[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 7 points
Date : 2024-10-27 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago)
| seanwilson wrote:
| https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
|
| Iterating on an accessible color palette creator, for
| handcrafting Tailwind-style palettes of multiple swatches, where
| you can check your colors have sufficient WCAG/ACPA color
| contrast on a live UI mockup. You can export the colors for use
| with Tailwind, CSS, Figma, and Adobe.
|
| I started working on this because for design projects I was often
| getting handed brand style guides that were missing thought into
| accessible colors pairs and lacked tints/shades, where I had to
| fill in the gaps. There's lots of color tools out there, but this
| supports multiple swatches and checking the contrast of multiple
| color pairs at the same time.
|
| It's really only usable on desktop right now but I'd love any
| feedback good or bad on if it's useful and what to work on next!
| There's actually a lot of directions to go in, and it's tricky to
| balance more features with keeping it simple. Some tips:
|
| - The "Load examples" menu in the top-left lets you compare the
| colors from Tailwind, IBM Carbon and United States Web Design
| System.
|
| - The "contrast" menu lets you see how WCAG 2 contrast checks
| compare against APCA when "vs black/white" is turned on. WCAG 2
| has known inaccuracies, especially for dark mode. APCA is the
| candidate contrast method for WCAG 3 that's meant to improve on
| this.
|
| - Use the "..." menu to create a swatch based on a brand color.
|
| - Use the "..." menu to "flip to dark/light palette" to create a
| dark theme. Or just manually flip the lightness curves
| horizontally.
| porphyra wrote:
| I'm a big fan of HSLuv and I've been looking for a way to
| generate 12 distinct colors for data visualization, so that
| small points in those colors against a black or dark blue
| background will be visually distinct to everyone including my
| red-green colorblind coworker.
| dang wrote:
| This is an ongoing experiment that david927 has been helping with
| (thanks!). The two previous in the sequence were:
|
| _Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087 - Sept 2024 (1041
| comments)
|
| _Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342017 - Aug 2024 (1424
| comments)
|
| One thing I'd like to hone in on is that these threads aren't
| intended for promotion, but rather for the just-because sort of
| project, driven by idle interest or weird obsession--the sort of
| thing people might spend their free time on.
|
| I'm not sure yet what the official "rule" should be (if any), but
| if you're working on a startup or have had attention via Show HN,
| maybe abstain from these discussions? It wouldn't be good for the
| thread to get taken over by things HN already has a place for.
| johnea wrote:
| I'm working on not working!
|
| Isn't this what everyone is working on?
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Knitting hats. The fall/winter is when I bury myself in knitting
| projects to fight seasonal depression and cabin fever. Audiobook
| + knitting == bliss.
|
| The work most of us do isn't tangible. You have nothing to
| "prove" that you made something. Creating something in meat space
| is really rewarding.
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| I'm working on a passwordless authentication SaaS.
| olzhasar wrote:
| A small cli tool that helps to clean a messy dev folder with lots
| of git repositories:
|
| https://github.com/olzhasar/mess
| dom96 wrote:
| I'm building a social network for humans[1]. I plan to make each
| user a verified human and disallow AI content as standard. I will
| also ensure that each human can only have one account, to
| eliminate the ability of state actors/rich people spreading
| online propaganda.
|
| 1 - https://onlyhumanhub.com
| bilsbie wrote:
| I've been wondering about the opposite! Imagine having
| thousands of virtual Ai followers.
| sshine wrote:
| I've always wanted to be hugely popular among nobody.
| sshine wrote:
| > _disallow AI content_
|
| How do you know something is AI content?
|
| It is statistically similar to human content.
|
| > _each human can only have one account_
|
| Sounds like you'll need some eyeball scanners.
| dom96 wrote:
| > Sounds like you'll need some eyeball scanners.
|
| Nope. All I need is a passport :)
|
| > How do you know something is AI content?
|
| I won't. But I will certainly ban anyone who is found to
| definitively be sharing AI content.
| billconan wrote:
| A research paper organizer
| https://youtu.be/YjiJ_61_zzM?feature=shared
| yen223 wrote:
| https://getselectable.com/
|
| I'm working on Selectable, a mobile-friendly database management
| app, like dbeaver but for the phone.
|
| Working on this project has taught me so much about how Postgres
| works under the hood, and has given me a deeper appreciation for
| the folks who work on database tooling in general.
| bilsbie wrote:
| Floating a startup idea where we coordinate Airbnbs to offer
| coworking during vacant times.
| koeng wrote:
| I'm working on synthesizing a genome at home! Here is a video
| with more details, as well as a picture of my home lab. I've
| always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally have a
| chance to do it.
|
| Video on what I'm doing -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiuS1oHnKw
|
| Picture of my home lab -
| https://x.com/koeng101/status/1844150979484319842
|
| I'm trying to build a DNA assembly company right now (been lots
| of ups and downs lately...), and one thing I need to do is
| validate the specs of my oligo pool synthesis provider, Agilent,
| before I release to customers / raise a seed round. So as a
| stress-test run of my system, I'm synthesizing a genome, and am
| thinking about trying to livestream it. The unique technology is
| variety of ways to assemble and validate DNA from oligo pools for
| a lot cheaper, pretty much enabling a 10x reduction in DNA
| synthesis cost vs commercial suppliers. I've worked my ass off
| for nearly 2 years to get to this moment and am so excited!
| bilsbie wrote:
| Pondering doing a hardware startup to offer a battery buffered
| electric kettle.
|
| 110 volt plug, 220 volt power.
|
| (You could use the same concept for lots of other appliances too)
| sshine wrote:
| I have a battery-powered espresso machine.
|
| It spends ~33% of its battery on one cup.
|
| It sort of works if you bring pre-heated water in a thermo.
|
| Heating water with conventional batteries is a terrible idea.
| squidgedcricket wrote:
| Interesting idea! Supercaps might be a better fit than
| batteries.
| babyent wrote:
| Collaborative management software. I've got experience in this
| space and I want to offer software that's customizable and smart.
| hoerzu wrote:
| A sidebar for LLM power users. Use one prompt to query all
| models:
|
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabgpt-ask-chatgpt-...
| abe94 wrote:
| Been working on our startup laudspeaker (an alternative to
| firebase cloud messaging) [1] as well as trying to write more! I
| like science fiction thrillers similar to what michael crichton
| used to write and have been working on a story called Panopticon
| around encryption, spycraft, and three letter agencies [2]
|
| [1] https://laudspeaker.com/ ,
| https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker [2]
| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRI4X5fCUpwurUDvKmvzJpT7...
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| I am building a digital replacement of all universities in the
| world with full courses across any subject, in any language,
| tailored to your individual learning style all.
| reducesuffering wrote:
| I'm building https://exoroad.com to help people find US places
| that are a better match for them to move to. Like compare stats
| on SF vs. NYC or find the warm places with good schools and low
| crime.
| bobosha wrote:
| I'm developing an implementation of what I call Hydra - Multi-
| Head Prediction Embeddings [1], which I believe represents the
| next evolution in transformer architectures.
|
| [1]
| https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381009719_Hydra_Enh...
| tmshapland wrote:
| Updating some of my negative core beliefs. Years of Buddhist
| meditation only got me so far. But two months of this new
| technique, and I finally see a path to being able to program my
| emotional self like I program a computer. Here's how it works.
|
| Step one. Identify the negative belief you want to change. This
| is the core belief. It is something you feel is true. For
| example, "I am a bad manager."
|
| Step two. Create a statement related to the belief that you
| believe is not true. This is the false statement. For example,
| "No employees Ive managed have thought I did anything right as a
| manager."
|
| Step three. This is the training step. You spend a few minutes
| following your breathe to quiet your mind. Then you think the
| false statement and watch the emotional reaction the mind has to
| it. The reaction is an aversion, a kind of disgust. Then, say the
| false statement and the core belief together. "No employees I've
| managed have thought I did anything right as a manager. I'm a bad
| manager." Repay the false statement and core belief together
| again and again, watching how the mind rejects the false
| statement and that aversion feeling lingers as the core belief is
| thought.
|
| Step four. Repeat the training step in daily sessions. During the
| session, repeated think the false belief and core belief. The
| session should last at least ten minutes. The daily sessions
| should be repeated for at least a week, and longer for more
| deeply held core beliefs. Over time, you come to reject the core
| belief just like you reject the false statement.
|
| Here's why I think it works. There is a rational part of the mind
| in the prefrontal cortex. It is what we think with. But it is not
| where our beliefs are. We can rationalize our way to a new belief
| or to change a belief. Instead, beliefs are felt. And they're
| felt in the limbic emotional part of the brain. The limbic system
| is mute and cannot think with words. The prefrontal cortex can't
| directly talk to the limbic system with words. Instead, the
| prefrontal cortex must communicate with emotion. You have to
| train the limbic system to feel differently about a belief. You
| can't use positive affirmations because they are not felt as
| strongly as aversion.
| laurentlb wrote:
| https://lingostories.org (not a business, just a side-project,
| entirely free)
|
| I'm building a website with interactive stories (or story-based
| games), intended for language learners. The idea is to make
| stories with choices (using Ink script), including features you
| may expect from adventure games (e.g. inventory, choices that
| matter).
|
| The text is written in simple language, it is then translated in
| many languages, and I generate audio files. This provides input
| for people learning a language, with multiple options to practice
| reading or listening.
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