with NDAs with 150 would find this useful, but if i am
| regularly conducting surveys with at least 1k people who have
| to sign NDAs, your pricing model becomes unfavorable.
|
| Great job all the same, this is nice.
| sponno wrote:
| Appreciate the feedback - you probably could do something
| much simpler for NDA. I don't really think you need a
| signature, a check box would be good enough in your survey
| saying they've agreed to your NDA.
|
| GoodSign works really well for multiple signers, employment
| contracts and small to medium startups that are want a better
| signing tool and document management - but don't feel like
| the high prices of other tools is justified.
| xiconfjs wrote:
| The site is quite broken on mobile Safari:
|
| https://up2store.de/file/4RpE3Q2fuK8Dj4S4/kjcZbp9k8srjpcx8/I...
|
| https://up2store.de/file/4RpE3Q2fuK8Dj4S4/o71komFm2AoTGjvU/I...
| sponno wrote:
| I'm using safari all the time. Gah yes - appreciate the
| screenshots. I'll get that sorted tonight, I've recently
| rolled those two section out and missed checking it for
| mobile. Doh... The joys of solo development.
| OliverGuy wrote:
| Same thing on Chrome mobile
| idk1 wrote:
| Really good job! Just a note your pricing comparison table
| looks a bit shady. I think you should give either your per year
| cost compared to the others, or put the document cost on the
| others. But the way you've done it makes it look like you are
| tricking people into thinking yours is cheaper. That's just the
| vibe I'm getting from it. I think that's what you want the
| takeaway to be there, so I'd suggest updating that slightly.
| sponno wrote:
| The others don't do a document cost, so it does make it much
| harder to compare.
|
| The others just have a document limit, eg Docusign has a 100
| document limit per user. Docusign has a really high cost per
| user (I don't charge for users, only for sends).
|
| So it is harder to compare apples with apples - at the end of
| the day GoodSign is just that simple. $1.50 per send,
| unlimited users : )
|
| I choose 6 - because that's about the typical team size I see
| with GoodSign. So that feels like a good comparison.
|
| Thanks for pointing the pricing out - it really is that
| terrible! Hence why I built a product I would buy and I could
| understand. : )
| linsomniac wrote:
| I'd agree with @idk1, the pricing comparison is, basically,
| unusable.
|
| Goodsign compares to Docusign at $45/mo * 6 users for
| $3,240/year, compared to $1.50 for Goodsign. Hard to
| imagine a team of 6 that send one document per year.
|
| If I go to Docusign, they list a $15/mo price (Monthly) per
| user for 5 documents. Or a price of $3/envelope, which
| compares favorably to Goodsign. The $45/mo price seems to
| be for unlimited documents, so that'd be a breakeven of 30
| documents per user per month. BUT, Docusign offers
| significant discounts for paying yearly (hard to imagine a
| team of 6 that would use a service for just a month), which
| adjusts the pricing to $2/document for the 5 document plan
| and breakeven of 17 documents on the unlimited plan.
|
| I went to the pricing page to try to get an idea of whether
| I should suggest my company look at switching to Goodsign,
| and the page didn't help at all. The pricing page suggests
| that we're spending around a quarter million dollars a
| month on Docusign, which I know isn't the case, but without
| knowing how many documents we send for signing, which I
| don't know even an order of magnitude off hand, I can't get
| any idea what sort of ballpark we'd be looking at.
| sponno wrote:
| It's awesome to see so many people look at the pricing
| table. I can see $1.50 price is just not clear enough.
| I'll work on making this clearer.
|
| >spending around a quarter million dollars a month on
| Docusign
|
| That's also how I felt. I find big SaaS companies do so
| much to make sure you're fully locked in and they don't
| make it simple.
|
| Informally - from the customers I've talked to, GoodSign
| is a huge saving on their Docusign bill.
|
| I'll work on making a better pricing page.
| idk1 wrote:
| That may well be the case, but I think you need to have a
| look at the design of this pricing grid as it is confusing
| or not helpful or misleading.
|
| Perhaps some sort of slider where you can work out how
| yours compares to the amount of documents per month, so
| start with a sensible default and then show how much other
| services cost versus yours with, for example, 100 documents
| per month.
| sponno wrote:
| Fair comment - haven't tried to mislead anyone on the
| pricing. But I'll work to make it much clearer as I
| haven't put enough effort in the bottom row which shows a
| more fairer price comparison.
| rexreed wrote:
| The folks from Agree.com just started up to do the same
| thing... what do you think of them? Sounds like one of those
| times when folks think the same thing at the same time?
| issung wrote:
| A community project to archive PlayStation 2 save game icon
| assets, and make them viewable/downloadable for free in your
| browser! We've built a small community and are approaching the
| 20% archival mark :)
|
| https://ps2iodb.com/
| vinitagr wrote:
| I have been working on some useful tools that I am adding to my
| personal website repo here: https://github.com/volumetric/vinit-
| website/tree/main/app
|
| Till now, I have made the following tools: 1. Image Generator 2.
| Emoji Maker 3. OpenAPI Explorer (Explore 4000+ OpenAPI Spec Files
| in a nice GUI) 4. WIP - Cyber Sign - Digitally Document Signing
| Tool 5. WIP - Meme Generator - Make a Meme Image, GIF, Video,
| etc. with a text prompt
|
| All the code is public and open source.
|
| If you want to use the tools directly, you can check them on my
| website: https://www.vinitagrawal.com/
| tm11zz wrote:
| I'm working on a service that generates SVG vector graphics using
| generative AI.
|
| This is something current models struggle with but I've always
| wanted high quality vector graphics for my projects.
|
| https://vectorart.ai
| tmikaeld wrote:
| This is really nice, is this converting to SVG from Raster like
| similar services?
| RikNieu wrote:
| Started experimenting with Loras and AI image generation and had
| so much fun I created another profile pic generator
|
| https://dreamersgaze.com
| thesurlydev wrote:
| Inspired by recent projects like Kamal and Sidekick which target
| VPS rather than k8s, I created a control plane that leverages
| Caddy, Cloudflare, Podman, and Hetzner to automate deploying
| apps.
|
| The intent is to remove as many obstacles as possible for
| finishing my side projects and sharing them. Worst case scenario
| is it becomes another unfinished project but I've learned a lot
| along the way.
| fmcgg wrote:
| Making a voxel game type thing where the entire game is defined
| by the server, the client is only a renderer, avoiding all
| specific game logic. Very much like Minetest in its goal I
| believe, just simpler. I've seen a few people say they miss
| minecraft beta 1.7.3 so I'm currently(just started) implementing
| something inspired by that as a proof of concept. Looking for
| people to collaborate with :)
|
| Main repo: https://github.com/formulaicgame/fmc Contains the
| client and a library for implementing servers. Game
| implementation: https://github.com/formulaicgame/FMC-Beta
| jbuild wrote:
| Fast Trade
|
| A homegrown algorithmic trading suite.
|
| https://www.fasttrade.dev/
| iepathos wrote:
| Over the last few months I built and am still adding onto
| https://www.promptcompress.com which is the best prompt
| compression tool in the market offering multiple compression
| techniques which can be used together or separately. It provides
| analysis of the compressed prompts' accuracy impact which is
| utterly and frustratingly lacking from every other prompt
| compression tool. It's free to use for now. Considering adding
| support for using different LLM backends with it. Not sure if I
| want to bother with trying to monetize it so may just open source
| it and let users provide their own API keys in the future.
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am getting obsessed with knowing everything about autonomous AI
| Agents and write about my journey on my substack.
| https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
| socketcluster wrote:
| I've been working on https://saasufy.com/ - No-code/low-code
| serverless platform for building web applications.
|
| The idea is that if you're a highly experienced senior developer,
| it should feel oddly familiar. It aims to address every possible
| concern that a senior developer might have when building a web
| application.
|
| Avoiding footguns is one of the core principles behind it.
|
| It aims to strike the ideal balance between flexibility and
| simplicity. It's not for building rough prototypes; it lets you
| build apps that are more secure, more performant, more scalable
| and more maintainable than the ones you would write from scratch.
| ofcrpls wrote:
| Saasu Maa in Hindi means Mother-in-law and chortled at the
| thought of converting any Website copy to a mean spirited MIL's
| voice.
| rgbrgb wrote:
| Working on Hedgy, a tool for confidentially exploring new job
| opportunities without messing with your current employment. It's
| a combo referral/reputation network (members endorse each other)
| and anonymized hiring platform. Members share what would make
| them move (role/$) and employers review anonymized profiles.
|
| https://www.hedgy.works
| mertbio wrote:
| Recently released a privacy-friendly translator app that works
| offline for macOS: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/offline-
| translate-translator/i...
| cranberryturkey wrote:
| - torrent search at https://quzo.org
|
| - media platform at https://zymo.tv
| chauhankiran wrote:
| I'm creating a simple and lightweight CRM (customer relationship
| management) as RMS (record management system) system. Code is too
| early state to try.
|
| I've take the different approach in building this system as it is
| traditional MVC architecture in Node with Express, Postgres, Pug,
| etc. as technologies.
|
| https://github.com/chauhankiran/rms
| niklasmtj wrote:
| I am working on my text course about Deno
| (https://niklasmtj.de/deno/course/). With Deno 2.0 just right
| around the corner, I'm excited to get this course into the hands
| of possible new users. I really like how Deno does a lot of
| things better than Node. With a toolchain similiar to other
| modern language enviroments (e.g. Golang) it helps a lot not
| thinking about "What might be the hot package to use right now".
|
| Right now I have 3/7 chapters ready and I am working on the 4th
| right now. It will be about Deno on the CLI, learning about the
| permission model, getting user input etc. creating a small CLI
| application as a single file binary (deno compile)
|
| After abandoning a lot of smaller side projects for years now I
| wanted to push through and ship something that is not just some
| hours of work (read <3-4 hours). I learnt that I have a lot of
| fun writing about and trying to teach things that I'm interested
| in.
| ppnpm wrote:
| I am working on a web app that let's you add various types of
| cards and edit them accordingly and are arranged in a bento UI
| pattern.
|
| I have a few functional cards for now, note, social media,
| article, quote.
|
| https://cardboards.vercel.app
| chirau wrote:
| I am aggregating real estate listings across all African
| countries and standardizing them into one MLS and API. No front-
| end yet, but that will be the next step. Still finding sources
| for some countries
| joenot443 wrote:
| I'm building Nottawa (https://nottawa.app/), a free and open
| source C++ live video and VJ app for macOS. The VJ space is
| pretty built up with expensive and professional level software
| (TouchDesigner, Resolume, etc.) - Nottawa is aimed at the non-
| technical, hobby artist who wants some cool, simple, and
| audioreactive visuals without hiring a pro. Long term vision is a
| community powered repository of presets which can be loaded in-
| app. Still optimistically aiming for a 2024 release.
|
| Much of the GLSL is Creative Commons fragments from ShaderToy
| written by brilliant artist coders from around the world. ImGui
| and an associated node editor library for the GUI, OpenFrameworks
| handles the graphics APIs. This is my first serious foray into
| shaders, C++, and OpenGL, meaning if I can ship a product and it
| helps one single artist then I'll walk away very happy.
|
| I'm standing on the shoulders of giants with this one. Huge
| gratitude and respect for Inigo (IQ), Omar (ocornut), and Michal
| (thedmd).
| renierbotha wrote:
| Dude this is SICK! Well done, it must have taken a lot of
| determination to get here.
| AtillaBosma wrote:
| This is sick. Love it.
| kebsup wrote:
| Working on a language learning app, with spaced-repetition,
| sentences, audio and an image generated for literally every word
| in a language.
|
| https://vocabuo.com
| dukeofharen wrote:
| A few weeks ago, I started some tutorials in the game engine
| Godot. I've been a developer for ca. 15 years and actually
| started with Game Maker many years ago. I always found it very
| fun, but started studying software engineering, got a job and did
| not have much time left to develop games. I decided to pick it up
| again as my situation now is different than 10 years ago and man,
| it is a joy to work with. Currently, I am writing a game design
| document and writing some ideas down on paper. I want to make the
| art and the music all by myself, which is a challenge but a fun
| thing to learn.
| koliber wrote:
| Working on wasitsent.com. It's an uptime monitor that alerts you
| when your automated emails stop sending.
|
| Hoping to get a working version out this week. In the meantime if
| you want to get an early peek at how it works you can go to
| sandbox.wasitsent.com. The sandbox is ugly but functional. It
| goes down a lot and the data is periodically wiped because I use
| it for testing.
| bambax wrote:
| Interesting! Emails that stop sending can be caused by a
| technical glitch of some kind, or they can be the consequence
| of a block list. A sister project could be to assist users with
| this?
|
| A couple of years ago I built a journal system that sends me an
| email everyday; answers are then logged in a db. It worked
| flawlessly until last week.
|
| Although that domain is only used by me to send emails to me,
| it seems it was suddenly added to a black list (DNSBL). I would
| welcome assistance in that matter and am not sure where to turn
| to... (Mailgun support essentially says "tough luck").
| bambax wrote:
| A simple follow-up if someone finds this later: it turns out
| support for the two relevant black lists are super responsive
| and nice. The domain had been blacklisted in error; it was
| delisted immediately. It was surprising how fast and nice
| that went ;-)
| PTbeast wrote:
| I'm working on a Linux based os written in rust for the stm32f4
| 6n8 wrote:
| RTOS?
| gualang wrote:
| using AI to audit sneaky, slippery, weaselly lawyers for claims.
| after 8 years of estate litigation, a lot of crap revealed in
| courts cause papers where counsels who collude to bleed the
| estates. AI does the legal issues analysis and match the lawyers
| subsequent motions to verify their appropriate and loyal response
| for the client's cause. On target to recover millions.
| anonzzzies wrote:
| That's cool. IANAL however I know people who got screwed like
| this in my country and were laughed at when they voiced their
| suspicions 'you are not a lawyer, you don't understand, don't
| worry, just pay and trust us' and 'you don't think the judge
| would allow it if your suspicions had any merit now, do you?'.
| s3rius wrote:
| I'm building an async library for python called taskiq
| (https://taskiq-python.github.io/). It allows you to easily setup
| RPC over distributed queues. Currently I'm trying to add a
| monitoring to see what tasks are being executed.
| BlackAngus1 wrote:
| I am working on an Open-Source CLI tool for displaying DataBases
| fast via CLI. It is called PeepDB: https://github.com/PeepDB-
| dev/peepdb
| 35mm wrote:
| A tool to help you find content on your website that is outdated
| or could be made more complete to help rank higher on Google:
|
| https://refreshagent.com
| dejv wrote:
| I am playing with LK (little kernel) with aim to replicate some
| functionality of Fuchsia OS, just much simplier and lighweight.
|
| I do miss something that is more interactive than Arduino or
| RTOSes, but not as heavy as having to run Linux.
| franze wrote:
| working on a workshop on how to work AI first
|
| part of the exercises is coding a game using prompts only
|
| this was the outcome
|
| https://emoji-chop.franzai.com/
| dsamarin wrote:
| I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that
| I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app
| like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve.
| And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know
| why not?
| promoterr wrote:
| Well, we can share, but wait - we decided to keep it as secret
| for now... Oh and not to be seen as rude - check CS50 @harvard
| uni - there's one exercise you can check.
| mattkevan wrote:
| I'm working on a collaborative reading app called Rdrs. You can
| upload a ebook, create a reading group, invite others and your
| reading position, comments and highlights are synced live with
| the group. You can also read privately, and as its web-based is
| available on any device.
|
| I'm still in active development so there may be bugs or crashes,
| but I'd be very interested in your feedback.
|
| https://www.rdrs.app
| mindwok wrote:
| This a really cool idea. I've just started a book club with my
| room mates and we'd be keen to give this a try, especially if
| we can leave notes/thoughts for one another as we go through
| mattkevan wrote:
| Oh please do, that would be great.
|
| Yes, you can leave comments on text and I've just implemented
| comment replies, so you can have conversations on the
| comments. You can upload your own books as long as they're
| DRM-free epubs.
|
| Please be aware it's still very buggy so bits may break. If
| you do decide to try it, I'd appreciate any bug reports or
| feature ideas you may have.
| cityzen wrote:
| When I click Get Started I get 404.
| jononor wrote:
| Numpy data file (.npy) and ZIP file support for MicroPython.
| https://github.com/jonnor/micropython-npyfile
| https://github.com/jonnor/micropython-zipfile
| h4kor wrote:
| I'm working on my dungeon planning tool for tabletop games.
|
| Currently I'm implementing the export of a player map that can be
| partially revealed.
|
| https://github.com/H4kor/dungeon-planner
| xnorswap wrote:
| I hope you're supporting the VTT format rather than introducing
| yet another "standard" format.
|
| If the VTT format is lacking, then please work to get that
| format extended so we have a better format rather than
| fragmenting yet another format.
|
| As someone who owns a few different dungeon drafting tools,
| it's a real pain when different formats don't work well
| together. Lighting seems to be the biggest issue where drafting
| in one editor and importing in another will lose lighting
| settings.
| h4kor wrote:
| I'm working on print outs only, as I don't use digital maps.
| jamiedumont wrote:
| I'm solidly reinventing the wheel by building my own cut-down
| version of Ghost, cut with a minimal platform such as Blot, Bear,
| Mataroa, etc; using classless HTML as the source (rather than
| mobiledoc).
|
| Aim is for a static-site development/writing experience but with
| a dynamic app to allow for email subscriptions, payments, etc.
|
| Not building it as a business, just to meet my own needs.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| If you want to see what others are doing I'm slowly collecting
| all the blog platforms available here:
| https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
|
| Good luck with the project!
| bluehatbrit wrote:
| My last job had an internal tool for deploying all, or a reduced
| set of, their platform into a kube namespace. We called them One
| Time Environments and used them for testing and development. They
| were fantastic, really fast to spin up, and pretty cheap to run
| as they were on our own hardware. I've never found anything
| similar that doesn't cost an absolute bomb of money.
|
| Now I've moved to an early startup and I'm really missing the
| tool. So I've started putting together my own with a few
| improvements.
|
| This one can support multiple infrastructure types such as ECS,
| K8S, and anything else you could write an agent for. It's also
| going to do the same for zero trust auth, starting with
| tailscale.
|
| Once we've got it up and running we're going to open source it.
| Could be a few more months though.
|
| Building it using elixir, phoenix, and live view as that's my
| background.
| PLG88 wrote:
| If you are going down the open source angle, why not use OSS
| zero trust auth, starting with OpenZiti - https://openziti.io/?
| bluehatbrit wrote:
| We're doing this as an internal tool so right now the
| priority is to make it useful for us. We use tailscale
| already so we've decided to support that initially. But the
| auth is setup in a pretty modular way, so anyone should be
| able to write a different provider for whatever auth system
| they want to use. I've not come across OpenZiti before but
| I'd imagine it would be possible to write one for it.
| carbonboarder wrote:
| https://PropScout.io - Investment Property Deals via Email
|
| My business partner and I spent so much time analyzing hundreds
| of properties to understand if the numbers work for investment
| properties. We then built a workflow that sends regular emails
| with a table with all the numbers calculated for us, based on
| rent estimates.
|
| We've onboarded a couple of people so far and are onboarding more
| investors and agents next week.
|
| We also added a red flag analyzer using LLMs for each property
| which we hope to expand into hard to reach data (government
| records) as well as the data we pull from public sites.
|
| Feel free to DM me or sign up on our website and we'll reach out.
| We're iterating a lot and value your feedback!
|
| Thanks
| lynx23 wrote:
| A tetris-clone for refreshable braille displays using
| Cosmopolitan Libc.
| nicbou wrote:
| I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle
| in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most
| English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to
| Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have
| worked on.
|
| I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my
| custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website
| to multiple languages and reach more people. I'm trying to make
| the process as seamless and automated as possible, because I'm
| running this website solo, and there are only so many hours in a
| day.
|
| It's a surprisingly tricky endeavour! As usual, the first 80% are
| easy. It's getting the last 20% right that requires a lot of
| work. There are so many small hurdles. For instance, translating
| the URL structure and translating the URLs within the content,
| getting the translations to be accurate, getting the SEO right,
| translating the templates and the JS tools I've built, keeping
| the costs low.
|
| [0] https://allaboutberlin.com
| bmoxb wrote:
| I recently moved to Germany (not to Berlin, but seems like most
| of the content is still relevant) and your website was
| extremely helpful - thank you for working on it.
| blueflow wrote:
| What were your motivations for moving here?
| notpushkin wrote:
| Thank you for building this! I've discovered it a while ago and
| has been showing it as an example of what a good government
| website should look like. It's a joy to read and explore, even
| though I'm not considering moving to Berlin :-)
|
| Any suggestions to anybody starting another website like this?
| andrepd wrote:
| Man, it's an example of what a _good website_ should look
| like, period.
|
| It's clean, fast, readable, accessible, works without js. The
| information is presented directly and to the point.
| nicbou wrote:
| A few things off the top of my head:
|
| - Only add things that improve upon Reader View. A table of
| contents, better typography, and that's about it.
|
| - Get to the point. I put a lot of effort into writing
| succinctly and unambiguously. I revise my content time and
| time again to get it just right. Information architecture is
| also important.
|
| - Sweat the small stuff. Reduce friction for your users
| wherever you can. Something as simple as a letter template
| makes a big difference for readers that dread communicating
| in German.
|
| I've been doing this for seven years, so I picked up quite a
| few tricks along the way. It all comes down to knowing my
| users, and working hard to reduce their pain.
| BabarKhanJaved wrote:
| Thank you, Nic.
| mediumsmart wrote:
| very good site - DKB ATM is minimum 50 too I think.
| rahulbshrestha wrote:
| damn this is so underrated! u should do one for munich too :)))
| homakov wrote:
| (on an unrelated note): I tried to move to Berlin for summer
| but quickly discovered almost no apartments have AC, I mean
| strong South Asia-level AC. It was a major no for me as I
| cannot sleep with temp above 20C, 18C is perfect. Any idea how
| to find an AC apartment next summer on local estate apps? Any
| "checkbox" somewhere to tick?
| okr wrote:
| Maybe a hotel will do? You can also rent an apt and buy a
| mobile AC yourself. Which i did this summer, for the few days
| it gets really hot.
| homakov wrote:
| A hotel is temporary, i wanted to stay May to September..
| Yes mobile AC is the best plausible option but it's quite
| weak compared to split-AC and requires a partially open
| window.
| fourside wrote:
| This is great! You mentioned this is your full time project.
| How do you make a living off it? I see mention of affiliate
| links and a call for donations. Is that how you monetize the
| site?
| bwb wrote:
| Super awesome work btw, I was looking to move to Germany and my
| mind was blown with the weird notary monopoly when it comes to
| starting a business. I couldn't believe that is how it
| worked...
| gdw2 wrote:
| One of the first things I read on the site was about the
| "church tax"[0]. Very interesting.
|
| > You declare your religion when you register your address. The
| church can also tax you if you were a member in another
| country. To stop paying the church tax, you must leave the
| church.
|
| [0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-
| german...
| gyre007 wrote:
| This is wonderful, though I wouldnt want to move to Berlin I
| find this really useful to learn about Germany. I also find it
| funny because it epitomises how broken the EU is. It should not
| be this hard to move within the EU, alas, here we are. Thank
| you for putting this together for the folks that need it!
| nkunkux2 wrote:
| I've moved to Berlin some time ago, and your website helped me
| very VERY much with navigating all this madness. keep it up!
| wonger_ wrote:
| Very cool. I would love to see a writeup of your translation
| workflow eventually.
|
| How long have you been working on this site?
| chantepierre wrote:
| Working on Alzo ( https://alzo.archi ), a half-SAAS, half-service
| business giving knowledge management + call for offers / layout
| automation to french, mid-sized architecture agencies.
|
| It's kind of niche but I'm doing more and more automation on my
| side, to efficiently build custom one-off layout editors for my
| clients. Some have surprisingly specific wants (for example :
| "multi-player live google-slides like editor, but constrained to
| brand guidelines and layout systems with block-level pick and
| place across all documents").
|
| I am having lots of fun with that and am trying to move from one-
| off bespoke systems to a common base + client-specific code.
|
| Edit : it's 90% Elixir and designed to run both on-prem or as a
| managed service.
| Max-Ganz-II wrote:
| Building a set of replacement system tables for Amazon Redshift.
|
| Not out yet, but the GitHub page is here, and will point to them
| in due course.
|
| https://github.com/MaxGanzII/redshift-observatory.ch
| woile wrote:
| I'm working on https://reciperium.com I've added a tutorial on
| https://learn.reciperium.com and a playground
| https://play.reciperium.com and I have around 4 active users
| (including myself, the most active and the target for this
| platform haha).
|
| In a nutshell, reciperium is the center of all my recipes, I was
| tired of finding recipes on different channels (youtube, reddit,
| instagram, google, friends, etc), and not having a place to put
| them. On top of that, I can fork my friend's recipes to adjust
| them to my taste.
| fellipeale wrote:
| This is really cool! And having recipes on this GitHub style
| gives a familiar touch
| woile wrote:
| Thanks! Github has been a source of inspiration, I want to
| keep the UI as noiseless as possible, unlike most recipes
| websites
| azthecx wrote:
| I would actually use this, but I am unsure of it's pricing
| model and ease of backup. Perhaps I missed it somewhere. Good
| mobile support on my device.
|
| Two suggestions: - automatically convert units?, eg IP from
| Europe assume grams on some setting, convert {Rice}(2 cups) to
| grams when rendered - On the timer feature, create a timer (non
| popup) on the rendered section so I can just one press it to
| track time for me without changing apps / browser tabs
| woile wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Those features are in my roadmap,
| but I go at a slow rate next to my work. You'll probably see
| the timer before the unit conversion, as it's actually a hard
| problem. Did you know there's a US cup and a british cup
| (actually a few more)?? The problem may involve tracking the
| origin of the recipe if no lang is provided, or setting some
| defaults.
|
| On the backup side, the easiest thing I'm introducing soon,
| is a "raw" button, where you can see the recipe raw, and you
| can download the `.recp` file. In the future, I'd like to
| have:
|
| - Export all recipes and favorites
|
| - And in case I give up with the platform: an obsidian
| integration, or a some kind of desktop app.
|
| So just to be clear, I do want to have an escape hatch, even
| if the website doesn't succeed, I will still use the
| language. But, it's not my main priority at the moment.
|
| Regarding the pricing model, I just don't see myself charging
| for a subscription. I've been thinking how to create a
| sustainable product. So far, what I have is a potential
| affiliate program. I want to use the recipe's materials to
| link to products. I think this is relative nonintrusive, and
| it's actually useful, because I've found myself reading a
| recipe and not knowing what something was, like a proofing
| basket, for example.
|
| Let me know your thoughts.
| skypanther wrote:
| Maybe export to Recipe ML[1] for a relatively portable
| backup format.
|
| 1. http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/
| woile wrote:
| I do have a recipe language already, see the spec:
|
| https://github.com/reciperium/recipe-
| lang/blob/main/spec.md
|
| The main problem is how I allocate my personal time to
| add this feature. Is quite some work, and prioritizing
| people leaving, instead of some other features, doesn't
| seem good use of my time. I barely have users, and they
| are all my friends haha
| tlh wrote:
| Nice!
|
| Was tickled when I saw the fork feature. I've often thought
| recipe sites missed that and coming from a software dev
| background I guess it seems obvious where we've got used to
| forking in git. It was on the roadmap for my stab at a recipe
| site: https://osomatsu.net
|
| It seems such a shame to forego a literal dinner-fork as an
| icon for the feature though? :)
| stagas wrote:
| I've been working on an audio DSP language and IDE
| https://ravescript.com and a DAW https://ravescript-
| next.deno.dev/ - both are in a good condition but still require a
| ton of work to be complete. Trying also to combine the two
| projects into one. Key features (especially in the DAW) are that
| the audio engine and the graphics engine are made from scratch
| and utilize WebAssembly/WebGL in a very efficient/performant
| architecture.
| haywirez wrote:
| I love this and I remember your amazing work on wavepot from
| back in the day <3 It was what got me excited about audio dev,
| now pursuing a similar quest.
| stagas wrote:
| That's lovely to hear, thanks. Would love to see some of your
| work also, if you want to share, here or by email (it's in my
| profile).
| mergisi wrote:
| I'm working on https://ai2sql.io/ , an AI-powered tool that
| converts natural language to SQL queries. We just hit a
| significant milestone - $9K MRR!
|
| It's been an exciting journey building this in public. Our goal
| is to make database querying more accessible to non-technical
| users while also boosting productivity for seasoned developers.
|
| Currently, we're focusing on expanding our language support and
| improving query optimization. We're also exploring ideas for
| integrating more advanced AI models to handle increasingly
| complex query scenarios.
|
| Any fellow devs working on AI tools or database technologies? I'd
| love to hear about your projects or exchange ideas!
| bigbong wrote:
| IMO it's a good idea to provide a free trial without asking CC
| details. Seeing that we have tools like https://postgres.new/
| which offer similar functionality for free
| cmenge wrote:
| Built yet another AI photographer site,
| https://www.photovortex.com
|
| Crowded space, but I have a couple of fun ideas I want to try and
| dabble more in the marketing + sales aspect of things, plus it's
| super fun to build
| johnxie wrote:
| I'm working on https://taskade.com, which started as a unified
| workspace for distributed teams to collaborate. Now, it's become
| a playground for AI agents that work alongside you.
|
| These AI agents think, learn, and act--handling tasks, research,
| and more--right in your workspace where you can chat, manage
| tasks, create mind maps, tables, and more.
|
| Check it out and let me know what you think!
| tromp wrote:
| I set out to make Loader's number [1], about the largest
| computable (*) number in googology, fit inside the 280 bytes of a
| tweet. After succeeding with a 2236 bit program, I got the idea
| to further improve the size by using Higher Order Abstract Syntax
| (HOAS), resulting in a big rewrite that along with other
| optimizations resulted in a 233 byte program [2].
|
| (*) in the sense of having a human-scale program
|
| [1]
| https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Upquark11111/An_...
|
| [2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-
| a-n...
| cmenge wrote:
| Working on my prompt management tool,
| https://www.promptshuttle.com, but I guess the idea is dead in
| the water at this point.
|
| It seems people don't really have a need for managing prompts
| outside the code https://x.com/cmenge/status/1830534838681485728
|
| Also, proxying for larger co's requires certifications etc., plus
| stellar 24/7 operations, making this a less-than-ideal side
| project. I might add some content indexing + RAG features, but
| also not exactly a new idea...
| cdx101 wrote:
| I've started a project to port the IOIO-OTG firmware to the
| teensy 4.0 board https://github.com/chrisws/Teensy4IoIoOtg
| bastien-barn wrote:
| I'm working on https://tiny-chat.com a live chat tool that
| integrates with Slack. My goal is to cover most live chat needs
| while keeping it super simple, allowing me to offer it at a much
| lower price than competitors. I started this project because I
| was tired of paying too much for live chat services. Previously,
| I used Django + React, but for Tiny Chat, I'm using Django + HTMX
| for the first time in production. So far, the performance and
| user experience have been great, and I'll definitely continue
| using HTMX in the future.
| omikun wrote:
| I'm working on a Civilization type game but built on an economy
| simulator[0]. So far I've mostly been working on the simulator
| side but I just started adding player interactions! The goal is
| to create a system that allows for emergent behaviors and
| unintended consequences of buying/selling, tax policies, interest
| fluctuations.
|
| [0]https://github.com/omikun/EconSim
| xFuture wrote:
| I'm working on https://symnix.com/ to simplify deployments of
| various applications on your own infrastructure without any
| agents that need to run on the target system.
|
| It is so much fun to build stuff that you need for your own and
| additionally want to share it with other people!
| aman2k4 wrote:
| Im working on https://www.5outapp.com/
|
| An app to track your groceries, to save money and eat healthy.
|
| I think healthiest food is cooked at home and people are eating
| out and doing takeaways . So I am planning to build tools and
| features which help people to cook more at home.
| pythonbrad wrote:
| Working on Afrim a library to facilitate the development of an
| input method engine. https://github.com/fodydev/afrim
| kebokyo wrote:
| I've mostly been focusing on school right now, but my website
| https://eleboog.com has needed some more content for, uh, months
| lmao. So I'll probably try to make some new posts for it. Some
| topic ideas include Geminispace & cool ways people have made web
| apps with Gemini & related protocols, my tiny prose journal and
| how it's helped me with my mental health, and (of course) the
| random features I've added to my site over the past half-year and
| how I feel about them right now.
|
| I know it ain't as exciting as y'all with your startups and open
| source softwares but I'm just a shmuck stuck in a CS degree that
| is guaranteed to leave me flipping burgers for a few years until
| the industry realizes hiring people is actually a good thing...
| I'm taking things as I go to build out my portfolio and hopefully
| work towards making my own open source apps that can hopefully
| land me a gig or two in the future.
| crypticgoose wrote:
| Rebuilding a prompt Capture the Flag opensource project. Built v1
| a year ago and ran it a company event and local conference. Had
| good feedback, now rebuilding without auth, seperate flag
| submission, chat memory, function calling and multi-modal
| support. gpt-4-0-mini is dirt cheap so can do a lot.
|
| Any ideas around challenges welcome!
|
| https://github.com/c-goosen/ai-prompt-ctf
| edelans wrote:
| woodworking :)
|
| I just finished (yesterday) a custom shelf for my daughter ->
| https://imgur.com/a/7zGHOOG
|
| It took me 6w VS the 2w initially planned, but the result is
| worth it!
|
| With so many hours spent on my screen doing virtual stuff,
| touching the materials and seeing my progress materialized is
| very satisfying.
| nvlled wrote:
| I'm currently trying to create a lua-to-js transpiler using
| treesitter. Not sure how hard this is, but I suppose it's just a
| matter of traversing trees. I might need to use this transpiler
| later on my static site generator using a lua DSL.
|
| I'm also planning on making changes to improve my text reader.
| The purpose of the project is to help me alleviate my discomfort
| when reading long blocks of text over an extended period of time.
| testmasterflex wrote:
| Next version of bathroom privacy device https://Loodio.com which
| is battery operated, smaller, more powerful sound.
| artificialprint wrote:
| That's cool!
| testmasterflex wrote:
| Thank you!!!
| k__ wrote:
| Currently, I'm trying to get some funding for Ewigkeit, an
| deployment service for DApps that uses Arweave for hosting and AO
| for management of deployments, domains, and team members.
|
| The USPs are:
|
| - pay once, host forever
|
| - censorship resistance via globally decentralised gateways
|
| The app:
|
| http://ewigkeit.ar.io/
|
| Arweave:
|
| https://arweave.org/
|
| AO:
|
| https://ao.ar.io/
| rwieruch wrote:
| Working on The Road to Next [0] as a video course to teach
| developers about full-stack development. It's in great shape, but
| I am still waiting for the official release of React 19 and Next
| 15. Not an easy task though, because some APIs are still changing
| (e.g. Next APIs becoming async in Next 15).
|
| But in any way, I think it will be a great resource for
| developers to level up :)
|
| [0] https://www.road-to-next.com/
| icy wrote:
| Working on a managed Kubernetes service that allows you to bring
| your own worker nodes. Spin up a control plane in your region of
| choice and build a K8s cluster using whatever--VMs, bare metal,
| or heck, even your Raspberry Pis at home.
|
| Get in on the early access waitlist here: https://kapycluster.com
| senko wrote:
| A zero install/setup document store for Python:
| https://github.com/senko/dante
|
| Basically a simple way to CRUD dicts to disk without needing a
| separate database (uses SQLite underneath). I've always liked
| MongoDB ease of use, and in many quick hacks/projects I don't
| want to write custom SQL or bring in a proper ORM or install a db
| server.
|
| TBH the main motivation is to just work on a simple side project
| with no stress, no need to productize it, and no need to obsess
| over productivity / can tinker to my heart's content.
|
| Mostly done now tho, so probably will do something else next
| month :)
| dmichulke wrote:
| I'm working on an automated trading bot for crypto currencies in
| Clojure.
|
| It's running two different strategies, and basically break-even
| (slightly positive), though it should have annualized sharpe
| ratios of >= 1.
|
| Parameter space has 48 values, no machine-learning, a single-
| threaded backtest is < 5s on my old laptop.
| tuanmount2 wrote:
| I'm working on MindPal - A platform to build AI Agents and Multi-
| agent workflow to automate tasks for business.
|
| It will just need a minute to build a multi-agent workflow on
| MindPal. If you are having complicated AI processes that could
| not be done by ChatGPT, give it a go at https://mindpal.space/
| kiru_io wrote:
| Tinder To Decide What To Eat Tonight [0]. Or: Meal Planner For
| Couples.
|
| It started as a web app for us, but more ppl asked. So I turned
| it into an app. Basically a meal planner / recipe manager for
| families and couples.
|
| [0] https://whatdinner.com/
| strawbrybanana wrote:
| I'm working on Briefy, an AI knowledge assistant consisting of
| powerful summarization tool and built-in knowledge base.
|
| We're looking at the marketing growth so far, and we want more
| solid feedback and suggests with the product itself. If you are
| interested, please contact me and I can offer you a discount!
| techazard wrote:
| In my quest to master Rust, I'm building a (toy) Soulseek client
| in Rust. Souleek is an old (2001) closed-source p2p network still
| used to share underground music.
|
| For learning purposes, I'm imposing the following restrictions:
|
| - I can't use external dependencies (crates)
|
| - I have to reverse engineer the Soulseek protocol myself
|
| So far it's been a lot of fun and rewarding as it touches upon
| low-level concepts I don't have to deal with normally as a web
| dev.
| syldor wrote:
| I'm working on a web-based Indesign file translation system:
| https://indesign-translator.com/ It extracts all text, translate
| them (manually or with google translate, up to the user), and re-
| download with styles and layouts kept.
|
| I started it as I was making a booklet about meteorology for kids
| in Lao language. I tried an automatic transation tool and was
| amazed to see it was keeping the format, so I dived into the
| markup file for Indesign, called IDML. InDesign is such a great
| software.
| kleiba wrote:
| When I was a child, my best friend and I were dreaming of making
| our own game. We got as far as writing (parts of) the story for a
| Lucasfilm Games-style point and click adventure, but my
| programming skills as a young teenager were too poor to actually
| make that game.
|
| That idea has actually never left my mind though, and now, a few
| decades later, I've started to realize that if I don't get on it
| soon, I probably never will.
|
| So I've started writing a game for the Commodore C64, 30 years
| after they stopped making them, and that's what I've been working
| on lately.
| pell wrote:
| Is there any place we can follow the development? I have soft
| spot for new games for old hardware.
| kleiba wrote:
| I have an old tigsource account that in theory I could
| reactivate... But for now, I'm still in the pre-dev phase,
| i.e., I'm actively working on it but I haven't written any
| code yet.
|
| Funnily, compared to my teenage self, I now think that the
| coding part is going to be the least of the issues. Of
| course, working with an old architecture that is severely
| limited in storage and computational capabilities raises some
| interesting challenges, but I do not expect them to be
| unsurmountable.
|
| Doing all the graphics and the sounds all while keeping it an
| interesting gameplay experience (good narrative, challenging
| but not frustrating puzzles) will be the much harder task, I
| think. And ultimately there's also the problem that the
| majority of all indie game projects is facing: sticking with
| it until the end.
| lukasfo wrote:
| During my 8 years of professional SWE career (mostly startups),
| I've never worked in a company that did not suffer data breach /
| was hacked. It was always dumb stuff like admin:admin or
| deploying vulnerable things and forgetting on them.
|
| After last one, I was done, left my job and started building
| Recon Wave [0]. I want to build tooling that will monitor your
| infra for you and find vulnerable / misconfigured / forgotten
| things that can be easily exploited.
|
| I believe that security is best applied in layers and we're
| building one of them. We can not protect you from everything, but
| we can protect you from shooting yourself in the leg.
|
| Me & my co-founder decided to take a bit different approach from
| other attack surface management companies and we try to find
| patterns in the whole OSINT world (aka most misconfigurations,
| domain correlations and others). Among others, we scrapped most
| of DNS and now have pretty cool reverse DNS dataset [1].
|
| [0] https://reconwave.com/ [1] https://search.reconwave.com/
| yatralalala wrote:
| Very nice, I read one of your blog posts [0] and was pretty
| surprised, great read! Good luck on your journey.
|
| [0] https://reconwave.com/blog/post/storing-private-keys-in-
| txt-...
| j2kwebb wrote:
| I'm scraping a list of every single UK company that has raised
| funding in the last 3 years - with details of how much and when -
| after finding out the info is available but hidden in certain
| filings on the Companies House website. Let me know if you'd like
| a copy for free - should be done in the next week or two!
| allpratik wrote:
| Definitely interested!
| j2kwebb wrote:
| Great, I'll send to the email in your profile!
| vertigolimbo wrote:
| Yes please!
| j2kwebb wrote:
| Great, will do - what email address?
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| How did you find the hidden information?
| j2kwebb wrote:
| It's on the forms SH01 for new share allotments. Then look
| for the number allotted and the amount paid (per share), and
| the total funding is the number allotted multiplied by the
| amount paid
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| Ah, of course. Clever! Thank you for sharing.
| throw_30092024 wrote:
| (Throwaway to preserve my main account anonymity)
|
| I made a tiny and open source musical instruments that allows you
| to make some cool chord progression with a fully configurable
| synthesis engine. Its still being developed but the website is
| here [1].
|
| You also have a (quite low quality I'm sorry about that) video
| demo [2].
|
| For the cool sound it can make, here is a small audio recording
| [3].
|
| [1]: https://minichord.com [2]:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6qkhU_WoA [3]:
| https://minichord.com/ressources/audio_demo.mp3
| 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
| vertigolimbo wrote:
| UI looks great, and it's something I would be interested to
| try. Why PayPal though?
| Syntaf wrote:
| Thank you! We chose PayPal to ensure clubs and organizations
| can use our platform without needing a bank account or 501c3
| registration, we also plan to leverage PayPal's non-profit
| transaction discount program for clubs who _are_ registered
| as 501c3 to provide even lower fees.
|
| A lot of small-medium sized clubs today use a pretty scrappy
| set of tools to get by (PayPal / Sheets / Forms) but we're
| going to offer a x10 better experience paired with low
| transaction fees.
|
| If you want to tell me more about what you'd use embolt for
| feel free to shoot me an email over at grant at embolt.app!
| mohit_tater wrote:
| I am working on a tool called Slicely. It is similar to tools
| like askyourpdf.com but built for enterprise use cases. The focus
| is to keep you in complete control of the information you share
| with the LLMs. I have completed the prototype covering the most
| fundamental use case. Now, I am looking for the initial set of
| users interested in trying it and understanding its market fit.
| BabarKhanJaved wrote:
| Sign me up, Scotty!
| Luctst wrote:
| I'm actually working on an IOS app who estimates if a parking
| space is available or not in Paris because finding parking in
| Paris is such a journey.
| haxzie wrote:
| I'm building https://sequel.sh it's an AI data analyst and text-
| sql interface which helps you query data, generate charts and
| analyse the data to give insights all without a single line of
| SQL.
| herol3oy wrote:
| I built Couchsurfing Roaster[0] inspired by GitHub Profile
| Roast[1]
|
| [0]https://csroaster.lol
| [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41145517
| hambos22 wrote:
| I'm building an inhouse ERP/CRM/warehouse mobile app/ecommerce
| platform/MOps for my small biz which I have with my wife (own
| brand of cosmetics, home fragrance, skin etc..) with the hope
| that it will allow us scale with the minimum employees, the
| maximum productivity and the lowest cost.
|
| 150+ postgres tables, a huge backend dashboard, an optimized
| storefront, Hasura, Go, React/Typescript/Next.js and a myriad of
| integrations.
|
| Abandoned my professional career for this one to chase the dream
| and got sciatica while in the process :)
| matvp wrote:
| I'm building a video API suite [0] in my free time, from
| transcode to package to player. The full shebang!
|
| [0]: https://github.com/matvp91/mixwave
| user432678 wrote:
| Currently building a very simple migration tool for SQLite with
| the Stack Overflow forward only approach, mostly for my projects
| based on Bun: https://github.com/i9or/migralite
|
| Planning to make it single binary to remove the dependency on Bun
| from target projects.
| rashmisingh_s26 wrote:
| I am actually working on my first-ever product hunt launch. And
| since I am handling the content part, September was all about
| writing copies, emails, landing pages, and new blogs around the
| product. It was a bit overwhelming but I can totally see how
| thrilling it is too. In fact, I landed here due to SocialiQ 2.0
| launch. We are yet to launch it in October but coming soon page
| is ready.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Real estate search for homes in Ireland where you can travel by
| bike, train, and walking. Most Irish (and other) property
| websites just give you a road map, this starts off with a public
| transport and biking map, and has color-coded rail commute times,
| etc.
|
| It was something I built for myself years and years ago and then
| ignored, but when I put it online so my wife could use it, other
| people started to as well. I lost my job a few months ago and
| decided to overhaul it. It's how we got a house on a few acres a
| 15 minute bike ride from the train an hour from Dublin with
| gigabit fibre under EUR100,000 in 2019.
|
| www.gaffologist.com. Let me know you saw me on HN!
| padraigf wrote:
| Some feedback: looks nice, but an instant turn-off for me is
| the requirement to sign up before I try it out. It meant I
| didn't try it out, and seems unnecessary.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Of course - I had it open to the public for a long time but I
| am trying to figure out what to do with it long term. I don't
| yet know how to make it support itself with free traffic.
|
| Even the signup is just a jotform that emails me, I'm still
| at the point where I make accounts manually.
| dv35z wrote:
| Affirmator.app - Given a list of affirmations, wisdom & goals
| (sourced from life-success programs like Earl Nightingale's
| Strangest Secret, and books like Think and Grow Rich), use text-
| to-speech to generate voice audio files, leave spaces for you to
| vocalize the phrases, and then automatically play 20-phrase
| playlists every morning & day. The phrases can range from high-
| level "I feel strong and confident" to specific to personal goals
| "I can confidently play and sing 3 songs on the piano.", "I do 25
| push-ups every morning"
|
| The idea is that mindset is important in the morning, and that we
| all want to do these healthy habits - meditation and yoga - and
| yet when life get's stressful, it's easy to fall out of a healthy
| rhythm.
|
| I've been doing deep study about affirmations, our sub-conscious
| mind, and how to use repetition to change yourself - absolutely
| fascinating and effective. This Affirmatpr tool can help reduce
| the effects of depression & anxiety, help you set & internalize
| goals and habits for your dream life.
|
| If anyone is interested in trying it out - I've got a prototype
| which can create customized affirmation sessions, and layer it on
| top of a calm music backing track)
|
| Tech stack: Python / Django (soon) / Text to speech: ElevenLabs &
| Piper TTS. The automation currently runs with 'cron' on MacOS and
| Shortcuts.app/Music.app on iPhone.
|
| Everything is open-source (Codeberg) and can run locally instead
| of cloud hosted, so maximum people can benefit (and so you can
| set private goals/affirmations that perhaps you don't want
| everyone to hear about).
|
| I would love to meet others who would be interested in
| contributing / collaborating, as there is huge potential here. My
| contact is in my profile.
| ivanyu wrote:
| Two things:
|
| 1. After the recent successful growth of Antithesis [1], I'm
| diving into the topic of deterministic simulation testing. There
| are some cases (and ready-to-use libraries) where people are
| doing this in Rust, C++, Go, I'm interesting in this in Java. So
| I'm up to some experiments. I've also started an "awesome list"
| of resources about this topic [2]
|
| 2. I've made a generated serialization/deserialization library
| for the Kafka wire protocol in Rust, tested against the original
| Java implementation. I'll add 3.9 support once it's released and
| don't see much upcoming changes to the library, apart from maybe
| working on the Go version.
|
| [1] https://antithesis.com/
|
| [2] https://github.com/ivanyu/awesome-deterministic-
| simulation-t...
|
| [3] https://github.com/ivanyu/kafka_wire_protocol
| thevivekshukla wrote:
| I am working on https://daemonstack.com, it's a platform that
| lets you run batch jobs on any cloud provider or on your own
| hardware.
| padraigf wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.americanfootballinsights.com
|
| Its a hobby project, to play around with American Football
| statistics.
|
| I'm trying to do a few innovative things with it. e.g. I generate
| an excitement-rating per-game. Here are the excitement ratings
| from yesterday's games:
|
| https://www.americanfootballinsights.com/excitement/2024/4/
|
| I've used that feature already today. It tells me the big Sunday
| Night Football game last night, between the Ravens and Bills, was
| not worth watching!
|
| I'm planning to develop more as the season goes on. For updates:
|
| https://americanfootballinsights.substack.com/
| bilekas wrote:
| Working on a home rolled IRCCloud alternative. No particular
| reason why. I started it maybe a year ago and never finished it,
| got it to a hacky POC and over the weekend I had a bit of a
| cold/flu so decided to spend some time practicing my refactoring
| abilities.
|
| Still in progress but I did manage to find a bug in one of the
| open source libs I am using for the IRC protocol interface and it
| was approved. Overall a productive flu weekend.
| Conez wrote:
| I build personal data portfolio app in Internet Computer
| protocol)
| linsomniac wrote:
| I've really gone hard into 3D printing over the last 3 months. I
| dabbled with it the last 5 years, but on Father's Day this year I
| got a Bambu P1S with AMS and can do 4 different filaments. Total
| game changer, nearly "fire and forget", and the multi-color has
| been a lot of fun. Most recently I figured out how to design
| multi-color objects out of logos, and have printed coasters for
| my work logo, my SIL's work logo, etc. Learning Plasticity or
| another CAD as an alternative to TinkerCAD which is what I've
| used so far.
|
| It's been a lot of fun, and my wife has sold a few things out of
| it on her Etsy shop. I've had the printer running nearly
| continuously since I got it, including a few weeks where I was
| printing parts for a circular sock knitting machine for someone
| local who reached out through a Facebook gifting community.
| s-d-m wrote:
| Working on local_jira[0] / jira_gui[1]
|
| This is a project I started to scratch an itch I had at work. We
| use jira there, and our setup is such that it takes about 8-10
| seconds to load a page. So to make things more usable, the
| local_jira downloads the data from the server, saves it in a
| local database, and make it available. jira_gui is a simple gui
| for it.
|
| [0] https://github.com/s-d-m/local_jira [1]
| https://github.com/s-d-m/jira_gui
| luckylion wrote:
| I feel this. I've set something up for myself to fetch the data
| just to be able to better search and group things without
| having to wait for their sluggish API and the overweight SPA.
|
| Good luck!
| simonorzel26 wrote:
| I've been developing ngtly.com (ngtly.com/berlin for context), a
| platform that automatically curates nightlife events across major
| European cities--currently covering 23 cities with populations
| over 300,000. Over the past couple of months, we've attracted
| about 1.5-2k unique visitors per month, with around 200 returning
| users. The service is entirely free for nightlife enthusiasts,
| aiming to provide comprehensive event listings without ads or
| data collection.
|
| I'm running this project solo, and while it's been rewarding,
| there are challenges in scaling and sustaining it--like covering
| operational costs (~EUR20 per city per month) and expanding to
| more locations. I'm planning to eventually monetize through
| partnerships with promoters and venues, but for now, I'm looking
| for feedback or suggestions on improving the platform and
| reaching a wider audience without compromising on the user
| experience. Any insights or critiques from the community would be
| greatly appreciated.
| ninefoxgambit wrote:
| I specialize in building templates and component libraries. I've
| recently launched https://www.shadcnblocks.com which is a set of
| 200+ block components for Shadcn UI. The recent growth in
| popularity of Shadcn UI is extraordinary.
|
| I'm also reworking and relaunched https://www.wickedblocks.dev
| which has nearly 200 free blocks for Tailwind. We'll be released
| some optional premium sets here soon.
|
| Finally we are about to release a set of 3 templates for 11ty at
| https://www.zerostatic.io where I build niche templates for SSGs.
| I believe these will be some of the best template available for
| 11ty and I'm keen to see if this niche has a serviceable market.
| old-priate wrote:
| Building an AI negotiation tool for B2B purchasing [0]. It
| automates the interactions with potential suppliers and
| summarises the best bid submissions.
|
| Currently struggling with how to get any sales but there are some
| good resources like Aaron's cold outreach video [1]
|
| [0] https://www.m2mmart.com/ [1]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh_fpxP1yY
| Scarjit wrote:
| Im currently developing a larger scale 3D printer. My goal is to
| convert parts of my old Ender-V3 into a new CoreXY frame that can
| print up to 512x512x256mm (for comparison the P1 series from
| Bambulabs has 256x256x256mm), while keeping the costs under 500
| Euro.
|
| A full BOM and Tutorial will be released FOSS if i manage to
| finish it.
| kogekar wrote:
| I'm building StartupLevels.com - a leaderboard for startups to
| get more exposure + a strong permanent 'do-follow' backlink.
|
| I got several ways to bring a ton of traffic to my site, which
| other founders/startups can tap into!
|
| It's one of those weird but easy tool discovery platform, but
| tell me what you think :)
| quicksilver03 wrote:
| I'm working on https://www.ptrdns.net , a primary and secondary
| DNS hosting service built around the PowerDNS API.
|
| The problems that are on my mind right now are 1. how to improve
| visibility on search engines and 2. how to add POPs on Anycast
| IPs to improve latency for resolvers without selling my right arm
| to obtain a /24.
| 98469056 wrote:
| I'm working on an anonymous chat site https://voidchat.org with
| the backend written entirely in C++. The only dependencies are
| libpq and uWebSockets, everything else is built from scratch
| SuperV1234 wrote:
| I'm working on a Emscripten-ready fork of SFML that brings
| several key improvements:
|
| - Modern OpenGL and first-class support for Emscripten4 - Easy to
| use drawable batching system - Enhanced API safety at compile-
| time - Flexible design approach over strict OOP principles - New
| audio API supporting multiple simultaneous devices - Built-in
| SFML::ImGui module - Remarkably fast compilation time & small
| run-time debug mode overhead
|
| More info: https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/vrsfml.html
| digest wrote:
| Working on https://usedigest.com, a tool to curate content from
| any source into a daily email. No this is not just grabbing RSS
| feeds, we're using tons of APIs to fetch data wherever we can.
| The goal is to replace the mindless scrolling we all do on a
| daily basis and try to help people become more productive without
| the fear of missing out. You can consume the daily email, or read
| it on the web as we generate a direct link to your digest each
| day. Here is an example:
| https://app.usedigest.com/digests/share/b40cd659-bce5-4a38-9...
| tasoeur wrote:
| My October project is an immersive survival horror game that you
| can auto-generate for your home/space. https://pulsargeist.com
|
| It actually won a prize at a hackathon recently and it was enough
| signal for me to make it a fully fleshed game :-)
|
| I'm also making progress on an immersive gpu shader editor app
| that got release on AVP recently: https://shader.vision
| matthiasb wrote:
| I am working on a cloud governance and remediation solution.
|
| Our first product was a CO2 monitor for your AWS infrastructure
| https://www.li10.com/
|
| The next logical step is to provide tools to reduce it (along
| with cost reduction and security benefits)
|
| Our first iteration is available here:
| https://github.com/li10labs/li10-governance
| lokimedes wrote:
| I'm building a private AI computer, designed to handle
| confidential data and ensure privacy. We call it Lakoy, and are
| looking for meaningful ways to include collaborators.
| reverseblade2 wrote:
| I have built a news and public holidays tracker at
| httsp://alarms.global. It focuses on what happened and natural
| disasters so that you can know what's going on.
|
| There is also twitter account you can follow to see the set of
| news https://x.com/AlarmsGlobal
| varjag wrote:
| Building a fire detection system for tunnels out of a component
| in our tunnel evacuation system (https://evacsound.com/), as it
| appears there's own market for that.
| martin_a wrote:
| I want to create my first PCB in the upcoming month.
|
| Some months ago, I've build a digital clock, based on the
| somewhat famous 8x8 LED matrix modules and a 3D-printed
| enclosure.
|
| While doing everything on a breadboard was fine for a quantity of
| 1, I thought about building some more and gifting them to
| friends. For that, a custom PCB to place the ESP on, and screw it
| into the housing would be nice.
|
| So... I'll need to learn to create a simple PCB with KiCad and
| then have it produced with one of the online services.
|
| Wish me luck! :-D
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| I'm building a roomscale immersive gaming platform.
|
| Walls and floor projection, markerless motion capture, full-body
| arcade-style gameplay.
|
| Cinematic, hilarious, innovative, beautiful, addictive games.
|
| No goggles, no controllers. https://thirdwavearcade.com
| vishnu-v12 wrote:
| im building uxie: a pdf reader app with note taking, annotations,
| collaboration, ai features (chat, flashcards generation w. ai-
| feedbacks), tts, ocr,etc
|
| promise this isn't just one of those chatwithpdf clones. its
| fully open source and free, and constantly shipping. (built a
| line-by-line highlighting tts just today
| https://x.com/vishnuu122/status/1840509664876020154)
|
| more features coming soon.
|
| would love for y'all to try it out and give feedbacks :)
|
| https://uxie.vercel.app https://github.com/zeus-12/uxie
| https://uxie.vercel.app/feedback
| martinrue wrote:
| I'm working on a language learning web app (very cool to see
| several others here too) which _gasp_ does not use AI! It mixes
| the form of a book and experience of an app, and provides small
| guides to the basics of languages. Currently only Vietnamese and
| Esperanto: https://yakk.app
| oxcabe wrote:
| A friend and I started building an open source project for the
| Supabase hackathon last week.
|
| It's a web security audit reporting web app. The idea is to
| centralize the entire auditing process inside Markdown based
| reports, a la Jupyter Notebooks. Then, any discovery actions like
| subdomain enum, path fuzzing, etc. would run by demand on edge
| functions.
|
| We'll also be adding support for prompting generative models to
| help writing reports, suggest procedures and create dictionaries
| based on current findings.
|
| The project is Apache-2.0 licensed, and can be found here:
| https://github.com/supaudit/supaudit. Please, note that the
| report UI is unfinished as of the date of this comment.
|
| Constructive feedback is more than welcome c:
| ertucetin wrote:
| I am working on a multiplayer spell-based shooter game using
| BabylonJS and Clojure. It's a browser game; if anyone is
| interested, here is the demo link: https://wizardmasters.io
|
| It's in the prototype phase, and I was heavily inspired by the
| game Spellbreak.
| spirodonfl wrote:
| I am building a WASM based "grid editor". It's really just a way
| to build a UI for anything (desktop, mobile, web) by slicing up a
| grid and putting content in it. Then you can export the grid in
| an extremely portable format that can be reas anywhere (no, not
| json, even simpler) and use that grid data to implement your UI.
| The grid data contains the content or references to content which
| you can just apply on render.
|
| visualgrideditor.app
|
| Mad with Odin, compiled to WASM, vanilla JS and has Laravel
| integration. I just need to alpha test this more and see if
| there's anybody who wants to use it.
| ap11071 wrote:
| I'm working on yet another AI-powered app (shocking, I know).
| It's a basic command-line interface (CLI) flashcard tool that
| uses GPT-4 to grade answers and help you learn based on how far
| your response is from the correct answer. You can check it out
| here: [AnkiCLI](https://github.com/johnny1011/AnkiCLI). It's
| pretty barebones--just Python and the OpenAI API. Nothing
| groundbreaking. If anyone has thoughts on how to make this
| marginally less useless, I'm all ears.
| 100daysofcode wrote:
| I'm working on http://100daysofcode.io - a comprehensive 100-day
| roadmap for individuals eager to dive into programming. My goal
| is to make the journey of learning to code more structured. Love
| to hear your feedback on the idea.
| cromantin wrote:
| Because there's finally an image generation that can do people
| with hands, I'm returning to my project for a day in life
| screensaver. Me and my wife will add notes to the calendar with
| what happened today. I will pull maybe some images from my photo
| library and ask llm to describe them. Then I will feed this into
| flux and create an image. And then I will put the image into
| Apple photo library to show on my Apple TV.
|
| I tried this manually and it was a blast with my kids. They'll
| love it.
| manzoorsamad wrote:
| We are working on launching SocialiQ 2.0 [0] -- a tool designed
| to help marketers find, qualify, and curate influencers without
| ever leaving social media.
|
| This journey started with a simple idea: to challenge the belief
| that social media research is slow and ineffective. We felt the
| same pain and decided to build a larger influencer database, like
| other platforms out there. But we quickly realized something
| interesting--our users prefer spending time directly on social
| media rather than bouncing between a SaaS platform. So we went
| back to the drawing board to rethink how we could truly make this
| experience better.
|
| With SocialiQ 2.0 We've made it possible to qualify influencers
| directly within social media, cutting out the hassle. On October
| 8th, we're launching a version that's not only smarter but also
| faster and easier to use. Over 20,000 marketers already love
| SocialiQ, but this update is going to take things to the next
| level.
|
| We can't wait to show you what's next. If you want early access,
| join the waitlist on Product Hunt [1].
|
| [0] https://www.impulze.ai/socialiq [1]
| https://www.producthunt.com/products/socialiq
| monokai_nl wrote:
| I'm currently working on a new expansion of https://monokai.pro
| -- new filters and support for Intellij. Soon!
| gyre007 wrote:
| Would love if you could make it for Zed.
| 0track wrote:
| I have been working on a set of problem solving techniques and
| have recently published[0] two drafts.
|
| One is a problem solving technique designed to attack resource
| problems from multiple directions.
|
| The second is an approach to user experience inventory which can
| be used for users, customers, and adversaries.
|
| [0] https://0track.net/
| nerder92 wrote:
| We are building a SaaS enabled marketplace for Brazilian Jiu-
| Jitsu where people can find gyms and experiences to find new
| friends to have fun with!
|
| If you are in Europe and do BJJ you will probably have hear about
| us (MAAT).
|
| PS: of course we are hiring so feel free to send me an email at
| stefano_at_joinmaat.com
| yunusefendi52 wrote:
| I am working on inactivity notification it's called EchoMe. You
| open/curl the echome endpoint to reset the timer.
|
| You can send notification to email or webhook.
|
| Try here https://echome.lhf.my.id
| xandrius wrote:
| Currently working on 2 new versions of my small daily bird
| guessing game for US and Canada, looking into the local habitats
| and such to adapt it to the region.
|
| I finished batch processing the bird species and their
| conservation status and now planning to setup a testing
| environment to begin the work. I'm already learning so much about
| the birds of north America. Exciting!
| bwb wrote:
| Working on https://shepherd.com/ and trying to help readers find
| books they will LOVE (not just like).
|
| In a few days, launching user accounts + our first user feature
| using our new Book DNA review system that is trying to help
| narrow in on the type of books you love and why. The goal is to
| serve better recommendations going forward and get more people
| excited about reading.
|
| It is fun :)
| y-curious wrote:
| I enjoyed your site. Queries seem to be sluggish, but that's
| likely because you're getting a lot of traffic on HN. Well
| done!
| bwb wrote:
| Thanks :)
|
| Ya working on it, Alibaba and Amazon's AI is stuck on our
| website, having to block them as just destroying us for no
| reason. Really frustrating.
| bennycha wrote:
| Awesome work
| bwb wrote:
| Thanks, have a bunch of cool features coming out soon too!
| eismcc wrote:
| Working on WaddleML, and open source variant of weights and
| balances that uses DuckDb.
|
| https://github.com/briangu/waddleml
| alimoeeny wrote:
| Working on an API product based on good old visual classifiers to
| detect Malaria in real world blood samples. I know there are lots
| of publications claiming they have solved this problem, but there
| is no real world solution that actually works like a product you
| can plug your microscope to. Have a big client ready to pay.
| markussss wrote:
| I recently switched jobs, and as I've become more comfortable in
| my new job, I realized that my old job completely sucked the
| creativity and fun out of programming for me. I did not have any
| energy for any projects in my spare time while working in my
| previous job, so the 1,5 months I've been focusing on taking
| small ideas and running with them.
|
| This weekend I got an idea to create a 2D-pattern from a 1D
| initial pattern. I put it on https://ige.land/, and I find it
| very fun and satisfying to play around with. It's not so elegant
| and pretty, but it's fun for me, and that's all I was looking
| for! Click any cell to change that color in the pattern. Right
| click or long press to set the length of the 1D pattern. It's
| also fun to first create a pattern and then resize the browser
| window to see how it looks like.
|
| So, what I'm working on is not really an interesting project or
| product. I'm working on my creativity, playing with code, and in
| general having more fun with programming. Making it magical for
| myself again.
|
| I'm not sure if it's 100% in line with the spirit of the thread,
| but it's what I'm most excited to be working on! :-)
| Bloedcoins wrote:
| Your site resets the connection.
| zubairq wrote:
| https://github.com/yazz/VisualJS - VisualJS, a VB style
| programming language but with Javascript
| klawed wrote:
| http://slothulence.com/
|
| Various slothy art and coding experiments - a 1 level melonjs
| sloth platformer, A vanilla js game with lots of animations and
| audio and mobile accelerometers usage using no JavaScript
| libraries- just html, css and js callong browser apis.
| avastel wrote:
| I build a website related to fraud (detection), bot (detection),
| fingerprinting, email intelligence. You can test your browser
| fingerprint here https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/info_device and
| get information about disposable emails
| https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/data/emails/disposable/inde...
| strzibny wrote:
| I am working on second edition of Kamal Handbook targeting Kamal
| 2.0.
|
| https://kamalmanual.com/handbook/
| wowi42 wrote:
| When are you planning to release it?
| XetiNA wrote:
| I've been trying to work on things that aren't necessarily
| economically valuable but that are on my mind and I want to
| share.
|
| For example, a carbon footprint calculator that pokes fun at the
| idea of the individual being to blame for climate change.
| https://a.mancato.nl/climate-calculator
|
| And after seeing my dad struggle to find stuff online because he
| was seeing so many ads, I made an adblocker ad.
| https://a.mancato.nl/adblock
| timelessmanners wrote:
| Love it! :-D In the World of opinions, including Data sources
| adds a really nice touch to it, too.
| nsriv wrote:
| The calculator results page gave me a good dark laugh, thanks
| for making it! Good writing!
| digging wrote:
| Fun calculator. A little noisy to make its points, but "You
| could _die right now_ and Shell could continue operating for 6
| seconds longer with the carbon you saved " is a powerful
| statement.
|
| I wasted _so_ much energy in my most vigorous years trying to
| make decisions that literally don 't matter at all and felt so
| important. I could have been building skills to influence
| policy instead, but the sustainability movement was bamboozled
| pretty hard.
| pythops wrote:
| Working on oryx: A TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on
| Linux
|
| https://github.com/pythops/oryx
| madshougesen wrote:
| I am currently fixing some minor bugs in my markdown codeblock
| formatter [mdsf](https://github.com/hougesen/mdsf).
|
| It works by embedding "traditional" formatters like rustfmt and
| gofmt (currently support 174 tools), which helps keep
| documentation matching with the codebase.
|
| [https://github.com/hougesen/mdsf](https://github.com/hougese...
| Faelian2 wrote:
| I am writing an hexadecimal editor in rust, with colors.
|
| https://github.com/0xfalafel/hextazy
|
| I am also playing a bit with Gtk4, Relm4, and creating Active
| Directory labs with vagrant.
| https://blog.lasne.pro/posts/ad_lab_part1/
| abe94 wrote:
| I've been writing a short sci fi story for fun, a michael
| crichton inspired techno thriller, called Panopticon [0]. Its set
| in our time frame and is all about encryption and spy craft! [0]
| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRI4X5fCUpwurUDvKmvzJpT7...
| (first 20 pages)
| haidrali wrote:
| I am working on InvitePlus.io, a tool to manage user access and
| help companies in onboarding. It will send invites to all
| software your team has been using with just an email. You can
| manage teams across multiple platforms (Github, Jira, Asana,
| etc). Also, you can revoke access with a single click.
| retardracer wrote:
| doesnt load for me
| chuckwolfe wrote:
| Is it designed to supplement or replace a workflows application
| like servicenow?
| jviotti wrote:
| I'm working on JSON BinPack (https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com),
| a binary serialization format for JSON (think of it as a Protobuf
| alternative) with a strong focus on space-efficiency for reducing
| costs when transferring structured data over 5G and satellite
| transceivers for robotics, IoT, automotive, etc.
|
| If you work at any of those industries and pay a lot for data
| transfer, please reach out! I'm trying to talk to as many people
| as possible to make sure JSON BinPack fits their use case well
| (I'm trying to build a business around it).
|
| It was originally designed during my (award-winning!) research at
| the University of Oxford
| (https://www.jviotti.com/dissertation.pdf), and it was proven to
| be more space-efficient than any tested alternative in every
| single tested case (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799), beating
| Protocol Buffers for up to ~75%.
|
| While designing it was already difficult, implementing a C++
| production-ready version has proven to be very tricky, leading me
| to branch off to various other pre-requisite projects, like an
| ultra-fast JSON Schema compiler for nano-second schema validation
| (https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsontoolkit) (for which I'm
| publishing a paper soon).
| wczerniak wrote:
| This month I was working on improving on SEO for my Flatcal side
| project: https://flatcal.com. It's a service that can combine
| multiple online calendar feeds into a single one for easier
| sharing with other people. Instead five calendars you can just
| send one that contains all busy/free status. The closer to
| release I am the more non-coding work there is to do. Oh well,
| just different part of the fun
| nemo1618 wrote:
| I've been working on a tool for identifying samples in sample-
| based music, specifically vaporwave. I spent a long time building
| a cool TUI for it, but I realized many people aren't comfortable
| with TUIs, so just yesterday I finished the MVP of a web version.
| Here it is: https://barbershop.lukechampine.com
|
| Try it with this classic: https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/track/420
| jasonlotito wrote:
| I'm working on the D&D adventure I'll be running next year at
| GenCon and play testing at PAX Unplugged. It's based on Jacob's
| Well, a Dungeon #43 adventure, but updated for 5E and updated in
| other ways.
|
| I'm also planning on working on some TTRPG tooling that I want
| and releasing them to the web.
| holocen wrote:
| Slowly but surely adding things to
| https://plaintextwaittimes.com/
|
| I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information
| dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the
| future.
| codethief wrote:
| Very nice! Do you plan on adding arrival/departure information,
| too? (Maybe also airports outside the US?)
| holocen wrote:
| I'm debating adding 3 things next: arrival/departures,
| general airport delays and ground stops, and yes airports
| outside the US. Less clean TSA like information from those
| sadly.
|
| Right now the only special airport is DEN where I've started
| to gather the real time data.
| https://plaintextwaittimes.com/airport/den
| codethief wrote:
| > and yes airports outside the US. Less clean TSA like
| information from those sadly.
|
| Yeah, my impression has been that the whole space is a
| mess. How great would it be to have an app that can tell me
| about departures at any given airport in the world,
| including gate information, boarding / last call, has the
| plane arrived yet in the first place[0], ...
|
| [0]: Very useful to estimate whether there will be a delay
| or not.
| tlocke wrote:
| I work on Chellow, an open source Web app for checking and
| reporting on UK electricity and gas bills for large organisations
| https://github.com/WessexWater/chellow . It's a mature project
| that's used by two organisations. Please get in touch if this is
| something you're interested in.
| langitbiru wrote:
| I'm working on PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a web
| app to predict salaries from Linkedin CVs and job opportunities.
|
| There are also adjacent services, like AI career coach that can
| roast your CV and give advice on how to raise your salary, and
| crowdsourced salaries data.
|
| I'm working on other features like creating interview questions
| based on CVs, and so on.
| jfil wrote:
| Maintaining a database of Canadian grocery prices. (Reach out to
| me if you're passionate about rising food prices and/or have
| economic analysis skills!)
|
| Writing articles about & archiving Victorian-era "Artistic
| Printing" - like the examples at [2]. (Reach out if you're
| knowledgeable about letterpress printing, brass rule art etc. and
| want to share your insights)
|
| [1] https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer [2] https://www.sheaff-
| ephemera.com/list/artistic_printing_album...
| aljarry wrote:
| I'm working on a CI system with DSL instead of yaml configs.
|
| The general premise is that most sufficiently advanced yaml
| configs begin to look like code - e.g. in Github Actions one
| could look at external Actions and shared workflows as dynamic
| libraries; workflows as public functions; jobs and steps as
| internal ones.
|
| We have better languages than yaml-structure-as-a-code, and tools
| to help us write and test them quicker.
| bbkane wrote:
| Sounds a lot like https://dagger.io/ . Maybe you can take some
| inspiration from them
| aljarry wrote:
| Thanks! Dagger looks really nice :)
| jfoster wrote:
| I launched Screen Recorded (https://screenrecorded.com/en) a few
| days ago. It's a screen recorder that runs in your browser.
|
| I intentionally made it a super easy choice if you need a quick
| screen recording by not having any accounts, making it free, not
| watermarking videos, etc.
|
| I also recently added WebP support to Batch Compress
| (https://batchcompress.com/en), which is an image compressor that
| runs in the browser.
| bhouston wrote:
| Cool! I wonder if it is possible to have this trigger via
| shortcut keys or similar?
| jfoster wrote:
| Unfortunately I don't think there's a browser API for
| registering keyboard shortcuts that can trigger actions on
| webpages.
|
| I'll make it a PWA soon so that it can at least be added as
| an app.
| marpstar wrote:
| I'm working on a system to help guitar/instrument shops post
| their products (by way of importing listings from Reverb.com) on
| social media to increase visibility to drive sales and followers.
| taptak wrote:
| A silly little podcast influenced by the writing style Douglas
| Adams' meets Dibert / Office Space.
|
| My full writing, editorial, SEO promotional staff is Claude AI.
| Science fact-checking and art by ChatGPT. Narration by Eleven
| labs.
|
| The Multiverse Employee Handbook:
| https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com
| chilldsgn wrote:
| At work, I am helping internationalise and localise an HR
| platform as well as maintain a legacy one that is the biggest
| mess of spaghetti I've ever seen.
|
| During my spare time I am building a web app to help my mom
| manage her healthy food market and trying to finish a ChatGPT
| wrapper web app to help me create meta descriptions for web pages
| a little quicker. Might monetise that one if it's worth the
| effort and will be valuable to people, we'll see.
| jimaek wrote:
| An open source and easy to use globally distributed network
| monitoring and testing platform called Globalping
| https://globalping.io
|
| Currently it's at stage of "RIPE Atlas with better UI and UX" but
| I plan to expand the functionality to cover a lot more use cases
| like ISPs,Cloud,Edge rankings and performance
| mmcool wrote:
| A marketplace that makes booking a hair transplant overseas
| easier! Why overseas? Because, not only are they are 10-15k
| cheaper outside of the US. The quality is better! Doctors
| overseas do hair transplants every day as opposed to the states
| where they may only do once a month.
|
| Anyways, I am trying to make sure people only go to reputable
| clinics, and eventually let them pay online (instead of carrying
| cash). Check it out!
|
| https://doctours.health
| retardracer wrote:
| Hey Guy, i built a website/domain security scanner tool. SSl/TSL,
| WAF detection, Secure Cookies, HSTS, DKIM/DMARC, DNSEC, etc..
|
| I think the security score are gimicky (ignore that i have a
| header score I will be removing that).
|
| You can just use it as a one-off tool to scan/check, you can
| schedule scans, get notified of changes (unexpected or expected),
| show proof of remediation, auto JIRA issue creation (with PDF
| attaching).
|
| Thoughts? I would love some comments/usage/feedback.
| internetsecure.org
| Bloedcoins wrote:
| it doesn't explain the findings very well. What exactly is it,
| how to configure it etc.
| retardracer wrote:
| I tried to give a little description, on each one but I can
| do better (and I made them smaller because i thought it was
| too much text!
|
| thanks for the tip/idea. I want to have a HELP page that
| might give more details into each check, a sample .htaccess
| or similar that you can just drop in and secure most things
| up (but with possibly breaking functionality in your site ha
| but just to have that option).
|
| Its to just show your current state/posture.
| seidleroni wrote:
| A website that sorts the recent Peloton bike rides by difficulty.
| https://pelohard.com/
|
| I love my Peloton and it was really annoying finding a ride with
| a difficulty over a certain threshold that was recent. I'm an
| embedded developer by day and did this with a lot of help from
| ChatGPT and Claude. Hoping to add some more features to it as
| time goes on.
| MVissers wrote:
| An evolutions simulator where both plants and animals can evolve
| both their behavior and morphology.
|
| This month I'm focussed on plants and I think I've had a
| breakthrough that could be worth publishing.
|
| But just a hobby.
| willguest wrote:
| I'm working on https://exeud.com. It's an open-source VR
| framework, including a Unity toolkit that includes character
| control and interaction, and a Web3 template that allows you to
| self-host your VR scene on the Internet Computer, which is a
| website-in-a-smart-contract.
|
| I see it being useful for artists, indie devs and anyone else who
| want to fire up their immersive ideas and keep control of the
| content, code and costs of running it.
| ldenoue wrote:
| Working on restoring punctuation marks in raw YouTube
| transcripts. Bert model trained as a token classifier works but
| it doesn't scale well with more languages. See
| https://www.appblit.com/scribe for the current solution
|
| Now looking into fine tuning a small LLM like Gemma 2b-it to this
| task.
|
| Any advice on other LLMs that would work appreciated.
|
| Also bonus if this LLM can run in a browser
| uhtred wrote:
| Something soul crushingly dull and unimportant - but the money is
| good!
| radeeyate wrote:
| I'm currently working on an I Am Sober alternative, being a
| habit/impulse tracker called Rewire. It's written in Golang +
| HTML + Bulma CSS. It sends out notifications check-ins via ntfy
| at the time you set when making the habit. It keeps track of
| streaks, and I hope to gamify it in some way. I've been working
| on it for a few weeks, and I hope to have it done soon. It'll be
| free and open source, but I'm not in the position to open source
| it yet.
| the__alchemist wrote:
| I'm working on my plasmid editing software. (PlasCAD). Slow roll!
| Adding features to make cloning more intuitive.
| asylbeknarmatov wrote:
| Great thread.
|
| I'm working on implementing Game Go (Baduk) in Ocaml language. I
| want to implement everything from scratch (FE & BE and etc)
| kper1337 wrote:
| I am working on my master thesis. My research group has developed
| an architecture description language and I am generating a LLVM
| compiler from this specification.
| shaftway wrote:
| I'm working on a cutting board as a wedding gift. The couple is
| Irish, and needed some design elements to suit. The edge will be
| three ribbons of darker wood (walnut, padauk, and walnut again)
| and the main cutting board area is light (ash).
|
| The hard part is the corners. I'm trying to get some celtic knots
| going, but this requires extremely accurate sizing, otherwise
| nothing lines up. The strips of wood are either 3/8" x 1/2" or
| 1/16" x 1/2". You have to be very careful with clamping when
| gluing, otherwise everything is off.
|
| Oh and it's end-grain, which just means so much more processing
| of everything.
| dmuth wrote:
| I wrote my first ever TamperMonkey script, to add some tools to a
| Facebook group that I moderate:
|
| https://github.com/dmuth/facebook-javascript-toolbox
| Joeri wrote:
| I've spent the last month writing about vanilla web development
| on https://plainvanillaweb.com/
|
| I am working on blog posts about various topics, vanilla
| intersection loading, accessible web components, server-side
| rendering strategies, vanilla PWA, etc...
|
| Always open to ideas and feedback.
| erellsworth wrote:
| I'm working on a shared bookmark manager called LinkPickle,
| mostly for my wife and I to send each other links. Think
| Linkwarden but pickle themed and not nearly as fleshed out.
|
| https://github.com/erellsworth/linkpickle
| germinalphrase wrote:
| I am experimenting with concepts to address the question: "how do
| you get people to socialize outside their houses?" which prompts
| all sorts of additional interesting questions around building
| anticipation through paralocal auditory broadcasting,
| environmental profile sharing, seeding location-based
| experiences, and so on. Consulting pays the bills, but this is a
| fun diversion.
| michelpp wrote:
| I'm extending Postgres with the GraphBLAS/SparseBLAS APIs for
| sparse and dense linear algebra operations directly in SQL with
| OneSparse. Like JSON/JSONB did for unstructured data, OneSparse
| does for matrices, vectors and linear algebra optimized with the
| SuiteSparse JIT compiler to target dense and sparse kernels for
| CPUs and GPUs.
|
| https://github.com/OneSparse/OneSparse
| darthrupert wrote:
| I'm working on a concept of a declarative configuration system
| for Arch Linux. My goal is to get the best 90% of what NixOS
| provides but with archian simplicity.
|
| Influences: decman, Nix, Guix
| bckr wrote:
| I'm doing a deep dive into the video games of the year 2000.
|
| The plan is to make a threejs site where I can display all my
| favorite games with models of their original packaging and
| instruction manuals.
|
| An interesting aspect of the research is that almost all
| published games are bad or mediocre.
|
| Wikipedia knows about ~800 video games published in the year
| 2000. Of those, only ~300 either piqued my interest based on
| description or had reviews above ~70% positive.
|
| I eliminated more of those based on personal interest (realistic
| flying or sports are not very interesting to me). And even more
| by watching videos of gameplay.
|
| The level of polish and artistry vary enormously.
|
| I've got a list of <100 games I'm very interested in, still.
| Which is a lot! But the breakdown is interesting to me.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| https://www.mobygames.com/game/from:2000/until:2000/sort:mob...
|
| 2296 results
| FragrantRiver wrote:
| I'm in the early stages of building a headless CMS you can use
| with your existing website. A few other tools do this, but I
| noticed that none of them are made for writing, and the editing
| experience is lacking.
|
| So, instead of having people write content in Google Docs or
| somewhere else and then copying it into the CMS, I want to create
| a place where you can enjoy writing and publishing your content.
|
| If this sounds interesting to you, you can try it at
| https://pmkin.io/ :)
| msmith115 wrote:
| I'm working on a new product, Datagram, which makes it easy for
| developers to share metrics using an API and mobile app.
|
| I've found that it's difficult to distribute metrics inside an
| organization. Today, most teams rely on systems like PowerBI /
| Tableau which are great for deep analysis, but can be too complex
| for sharing headline data to a large audience. Or, even more
| challenging, data can be locked in spreadsheets that are
| difficult to access when all you want to know is a few simple
| metrics like revenue or customer growth.
|
| With Datagram, developers can quickly create data dashboards,
| update them via API, and push updates to the whole team on mobile
| using notifications.
|
| Has anyone experienced similar challenges and does this sound
| interesting? It would be great to hear any feedback as we're
| early stage and want to make sure we're building something people
| want!
|
| https://datagram.live
| kashkhan wrote:
| i would love a drop in self hosted replacement for datadog that
| looks good.
| mikeshi42 wrote:
| Curious if https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx passes the
| bar for looking good!
|
| (disclaimer: I'm a maintainer that's done a good chunk of the
| UI - but I also love candid feedback)
| cygnion wrote:
| A product development and problem-solving workshop [1] for middle
| school kids. It involves storytelling and hands-on exercises
| around ideation and solution development, culminating in creating
| prototypes. I developed it to teach my children and their friends
| how to think about problems and create solutions. Am continuing
| it refine it, including offering it to different age groups.
|
| [1] https://idea-launch-lab.github.io/
| vinay_ys wrote:
| > For example, if you love football, and you're good enough at
| it, you can get paid a lot to play it.
|
| good enough doesn't get you paid enough to cover your injuries.
| me_bx wrote:
| I'm (still) working on my surf forecasting website / PWA [0].
|
| I spent the past few months refactoring most of the site:
| * Find a smarter logic to recommend when to go surfing, based on
| how the combination of swell and wind indicators are. * Add
| support for other locations (currently: only Fuerteventura,
| Canary Islands is there) - this means refactoring the way how
| forecast data is managed. * UX & UI: enhance the
| information hierarchy, menus, create a new visual identity.
|
| Finally soon to be released.
|
| [0]: https://gonna.surf
| jascha_eng wrote:
| Still working on Kviklet: https://github.com/kviklet/kviklet
|
| Trying to make production database access easy while avoiding
| dropping a table in production.
|
| Experimenting with websockets right now so you don't have to
| create formal requests like a pull request anymore but instead
| can have more fluent database access sessions while another
| engineer watches over your virtual shoulder.
| LouDNL wrote:
| Working on a v1 firmware for USBSID-Pico now that I have ordered
| the first v1 pcbs.
|
| https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico USBSID-Pico is a RasberryPi
| Pico based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or
| hardware SID emulators with a computer/phone over USB.
| tombert wrote:
| I've been diving head-first into raw, nerdy, mathy concurrency
| theory.
|
| Something fun about being into niche subjects in computer science
| is that the textbooks for them have very low resale value. As a
| result, you can make "best offers" on eBay for 1/2 or even less
| than the suggested price, and it will likely be accepted since
| the seller really just wants to get rid of them.
|
| I've been taking advantage of this and purchased a bunch of
| obscure concurrency theory books that I've been reading through.
| byrnedo wrote:
| I've been working on Skate (https://github.com/skateco/skate), a
| lean multi-host container platform, primarily for my own needs.
| Its been a great way to learn more Rust (I'm a gopher by day) and
| I've learned some interesting technologies and concepts.
| darkhorse13 wrote:
| I've been building https://blocks.md, which lets you turn
| Markdown-like text into forms.
| g5pw wrote:
| Late to the party - I'm building a "remote" for
| https://github.com/babybuddy for my future child. It's based
| around an esp32-s3 and has: - 10 switches that I can assign to
| start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin) - One
| encoder + four way directional switch - Round LCD display with
| touch - 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor
|
| If we won't use it for our child, I'll use it as a slightly
| overpowered macro keyboard :D
|
| Of course I intend to publish it as soon as I have the first
| prototypes debugged!
| geros wrote:
| I'm working on Learntime (https://learntime.ai), an open-
| source/saas learning app that combines AI mentorship with
| evidence-based study techniques. It's designed for students and
| lifelong learners who want to retain information more effectively
| and perform better in exams. It focuses on un-prompted recall of
| entire topics (not just flashcards), supported by an AI mentor
| that provides hints and tracks progress. It uses spaced
| repetition to optimise review schedules and includes a quick quiz
| feature targeting weak areas. This is my first solo open-source
| project, and it's been quite a journey! I initially started with
| LangChain, thinking it would simplify the AI integration.
| However, I found myself spending more time wrestling with
| abstractions than solving core problems. Eventually, I dropped it
| in favour of a more direct approach. The biggest technical
| challenge has been implementing free recall scoring with LLMs.
| I've been through a cycle of different techniques - prompt
| engineering, few-shot learning, fine-tuning - and back again! All
| of this while welcoming my third child and approaching 50! It's
| been a balancing act, but the project keeps me energised.
| Feedback, similar experiences or insights welcome!
| cloverich wrote:
| I'm working on my notes app Chronicles[1] again. Typical wysiwyg
| over local markdown files app. After a lot of internal debate,
| I've decided I don't want to have novels under my desk and am
| committing to finishing a 1.0[2] of it. Its a few releases from
| being accessible to new users, but for me its already displaced
| most of my other note taking tools. Not nearly as cool as half
| the stuff on this page, or half my other ideas. But its something
| I like, and something I can finish.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/cloverich/chronicles [2]:
| https://github.com/cloverich/chronicles/issues/160
| sumeruchat wrote:
| I suck at trading and wanted to get better so I have built a
| crypto paper trading app (iOS only atm) to practice and measure
| your performance against others. If anyone is interested please
| try the testflight at
|
| https://testflight.apple.com/join/R3fvUHwT
|
| For feedback (or if link doesnt work) please reach me at
| sumeru@tradomate.io
|
| I am looking for honest feedback so feel free to be critical
| supplied_demand wrote:
| I've been thinking a lot lately about the idea of "assets" and
| what makes an asset class investable or not. This lead me to
| build a few investment reports for alternative assets (think:
| wine, Pokemon cards, art, comic books, sneakers, etc.).
|
| The first two reports were Wine [1] and Pokemon Cards [2]. I'm
| currently working on the third edition, Fine Art.
|
| [1] https://www.altasset.report/001-wine/
|
| [2] https://www.altasset.report/alt-asset-report-002-pokemon-
| car...
| samelawrence wrote:
| Teaching myself React for the first time. It's not easy to learn
| WebDev in today's complexity environment, but at least I have
| Chat GPT as a tutor.
| andrewlevver wrote:
| I'm creating a multi-media project hosted on substack where I
| write a letter (in a deeply personal and old school
| correspondence) to my favorite people/creators/ and tell them how
| they've impacted my life. I give specifics about when and where I
| first heard/read/saw/etc. their work and what pieces of it have
| stuck with me over time and become part of my curated worldview
| and experience.
|
| https://www.aletterfor.com/
|
| There aren't any public posts yet because I've been too much of a
| coward to release them into the wild and promote them even though
| I think they are great. I'm hoping by commenting here I can
| pressure myself to update in October with some actual stuff
| published.
| Kafilsaleem wrote:
| I am building a vendor management platform for startups that puts
| collaboration first. New approach compared to traditional
| procurement. Https://zapro.ai. Check it out and let me know what
| you think.
| Multiset wrote:
| I ran into problems trying to deploy AI agents in the wild
| because people were trying to hijack and jailbreak them. As a
| result, I started researching and have begun working on a tool to
| scan LLM system prompts for vulnerabilities so that they can be
| fixed pre-deployment or at least anticipated. I'm currently
| taking baby steps by pulling together various tools from the
| open-source domain and trying to make them easy to use.
|
| It's completely free for now. The report gets emailed to you
| within 24 hours.
|
| https://tano-ai-security-tano.vercel.app/
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