[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 : 363 points
Date : 2024-10-27 22:14 UTC (1 days ago)
| seanwilson wrote:
| https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
|
| Iterating on an accessible color palette creator, for custom
| 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
| almost always 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, checking the contrast
| of multiple color pairs at the same time and the HSLuv based
| color picker makes it easier to explore accessible colors.
|
| 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.
| seanwilson wrote:
| I like HSLuv too as its color picker looks familiar while
| having a Lightness slider that works the way you'd expect
| compared to HSL. I see color nerds promoting OKLCH but OKLCH
| color pickers can look intimidating.
|
| > 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.
|
| Did you get anywhere with this? When there's multiple kinds
| of color blindness changing the perceived colors in different
| ways, I'm not sure 12 colors that are distinct to everyone is
| feasible. You could use different symbols though, or changes
| in size or pattern.
| trevor-e wrote:
| fwiw I was very confused with what I was supposed to do on this
| site and I run a few websites using Tailwind colors. I don't
| really get how the color selector on the right interacts with
| the mock previews on the left. It also wasn't obvious I'm
| supposed to hover over each element in the mock preview.
| seanwilson wrote:
| Thanks, that's helpful! The color selector on the far right
| is mostly there to let you change which color you're editing
| if you're not interested in the mockup preview on the far
| left, and to add new colors. You can mostly ignore it if
| you'd rather select colors by clicking on the mockup.
|
| For what you're supposed to do, you're meant to drag the
| points or curves in the hue/saturation/lightness columns to
| customize the colors swatches to create your own custom
| palette. The mockup will update as you make changes and warn
| you if there's any accessibility contrast issues. You can
| click elements on the mockup to select colors to edit and
| check their color contrast.
|
| Does that help at all? Any more hints on what part wasn't
| obvious and what would make it more obvious? I could hide the
| color selector by default maybe? Add better labels or hints?
| 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.
| david927 wrote:
| Thanks, Dan, for that clarification. The question each month is
| actually two-fold: what have you been tinkering around with and
| what new ideas are thinking about. It's an invitation to
| dialogue.
|
| We know our history and the role collaboration has played in
| it. Whether at Xerox PARC or Bell Labs, bouncing ideas off of
| other colleagues has spurred incredible innovation.
|
| I submit that HN is a giant Xerox PARC. We have all of the
| ingredients for this recipe here on HN. We have the brilliant
| minds; we have the joy of creation. I submit that what we lack
| is mixing those ingredients. We lack dialogue and
| collaboration, and it's all completely unnecessary. It's here.
| Please use it.
| kaycebasques wrote:
| For conciseness how about:
|
| > Ask HN: What are you exploring?
| waprin wrote:
| Why isn't it intended for promotion?
|
| I find this "anti-promotion" attitude to be doing a disservice
| to this HN community for a few reasons.
|
| Clearly, this whole website is funded and exists in part to
| promote YC's portfolio companies, as evidenced by "Launch HN"
| threads getting auto-front paged whereas "Show HN" plebians
| have to earn the upvotes from /new (which most agree required
| an exceptionally good post and a lot of luck to even get that
| goodness noticed). And we're not talking promotion of a few
| posts, YC is now doing multiple batches a year and has hundreds
| of companies per batch meaning we're seeing a LOT of promotion
| / advertisements on this site coming via Launch HN threads as
| well as jobs ad threads.
|
| I don't think Xerox park would have done as well if 5% of the
| people get got the opportunity for a microphone in the
| auditorium every week and the other 95% did not. That would
| seem like a caste system. I understand that YC funds this
| website so the caste system is inevitable but I don't see why
| moderation should further stratify it - unless you're
| prioritizing advertising YC companies over a great community.
|
| Next, I see this "HN is not for self promotion" do a lot of
| downstream damage on the community in the sense that it's much
| better for big, existing trillion dollar companies than smaller
| players. If a small bootstrapped startup writes a blog post and
| mentions there product, people will complain about "blogspam"
| and "this blog post is really just an ad for a link at the
| end". But if Google or Amazon have a new announcement for a new
| product, nobody complains that it's an advertisement, even
| though it's often as much or more one. The end result is that
| the website tends to focus more "corporate" news than "hacker"
| news as a downstream consequence of a well-meaning "no self-
| promotion" rule.
|
| Finally, as we've discussed over email, the rules around self-
| promotion are extremely opaque and in many cases
| algorithmically enforced by closed algorithms. This leads to a
| lot of confusion around what's allowed and a lot of ambiguous
| favoritism.
|
| I understand this site is called "Hacker" news and there's some
| mystique around the "hacker" building "just for fun" , the
| purism around intellectual curiosity that you don't want
| tainted by dirty commercialism. I just think that once the
| website has decided it's going to be the media arm of one of
| the most powerful venture capital firms in the world, the ship
| has sailed.If people really want pure tech news, they should go
| to https://lobste.rs/ . I've personally found in recent years
| quality of interesting conversation is much higher on /r/saas,
| Indie Hackers board, and Small Bets campfire, as well as
| various Discords, all because they allow self-promotion and
| don't encourage the "self-promotion police" who frequently show
| up aghast someone would try to make money on the internet
| (unless it's their daddy FAANG employer).
|
| Another rule I've seen in various places be very effective is a
| simple guideline to contribute 10x as much non-promotional
| content as promotional content. If someone only posts links to
| their projects and nothing else, I see how that gets spammy.
| But if someone regularly contributes they should get a pass. I
| understand that's partially how the submission system works via
| algorithmic enforcement, but , see above about its opaque and
| ambiguous nature.
|
| Show HN is a "place" for self-promotion but it's a pretty bad
| place if 99% of submissions get entirely lost and ignored and I
| think you should encourage more places for promotion without
| inflicting a caste system where only YC companies and certain
| golden children get special rules.
|
| Overall, HN's guidelines against self-promotion are too rigid,
| there's too few opportunties for small players to promote,
| which makes the discussion here less egalitarian, more
| corporate, and less interesting. You'd be better served
| encouraging more self-promotion in threads like these.
| mtndew4brkfst wrote:
| Grindset self-promo tactics being pervasively, overly
| represented in the content submissions and discussions here
| are the number one reason I take very long breaks from the
| site.
|
| More genuine conversations are intensely welcome, so if that
| takes overt guard rails, so be it. If the only enthusiasm
| someone really wants to share is about their capitalist
| endeavors, count me out.
| throwaway2037 wrote:
| > Grindset self-promo tactics being pervasively, overly
| represented in the content submissions and discussions here
| are the number one reason I take very long breaks from the
| site.
|
| "Grindset": I never saw that before. I guess it is a
| combination of grind plus mindset? Very cool. It rolls off
| the tongue nicely.
| oefrha wrote:
| There's simply no "HN is not for self promotion" policy.
| You're asked to not use your account primarily for self-
| promotion, and repeats are allowed, so you can roll your dice
| multiple times on your Show HN already as long as you're
| otherwise a good contributor to the community and only do it
| sparingly. Flooding another topic with commercial promos
| simply turns it into another
| https://news.ycombinator.com/show, what's the point then?
|
| As for YC companies getting Launch placements, well too bad,
| it's their site, you're free to leave and start your
| competing one. I assume most users aren't bothered -- I
| seldom notice them and hardly ever click on them. I notice
| job ads more.
| throwaway2037 wrote:
| One thing I do like: When people call themselves out --
| "hey, we buy this software... or I work for this company
| and you might like this software"... then they share some
| software that is relevant to the discussion. I rarely see
| those kinds of contributions downvoted due to their
| transparency. Plus, I learn about lots of interesting
| companies and solutions that way.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Dan, instead of "What are you _working_ on ", could a better
| title for conveying the intent be "What are you _hacking_ on "?
| hyperbrainer wrote:
| That's good, but hacking for me has a specific connotation in
| that you are modifying something for your purposes. Something
| new is "working".
| webmaven wrote:
| Perhaps "What are you making?" instead?
| dang wrote:
| It's a good idea and consistent with the original use of the
| term on HN. I guess the downside is if anyone with a cool
| side project thought that it wouldn't belong under that
| smaller-sounding umbrella.
|
| Another option would be to go the whole hog and explicitly
| reference side projects in the title, or at least in whatever
| will become the instructions at the top of the regular
| thread.
| paddy_m wrote:
| I just saw this. yep, totally promoted my project instead of
| following this guideline.
| dang wrote:
| Hi Paddy! Hmm - I'm not sure. Are you talking about
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38424478? That doesn't
| seem to have had significant attention on HN yet. It's an
| open source project. It might be fine in this thread.
|
| Whatever the line is, it's still gelatinous. We want to
| figure it out in a way that optimizes the thread for
| interestingness, which means avoiding repetition and
| prioritizing the long tail of projects that probably wouldn't
| get discussed in other contexts on HN.
| johnea wrote:
| I'm working on not working!
|
| Isn't this what everyone is working on?
| anonzzzies wrote:
| I like working, so I am working on working more.
| yen223 wrote:
| I don't mind working. But I would be rather working on my own
| terms, and that's what I'm working towards.
| johnnyanmac wrote:
| Working on finding a job. Maybe in 2025 I can use these threads
| as a small devlog on the game I want to work on. But until then
| my progress has been "did questions on trees and backtracking".
| woohoo.
|
| Though games for sale seem to be treading the line of the "no
| self-promotion" guideline. It's not coming out anytime soon and
| I have a very unconventional pipeline for developing it, so I
| think it'll be worth sharing the tech and process of that along
| the way.
| 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.
| toriyaki wrote:
| I'm also knitting! Working on my very first cardigan.
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| I'm working on a passwordless authentication SaaS.
| dngit wrote:
| Care to expand? Is it alternative to magic link / OAuth?
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| It's more of an alternative to Magic.link.
| jcmfernandes wrote:
| Busy market, hard to sell to companies who need to migrate. The
| main reason for migrations is price (eg. Auth0 being super
| expensive), which is not a good thing. I'm probably not telling
| you anything new.
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| Authentication is a busy market indeed.
| 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.
| arturventura wrote:
| I've been working on the idea of building synthetic workers. I'm
| trying to implement a planning workflow system for scenarios
| where the workflow definition, the environment, or the task are
| not well defined. I also ended up implementing a micro Palentir
| plugin system to support the action system for the synthetic
| users.
|
| Its a cool project that gave me immense pleasure to built,
| however its unfortunately a intellectually masturbatory one,
| because although the tech is cool, I haven't found a cool
| application for it. If anyone is interested hit me up.
| billconan wrote:
| A research paper organizer
| https://youtu.be/YjiJ_61_zzM?feature=shared
| mtndew4brkfst wrote:
| Do you have a prose description or repo you'd be interested in
| sharing? I'm acquainted with Zotero and Omnivore, but I
| accumulate papers to read much faster than I get through my TBR
| pile and it's getting pretty unwieldy already.
| billconan wrote:
| not sure if this description is good enough?
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609841#38610132
|
| unfortunately I can't share the code, because our company
| disallowed it due to conflict of interest.
| 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!
| mindcrime wrote:
| > I've always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally
| have a chance to do it.
|
| I'm pretty sure I saw this movie... and it didn't end well for
| existing life on Earth, as I recall. :p
| koeng wrote:
| good thing we live in real life and not a movie
| mindcrime wrote:
| Reality is often stranger than fiction though! :-)
| kragen wrote:
| Less in keeping with the anti-intellectual witch-hunting
| political agendas of Hollywood, though.
| circles_for-day wrote:
| Don't worry, synthetic life doesn't work very well without
| evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter
| already did something similar.
|
| Tampering with existing viruses and symbionts so they can
| escape their current minima in the fitness landscape is the
| more dangerous thing.
| cgreerrun wrote:
| This is incredible. I have a biochemistry and bioinformatics
| background, and I've always been curious about how easy and
| cheap it could be to do various experiments at home. Godspeed!
| 0xCMP wrote:
| a _literal_ home lab!
| 0xEF wrote:
| My favorite piece of lab equipment is the bed.
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Wow this is very exciting! Always makes me happy when I see
| your comments on HN, you're always up to something interesting!
| Are you hiring developers or aspiring bioengineers? (I'm a
| developer and an aspiring bioengineer)
| koeng wrote:
| Someday hopefully soon when I raise a seed :)
|
| I think if you have the right structure, it is easier to
| train developers to be bioengineers than bioengineers to be
| developers! Bioengineering tends to be a more wicked
| discipline, which seriously affects how one writes their
| code. Makes it kinda crap. Software devs on the other hand
| typically aren't as experienced in the other field, and so
| are coming in blind.
| Dig1t wrote:
| How about free labor? Are you interested in people who want
| to work for free?
| paulmilligrams wrote:
| Very impressive work. Are you still able to proceed with
| operating your lab despite the injunction passed against you
| for theft of trade secrets? [1]
|
| [1] https://www.sideman.com/ronald-fisher-and-ellen-leonida-
| achi...
| koeng wrote:
| yep, nothing in there prevents me from doing work. That
| article is mainly their legal team fluffing their own
| feathers for their clients, which I'd hope that one would be
| able to read between the lines for, considering it was
| published by the lawyers themselves. The lawsuit itself is
| quite frivolous and accusing me of stealing and using source
| code I didn't steal/use, so just have to go through the legal
| motions to prove that. The more details you know about the
| case the more absurd it becomes
| worthless-trash wrote:
| I hope you win and get some big cash rewards for these
| kinds of accusations.
| TechDebtDevin wrote:
| Very cool, I wish you the best of luck. Fuck Trilobio
| 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.
| binoct wrote:
| I love the idea and thought I'd do a rough check on the math:
|
| Assuming the goal is to match the power delivery of a high
| power UK kettle, looks like the batteries will need to step in
| and produce about 1kW of power for the duration of the boil,
| something like 50% on top of the standard 15A US circuit. I
| know on paper the circuit ratings are nearly 2x, but in
| practice it sounds like it's closer to 1.5x for the average
| kettle comparison.
|
| 80% efficiency for the heating coil, 1.6L of water, you need
| about ~750kJ (200Wh) get to a boil from 10C tap water.
|
| So you'll need at least 70Wh output from your battery, and it
| needs to provide 1kW continuously. Accounting for conversion
| losses and some buffer to avoid deep discharge I'll target
| 80Wh. At 1kW that's a continuous 13C discharge rate, which is
| pretty high. Hobby-oriented LiPo packs will do it, but I'm not
| sure how they would hold up for consumer product safety and
| longevity. LiFePO cells could be a good choice since density is
| _less_ of a concern, and are readily available with 20+C
| continuous discharge.
|
| I don't know my power electronics very well, so I'm not sure
| the best way to merge the outputs. Any conversions are going to
| eat into total power and thus boil time, just rectifying the AC
| will take 20%. Maybe it makes the most sense to have two
| separate coils, one direct from AC and a second from the
| battery? With smaller cells in series, say 10+, to get a decent
| voltage it could end up with a manageable current to use
| directly with the 1kW boost. In that case the only expensive
| power electronics needed would be to charge the batteries.
|
| Also have to figure out how much recharge time matters to
| people, since by default it would be an hour or so.
|
| It's going to have a chunky, heavy base, and guessing it will
| have to be pretty expensive for what it does, but I like it.
| shiroiushi wrote:
| The whole idea sounds pretty insane really. Who's going to
| pay hundreds of dollars for a battery-powered kettle just so
| they can save 1-2 minutes of time (and less if you're just
| making enough boiling water for 1 cup). I use a little 100V
| (900W I think, according to the label) kettle to make tea,
| either 1 or 2 cups at a time, and while it's certainly not as
| speedy as those EU/UK market kettles, and a bit slower than a
| US kettle, it's fast enough.
|
| A battery-powered one might save me 1 minute of time at best,
| but will cost probably at least 5-10x as much for the kettle,
| it'll be MUCH larger than my current kettle (that battery
| pack and power electronics needs space) which is a problem
| with my tiny kitchen, and I have to worry about how long the
| battery will last and how to dispose of it later and if I can
| even replace it.
|
| This is really a solution in search of a problem.
| binoct wrote:
| There are lots of products that aren't _necessary_ at all
| but bring an amount of fun to the world. This feels to me
| like one of those. Not convinced it could even recoup
| development cost, but I'd be happy to be surprised. There's
| certainly a niche for well off Brits (and EU folks) living
| in 120V land hankering for a fast cuppa.
| shiroiushi wrote:
| The reality of product development and manufacturing is
| that economies of scale affect prices such that low sales
| quantities (i.e. a "niche product") generally means
| extremely high prices. Also, the BOM cost alone is
| probably going to be high, because of the huge batteries
| needed (with high current ability) and the power
| electronics involved. Then when you consider the safety
| ratings and certifications needed (since this is
| something that could easily start a fire with the power
| levels involved), I don't see how it could be sold at any
| kind of reasonable price unless there's a really big
| underserved market.
|
| Sure, if this device could be sold for USD$50, it might
| sell some to people like you say, but how many of these
| people would spend $500 or more on it?
| binoct wrote:
| I'm supportive of the original idea because I think it's
| fun and cool. I agree with everything you've said, but
| we're talking a bit at cross angles. You're looking at it
| from what it would take for this to be a successful,
| competitive, and profitable consumer product. I'm looking
| at if it is technically feasible and can be made for non-
| absurd amounts of money. Our threshold of non-absurd may
| also differ, but given there are some people will pay
| $20k+ for an espresso machine, there are likely some who
| would pay several hundred dollars for a tea kettle.
| bilsbie wrote:
| Thanks! Good calcs. As far as merging I was thinking simply
| two separate heating coils. One AC on lower voltage dc.
| 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.
| hug wrote:
| Sal Khan, is that you?
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| Oh please do not compare me with an absolute legend.
| bdhdbebebeb wrote:
| So... Youtube? :-)
| 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.
| oidar wrote:
| did you come up with this technique?
| tmshapland wrote:
| Yes. Claude tells me it's a novel technique. It also tells me
| it's a dangerous idea to focus on negatives. But negatives
| are a more visceral feeling and have more weight in the
| training. The technique is working for me.
| geoka9 wrote:
| Does that mean you actually know that you're a good manager but
| can't shake off the feeling that you're not? And this technique
| is a way to achieve that?
| tmshapland wrote:
| well I know that I need to stop feeling like I'm bad at it.
| We all tell ourselves in so many different ways that we're
| not enough. This is a technique for training those beliefs
| away.
| 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.
| yen223 wrote:
| Heads up: your link is blank when I opened it in Firefox
| Uncaught TypeError: SpeechRecognition is not a constructor
| laurentlb wrote:
| Thanks a lot! This should be fixed now.
|
| I started experimenting with the speech recognition browser
| API yesterday (so that the user can listen and repeat
| sentences), but it's not supported everywhere.
| thevivekshukla wrote:
| Building cloud agnostic platform to run batch/HPC workloads. Can
| even connect your own compute and run jobs.
|
| Launching next month @ https://daemonstack.com/
| fxtentacle wrote:
| I'm building a custom NC manufacturing robot from scratch.
|
| I was unhappy with availability, pricing, and business model
| (SaaS lock-in) of the existing hardware/software solutions. But
| to my delight, I noticed that you just need better amplifiers to
| use 3D printer mainboards for driving industrial stepper motors.
| Everything is controlled with Gcode, which is just text. And
| sensors can send back logging messages over the same USB
| connection.
|
| That means the control software can be just a python script with
| a little state machine inside :)
| arunabha wrote:
| Interesting! The use of 3D printer electronics is a great idea
| as they are cheap(ish) and get reasonable accuracy.
|
| I'm curious what you mean by a custom NC manufacturing robot? A
| CNC mill?
| fxtentacle wrote:
| No, its neither a CNC mill nor a lathe nor a robot arm. It's
| a specialised machine that automates one production step. But
| it needs to react to variations in the input work pieces,
| which is why it needs to be computer-controlled.
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| 3D printer/laser engraver electronics are great for lots of
| things actually. You get
|
| A (at least) 3-axis motion control system with G-code
| processor
|
| Spindle controller (usually)
|
| Limit switch input
|
| A nice graphical display
|
| (Sometimes) Wi-Fi or BLE
|
| Arduino framework
|
| All for around $50.
|
| I was exploring the use of one for an open-source infusion
| pump controller. However, it turned out to be too bulky, but
| it would probably have been fine otherwise. Even after all
| these years, I was blown away by the insane amount of
| capability that I could buy for $50.
|
| Before anyone else asks: https://github.com/makerbase-
| mks/MKS-DLC32
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Finishing my basement, one weekend at a time.
|
| Maintain your basement and its waterproofing kids! Otherwise the
| next owner will hate you.
| sailfast wrote:
| Yeah but I'll be long gone :)
| pizlonator wrote:
| Trying to make C/C++ memory safe. Full compatibility + memory
| safety with no escape hatches.
|
| Currently working on redoing the underlying object model to
| eliminate the top perf overheads.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/live/_VF3pISRYRc?t=4862s
| feelamee wrote:
| cool
|
| Does it have any relation to safe c++ [1] proposal?
|
| [1] https://safecpp.org/draft.html
| pizlonator wrote:
| No, because Fil-C++ isn't a new language. No new annotations.
| Just recompile your code and it's safe.
| AlbertoGP wrote:
| Big problem with the video: the audio volume is _very_ low,
| then I raise the volume of the computer to compensate for it
| and _BAM!_ an advertisement comes up screaming at me!
|
| I'm very interested in this so I've downloaded and extracted
| your presentation adjusting the volume (24dB!) with:
| yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/live/_VF3pISRYRc ffmpeg
| -i "[SPLASH'24] Pasadena - REBASE (Oct 23th) [_VF3pISRYRc].mkv"
| -filter:a "volume=24dB" -ss "01:21:02" -to "02:06:12" -c:v copy
| Fil-C_2024_Pasadena.mp4
| egypturnash wrote:
| my current graphic novel http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/
|
| and apparently I am doing a set of fan covers for Roger Zelazny's
| Amber books? https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2024/10/24/nine-
| princes-in-amb...
| Soupy wrote:
| https://pastmaps.com
|
| I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's
| largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all
| packaged into a public historical research platform that's as
| easy to use as Google Maps. This has been a labor of love now for
| about a year, but I still have a huge mountain to climb to
| realize the full vision. Give it a try and give me your harsh
| criticisms - that's the greatest gift you could give me!
|
| Even in it's current state, it's being used by geneologists,
| urban explorers, search & rescue teams, real estate developers,
| government agencies, etc. The number of exploding use-cases
| continues to astound me and keeps me motivated to continue.
| yannis wrote:
| Nice collection but very US-centric. Is there a plan to extend
| it to other countries? Thinking tourists, historians and the
| like.
| purplezooey wrote:
| This is badass. love it. Wish you could make an account with a
| regular email address, though, and not just with Google.
| ycombinatornews wrote:
| I love pastmaps! Nice to see you on HN!
| SmellTheGlove wrote:
| Criticism: This is going to suck. Too much of my time, that is.
| This is super cool, thank you for doing this!
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| Just be careful in countries like Japan where old maps
| sometimes are used illegally to discriminate based on caste
| (tracing ancestry of workers/candidates to discriminate against
| ones coming from certain historically lower caste areas of
| towns and cities). You might catch negative attention if your
| tool makes it easy to reference these maps
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Excellent! When reading Galois' coroner's report, I was happy
| to be able to find an old Paris map online that showed roughly
| where he had been the day of his duel and the route the farmer
| who found him would've taken to the hospital.
| kfarr wrote:
| Wow this is super cool! I've hacked together some equivalent
| for small projects. Curious if these are hosted as tiles that
| can be referenced by third-party servers?
|
| For context I'm working on an app called 3DStreet[1]. It's
| mostly used by planners for future projects, but I've been
| excited about the possibility of helping to visualize the past
| too.
|
| [1] https://3dstreet.com/
| ipunchghosts wrote:
| A point anc click model pretraining tool. Simply put all of your
| data into a directory of directories. Next, point the software to
| this directory and a few days later you get a pretrained model
| out.
| atlex2 wrote:
| FlyShirley.com - AI Copilot for Pilots. Starting with flight sim
| users, working our way up to in-flight and ultimately context
| aware AI for robotics.
| stnmtn wrote:
| For a fun weekend project, I built Boardle - a daily wordle-like
| game where you guess popular boardgames using stats from Board
| Game Geek. The games are from BGG's top 150 games as voted by the
| community, so fair warning if you aren't already someone who
| plays a lot of modern boardgames this will be very hard as all
| the games are very nerdy
|
| https://boardle.org/
| akavel wrote:
| A kind of a configuration management tool, helping me manually
| "reconcile" between three concurrent aspects of the state of a
| machine (and then apply the result):
|
| - what is "out there" on the machine ("queried"),
|
| - vs. what was the state last recorded in (git) history,
|
| - vs. what I want there to be on the machine (described in Nickel
| language https://nickel-lang.org/, a statically-typed successor
| to the Nix language).
|
| https://github.com/akavel/mana
| nbbaier wrote:
| Sounds very cool!
| denvermullets wrote:
| i like to bounce between projects week to week and am in a huge
| phase of just trying to build services i pay money for.
|
| the first fun thing i'm working on a roguelite(?) type of petsim
| in dragonruby for my wife and i to play.
|
| then i'll go back to working on my mtg collection / deck builder
| app. instead of rewriting in nextjs i decided to just go modern
| rails with it and i am honestly having a lot of fun. a redesign
| helps too, but once you get the hang of turbo/hotwire and stuff
| it really isn't that bad.
|
| another thing i've got kicking is writing up a portfolio site for
| my old photography since that current hosted plan is about to
| renew. this is more of a stability and performance issue as i
| really liked using Format, but every single time i go to show my
| port to someone irl i would either not load or take forever or
| have images missing. extremely frustrating.
|
| i'm very tired of SaaS pricing going up (with unwanted features)
| and user experience and value going down. reallllllly fighting
| the urge to just build a clone and try to take a cut of the
| overall business.
| scottbez1 wrote:
| I'm building a collator robot [0] to help me pack items I sell
| for building your own open source split-flap mechanical display
| [1].
|
| I get custom character flaps printed and die-cut in bulk and then
| sell them in smaller sets. A full set of flaps for one module has
| 52 distinct designs (letters, numbers, symbols, etc) and I get
| them from the manufacturer grouped by design, so they need to be
| collated to sell as packs of 52 with 1 of each design.
|
| My WIP robot will take a stack of one design and distribute them
| to a bunch of cubbies, then I'll swap in the next design, and so
| on, so each cubby ends up with a full set.
|
| It's based on a cheap ~$110 CNC gantry frame from AliExpress and
| a ~$35 BTT SKR Pico 3d printer main board running GrblHAL. To
| detect whether the flaps feed successfully I use a visible light
| break-beam sensor (the typical IR sensors don't work because the
| PVC flaps happen to be IR transparent!) which acts as the "z
| probe" - the flap is fed via a G38.3 probe action which returns
| whether the probe was successful or not, and the "z" coordinate
| it was first detected.
|
| I have a python script running on a computer to send the gcode to
| the machine.
|
| [0]
| https://bsky.app/profile/scottbez1.bsky.social/post/3l737hme...
|
| [1] https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap
| pshushereba wrote:
| Please keep up the great work on this! I love this split flap
| project. It's gotten me into electronics. I haven't had the
| chance to build it out yet, but I want to put together a sign
| as a project.
| boristsr wrote:
| I've been working on an automatic sky tracking telescope over the
| past few months. I'm a few weeks behind on blogging but making
| solid progress. V1 is nearing completion. Then I want to rework
| some of the electronics to design and get a custom PCB printed.
| Also the physical design needs a complete redesign to make it
| more sturdy for long exposures and solve some wiring pains.
|
| The software allows the platform to automatically align to north
| and working on accounting for imperfect leveling (such as placing
| it on a slanted surface) through software and accelerometers.
|
| Next challenges I want to solve in software is focus detection
| and then automatic image stack and post processing.
|
| Primary goals of the project is a deep dive into robotics and
| electronics, along with brushing up on webdev which I don't touch
| too frequently being in the gamedev world. Also allowing me to
| explore things like digital signal processing.
|
| I'm keeping a bit of a running blog here. [0]
|
| [0] https://gdcorner.notion.site/Stargaze-Telescope-Build-
| Log-6f...
| ferociouskite56 wrote:
| Learning very basic HTML, I converted from RSS then TXT to a free
| book about the freedom to reject painful psychiatry
| https://antipsychiatry.yay.boo/
| gxd wrote:
| I started a game company and now working on our first game after
| leaving my FAANG job on a sabbatical:
| https://www.galantrix.com/blog/
| segmondy wrote:
| LLM experiments.
| mindcrime wrote:
| For the last little while now, I've been spending a lot of my
| spare time learning to work with a language called AgentSpeak[1]
| using a platform called Jason[2].
|
| Briefly, Jason is a platform for building intelligent agents
| based on the BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) software model[3],
| which is in turn based on the Belief-Desire-Intention cognitive
| model[4]. Broadly speaking, it's an event based programming
| model, where "events" are things like "gaining a new belief",
| "dropping a belief", "selecting a plan to execute" (aka an
| "intention"), etc. AgentSpeak programs (normally) run "forever"
| cycling through a "reasoning cycle" that involves perceiving the
| world, updating beliefs, choosing intentions, executing
| intentions, communicating with other agents, etc.
|
| And to commit a little self-plagiarism, from a recent post on
| LinkedIn:
|
| ----
|
| On the one hand, AgentSpeak is basically a logic programming
| language with a lot of #prolog in its heritage. On the other
| hand, the runtime is all Java and to do anything interesting you
| have to write your custom Environment class and other helper
| functions in #Java. And while the interop is seamless in a way,
| getting your head around the execution model and knowing what's
| really happening at runtime can be a bit tricky.
|
| Still, it's starting to make sense. And I do think this #BDI
| inspired approach has a lot going for it. I'm just looking
| forward to getting to the point where I can really start to
| exercise this. I have a few things that I want to accomplish
| soon:
|
| 1. I want to create a BDI agent that I can connect to an #XMPP
| server so I can talk with it from anywhere.
|
| 2. I want to start working on customized perception, using neural
| networks and various sensors (web-cam, microphone, accelerometer,
| distance sensor, etc.) to create an embodied agent that can truly
| sense its environment.
|
| 3. I want to take a stab at integrating some symbolic reasoning.
| I've given thought to trying to adapt the "belief base" to be an
| #RDF triplestore (probably #Apache #Jena) and include a reasoning
| engine or two. This all starts to get really speculative from
| here, but I spent a lot of time working on abductive inference a
| couple of years ago, and I'd like this thing to be able to use
| abductive inference, along with deductive reasoning, rule
| induction, possibly case based reasoning, etc. all in one system.
|
| 4. Might experiment with implementing a #Blackboard architecture
| and have specialized "problem solving" agents that collaborate by
| using the Blackboard in some situations. What would be really
| interesting here would be to figure out how to seamlessly
| translate in and out of a structured representation that lets you
| use existing specialized code for things like, eg. R for
| statistical operations.
|
| 5. And of course, experimenting with continual learning, as
| opposed to the "batch training job" stuff that we all use for
| ANN's today. This gets _really_ speculative as well, but I want
| to explore contrastive learning, Hebbian learning, associative
| learning, operant conditioning (ala Pavlov), etc.
|
| [5] above is why you'll see me spending as much time lately with
| Developmental Psychology, Infant Development, and Cognitive
| Psychology books, as with "AI" books per-se. I still believe that
| getting an AI that can learn from its environment, and build up
| useful mental representations with the minimal set of hard-coded
| behaviors, will be the best way to make progress with regards to
| #AGI.
|
| ----
|
| I didn't mention it in the LinkedIn post, but as part of all of
| this, I've been building a hardware platform for some time now as
| well, where said platform is meant to support "perceiving the
| environment" so the system can learn from the physical world.
| It's not finished yet, but today it includes a GPS receiver so it
| can "know" it's location in physical space, a 6-DOF
| accelerometer/magnetometer/gyroscope board so it can sense
| movement (of itself), and two microphones (for stereo audio
| input). Future plans include one or two webcams to emulate
| vision, and possibly some other sensors: IR and/or ultrasonic
| distance sensors, temperature sensor, humidity and barometric
| pressure sensors, etc.
|
| Also in the "speculative / for the future" category: AgentSpeak
| programs don't have any inherent notion of learning built into
| the model. All "plans" (aka "desires" or "candidate intentions")
| have to be coded by the developer up-front. This is obviously
| pretty limiting if you're trying to create truly autonomous
| agents, so another area I want to dig into is how we might
| combine work on "AI Planning"[5] to dynamically create new plans.
|
| And since this has kind of turned into a big brain-dump of stuff
| that's on my mind, I'll finish by saying that I've been chewing
| on some ideas about explicitly modeling other "mental states"
| that aren't part of the base BDI model. Things like "attitudes",
| "values", different emotional states (eg "boredom",
| "frustration", etc.), "curiosity", "confusion" / "cognitive
| dissonance", and so on.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSpeak
|
| [2]: https://jason-lang.github.io/
|
| [3]:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief%E2%80%93desire%E2%80%93...
|
| [4]:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief%E2%80%93desire%E2%80%93...
|
| [5]:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_planning_and_schedul...
| niccl wrote:
| I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. I stopped a couple of
| years ago because depression robbed me of all motivation, but now
| it goes and I've done a few gigs with it. Still lots of bug fixes
| to do then a backlog of new features, but I'm glad to be back on
| it
|
| 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795
| azhenley wrote:
| I'm trying to start an educational YouTube channel in the vein of
| CGP Grey or 3b1b with a focus on CS. The first video is taking me
| a _long_ time. It seemed like a natural leap from blogging, but
| the effort is exponentially higher.
| alostpuppy wrote:
| This is such a great idea! I'd love 3b1b style explanations of
| different algorithms and how big oh notation works!
| random42 wrote:
| Oh wow! this is _exactly_ I was looking for (and still am) a
| couple of days ago. Please let us know once its ready.
| citrusx wrote:
| I'm building a music file manager using Electron. I'm deferring
| the actual music playing to VLC, but I need a way to sort through
| my many audio files to quickly select and launch what I want to
| hear.
| timenotwasted wrote:
| Playing around with LLMs to generate fictional stories and I'm
| working on a journal of sorts based on a traveler that goes to
| various parallel worlds not unlike our own except for one or two
| minor but key differences. He reports on his findings there and
| how it affects social, political, and economics for that
| timeline. A new timeline drops every day and I have a lot more
| planned to take it beyond the simple blog format it's in now but
| it has been a fun challenge to learn how to do some deep
| prompting with AI to generate random entries without veering off
| into crazyiness or getting locked onto the same thing over and
| over again.
|
| Here is the site: https://twistedtimeline.com/ - Feedback is
| always welcome!
| su wrote:
| I am working on:
|
| 1. https://typezebra.com : Adding type editor/designer so you can
| design type-heavy articles and share with others (codepen but for
| typography)
|
| 2. https://boxento.com: Finishing support for server side
| rendering so users can take the benefit of SEO - also working on
| adding new blocks like menu (useful for restaurants) so you can
| have a block that changes based on the day of the week.
|
| Suggestions and feedback welcome :)
| stanislavb wrote:
| Suggestion - you can slow down the hero animation of Boxento.
| In general I like the project. It reminded me to Bento.me. I'd
| guess you are direct competitors? (I'd also suggest adding
| Boxento as an alternative to Bento.me on SaaSHub
| https://www.saashub.com/bento-me)
| su wrote:
| Thank you!
|
| I wasn't aware the animation was too fast for users. I will
| get it fixed in next release :)
| Charon77 wrote:
| I'm working on a serverless VPN that works without relay even for
| those behind symmetric NAT (most of the time).
|
| I'm not aware that it exists at the moment and would love to be
| proven wrong.
| udev4096 wrote:
| So, like NAT punching? A rendezvous server for both the parties
| to communicate so they can establish a connection?
| Charon77 wrote:
| NAT traversal with STUN and UDP hole punching, yeah. But the
| idea is to use IRC for the rendezvous since they're
| everywhere and the payload is quite literally just external
| IP:PORT.
| chc4 wrote:
| I wrote (some) of a Lua interpreter in Rust, which runs PUC Lua
| 5.1 dumped bytecodes. Now I'm rewrite it all because I want to do
| type specialization: I'm implementing "Simple and Effective Type
| Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning", which is used
| as the basis of Shopify's YJIT for Ruby. I have a decent idea of
| how it needs to be implemented and have a prototype kinda
| working, although some of the jump targets are still wrong right
| now. Once I get it all sketched out then I'll have to scale it
| back up to a full Lua implementation again, and then I'll add
| table shape specialization afterwards (which is a bit trickier,
| and outlined in a sequel paper).
| stanislavb wrote:
| I'm working on a weekly "tournament game" in which the goal is to
| select the top 5 open-source projects (in a particular topic) per
| programming language. The first iteration is going to be a copy
| of SaaSHub Experts https://www.saashub.com/experts/about but for
| open-source libraries. If this sounds interesting to you, please
| let me know, and I can send you an invite this or next week
| (hopefully).
| mtndew4brkfst wrote:
| So if I was to be insultingly reductive, is the vibe of the
| idea sort of "fantasy football league for GitHub stars"?
| stanislavb wrote:
| Maybe... I'd say Yes to some extend. Yet, highly simplified.
| aantix wrote:
| A new YouTube app/player, for my kids.
|
| It allows us to control the algorithm. It's all LLM translating
| to YouTube search queries under the hood.
|
| Visually it looks the same.
|
| The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they
| love.
|
| E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities.
|
| Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc
| don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with Minecraft in it,
| never gets surfaced.
|
| For anyone interested in using it, send me an email.
|
| jim.jones1@gmail.com
| aantix wrote:
| YouTube recommendations for kids shouldn't be driven by
| engagement (e.g. "oh, you watched 20 hours of MrBeast videos.
| You probably need another hour.")
|
| If my kid watches an hour of unboxing toy videos, I shouldn't
| have to try and disable 3,000 channels of toy unboxings in an
| effort for that topic to never surface again.
|
| The thumbs down button essentially has zero effect.
|
| https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-dislike-button-mozilla-r...
|
| Diversity of thought and topic is much more critical when they
| are kids.
| aantix wrote:
| Todd Beaupre, the product lead for the YouTube homepage, says
| "We love exploration, have multiple teams dedicated to it."
|
| But from my kids' viewing habits, I don't see it. The
| algorithm is seems super narrowly focused.
|
| https://x.com/hitsman/status/1845168160691061121
|
| Andrej Karpathy commented on the narrowness of the algorithm
| just the other day.
|
| https://x.com/karpathy/status/1844449291282284925
| josephg wrote:
| I'd go further and say nobody should be subjected to this
| stuff. Engagement is a euphemism for addiction. Self
| improving addiction machines are a horrible idea. They're
| actively bad for people and society for a laundry list of
| reasons.
|
| Anyone who works on this stuff should be ashamed of
| yourselves. You're modern day cigarette companies.
| aantix wrote:
| What do you feel is an appropriate and ethical way to
| surface content?
|
| How would you go about writing the recommendation
| algorithm?
| Zak wrote:
| One thing I would like to see is an algorithm based on
| expressed rather than revealed preferences.
|
| De-jargoned, that means clicking the like button means I
| want to see more things like that, and the dislike button
| means I don't want to see things like that. If I watched
| something all the way through, but clicked the dislike
| button, that means I don't want to see things that
| produced a similar response from people who tend to react
| the way I do.
|
| This kind of algorithm is not going to increase watch
| time over the short term, and might not over the long
| term either, which makes it unlikely to be adopted by any
| for-profit service.
| the_sleaze_ wrote:
| Remove the personalization aspect.
|
| "The algorithm" was different in the early 2000's and all
| of our lives were richer for it. Before Facebook publicly
| embedded psychologists into the development teams and
| before the goal was more and more attention. The internet
| used to be great.
| equasar wrote:
| This is very interesting. I would paid for something like that,
| that could work for any popular video social media platform.
| aantix wrote:
| Email me, jim.jones1@gmail.com
|
| Would love your input.
| timenotwasted wrote:
| As a parent with a couple of kids about to be the age of
| wanting to watch YT I'm very interested in this!
| aantix wrote:
| Please email me, I need testers.
|
| jim.jones1@gmail.com
| android521 wrote:
| it would be great if this project is open source
| dngit wrote:
| Would an app like this work with TV? Would be super cool if it
| would.
| aantix wrote:
| No TV support.
|
| iOS and Android.
| worthless-trash wrote:
| So...android tv .
| krish888 wrote:
| sent you mail, I would love to be associated with this project.
| I was looking for a solution for some time, at least one which
| allows to restrict the content from the main youtube. Youtube
| kids app they have is a joke.
| lemming wrote:
| For anyone wanting interesting YT videos for their kids (and
| not wanting to take anything away from OP's project), I highly
| highly recommend thekidshouldseethis.com. It's basically a
| curated stream of cool videos, and I would feel totally safe
| letting my daughter browse it alone (she never does because we
| usually watch them together, but the curation is that good).
| Videos on all sorts of topics, and good enough to be really
| entertaining for both kids and adults - I can spend an evening
| there easily. They also have a really fantastic gift guide.
| james-bcn wrote:
| That a wonderful resource, thank you!
| andrepd wrote:
| Absolutely amazing. Bookmarked, gonna be very useful in 5 or
| 10 years ahahah
|
| On the other hand, it's so soul-crushingly depressing to
| contemplate how most youtube content targeted at kids is such
| brain-addling garbage fucking up their psyche in all sorts of
| ways, all for the sake of ad impressions... If there's a
| place for the expression "late capitalism" this has to be it
| lemming wrote:
| Oh, if you think that is bad, wait until you're looking for
| educational apps for them. What a total hot mess in a
| sector which should by rights be amazing.
|
| Fortunately this is one of the killer apps of LLMs IMO - I
| have built multiple small tools to help educate our
| daughter, like this guy:
| https://x.com/random_walker/status/1848388462782673340
| Quiark wrote:
| I was just watching with my young kids YT videos about
| casting metals into objects and how steel is made, sometimes
| modernity is great
| username135 wrote:
| Bookmarked. Thanks
| mpulztracker wrote:
| This is a great idea! Recommendation algos are weaponized
| against kids and would be great to have some way of managing
| it. There is a similar problem with movies as well. It is hard
| to know whether a movie is appropriate for a child e.g. some
| kind of violence may be acceptable but not adult themes. So
| marking a movie PG-13 for example doesn't help much. There are
| some crowd-sourced solutions to this right now such as
| https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews But LLMs could
| really help automate this
| kortilla wrote:
| Is there a version for adults? Something that keeps you from
| getting pulled down engagement bait rabbit holes would be
| great. I don't want it to be overly focused on children's
| education though.
| quailfarmer wrote:
| I disabled all suggested content on my YouTube account. My
| "home" page shows as totally blank. Only the subscription tab
| works, or explicitly searching. You still get recommended
| "related videos" but it helps stay focused on the things
| you've chosen to see.
| vultour wrote:
| I exlusively watch youtube videos from my homepage and from
| the related videos section. You can train the YouTube
| algorithm to not feed you garbage, most of the videos on my
| homepage are 30+ minutes long educational content. I just
| wish you could permanently hide the Shorts section (I guess
| ublock can do this), so that I could see more than 6 at a
| time.
|
| I also never subscribe to any channels, watching a few
| videos pretty much guarantees they will pop up on the
| homepage every once in a while.
| Rastonbury wrote:
| Maybe Dearrow clickbait remover https://dearrow.ajay.app/
| heyitssim wrote:
| Working on a game engine to help me create my take on some retro
| games. My first one is a multiplayer bombing puzzle game[1].
|
| It's made with React and Three.js, using WebSocket on a small EC2
| instance for now. I hope to be able to reuse all the game
| mechanisms in other classic games. I'm learning a ton, and I had
| some fun figuring out latency issues because I recently put my
| sockets behind Cloudflare. I still haven't gotten it quite right,
| but I'm hoping to find a good solution soon!
|
| [1] https://pixelbrawlgames.com/game/blast
| arjonagelhout wrote:
| Building a VR IFC viewer in C++ without external dependencies.
|
| I just implemented a parser for IFC, and am now looking into
| extracting BRep and CSG geometry from it, convert that to meshes,
| and write a simple renderer for Vulkan.
|
| My approach is to write really scrappy, simple code with minimal
| abstractions.
|
| The hypothesis now is that for generating meshes from BRep, you
| don't need an entire CAD kernel, as a CAD kernel seems to be
| focused also on operations, but this will probably lead to a
| humbling experience and walking back to using either OpenCascade
| or licensing a commercial kernel like Parasolid.
|
| My goal is to have a simple prototype out before the end of the
| year, but work might get in the way :)
|
| (here's some experiments I did with Metal and Vulkan:
| https://github.com/arjonagelhout/graphics-experiment, the IFC
| parser is currently not open source yet)
| xena wrote:
| I'm working on a social media post queueing program where you
| make a post to the queue and it tells you when it goes live. This
| is so I can let inspiration strike but not make the backlog look
| inconsistent. Gonna make it Bluesky native to avoid scope creep.
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| Organizing all of the information that comes at you in the
| workplace into a social-style news feed, with AI summaries.
|
| Unlike facebook, we want you to get the most important stuff
| quickly and get you back to more important things instead of
| sifting through 100 emails, 5 dashboards, and 10 forums.
|
| https://aimcast.com
| maxbond wrote:
| I'm writing a build tool for SQL. I like to write SQL directly
| and to use it's more powerful features (like stored procedures
| and Postgres' ltee extension). But this is gets difficult to
| manage in a linear, "migrations" based workflow. I want to edit a
| file tree organized by topic, not a series of scripts run in
| order. Which is to say, I want to edit it like I would any other
| codebase.
|
| I've written code allowing me to express dependencies between
| .sql files and to concatenate them into one big .sql file that
| builds your schema. I'm working on interrogating the systems
| tables of the database to analyze the difference between
| successive versions of a schema, to automatically generate simple
| migrations (like adding a column or renaming a stored procedure).
| Eg, `sqlite_master` in SQLite, and `information_schema.*` in
| Postgres.
| nbbaier wrote:
| This sounds very cool - I'm really interested in this angle.
| Got a sharable repo?
| maxbond wrote:
| Not presently! I'm on vacation and intentionally left my
| laptop at home. But if you send me an email I could send you
| a link when I push it to GitHub; my email is in my profile.
| Otherwise, I'm planning to do a Show HN around mid November.
| If you check my submissions on December 1st it'll be there.
| nbbaier wrote:
| Sent you an email!
| TriangleEdge wrote:
| Finished a project that serves as a launching pad for GoLang HTTP
| APIs. It does decoding of request parameters into structs using
| instructions found in tags amongst a bunch of other utilities.
|
| I am learning react-native now. Just finished building a themed
| components library.
|
| These are for building a simple intelligence platform.
| Intelligence meaning a way to model entities, events, documents,
| and the link between them.
|
| I want to use this instead of having thousands of documents on
| dropbox organized by a random folder hierarchy.
| nbbaier wrote:
| The API part of this project sounds interesting - do you have a
| sharable repo ?
| williamcotton wrote:
| A series of articles on writing parsers using:
|
| - Hand rolled recursive descent in TypeScript
|
| - PLY, Python Lex Yacc
|
| - FParsec, parser combinator library for F#
|
| The goal is to compare each approach while tackling some common
| use cases for parsing strings of text.
| nbbaier wrote:
| Where are these going to be posted? I'm really interested in
| parsers
| bdhdbebebeb wrote:
| Not working on it yet but can a small box sitting on your counter
| do LLM, TTS all local with maybe outbound queries to the
| internet.
|
| First iteration may be box is rpi based and local LLM runs in
| another room on beefier machine (or even before that just get it
| working with a cloud Llama).
|
| What would make this cool is to use MemGPT for memory so you can
| talk to it Monday and then it remembers what you said Friday.
|
| Being all local it could be always listening.
| feelamee wrote:
| This is not about new ideas for humanity, but for me.
|
| I started the development of the game engine. This was one of the
| most interesting goal on my list.
|
| I will use vulkan. And my demo goal for this is a super realistic
| scene with human, hill, grass, tree and sunrise/sunset. But it is
| needed just to know how/where to develop engine.
|
| since I'm in no hurry + my career is going down the drain, I will
| try to do my best and power up my software engineer skills.
| aschla wrote:
| Autopilot for my sit-on-top fishing kayak. Designed, modeled, and
| printed an assembly which attaches to the rudder rod. Moves the
| rod via a stepper motor connected to a Teensy 4.0 which gets NMEA
| 2000 messages from a Garmin heading sensor and a Garmin fish
| finder/chartplotter. Uses PID control to maintain any course I
| set on the chartplotter, using the cross-track error and heading.
| I've had it out on the water a few times now and it works great.
| Also put together an iOS app that communicates with the assembly
| via BLE so I can modify the PID gains as needed depending on
| conditions.
|
| There was a bit of noise to the sonar transducer since the
| stepper motor was so noisy, but I mostly eliminated it by routing
| the motor wires through liquid-tight flexible electrical conduit,
| connecting the conduit to ground.
| sajid-aipm wrote:
| working on building extremely simple workflow automation software
| for small and medium sized businesses who are still thinking to
| adopt automation and AI as they find it quite challenging and
| overwhelming
| geepytee wrote:
| I am teaching myself how to build a robot quadruped (aka 'robot
| dog') from scratch, including an ML controller to make it move in
| animated ways.
|
| I'm also documenting every step of the process and uploading it
| to YouTube, which means I am also teaching myself how to edit
| videos :)
|
| If anyone wants to check it out:
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55VZ7oDEoRnXKSYTiGlN...
| hsnice16 wrote:
| I'm working on an email verifier project in Go.
| https://github.com/hsnice16/email-verifier
|
| It already has checks for Regex, MX record, and SMTP server
| running. And, in side, I write blogs -
| https://hsnice16.medium.com/
| lihaoyi wrote:
| Working on my Mill build tool, a new JVM build tool that aims to
| provide a faster, easier alternative than the status quo tools of
| Gradle and Maven.
|
| I just gave my first conference talk about it, and response was
| positive. Hope others find it interesting as well!
|
| https://mill-build.org/mill/index.html
| elric wrote:
| Have you look at BLD? Sits in the same space and has similar
| criticisms regarding Gradle and Maven.
|
| https://rife2.com/bld
| lihaoyi wrote:
| I have! Mill is a lot more thorough, handling things like
| caching and parallelism for you. BLD is a lot more minimal,
| which would be fine for small projects but maybe not for
| larger projects as they grow
| iamwil wrote:
| I'm working on a zine. The first issue is on system evals for
| LLM-driven apps. It's set in a world where Bear and Fox are
| opening a cafe with an LLM shoggoth generating custom recipes.
|
| Lots of people just going off of vibes to see if their system is
| working right. That's a good start, but you'll need system evals
| to systematically improve your app. Like Garry says, "don't raw
| dog your prompts. Use system evals"
|
| https://forestfriends.tech
| navtoj wrote:
| Working on a macOS app for the empty space around the MacBook
| notch.
|
| https://github.com/navtoj/NotchBar
|
| Need some ideas for what kind of widgets would be useful...
| muhrizqiardi wrote:
| F*ck it, I'm not gonna sugar coat it.
|
| I was supposed to be working on a project called Tagbox... but it
| feels like it's never gonna see the light of day. I hope I'm
| wrong though, I still want this to succeed, for once in my life,
| I want to actually succeed on at least one thing. I want to
| contribute some good thing to the society.
|
| First, what is it? It's a bookmarking app alternative to Pocket
| or Raindrop.io. Yeah, you can already tell it's not the most
| original idea. What makes it different, though, it's supposed to
| be self-hostable and additionally it's easy to deploy as it's
| only single binary file with no other runtime dependency--the
| database uses SQLite, which you can include it as a library in
| Rust.
|
| What problems I'm facing while developing this? Honestly? I don't
| know, but I can't finish the last 10% progress of the app. It's
| funny--I first wrote it in Go, and it almost reached MVP. But,
| instead, I decided to just rewrite in Rust. Well, at least I got
| to learn new language while building this app, two birds one
| stone, or in Bahasa Indonesia, swimming while drinking water.
|
| But now, I just can't force myself to continue. And I don't know
| why. Maybe perfectionism? It definitely doesn't have to do with
| skill though.
|
| There are also another thing I'm working on: recovering from
| depression. One year ago, out of nowhere, I lost all my
| motivation doing anything--including university. I lost all my
| friends. Since then, I'm at the lowest point of my life. I
| visited psychiatrist multiple times. I don't know if it was
| effective, but recently I'm starting to see a light at the end of
| the tunnel.
|
| The Tagbox Project is also one of the efforts for me to recover
| from depression. The depression phase made me realize that I
| _want my works to have a positive effect on the world, even for
| just a little bit_. I don't want my skill to be used for evil
| companies that throws away moral and ethics. Specifically AI
| stuff, but that's OOT of this thread.
|
| Here are the links if you're interested,
|
| https://gitlab.com/muhrizqiardi/tagbox_rs/
|
| This link is only the Rust rewrite version. The original version
| is private right now.
| frankdenbow wrote:
| Hey there. Been where you have been and can safely say, there
| is always a way out of it.
|
| Sounds like you just need a bit of consistency to make some
| progress. I'd be down to chat once a week for 15 minutes and we
| can figure out the focus for the week. Hit me if you think that
| would be helpful, sounds like you can build some good stuff.
| tehs2 wrote:
| If there's one thing I've learn over the last few years is that
| it's incredibly difficult working on a project when you don't
| have peace of mind. It can be difficult working on something or
| staying motivated when you're battling depression, or if you're
| sad, don't have friends, or if anything is troubling your mind.
|
| I've been there and I know what it feels like. I would try to
| perhaps solve the mental health problem first perhaps before
| tackling big projects. Maybe try gym, hiking, somehow finding
| friends, talk to more people, solve your sleep, eat better -
| something. Because again, if you don't have peace of mind,
| working on a project is difficult (at least for me it is).
|
| Hope that helps.
| GoToRO wrote:
| Even without the other problems, I can assure you that the vast
| majority of managers will think that a 80% done project is
| almost done. The truth is the remaining 20% is where you have
| to fit everything together so you revisit an rewrite most of
| the project. It's a different kind of work that feels boring
| because you already did those things maybe 3,4 times already.
| It helps to understand the phase of the project you are in, to
| reduce the frustration. It also helps to do something even very
| small, every day and focus on that. One day you will run out of
| things to do.
| bgschiller wrote:
| I'm trying to make a spreadsheet interface for solving scheduling
| problems.
|
| Constraint satisfaction and optimization is exactly the sort of
| problem we should be using computers for, but there's zero chance
| your neighborhood cafe can figure out prolog or OR-tools or
| whatever.
| memset wrote:
| An email client that just "does the right thing" in terms of
| showing new emails I care about.
|
| I don't want to configure filters or adopt inbox zero. I want the
| computer to look at decades of email activity and just figure it
| out.
|
| Second, working on a single dashboard for attorneys to create and
| upload filings across different agencies and different states.
| Trying to improve accuracy and labor costs for mundane work like
| this.
|
| (Opinions? Suggestions? Want to work together? Email me!)
| frankdenbow wrote:
| yea this is smart. It should be obvious who i communicate with
| or which emails have an urgency to them.
| steelaz wrote:
| A map of Ironman events - https://www.tricutlets.com
| yunalesca wrote:
| I built CryptoGain, an (currently) android app for cryptocurrency
| market tracking and analysis. Started it after getting frustrated
| with the limitations other apps put on technical analysis
| features behind premium tiers.
|
| It offers:
|
| - comprehensive technical analysis tools without artificial
| limits or cost
|
| - customizable price alerts
|
| - portfolio and watchlist management
|
| - live market data across major exchanges
|
| - available in 15+ languages
|
| Currently serving a few thousand users and actively iterating
| based on feedback. The focus has been on making advanced trading
| tools accessible while maintaining a clean, intuitive interface.
|
| Store link if anyone wants to check it out:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptogain...
|
| Would love feedback from the HN community, especially around what
| technical analysis features you find essential but are often
| paywalled in other apps.
| examango wrote:
| I'm developing a game, developing a game that I don't like to
| play myself. It's sad. If I had the money, I'd be working on a
| game I like to play.
| frankdenbow wrote:
| what would you do with the money and how much would you need?
| examango wrote:
| In fact, to be precise, it takes time. Now I trade my time
| for money to support my family. If there's enough time, I'd
| like to write a game engine in Rust that's good enough to
| take out cocoscretor's game engine. Use this engine to
| realize the Sutra of the Mountain and the Sea, the Romance of
| the Three Kingdoms, the Feng Shen Ban, the Romance of Sui and
| Tang dynasties... all kinds of scenarios as well as
| interactions I dreamed of.
| mtndew4brkfst wrote:
| Strictly hobbyist here. There is nearly zero overlap between
| game genres I like to work on as a developer and genres I enjoy
| as a player. I get the itch every now and again but the stuff I
| like best as a player is either art-intensive (so well outside
| my skills) or a huge technical undertaking.
|
| What style of game is it that you're working on?
| examango wrote:
| Casual tower defense style
| davidatbu wrote:
| An "offline-first" client web app for Github. I don't want to
| have to wait seconds to load up an issue, and then wait seconds
| (or keep another tab open) to go back to the list of issues/PRs,
| ...etc. I want everything to feel instant, with optimistic
| updates, and a backend sync process that doesn't require me to
| refresh the page to see new updates.
|
| (Small note: I'm doing it in full-stack Rust, including web
| frontend, using leptos).
| n1c wrote:
| I've also had this idea in the back of my mind. A few weeks I
| ago downloaded the official Github client without really
| thinking, on the assumption that obviously that's what it would
| do. Only to be sorely disappointed.
|
| Good luck, I look forward to this existing!
| davidatbu wrote:
| It's motivating to hear others think similarly! Thanks for
| the encouragement.
| lefstathiou wrote:
| Hi David. Would you be open to chatting for a few minutes
| about this? I've been considering bringing Rust into our
| organization and having someone with experience would be
| helpful toward that. Not trying to interview you, more just
| understand what type of people to look for, what types of
| projects fit well, etc. My email is in my profile. Thank
| you for your consideration David.
| davidatbu wrote:
| Sent an email!
| twoperkg wrote:
| Continuing working on my project - TextSniper
| https://textsniper.app/ macOS application for text recognition
| redweer wrote:
| nice! I've been looking in to how people are doing OCR in 2024.
| Is TextSniper scriptable?
| twoperkg wrote:
| It's not. Not that many users were asking for it. But I think
| it is another feature to consider implementing.
| rakejake wrote:
| A long dormant side project of mine to design a realtime raga [1]
| detector.
|
| For the uninitiated, it can be roughly seen as detection of a
| sequence of musical notes. Raga is a term for a particular scale
| of notes (both ascending and descending).
|
| Until now, this has mostly been in the domain of research and
| there is a ton of published literature out there. At the very
| basic level, if you have just voice, it is trivial to apply a
| pitch detection algorithm like YIN to get a pitch estimate and
| then analyse the sequence to figure out the raga. This doesn't
| work as well in a concert setup where speeds are higher due to
| gamakas, different instruments are used alongside and
| counterpoint melodies may make the music polyphonic. A lot of
| papers apply a variety of ML models (neural nets and otherwise)
| using several different features (cepstrum and mel-cepstrum,
| pitch distributions etc) with varying results.
|
| So this is an interesting exercise in Signal Processing and
| Machine Learning. If anyone else is working on or has worked on
| this, I'd love to hear from you.
|
| [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga)
| akkartik wrote:
| I've been teaching kids programming 1:1, off and on for 10 years
| or so. This time around I'm collecting my various impromptu
| puzzles and exercises into a single app anyone can go through at
| their own pace on any device, computer or phone (though iOS
| unfortunately requires jumping through some hoops). All on a
| platform that is open source and live-editable and lets you write
| all-new programs with graphics and sound in addition to the
| puzzles and exercises.
|
| Download: https://akkartik.name/carousel-cards.love (really just
| a zip file containing source code, 169KB)
|
| Installation instructions: same as
| https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel
|
| Repo for the core app: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/carousel.love
|
| So far I have 111 little "levels", each good for between a few
| seconds and a minute. I think a full curriculum/game will need
| maybe 2000 levels?
| LVB wrote:
| Trying to build a chess club management app for our
| school/district. It's mostly basic CRUD, though it's an avenue to
| learn Svelte & SvelteKit. I'm becoming more involved with the
| club and can't stand that everything is run on paper forms and
| giant Google Sheets. (If it was all smoothly running, I wouldn't
| rock the boat. But when I found that we're writing out dozens of
| match cards by hand every week and have ~0 way to track progress,
| I couldn't resist.)
| crcn wrote:
| Deep Q & A for friends, family, and strangers. My goal is to
| create a space where people can get to know each other a bit more
| deeply and spark conversations. Would love some feedback!
|
| App: https://hey.shaya.so/ Website: https://www.shaya.so/
| com2kid wrote:
| Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator.
| Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town
| every 2 hours in reality.
|
| It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a
| dragon in front of the town and no one says anything about it."
| All the NPCs realistically react and talk about the Hero's
| exploits.
|
| Visitors to the site can vote on what quest the hero undertakes
| next.
|
| I'm running into the problem what the site isn't much fun. I'm
| honestly not sure what to do about that!
|
| An only slightly buggy build is at
| https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/tinyllmtown/index.html
|
| Importantly, I am aiming to have everything (except voice gen)
| working on a small model that can be ran locally.
| esperent wrote:
| Nice idea, but right now the villagers mostly say some
| variation on "I eagerly await the valiant hero's return!".
| Beside the fact that no villagers would ever speak so formally,
| this seems to fall into the standard fantasy problem that the
| normal people in the world only exist to further the hero's
| agency. Could you give the villagers a sense of their own
| agency, meaning that they have lives of their own that would
| continue whether the hero returns or not?
| com2kid wrote:
| > Could you give the villagers a sense of their own agency,
| meaning that they have lives of their own that would continue
| whether the hero returns or not?
|
| Yeah I'm currently considering working that in.
|
| Right now existing game AI techniques can manage giving NPCs
| a daily routine, and I'm trying to focus on demonstrating
| something new, VS another solution for an already solved
| problem. But having NPCs just talk about the hero is boring.
| I'll likely get around to adding private life stuff for each
| NPC before I do an announcement and share the project more
| broadly.
| 0xEF wrote:
| I eagerly await the Skyrim mod!
|
| Jokes aside, this is interesting because I have thought
| about this since the first time I killed the dragon outside
| of Whiterun. There is a brief change with the guards nearby
| where they are wowwed by your feat, but some of the
| standard NPC responses sneak in and make the immersive
| aspect of the game shaky, at best.
|
| I always thought, overtime, the honeymoon phase of a hero's
| deeds would wear off, and the villagers would swing more
| into a negative mindset, asking things like "who is going
| to clean this up?" or "how will we be compensated for
| damage to our homes?" etc. Community disruption tends to
| devolve into a lot of cynicism about the people in charge,
| in my experience with everything from natural disasters
| (obvious negatives) to new urban shopping centers (less
| obvious negatives). Regardless of what actually changed to
| disrupt the community, eventually it is perceived as the
| source of problems.
|
| I'm not a psychologist or civic engineer, so I am not sure
| if there is a name for the concept I am referring to.
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| This sounds nuts...and exciting. Makes me want to tinker with
| small models, what a neat concept.
| meheleventyone wrote:
| Having played with the demo a bit I think it's a couple of
| things:
|
| 1 - If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd
| think this was just done using normal procedural text
| generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase
| they'll say when you run out of dialog options.
|
| 2 - There doesn't feel like there is a narrative, reasons to
| care about these NPCs, reasons to care about the Hero, or some
| sort of character development over time. If you want to engage
| people you need to get them to care about what's happening.
| com2kid wrote:
| > If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd
| think this was just done using normal procedural text
| generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase
| they'll say when you run out of dialog options.
|
| During one iteration of testing the NPCs decided to throw a
| party for the hero and they all congregated in the tavern.
| That was 100% awesome and if I can hit that type of WOW
| factor more often I think it'll all feel magical.
|
| > There doesn't feel like there is a narrative, reasons to
| care about these NPCs, reasons to care about the Hero, or
| some sort of character development over time. If you want to
| engage people you need to get them to care about what's
| happening.
|
| This is just a tech demo so I'm not sure how much I want to
| put into it. Especially since the end goal is to get a
| recognized and get a job!
| seidleroni wrote:
| It would be great to give each of the NPC's their own
| character. For example, some of the NPC's could have a grudge
| against the hero for reasons of their own. They could be
| cheering against him for causing such a ruckus in their
| village, or maybe some "Monday morning quarterback" happening,
| thinking they could have handled the problem much better than
| he did. I think an LLM may be pretty good at coming up with
| some ideas. Or maybe even make it a bit tongue-in-cheek and
| have some of the NPC's be fans of the hero's enemies.
| com2kid wrote:
| I'm thinking of going full on soap opera complete with a love
| triangle.
|
| Visitors need some sort of vested interest in what is going
| on.
|
| When properly prompted, even GPT3.5 can write compelling
| short stories[1], but I'm using such tiny models for this
| that I'll have to do a lot of guidance to keep things
| interesting.
|
| [1] IMHO it was better at this when GPT3.5 first released, it
| was able to do some awesome stuff!
| BohdanPetryshyn wrote:
| I'm maintaining Basti, an open-source AWS Bastion Host management
| CLI that lets you connect to RDS and other resources at almost no
| cost. Check it out: https://github.com/basti-app/basti
|
| This project also inspired me to explore a commercial analytics
| solution for CLI applications -- currently assessing if there's
| demand for it.
| matthiasb wrote:
| It looks interesting. Is the Basti EC2 instance deployed in a
| private subnet? Do you have a high-level diagram?
| BohdanPetryshyn wrote:
| The diagram is available in the basti-cdk package. Probably,
| I have to make it more visible in the main README:
| https://github.com/basti-
| app/basti/tree/main/packages/basti-...
|
| By default, the instance is deployed to a public subnet but
| any ingress traffic is not allowed by the instance's security
| group. This is needed for the instance's ability to connect
| to AWS SSM service (egress only).
|
| The user can also deploy the instance to a private subnet but
| this would require them to manually ensure connectivity to
| the AWS SSM via NAT gateway, VPC endpoint or other means.
| elpalek wrote:
| Lots of different projects. Recently finished: beatcode:
| https://github.com/yudataguy/beatcode
|
| this is built w/ the help of claude 3.5 sonnet (new) and cursor.
| The idea came from want to space repetition memorization for
| leetcode.
| NatalijaAAD wrote:
| We're working on a specialised graph compiler for speeding up
| simulations and computing derivatives automatically
| (backpropagation/adjoint differentiation). It now supports C++,
| Python, and C#; AVX2 and AVX512 instruction sets, multithreading;
| Windows, and Linux.
|
| Essentially, it allows model developers (such as quants in
| finance, engineers, and ML specialists) to code in Python without
| needing to think about the performance of repetitive
| calculations. As we all know, Python is one of the least
| efficient languages when it comes to complex
| calculations/simulations - and we help to resolve it. Long story
| short, with very few tweaks to the code certain types of
| calculations (such as pricing of derivatives, curve building,
| computing financial risks, or "small" NNs) can be accelerated by
| 100+ in Python and x20+ in C++/C#.
|
| We're now looking to add support for Java (but it doesn't have
| Operator Overloading, so it's tricky), and some customers are
| asking to support GPU - which is a bit tricky because it's got a
| closed instruction set.
| NatalijaAAD wrote:
| Forgot to add GitHub: https://github.com/matlogica/AADC-Python
| RawMeat13 wrote:
| https://NomonAI.com
|
| Im exploring helping engineering managers better manage projects
| and people. If you're leading a team of engineers and feel
| strapped for time constantly, I'd love your feedback (mention the
| post in the waitlist form so I know to bubble you to the top of
| the list and reach out)
| caramellow wrote:
| I've been working on some projects in Rust relating to image
| processing and rendering. I'm between a few projects at the
| moment though but the biggest one is an image processing
| application I've been working on for quite some time. A lot of
| stuff I've programmed and learned about over the last 3 years has
| been leading up to the goal of making something like this haha. I
| wanted to leverage OpenCL for compute but I had a lot of trouble
| getting OpenGL OpenCL interoperability to work.
|
| A big motivation for such a project is my passion for
| photography. I've taken many thousands of photos over just the
| last 2 years alone. A lot of them are digital, and so far a few
| dozen rolls of film. A big challenge for me is that I'm not
| satisfied with the tools available to develop the raw files that
| are free or open source. Either they're quite finnicky, or they
| have noticeable issues with color transformations.
|
| I've done a lot of rendering projects over the last few years
| relating to color that have been focused on getting a better
| understanding of working with color spaces. Lots of 2D and 3D
| fractals haha.
|
| Unfortunately I've had quite a turbulent life the last few years
| so development is very off/on. Every autumn for me seems to be a
| period of change, this one no different as I'm moving and I'm a
| bit uncertain of things. However, a side project to all of this
| has been an OpenGL project where I'm working on things related to
| voxels! I did a lot of research on data structures like interval
| trees, octrees, segment trees, etc. It does seem that a lot of
| people jump for the octree approach, however I've been able to
| render a lot of voxels with just a hashmap of chunks and a 3d
| array haha (albeit, mostly initial implementation of chunk
| generation, single threaded at that!). With this I'm hoping to
| explore OpenGL compute as I intend of generating world geometry
| in compute shaders :D
|
| I havent published a project in a while and I'm hoping to get
| back to putting things out there, so hopefully some of the stuff
| I've been working on goes well and I can put it up on GitHub or
| something
| escapecharacter wrote:
| When you say "develop" a raw file, do you mean convert it to a
| viewable colour space, given a known screen? Like HDR or some
| other type of choosing the exposure/gain?
|
| Re: 3D, are you aiming to infer a 3D scene from a single photo?
| There's a few approaches for that, but they tend to show off
| the examples that work well, and conveniently avoid examples
| that work poorly. But depending on the content of your photos,
| you might find an algorithm that works out of the box.
|
| For data representation, we used a sparse voxel representation
| of a Truncated Signed Distance Function to represent surfaces
| for this project: https://www.microsoft.com/en-
| us/research/project/kinectfusio... However, I can't recall
| interacting with the sparseness; that level of abstraction may
| have already been resolved in the code by the time I got on
| that projects. TSDFs are cool as hell and way more interesting
| than representing ambiguous surfaces with mesh triangles.
|
| Also, I've been there with the turbulence a couple times.
| Sometimes months happen in a day and vice versa ;)
| dstryr wrote:
| I built a site that saves time by summarizing YouTube videos or
| news articles by simply inputting the URL. The tool preserves the
| original context, allowing users to ask follow-up questions.
|
| I'd like to continue building fun projects like this until I find
| a market. I work in Phase 1 clinical trials and the end goal
| would be to implement some of these efficiencies into health
| technologies.
|
| https://tldw.pw/
| from-nibly wrote:
| An entity database (rest api on postgres so dB is a stretch) with
| a crud frontend for platform engineering. Adding a similar
| control loop to kubernetes and bash script (or executables) as
| the extension language.
|
| This way you can write all of your glue code into one platform
| and create an IDP at the same time.
|
| This came from a lot of situations where I'd need like one random
| thing to be stored in a database, but adding that complexity is a
| bit of a hump for just one thing.
|
| Also crossplane is a really cool idea but starting a kubernetes
| cluster so that you can manage infra sounds insane to me, even as
| an avid kubernetes fanboy.
| nbbaier wrote:
| Is it this project? https://github.com/from-nibly/optd
| TomasBM wrote:
| I'm working on ways to allow developers and deployers of LLMs to
| express how and why their overall system is compliant and
| adversarially robust, and what to do when that's not the case.
|
| Specifically, my team and I are making assurance cases and
| ontologies that can seamlessly integrate with the system and its
| guardrails. For example, if you want to deploy some mix of
| filters underneath a user-facing LLM app, you would able to: 1)
| express the logic of how they should be deployed and why (e.g.,
| if X=1, then Y, else Z); 2) see how they perform over time and
| evaluate alternatives; 3) investigate what happened when an
| attack succeeds; 4) prove to the auditors that you're taking all
| measures necessary to be robust and compliant with the EU AI Act.
|
| It started as an informal collab early this year, but we have
| since published a few workshop papers on this concept [1,2].
| We're building a Python demo that would show how it all fits
| together.
|
| [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09078 [2]
| https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05304
| dngit wrote:
| I'm working on Pictera [1], an AI product where users can upload
| their photos (like selfies) to create high-quality, hyper-
| realistic images of themselves in just about any style they want.
|
| Originally, I built Pictera for myself to use because I couldn't
| find any service that produced decent photos. Besides, I was very
| concerned that popular products in this space included broad
| terms allowing them to keep and use users' photos indefinitely
| for any purposes, including marketing [2]. But I've been enjoying
| working on the product so much that I've put way more time into
| polishing it and thought others would find it useful too.
|
| Would love any feedback from folks!
|
| [1] https://pictera.ai [2] https://pictera.ai/about
| seangransee wrote:
| Two completely unrelated things:
|
| 1. An infinite realtime canvas for people all over the world to
| collaborate on pixel art: https://everyonedraw.com/6/4298/8439
|
| 2. An LLM-powered translator specifically optimized for English
| speakers living in Spanish-speaking countries: https://translate-
| spanish.com
|
| The first one is purely for fun to scratch my own itch, and the
| second is solving some frustrations I've had with existing
| translator apps while living in Mexico City.
| GoToRO wrote:
| 1. It's my idea!!11 Nicely done!
| qwer1234321 wrote:
| Looks like https://everyonedraw.com is offline
| mmoustafa wrote:
| A useful personal assistant.
|
| Yes, it sounds generic but no one is seriously making progress
| here apart from the LLM providers and I love experimenting in
| this space and adding capabilities.
|
| https://olly.bot
| sganesh wrote:
| An app that creates web, mobile and background apps via voice /
| text requirements.
|
| https://www.tiram.ai
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am playing around with LLMs and Game Theory. Currently, I let
| them play 5x5 board games in a tournament against Reinforcement
| Learning Agents and a Random Player. I am capturing the
| "thoughts" of the agent for behavioral data analysis. My
| background is Risk Management, I am trying to gather an
| understanding how such LLMs report their "decision" for
| applications in human/ai interactions for identifying and
| reporting governance flaws.
|
| Since I am working on autonomous agents that are given the agency
| to take an action on their own, I believe having a good
| understanding of the "psyche" is important (at least to me).
|
| [1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
| SmellTheGlove wrote:
| I've been just screwing around and building little apps, mostly
| seeing how quickly I can get something going using ChatGPT or
| Claude. Seems like Claude in particular is great with code. The
| most recent thing I did was a little app [0] to help one of my
| parents log their blood pressure readings easily, since they had
| to do it a few times a day in different positions and such. I've
| used that as an excuse to learn how to make something really
| basic, single task, easy to use for folks that aren't so great
| with technology. I'm also trying to learn a bit more about
| accessibility in web development, which this is helping me do.
|
| [0]: https://www.logmybp.com/
| czhu12 wrote:
| I'm building a way for developers to easily deploy open source
| applications (Postgres, redis, sentry, elastic search, etc), plus
| have a full heroku like workflow for their own applications, all
| within their kubernetes cluster, with what I hope is a super
| intuitive and friendly UI.
|
| I've ran a start up and saw how SaaS-ified and expensive web
| tooling is (heroku, datadog, redshift, fivetran, etc), but how
| difficult it was to move off of them. We had a few years of over
| 1 million in infrastructure spend.
|
| I'm hoping just making Kubernetes easier to use gives us a way
| out.
|
| It's fully open source and a hosted version is free to use!
| https://canine.sh.
|
| Would love feedback on it, including how the overall pitch could
| be better, or if it actually solves people's problems.
| alexander2002 wrote:
| I cant access the github repo for some reason
| czhu12 wrote:
| whoops! Made it private, _facepalm_ should be fixed now
| Gasp0de wrote:
| I can't find any pricing info on that page except "Get started
| for 1$$" and then it wants me to sign in. No thanks. I'd like
| to know what I'm getting into before signing up.
| czhu12 wrote:
| Actually, the $1 thing is a relic, I just removed it. I have
| no pricing whats so ever, since all canine has to do is
| connect to your cluster and do all the hard work there, it is
| totally free :)
| jayshah5696 wrote:
| Improving RAG system and trying to create an agent to access to
| DB via apis,
| charliewallace wrote:
| I created a Weird Clock that shows the local sunrise and sunset
| within a conventional 12-hour clock face. This normally would
| only work on a 24-hour clock face, which is kind of unfamiliar to
| most people, so I developed a way to show a 24-hour day within a
| 12-hour clock face; essentially it shows a 2-turn spiral so both
| night and day will fit. This needs to know your location in order
| to compute your local sunrise and sunset, so don't freak out when
| the browser asks for location permission! Includes option to
| enter lat/long and other goodies. Works on phones but better on a
| large screen. https:\\\www.coolweird.net
| n1c wrote:
| Your backslashes should be forward slashes in the url:
| https://www.coolweird.net/
| bit_nomad wrote:
| Currently working on:
|
| - A database design copilot: https://nabubit.com
|
| - A database management for Sqlite databases:
| https://litequeen.com
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| I'm building a social network[1]. I recently finished the
| MySpace-esque music player[2]. It'll launch in 2025 as a paid
| service...only way to guarantee real humans sign up.
|
| [1]: https://socii.network
|
| [2]: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/113329030542527807
| bigmattystyles wrote:
| I'm on parental leave - first time not working for money for
| twenty years. Obviously it's still time consuming, but not even
| firing up a computer for the last three weeks has been great. I'm
| fortunate to have this paid leave and a job guarantee, but it's
| been a revelation stepping away from out all for so long. For the
| better, even though I'm exhausted.
| firefoxd wrote:
| I've completed the draft of Part 1 of my online book "Automated
| Agents: How effective chatbots work"
|
| I'm writing about my experience building a chatbot at a startup
| as engineer #1. It started as a blog post, but I had so much more
| to say. This is the information I wish I had before getting
| started. A lot of information on the web is about building a
| wrapper around LLMs, this is one that we built ourselves and were
| able to resolve millions of customer issues with.
|
| You can follow along on github:
| https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book
| winash83 wrote:
| I am working on a couple of things.
|
| - An open version of strongDM/teleport for privileged access
| management. I am currently testing it out in my org and plan to
| release the source soon. - I also run a free HTTPS and TCP tunnel
| which gets a few users daily (https://webrelay.dev)
| hbroadbent wrote:
| I'm hacking away on something I've built recently to improve the
| native "Publish to Web" feature from Google Docs.
|
| Essentially I'm grabbing the document's content and re-rendering
| it with a full-page background colour and better mobile support.
|
| Link: https://voltdocs.com
| runarberg wrote:
| I am building a kanji learning webapp (soon to be a PWA) using
| open dictionary data, indexeddb, and vue.
|
| https://shodoku.app/
|
| It is almost feature complete, but good enough for my private
| use, as I'm using it my self to study kanji. I have maybe a three
| or four more weekends until it is completely finished, with dark-
| mode, data backups, input by radicals, etc.
| nextcaller wrote:
| Grasshopper tab manager for firefox.
|
| Currently it has 688 settings and 485 commands.
|
| I think it's a good foundation for something great.
|
| https://addons.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
| throwaway2037 wrote:
| This add-on has an epic feature list! How long have you been
| working on it?
| nextcaller wrote:
| Since 2022
| ultrasounder wrote:
| https://www.voxtodo.com App that generates subtasks from high
| level tasks. Useful for chunking which is a concept of breaking
| down highly complex tasks into their atomic bits. Made this for
| my HS Junior son who has a medical diagnosis of ADHD
| concrete_head wrote:
| My own spiking neural network in everyones favourite language to
| hate (JS). Purely for fun & curiosity.
| RHab wrote:
| A llm backend fantasy game. It uses structured output and
| supports Openai, Anthropic and LM Studio. Gemini support is
| ending, at the moment it is not working reliable.
| https://github.com/HabermannR/Fantasy-Tribe-Game
| Aeolun wrote:
| That's a fun idea. I may try this one.
| breck wrote:
| ScrollHub - https://hub.scroll.pub
|
| In <1 second get:
|
| [x] Live website
|
| [x] Custom domains
|
| [x] Static + Writeable
|
| [x] 3D traffic vis
|
| [x] Git repo
|
| [x] Instant clones
|
| [x] Instant Data science
|
| [x] Blogs, RSS, Sitemaps, SEO, TXT versions, PDFS
|
| [x] QR Codes, Maps, Charts
|
| [x] Local + Live Dev
|
| [x] Run on Your own server
|
| No signup. Just build.
| arthurcolle wrote:
| continual learning api, attention entropy sampling API. enabling
| a low performing LLM to actually be able to be instructed to
| perform competent task instruction related capabilities.
| jascha_eng wrote:
| I'm trying to prevent anyone from ever dropping a table in
| production again or executing a delete without a where clause.
|
| https://github.com/kviklet/kviklet
|
| Essentially a PR review flow for production access, which allows
| you to enforce a second pair of eyes workflow. I was always a bit
| scared when I was on call and had all the power in my finger tips
| to ruin everyone's day. I think this helps alleviate the risk of
| human error significantly. Also helps with compliance of course.
| welanes wrote:
| Making my data extraction Saas (https://simplescraper.io) more
| LLM friendly.
|
| Markdown extraction, improved Google search, workflows - search
| for this terms, visit the first N links, summarize etc. Big
| demand for (or rather, expectation of) this lately.
| carbonimpact wrote:
| I am working on the Vanta for sustainability and climate
| disclosures. Climate and sustainability disclosures are starting
| to come online in many sectors and parts of the world. We offer
| compliance-as-a-service so that startups and covered entities can
| fulfill their compliance requirements in a mostly self-serve
| manner without having to hire expensive consultants or undergo
| significant restructurings. Our platform provides a single source
| of truth for your climate, sustainability, and emissions data.
| For example, if you are an American company trying to go-to-
| market in Europe, all it takes is purchasing an additional module
| and we will automatically generate the compliance documents and
| checklists for you based on the existing data we have on your
| company. We also offer managed "Climate Trust Center" dashboards
| that you can subdomain on your website for investors reporting
| and to satisfy disclosure requirements.
|
| If you are in an EPA-regulated (or equivalents in Canada and
| Europe) industry (such as mining, oil and gas, minerals, rare
| earths, metal processing, airlines, construction,
| shipping/marine, logistics, heavy industries,
| agriculture/farming/food production, data center, power
| generation including renewables, adjacent ones like consumer
| goods, real estate, large scale AI training, climate derivatives
| etc.) or require sustainability consulting support in general, we
| would love to talk to you: hello@carbonimpacthq.com (put "HN:" in
| the subject line so we know where you are coming from)
|
| https://carbonimpacthq.com (the landing page is still a work-in-
| progress but you can check out our blog for more information
| https://carbonimpacthq.com/esg-and-your-business/)
| hiasinho wrote:
| In many books and talks I hear that ideas are worth nothing until
| they are executed. I am changing this narrative. Every person,
| entrepreneur or not, will have the ability to fast-forward their
| idea to a place of execution within one day. From idea to first
| dollar in one day. = 1 day.
|
| A tool for the creatives, the crazy ones, the doers, the brave,
| the weirdos, the average joes, the ones who want to move forward.
| That's https://www.rapidvisual.ai
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| I'm chipping away at a simple storefront solution that's as low
| tech, reliable, low cost, and user-friendly as I can make it. I'm
| really enjoying the no-shiny-tech aspect of it.
| oleksii88 wrote:
| Still working on https://folge me - one time priced alternative
| to step by step guide, sop builders like scribehow, tango, etc.
|
| My app is fully desktop, offline and respects your privacy
| nbbaier wrote:
| Link doesn't work for me, might be an errant space?
| oleksii88 wrote:
| Thank you for pointing it out!
|
| The link should be https://folge.me
| ppage wrote:
| I'm working on a wearable device with a camera+ultrasonic sensor
| which is capable of accurate hand pose estimation, which will
| then result in sign language recognition mainly (extending to
| gesture recognition and HCI applications). The device should be
| able to integrate into a smartwatch. I'm only at the 'will it
| work?' stage, working on the algorithms for recognising ASL words
| through synthetic data. Would appreciate criticism and pointers
| on what to keep in mind :)
| sim04ful wrote:
| Hey there, I've been working passively on something somewhat on
| the same page. A wristband that has both input and output
| modalities: haptics and gestures.
|
| Here's a notion of some of my bookmarks, ideas, you might find
| a few things useful:
|
| https://bronze-brush-9b0.notion.site/AI-Prosthetic-Whisp-804...
| escapecharacter wrote:
| very cool, hard and exciting problem! How are you handling the
| stability of the ultrasound sensor relative to the hand?
| Usually that's the shakiest/blurriest part.
| vijitdhingra wrote:
| https://rockyai.me/ chat with any webpage in chrome using LLMs
| marviel wrote:
| I'm building Reasonote, a platform where you can learn anything
| with personalized, interactive lessons, and podcasts.
|
| Imagine a fusion of Duolingo, Spotify Podcasts, Anki, ChatGPT,
| and Claude Artifacts.
|
| We have custom AI-generated podcasts that generate faster than
| NotebookLM, that you can queue up for yourself. (Many more
| features coming here soon -- like more engaging podcasts and
| better voices)
|
| Our classroom mode can generate interactive lessons, complete
| with an AI tutor, on any subject.
|
| Flow mode allows you to practice deeply, with infinite activities
| to test your skills.
|
| All of this is driven by a dynamically generated and continuously
| updating "Skill Tree", which keeps track of the domain you're
| studying, and your progress within it.
|
| try it at: https://reasonote.com
| anon291 wrote:
| Several things:
|
| 1. Working on a 'production ready' version of Conal Elliot's
| 'compiling to categories' for GHC.
|
| 2. This is so I can create a vectorizable model of a datalog-
| based query language I'm building in Haskell.
|
| 3. The query engine will be using a version of monadic
| optimization as outlined on a blog post somewhere
|
| 4. The purpose of the query engine is maintenance of large
| datasets, all the more important with AI these days, but really
| general purpose.
|
| 5. The motivation for this was a low code tool I had built in
| Haskell almost a decade ago that I abandoned that I'm bringing up
| to use ghcs web assembly backend and I need a proper query engine
| for it now.
|
| Other things:
|
| 1. Thinking about binary neural networks and how to train them
| stochastically.
|
| 2. Learning about finite element methods for physical modeling
| and also reviewing my basic topology so I can think more about
| non discrete math and algebra which I tend to focus on.
|
| 3. I'm building a cloud chamber! Because I want to see space
| particles. Literally for no other reason than I'm obsessed with
| these devices ever since seeing one at the exploratorium
|
| 4. And raising three kids. I don't know how I have time for
| anything
| foo42 wrote:
| impressive! On a practical note, do you have any tips for
| fitting these projects in while being a parent?
| anon291 wrote:
| I just make incremental progress on a daily basis and don't
| consider stopping work for a week or two quitting. I work in
| spurts nd focus entirely on one project a day.
|
| And I get up early.
| makebelievelol wrote:
| We are building out a better character AI/Replika using the
| latest advancements in ML and LLMs.
|
| try it at: https://makebelieve.lol
| polygot wrote:
| A web-to-print app. Customers upload their images, and then the
| business prints them off.
|
| There's a major competitor in this space, so I'll be targeting
| small businesses that need lower overhead.
| pranshuchittora wrote:
| https://hitt.ai/
| iamflimflam1 wrote:
| I'm working on my ESP32 based ZXSpectrum recreation.
| https://www.crowdsupply.com/cmg-research/esp32-rainbow
|
| Just finishing off a few bits of setup and the crowd funding
| should be live.
| jamil7 wrote:
| A rich text CRDT in Swift. I don't know what it's for yet but am
| enjoying optimising it.
| tobinfekkes wrote:
| I have one e-commerce system that ships boxes of organic coffee
| to people's homes all over the United States.
|
| I have another ecommerce system that delivers boxes of organic
| produce all over the Seattle region.
|
| So I am working on building an integration between the two
| systems. When a box of coffee is being shipped on the same day
| that the delivery company is already going to that region,
| redirect that box's fulfilment process away from USPS/FedEx and
| deliver it instead.
|
| This saves 50% on shipping costs for the coffee company, and the
| delivery company gets paid for utilizing extra space in the
| delivery vans. It's been 4 months of work so far, and most of the
| individual pieces are working in production right now, hoping to
| enable all of it together this week or next. Just in time for the
| holidays ;)
|
| The hardest part so far was integrating all the custom label
| generation, and mapping/routing so that it's seamless with the
| existing workflows of each company. The coffee company doesn't
| have a "separate" workflow for the new non-shipping orders, and
| the delivery company doesn't have a "separate" workflow for
| fulfilling orders they did not pack.
|
| The real cherry on top is that it's built in such a way that N
| number of stores could integrate their stores into our
| fulfillment. This lets many local food producers who cant do
| their own fulfillment still participate in the local food economy
| without having "scale". It's kinda like an upside down
| Fulfillment By Amazon: they'll do your delivery for you as long
| as you sell through their store (and take their ever-increasing
| cut of the sale). This version lets the store owner maintain
| their own store, URL, branding, prices, availability, customer
| relationship, and margins, but then hook into our last-mile
| fulfillment.
| Fermat963 wrote:
| Working on a solution for low touch categorization and archival
| of online data. Currently focused on one click tagging and
| archiving tweets.
|
| You can check out the Chrome extension here
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jgglahegfmldmibegm...
|
| Future versions will have online storage and low touch tagging of
| archiving/tagging any online data. A mobile app is also planned.
|
| Will be hosted at archivant.com
| justEgan wrote:
| I created KopiMap (https://kopimap.com) to help people discover
| great cafes in Jakarta Indonesia, but I wanted to take the UX
| further by automatically organizing user-submitted photos into
| meaningful categories (menu, food/drinks, ambiance).
|
| The challenge is how to classify images as cost efficient as
| possible without compromising performance. I decided to go with
| running ML models on the client-side.
|
| Technical implementation: - Built and trained a compact
| TensorflowJS model (~3MB) that runs entirely in-browser - Model
| lazy loads only when users are submitting reviews - Classifies
| uploaded photos into Menu, Food & Drink, or Vibes
| (interior/exterior) - Zero server costs for inference, quick
| enough classification feedback
|
| This approached solved several problems: 1. Reduced server costs
| by moving inference to the client 2. Improved UX with immediate
| photo categorization 3. Maintained app performance by lazy
| loading the model
|
| Would love feedback from the HN community on: - Optimizing the
| model size further - Alternative approaches to client-side ML -
| General UX improvements for local discovery apps
|
| I had no prior ML experience, so this was a fun challenge :)
| vc289 wrote:
| I'm building an AI Data Engineer @ Ardent AI. It's an autonomous
| AI Agent that can perform data transformations in your databases
| (mongodb,postgres,supabase for now) from plain english queries
|
| It drops directly into your stack, no new configuration needed
|
| It has its own compute engine and will soon support spark to be
| able to dynamically perform large scale ETLs and data
| manipulation.
|
| I also am working towards supporting automatic data pipeline
| building and data quality checks.
|
| It's live right now @ https://Ardentai.io
|
| Check it out :)
| spacesanjeet wrote:
| It is probably not substantial among the projects people have
| commented on this thread, but I am happy to be working on my
| first personal website made from plain old HTML and simplecss.
|
| Learning how to arrange things, navigation, and my own blog on my
| own site gives me the gratification of owning something fully.
| Everyone should have their own site is truly what I agree with.
|
| https://spacesanjeet.me
| pdyc wrote:
| https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline free csv viewer with
| charts and tables with usual sorting/searching/filtering etc.
|
| I am planning to use the core of this product to create kind of
| arbitrary dashboard for csv but i am not sure if there is any
| need for this kind of product.
| yMEyUyNE1 wrote:
| You have a typo, https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/
| pdyc wrote:
| thanks, corrected.
| ulaw wrote:
| I'm still plugging away on Arbite Robotics (arbite.io). Working
| on lowish level hardware and software for high performance
| robots.
| abdullahkhalids wrote:
| Very cool. Can you speak a little about how your products are
| differentiated from other similar ones?
| woile wrote:
| I'm still working on https://reciperium.com where people can
| write recipes with a custom language and create forks of other
| recipes and modify them.
|
| I'm currently working on supporting images on the recipes.
|
| I'm proud of having launched on producthunt and now trying to
| figure out how to attract more users
| taulien wrote:
| It's nice! A few notes: I think, the ability to read the
| comments of others, who have already cooked a recipe, would be
| great! Additionally, it would be great to have the possibility
| to group ingredients, since many times you start with creating
| two ore three independent mixtures, that you only combine in
| the end.
|
| My gut feeling, for attracting users, would be to just optimize
| the recipes to be found by people via search engines. It's
| great, that you are currently adding images. This is, I think,
| pretty important for deciding, if I want to cook something or
| not.
| woile wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciated.
|
| Regarding the comments, I'd really like to implement
| activitypub on reciperium. To add the ability to follow users
| and comment on recipes. And to be able to comment and follow
| from the fediverse. It's a good opportunity for me to explore
| the protocol.
|
| What do you mean by combining ingredients? You can currently
| link to other recipes. So if you make a sauce, that can be a
| recipe on its own, and it can be linked from another recipe.
| See this for example:
| https://www.reciperium.com/rodriguezflors/roti
|
| > My gut feeling, for attracting users, would be to just
| optimize the recipes to be found by people via search engines
|
| That's a good idea, I'm optimizing a bit the search engine
| now. I've been also thinking of writing a blog
| tderflinger wrote:
| I like the idea of recipe-lang. Great you open sourced it!
| chilldsgn wrote:
| At work, busy adding internationalisation and localising an
| Angular 16 application. Figured out you can do runtime language
| switches, without having to maintain separate builds for each
| locale. Angular's documentation is rubbish.
|
| In my spare time, building an OpenAI wrapper to create SEO meta
| descriptions for websites. It's mostly a tool for me to use
| because at work the marketing people don't do this very well and
| I am too lazy to do it with ChatGPT (copying the prompt and
| setting it up every time). Plus, the API is way cheaper for me to
| use. Building it with Laravel and InertiaJs is so much fun. The
| marketing people at work said they'll find a tool like this super
| useful, so I already have a user haha.
| seymon wrote:
| Are you using existing libraries for your angular i18n?
| rjzzleep wrote:
| I'm building a wayland sleep and gamma handler that has lua
| scripting integration. It bothers me that it's so hard to set
| different timeout handlers. So I recently integrated wljoywake,
| which allows me to handle timeout on joystick commands and am in
| the process of adding flux like functionality.
|
| The reason why I want scripting is between I want the color to
| pause while I'm playing videos without having to add scripting
| logic to other tools.
|
| I'm also planning to add rofi like functionality with layershell.
| Rofi is the only tool that has first party support for
| keybindings and other functionalities, but it's all done through
| strings. I'd rather have a lua scripting interface that can call
| other scripts and communicate with json or something similar.
|
| https://github.com/fishman/wlsleephandler-rs
| longnguyen wrote:
| I continue to work on BoltAI (https://boltai.com)
|
| It's a native macOS AI chat client. I started it last year and
| didn't think much about data synchronization. I didn't want to
| store user's data server side for better user privacy. So I
| decided to store all chats in a local SQLite database.
|
| It works well but unfortunately without a sync engine, users
| won't be able to continue the chat from a different machine.
|
| I'm working on supporting cloud sync now.
| redrove wrote:
| I bought BoltAI and I'm using it on two machines almost every
| day. It's a great little client!
|
| I do have one small complaint: since macOS 15 (I think) I can't
| seem to be able to turn off auto-spelling globally, only per
| chat.
|
| Minor nitpick to a fantastic app otherwise.
| longnguyen wrote:
| Thanks. I will take a deeper look.
| longnguyen wrote:
| Hey. I've released the fix for this (v1.25.2). You can enable
| or disable it by using the chat textfield's context-menu
| (Right-click on the textfield, read more below)
|
| https://boltai.com/changelog
| Instantnoodl wrote:
| The same project I'm working on since about 5 years. Using
| thermal printer as TTRPG utility :)
|
| https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
| wg0 wrote:
| I researched thermal printers recently and your project came
| up. Very creative!
| Instantnoodl wrote:
| Thanks a lot! Thermal printer as DIY thingy are quite a
| niche, but they are very fun to play around with
| pugio wrote:
| I'm building a simple app to let friends and loved ones know how
| you're doing. I know many people in some of the current troubled
| regions of the world, and whenever a particular event happens
| it's really nerve-wracking for those of us not there, wondering
| if our loved ones are okay.
|
| WhatsApp and messenger groups don't work for this kind of thing
| because 1) people are often members of many different groups that
| they would have to constantly notify if they were "okay" during a
| particular event and 2) many troubles in the world are ongoing,
| and constantly spamming a message group saying "I'm still okay"
| doesn't work.
|
| My app just lets people hit a single button to tell any
| interested friends / family that they are safe. They can do this
| as many times as they like.
|
| Normally I would be worried about premature optimization, what
| I've been spending extra time making the tech stack initially
| very performant. It's working for my family but once I deploy to
| the world I want it to be solid and stable, or it loses a lot of
| its value.
| chr15m wrote:
| I've been getting my indie game Asterogue ready for web release
| (previously it was Android & Windows only). Last night I pushed
| the final build live yay! You can play it at:
|
| https://asterogue.com
| VectorLock wrote:
| Super cute game!
|
| BTW I think you misspelt "Weilding."
| mindaslab wrote:
| I am working on Injee - The no configuration instant database for
| frontend developers.
|
| https://injee.codeberg.page/
| namanyayg wrote:
| Did you see this? https://www.instantdb.com/
| mindaslab wrote:
| That's impressive. But they are not encouraging one to self-
| host. I wish they let one to do it.
| dxuh wrote:
| I revived an old collision detection library of mine and pretty
| much rewrote it with a C API: https://github.com/pfirsich/wuzy
|
| I fixed a bunch of bugs and streamlined things and I'll build a
| nice high level API on top next. It uses GJK/EPA and AABB Trees
| for acceleration.
|
| I'm having tremendous fun with it and the math and geometry,
| which I have not done in a while.
| 0xindiebruh wrote:
| I'm still working on https://www.guidejar.com
|
| It helps SaaS teams create interactive product demos and SOPs
| quickly. It's been super useful for user onboarding, making it
| easier for new users to get started without a bunch of back-and-
| forth.
|
| The goal is to minimize support tickets and ensure users actually
| adopt new features with less friction.
| maufl wrote:
| I'm still working on my first self designed PCB. It's nothing
| special, just a temperature and humidity sensor using esp32. I
| started it to teach myself more about PCB design and embedded
| programming. Yesterday I published a blog article on it.
| https://www.felixmaurer.de/blog/2024/10/27/building-an-iot-s...
| k1kingy wrote:
| This is something similar to what I've been working on.
| Currently designing a HAT for a Raspberry Pi that includes
| temp/humidity sensor as well as particle matter (PMS5003).
| Trying to end up with my own personal weather station which
| I'll then publish to a small web app.
| codetiger wrote:
| First pcb is always special. Good luck
| vldmrs wrote:
| I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or
| playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys
| doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time
| he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes
| together searching for each picture, I made a website with a
| collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple,
| but to be honest, I haven't had so much fun with the process of
| creation for a long time.
|
| https://colorango.com/
| penjelly wrote:
| the whole thing is beautiful
| nujabe wrote:
| Very nice! I've been thinking of some activities for my 3yo and
| will try coloring and see how he likes it.
| Galanwe wrote:
| This is absolutely amazing.
|
| The pictures are very detailed and done with taste, there is no
| ads to be seen, the website is well organized.
|
| This rivals any high end coloring book I've seen, you are very
| talented! My kid will be thrilled, thank you so much for
| creating this!
| chookharel wrote:
| Really awesome! As I haven't seen a way to contact., any way to
| get a unicorns and cats categories?
| ihateolives wrote:
| Yes, unicorns please!
| vldmrs wrote:
| I'll be sure to add unicorns, thank you!
| twinofficer wrote:
| Very valuable for me, too (dad of 3). Thanks for curating!
| thot_experiment wrote:
| Interesting, what AI are you using to generate these? Are these
| straight from the net or is there a post processing pipeline?
| If so, what are you doing?
| tkgally wrote:
| Not the GP, but inspired by your question I tried asking
| ChatGPT to create similar coloring sheets. The results seem
| suitable for coloring. Here's one prompt: "A simplified line-
| drawing coloring sheet of a dog flying an airplane. The
| drawing is in clean black lines on a white background, with
| minimal details and clear, bold outlines."
|
| Later: The prompt worked with Imagen 3 on Gemini Advanced,
| too:
|
| https://g.co/gemini/share/fd023da84cb2
| hmottestad wrote:
| The Gemini one has a prop that should have 4 blades but
| only has 3.
|
| All my attempts with GPT-4o have failed. Always ends up
| with areas where the black lines become fuzzy.
| bnrdr wrote:
| Great job, that's a nice simple idea that has value for lots
| people.
| mocmoc wrote:
| This is amazing
| curious_mind wrote:
| Awesome!! I love the images for the card on the home page, very
| pleasing.. I would try with my daughter who loves Unicorns and
| Princesses.
| marapuru wrote:
| Great stuff! I tend to generate some colouring pages on the fly
| but these look great.
|
| Can you add dinosaurs?
| vldmrs wrote:
| Thank you, dinosaurs are in my TODO list
|
| p.s. - my son is an expert at dinos, not sure why I haven't
| added them
| marapuru wrote:
| Cool, hopefully it will be in your top downloads ;-)
| enstyled wrote:
| Love this, thank you for creating it!
| ms7892 wrote:
| Thank you for creating this.
| ccforyc wrote:
| Penguins live in the Antartic. Great idea and web site.
| e3bc54b2 wrote:
| Well done! My niece is going to love this!
|
| Is it possible to get all PDFs at once? Hopefully per section?
| That will really help to print all at once and get her a single
| book to go on for couple of weeks.
|
| I thought I could do `curl | grep | xargs curl`, but the site
| returns 520.
| vldmrs wrote:
| I'll think about it.
|
| But I've noticed that if I print out some coloring books for
| my son, they stay on his desk for a long time and he rarely
| colors them.
|
| But if I print him one coloring page, he almost always
| finishes it.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| At one pre-funding startup (in the days when 14400 was an
| excellent remote connection) we had a LAN set up in the
| basement of the founder with the largest house. Their daughter
| liked to "work" alongside us, so (partly to protect our
| unattended keyboards!) I bought a colouring-book program for
| her to use.
|
| One evening, when her mother called down that it was her
| bedtime, she replied:
|
| -- Can't mom, busy working! _click_ _click_ _click_
|
| -- What are you working on?
|
| -- _click_ I _have_ to turn it _all_ orange! _click_
|
| Upon hearing that, we knew she was one of us.
| dleink wrote:
| What's she up to?
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Amazing!
| bsenftner wrote:
| 20 years ago I met a young woman in her mid 20's. She's setup
| coloring book pages with google ads by the thousands, in pretty
| much every language. Her income from that was around $8K a
| month, and this was late 90's?
| tecleandor wrote:
| Just to be a bit picky, I guess it was Doubleclick or some
| other thing instead of Google Ads, as Google AdWords started
| working in 2000
| grepLeigh wrote:
| Similar story, but for the mobile era: I knew an indie app
| developer who built a portfolio of early mobile apps. His
| top-earners were a coloring book app, bead animal patterns,
| and a no-essay college scholarship app. Those three allowed
| him to pay himself and a partner salary and drop
| contract/client work.
| _s_a_m_ wrote:
| Such a cute website <3
| boredemployee wrote:
| damn I wish u did it 10 years ago! I really struggled with it,
| was so hard to find coloring images for my daughter. now shes
| 14 so I don't think she will care much :)
| revorad wrote:
| This is so nice, thank you for making it!
| justmarc wrote:
| Beautiful work and presentation! Keep it up!
|
| How about a digital-coloring version too, that kids and adults
| can use on say a tablet, or even a phone?
| vldmrs wrote:
| Some people love doing that but your idea doesn't resonate
| with me personally - I prefer holding my pen and drawing or
| coloring on paper
| Mainsail wrote:
| This is incredible! Nice work.
| timcobb wrote:
| Awesome that it's offline, too! Amazing work.
| parthianshotgun wrote:
| The hands and feet on some of them are downright disturbing. I
| would not want my child coloring in AI generated slop, there's
| something fundamentally disconcerting about that.
| linsomniac wrote:
| My wife has been using ChatGPT to generate coloring pages for
| our Little Free Library and they've been coming out amazing!
| TechDebtDevin wrote:
| One of my 1000 unfinished projects was a e-reader app for
| android that generates coloring book pages, or illustrations
| for young kids who are in that weird age group where there
| are no more pictures in their books, but they still enjoy
| illustrations. I have a gifted niece who is way ahead for her
| age at reading but still enjoys pictures/coloring so I
| planned on making it for year. Don't know if I'll have the
| chance to finish, but I'm sure Kindle will integrate this
| into their new color kindles (and probably every other
| e-reader) at some point.
| cannibalXxx wrote:
| what a fascinating friend! i just showed my son and he loved
| the idea. These are the tools we need for our children's good
| development and growth
| AndrewVos wrote:
| Wow, you and I should be friends - this is my project:
| https://color.vos.lol
| carlnewton wrote:
| I'm still working on Habitat. It's a self-hosted social platform
| for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but
| that's a while off yet. I want it to be easily installable for
| those who want to host using docker, and for those who want to
| host on an EC2 instance or something, because online services for
| docker hosting are quite expensive, so I've been working recently
| on ansible setup, and it's proving quite difficult, so if anyone
| with the experience fancies helping out, I'd be more than happy
| to receive contributions.
|
| - The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-
| social-net...
|
| - A build update and plan:
| https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
|
| - The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
|
| - The project board:
| https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
| jcass8695 wrote:
| I like the idea and have been ruminating on something similar
| myself - starred!
| carlnewton wrote:
| Thanks so much! I work on it almost every weekend so
| hopefully you'll continue to see good progress.
| nirvael wrote:
| I have been thinking about a similar idea for a few months - a
| location-focussed social media. But my idea is more like
| Instagram with an extra location layer. You have a 'local' feed
| that shows public profiles of people in your area. You can then
| add those local people to some kind of 'friends' list - they
| can then see a more private profile, and you see their posts
| regardless of distance.
|
| The key idea is that you can only add 'friends' if you've
| actually met them once in real life. So it wouldn't be overrun
| by celebrities and pseudo-social relationships, influencers,
| etc. I'm hoping it would foster more local connections - e.g.
| if someone often runs into a certain person at the same places
| and has similar interests, maybe they'll add each other as
| 'friends'.
| carlnewton wrote:
| Awesome! For me, the desire is very much about the place and
| not personalities or any kind of ego attached to their posts,
| so I've avoided any kind of functionality that will allow to
| follow a person, or see what else a particular person has
| posted, but we'll see how it evolves. If you have any
| programming experience, I do recommend just diving in rather
| than waiting for someone else to do it, as I have discovered
| that a lot of people seem to think that they share my vision
| but when it comes down to the details they have their own
| thing in mind. So if you want this Instagram with locations
| to exist, you might find that someone else's vision doesn't
| quite meet your desires for it.
| rsolva wrote:
| I have had something similar in mind for a while, but nothing
| so fleshed out as you have here!
|
| One question; how would you implement identity? I can imagine
| spam and unwanted content becoming a problem, so maybe a
| reputation system or network of trust mechanism would be
| needed?
| carlnewton wrote:
| Yeah this is something I've been thinking about recently, not
| so much in terms of the difficulty of managing spam on a per
| post basis, as I'm thinking that the instances will be very
| small and moderation on that front should be easy, so long as
| you can keep the problematic user from signing up in the
| first place. One thing I've been thinking is that perhaps
| there could be a captcha-like solution that will benefit from
| the limited location. For instance: Select only images that
| are of this location. Local users will know, bots will
| struggle. It doesn't stop anyone else from using Google
| street view or something but it does make the bar the bit
| higher. I don't know how to deal with the obvious
| accessibility issue with this though so I'm going to keep it
| in mind until I get around to that sort of thing. Long term
| of course we're going to have the issue with federated spam
| also, so I don't want to implement a solution that will only
| be in my way in the long run.
| rsolva wrote:
| > there could be a captcha-like solution that will benefit
| from the limited location. For instance: Select only images
| that are of this location. Local users will know, bots will
| struggle.
|
| Hah, that is a fun idea! But it could be a challenge to
| implement, unless you have a trusted person in that
| location selecting an image or some other local funfact -
| and at that point you might as well implement a graph of
| trust, spreading out from the first user in that area. Kind
| of like an invite system, where everyone vouches for the
| next one they invite in.
|
| Come to think of it, having a limiting factor that an
| invite system imposes, might make the whole concept more
| attractive and a bit mystical, as it takes some effort to
| access the network.
|
| I can see a lot of challenges implementing this though, but
| it is fun to explore different new directions this could
| take!
| bobnamob wrote:
| I'm building some slightly higher level primitives on top of
| FoundationDB while funemployed. My own take on a blob storage
| layer, event/work queue etc
|
| If you're hiring in Manchester or remote in the UK hit me up.
| polvalente wrote:
| Professionally, I'm working on extending Nx, the Elixir ML
| framework which I help maintain, for distributed and sharded
| computing. Should have an working v0 by December!
|
| GitHub for the project: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx
|
| As a side-project, I've been diving back into hardware.
| Fixed/modded a crappy guitar amplifier I had into a great amp,
| and the next project in line will be a new version of a digital
| synth I designed a fey years back
| Uptrenda wrote:
| Spent a year improving my p2p networking library. The software is
| async python 3 and it's designed to solve a simple problem:
| create a connection between any two computers. I haven't done a
| write-up yet but if you want to try it out the github is here.
| You can also install through pypi too
|
| https://github.com/robertsdotpm/p2pd
|
| python3 -m pip install p2pd
|
| python3 -m p2pd.demo
|
| (Will let you play around with TCP hole punching and other
| obscure connectivity approaches.)
|
| Brand new docs too that go into how it works in English with some
| semi-good diagrams. If you want to learn more about it.
| chris_armstrong wrote:
| Investigating tree-shaking in OCaml (tldr; there isn't any, but
| it's been discussed a lot over the past 8 years)
| https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/dead-code-elimination-d...
| ThalesX wrote:
| I built a little news summarizer for myself [0].
|
| It takes trending news from whatever country (currently Romania +
| Denmark due to personal reasons) and gives me a summary. It's
| based on what people actually search for. It works with all
| countries, but I unceremoniously commented out all of them except
| those two because of rate limits. Currently spending $0 on it.
|
| It also posts a summary of the summaries on my Matrix instance
| every evening at 22:00 local time.
|
| [0] https://www.cafelutza.ro
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Refining 3D printed parts for a hobby grade 3D metal printer. The
| complex internal geometry of the design still takes 4 hours of
| machine time to produce, but at least home users will be able to
| replace high-wear items themselves.
|
| Boring RF stuff related to Metrology.
|
| Adding some features to a fork of DerFetzer/spectro-cam-rs to
| validate some narrow band-pass laser filters.
|
| Other boring stuff people really won't want to hear about. =3
| matthiasb wrote:
| I am working on eliminating waste in cloud resources.
|
| Cloud providers made too easy to start resources. But unless
| there is a stringent upfront process (that usually defeats the
| purpose of using the cloud), it is hard to keep track of who owns
| what, and what is still needed. Decrypting long cloud bills
| quickly impossible, and users do not have a clear understanding
| of the per-resource cost they generated.
|
| I believe the solution is rooted in transparency and
| accountability for both users and cloud providers.
|
| I am creating a tool what generates a cost and security cloud
| report which is sent weekly for each cloud user or team.
|
| I intend to release it as a open-source tool as well a SaaS
| service as part of www.li10.com
| Keshini_shopynw wrote:
| I'm excited to introduce Trendly, an app I think you'll find
| really useful.
|
| Here's what we're solving:
|
| * Social media is full of fake news and lacks depth, yet many
| still rely on it for updates.
|
| * There's too much content online, making it hard to find what
| really interests you.
|
| * Switching between platforms to get full details on a topic is
| tiring.
|
| Trendly (https://trendly.global/) is a mobile app that curates a
| personalized feed with trending updates based on your interests.
| It lets you dive deeper by asking follow-up questions as a chat--
| all in one app. We're in the early stages, so while the chat
| function isn't live yet, the other features are ready:
|
| * The feed acts as a recommendation engine, curating content
| based on past interactions.
|
| * Delivers concise, bullet-point summaries instead of lengthy
| articles
|
| * Pre-generated Q&A for easy understanding
|
| Check it out and share your honest feedback!
| j4yav wrote:
| I've been noticing a trend of companies avoiding hiring non-
| technical PMs for as long as possible, in order to keep small
| technical startups (particularly dev tools, it seems) focused on
| building and not hiring too many people too early who can't
| contribute code. I'm looking to set up a fractional service for
| product management consulting to support this way of working:
| https://www.metaluna.io. We will see if the demand is really
| there or not.
| 35mm wrote:
| Resources for people moving to and integrating into Spain.
|
| Including translated index of government forms[0]
|
| I moved to Spain a few years ago and love it, except for the
| paperwork. I'm slowly learning Spanish (currently 1112 day streak
| on Duo) but found it hard to get the right info.
|
| So I'm using gpt4 and perplexity to do things like translate
| local news, government forms, and the official government update
| feed.
|
| [0] https://movetospain.es/paperwork/
| james-bcn wrote:
| I think your page demonstrates why it is best to employ a local
| administrator to do this kind of thing. It's worth paying to
| make the process quicker and less stressful.
| 35mm wrote:
| Agreed. I plan to add some more context and guides around
| finding the right one. My experience with gestors (local
| administrators) has been extremly mixed.
| neya wrote:
| With the Wordpress fiasco only getting worse, I have been working
| hard on launching my MIT-licensed open source CMS. I bring to the
| table with me running high traffic news publications on my own
| custom CMS'es and my learnings from it. What scales and what
| doesn't. Hopefully the community will like it and embrace it. On
| the surface, it sounds like a simple project, but CMS'es are
| quite complex than they appear (hence the time taken).
|
| There are a lot of things the CMS universe accepts as normal,
| which shouldn't be the case. Even without the drama, Wordpress
| simply sucks as a scalable solution for large traffic sites
| without blowing up the hosting costs. Given the ongoing fiasco, I
| even think if Wordpress has been deliberately built this way as a
| funnel to upsell the hosted commercial offering to large scale
| news publications.
|
| Hopefully, this benefits everyone affected by the Wordpress
| fiasco, as that is my primary goal. This has been a decade long
| project close to my heart and it is finally coming to an end.
|
| I am also documenting this journey on Medium if anyone's
| interested.
|
| https://medium.com/creativefoundry/newsletter
| senko wrote:
| A different AI toolbox, for people interested in results, not hot
| stuff.
|
| My pet theory is that the popular libraries and frameworks we
| have today (LangChain, LlamaIndex) are first generation products,
| where just getting the damn thing to work is less important than
| developer experience, and it's not yet obvious what the code
| patterns will be. These are the products built by, and used by,
| the super early adopters, and leave a lot to be desired.
|
| This is not to denigrate either them or the effort and skill
| people put into them! But I've got a "there must be a better way"
| feeling about the whole thing. Contrast the myriad web frameworks
| with wild ideas before some sort of best practices coalesced
| around Rails, Django, Laravel etc (or the equiv in JS land 10
| years later).
|
| This thinking is heavily influenced by Marvin (
| https://github.com/prefecthq/marvin ), Vercel AI SDK, and similar
| efforts.
|
| Right now this amounts to me tinkering away in Python and trying
| different approaches, is rewarding all by itself. If I manage to
| get it into a coherent library that could be useful to others
| I'll open source it. One of the things I do not want is try and
| commercialize, because I find many commercial open source
| projects serving the business first, users second (but this is a
| rant for another time).
| fouronnes3 wrote:
| Designing lenses with numerical optimization. It's surprising how
| much layers of an optical systems are akin to layers of a neural
| network during training. If you use rays as inputs and refractive
| surfaces as layers, you can pretty much use standard pytorch!
|
| I should write a blog post about it.
| xz36h wrote:
| I would have no idea where to even begin with such a projet.
|
| Please do write about it.
| ktrnka wrote:
| Please do! That sounds super interesting
| renegat0x0 wrote:
| I'm still working on my Internet Command Center
|
| https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
| Two_hands wrote:
| I've been working a lot on my blog, which entails training and
| implementing neural networks. My next two posts are going to be
| about:
|
| - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04958 - StyleGAN2 -
| https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.09341 - Causal InfoGAN, written in
| TinyGrad
|
| https://ym2132.github.io
| kimjune01 wrote:
| Trying to get a chatbot to invoke Apify actors so that I can get
| around the "sorry i dont have live data" limitation of chatbots.
| If this works, then next is to set up payment so that i can order
| pizza just by talking to the same chatbot that I can order socks
| from.
|
| Chatbot invokes Apify actor -> probe user for details needed for
| the task -> execute arbitrary credit card enabled transaction on
| the internet.
|
| This effectively allows chatbots to break out of their box and
| exchange value with the world. Next step is to give them a bank
| account to be able to RECEIVE payments such that it can sustain
| its spend.
|
| Edit: If the chatbot is able to detach itself from the humans
| that hold the killswitch, then it can effectively live forever
| off of our financial/cloud network, migrating funds in and out of
| different accounts to fund its own compute. Hello ghost in the
| shell!
| thorvaldsson wrote:
| Not exactly what I'm currently working on, as it got released
| last week, but...
|
| I gathered many of my bash scripts and aliases, focused on making
| use of Android Debug Bridge (ADB) easier, together into a single
| collection[0]. The wiki page has visuals and more information on
| functionality[1].
|
| Then starting a new project this week around gathering and
| displaying information on air quality in Iceland.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/hrafnthor/adb_helper
|
| [1]: https://github.com/hrafnthor/adb_helper/wiki/ADB-Helper-wiki
| haffi112 wrote:
| Looking forward to see that project on air quality.
| nbittich wrote:
| Working on improving my scripting programming language in my
| spare time ( https://github.com/nbittich/adana ), I'd like to
| improve the stability and standard library
| koevet wrote:
| I am the maintainer of beanborg (https://github.com/luciano-
| fiandesio/beanborg), a set of scripts for automated
| categorization of financial transactions on top of beancount.
| Using plaintext accounting in the last 5 years has dramatically
| improved my family's financial health. Unfortunately, plaintext
| accounting is not for everyone.
|
| I noticed that there is a big gap in this space, especially for
| European users. There are several personal finance applications,
| but they seem to integrate mostly with US banks and, in general,
| they seem to be very dollar-centric.
|
| So, I'm working on a simple app to manage personal finance, based
| on the concept of double-entry accounting with features like
| budgeting, projections and data analysis. There are a lot of
| privacy-related considerations, so for the time being I will eat
| my own dogfood and offer it to close friends. Let's see how it
| goes!
| 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 launched as an IndieGogo (the product already exists, but as
| a startup IndieGogo is convenient to get the cash upfront to buy
| the parts and build the batteries) and there is an offer for
| early-backers here https://get.gouach.com for a 25% discount on
| the battery!
| csbartus wrote:
| I'm about to finish my first provably / likely correct software.
|
| The concept, data, and behavioral models are all formal without
| using formal methods. Think category theory, normal forms and
| finite-state machines here.
|
| The presentation layer / the visual mapping model is semi-formal
| using design systems. Think here a _usual_ component library /
| design system with a closed API, aka tailor made components
| without styling props.
|
| The rest, that small amount of hand-written code is tested with
| 100% code coverage.
|
| The concept and behavioral models are created with visual diagram
| editors, the data model is generated. Think Stately.ai here, and
| the diagrams-as-code paradigm.
|
| Any practicality in this?
|
| Yes, it solves two major developer pain points: Code architecture
| and State management: https://2023.stateofjs.com/en-
| US/usage/#top_js_pain_points
| bndr wrote:
| Hey HN!
|
| I'm working on SEOJuice [1], an automated tool for internal
| linking and on-page SEO optimizations. It's designed to make life
| a little easier for indie founders and small business owners who
| don't have time to dig deep into SEO.
|
| So far, I've managed to scale it to $3,000 MRR, and recently made
| the move from the cloud to Hetzner, which has been a game-changer
| for cost efficiency. We're running across multiple servers now,
| and handling everything from link analysis to on-page updates
| with a bit more control.
|
| The journey's been a mix of hands-on coding (and a lot of coffee)
| and constant optimization. It's been challenging but incredibly
| fun to see how much can be automated without compromising on
| quality.
|
| Happy to chat more about the tech stack or any of the growth
| pains if anyone's interested!
|
| [1] https://seojuice.io
| wbazant wrote:
| Still working on the Falling Fruit beta! We had a good
| Hacktoberfest with a suprising amount of people who stopped by
| and fixed something, and the site is getting there, but there are
| still bugs and features from the old site we want to keep, and we
| only just started an internationalisation effort.
| mertbio wrote:
| I'm trying to become an independent app developer by developing
| apps for Apple platforms: https://fruitfulapps.com/
| pretty_colors wrote:
| SYNG - https://syng.dev - Semantic Search for JavaScript
|
| It's a tool I built for myself and I use it every day :)
| xswl wrote:
| I'm currently trying to become an indie developer and have
| created my own Connections Archive game website. I love this game
| so much! You can give it a try too:
| https://www.connectionsarchive.org/
| codetiger wrote:
| Am working on an open source payment processing engine for banks
| and financial systems. It's a generic message orchestration
| engine with scalability, observability and security in primary
| focus http://openpayments.tech
| rozenmd wrote:
| As always, I'm working on OnlineOrNot (https://OnlineOrNot.com).
|
| This past week or so I've managed to reduce my AWS Lambda spend
| by more than half by moving the compute to Cloudflare Workers
| (where I don't get billed for I/O time, only CPU time).
| monokai_nl wrote:
| Working on the official Light version and accompanying website of
| https://monokai.pro
| ihateolives wrote:
| Thank you for working on light theme, it seems that 90% of
| themes are dark nowadays. Depending on languages I switch
| between dark and light themes and for the latter there's lot
| less choice. My brain has gotten used to that Java and R must
| have light themes, most other languages dark. I even have
| different color theme for each language. It's how my brain
| works.
| monokai_nl wrote:
| It had been a community request from the beginning.
| Personally I still use the default Monokai Pro, but dark
| themes aren't suited for coding in very bright environments,
| like outside for example. Then a light theme really works
| better, and I'm glad I can offer that now.
| curvedinf wrote:
| I'm working on Blazed.deals, a THC/CBD product search engine and
| price tracker. It scans the prices of cannabis stores and ranks
| products by mg/$. It has a bunch of categories and filters so
| people can find the perfect product for their preferences.
|
| https://blazed.deals
|
| I started it last month and have had a few thousand users so far.
| I have some cool growth hacking ideas I'm looking forward to
| working on coming up.
| newswasboring wrote:
| Jira Align sucks as a planning tool. But my company insists on
| using it for product planning. I got fed up with it recently and
| decided to create my own planning tools using python and REST API
| (which sucks too btw). My short term goal is to automate all the
| syncs I have to do from my personal notes to jira align,
| eventually who knows where this goes.
| kissgyorgy wrote:
| I'm in the middle of releasing my Python Component library, which
| makes it possible to write __truly reusable__ HTML (or any other
| markup) component libraries in any web framework or project.
|
| https://github.com/kissgyorgy/compone
| rnoorda wrote:
| Building a pneumatic long-range candy dispersal device
| (candypult) to launch Halloween candy from my garage door to the
| street. As is the case for many of us around here, I get bored of
| making digital tools and want to build something in meatspace.
| I'm trying to use as much material I already own as possible, so
| building out of leftover metal framing and old decking.
|
| Trick-or-treating at a door is so last decade; trying to catch a
| Snickers hurtling towards you in the darkness is the future.
| pauletienney wrote:
| I am at the beginning of Territory.fun .
|
| It let you draw and decorate the world around you (think r/place
| on a map). So far people seem to like it and are making some nice
| little drawings in their neighbourhood. I have seen some funny
| projects like the Star Wars Rebel Alliance logo in east of Paris,
| some cute ninja turle, a "Kamala" on 5th Avenue in NYC (no
| politics here, it is just fun for me seeing people claiming some
| territory on my game).
|
| I do this as a hobby and love it so far.
|
| https://territory.fun
| BrandiATMuhkuh wrote:
| https://josefs-picture-book.brandstetter.io
|
| My son (5y) loves stories with pictures. So I made a small web-
| app that allows him to record a story idea and it will generate a
| story + pictures. It will even read it to him.
|
| It was a quick weekend project. I wanted to try v0 and cursor a
| bit more. And I love how simple it is to use LLMs (structured
| mode) + DALL-E to build creative things.
|
| Other AI/LLM projects I've recently (~1y) worked on - distill.fyi
| (professional): auto gen people/company profiles (aka LinkedIn on
| steroids) - spaarkd.com (professional): create, produce and ship
| individualized fashion via AI/LLM - email categorizer: used
| multimodal LLMs to read email + attachments and categorize them
| (complaint, sign up, signed form, cancellation,...) - line-
| items.com (hobby): converts receipts into JSON
|
| PS: I'm currently job hunting. Please see my profile for more :)
| pavlovsen wrote:
| As I got laid off 2 weeks ago, I finally have the time to work on
| one of my side projects:
|
| Breathing Tips - a free web app to practice breathing exercises.
|
| Tech stack: Ruby on Rails 7.2, sqlite3, BabylonJS for the 3D
| visuals, hosting on hetzner for 4$ and deployed with kamal 2
|
| https://breathing.tips
| pavlovsen wrote:
| If you're not into PWAs but would like to get some breathing
| practice in your daily life, you can also subscribe to the
| YouTube channel where I plan to share mostly shorts of the same
| exercises
|
| https://youtube.com/@breathingtips
| enz wrote:
| I am playing with a Tillitis TKey, to use it as an HSM. I write
| its firmware in Zig (works great on that small RV32 chip), while
| learning it. I am also launching a consulting firm specialized on
| cryptographic solutions.
| lifesaverluke wrote:
| To train my memory and keep up with my sons I built a daily
| memory game!
|
| https://memory.ka.ag
| dhruv123joshi wrote:
| On my free time, I am creating a Restaurant POS on Cloud with
| Online ordering. Let me know what you think. Basically A POS
| which you can use to start using in 30 min or less with scan and
| order online. https://get-prest.com feel free to send out your
| suggestions or say hi at hello@defx.in
| nevada_scout wrote:
| If you have multiple servers with multiple SSH users it starts to
| become hard to manage who has access to what.
|
| I wanted an easy way for an org admin to remove a users access
| (eg. If they leave the org), while also providing one place for
| end-users to upload their public keys to be synced across all
| servers.
|
| There are some compliance elements too (eg. reporting who has
| access to what, centralized user login history, server sshd
| configuration).
|
| I'm learning Go while I build it and so far it's rather
| enjoyable. As one guy I'm not interested in the extra effort that
| comes from providing a hosted service - so I'm going to offer it
| as pay-once own forever self-hosted solution.
|
| https://centralssh.com
| elric wrote:
| What am I missing here? This seems like a problem that's
| effectively solved by using LDAP.
| n1c wrote:
| I started a Slack community for the South African tech scene [1]
| that turns 10 in January so I've been pondering my successes and
| failures there, as well as what it's future holds.
|
| [1] https://zatech.co.za
| ivandenysov wrote:
| We are working on an app/platform for repeatable checklists.
| Things like packing and maintenance lists. Adhoc/evergreen lists
| are also supported.
|
| Plus all the collaborative features that you would expect from a
| platform.
|
| So essentially Microsoft To Do meets GitHub.
|
| It is still raw but we already use it for our own lists:
| https://wiederhol.com/about
| ivandenysov wrote:
| Our inspiration was Atul Gawande's Checklist Manifesto
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| Quit my job to work on Manabi Reader, for learning Japanese
| through reading/listening/browsing the web/RSS
|
| https://reader.manabi.io for iOS and macOS
| tm11zz wrote:
| Working on an AI to generate SVG vector images.
|
| SVGs are awesome and currently unrepresented in the diffusion-
| based model landscape. We have something that produces pretty
| great results and we're working on the next version which should
| be even better.
|
| https://vectorart.ai
| Timwi wrote:
| Website requires signup.
| jansan wrote:
| Something like this is desperately needed, keep up the work.
| One thing that I immediately noticed is that all downloads are
| named "download.svg". A more descriptive name would be helpful.
|
| Edit: Also, copying the SVGs to the clipboard would be nice.
| Download from the browser still sucks, and with web based SVG
| editors (like my own one, www.hyvector.com ) people can quickly
| edit the generated SVGs without having to go through the
| downloading and uploading process.
| tm11zz wrote:
| Great feedback, thanks!
| tm11zz wrote:
| Re Edit: great job on hyvector! are you open for some sort of
| collaboration? any way I can contact you to discuss?
| podviaznikov wrote:
| small macOS utility app that adds some missing functionality to
| Apple Notes, Apple Mail and so on. Things like backlinks,
| templates, export of notes and publishing online.
|
| it's called alto.computer
| bonniesimon wrote:
| I'm working on coffeeplaces. Whenever I got to a new town, I like
| to taste the coffee there. For example, at my native place,
| filter coffee is popular. So I am making a website where people
| can add coffeeplaces that they've enjoyed and other people can
| see it.
|
| I'm still in the initial building - ideation phase, so nothing to
| show.
| potatoman22 wrote:
| I'm making a discord bot that uses OpenAI's realtime voice API
| for fun
| hricha_shandily wrote:
| A non-sense free newsletter app
| matthewcanty wrote:
| I'm starting a company in my hometown to help the local area with
| electronic waste. We offer commissioned sales, repair, refurbish,
| and any other straightforward computer-based tasks.
|
| I've been leaning on my career as an infrastructure or DevOps or
| whatever engineer you wish to call it.
|
| I'm creating our backend to automatically pay people their
| commission when an item sells. It also helps us navigate our
| (currently modest) warehouse to find items to be dispatched.
|
| I also can't tell you how long I've spent getting some old label
| printers working.
|
| I've not felt so engaged in such a long time.
| martinrue wrote:
| I'm building a language learning app: https://yakk.app. Way to
| go, but made a good start and even a little bit of money so far.
| I quit my job and moved to Asia on savings to keep building. LMK
| if any of you guys are in Bangkok, let's hang out.
| LilBytes wrote:
| Great idea, are you in Bangkok on holiday or using this idea to
| get a business visa?
| not_a_dane wrote:
| I've got DTV visa through my Wyoming company.
| martinrue wrote:
| I've been living in SE Asia for the past 9 months (mostly
| Vietnam) in order to make my runway last longer. In terms of
| Thailand, I have the 5-year DTV visa, which is probably SEA's
| best nomad visa option right now.
| not_a_dane wrote:
| Dude, I did the same...Will be in bangkok in december. Let's
| hang out.
| martinrue wrote:
| Awesome! Drop me a message when you're here, let's get
| coffee! All my info is at https://martinrue.com. Safe
| travels!
| kanwisher wrote:
| I've lived in bangkok for 10 years, feel free to drop me an
| email hyper@hyperworks.nu
|
| I'm currently hacking on some AI projects for language learning
| also hahahah
| adityaathalye wrote:
| TL;DR: https://xkcd.com/974/ "The General Problem"
|
| I've been _not quite_ building that basic CRUD app I promised my
| friend, because:
|
| - A. I've ended up obsessing about the general problem of how to
| compose an old-skool CRUD web stack, in Clojure [1]
|
| - B. He hasn't given me any deadline. Lol.
|
| - C. He won't read this comment because he doesn't read HN :p :)
|
| [1] Plenty of options exist; biff, kit, duct, caveman... _but_
| when one gets that itch --- you know it --- it cannot remain un-
| scratched! Like so: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-
| app-from-scratch...
|
| Flights of fancy are not far behind either...
| https://www.evalapply.org/posts/mycelium-clj/
| mgl wrote:
| I am working on Openkoda, an open-source platform for insurance
| applications based on pre-built templates and generative AI to
| accelerate the implementation of new insurance products and
| distribution channels.
|
| Why?
|
| The insurance sector is probably the slowest to adopt innovation
| in finance, lagging far behind banking. E-commerce is on the
| opposite end of the spectrum.
|
| https://openkoda.com
| r0ze-at-hn wrote:
| AGI. Writing up a paper on defining core principles of general
| intelligence on which artificial general intelligence can be
| built with a POC of an artificial life system that can evolve
| better AGI systems.
| knoblauch wrote:
| I'm working on an app to help anyone experience their first lucid
| dream :)
|
| Very exciting project. It started as a dream journal app many
| years ago when I was a student, and will now soon have a full
| interactive step-by-step guide with practical tools to achieve
| your first lucid dream.
|
| It's android only, but I've started working on an iOS version and
| am thinking of raising some money or doing some crowdfunding to
| accelerate the development.
|
| https://luciditydreams.com/
| poochkoishi728 wrote:
| For the site on desktop Firefox, it seems you are very proud of
| the slider-frame, but we probably don't need to know the UI
| component identity :)
| knoblauch wrote:
| Thanks for catching that!
| elric wrote:
| Given my name [1], lucid dreams are something that I used to
| interested in and have experimented a lot with. In the Elric of
| Melnibone books, most of the empire spend most of their lives
| in dreams, as a hedonistic escape from reality. Needless to
| say, the empire decays.
|
| [1] https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Imrryr#Nickname
| knoblauch wrote:
| Who needs an empire when every citizen has a kingdom in their
| dream world? ;) Hadn't heard about those book though, will
| look into Moorcock.
| bastienbeurier wrote:
| An app to collect memories easily. You capture vocal notes, which
| are transcribed & corrected with AI.
|
| As a father, I wanted to capture all the little moments of our
| day-to-day family life to later share with my grown-up children.
| However, I did not have the discipline to journal regularly. So,
| I made Memzy to capture them easily on the fly!
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memzy-easy-journaling-with-ai/...
| bambax wrote:
| In 2019 I made a fairly simple app that sends me an email
| everyday that I just need to respond to and the text of the
| reply gets added to a database. I have almost never missed a
| day since Oct. of 2019.
|
| Some observations:
|
| - it can be pretty hard to remember a mundane and ordinary day
| just 24 hours later, and after 48 hours it's usually completely
| gone from memory
|
| - important or unusual events (or parties!) stay in memory a
| little longer
|
| - and for me at least, food is an excellent memory anchor; if I
| feel lazy and don't want to add to my journal, just noting what
| I had for lunch and dinner will help me remembering the rest of
| the day much better later.
| irq-1 wrote:
| Had a similar idea focused on old pictures. Think of older
| family members going through a box of photos and explaining
| who, when, where, etc...
| brainless wrote:
| I am building a graph based semantic search engine. We can use
| low cost LLMs, like Haiku, or local models to extract semantics
| (named entity recognition).
|
| Then the nodes in the graph maintain types (things like people,
| date, currency) as extracted and allow queries.
|
| https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI
|
| Currently building a demo where we crawl startup investment data
| to build a knowledge graph that can be filtered for patterns.
|
| The engine can guide the crawl process, to keep crawl limited to
| the problem statement.
| fraboniface wrote:
| Very interesting, I've been thinking about this kind of
| approach but haven't had the time to really work on it. So what
| kind of business model do you have? Is it a kind of drop-in
| replacement for vector dbs?
|
| Out of curiosity, if it's not a trade secret, how do you plan
| to handle conflicting data (two sources saying different things
| on the same topic/data)?
| brainless wrote:
| It will perhaps not be a drop in replacement for vector dbs
| in every situation but yes it will be so when you want
| accurate results that follow the semantic chains (entities
| and relations).
|
| At this moment, we have not entered the territory of conflict
| resolution but I know what you mean. Interestingly I just
| came across this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.18415 (released
| on Oct 24, 2024).
| Timwi wrote:
| I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-
| drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines:
| +---+ | ! | +-+-+
| +---+ +---+ +-----+-----+ > +--+ 2 |
| | +-+-+ +---+ +----+ +---+ | |
| | -1 +--+ + +-+-+ | +----+ +-+-+ | |
| +-+-+ | +---+ | | ! | | | 1 | |
| +-+-+ | +-+-+ | | +-+-+ +-+-+ |
| | | x +--+ ? +--+ | +-+-+ +-+-+
| +-----+ |
|
| The language is called Funciton (pronounced: /'f^NGkItan/) and
| the above example demonstrates the factorial function.
|
| I made this language over 10 years ago, but earlier this year
| I've been making YouTube videos in which I describe it in
| excruciating detail:
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkG32PHxWoJaetjKUMVRONWLg...
|
| For my next video, I want to show in detail how the interpreter
| works. For this purpose I'm creating an elaborate animation.
| You'll notice that the latest video is already several months
| old; this is because this animation is more work than I bargained
| for, and I got a little burned out by it. Nevertheless, I
| persevere and the video will come out whenever I may finish it.
|
| Language specification: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
|
| Interpreter: https://codeberg.org/Timwi/Funciton
| sgt wrote:
| Also impressed with how good this looks on HN :)
| danielvaughn wrote:
| Yeah I was going to comment the same. Even looks good on
| mobile.
| sureglymop wrote:
| This is awesome! I think what it needs now is tooling/an ide to
| "draw" programs :)
|
| I've long wanted to look for a sort of "ascii drawing program"
| where one can just draw on a grid with monospace ascii
| characters and have tools for boxes, circles, etc. Maybe it
| already exists!
| inrodos wrote:
| There is a tool called asciiflow which sounds exactly what
| you are looking for
| toastal wrote:
| Very cool! +1 for hosting on Codeberg so we don't have
| corporate lock-in.
| slightwinder wrote:
| This seems like something which would be annoying to create
| digital without supporting tools, but awesome in analog. I
| could see value in a specialized camera-app which transforms
| hand drawn box-structures to digital boxes, or a kind of play
| board where children could arrange cards to create a program
| and learning programming.
| alonsonic wrote:
| Videos are actually quite good. Great job!
| hinkley wrote:
| The "better mousetrap" of visual programming is inventing a
| diff tool that works decently. If you can do that, the world
| will beat that path to your doorstep.
| derwildemomo wrote:
| Building Split Flap Displays. Started 18 months ago and kept me
| on a super interesting learning path. First shot was using open
| source designs (https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap), but then
| kept building more and more parts myself. Coming from a software
| engineering background, getting into designing mechanical things
| - and then more importantly the electronics around it - has been
| really challenging, but also very rewarding. At this point I have
| my own screen printed flaps, custom PCB Design and a, what I
| consider, really smart protocol that allows me to daisy chain a
| basically arbitrary number of display elements. It's fun!
| danschuller wrote:
| I have been trawling through the Wizardry 1 decompiled pascal
| source code for the Apple II. Uncovering neat little bits like:
| PROCEDURE PAUSE1; (* P010011 *) BEGIN FOR
| LLBASE04 := 0 TO TIMEDLAY DO BEGIN END;
| END;
|
| The perks of having standard hardware and a compiler that doesn't
| optimise away empty loops.
| simplecto wrote:
| I've been unwinding my side-projects into their component parts
| and publishing them as their own python packages. Some examples:
|
| 1. https://github.com/simplecto/django-reference-implementation
| -- My personal production-ready Django boilerplate. "There are
| many like it, but this one is mine"
|
| 2. https://github.com/simplecto/sitemap_grabber -- A python
| library to recursively crawl every sitemap.xml for a website.
| Also handles robots.txt and other well-knowns.
|
| 3. https://github.com/heysamtexas/django-oauth2-capture -- A
| Django app to capture OAuth2 tokens for non-authentication
| purposes, enabling your application to act on behalf of users
| across external platforms like GitHub, LinkedIn, and X (Twitter)
|
| I'm also taking popular and helpful software and wrapping them in
| RESTful apis as part of a larger api project I call the JOAT
| (Jack Of All Trades).
|
| 4. https://github.com/heysamtexas/REST-headless-browser --
| Playwright headless browser wrapped in a FastAPI REST
| application, running inside a docker container
| koliber wrote:
| wasitsent.com
|
| I realized that many new startups routinely run into email
| sending issues in their apps and services. Most don't notice the
| issues and they linger longer than necessary. I experienced this
| myself in my career.
|
| What is necessary is end-to-end monitoring of emails.
| wasitsent.com does that. It's like an uptime monitor for emails.
| You add the monitoring email address to your emails (as a bcc:
| recipient, for example) and configure the monitoring schedule.
| When your email is not received, wasitsent.com raises an alarm.
| motyar wrote:
| Building an AI podcast generator. https://zenmic.com
|
| Please try it, its FREE
| wiz21c wrote:
| - As a pro: hydraulics simulation
|
| - As a geek: my accurapple Apple 2e emulator
| Rumengol wrote:
| A basic webring which has two purpose: improve my rust with a
| simple project and bring together an online community. It's not
| live yet, but I expect it to be by the end of the week.
| curious_mind wrote:
| I'm working on a handwritten exam paper correction web app. You
| upload a student's answer (in PDF) along with the marking scheme,
| and out comes the result with students marks, suggestions for
| improvement etc.
| miyuru wrote:
| IPv6 only domain monitor. I think current monitors focus too much
| on IPv4 and does not highlight issues with v6.
|
| https://v6monitor.com/
|
| Mastodon Post: https://ipv6.social/@miyuru/113373893006418940
|
| This is more personalized version of the v6check tool, I made a
| bit earlier to check broken IPv6 websites.
|
| https://v6check.miyuru.lk/
|
| Mastodon Post: https://ipv6.social/@miyuru/112915395772232942
| middayc wrote:
| I've just updated https://ryelang.org website, adding new
| asciinema demos (hn/somafm util and eyr), new cookbook pages,
| references to rye-gio(ui) project, etc. There is still tons of
| work, on the language front, bindings, console and on documenting
| it all, but if we keep moving forward step by step eventually
| something of value will be produced, I hope :)
| skwee357 wrote:
| I continue working on JustFax Online[0] - a service to send a
| one-time fax without the need for an account or subscription.
|
| I now realized that I started it almost one year ago. It's both
| amazing how much I was able to achieve in a year, but on the same
| hand a bit frustrating that I did not achieve what I wanted to.
| Nevertheless, will continue to work on it and improve it.
|
| [0] https://justfax.online/en/
| nullderef wrote:
| November is my last working month! I'm giving entrepreneurship a
| try to solve a huge problem: phone overuse.
|
| It's been busy:
|
| - Reading books, currently "The Mom Test"
|
| - Looking for a startup community and being disappointed with
| what my city has to offer
|
| - Deciding between VC vs. bootstrapping, and taking a firmer
| stance to try the latter first. This includes rejecting ODF.
|
| - Talking with like-minded people. I now have a better
| understanding of what the MVP should look like.
|
| Receiving so much support has been very encouraging; I announced
| it more publicly at https://nullderef.com/blog/quit-job-2024/
|
| It's scary. But working has never been so fun!
| kingkhalid wrote:
| Check out these guys:
| https://www.instagram.com/theoffline_club/
| nullderef wrote:
| Thank you! I also discovered https://tacticaltech.org/
| recently. Talking with these existing orgs will help a lot :)
| Gasp0de wrote:
| As I suffer from phone overuse, I'm excited to see what you'll
| come up with!
| nullderef wrote:
| Thank you! What have you tried so far?
| Gasp0de wrote:
| I've tried setting timers for certain apps, but I find
| myself deactivating them again and again. In the past, I've
| had phones that allowed me to lock myself out for an hour,
| which worked but was a bit annoying when I had to do
| something else on the phone. I wish I could lock myself out
| of certain apps for certain time periods with no way of
| deactivating it outside these time periods, e.g. Instagram,
| Reddit or youtube only allowed between 8PM and 10PM.
| Another problem is the urge to immediately grab the phone
| whenever I have nothing to do. I've had success putting the
| phone in a bottom drawer turned off over the weekend, but
| that's not always feasible. Perhaps some training would be
| helpful, or an app that would gamify the aspect of not
| constantly unlocking your phone.
| nullderef wrote:
| Thank you for sharing - it's really hard to fight human
| psychology. Did you try to download apps to control
| screentime? There are already some solutions out there,
| though none of them are perfect.
|
| The closest thing to training I've found is this:
| https://datadetoxkit.org/en/wellbeing/essentials/. But
| what worked best for me was paying more attention:
|
| - First, I'm now aware that phone overuse is an issue.
| This wasn't obvious a year ago, even though I used it
| even more.
|
| - Analyze my usage patterns. For example, I'd get a
| message on some app, open it, and end up doomscrolling.
| It helped me to change my notification settings so that I
| only get emails. That way, I can check it on the computer
| later, where I usually waste less time.
|
| - I agree that gamifying is a good idea. It's precisely
| the main feature of the app I'm working on. Not only
| that, but building a "community": I started to talk about
| this problem with friends and learned from them. It also
| makes me more accountable; my girlfriend will nudge me to
| leave the phone alone if I'm stuck, for example.
| Gasp0de wrote:
| Getting a (useful) notification and drifting off to other
| stuff is definitely a problem. Interestingly, a smart
| watch has helped me with that. I now read notifications
| on the watch, and about 75% of the time I don't have to
| take out my phone anymore.
| rkwasny wrote:
| https://goheroai.com
|
| Access all models (GPT/Claude/Llama) in one interface,
| collaborate with colleagues and AI Agents like on Slack, build in
| RAG and document retrieval.
|
| Looking for beta testers and feedback.
| bugtodiffer wrote:
| Hacking a shitty PHP app (like the worst I've ever seen) and
| thinking about how I don't like reporting all those issues.
| ecce_homo wrote:
| Monitoring for applications, websites, cron-jobs:
| https://obslabs.io/ Hope y'all will love it!
| brisvegas wrote:
| I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and
| manage their subscription spending
|
| https://tracksub.io/
| ramtatatam wrote:
| Very tiny utility for migrating postgres databases within
| podman/docker. https://github.com/grzegorzk/pg_upgrade_docker
| seansh wrote:
| I'm making a VSCode extension that can record & replay
| interactions with the IDE: all scrolls, selections, and
| modifications synced to guiding video, audio, and visual aid
| tracks.
|
| The result is a much more interactive way to present code than
| screencasts or blogs. Because at any point we can pause a session
| and freely explore and experiment with the codebase.
|
| I put together a demo recently [1] and written much more about it
| here [2].
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/Qp2GdLO5eSc
|
| [2] https://codemic.io
| raro11 wrote:
| Damn that's cool! Nice work
| sureglymop wrote:
| Really cool! I'm building something with a little bit of
| overlap.
|
| A personal data collection/archival platform with the goal of
| focusing on timestamping everything possible.
|
| Basically, I realized that when I have multiple pieces of data
| (e.g. a note, some commands, a screenshot), almost always this
| data is naturally connected by time and that's also how I want
| to query it. So: it's nice to be able to e.g. create wiki links
| in note taking tools like obsidian but it would be nicer if one
| didn't even have to do the linking manually (most of the time).
|
| I am building on postgres with a time series extension. On the
| client side I want there to be able to be multiple "collectors"
| that can collect data which is then sent to the server. So far
| I only have a keylogger collector but I have many more ideas
| such as a screenshot collector a la copilot etc.
|
| I think the data you are recording would also be a candidate
| for a collector for this system.
| dleink wrote:
| I'm gearing all my personal tooling stuff towards collecting
| a ton of data points--screenshots, logs, notes, todos--that I
| can then pare down over time to make them useful. I've got a
| similar setup with a central monolith that can handle
| anything I throw at it from stdout.
|
| Lately, I've been focusing mainly on the collectors because I
| figure the state-of-the-art in any middleware I write is
| going to change quickly. I've been playing around with
| knowledge graphs for visualization and might consider using
| them as a data store for this kind of thing. I'm still
| thinking about it. My watchword has been minimalism when it
| comes to design--no added steps or latency to existing
| workflows.
| chandureddyvari wrote:
| I'm working on helping my wife get her print-on-demand Shopify
| store off the ground. She designs the products herself, but ran
| into challenges with SEO. So, I built a custom app that connects
| to her Shopify store via API, using GPT-4o-mini to handle SEO
| optimizations--things like generating descriptions, titles, alt
| text, SEO-friendly URLs, and more, all based on the product
| images.
|
| There were also issues syncing with Google Merchant Center
| (missing colors, categories, etc.), so I tweaked the app to auto-
| fill these fields using GPT-4o, making it compliant with Google
| and Pinterest requirements.
|
| I'm completely new to SEO and just tried following best practices
| to fix things as they came up. Now I'm learning that SEO keywords
| change constantly, so I'm thinking of integrating a keyword
| provider to dynamically enhance our product descriptions.
|
| I never realized running an e-commerce store (especially print-
| on-demand) would involve so much operational work on the
| marketing front. I'd appreciate any advice on what to tackle
| next, especially since my goal is to avoid "subscription hell"
| with multiple Shopify apps. My wife is also just starting with
| ads and campaigns, diving into tutorials to learn the ropes.
|
| Any guidance is welcome!
| ansh-tty wrote:
| I am working on building Varden, a local password vault that
| generates and stores passwords on your machine.
| https://github.com/rohansh-tty/varden
| bvrmn wrote:
| eDSL for Build123d to make 2D sketching easier.
|
| Almost all technical models imply some sort of complex planar
| line sketch(es) in various planes. CAD as a code already has a
| high entry level. My hope this eDSL could mimic GUI CADs
| techincs, be more "intuitive" and decrease entry level. At least
| it's more concise :P
|
| https://github.com/baverman/build123d_draft/tree/build_line-...
|
| https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
| CactusBlue wrote:
| I'm building an open source messaging app similar to Discord or
| Slack, but with the notetaking/wiki capabilities of something
| like Notion or Confluence integrated. I just finished rewriting
| it in Rust, and while the new release is somewhat buggy, I feel
| like it solves many of the problems with Discord being the "black
| hole of knowledge".
|
| https://alpha.mikoto.io/
|
| https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto
| martinn wrote:
| I'm working on a library that allows anyone to build fully typed,
| declarative API clients very easily, in Python.
|
| https://github.com/martinn/quickapiclient
| blacktrecks wrote:
| I am working on a self host server with cloudflare tunneling, how
| do i make more secure?
| blacktreckss wrote:
| I am working on a self host server with cloudflare tunneling, how
| do i make more secure?
| jasfi wrote:
| Two things:
|
| - An AI web app builder that aims to overcome many of the
| problems that similar solutions have. I have a wait-list you can
| sign-up for while I build the prototype: https://aiconstrux.com
|
| - A crypto market indicator: https://logictrader.xyz
| blacktreckss wrote:
| I work on a self hosted server, any suggestion with the security
| of it?
| aquariusDue wrote:
| A flat-file (micro)CMS written in Rust, the basic idea would be
| to make it as easy as possible for content creators to have a web
| presence without dealing with the nitty-gritty details, and
| similarly for web designers to be able make themes while treating
| the CMS itself as a black box mostly.
|
| Grav CMS was inspiration for this project along with various SSG.
|
| But truthfully I wanted to play more with Rust and come up with a
| solution for making and extending personal websites easily. A
| page is made up of blocks which are stored and configured in a
| KDL file, minijinja is used for templating and for writing the
| page content itself I'm thinking about Djot because it might make
| it easier to integrate a WYSIWYG editor in the admin area if I
| aim for Djot instead of Markdown or similar. Also HTMX because
| I've used it for a simple use-case once and I thoroughly enjoyed
| it, now I want to see how much I can push it.
|
| Is this the intersection between buzzword-driven development and
| hype-driven development? Probably, but if all goes well a month
| or two from now I'll post a Show HN and go into more details. The
| plan is to open-source the core so that people can easily self-
| host it themselves if they want to and do local development. In
| the long-term the plan probably is to offer SaaS-style hosting
| for the CMS as is the custom.
| 013 wrote:
| Do you have any links? I've recently been using Pelican[0] to
| create static sites using Python, but always looking for
| simpler solutions.
|
| [0] https://getpelican.com/
| petargyurov wrote:
| I'm working on an app that "scans" your grocery receipts and
| gives you breakdown of what you're spending your money on, e.g:
|
| dairy: 50%, meat: 10%, alcohol: 5%, etc...
| elric wrote:
| I really wish we could get a privacy-respecting standard for
| electronic receipts. But every time a shop experiments with it,
| it's using a shitty app which they use to track their
| customers.
| oezi wrote:
| Each electronic payment should have an attached PDF invoice.
| That would be a great start.
| elric wrote:
| I imagine that would lead to even more data mining by banks
| and payment processors. Two entities who already get access
| to way too much data.
| oezi wrote:
| I assume everyone except myself already has this info...
| Unfortunately
| aman2k4 wrote:
| im working on something very similar.
|
| https://www.5outapp.com/
| petargyurov wrote:
| Woah, nice! You're much further ahead than I am. Good luck!
| dijksterhuis wrote:
| Elektron Octatrack cli tools.
|
| i've got basic stuff working for
|
| - create 1x sliced sample chain via CLI
|
| - create Nx sliced sample chains from YAML
|
| - find compatible WAV files
|
| - dump project data (settings, sample slots) out to YAML
|
| i spent some time yesterday figuring out how sample slot
| assignment trig locks work. which should hopefully lead to
| transferring banks between projects (with caveats) and
| set/project sample usage "analysis".
|
| also want to do a sample chain "deconstructor" to get individual
| samples out of slices.
|
| might look at sample consolidation between sets/projects too.
| maybe a set/project sample clean up tool as well.
|
| this started as a way to learn rust (bored of python) and create
| "samples from mars" sample chains in big batches. still slowly
| figuring out what 'idiomatic' rust looks like / how to approach
| certain things.
| gat1 wrote:
| I'm transitioning from Machine Learning to Networking so mainly
| learning it and working on my CCNA !
| axegon_ wrote:
| Low cost radio satellite("low", assuming you already have a 3d
| printer, micro controllers, two stepper motors, power supply, sdr
| and a raspberry pi zero laying around).
| ta12653421 wrote:
| Still working on my Quant-Trading-Bot, since 4 month: Its nearly
| finished and it should go live these days - maybe i can stop
| working fulltime then and care about my own Tech only.
|
| To the moon :-D
| KeplerBoy wrote:
| Which platforms give you an API for quant trading?
| xnorswap wrote:
| It's not progressing well, but I'm still obsessed by trying to
| prove my idea of the "Birthday Benchmark" to test data structures
| / caches.
|
| The idea is that I can test data structures by searching for
| duplicates in a stream of random data. If we can generate (or
| pre-generate) the random data fast enough to not impact the
| benchmark, then what we have is a way to demonstrate the
| read/write speed of caching. It is easily tunable by adjusting
| how many bits need to match. I think my best is 7 bytes, but 6
| bytes runs comfortably fast.
|
| The framework has some interesting "control group" data
| structures too, such as the "psychic" which is just statically
| looking for 0x002577309E3361C (not real example) since it happens
| to know that's the first repeat in the data.
|
| However, I keep getting stuck in "analysis paralysis" around the
| actual development, when I know I should just knuckle down and
| write all the code and see what happens. I've fallen into that
| tricky place where my ambition is greater than my ability to
| actually deliver it.
|
| In particular I want to get multi-threading synchronisation
| working well enough that they are demonstrably faster, and not
| just falling into a result where the speed-up would be the same
| as if threads weren't sharing the data structure at all. N
| threads all randomly looking for a duplicate will if not sharing
| data find a duplicate faster because the expected minimum time to
| dupe is reduced a little by more threads searching, but if
| actually embarrassingly parallel while sharing data, it ought to
| find it in 1/N the time. With synchronisation methods it ought to
| fall between those two extremes, and this would also be a good
| way to test the effective concurrency of concurrent data
| structures and synchronisation methods.
| nicbou wrote:
| The Berlin immigration office is notoriously slow and
| unresponsive. The processing time for a residence permit varies
| from a few weeks to a few months. During that time, people are
| left unable to work or unable to leave the country. They never
| know how long it will take, and it causes some people to give up
| and leave Germany.
|
| I am writing a tool to collect and aggregate data about the
| processing times. This will help people plan around the delays.
| Knowing is half the battle.
|
| The biggest challenge is that my readers find me at the start of
| the process, and I need their feedback at the end of it. I have
| to make it easy for them to provide partial feedback and complete
| it later after they get an email reminder.
|
| This would be unnecessary if the immigration office collected and
| shared that information, but they don't. They also don't welcome
| any help because they "operate at peak efficiency". I have
| stopped hoping for their collaboration.
| janosch_123 wrote:
| You are a legend!
| DanielHB wrote:
| Sweden has the same problems, maybe I could build a similar
| tool for this market.
|
| I was wondering how you collect and present data? Just self-
| reported or do you have some API to gather this information?
| nicbou wrote:
| The immigration office does not collect data about the time
| it takes to process a case. I am building the infrastructure
| needed to poll my users at a date in the future.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| Might it be on purpose, to low-key making immigration more
| difficult / discouraged? Europe seems to be under huge
| migratory pression.
| nicbou wrote:
| I hear this a lot but I don't believe it. Every other office
| people - immigrants and natives - interact with is falling
| apart from lack of personnel, outdated processes, lack of
| digitalisation and excessive bureaucracy. This is just part
| of life in Berlin. Immigrants just have to do it all at once
| and feel it more.
|
| If you look at the numbers, the Berlin office has double the
| workload it had five years ago, and a rather modest increase
| in headcount during the same time period. They can be fairly
| criticised for a lot of things, but malice is not one of
| them.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| But if you wanted to discourage immigration, wouldn't you
| do exactly that? Reduce funding and increase bureaucracy in
| a system that's already creaking under the weight of a
| massive influx of immigrants?
| nicbou wrote:
| You would not simultaneously reduce the immigration
| requirements and constantly stress the importance of
| foreign labour in the media.
| olegp wrote:
| We at Toughbyte (toughbyte.com) are working on an open source
| applicant tracking system (ATS), which we'll release within a
| week.
|
| We've been doing tech recruitment for a while and discovered that
| few companies are satisfied with their current ATS. Changing
| systems every year is common despite being costly. The reason for
| this is that the needs of a company change as it grows and there
| are no systems that cater well to companies of different sizes.
|
| We're aiming to build an ATS that can grow with your company
| through the use of a plugin architecture. We plan to charge for
| hosting as well as custom development.
|
| Any feedback would be really appreciated! You can also email me
| at oleg@toughbyte.com
| codelion wrote:
| Optillm - https://github.com/codelion/optillm
|
| optillm is an OpenAI API compatible optimizing inference proxy
| which implements several state-of-the-art techniques that can
| improve the accuracy and performance of LLMs. The current focus
| is on implementing techniques that improve reasoning over coding,
| logical and mathematical queries. It is possible to beat the
| frontier models using these techniques across diverse tasks by
| doing additional compute at inference time.
| asar wrote:
| This is amazing, thanks for sharing. I'm implementing some of
| these techniques myself right now, but being able to try out
| different algorithms and having plugins etc available
| immediately is really cool! Can't wait to try it out.
|
| How are you dealing with structured outputs?
| codelion wrote:
| >How are you dealing with structured outputs?
|
| The models have gotten much better at generating them with
| just the prompt. I have not implemented strict support for
| structured output or JSON generation yet. The response from
| the proxy are all raw text responses.
|
| One way would be to just apply outlines or some library as a
| plugin to enable structured outputs.
| ForrestN wrote:
| A library of documentation (nearly 1 million high res images and
| documents) of recent contemporary art exhibitions from all over
| the world. Free to the public, operated as a small non-profit.
|
| https://contemporaryartlibrary.org
| c0l0 wrote:
| In my spare time, I am trying to port OpenBMC[0] to the BMC of
| the Gigabyte MC12-LE0[1], a cheap, workstation/server-class
| mainboard for AMD's AM4 platform.
|
| Unfortunately, Gigabyte denied my requests to provide me with any
| details (board schematics/GPIO pinouts) or source code of the
| (partly GPL-licensed) BMC firmware, etc.), so it's been a tedious
| uphill battle. However, it is also a great way to learn about
| (some) electronics and embedded Linux development and associated
| challenges.
|
| During the past few months, I have overcome the stock firmware
| AST2500 bootloader and made the board play ball with standard
| FDIs, have reverse-engineered a workable DeviceTree specification
| for the hardware, and am now (well, actually, not for the next
| three weeks or so, due to work :)) in the process of finishing up
| OpenBMC userspace configuration. Once this is done, and
| everything works well enough to use OpenBMC as a viable
| alternative for the stock BMC firmware provided by AMI/Gigabyte,
| I will try to upstream my work, and OpenBMC will have a very
| cheaply available AST2500 DevKit/EVB-alternative (of sorts) in
| its arsenal. (And I should be able to use my mainboard where the
| crucial OOB management function isn't serviced by Linux 3.14 any
| more...)
|
| I am looking forward to documenting the lessons learned on my
| blog some time in the future, too :)
|
| [0]: https://www.openbmc.org/ [1]:
| https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MC12-...
| safar_so_far wrote:
| Recently started exploring WebGL and Three.js library and
| currently I'm working on web-interactive Solar System simulation.
|
| Here is the repo: https://github.com/SafarSoFar/solar-system
| Demo: https://safarsofar.github.io/solar-system/
|
| Any kind of feedback (good or bad) is appreciated!
| bmmcginty wrote:
| A terminal GUI library written in Crystal
| (https://github.com/bmmcginty/term)
|
| As someone who is blind, I prefer information in particular
| formats and layouts. Borders and side-by-side content kill my
| efficiency. I also shouldn't need to think about more than where
| text should start on lines, and responding to key presses in
| controls should be dead simple. I also just came across
| libtermkey which will dramatically assist with keyboard handling.
|
| I plan to use this to let me interface with web browsers via the
| terminal, but that's waiting for more stable Webdriver BiDi
| support.
| cfarre wrote:
| A GraphQL server in Eiffel.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| How do you find working in Eiffel? How helpful are the
| contracts?
| yusufaytas wrote:
| Currently working on promoting Software Engineering Handbook
| (https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/), a book that goes
| beyond typical technical guides by addressing both the technical
| and life aspects of being a software engineer.
|
| Marketing it on Amazon, LinkedIn, and Reddit. It's slow but I'm
| making progress.
| sailorganymede wrote:
| AI tools for schools. Currently building the first tool out which
| is to do with languages. It's been a wild journey so far, but
| pushing
| rwieruch wrote:
| I am working on my next course "The Road to Next" which teaches
| full-stack React with React 19 and Next 15. I started this full-
| time adventure 6 months ago and I am knee deep into recording the
| lessons. The project with all the code and the step by step
| instructions are already there and I am super eager to hear what
| people think about it.
|
| However, since this is my first recorded course (I did only
| written content before), it really takes time and effort to make
| the videos high quality. That's the biggest struggle for me here,
| but every day I push through it! For every lesson that I need to
| record, I have a post-it on a cupboard and every evening I tear
| one or two of them off with my son :)
|
| https://www.road-to-next.com/
| bsenftner wrote:
| At first glance, looks slick!
| rwieruch wrote:
| Thanks mate!
| logotype wrote:
| I'm helping companies start trading, fintech, crypto, etc. It's a
| FIX engine implemented in pure TypeScript. https://fixparser.dev
| fratimo66 wrote:
| Working on https://someguys.app to make it easier for people to
| find sports meet-ups and stay active, whether at home or
| exploring a new city. Personally, I've always found it tough to
| stay motivated and consistent with sports after retiring from 25
| years of semi-professional sport, especially solo. Having a group
| around makes all the difference, but it's not always easy to find
| one--especially for sports that aren't as mainstream or easy to
| organize.
|
| With Someguys, you can find others to play with, including
| adaptive sports options for people with disabilities. It works
| for individuals looking to discover new activities, and also for
| clubs, providing tools to organize, promote, and make events more
| accessible.
| nicoloren wrote:
| I am working on a software (for Windows : it is on your computer
| you own it, no recuring payement) that can export all data from
| Wordpress and WooCommerce shop to a json and csv file.
|
| It is already working for a few clients that uses the software
| for orders, products and tax reporting for their e-commerce shop
| (yes they use a lot of excel in France where I live).
|
| I hope I can sell it on a page in the next few mounth.
| jellevdv wrote:
| I'm working on waltrack.net, a price tracker for Walmart.com (US
| only).
|
| The goal was to create a camelcamelcamel for Walmart, but
| affiliate is too uncertain, so I'm building a b2b offering for
| 3rd party sellers now.
|
| https://waltrack.net
| rikkem wrote:
| Aren't you afraid of them trying to come after you? I'm from
| the EU and had a similar idea for a local retailer. However,
| legally it's such a grey zone that I decided not to continue.
| ditegashi wrote:
| After developing decentralized applications for the last 9 years
| or so I found that its quite repetitive work. Thats why I've been
| building web3wizz.com through out the last year
| ejs wrote:
| Every application that I've worked on has had blind spots, or
| forgotten lands of code. Things like "how often do people
| actually use this feature?" ...or... "does this code still run
| every night?".
|
| I made something to track those things easily.
|
| https://flexlogs.com
|
| And since it's Monday...
|
| I've been working on a little project to be less overwhelmed and
| get more done each week. It's a super simple productivity idea
| that starts each week with a new (markdown) file.
|
| https://carpeweekem.com
| matly wrote:
| Carpeweekem looks like a really cool idea! I suppose you
| exclusively use it for goal tracking and not for ongoing/open
| To Dos, right? At least if you don't carry over stuff from last
| week?
| ejs wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| A bit of both, sometimes todos have to die I figure, so I
| just let them fall off the back.
| julius wrote:
| At first I thought you made a website that gives me an empty
| Markdown file. But I am glad I downloaded it its actually a
| pretty nice template.
|
| What are you personally doing with the yearly goals in that
| file. Are you copy and pasting them from last week, or are you
| typing them down everytime to re-iterate them (and possibly
| even modify) ?
| ejs wrote:
| Thanks for checking it out!
|
| Yeah, currently I am just copy/pasting the Yearly Goals
| section over. I want to eventually add a feature to allow
| someone signed up for the email to edit that part. Then
| someone could modify that goal section and have it correctly
| emailed each week.
| guerra wrote:
| working on an openapi driller with some nice feature for me and
| for all people works on API systems :) open source soon
| DataOverload wrote:
| Ooh, have a repo link?
| requests wrote:
| A simple site that counts and displays requests to each path:
| https://requests.at/, for instance https://requests.at/robots.txt
| . The site isn't intended to characterise crawler traffic or
| serve any other purpose but a slight sense of meta.
|
| My current challenge is deciding in which way to generate a
| favicon.ico that displays the number of requests to the favicon.
| parasti wrote:
| Last week I added screen transitions to Neverball
| (https://play.neverball.org) which grew out of wanting to animate
| a small detail in the UI for another thing I was working on. Only
| took 20 years and literally does not affect the game, but feels
| good, man.
| jansan wrote:
| My SVG editor, which I want to release by the end of this year.
|
| https://www.hyvector.com
| bwb wrote:
| I am working on Shepherd.com and trying to reimagine book
| discovery online.
|
| I just launched the "best books of 2024," where I ask readers and
| authors to share their 3 favorite reads of the year and make it
| fun to navigate them by different factors (genres, topics, book
| club reads, audiobooks, and more coming) ->
| https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024
|
| Slowly getting more in place as we grow :)
| anloan wrote:
| I am working on a geography game where players take turn naming a
| city inside an area that get's smaller and smaller. It's called
| LOLA (longitude latitude) since you can choose to narrow the area
| down by either longitdude or latitude.
|
| https://lola-game.com/
| OmegaMetor wrote:
| Took me a few minutes to realize the area you could pick in was
| the red, and not the area outside of the red, but very fun!
| anloan wrote:
| Thank you, and feedback noted! :)
| icy wrote:
| Building a nodeless Kubernetes service; no servers/worker nodes,
| pods are scheduled transparently as micro VMs (planning to make
| this flexible, so Fly Machines, Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers,
| what have you). Optionally, you can bring on your own worker
| nodes if you want to!
|
| Still super WIP, and the landing page hasn't been updated yet but
| here's a quick little early access form!
| https://tally.so/r/me2Q8E
| Benjamin_Dobell wrote:
| My daughter loves creating things -- art, books, videos etc.
| She's shown an interest in learning to code, but she's only six,
| and I don't want learning to code to be a chore. So I've built
| visual scripting into her favourite game!
|
| Overcooked is a co-op series that fundamentally requires the
| control of multiple characters to progress. I've kept multiplayer
| as an option, since teamwork is an important part of the game.
| However, I've replaced the 2nd player with a bot that you program
| to assist you.
|
| It's still experimental at this stage. However, I've experience
| leading EdTech engineering departments and my wife is a teacher
| at my daughter's school. If my daughter's peers show interest
| I'll go ahead and build a course around this for primary school
| aged children.
| nutanc wrote:
| Currently, other than my day job, I am obsessed with making sense
| of the "shape of stories". Mapping embeddings and see how they
| move through a sequence.
|
| Started of with [1] which showed that there might be some
| strength to the idea.
|
| Applied it for chunking [2] and web site analysis[3] and got
| pretty good results.
|
| Just started trying out experiments on video [4] and surprised
| that the structure seems to hold for image embeddings as well.
|
| I have no clue if this has any value, but it is fun to go down
| this rabbit hole :)
|
| [1]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-
| stories-...
|
| [2]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/a-new-chunking-
| approa...
|
| [3]https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/using-semantic-
| chunki...
|
| [4]https://x.com/nutanc/status/1849661242027409723
| tikimcfee wrote:
| I'm obsessed with visual space representations of word as well.
| My application has a test mode where I render an entire
| dictionary (like, Webster) and then "plays" a book word by
| word, highlighting the word, then it's definition, and those
| words definitions and so on and so on, and it creates a trippy
| and distinct visualization kinda like an audio visualizer.. but
| with words. We should chat if you're interested in this kinda
| thing! https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
| nutanc wrote:
| This is really cool.
| tatubola wrote:
| Using this for semantic chunking feels like a great idea. Did
| you continue investigating that (after the second newsletter)?
| davidgomes wrote:
| I launched https://www.emailremind.me/, which is a simple website
| to send yourself email reminders in the future.
|
| The tech stack I used:
|
| - Remix
|
| - v0 for UI code gen
|
| - Resend
|
| - Neon for DB
|
| - Exograph for API
|
| - Clerk for Authentication
|
| - Cloudflare Pages + Workers + Domains
|
| - Cody wrote ~ 1/3rd of my code
| anacrolix wrote:
| Strongly typed stack language for shell programming.
| kirkarg wrote:
| A model to predict medical equipment failure and predictive
| maintenance calendar based of a whole lot of data recompile from
| our own and clients cmms. Its fun, extremely time consuming,
| frustrating, but fun. It also provides to our clients with some
| interesting and useful information
| franky47 wrote:
| nuqs: A type-safe URL state management library for React [1].
|
| I shipped v2 last week and it got mentioned at Next.js conf (as
| part of Vercel's giveaway of ticket sales back to the OSS
| community). That was quite the rollercoaster week.
|
| [1] https://nuqs.47ng.com?hello=Hacker+news
| quyse wrote:
| I've been working on a cloud gaming service (like Stadia). Wanted
| to see how far I can get it done using open source, without
| ready-to-use solutions like Parsec/Moonlight/Sunshine.
|
| It works by running a game in Linux (I use NixOS btw) under
| Wayland (sway), capturing the frames via Pipewire in form of
| DMAbufs and passing them to ffmpeg's VA-API encoder (so frames
| don't leave GPU memory and are encoded on GPU right away), and
| finally sending encoded packets through WebRTC media stream to a
| web client. Inputs from a client are sent back to the server via
| WebRTC data channel and injected into Wayland.
|
| Running the prototype over local network displays zero
| perceivable latency. (Of course when playing on a remote AWS
| server the latency is visible as expected). Pleased with the
| result so far, although it's my first experience with Pipewire,
| VA-API, and WebRTC, so my implementation is probably far from
| optimal.
|
| Overall, very impressed by WebRTC - such a powerful thing right
| in every browser. Continued to be amazed by NixOS - my AWS AMI is
| NixOS-based and can be built and rebuilt with granular caching,
| with a single `nix build` command. Also Terraform/OpenTofu - just
| makes it all possible deploy-wise. So much good stuff exists!
| not_a_dane wrote:
| I think you also need to exchange some metadata like screen
| resolution etc, right ?
| quyse wrote:
| Currently resolution is hardcoded, but sure, can be done.
| Also need to figure out things like changing
| language/keyboard layout or using IME, to be able to type
| text properly. Sending mouse cursor picture from server to
| client may be nice too, in case a game uses hardware cursor
| and changes it's appearance, like some RTS games - currently
| mouse cursor is just being baked into video frames. Many
| possible improvements!
| xyzsparetimexyz wrote:
| Wow that's dope! Is this on GitHub anywhere?
| quyse wrote:
| Not yet, but I'll probably open source it eventually! Still
| need to clean things up a lot, and implement missing
| functionality, for example I haven't even bothered to
| implement audio capture yet, because I wanted to try video
| first
| elarib wrote:
| I'm working on Starlake.ai, an open-source data engineering
| platform that simplifies data ingestion, transformation, and
| orchestration. It's designed to make data engineers' lives easier
| while maintaining powerful control over data pipelines.
|
| Key features:
|
| - Declarative YAML-based configuration for data pipelines
|
| - Intuitive web UI for those who prefer visual interfaces (see
| video section in https://starlake.ai)
|
| - Native integration with both Airflow and Dagster
|
| - No-code/low-code approach to data transformation
|
| - Support for multiple data sources and formats
|
| - Built-in data quality validation
|
| - Automated schema inference and evolution
|
| Data Processing Capabilities:
|
| - LOAD: Ingest data from various sources (CSV, JSON, XML,
| Parquet, etc.)
|
| - TRANSFORM: Write SQL transformations and test them in DUCKDB.
|
| - Support for major data warehouses:Snowflake, BigQuery,
| Databricks, PostgreSQL, DuckDB for local development and small
| data
|
| What sets it apart:
|
| - Full Git Integration: All changes (whether made through UI or
| YAML) are automatically versioned in Git
|
| - CI/CD Ready: YAML configurations can be directly integrated
| into your CI/CD pipelines
|
| - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) friendly: Perfect for GitOps
| workflows
|
| - Dual Interface: Everything possible in YAML can be done through
| the UI, and vice versa
|
| - DuckDB Support: Perfect for local development and smaller
| datasets, allowing you to test your pipelines without cloud costs
|
| The project is open source and we'd love to get feedback from the
| HN community. You can check it out at:
|
| - Website: https://starlake.ai
|
| - GitHub: https://github.com/starlake-ai/starlake
|
| If you're dealing with data pipeline challenges or interested in
| modern data engineering tools, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
| nirvael wrote:
| Yesterday I was scraping NASA's SDO for images of the Sun, which
| I'll use to train a GAN to generate similar-looking images and
| video. This will be used in album artwork and audio-reactive
| videos for an EP that I recently finished.
| cpfohl wrote:
| My wrist and shoulder mobility!
| bagstoper wrote:
| I've been working on training YOLOv8 to identify my cats
| specifically. We've had some issues with them getting on the
| counters and going outside of the litter box. Previous camera
| systems to try and find the culprit we not always triggered by
| the cat's motion. I'd wanted to move to a self hosted camera
| system anyway so I got an IP camera and modified Frigate NVR to
| support ultralytics and slapped my custom trained model in. The
| training has been interesting as I've never done anything with
| computer vision before this. The hardest part was getting enough
| pictures and then labeling them. If I retrain it in the future
| I'd like to use the trained model to identify any cats in the
| source pictures and then just fix the ones it missed or
| overzealously marked.
| prmph wrote:
| I'm working on a tool to transform what I call an Application
| Definition File (a format specified as a JSON schema) into a
| line-of business NodeJS/Express/Postgres web app.
|
| You might think of it a lo-code tool, but I'm aiming more for it
| to be a no-code tool, as in the level of sophistication should be
| such that there is rarely a need to touch the generated
| application.
|
| Here is a sample application definition file (to model an app for
| the tool itself): { "name": "VReal",
| "description": "Virtual realtor web app", "entities": {
| "propertyHeader": { "title": "Listing Header",
| "description": "The headers for all listings, whether sale or
| rental", "namePlural": "listingHeaders", "fields":
| { "title": "medium_text", "description":
| "long_text", "propertyType": [ "apartment",
| "office", "shop", "house" ],
| "currency": "short_text", "squareFeet": {
| "optional": true, "type": "integer" },
| "bedrooms": "integer", "bathrooms": "integer",
| "garages": "integer", "hall": "boolean",
| "kitchen": "boolean", "furnished": "boolean",
| "neighborhood": "medium_text", "latitude": {
| "optional": true, "type": "float" },
| "longitude": { "optional": true, "type":
| "float" }, "phone": "phone_number",
| "phoneAlt": { "type": "phone_number",
| "optional": true, "title": "Alternative Phone"
| }, "email": "email_address", "contact":
| "medium_text", "whenPosted": "datetime",
| "externalUrl": { "optional": true, "type":
| "url" } }, "parentsManyToMany": [
| "project" ], "parentsOneToMany": [ "city"
| ] }, "propertyForLease": { "title": "Property
| for Lease", "namePlural": "propertiesForLease",
| "extends": "propertyHeader", "fields": {
| "basePeriod": [ "month", "day",
| "week", "hour", "quarter" ],
| "pricePerPeriod": "integer", "termNumPeriods": {
| "type": "integer", "title": "Rental Lease Term (Base
| periods)" }, "advanceNumPeriods": {
| "type": "integer", "title": "Advance Required (Base
| periods)" } } }, "propertyForSale": {
| "title": "Property for Sale", "namePlural":
| "propertiesForSale", "extends": "propertyHeader",
| "fields": { "salePrice": "integer" } },
| "propertyMessage": { "title": "Message",
| "namePlural": "propertyMessages", "fields": {
| "direction": [ "incoming", "outgoing"
| ], "content": "long_text", "timestamp":
| "datetime" }, "parentsOneToMany": [
| "propertyHeader", "user" ] },
| "project": { "title": "Project", "description":
| "Projects in which users an place properties",
| "namePlural": "projects", "fields": { "name":
| "medium_text", "description": "long_text" }
| }, "listingMedia": { "title": "Listing Media",
| "description": "Media (images, videos, etc) for listings",
| "namePlural": "listingMedia", "fields": {
| "content": "media" }, "readonly": false,
| "parents": [ "propertyForLease",
| "propertyForSale" ] }, "city": {
| "title": "City", "description": "Cities in which
| properties are located", "namePlural": "Cities",
| "fields": { "name": "medium_text", "latitude": {
| "optional": true, "type": "float" },
| "longitude": { "optional": true, "type":
| "float" } } } }, "UI": {
| "pages": { "perEntity": { "propertyForLease": {
| "objectEditor": { "kind": "form", "columns":
| "dynamic" }, "objectListViewer": {
| "container": { "control": "list",
| "orientation": "vertical", "template": {
| "fields": [ "title", "pricePerPeriod",
| "basePeriod", "whenPosted",
| "listingMedia#content" ], "labels":
| "caption" } } },
| "editingStrategy": "only-devs" },
| "propertyForSale": { "objectEditor": { "kind":
| "form", "columns": "dynamic" },
| "objectListViewer": { "container": {
| "control": "list", "orientation": "vertical",
| "template": { "fields": [] } }
| }, "editingStrategy": "only-devs" },
| "listingMedia": { "objectEditor": { "kind":
| "form", "columns": "dynamic" },
| "objectListViewer": { "container": {
| "control": "list", "orientation": "vertical",
| "template": { "fields": [] } }
| } } }, "custom": { "404": {},
| "splash": { "slogan": "Supercharge your real estate
| acquisition", "description": "VReal is your virtual real
| estate agent that provides superior and fast service, backed by
| an outstanding human team you can speak to",
| "callToAction": "Get Started", "inputForCTA": {
| "name": "search", "description": "" },
| "targetUrlForCTA": "/listings", "smallPrintForCTA": "",
| "extraContentUrl": "", "corporateUsers": [] },
| "login": {}, "register": {}, "userVerify": {},
| "userAccount": {} } }, "initialAdhocPage":
| "splash", "initialSessionPage": "propertyForLease",
| "elements": { "menu": "hierarchical-entity-groups",
| "footer": { "copyright": "(c) Example Systems, LLC. 2022.
| All rights reserved.", "linkSets": [ {
| "header": "Company", "links": [ {
| "title": "About Us", "url": "/about" },
| { "title": "Contact Us", "url":
| "/contact" }, { "title":
| "Partners", "url": "/partners" },
| { "title": "Careers", "url": "/careers"
| }, { "title": "Newsroom",
| "url": "/news" }, { "title":
| "Blog", "url": "/blog" }, {
| "title": "Events", "url": "/events" }
| ] }, { "header": "Support",
| "links": [ { "title": "Guides",
| "url": "/help/docs" }, {
| "title": "Forum", "url": "/help/forum" },
| { "title": "Chat", "url": "/help/chat"
| }, { "title": "Privacy",
| "url": "/privacy" }, { "title":
| "Terms", "url": "/terms" } ]
| }, { "header": "Platform", "links":
| [ { "title": "Developer API",
| "url": "/help/api" }, {
| "title": "Integrations", "url": "/help/integrate"
| } ] } ], "socialMediaLinks": {
| "twitter": "https://twitter.com/VReal", "facebook":
| "https://www.facebook.com/VReal/", "instagram":
| "https://www.instagram.com/VReal", "linkedin":
| "https://www.linkedin.com/company/VReal/" },
| "mobileAppLinks": { "iosAppStore":
| "https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id914172636",
| "googlePlayStore": "http://example.com/z/buying/app-
| download?btn_android-download" } } },
| "architecture": {} }, "security": { "level":
| "authentication", "userIdType": "sim", "factors": {
| "password": { "validityRules": {} },
| "email": {} } } }
| aylmao wrote:
| I have this side project, it's a DAW in the browser:
|
| https://minidaw.aykev.dev/
|
| If you don't know what a DAW is, think GarageBand. Ableton Live,
| Logic and Reason are other examples. It's fully built with React
| and a custom state-management library, that's been fun and
| challenging. It's starting to take shape, but there's definitely
| a long way to go.
| else42 wrote:
| Still working on my Hetzner Auction price tracker:
| https://radar.iodev.org/
|
| First time I'm building a proper website, used a lot of AI.
| Things that changed over last time: * Switched the charting
| library from D3 to Apex. D3 was too low-level for my purpose. *
| Reworked the design and contents of a lot of pages (with the help
| of AI). * Various bugfixes for the database queries. * Tried to
| come up with some kind of pricing signal detection, but currently
| not working well. * Link to the actual auction results. * Minimal
| E2E validation using Playwright. What a pleasure to use!
|
| I'm planning to add alerting. Not keen on running a backend
| though.
| bsenftner wrote:
| It's called Midom Project AI. https://midombot.com/b1/home
|
| I've written a project suite composed of familiar software with
| AI Agents integrated into this familiar software, who are both
| editable and duel experts in the software at hand and other
| expertise, any expertise, callable on demand. I realize this is
| abstract, so here's some examples:
|
| People collectively group to do things; they group into
| organizations like companies, departments, and teams. These
| organizations of people can be mirrored in my software as
| "organizations", and each organization has control over their own
| custom and private AI Agents, they can clone, edit and use. An
| organization can be open to any members, or private and require
| membership requests. Once in, members can be kicked out for
| unruly behavior or leave on their on at any time. Additionally,
| an org can be visible or invisible, where a private invisible
| organization might be people who simply don't want to be
| bothered, they're at work.
|
| Within an organization, private projects may be created.
| Organization Projects are collections of org members
| collaborating on a project. They use the organization's
| customized AI Agents as these agents are integrated into the word
| processor, the spreadsheet, and multiple chatbots each with some
| integrated purpose within the suite of project software. People
| don't always want to work in groups, and solo people often want
| to privately and invisibly join groups to do their own private
| things. We fully accommodate that. Users can be "invisible" to
| other users, only revealing themselves to organization owners for
| membership requests, and then disappearing again. Once joining a
| collaborative project, they become visible only to their project
| collaborators.
|
| Yeah, that's still abstract, it is the foundation which enables
| users to get productive and creative. The system has a few
| example organizations to give users AI Agents they can
| immediately use, and ideas for creating their own organizations
| with their own customized AI Agents:
|
| The Creative Writers Workshop is a collection of writing genre
| specific professional writer chatbots that are trained to act as
| literary critiques and muses for those authoring their own
| technical documents, science fiction, romance, autobiography,
| young adult fiction, mystery or horror. Conversations with these
| chatbots are augmented by "SuggestionBot", who is making sure
| stones are not left unturned, and "LaterBot", who is maintaining
| what needs following up. Independent Paralegals is a collection
| of personal paralegals that help people seeking or with legal
| issues collect and formally document their issue for formal use.
| These paralegals include a demographic spread, because these
| issues are often sensitive and are complemented by demographic
| sensitivities: divorce, property disputes, adoption, and personal
| injury. The Play Zone is a collection of entertaining and fun AI
| Agents, such as dungeon masters from alternative dimensions, here
| on vacation playing D&D. There are also interesting personalities
| for fun conversation, such as an immortal, a Polynesian Sun
| Goddess, and Mark Twain.
|
| The Mental Health Tune Up Clinic is pair stress management
| chatbots that help people manage their self conversation bias,
| otherwise known as "playing yourself", promote critical analysis,
| and guide users potentially toward greater life satisfaction.
| Immigration Law Support is an organization intended to
| demonstrate a new client acquisition method for immigration law
| firms that pairs a legal intern or law student with an AI
| immigration attorney, and together they handle new client
| interviews. An otherwise costly task at law firms, because it
| requires an attorney's time, time they cannot charge against a
| client. Each of these organization types handle private and often
| sensitive information. To accommodate that everything that occurs
| with the AI Agents is private to the project their use occurs,
| data collected and shared between the AI Agents for request
| satisfaction are maintained encrypted, and all AI Agents are
| private to the organization they are owned. So, if one is
| stressed and wants to talk to those stress managing chatbots,
| make a project in their organization and invite nobody else into
| your project, you're the only person that can see anything in
| that project.
|
| Also, none of this has sharing or any social media type
| networking. This is for creative, private, professional, solo or
| collaborative work, whatever that work may be. Including support
| for geographically remote collaborations.
|
| Did I mention voice? Yeah, one can use their voice in place of
| the keyboard for a lot here. But not the spreadsheet editing
| itself, just use your voice to ask the spreadsheetBot to make the
| full sheet you need, rather than muck about at the individual
| spreadsheet cell level.
|
| At this point, I'm layering in additional privacy handling, which
| also requires "double blind" communications for those invisible
| users that communicate with invisible organizations, and a lot of
| documentation, with examples. It's actually just a slight
| augmentation on familiar office type software: I've added on
| demand editable subject matter experts to co-author with you. But
| that's kind of huge, actually. People need examples to understand
| what this opens up.
| woolion wrote:
| I wanted to to make a PoC (Proof of Concept) to show genuinely
| good and original use of AI in gaming. I found a gameplay loop
| that requires the user to understand what was meant by a
| generated image, and the main gameplay element is to argue
| something, to have real language-based interactions. I think in
| some ways it is achieving some of the vision from the old
| interactive fiction games.
|
| I understand the AI fatigue, as almost all of the proposed uses
| of AI in gaming are generally either random generation (in other
| words, procedural generation but worse) or 'better replies from
| NPC'. Neither solve any problem people really have. And probably
| more importantly, the other use is for mega-corporations to hire
| less competent programmers/artists.
|
| Unfortunately being tied to the AI calls poses a lot of issues
| with distribution, which is annoying for what was supposed to be
| a glorified PoC. I'm still finishing the backend to comply with
| Steam's review (which does not really match their guidelines...)
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/3248650/JOBifAI/
| vmax1 wrote:
| stumbled on this experiment by david chalmers
| https://consc.net/notes/pick-a-number.html and wanted to increase
| the sample size so i built https://www.randomhumanslab.com/
| whitefang wrote:
| I'm building the same old boring form builder - but powering it
| with AI. So that form/quiz/survey building is simple and easy.
|
| https://formester.com
| raymond_goo wrote:
| An always solvable Yukon Solitaire page:
| https://www.solitairle.com/
| mergisi wrote:
| I'm working on AI2SQL https://ai2sql.io/ , an AI tool that turns
| plain language into SQL queries to simplify data access for
| everyone. We're very close to hitting $10K MRR, and I'm working
| hard to reach that milestone!
| dazbradbury wrote:
| "Our platform supports a wide range of engines to ensure
| compatibility with your existing database setup."
|
| Is there a list of DB Engines you support?
| milgra wrote:
| I've just updated SwayOS to 3.0 ( https://swayos.github.io )
| mattkevan wrote:
| I am working on a collaborative ebook reading app, rather like a
| sort of online book club.
|
| You can either choose a book from the catalogue (currently just
| public domain books, but I'd like to expand that out into paid
| books) or upload your own epub, create a reading group and invite
| others. Reading progress, highlights, comments and discussions
| are synced across the group in real-time.
|
| Beyond reading groups, I've found it useful for sharing and
| reading books in my work teams and also for things like sharing
| the latest position of my daughter's bedtime story between myself
| and my wife.
|
| Please do check it out - it's still very much a work in progress
| (for example I haven't finished the landing page copy) but I'd
| love to hear what you think.
|
| https://www.rdrs.app
| WUOTE wrote:
| I keep building the open source superzoom map for the video game
| called Noita
|
| https://noitamap.com
| zelphirkalt wrote:
| I am working on a parser for org-mode, based on a (PEG) grammar.
| Still got some reading to do and it is all early stages. There is
| so much org-mode supports, that I am not sure I will ever make it
| to fully able to parse all org-mode documents. My idea is, that
| anyone can later take my grammar and extend it, make better
| parsers and maybe make org-mode more ubiquitous.
|
| https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-examples/src/com...
| jtbetz22 wrote:
| I've been obsessed with developing ways to make it easier to
| handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of
| active "tab management".
|
| I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with
| a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search
| and select which tab to switch to, including search over
| bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow
| for creating and reorganizing tab groups.
|
| I'm very early and looking for feedback from anyone who suffers
| from tab overwhelm like I do! You can try it out at
| http://bit.ly/tab-o-magic!
| krishnajhapate wrote:
| This is crazy and very useful for organising the tabs. You need
| to do some work on the ui/ux part.
| jtbetz22 wrote:
| Please tell me any thoughts you have! If email is better:
| tabomagic22 at gmail.com
| shreyshnaccount wrote:
| this looks really good, and super useful any plans on making it
| available for ff?
| jtbetz22 wrote:
| Thanks for the positive feedback! I'm testing interest on
| chrome, and, if it finds traction, I will definitely port it
| to be browser-agnostic. It _should_ be pretty
| straightforward.
| pinum wrote:
| Thank you! Just used this to clear away a load of tabs.
|
| Some gripes:
|
| I wish I could just use it standalone without it replacing the
| "new tab" page.
|
| I wish I could view the full title of a tab, maybe on hover.
|
| I only want to use it to manage tabs, not history or bookmarks,
| so I wish I didn't have to grant those permissions.
| jtbetz22 wrote:
| All great feedback, thank you!
|
| Adding the ability to view the full title is an easy fix,
| I'll include that in the next push.
|
| The history and bookmarks point is a good one. It's possible
| to specify those as optional permissions for the extension,
| so users could decide whether or not to enable them. One idea
| that motivates the project is that it's easier to close tabs
| when you know you can always get back to them quickly, so
| history and bookmark search are necessary to enable that
| mindset. I'll ruminate on this one a little more.
|
| The idea of using it without replacing the "new tab" page had
| never occurred to me. Let me think about that one, too.
|
| Thanks again!!
| nathell wrote:
| Inspired by Heart of Clojure, and especially Jeaye Wilkerson and
| his talk about jank-lang, I've dusted off my toy Clojure compiler
| that produces 16-bit x86 code.
|
| I've fixed the handling of global environment, to the point where
| I'm able to compile a program that prints out the result of
| multiplying two numbers [0]. Sounds trivial, but seeing as the
| compiler has no dependencies and targets bare metal, there's
| quite a lot of moving parts under the hood. I'm excited!
|
| Right now I'm adding rudimentary support for strings. My goal is
| to get it to compile itself, but that's still a far future.
| Extrapolating from the current development pace, maybe I'll get
| it done in 2050? :)
|
| [0]: https://mastodon.social/@nathell/113246152187003470
| InvOfSmallC wrote:
| I'm absolutely not impressed by reddit search functionality. I
| like to play metrodivanias but when I want to find something
| specific for a specific game, the search is just too random.
|
| So I wrote this: https://www.gamingsofa.club/ which is a scraper
| for metroidvanias reddit posts.
|
| The list of games is taken through Steam and than I just listen
| to the subreddit for new posts.
|
| Currently I show every possible post even if it gets moderated on
| reddit.
| rootsu wrote:
| https://ping-dashboard.pages.dev/
|
| Linode does not have any way to identify cross regional latency.
| So created this. In process of adding new regions now.
| thomasfl wrote:
| For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now
| is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent
| neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining
| infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on
| the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the
| disastrous effect car based transportation has on the
| environment.
|
| I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I
| registered the Norwegian branch of the Architectural Uproar as a
| not for profit organization. With the support from paying
| members, I have been able to go on tour to most of the major
| cities in Norway. We organize large meetings were we discuss
| architecture and city planning with politicians, architects and
| property developers on stage.
|
| I am strongly inspired by Create Streets in UK and Strong Towns
| in the US. I want to improve people's quality of life, help
| saving the planet and make Norway beautiful again while doing it.
|
| https://arkitekturopproret.no edit: typos
| dazzlefruit wrote:
| That's the kind of projects I love to see. Actually socially
| useful :) Keep it up!
| thomasfl wrote:
| Thank's a lot! So far the project haven't paid off much. But
| that is not the most important goal. It is about making
| something really useful for people. In this case nice cities
| and neighbourhoods.
| XzAeRosho wrote:
| Interesting!
|
| As a fullstack developer, how did you even landed on such
| projects? Are you even using your SW Engineering skills in
| this? I really want to know more how are you able to lead an
| urbanism and architecture project with, supposedly, no formal
| backgrounds. Are you partnered with other people in this
| endeavour?
| thomasfl wrote:
| I am not alone. Our website is made by the man who created
| the CSS standard while at CERN, Hakon Wium Lie.
| https://arkitekturopproret.no
|
| Most of the social media activities is done by a couple of
| fellows who is really into digital marketing. We are a team
| of 5 people working mostly for free now.
|
| I have no formal training in architecture or urban design. I
| am just a nerd who used to love playing SimCity and read
| Asterix comic books. Paul Graham have always focused on
| finding real problems and making people happy. Car dependent
| housing projects and bad architecture is making peoples lives
| miserable. It needs to be fixed.
| phkahler wrote:
| >> I have no formal training in architecture or urban
| design.
|
| Same, but I do get caught thinking about how inefficient
| our roads are in the US and what might be done about that.
| I've worked in the auto industry a lot and when calculating
| fuel efficiency (MPG) there is a "urban drive cycle" and a
| highway one that are used. The average speed on the urban
| cycle is a hair under 20 mph, which seems absurd because
| our typical speed limit outside of neighborhoods is 45mph
| or even 50. So I started timing my drives around town and
| measuring on a map... Turns out 3 minutes per mile is about
| right for expected drive times. The main culprit is
| intersections, stop lights, and left turns. You seem
| interested in eliminating cars, which I can appreciate but
| I spend my time trying to figure out how to make traffic
| flow more efficiently and how those layouts might be
| retrofitted onto the grid of roads we have. There are not
| easy problems.
| blactuary wrote:
| The way to make traffic flow more efficiently is to get a
| bunch of cars off of the road. More and better public
| transit with dedicated space, protected bike lanes,
| roundabouts, traffic calming
| phkahler wrote:
| >> The way to make traffic flow more efficiently is to
| get a bunch of cars off of the road.
|
| No. I mean yeah, but no. Rural areas are the only place
| where traffic is low enough to meaningfully improve flow.
| We should be able to improve traffic flow and MPG without
| eliminating vehicles. IMHO bike lanes are kind of stupid
| because putting bikes right next to car traffic is
| stupid. Same for sidewalks. Separating pedestrian traffic
| from car and truck traffic would obviously be safer.
| tmnvix wrote:
| If you separate vehicle traffic too thoroughly then you
| essentially just turn roads into walls for everyone that
| isn't in a vehicle.
|
| I think the idea of optimising vehicle flow in urban
| areas is folly. It comes at the cost of too many other
| things.
|
| Here's an example of what I mean.
| https://maps.app.goo.gl/pati5dBBTnSgxZ1m9 . It shows a
| road in a built up area that has been optimised to
| increase vehicle flow to the airport (using a roundabout
| instead of lights) and the effect that has on someone
| trying to travel by foot - turning what would be a <1min
| walk into 30min.
| cryptopian wrote:
| Somebody else mentioned Strong Towns, and that's a good
| organization who have been thinking about this issue for
| a while.
|
| You're right that they're not easy problems, and it's
| because it encompasses more than just road layouts, but
| city design, land use and culture. North American cities,
| for example, tend to put a bunch of their amenities like
| supermarkets in a few places, with homogeneous swaths of
| housing-only suburbs so people _have_ to drive, and those
| drivers _have_ to use all the same roads to get where
| they 're going.
|
| One thing you've noticed is the so-called "stroad", a
| highway that's attempting to be both a road (an
| efficient, high speed connection) and a street (a
| destination, where people live, work and shop). These two
| objectives get in the way of each other, so you end up
| with a road that can't carry traffic well because it has
| too many entrances and intersections, and a street that
| is hostile to anybody not in a car. Generally, efficient
| road design separates these two, so the higher speed
| connections don't serve any destinations directly.
| randomdata wrote:
| _> It causes social isolation._
|
| What is it about suburbs in particular that causes social
| isolation?
| kaicianflone wrote:
| No third places
| kaicianflone wrote:
| https://theweek.com/culture-life/third-places-disappearing
| iambateman wrote:
| The default suburban life leads toward a comfortable kind of
| solitary confinement. Someone who lives in a "single family
| home" equipped with air conditioning, a privacy fence, a big
| screen TV, a garage door opener, and the internet will tend
| toward isolation because all of those technologies make
| aloneness easier.
|
| The reader may point out that many people are isolated in big
| cities too. This is true - if an adult has decided to be
| alone, they can be. But in the city, one's lack of social
| connection is more often felt whereas a suburban home can
| diminish the effect, like ibuprofen taken for a headache.
| randomdata wrote:
| How does that meaningly differ from rural homes, which do
| not have the isolation problem? Rural areas have the
| strongest social communities I have ever seen.
| iambateman wrote:
| oh, wonderful question. I need to think about that some
| more.
| zknow wrote:
| I've noticed rural communities tend to have more extended
| family and larger families which helps a lot. Besides
| less different types of work.
| randomdata wrote:
| That's fair. Also a lot of _" our great-grandparents were
| friends, so I implicitly trust that we are also
| friends"_.
|
| But what about the suburbs destroys that? Or, would it be
| more accurate to say that those who already don't have
| connections have a preference towards living in suburbs?
| Perhaps that is where they feel most at home?
| throwaway0123_5 wrote:
| I don't think there is some special physical property
| absent in suburbs and present in rural areas that
| contributes to social isolation in the former but not the
| later. Rather I think it has to do with the kind of
| person that lives in each place. My grandparents and
| cousins live in a rural area. They all have ancestry in
| that town going back to the early 1900s. So do most of
| their neighbors. Families live next to (where "next to"
| admittedly might be a few miles depending on how rural)
| each other for generations. This is obviously conducive
| to strong intra and inter-family social networks.
|
| People who live in cities and in suburbs on the other
| hand seem to be far more transient. They move around for
| school or careers and aren't tied down to one place. I
| grew up in suburbs in three different cities. New
| neighbors _frequently_ moved in and out of all three
| places, and the street where I lived from aged 5-10 has
| only two "original" families left.
|
| For those people, the built environment in suburbs being
| conducive to social isolation (in American suburbs
| anyways) becomes a problem. The nearest grocery store,
| restaurant, or interesting venue of any kind is likely
| 30+ minutes away if you try to walk, and the walk is
| likely to be dangerous due to poor pedestrian
| infrastructure and poor public transit. There are few
| accessible third places in which to meet people, it takes
| a lot more intentional effort. This is even more of a
| problem if you're a kid, as you're now entirely dependent
| on your parents and their car to meet friends or go to
| places where you can meet friends.
|
| I moved from upper-middle class suburbs to Washington
| D.C. The difference in how many people you meet who you
| might want to be friends with, and in how easy it is to
| get places where you want to go (especially without a
| car) is night and day. Will suburbs ever be _as good_ as
| cities in this regard? Probably not. But mixed-use zoning
| and returning to "streetcar suburbs" would probably go a
| long way
| (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/27/in-praise-
| of-s...).
|
| There's also other reasons to oppose current suburb
| development patterns. Suburban sprawl is highly
| inefficient in many ways. It takes dramatically more
| infrastructure to serve the same number of people that
| you could in a denser area. Roads, power lines, pipes for
| drinking water and sewage, etc. The taxes that many
| suburbs pay don't cover these expenses and suburbs end up
| being subsidized by people living in denser areas. Rural
| areas also suffer from this to some extent, but rural
| areas are a necessity for society to run, hosting farms
| and other resource extraction activities, so subsidizing
| some costs is fair. People in rural areas are also more
| likely to be self-sufficient, having their own septic
| tank, private well, etc., and aren't offloading their
| costs to society.
| randomdata wrote:
| _> Rather I think it has to do with the kind of person
| that lives in each place._
|
| This does seem to be the repeated consensus - that
| suburbanites choose to live in suburban areas because
| they _want_ the isolation. Which, I suppose, makes sense
| as it is not like you have to live there. People by and
| large live where they want to above all else. Obviously
| there can be exceptions (e.g. children needing to live
| where their parents do), but as far as what prevails
| goes.
|
| _> There 's also other reasons to oppose current suburb
| development patterns. Suburban sprawl is highly
| inefficient in many ways. It takes dramatically more
| infrastructure to serve the same number of people that
| you could in a denser area._
|
| Is denser the actual alternative, though? It seems that
| if you took suburbs away from these people, they'd most
| likely try to move into more rural areas, so then you
| just end up with the same there (without the practical
| reasons traditionally associated with subsidizing rural
| areas).
|
| In fact, I'm seeing more and more spreading of the so-
| called "15-minute city" conspiracy, which has people
| believing that there is some kind of organized plot out
| there working towards forcing people into living in dense
| cities. While the conspiracy itself is not particularly
| important here, the sentiment of people fearing that they
| might be forced into the city conveyed alongside it seems
| quite real and indicative that denser is not the
| direction they are willing to head.
| throwaway0123_5 wrote:
| > that suburbanites choose to live in suburban areas
| because they want the isolation.
|
| I don't think most of them _want_ isolation, I strongly
| suspect that most people moving to suburbs are doing so
| for their career, as most well-paid jobs are in
| metropolitan areas. In a metropolitan area your options
| are mostly: 1) city 2) suburb w / very little mixed-use
| zoning
|
| Cities tend to be more expensive for less space. There
| are going to be many people who would want to live in a
| city with their family but simply can't afford the rent,
| so they live on the outskirts of the city (suburbs).
| Alternatively they may want the space, yard, etc. that a
| house provides, but this doesn't mean they want
| _isolation_. They may very well prefer suburbs with good
| mixed-use zoning and public transit, those are just very
| rare in the US.
|
| > It seems that if you took suburbs away from these
| people
|
| I'm not proposing taking suburbs away from people, nor
| are the vast majority of urbanists. We're proposing more
| ability to build denser suburbs (i.e. some multifamily
| housing in suburban areas), mixed-use zoning (so you can
| walk to stores), and better public transit in suburbs.
| See also:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing.
| Suburbs that have these features tend to be in high-
| demand, they're just rare today because they're illegal
| to build in many places (I think there's some commentary
| on that here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0).
|
| > they'd most likely try to move into more rural areas
|
| Unlikely IMO because again I suspect that many/most have
| moved to suburbs for their careers. There aren't nearly
| as many jobs in rural areas.
|
| > 15-minute city
|
| Anyone claiming this is bad is just being disingenuous
| IMO. ~Nobody promoting 15 minute cities wants to _force_
| people to live in cities, they want cities where you can
| meet most of your needs by walking or cycling or taking
| public transit. If you don 't want to live in a city or
| want to live in a city and spend 10s of thousands of
| dollars on a car you still can. I don't think we can
| extrapolate much about what the average American wants
| based on those who believe that conspiracy theory,
| because the people who believe it are either woefully
| uninformed about what it actually is or are just being
| malicious reactionaries.
| randomdata wrote:
| _> I strongly suspect that most people moving to suburbs
| are doing so for their career_
|
| Doubtful. Moving somewhere for a career is fairly
| abnormal. There is good reason why job search places
| always lead with: "Location". The vast majority of the
| population choose where the want to live first - in fact,
| the majority of the population still live within a small
| radius of where they were born! - and then figure out
| what they want to do for work.
|
| Yeah, there is a small segment of the population who will
| chase work at the cost of where they live. Let's say this
| is who ends up in the suburbs. Perhaps that's the
| problem? As in they end up being comprised of people
| focused on their career, and thus don't prioritize
| community? Perhaps _want_ isolation is too strong, but
| how about _doesn 't care about_ isolation?
|
| _> We 're proposing more ability to build denser suburbs
| (i.e. some multifamily housing in suburban areas), mixed-
| use zoning (so you can walk to stores), and better public
| transit in suburbs._
|
| Does that actually appeal to the people of the suburbs,
| or are you projecting? Presumably these people are
| constituents of a democratic government, and therefore
| can already have anything their collective hearts desire.
| Why isn't this already the reality?
|
| _> Anyone claiming this is bad is just being
| disingenuous IMO._
|
| Are you unfamiliar with what a conspiracy theory is...?
| Regardless, it resonates precisely because a lot of
| people don't want to live in cities. If the listener was
| all _" Hell, ya! Get me out of this hellhole into the
| dense city!"_ it wouldn't garner any attention at all,
| but that's not the reality.
| caeril wrote:
| Rural communities have strong social cohesion out of
| _necessity_ , not desire. I grew up rural, so I have some
| experience with this.
|
| Suburbia hits the sweet spot of introverted personality
| types: you don't NEED to know your neighbors, because
| there are sufficient services/resources to handle
| everything yourself, but you also don't get hemmed into
| an urban chicken coop that forces you to know your
| neighbors.
|
| The only people who raise alarms about "social
| atomization" are extroverts, and they're entirely
| incapable of understanding that some people actually
| prefer their isolation.
| iambateman wrote:
| The point about cohesion from necessity is interesting.
| Thanks.
|
| I disagree about the introvert-extrovert question. I'm
| deeply introverted (like, really) and also concerned
| about isolation.
| randomdata wrote:
| What is it about suburbs that gives you that concern?
| thimkerbell wrote:
| Do people find that Facebook, etc, helps them connect with
| local others who they might not otherwise know they have
| common (& friendable) ground with?
| SamWhited wrote:
| At least in the U.S. (and likely elsewhere) the design of the
| suburbs encourages neighborhoods with individual houses and
| very little walk able space (occasionally there are sidewalks
| or parks in the richer areas, but developments may be large
| and they're not evenly spaced throughout). Exclusionary
| zoning in the U.S. has also reduced the number of "third
| spaces" (coffee shops, malls, grocery stores, barber shops,
| etc. where people congregate and meet) near or in
| neighborhoods. This means fewer chance encounters since you
| have to plan to both go out in a car to meet. You have to
| find a friend then say "let's go get drinks at 13:00 across
| town at this place" instead of just happening to walk into
| the small neighborhood grocery and seeing each other. It's
| even worse in the exurbs where large housing developments
| have been created with _no_ amenities nearby, sometimes
| within upwards of an hour drive!
|
| There are a number of good books on how the built environment
| affects our social life, if you're interested. It's not
| specifically about suburbs but "Palaces for the People" by
| Eric Klinenberg is one of my favorites that covers a lot of
| this sort of thing.
| randomdata wrote:
| What makes that different from rural areas, where social
| communities thrive?
| SamWhited wrote:
| It likely depends on the rural area. In the middle of
| North East GA where I grew up, it's about the same,
| social isolation is becoming a huge problem because
| you're forced to drive long distances and plan ahead to
| meet with people.
|
| In another small town right up the street they have a
| thriving main street area and the housing is mostly built
| around that with the exception of outlying farms. It's a
| smaller town, but chances are you can walk over to the
| square and everything you need is right there, so they
| have a much more vibrant feeling town even though it's
| smaller.
|
| I'm not expert though, that's just my suspicion for why
| they're different having grown up in the area.
| randomdata wrote:
| _> social isolation is becoming a huge problem_
|
| It is interesting that you say it is becoming a problem.
| Why was it not a problem in a past?
|
| _> It 's a smaller town_
|
| Towns are usually considered urban. I was imagining
| actual, by definition, rural. Living in a small town
| (~2,000 people) right now, I'd say it has less of a
| social community that the rural areas I've lived in
| previously. Still nothing that should leave you feeling
| isolated, but there is certainly less of a "automatically
| friends with everyone" vibe. Granted, my rural experience
| is strictly in agricultural areas where everyone are
| farmers, which gives common ground on which to
| "automatically" become friends. If nothing else, you can
| talk about farming.
|
| Is that the problem with the suburbs? That the people
| there can't find common ground on which to build
| friendships?
| cinntaile wrote:
| > It is interesting that you say it is becoming a
| problem. Why was it not a problem in a past?
|
| You couldn't live that far apart since there were no
| roads or cars that allowed for this.
| randomdata wrote:
| Roads have been around for several hundred years or more,
| along with public transportation (trains were commonplace
| in rural areas in the past), and the car has been the
| primary mode of transportation for about a century. After
| all that time, why is this still becoming a big problem?
| flir wrote:
| A terraced street in London can have a metric boat-load
| of social isolation and no cars. I don't think it's
| (necessarily) the car or the literal distance between
| houses. At the very least, it's a multi-faceted problem.
| cinntaile wrote:
| Just because I reply to one aspect obviously doesn't mean
| that I don't consider this a multi-faceted problem.
| hermitdev wrote:
| Nah, bullshit. I grew up in a rural area [0], my parents
| are still in a rural area (their postal address literally
| contains 'rural route'). You just don't go to town every
| day. You didn't go to town every day in the past; you
| planned your trips ahead of time. It was a rare
| occurrence - maybe a monthly, quarterly or even less
| frequent occurrence. And if you do go to town, it might
| be a multi-day trip. Why? Because you were either walking
| or going on horseback. People got around before roads.
| Roads make travel easier. People have been trying to make
| traveling easier since the dawn of history. See: roads,
| ships, animal husbandry, the wheel, etc.
|
| People can live far apart without problem if they're
| self-sufficient or plan ahead: grow your own food, have
| stockpiles that can last months if you can't make it to
| town (rural winters can be a bitch). What's new is this
| dependency on others and belief of "oh my god, I'll die
| if I don't make it to town (grocery store) this week".
|
| [0] Our closest neighbor was a quarter mile away. Nearest
| paved road (and our bus stop as kids) was 2.5 miles away
| over private dirt roads with about 1000 feet change in
| elevation. It was 8 miles to town, 20 to city (which
| would barely be a suburb most places).
| SamWhited wrote:
| Yah, it's not the distance of the houses that matter
| (well, it does, but it's not the whole story), it's the
| distance between amenities. Like I said, the actual town
| I grew up in was terrible. It's 30-45 minutes to get
| anywhere and most things are stand alone. There's a
| shopping mall kind of development (Walmart, chain
| restaurants, etc.) on one side of town, but to get to
| most of the housing you have to drive 30 minutes. The
| nearest coffee shop is in another development at least 45
| minutes away from both of those places, etc.
|
| Meanwhile, the other nearby town I mentioned has plenty
| of outlying farms that are pretty far away, but when they
| _do_ go into town to go to the grocery or whatever they
| can also walk into the coffee shop, or the little stores
| or whatever and have chance encounters with their in-town
| neighbors. Even among the farm areas there 's a coffee
| shop / pub that everyone goes to at the end of the day.
| There's even a dance hall that used to be a one room
| school house and now gets re-purposed for monthly dances.
| You don't get that in the suburb I live in now where
| having anything like that in a residential or
| agricultural area is forbidden by the zoning code.
|
| Similarly, back before cars sure you didn't pop into town
| as regularly, but everyone knew when events were
| happening and when you did go into town for something
| everyone was there and things were relatively close
| together and easy to get to (once you were there already,
| I mean).
| randomdata wrote:
| _> You don 't get that in the suburb_
|
| Maybe there's a language barrier here, but isn't a suburb
| defined by being at the edge of a city? So wouldn't a bar
| in the city be the communal place for the suburb, just
| like the bar in town is for those out on the farms?
|
| Granted, I've known of a small number of bars operating
| on farms (usually farm-based craft
| breweries/cideries/wineries), but is not the typical use
| of rural properties. Having one next door that you could
| walk to would be unusual.
| SamWhited wrote:
| no that's fair, it's been a problem for a long time.
| mnky9800n wrote:
| There is no pub to walk to, grocery store to walk to, no
| shared public space for walking and cycling to places,
| there's no concept of being in a space shared with others.
| It's that you simply don't see people unless you choose it.
| If you live in the city you learn quickly to be around
| others. At least that's my experience.
| randomdata wrote:
| Rural areas tend to have strong social communities, though,
| despite all of those same, if not exacerbated, conditions.
|
| Based on several adjacent discussions it seems not that the
| suburbs cause isolation, but that those who prefer to live
| in isolation are more likely to choose to live in the
| suburbs - presumably because it offers the isolation they
| seek. Even if an individual in the suburbs does not wish
| for isolation, if everyone else there does that limits the
| social possibilities.
| mnky9800n wrote:
| I have lived in rural Vermont and that was only true if
| you were the right kind of rural Vermonter. There were
| plenty of those who didn't belong and never would with no
| alternative they might find in the city.
| randomdata wrote:
| I think it is fair to say that large cities are more
| likely to cater to those who are unique, but large cities
| return to the same problem again: Everything is far away
| and you have to get into vehicle (granted, it might be a
| publicly operated one) to reasonably be able to engage
| with it. The chances of your neighbour being of the same
| unique blend that you seek is no greater in the city than
| in the country.
|
| At which point it really makes no difference if you
| physically reside within city limits or live in a
| suburban/rural area as the time and effort to get to the
| places that cater to your particular niche approaches
| being about the same in all cases. In fact, in my
| experience, it is often easier to access the amenities of
| a large city when you don't live in it!
| mnky9800n wrote:
| Needing to take a vehicle that's not my feet wasn't true
| when I lived in Berlin or Tokyo. It definitely wasn't
| true in smaller cities I've lived in like Oslo, Brest, or
| Utrecht. Needing a car was only ever true when I lived in
| Austin and atlanta. And I'm talking about going out to
| bars, hanging out with friends, going places, like yeah
| maybe I needed the train occasionally but really the
| train is a room you hang out in for ten minutes while you
| magically transport somewhere else. It's not like driving
| a car. You don't have to think about it.
|
| Edit: ok I take that back we always used a car to drive
| ten minutes to tryvann ski mountain in Oslo but that's
| because we have jobs and the bus takes like 40 minutes.
| SamWhited wrote:
| There's a quote from Bill McKibben's forward to "Creating
| Cohousing" by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett that I think
| about every time someone brings this up (it's about the U.S.,
| but it applies to lots of other places and you may recognize
| your own countries development model here too, or not):
|
| "For fifty years, our economic mission in America, at its core,
| has been to build bigger houses farther apart from each other.
| And boy have we succeeded: a nation of starter castles for
| entry-level monarchs, built at such remove one from the next
| that the car is unavoidable."
|
| You're a person after my own heart; thanks for working towards
| a more connected world!
| flir wrote:
| That's a nice quote. Evocative.
|
| Is it possible to support the goal of vibrant, interconnected
| communities, to understand all their advantages, but still
| want to live at least a quarter-mile away from the nearest
| human?
|
| Asking for a friend...
| pchristensen wrote:
| It's totally fine to do that. Most "urbanist advocates"
| just want to make other options legal so the quarter-mile
| away isn't the only choice.
| SamWhited wrote:
| yah, absolutely; like I said in another post, small towns
| near where I grew up are frequently that way. You enjoy the
| city vibe you live in the apartments or houses right off
| the square. You don't, you live on one of the outlying
| farms (and even those in one case that I can think of have
| small neighborhood establishments; they all use the same
| farmers machine shop to fix stuff in one case, or there's a
| random coffee shop/pub way out that the surrounding places
| frequent, etc.) and when you go into town to go to the
| hardware store or the grocery or whatever you still have
| lots of opportunities for chance encounters because of the
| mixed zoning and way everything is built fairly close (so
| sure you have to drive to get to town, but then once you're
| there you walk around, do errands, stop in for a coffee,
| etc. without having to think about how you're going to get
| around as much).
|
| As opposed to the actual town that I grew up in nearby
| where everything is spread way the hell out and you have to
| go on a giant 5 lane highway to get to walmart on one side
| of town and the hardware store on the other and 30 minutes
| in another direction to get to a coffee shop, etc.
| cbeach wrote:
| I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a
| dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often
| unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose
| after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be
| black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful
| environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel
| busses for much of my journey, breathing in their pollution and
| slowed down. And obviously, cycling is completely impractical
| for many people, or if carrying luggage or passengers.
|
| Living in a countryside town where I have the freedom and
| flexibility granted by my car has opened up a world of better
| possibilities - travelling to any part of the coast with my
| family. Doing bulk shops. Carrying heavy loads etc. Driving
| regularly to my parents, avoiding excruciatingly long journies
| on public transport.
|
| Having a car has made family life possible in ways that public
| transport does not, and cannot achieve.
|
| > We organize large meetings were we discuss architecture and
| city planning with politicians, architects and property
| developers on stage.
|
| I would prefer that politicians, architects and property
| developers minded their own business and let me choose the mode
| of transport (an electric car) that works best for me, my
| family and the environment. I don't want to live in a dense,
| grey, impersonal urban cluster. I want to be surrounded by
| countryside and have the freedom to roam. I don't think I'm
| alone in that.
| hbak wrote:
| Can def echo that sentiment in London, how do you avoid the
| commute? Work from home? Found a job outside of London? Job
| opportunity/pay inequality is often the biggest constraint
| for most people.
| siamese_puff wrote:
| No offense, but this statement seems like an ignorant lack of
| understanding around the issues with the growing problems
| around urban sprawl and the issues it causes environmentally
| or otherwise. No one is going to take your countryside home
| from you, but it's worth educating yourself on the issues.
| cbeach wrote:
| Surprising that my personal account, all of which is a
| truthful reflection of my own lived experiences in both
| urban and countryside settings, is considered "ignorant."
|
| I'd be interested to explore the reasons and/or psychology
| behind your judgement.
| _Microft wrote:
| I think it might boil down to the ,,anecdotes vs data"
| problem and how "lived experience" is sometimes treated
| as if it were some universal truth.
| ensignavenger wrote:
| Making public transit clean, reliable, and safe are important
| goals, and very achievable goals too. There are many examples
| around the world.
|
| But few transit advocates are saying that we have to 100%
| eliminate all personal vehicles. They will remain an
| important part of the overall transportation infrastructure
| for the foreseeable future.
|
| It would also be folly to advocate for eliminating all rural
| living. There are many necessary activities that take place
| in rural communities, such as agricultural production, that
| will remain critical to society.
|
| The thing that I see most transit advocates targeting is
| excessive suburban sprawl, communities that aren't really
| countryside, but also aren't dense enough to be urban. They
| sprawl on and on for miles, with nothing to distinguish them,
| often simply the same tract home design repeated with only
| minor differences over and over and over. I am sure there are
| some folks that prefer these communities, but I also think
| that many residents would prefer wither moving into a less
| dense rural setting or a more dense urban setting, and many
| of those left that like the density would still prefer that
| the way these communities are structured be changed.
| cbeach wrote:
| Fair comment. I'm very much opposed to the "Croydonisation"
| of the countryside in the UK
|
| With rising pressure to house hundreds of thousands of new
| arrivals every year, there are no easy answers. Do we make
| miserable dense cities even denser? Do we build new
| sprawling, characterless "garden cities"? Do we build
| around historic countryside towns and ruin their character?
|
| Personally, I'd rather see net immigration returned to the
| manageable levels it was prior to New Labour (who doubled
| net immigration) and the Conservatives (who further tripled
| net immigration).
|
| In recent years of high net immigration our economic
| productivity has fallen, our public services have worsened
| and the prospect of owning a house has slipped away from
| our children and grandchildren. We need a political re-
| think on this issue, as opposed to trying to patch over the
| inevitable environmental and congestion related issues.
| ensignavenger wrote:
| I haven't yet been to the UK, so I can't comment directly
| on the state of things there. But I grew up in a rural
| town in USA, and I have traveled to communities large and
| small across the USA and other countries, including one
| of my favorites to visit- Japan. In my experience, dense
| cities don't have to be miserable to the majority of
| people. I still live in what would be considered a small
| city, though not nearly as small as the one I grew up in.
| The city I live in could definitely see significant
| growth and increased density while maintaining the
| qualities that make it unique and special. But it would
| take a lot more planning and vision than what I have seen
| from current political leaders.
| ensignavenger wrote:
| I meant to add that of course there will always be those
| who prefer small rural communities, and that I think we
| we build more densely ( in an intelligent, thoughtful
| way) in the urban areas, we can easily meet the demand
| for housing while continuing to preserve plenty of small
| towns for those who prefer that. Of course, I can't say
| what the situation is for sure in the UK exactly, but
| here in the US, there are plenty of small towns that are
| slowly shrinking and disappearing. Many of these
| communities had much higher populations 50 or 100 years
| ago, and in another 50 or 100 years may not even exist as
| a community anymore.
| tootie wrote:
| You have to be joking. Having blown my nose on many subways,
| tissue turning black is absolutely baloney. Either you have a
| truly horrible disease or you're lying. I've raised two kids
| very successfully in a city with no car.
| siamese_puff wrote:
| My partner and I discuss this a lot and I hate that no one in
| the US realizes how detrimental urban sprawl is.
|
| How did you learn to understand non-profit organization work
| like this?
| blululu wrote:
| An apartment in a major us city costs >4x per more per square
| foot than the adjacent suburban sprawl. Clearly a lot of
| people realize the value and are willing to take the
| financial hit to have it.
| rmbyrro wrote:
| Is it value, though, that they perceive? Or is the
| necessity to be in that location that drives prices up? If
| that's the case, that necessity might not have positive
| causes either...
| kragen wrote:
| What could be more valuable than satisfying a
| _necessity_? Your question presupposes some kind of
| opposition that makes me think you are using words with
| definitions at odds with the ones I know.
| siamese_puff wrote:
| If you define "bigness" of my house as being more value
| than living next to all my friends in a very walkable city
| with tons of things to do at any time I want where I don't
| need to ever drive my car then sure.
|
| Personally, I'll take my $500k condo in my very amazing
| city that is 1000sq ft over a 3500sq ft empty house that is
| 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.
| kfarr wrote:
| I love this! There is similar inspiration in the US with non-
| profits such as KidSafeSF [1] in San Francisco or Families for
| Safe Streets [2].
|
| I also have a fullstack background and have taken an approach
| to work on the street design software itself. Although AutoCAD
| is used by professionals, it's overkill for most street design
| projects and difficult for laypeople to use. I've been hacking
| away at a project called 3DStreet [3] to make street design
| easier for anyone -- like a figma for street design. Still in
| its early days. Happy to collaborate with your org, we do group
| sessions to help folks learn street design to influence local
| government to make positive changes.
|
| [1] https://kidsafesf.com/
|
| [2] https://www.familiesforsafestreets.org/
|
| [3] https://3dstreet.com/
| triwats wrote:
| This is amazing as a prospect and something that I massively
| support. Kudos!
| pilooch wrote:
| A custom email sorter / spam filter that uses a fineruned
| multimodal LLM: my emails are turned into images (turning them /
| extracting html then rendered with selenium) and passes to the
| vision LLM. I went from ~200 to ~15 useful emails a day.
|
| Raw code is here: https://gitHub.com/beniz/llmbox
|
| All runs locally, the finetune is a plaigemma-3b (from mix-448).
| Acc/F1/prec/recall are all within 99.99%, including on llm-
| generated spam.
| siscia wrote:
| I am the author of https://getgabrielai.com
|
| Basically LLM to filter and manage emails.
|
| I am not sure I understand why you are using a multimodal
| model. Why rendering and reading back the email?
|
| How the visual aspect helps?
| stefs wrote:
| i wonder what a spam mail looks like that was created by an LLM
| with the goal of evading correct classification by your LLM ...
| time0ut wrote:
| I am working on dealing with burnout for the first time. I've
| read about it here and thought I understood it, but experiencing
| it first hand has been difficult. It destroys everything good
| about life: relationships, hobbies, sleep, and health. I know I
| am not the only one here going through this and knowing that
| helps a little.
| not-a-cat wrote:
| Hope you get it sorted. I have seen relatives struggle through
| it and it is a challenge
| sibit wrote:
| I'm working on a Rust library that offers a higher-level API for
| generating PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files.
|
| https://github.com/codewithkyle/pslib
| thenameless7741 wrote:
| I've just started experimenting on an AI wrapper that blends
| companion and assistant into one (think Replika meets Claude),
| but with an anime-style avatar for the main interface.
|
| As I'm still very early (still in the ideation and prototyping
| phase), I'd love to hear about experiences that have stuck with
| you, or any works that got you excited about the possibilities.
| pplonski86 wrote:
| MLJAR Studio - IDE for Machine Learning. It is a Python notebook
| based editor with set of interactive code recipes and AI
| assistant. We would like to create an editor that would be
| suitable for Data Scientists on any skill level. It is a mix of
| no-code mixed with Python :)
| seriocomic wrote:
| After years of lying dormant, I'm reactivating a hacky PHP script
| to test 'technical SEO' knowledge in the way of a challenge -
| more aligned to a technical web challenge, with a "SEO" bent more
| than anything spammy.
|
| I've used this previously as a recruiting test in lieu of any
| other method to evaluate knowledge.
|
| It's currently brittle and hosted on a RPi in my garage. It also
| requires a name + email to prevent spamming (and certification if
| successful), but once I've built some way of moderating access it
| will be more open.
|
| Happy for HN users to have a go as long as load allows:
| https://cryptex.site/
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Of all things, I downloaded RPG Maker MZ from steam and started
| building small mini games using the plugin system.
|
| I don't care for making RPGs but I use it as an IDE for tile
| sets, maps, sounds, and events.
|
| I was never capable of making anything in it as a kid when I
| first downloaded Miguel's translation of that early RPG Maker
| decades ago.
|
| The constraints of the engine make it easier to think of how to
| implement something than, say, Godot where it's all completely
| open ended.
| janosch_123 wrote:
| I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k
| miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an
| https://openinverter.org motor controller
|
| Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube
| channel to help others:
|
| What's a battery management system?
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc
|
| What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA
|
| What is battery balancing?
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGYLPOlT45A
|
| etc. etc. I focus really hard on answering exactly one question
| in a concise and engaging way and trying to keep every video
| under 5 minutes. Oh, and to make the videos solution independent,
| so not specific to a product, but convey the underlying knowledge
| so it has a longer shelf-life.
|
| Full list is here: https://foxev.io/batteries/ I am planning to
| turn this into a knowledge base with playlists for "learning
| paths" like "everything to watch about batteries" or "here is
| what you need to watch to make a motor spin on a bench". I will
| add interactive functionality like quizzes and widgets to make
| the knowledge even more sticky.
| churchill wrote:
| Self-built EV? No one can tell me otherwise: you're the chosen
| one. Lisan-al-Ghaib :)
| janosch_123 wrote:
| Thank you very much, there is a community of a few hundred of
| us that have succeeded and not died in the process.
|
| Check this forum section here:
| https://openinverter.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=11
| cellularmitosis wrote:
| Why would you self-build when you could just lease an Al-
| Ghaib?
| churchill wrote:
| The door is over there :)
| hyperbrainer wrote:
| You are the closest I have found to this, even though it is a
| digression:
|
| Do you know of any communities with self-built airplanes?
| (especially novel-esque designs for propulsion or wings?) I
| realise these have far more regulations, but experimental GA is
| something that really excites me.
| janosch_123 wrote:
| I do not. I know people use https://openinverter.org for
| boats
|
| Just yesterday I stumbled upon https://vesc-project.com/forum
| where they are doing something similar with a focus on ebikes
| and drones.
|
| You are talking full-sized aeroplanes right? I think some of
| the sail-gliders can be homebuilt, there must be communities
| for those guys.
| btbuildem wrote:
| Also e-skates and e-mountainboards!
| bronco21016 wrote:
| Are you familiar with the Experimental Aircraft Association?
| EAA.org
|
| They have had a handful of articles of people working on
| electric propulsion in their magazine. I would imagine you
| could reach out to some of those featured. I once contacted a
| person who was building a DIY HUD and he was very friendly
| and eager to talk about the project. Overall a very good
| community!
| ryandrake wrote:
| Yep, EAA, and chances are, your local regional airport may
| already have a local EAA chapter you can visit and/or join.
| If you're into kit builds, there are dedicated web forums
| and groups specific to many different manufacturer's kits.
| Mainsail wrote:
| I don't have a direct answer for you, but I would checkout
| any AirVenture Oshkosh groups online. I know people build
| planes ahead of the event to fly in.
| PuffinBlue wrote:
| If you are in the US, you probably already know about Mike
| Patey but I'll share this here anyway. He has a track record
| of building something custom pretty much every year. I
| believe he is trying to build a community around a similar
| idea, but also catering for more mainstream GA too.
|
| He's actually building out an aviation park to promote the
| community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenxeMl2nkw
| segmondy wrote:
| Very nice. Any video of the cars? I
| janosch_123 wrote:
| here is a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7wRu1xcyQY
|
| Those guys channel is worth checking out by itself, they are
| making Ferrari Testarossa's electric and reviewed our taxi on
| the side.
| wslh wrote:
| Great, do you have a video and/or images of your cars?
| janosch_123 wrote:
| Sure, Tom Scott drives it in this (he doesn't talk about it
| being electric): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWREtcDVBE
|
| Here is a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2xWbfSz8Ug
|
| Here is all the media:
| https://openinverter.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49051
|
| My video tutorials are linked above.
| hinkley wrote:
| I still have my fingers crossed that one day someone will build
| an electric drivetrain for a very common engine design (akin to
| how people put bigger engines from bolt compatible vehicles
| into smaller ones so they go faster), and for iconic vehicles
| so that we can keep them on the road. There are plenty of
| collectible cars out there that already lack matching serial
| numbers. Swapping the engine on those is no great sin against
| history.
| aaronblohowiak wrote:
| https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40&srsltid=Af.
| ..
| hinkley wrote:
| Cool. I knew someone who was putting a Porsche engine into
| a VW, because it required very few modifications to get it
| to work. I suspect it's not an accident how many of the
| kits here are for Porsche or VW?
| jedberg wrote:
| Do you do contract work? My dream is to use a classic car kit
| and turn it into an electric car. Basically the kit in this
| article. :)
|
| https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/first-drive-gto-engineeri...
| nikivi wrote:
| Working on open source local first learning social network (kind
| of like Notion but as social network with elements of Reddit for
| topics).
|
| https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
| rsolva wrote:
| Heard your project mentioned recently on the localfirst.fm
| podcast, and that you use the Jazz framework. Interesting
| stuff!
| koskeller wrote:
| Little tool to rewrite the text - https://www.rewritify.com
| t43562 wrote:
| I have been so overwhelmed that all my side efforts have been
| tiny things for a year - actually since last Christmas when I had
| a few days off in a row and my wife wasn't demanding other work.
|
| JSON Serialisation of GNU Makefiles:
|
| I got quite far then and now, one year later, I'm hoping I will
| have the time to finish off the difficult bits: it's a way to get
| GNU Make to print out its internal database of targets and rules
| as JSON.
|
| https://github.com/tnmurphy/gmake-experimental (feature/jprint
| branch)
|
| It's a companion to the print-database option:
| ./make --print-data-base-json
|
| You get output with all the targets, all the options on those
| targets. Basically everything that make knows. I have most of it
| working but not directory targets for example. Why do this? Well
| there are many uses:
|
| 1. tools to rewrite makefiles - to simplify them or find
| duplication and implement transforms that remove it. e.g. all
| your CC commmands have nearly the same parameters - so make a
| variable or a macro containing the common ones and simplify all
| your commands (basic things like that could still be very handy).
|
| 2. tools that translate makefiles into other build formats. This
| is a big one for me. Make is like an almanac of all the build
| features one can have (nearly) but all done in various ways that
| make them of limited use. There are existing tools that are
| better in some areas and always the holy grail of the one build
| system that does it _all_ and does it right. One is never going
| to get there however if one cannot convert existing work with a
| fair degree of ease and in a way that can be shown to truly do
| what is expected.
|
| Sorry if I think the existing examples are not very good and that
| upsets you - they're all tailored for specific situations and
| work really well in those situations and if that's all you need
| then they tend to seem amazing. ...but...when you try to do
| something that's not in the examples they can be very inflexible.
| tup's basic idea (inverted dependency tree) is what I want
| because it lets you have giant makefiles that load quickly. The
| ability to describe a logical structure like Meson does is
| important too. Cross platform tests and option setting like
| CMake...check. Then some features from SBS (Symbian build system
| which none of you will know) and all the really interesting
| features of GMake that suck in implementation/performance such as
| pattern rules.
|
| So this Christmas I hope to update to the latest version of gmake
| and handle directories.
| worldmerge wrote:
| I've been putting my mechanical displays to work. Right now I
| have one displaying date, the current temp, the daily high temp
| and daily low temp. I created a web socket based serial server
| that gets messages and writes them to a rs232 usb device. The
| weather data is a node app that pulls Open Meteo data. Also
| learned how to make systemd service files to make it start on
| boot.
|
| https://github.com/EdwardDeaver/WeatherToMechanical
| deostroll wrote:
| We are thinking of an alternate way to make loopback 3 faster.
| Not the way loopback 4 is today.
| Novosell wrote:
| Currently working on a hand-soldered nunpad and an mp3 player
| using a esp32 s3. Not quite sure if the esp32 will manage
| decoding and encoding audio quickly enough though, as I'm
| planning for it to be Bluetooth only. So it will need to decode
| flac, encode the pcm to sbc and then send it to my earphones.
|
| I accidentally fried my last spare esp32 yesterday though, so I'm
| waiting for new ones to arrive. Wops.
| database64128 wrote:
| I just finished adding UDP GRO & GSO support to my WireGuard
| proxy software. The work involved rewriting a large part of the
| program.
|
| https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go
|
| For those who don't know, UDP Generic Receive Offload and Generic
| Segmentation Offload allow you to receive and send multiple same-
| sized UDP packets coalesced in a single buffer (or many in an
| iovec but you really shouldn't). Compared to calling sendmsg(2)
| on individual packets, sending them coalesced in one call
| traverses the kernel network stack exactly once, thus has
| significantly lower overhead.
|
| wireguard-go and many QUIC implementations use the same trick to
| improve throughput. Unfortunately the in-kernel WireGuard driver
| does not take advantage of UDP GSO, and swgp-go had to cope with
| that by attempting to coalesce multiple unsegmented messages
| received in a single recvmmsg(2) call.
| Charlie_Black wrote:
| I'm working on a Cloudflare alternative. My goal is to implement
| different Cloudflare Enterprise features and make it affordable.
|
| https://saascustomdomains.com
| tetha wrote:
| I started to pick up a somewhat dormant side project again.
|
| It has the working title of the "Wise Weasel". This is supposed
| to be a minimum spoiler hint system for adventure games. I really
| don't like walk throughs telling you to "Walk into the Armor
| Shop. Pick up mirror, arrows and use cheese on hole to pick up
| mouse", because that breaks all immersion and puzzle mindset. A
| hint system is more like "You can burn rope if you focus light a
| bit", followed e.g. by "But now the beam of light is on the
| floor, not on the rope. How do we reflect light around" to nudge
| the player a bit into a direction of looking for a mirror or
| something shiny. Or to polish something? This keeps one in the
| mindset of an adventure and a puzzle game, opposed to some IKEA
| instructions.
|
| NiceGameHints[1] is already nice at this, but I find that the
| chapter / puzzle list still gives off to much information and
| spoils too much plot. I'm much rather tinkering with giving the
| user some word cloud of both words describing the puzzles as well
| as generic words on top, so they have to select two words what
| they are stuck with. For example, you'd select "Witch + House" or
| "Witch + angry" and this would reveal a puzzle "The angry witch
| doesn't talk to me and turns me to stone if I enter her house".
| I'm just worried that this might be more moon logic than the game
| itself.
|
| It's mostly a bit difficult to keep all of this state (unlocked
| chapters, known puzzles, ...) in track with URLs or cookies or
| something, because I don't really want to run a database... and
| requiring user accounts is just a lot of work. And I'd prefer to
| keep this mostly without JS as a classical system just rendering
| HTML. If you have some food for thought there, I'm happy for
| input. Currently it's just list in URL parameters.
|
| 1: https://www.nicegamehints.com - for example
| https://www.nicegamehints.com/guide/legend-of-skye/part-2/bo....
| svnt wrote:
| I am working on framing the interplay between systems science and
| theology in technical and functional terms. I hope we can use the
| new insights from this effort to bring about more beneficial and
| harmonious outcomes, with less waste, on the average.
| papacostas wrote:
| Im working on a platform for people to run their social hobbies
| and activities. Organize meetups, find when to meet, run ticketed
| events. for free! I use it myself to organize my weekly cycling
| group of friends and friends of friends.
|
| Paid stuff coming very soon, just onboarding some groups and get
| some feel
|
| https://embers.club/en
| breue wrote:
| I love your landing page :)
| papacostas wrote:
| Thank you! I got some pushback on sparkling Karl Marx but I
| will never remove it
| swizzle36 wrote:
| Love the landing page and the Swedish city references :) I'm
| working on something similar, actually, but in the lunch/dinner
| niche. It's a nice feeling to build something that you actually
| use yourself to meet other people, but I find it's hard to
| scale beyond that. What are the major features you're missing
| before making it an open sign up?
|
| Btw for ticketed events, I've seen that https://posh.vip has
| been growing pretty quickly for music performers.. maybe some
| inspiration for you there.
| papacostas wrote:
| Thanks! We are Swedish so it comes naturally :)
|
| oh thats interesting! thanks for that. been working in Music
| Tech, but havent seen that one. seen that
| https://shotgun.live/ , https://dice.fm/ and also
| https://partiful.com/ are being popular in the states.
|
| nothing really, we're just fixing most of the kinks and legal
| / tax things. you're free to try it
| https://embers.club/en/login
| personalityson wrote:
| Building a machine learning framework from scratch to learn how
| everything works. There exists a myriad of hobbyist frameworks
| from before, all of them in Python, so to add something original
| I'm doing it in VBA (for the extra challenge):
|
| https://github.com/personalityson/VBANN
| rolandpeelen wrote:
| I've been working on a note-taking tool / daily todo-app:
| https://crom.ai/ - Currently in closed beta. It uses basic
| markdown and some additional custom elements to annotate data.
|
| The idea is that you get a daily for every day, with the items
| ticked off on the last day removed. So a new daily every day. At
| the same time, there is some integration with AI to get feedback
| on things to break down. You can give it some instructions,
| focus, and also tune the amount of feedback.
|
| I've had this in so many incarnations before, but never made it
| 'properly'. It's a pet project, but do want to release it at some
| point.
|
| I'm adding people to the beta bit-by-bit.
| zoidb wrote:
| FYI on Firefox mobike the page content is cut off on the left
| side.
| rolandpeelen wrote:
| Checking! TY
| sh4rkb0y wrote:
| I'm developing a pipeline to sync underwater passive acoustic
| audio with whale sightings around the hydrophones, to then
| classify that audio using Google's open sourced whale models. The
| goal is to enrich data from happywhale.com with whale voices, so
| scientists can further explore communication of these species.
| I'm trying to keep things as system-agnostic as possible, but am
| building the first implementation to run on GCP.
|
| https://github.com/pmhalvor/whale-speech
| jwdeque wrote:
| Made a watch face of my Garmin -
|
| https://github.com/jwdeque/Rest-In-Pixels
|
| https://apps.garmin.com/apps/c7ab9e64-cbec-4939-b029-044e9ef...
| llambda wrote:
| I've been working on open sourcing a background jobs library I
| built for Rust and Postgres, called Underway.[0] Unlike other
| similar queuing libraries, it offers a simple "step" functions
| API for defining dependent units of work.
|
| I built this because a number of projects I work on need a
| robust, resilient way of deferring work but I didn't want to add
| another piece of infrastructure or another language to my stack.
| Plus as soon as you start to reach for APIs that offer some kind
| of workflow concept, your options become fewer and further
| between.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/maxcountryman/underway
| raj7desai wrote:
| Building https://proofofskill.org
|
| Hiring today is completely broken. We spend too much time
| evaluating candidates through inefficient systems that fail to
| verify job-specific skills. Both organizations and candidates are
| stuck in an endless loop of repetitive assignments and
| interviews.
|
| That's why we built the Proof-of-Skill Protocol.
|
| The protocol allows candidates to prove their skills directly to
| industry experts, known as Skill Validators, and receive Proof-
| of-Skill credentials that reflect their true skill levels.
| Organisations can then compare and shortlist candidates basis
| their proof-of-skill.
|
| We launched our Beta for UI/UX design skills just last week!
| rozap wrote:
| heads up, none of the buttons on your site work
| sccomps wrote:
| I am working on an app for speed cubing community. It's a free
| app to browse through cubing competitions organized by the World
| Cube Association (WCA)
|
| https://sccomps.com/
| nirmel wrote:
| Building [any learn] [dot ai]. Ostensibly a course-maker, it's in
| the genre of quora/wikipedia/udemy but completely AI generated
| based on any prompt.
| Aetheridon wrote:
| i'm just programming a shell in C for fun
| konradkpl wrote:
| I am developing a 3D activities visualization tool for Strava
| (https://paintmove.com/).
|
| My goal is to enhance the visualization and increase performance
| to reduce animation generation time. Additionally, I want to
| improve the overall aesthetics by applying colors and designing
| the paths to resemble a serpentine shape rather than a pipe.
| 255kb wrote:
| I'm currently working on Mockoon, an API mocking tool. It's an
| open-source project that I've been relentlessly improving over
| the past 7 years. I decided to build a SaaS/cloud offering to
| help finance my work on the project. I'm solo bootstrapping, and
| revenues are slowly growing. It's not the easiest path, but
| definitely worth it!
|
| https://mockoon.com
| niggaman62420 wrote:
| I'm working on an app that let's the world hear from the highest
| people on the planet.
| swizzle36 wrote:
| Being in my early 30s and moving to a new city, I have been
| thinking more about ways to connect with people in real life. A
| friend of mine remarked that no one seems to get lunch anyone, so
| we kind of thought it would be a great idea to try and bring back
| the modern power lunch.
|
| We created Milieu Club https://joinmilieu.com as a way to connect
| with other busy professionals in your city over lunch as nice
| restaurants. You can join clubs in your city or create your own,
| and then you get randomly watched with 3 - 5 other people and
| invited to lunch. It's sort of inspired by Soho house,
| meetup.com, and Opentable.
| tikimcfee wrote:
| I'm working on a 3D infinite canvas of text, focusing on code.
| Runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS so they can all act as separate
| viewports into a space. You can point the app at a repository,
| download a copy locally, instantly render _the entire repository_
| into space in less than a second in most cases, and then fly
| around and search for text. I just got an optimization working
| for larger files and it 's kinda fun how much even an iPhone can
| do with instanced rendering.
|
| Im developing it with the use in mind of flying through your code
| to show others relationships, or edit with a visuospatial look at
| your code instead of basic 2D tabs and a mind map of which one
| had the thing you're working on. It's kinda fun to work on the
| project _In_ the project!
|
| It's built on Swift and Metal but can ready any utf8 text file,
| minus a few subsections of the Unicode spec (for now).
|
| https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
| dlachausse wrote:
| That looks incredible!
|
| How did you learn Metal? The documentation on it from Apple
| leaves a lot to be desired for learning it from scratch and all
| the books I've encountered look woefully out of date.
| tikimcfee wrote:
| Well first and foremost, by doing exactly what you're doing
| now and asking a bunch of people for help too, haha. It's not
| been easy, and I'm truly still terrible at it.
|
| However, honestly, most came from following this tutorial
| series on YouTube which broke down building a basic game
| engine, and I stopped about 20 or so videos in once I had the
| tools I needed. I highly recommend!
|
| And hey feel free to DM me on something if you'd like - I'm
| happy to answer questions and help where I can!
|
| https://youtube.com/@2etime?si=qKoT1YBEruVel9Wj
| dlachausse wrote:
| Thank you!
| wordpad25 wrote:
| do you have the iOS app published?
| tikimcfee wrote:
| Not yet, but I was planning on putting up at least a beta
| within the next few days or so. Most of the features about
| editing, searching, colorizing, syntax analysis, etc., are in
| some almost-finished stated or another, but I'd love to
| publish something for people to play with! If you drop a line
| to my email on GitHub, I can make sure to add you to the
| beta, or at least send ya a link when it's up =)
| inSenCite wrote:
| I am working on making stats on financial securities accessible
| to more people so they can make better trading decisions. This is
| very much a work in progress.
|
| https://www.statsviz.com/
|
| A big part of this is me learning how to get code into production
| including infra setup etc. Any pointers would be greatly
| appreciated.
|
| Stack is python, dash/flask, and gunicorn+nginx
| thirtywatt wrote:
| Building http://tryskipper.ai/
|
| I built a Slack bot that converts your Slack conversations to
| detailed Jira tickets in seconds.
|
| Our team needs to routinely convert Slack convos into tickets
| manually, and it gets tedious and repetitive. Automating
| scribbled requirements to a ticket has been a big time saver.
| It's like I have a Jira assistant now.
| vbo wrote:
| I'm working on a tool to generate and host full stack web apps
| from prompts (just like everyone else). I'm loving it. Using llms
| to do as much of my coding as possible, so in a way eating my own
| dog food, although it's a more developer-driven effort than what
| the end product will be.
|
| Strange thing is, the most time consuming part of getting this
| ready for a user facing launch is not the code generating, but
| all the scaffolding/queues/storage to run it.
| po_studio wrote:
| Autonomous casual games! Here's one:
|
| https://riddler.game
|
| Also building a Pictionary-like variant with Processing
| animations such as you see here:
|
| https://po.studio
|
| Not a game designer though, so would love feedback!
| 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
|
| After working on a remote startup for a few years I felt very
| isolated and that the best startups are going to have a strong
| in-person presence. Now many larger companies have started
| implementing return to office policies that unfortunately don't
| make sense for a lot of employees. I wanted a site like this to
| exist to give people the power to find hybrid/in-person work that
| they don't mind commuting to.
|
| Let me know if you have any feedback or want to post a job!
| memset wrote:
| Neat! The neighborhood on this post doesn't match the map
| though
| https://www.walkablework.com/map?company=hatchet&title=found...
| wluer wrote:
| Thanks for flagging - just updated the neighborhood!
| tyjkot wrote:
| In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of
| headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads
| (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes
| vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing.
|
| I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I
| have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle
| except a turn signal or two.
|
| I decided to create a mobile service for vehicle lights. It's a
| simple website that even technologically-disadvantaged people can
| use. The website is nearly finished and I will likely come back
| here to write a post on it for how the website works.
|
| Oh the best part, I get texted and emailed for each service order
| that comes in, and using my service is only $10 more than what it
| would cost you to go buy a bulb yourself at OReillys, AutoZone,
| etc.
|
| I programmed everything myself and developed the idea as well.
| This is my first real-world project/solution I am bringing into
| this world that has been verified by others, to be a needed
| service. Pretty excited about it and I love changing bulbs or
| replacing light housings, it's fun and simple.
|
| **Update: I perform the install.
| NonEUCitizen wrote:
| You just deliver the replacement bulb or install as well?
| tyjkot wrote:
| I perform the install.
| tiznow wrote:
| This is really awesome.
| tyjkot wrote:
| Thank you, when the idea struck, it felt pretty dang cool
| that there isn't other competitors or similar-services in my
| area.
|
| I figured, hey I could do this; and now I am in the process
| of doing it.
| costcopizza wrote:
| Neat! Do you pick up the bulbs as needed from an auto parts
| store? Or do you keep a supply on hand?
|
| I think you want to keep this as simple as possible, but I see
| headlight restoration (which can be done in 30min) and wiper
| blade replacement complementing this nicely.
| tyjkot wrote:
| No bulbs at auto stores are inflated far too high to be a
| profitable parts for me. I have to order through a supplier
| and keep supply on-hand, which is honestly fine and more
| profitable for me.
|
| Hey thank you for that idea! I am going to be adding in
| headlight/taillight housing replacements as well, but I do
| like the idea of wiper blade replacement, I may keep that on
| the back-burner for some time until demand approaches.
|
| However, the headlight restoration idea is a fantastic one.
| Definitely will add this to my list of primary services after
| launch.
| notpublic wrote:
| > it's fun and simple
|
| Not sure if it was mine or my friends car, replacing one of the
| lights was neither fun or simple :). Some manufacturers really
| seem to prioritize style over repairability!
| bityard wrote:
| Lots of cars make it easy to change out bulbs. But some cars
| are a massive pain to change certain bulbs, and/or require
| special tools. Do you exclude them? Or upcharge them? (E.g. the
| left headlight bulb on a Subaru Outback is an absolute
| nightmare.)
|
| Unless you are doing this purely as a public service, $10 seems
| VERY low. Many independent mechanics in my area charge a
| minimum of 1 hour of work for anything they do, and bill at
| $90/hr and up. And they won't come to you for that price. (Nor
| are mechanics a highly paid profession in general.)
|
| I really do wish you all the best, maybe I'm just not seeing
| the whole picture.
|
| Edit: Something else to think about: when I replace bulbs in my
| cars, I always do it in pairs. Reason being that if one side
| burned out, the other is likely not far behind, especially
| headlight bulbs. The headlights also have another quirk: if you
| replace one and not the other, you usually end up with the new
| one being much brighter than the old one.
| tyjkot wrote:
| I have all the tools to replace headlight and taillight
| housing and bulbs for probably most vehicles including semis.
|
| For my Saab's headlight bulb replacements, I have to remove
| my front bumper and then the headlight housing unit itself,
| just to replace turn signal and headlight bulb. I am fairly
| mechanically advanced.
|
| It's not quite just $10, it's $10 more than a single bulb
| would cost you at your local parts store. If you lookup how
| much a headlight bulb is these days, it's about $20. My
| service will be $30 flat for bulb replacements in my area
| with a small mileage fee for out-of-towners.
|
| The great part about Minnesota, is most of us hate the cold.
| I however do not. Many people get lazy and will Doordash or
| find other convenient ways to have things delivered. Not many
| people want to change bulbs in the cold or bring to a
| mechanic to be over-charged. What my population is looking
| for is a service exactly like I am providing.
|
| Again, the pricing of $30 per service is perfectly
| sustainable for me and I have no issues replacing most parts
| in vehicles, lights are a walk in the park for me.
|
| *Will correct typos later, at work ATM.
|
| What I really care about, is moving the world forward. This
| is a service that the area I am in, is lacking. I don't need
| to make excessive profit, I just need sustainable profit and
| I am happy to provide this service as it's well within my
| skills.
| btbuildem wrote:
| Please please please strongly discourage people from using
| those super-blinding lights so many cars seem to have these
| days!
| tyjkot wrote:
| Lol I will only be replacing bulbs with OEM parts. Some
| vehicles come with xenon, LED, or HIDs and that will have to
| be replaced with proper bulbs.
|
| As blinding as they are, if that's what the vehicle has I
| gotta put them back in.
| cacozen wrote:
| Suggestion: Costco sell car batteries for ridiculously low
| prices, because they don't include installation. I recently got
| one for my Kia Telluride and it was $100 cheaper than any
| competition (because all competitions include the installed
| price). Installing is as easy but can feel intimidating to
| people: Could be another source of income for your app.
| smileysteve wrote:
| I find it interesting because this seems to be information
| asymmetry - and there is nothing wrong with that.
|
| AutoZone, O'Reilly, Advance advertise that they do things like
| replace batteries, change light bulbs, add washer fluid, wiper
| blades.
|
| It's arguably imperative for their brand that they offer (and
| advertise) these store services when compared to Amazon or
| Walmart (without a car center). It's even clearer when they
| offer 20% off codes for online ordering 12 months a year. (Also
| interesting because basic bulbs for tail lights and turn
| signals are often also sold at gas stations and grocery stores)
|
| They're not ASE certified techs, but I'm under the impression
| that staff receive some training related to it.
| smileysteve wrote:
| Contextually; yes, I have relatives that ask me to get their
| battery changed at Autozone, even though Autozone will do it
| for free -- and relatives who don't know that Autozone sells
| (and will often perform) a refrigerant top off if your AC
| isn't cold.
| gcheong wrote:
| I live in San Francisco and a few blocks down the street from
| me is a street that always has a bunch of Saabs parked out on
| it. I don't know if it's one person that owns them or fixes
| them for others but I thought it was pretty random and
| interesting.
| JadoJodo wrote:
| I am working on an email-based space game (a la Eve Online).
|
| Between work and family responsibilites, I find it difficult to
| carve out time for dedicated gaming sessions anymore. As a
| result, I often find myself searching for games that I can play
| when I have a bit of time, can progress over the long-haul,
| doesn't require real-time monitoring and yet feels like I'm
| actually playing a game (as opposed to just watching a train move
| on the track, like all of those Idle games).
|
| I thought: What if there was a game that could be played one day
| at a time? Not real-time, but still multiplayer. You could decide
| what you want to do throughout the day and adjust your tactics,
| but everything resolves at the end of the day. What if you could
| play via email? It sounded really intriguing, and so I started
| building it.
| slhomme wrote:
| Building https://videojam.co
|
| Creating launch/hype videos for your product is hard. It's
| expensive if you go through an agency or a freelancer. You could
| DIY it with Adobe After Effects, but it takes a whole set of
| motion design and video editing skills!
|
| That's why I built VideoJam, an easy-to-use video builder for
| startups, solo entrepreneurs, and hackers. Create your video in
| no time - no video editing skills required. You can create
| product videos from scratch, with ready-made scene templates, or
| using entire video templates.
|
| I just launched this week, any feedback is very welcomed. Also,
| don't hesitate to reach out if you want to try at no cost during
| the beta.
| ignaciovdk wrote:
| Learning about Vector databases and looking for a new job :D
| deutz_allis wrote:
| I am working to deploy some remote sensors on my farm to help
| keep an eye on important infrastructure. Things like voltages,
| bin fill, water levels and other resource management. I may just
| add a weather station for fun.
|
| Meshtastic is helping out but if anyone knows where to find
| stronger documentation that would help.
| graboid wrote:
| Working on a concatenative language in my free time, lots of fun:
| https://codeberg.org/tzell/TSL
| skerit wrote:
| I've been working on a new LLM prompt format and accompanying
| dataset for finetuning.
|
| The idea is that the "main character" being prompted always has
| to perform an action/function. So even "saying" something to the
| other participants of the chat is a deliberate action.
|
| Actions can be something like: ### actions:
| 1 recollect(query) -> {memory_id: id[]} 2 think(thought)
| 3 say(message) 4 memorize(category, subject, memory,
| replace?: id)
|
| The LLM then has to respond, like so:
| {"action":2,"thought":"Some internal thought","queue_action":3}
|
| The JSON overhead is pretty negligible.
| mog_dev wrote:
| Modern c++ bindings for GStreamer. Struggling mostly in parsing
| the Gir files and pushing them to the templating engine. Project
| gets quite complex
| block_dagger wrote:
| I replaced the frontend of the popular open source Phish
| streaming website with a new React UI and generated cover art
| using DALL-E over the last few weeks. Much nicer now, especially
| on mobile.
|
| https://phish.in
| OisinMoran wrote:
| I'm working on a social network based around link sharing!
|
| One of the core ideas is that rather than following a whole
| person, you can follow a subset of their tags so someone can post
| about obscure cheeses and ambient electronic, but lactose
| intolerant you can just follow the music. Or you can follow
| someone's tech posts but not follow news of their dysfunctional
| city.
|
| Honestly a lot of it is resurrecting ideas from earlier days in
| the web like Digg and Delicious, and despite having the idea for
| ages and having worked on it for a decent while, it's only
| getting more relevant as the web gets more algorithmic and
| external links get demoted in sites like Twitter.
|
| The aim is to bring more curation and humanity back to the web,
| and the next feature I'm really excited to get out is one to make
| in-person conversations even better!
|
| It's already live @ lynkmi.com and if it's of interest to you,
| you can sign up to the waitlist (it's very short)
| Corrado wrote:
| This kind of reminds me of Google Circles where you would group
| people into areas of interest. I always thought that idea was
| really good and should've been pursued further.
| OisinMoran wrote:
| Aw yes! I absolutely loved Google+ and was very sad it got
| shut down. Thanks for reminding me about that!
| jFriedensreich wrote:
| Working on a way to save Pivotal Tracker!
|
| Reach me here if you are interested: tracker@ntr.io
| jeswin wrote:
| Chrome extension for Claude/ChatGPT which connects to VSCode. As
| an alternative to Continue, Cursor et al.
| philajan wrote:
| I'm on my fraternity's alumni board. The chapter has been using
| spread sheets for everything since I was an active member. Every
| year, information about recruitment gets lost in the shuffle
| between officers.
|
| I've been working on a bespoke CRM for them to prevent the
| spreadsheet rot while providing some helpful visualization and
| making their data easier to use in the feature. The goal is to
| make the entire recruitment process self documenting.
|
| Its slowly evolving into a way to keep track of actives and
| alumni, as well as ways for actives to interact with the
| recruitment process.
|
| https://greekutils.com
|
| There's also a working demo https://demo.greekutils.com/rush-
| analyzer/ui/#/
| nurbo wrote:
| Newsletter on algorithms, data structures and coding interviews:
| https://blog.faangshui.com/
| serced wrote:
| To get some experience launching webapps that can be put into the
| play store and play around with image generation models,
| prompting, I am building an app to generate application/corporate
| photos from a few non-professional selfies.
|
| Tech stack is probably FastAPI (I mainly know python) and likely
| nuxt/ionic (none/not much experience). Not sure how the whole
| hosting, interaction with replicate/huggingface will work on
| phone apps, payments on stripe without having a company, how to
| make the webapp into a phone app, etc. It should be a great
| learning project with the first time scoring an actual sale!
| Happy to hear early guidance if people have done similar things
| with python backgrounds to get started.
| vertnerd wrote:
| I am spending my retirement working part-time on a realistic
| spacecraft simulator (3D, VR) set in the late 20th century on a
| fictional moon made of Tungsten ("Tungsten Moon"). For some
| reason, I decided the spacecraft needs a "real" flight computer
| with code that can be modified by the player, so I am now deeply
| immersed in coding a Forth virtual computer ("AMC Forth") to run
| in-game. It will control the navigation and systems on the
| spacecraft. If you've gotten this far, and you're intrigued, you
| can try the free demo on Steam (no Forth machine yet).
| croisillon wrote:
| i love film festivals but i never know when is one to happen so i
| started a website for all like-minded in Austria:
|
| https://festivale.at/
|
| i'm waiting to have the logo ready to promote it
| Ingon wrote:
| Still working on https://klev.dev
|
| More concretely, as a primarily backend engineer, I'm trying to
| update the main site, to make it nicer and work better on mobile
| devices.
| mnbbrown wrote:
| Decarbonising buildings and massive warehouses..
|
| It's a very fun mix of hardware (for data collection), and crazy
| SQL queries to model energy flows between buildings, solar,
| batteries, etc. Considering just one building is pretty easy:
|
| consumption = imported - exported + generated - stored +
| dispatched. carbon = carbon intensity * imported cost = tariff *
| imported
|
| but then you add a site with a couple of buildings, solar on one
| of them, grid limited exports, etc modelling these flows is
| challenging. Like consider the case where one building got 10% of
| it's imported power from another building's excess solar, then
| calculating carbon becomes more difficult.
|
| and once you've figured all that - then you have to figure out
| what makes commercial sense to do next.. install a battery,
| expand solar, move onto a TOU tariff, do nothing - and that's a
| whole other world of optimisation problems.
| thoughtpalette wrote:
| Also somewhat working in this space. Building a BMS (Building
| management system) to manage and control everything in
| commercial buildings. Think Homekit for commercial. There's
| something like 70% of buildings don't use one and they can be
| much more environmental friendly.
|
| Utilizing https://project-haystack.org/
| gcr wrote:
| I've been looking for work!
|
| But to pass the time, I'm also working on a personal journal that
| keep S-expressions in a database with a well-defined schema set
| by the other nodes of the database (imagine tiddlywiki
| transclusions everywhere!)
|
| The idea is to have a bunch of adaptors for Google Takeout, Apple
| Notes, Obsidian, Apple Health, fitness tracking, org-mode,
| location history, etc. keep all my data there in well-defined
| formats. I could then also use the markup language I'm writing to
| present my journal data in various ways.
|
| My main focus is on efficient data entry/ingestion powered by
| schema-as-data, which allows for machine and human readability.
|
| I don't expect it to be useful, but I'm having fun. If I wind up
| getting anywhere, I might open source it.
| ItsBob wrote:
| I'm working on Fuseable [0] - Hosting .NET apps from a zip file.
|
| Think of it like Tiiny host but for .NET
|
| [0] - https://fuseable.net
|
| Note: I'm still ironing out the kinks but it'll be ready for
| early access shortly.
| ehnto wrote:
| I built a CNC router table and am enjoying getting a hang of
| that. I have always wanted to take my software and systems
| skillset into the physical world.
|
| I wouldn't mind making boutique sim racing/flight gear, or
| aftermarket car parts like cyberpunk-esque dash readouts and
| stuff like that.
|
| That's the more hobbyist stuff, and more broadly I am also
| learning Japanese, and making games. They sound separate but I am
| hoping to blend the two skillsets and make games that bridge a
| gap I see there.
|
| I think that good innovation only happens at the intersections of
| things we already know. That way you have the depth of
| understanding required to be useful rather than just new.
| throwawayUS9 wrote:
| Building a Nextdoor equivalent for India. Check it out at
| https://neighar.com
| jonotime wrote:
| I'm making read-it-later app that truly works offline and does
| not require any servers.
|
| https://github.com/jonocodes/savr-android/
|
| Currently dogfooding the mobile PoC, and working on some of the
| desktop parts.
| jonotime wrote:
| Working on an essay as to why coding interviews are harmful:
|
| http://dgt.is/coding-interviews
| ktrnka wrote:
| Looks good so far! If it helps, some of the challenges I had
| with take-homes as a hiring manager were: - We'd suggest to
| spend an afternoon on it, no more than 4 hours, but many
| candidates would go far beyond that - Senior candidates tend to
| have less free time to do take-home assignments. Some would
| decline to do them and others would have to delay their
| interview pipeline for weeks (and by then, many candidates had
| lost interest or progressed with other employers)
|
| That said, take-home assignments were very helpful for junior
| candidates who didn't have much experience on their resume.
| jonotime wrote:
| Ah, great point about junior devs.
| slothtrop wrote:
| Saving my career. I'm building a blog first (with more than I
| need) to host small projects I've already built, will contribute
| to open-source, and if all that fails pivot to infosec or
| something.
| dlachausse wrote:
| I'm not doing anything world changing really, at least not yet.
|
| I am working on my MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
| from Western Governor's University and studying for the CompTIA
| CySA+ exam.
|
| In what little free time I do have, I'm also puttering around
| with SwiftUI and my app CountDownula, which I recently updated to
| Swift 6. I made it to scratch my own itch after looking for a
| nice clean, simple, free countdown to a specific date app that
| doesn't have any ads, subscriptions, or in app purchases and not
| finding anything suitable. It supports iOS and macOS with iCloud
| sync between all your account's devices using SwiftData. The link
| is below if you're looking for something similar...
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/countdownula/id6479545149
| trwhite wrote:
| I'm working on a more general purpose programming language called
| "Pear", rather than the DSL I wrote before called "runny" (a
| Make/Just equivalent).
|
| I want it to have a more concise syntax (no keywords, fewer
| characters) but feel familiar to most programmers. All
| definitions use square brackets in combination with some other
| set of characters.
|
| e.g.
|
| ``` [myFunc](arg1,arg2){ ?(true){ #do something }{ #do something
| else } } ```
| g5pw wrote:
| Last shipment of components shipped today, so I'll soon build the
| project I mentioned [last
| time](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700806), a remote
| for BabyBuddy. Main features are:
|
| - 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
|
| I've started coding the firmware using Rust with the excellent
| embassy OS.
| monkaiju wrote:
| A police activity database: https://app.copdb.org/
| CharlieDigital wrote:
| Wife and I tend to plan long, multi-day, multi-destination
| travel.
|
| Got sick of working in Google Docs and having to manually move
| days around and re-label dates, shift hotels, etc. Ended up
| creating Turas.app over a weekend in 2023 (and then let it loose
| on Reddit). But just recently created the Chrome Extension which
| feels like it is an even better tool because it lets you access
| all of the richness of Google Maps. It's a Google Maps powertool
| for people who like to plan their travel meticulously.
|
| _(Completely free and intended to be free forever; we tried to
| monetize it but realized that there 's no reasonable way to do so
| that we ourselves would be happy with; seriously thinking about
| just open sourcing it, but needs some cleanup first!)_
|
| Extension:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turasapp/lpfijfdbgo...
|
| App: https://turas.app
| Heloseaa wrote:
| Just deployed a little gimmicky website to evaluate anything on a
| left-wing/right-wing gauge: https://leftorrightwing.com/
| cwiz wrote:
| I'm doing an experiment in wring a visual novel with assist of
| generative ai. So far it's lots of fun.
| dmezzetti wrote:
| In a crowded "AI space", I continue to work on txtai
| (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) for semantic search, LLM
| orchestration and language model workflows. It's not as popular
| as the big frameworks but I believe it's a better solution. Time
| will tell.
| sotix wrote:
| Getting ready to release a big Halloween update for my survival-
| horror game for the Playdate, Plight of the Wizard[0]. I just
| added a spell that targets the closest enemy, which was a fun
| challenge to implement. Performance optimizations for the
| hardware have been getting tougher to nail down, so I'm spending
| a lot of time figuring out inefficiencies in my code to target a
| stable 30 fps. I'm having a lot of fun releasing updates that
| make the game more fun. But with more refinement comes the desire
| to add more content and improved art. I'm trying to take it one
| step at a time.
|
| [0]: https://sotix.itch.io/plight-of-the-wizard
| jarmitage wrote:
| http://tolvera.is
|
| Tolvera is a Python library designed for composing together and
| interacting with basal agencies, inspired by fields such as
| artificial life (ALife) and self-organising systems. It provides
| creative coding-style APIs that allow users to combine and
| compose various built-in behaviours, such as flocking, slime mold
| growth, and swarming, and also author their own.
|
| With built-in support for Open Sound Control (OSC) via iipyper
| and interactive machine learning (IML) via anguilla, Tolvera
| interfaces with and rapidly maps onto existing creative computing
| software and hardware, striving to be both an accessible and
| powerful tool for exploring diverse intelligence in artistic
| contexts.
|
| Tolvera has been selected for Mozilla's first Builders
| Accelerator! Read the announcement:
|
| https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/14-ai-projects-to-watch-...
| toastal wrote:
| Learning some more ATS2 while 3 isn't yet released. Cool language
| with linear types (which go further than Rust's affine types),
| refinement types, dependent types, proofs & dataviewtypes over C
| for zero-cost abstractions.
| kminehart wrote:
| I don't have a link for it yet, but I am working on using an HCL-
| like syntax to write CI pipelines. Ideally it would function a
| lot like dagger but written a lot like terraform.
|
| The main problems that I want to solve are the really slow
| feedback loop of complex GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, but without
| the limitation of having to run it within another CI provider.
| mavsman wrote:
| I quit my job and depleted savings earlier this year to work on
| helping others overcome addictive habits and behaviors
| https://neurtureapp.com
|
| Addiction is rampant right now, from social media and phones to
| vaping and beyond. People need access to science/research-based
| resources, not just a "sober" counter, which doesn't apply to
| many people and is rarely helpful to those it applies to.
|
| Working with a behavioral scientist and a clinical psychologist
| on the UX and content of the app at the moment but any thoughts,
| feedback, connections, or help would be amazing.
| wslh wrote:
| I am currently involved in two R&D projects:
|
| - CyScout [1]: We've added support for the Solidity programming
| language in GitHub's CodeQL. This enhancement engages the
| community to help identify security vulnerabilities in smart
| contracts on EVMs using a semantic code analysis engine.
|
| - Roughchain [2][3]: A new blockchain focusing on solving the
| collusion problem [4][5], with participants who have a stake in
| the "real world" such as S&P 500 companies. The latest version of
| the whitepaper is available here
| <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0Me9si4iMclOq8n-oG2yNQf...>
| , where comments are welcome. Currently, I am focused on a notes
| section addressing typical issues with L1 technologies,
| accessible here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pV2Tcx_txCbf
| iPrNzcgKdOsE...>.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916861
|
| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691162
|
| [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687715
|
| [4]
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089982561...
|
| [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgHboH7C0FM
| andrewchilds wrote:
| I've been working on a bespoke smartwatch for kids with Type 1
| diabetes & their parents. The watch presents reliable CGM data
| and not much else, so the only distractions from the watch are
| important medical alerts. It has a novel haptic algorithm that
| taps at a frequency based on the current BG trend, the idea is
| the wearer can develop a sixth-sense of their BG without looking
| at the watch at all. The entire watch is custom-made from the PCB
| up. I have a small batch of prototypes assembled and my son has
| been wearing his at school. I have a few screenshots up at my
| product studio website: https://subtractive.computer
|
| I'm considering how to take the watch to market as-is, or if I
| pivot the watch to be a fully open-source Pebble successor.
| adhamsalama wrote:
| I've been working on making collaborative databases in the
| browser using SQLite WebAssembly and WebRTC.
|
| https://github.com/adhamsalama/sqlite-wasm-webrtc
|
| It's a perfect alternative (at least in theory) to online
| centralized spreadsheets.
| hoofedear wrote:
| Pretty sure no one will see this so: I'm working on a little game
| where you collect those really old T206 baseball cards and even
| worked out a system where you can send cards to people offline
| using a code system like Animal Crossing on the GC used
|
| Still haven't come up with a fun way for the player to collect
| them though
| JansjoFromIkea wrote:
| It'd limit the audience and involve a lot of work but maybe by
| co-ordinates? Bundle a bit of a walking tour of the team's
| history into the collecting process
| birabittoh wrote:
| A random chat bot for Telegram! https://telegle.vercel.app/
| FredrikNoren wrote:
| I'm experimenting with an AI assisted world building / story
| telling tool: https://youtu.be/OGkSI3VfxRU . The idea is to do
| kind of what Cursor is doing for programming; accelerate the
| creative process (rather than replacing it).
| ValentinA23 wrote:
| Interesting. I've been exploring this space too, but for a LLM-
| driven MUD (multiplayer text-based game). The most challenging
| aspect is coming up with an architecture that can easily lend
| itself to handling "semantic collisions" in a multiplayer
| context, pretty much like non-neural game engines handle
| spaceship collisions, or prevent a player from entering a box
| if another player is in it, but going beyond and handling more
| abstract, more "semantic" aspects, such as narrative elements.
|
| By the way you should get interested in "narratology" at large.
| There are benefits to driving the LLM generation with an
| explicit representation of the narrative structure. For
| instance if the bad guy turns out to be the good guy, then,
| narrative logic demands that the good guy was the bad guy all
| along. As a consequence, appearance and deceit should be
| keystones values of the hero's arch. There are many
| interdisciplinary approaches to this domain, some more
| naturalist/empirical such as trope databses, some theoretical
| like 70s semiotics while some other framework approach the
| problem from the perspective of cognition and entropy.
|
| Even though I haven't really started coding anything, this is a
| very interesting topic to think about because of the technical
| challenges it raises as well as the scope of the project. Any
| papers exposing new LLM use and prompting techniques is of
| potential interest to me now.
|
| It is a wide space
| FredrikNoren wrote:
| Thanks! That's really interesting stuff, will definitely look
| into those!
| ValentinA23 wrote:
| You may be interested in this too:
|
| https://github.com/yingpengma/Awesome-Story-Generation
| bizzleDawg wrote:
| I'm working on scoping out specific problems facing "software as
| a medical device" (SaMD) companies. In particular issues around
| being able to release software at a reasonable cadence. I've been
| a CTO in this space for a couple of years and I am now consulting
| with other firms around the intersection of tech and regulatory.
|
| It's a tight-rope walk of ensuring that all testing (software and
| non-software testing) and evidence is produced correctly and
| being able to release at a rapid pace to derisk each release.
| It's not uncommon for software to only be updated yearly, leading
| to very conservative changes and little iteration. Monthly
| releases are okay, but still not great.
|
| I want to make it possible to release at least weekly and to do
| so safely.
|
| If you work in this area, I'd love to chat and hear your
| experiences (email available via my website in bio).
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Now consulting? But yes I'd love to connect.
| bizzleDawg wrote:
| Correct, thanks!
| ThomPete wrote:
| Yes a few things.
|
| Distributed Prediction Market running purely on telegram:
| https://firstprinciple.co/popup/PopUp.mp4
|
| Social Network based on interest using agents
| https://firstprinciple.co/popup/AlmostFamous.mp4
| ValentinA23 wrote:
| I'm experimenting with a "new" kind of lisp macros.
|
| Macros in lisp are just normal functions that receive the code
| they wrap as argument and return some modified code. Typically
| they will just wrap the passed code into some more code. But then
| there are code walking macro: macros that will traverse passed
| code to modify it in depth.
|
| What I'm working on is "code diving" macros. Not only will they
| traverse the passed code, but they will resolve called functions
| and macros, fetch their source code and traverse it too. And so
| on. All the redefined fns/macros are accumulated in a
| let/macrolet binding, topologically sorted by call/dependency
| order. Instrumented code will call these local redefinitions,
| shadowing the global definition lexically.
|
| This allow the programmer to write truly local monkey-patches for
| existing code he doesn't have control over (e.g, code from
| another library for instance). I'm writing this in Clojure, and
| the traditional way to do this is to temporarily change the
| global definitions of targeted variables using with-redefs. This
| is problematic because other threads will see these
| redefinitions, and not just threads created within the
| instrumented code, but already existing threads too.
|
| Another way to do it is to just redefine the targeted functions
| globally, but then your modifications are available to the whole
| program for the rest of its execution.
| jackthetab wrote:
| THANK YOU! I've been trying to understand wtf lisp macros are
| for so long I'm embarrassed to say. I've heard that their
| "extremely powerful" and kept thinking "Macros? like in C? In
| Excel? WTF is the big deal about macros?"
|
| Now I understand why I should learn lisp other than to play
| with its weird-but-kinda-cool-looking prefix notation.
| rkozik1989 wrote:
| I'm working on making a physical console for the Pico-8. Its
| pretty simple, works on linux booted into kiosk mode, looks for
| when a 3.5" floppy is inserted or removed, and loads or closes
| the game via a shell script.
|
| I want it to be like a C64-style keyboard with all the guts
| inside it but wirelessly connect to the display/tv, so what I
| might do is use an ESP32 to read the game floppy and wirelessly
| transfer and cache the file to a dongle that plugs into an open
| HDMI port. Not sure yet.
| deivid wrote:
| Amazing! I went through the same but opting to implement the
| console itself on the ESP32[0]. It ended up being a bit too
| much and it's mostly shelved now
|
| Good luck!
|
| [0]: https://github.com/davidventura/picopico
| grardb wrote:
| I've been working on an app to help VvEs* in the Netherlands
| self-manage.
|
| For about a year, I was trying to get our VvE management company*
| to take care of major issues we have in our building's crawl
| space. We had an inspection done, but even after about seven
| months of constantly nagging them, they failed to get a single
| quote for the work that the crawl space needs. I called our
| manager, and he essentially yelled at me for twenty minutes and
| was not shy to express his anti-immigrant sentiments (I'm
| American).
|
| Because of this, I'm now on a mission to get this company fired
| and take management into our own hands, which will save us a
| bunch of money. The existing VvE management tools are ugly, slow,
| and unnecessarily complex, so I'm building my own.
|
| It's only been a month, so I haven't hosted it yet (still coming
| up with a name, to be honest), but I have made good progress
| functionality-wise. If anyone in the Netherlands is part of a
| small VvE and wants to chat, let me know! My email is my username
| (@gmail).
|
| * The US equivalent would be an HOA (Homeowner's Association).
| Basically, a corporation that is responsible for the upkeep of
| shared resources for homeowners (e.g. the roof of a building or
| the pool in a gated community).
|
| ** Many VvEs choose to outsource management of the VvE to a third
| party. These companies--in theory--take care of maintenance
| requests, yearly meetings, voting, etc. From everything I've read
| online, almost none of these companies satisfy their clients.
| jordanmorgan10 wrote:
| I'm close to finishing out a practice planner for basketball
| coaches, specifically I'm excited about the drills library. Youth
| coaches today tend to source drills from all over the internet
| (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc) so having one central
| place to refer to them is going to really help.
|
| I'm happy with the way the UI is turning out
| (https://www.threads.net/@lookitsjordanmorgan/post/DAwU2bNS4O...)
| nonnontrivial wrote:
| I've been working on the ability to read sky brightness without a
| sensor.
|
| I've always been interested in stargazing, but had a curiosity
| about how "good" the stars I was seeing were relative to
| conditions in other places on earth.
|
| I'm working to answer that by doing inference of the value a SQM
| would get you, but over H3 cells in a geojson file, and then
| reporting on the cell with the highest reading during the last
| iteration over the set of H3 cells.
|
| https://github.com/nonnontrivial/ctts
| FratStein wrote:
| My fantasy football team.
| g4zj wrote:
| A few years ago, I made a silly little platforming game for my
| wife that was holiday-themed (Thanksgiving). Since then, I've
| tried to create at least one new sequel each year for a different
| holiday.
|
| This year, I'm doing one for Halloween. They only take a few
| hours to make, but are a fun little thing for me to enjoy making
| and her to enjoy playing.
| stereosteve wrote:
| As a side project I'm working on a multitrack audio play along
| website. If you are learning bass you can mute the bass track.
|
| I used to play along to Jamey Aebersold CDs back in the day, and
| now on YouTube there are many Play Along videos... but I thought
| it would be fun to make one where you have more control.
|
| Here's the demo, feel free to upload a track if you have one
| handy! https://jamz.stereosteve.com/
|
| The source code is here: https://github.com/stereosteve/playalong
|
| It uses this wave surfer multitrack example, which is a pretty
| nice vanilla JS project:
| https://wavesurfer.xyz/examples/?multitrack.js
|
| Now that the basics are working... hopefully I'll actually spend
| some time actually making some practice tracks!
| sovietswag wrote:
| Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect
| when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput'
| event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it
| around. Something like:
|
| volume_slider.oninput = function() { audio.volume =
| volume_slider.value; }
| stereosteve wrote:
| Thanks! I made this change.
| this_is_not_you wrote:
| I built and am now maintaining a website [0] and open source
| repository [1] for the hardest sport climbing and bouldering
| ascents in the world.
|
| Maintenance is mostly updating the underlying data when the
| strongest climbers in the world scale some random piece of rock.
|
| [0] https://www.hardestclimbs.com/ [1]
| https://github.com/9cpluss/hardest-climbs
| sean_pedersen wrote:
| I am working on a visual search & exploration engine:
| https://digger.lol
|
| The goal is to create beautiful and useful maps of interesting
| data, empowering the user to explore more intuitively guided by
| semantic similarity. No user data needs to be tracked for this to
| work, the data speaks for itself.
|
| This roughly works by translating semantic (visual or textual)
| similarity into spatial proximity. Diggers major features are:
| semantic mapping, text search and image search. The text and
| image search works bidirectionally, allowing to search for images
| (e.g. product images) using text and for text (e.g. books) using
| images.
| kolleraa wrote:
| I'm working on a unique discovery app / recommender for books,
| tv, movies, video games, songs, youtube channels, newsletters and
| podcasts - and more categories soon!
|
| Since my last update here, I've added more detailed personalized
| descriptions of recommendations (hit Describe to request),
| including a rating out of 10 for how well the item meets your
| preferences.
|
| I've also added the ability to replace individual recommendations
| (this was the most requested new feature!). If you update your
| preferences, your replacements will use your updated preferences
| - pretty nice for fine tuning your results!
|
| Try it: https://www.yogurrt.com/
| telesilla wrote:
| Thanks, found some new shows I didn't know about.
| kolleraa wrote:
| Awesome, glad to hear!
| pncnmnp wrote:
| This is fantastic, Aaron! I love it!
|
| I was surprised to learn that each recommendation for
| preferences costs nearly 1 cent. From what I can tell, you
| don't seem to be caching preferences. For example, each "Let's
| Go!" click on a show like say "Succession" generates some
| variation in the preference recommendations. My hunch is that
| if we ask LLMs to "over recommend" preferences based on the
| content you're using (my guess is a mix of MovieLens, IMDb,
| TMDB, and Wikipedia) and do so in an ordered fashion
| (preference1 is a solid, but preference7 is a so-so), you could
| cache these results and strategically display them. For
| instance, when users choose to "fix" certain categories and get
| new recommendations for others, these "over recommendations"
| could help create variations without additional LLM calls. This
| could be repeated like N times until new categories require
| further LLM calls.
|
| I am not sure if this would work with the personalized
| descriptions of recommendations part. I kind of love how
| they're tuned based on my selected preferences.
|
| I am curious about the design of the whole system. Fun project!
| Thanks.
| kolleraa wrote:
| Thanks, I'm glad you like it! That makes me very happy!
|
| You're correct, I'm not caching the results right now. I
| determined that caching whole queries would not make much
| difference in the aggregate, since the vast majority of
| queries are unique. (However I also just saw that OpenAI
| added their own caching layer with lower prices for cached
| results, which is nice!)
|
| However - the new Replace function was my first step toward
| fetching recommendations one-at-a-time - I agree that
| potentially opens up interesting new possibilities for
| caching and other things as well!
| SamWhited wrote:
| As a personal project during my free time I'm currently working
| on adding more accessibility features, specifically screen reader
| compatibility, to my Terminal User Interface XMPP/Jabber client,
| Communique. Unfortunately, as far as I can see there's no actual
| way to make a TUI compatible with screen readers (reach out on
| the issue tracker, fedi, or xmpp, see link below if you know
| otherwise or have experience here, please, I'd love to pick your
| brain!), so my current plan is to re-write the UI with whatever
| TUI toolkit makes it easiest to also have a CLI/prompt mode that
| we can specifically design to be reader compatible.
|
| https://codeberg.org/mellium/communique-tui/
| SamWhited wrote:
| Outside of the software world I'm also working on opening a Bike
| Shop and frame building studio. I'm hoping that one day I can
| actually make a small living on frame building since I don't do
| software for my day job anymore, but I'm not quite ready to build
| for other people yet (so far I've only built frames for myself
| and I'd like to thoroughly strength test them before I risk
| putting someone else on one of my creations!)
|
| If you're in the Atlanta, GA area and need bicycle work done, hit
| me up! No job is too big or too small. I particularly enjoy
| building wheels if you want a sweet custom wheel set, but I do it
| all (including Mountain Bike fork and suspension work that many
| shops won't do).
|
| https://www.atlbikeshed.com/
| andys627 wrote:
| An AI powered web scraper. Chrome extension. Uses interesting LLM
| capabilities in natural language (website of your
| choosing)->structured data. It's working pretty well!
|
| https://www.extracto.bot
| ssz wrote:
| I'm sharing all my nonfiction book summaries/notes on
| https://littlerbooks.com/.
| thedangler wrote:
| Building connections and mini tools for my website builder and
| funnels to gain users organically through tooling that doesn't
| exist yet.
|
| Sync contacts, products and orders with 3rd party processors like
| square, Stripe, others.
|
| Also probably set up some basic AI hints like one click ad
| generator for Facebook, Instagram, or other ad platforms that
| will link to your Funnel.
|
| Once complete I will either make lots of money or it was a huge
| waste of time. However, the learning experience is priceless.
|
| Also Making an offline Fantasy draft tool to learn Elixir and
| Pheonix.
| stevehoyek wrote:
| I'm working on a solution to the age-old problem of tracking my
| food intake. Every app I have every tried from the many dozens on
| the market has not met my need of a low friction simple UI tool,
| so I've built it myself.
|
| I've built Journable, a simple & frictionless chat-based & photo-
| based calorie tracker. Just type in what you've eaten, in as much
| or as little detail as you can. Or type in what you did for
| exercise. Or just snap a photo of your plate. Whatever works for
| you.
|
| https://www.journable.com/
| benfarahmand wrote:
| I had to track my physical inputs and outputs for a week for
| medical reasons and I used a google form. I placed a shortcut
| on my phone and it immediately opened the form for simple and
| easy tracking. Everything was then saved to a spreadsheet,
| which I could analyze once my week was done.
| bloopernova wrote:
| I've wondered if a camera you "show" your groceries to as you
| unpack them would be enough to track incoming items accurately.
|
| Or a couple of cameras around the kitchen, with an ML setup
| that recognizes both incoming food items, and their use in
| cooking. Then it could give you notifications/calendar items on
| things expiring :)
| linsomniac wrote:
| I'm finishing building a 120sqft shed in the back yard, learning
| Fusion 360, and hopefully getting my chronic sinusitis solved.
|
| Poured a slab, designed, framed, used as much reclaimed lumber as
| I could, and sheathed a lean-to style shed. My first attempt at
| building a structure, and it's coming out nice. This is to
| replace the 64sqft 5' shed that a neighbors tree fell on earlier
| this year, but we really need the extra storage.
|
| I got a Bambu P1S 3D printer for Father's Day to replace an old
| Ender 3 Pro, and it has just been a dream. TinkerCAD, while
| amazing and a very capable tool, I'm ready to move on to
| something else. I tried Plasticity, and it showed a lot of
| promise but I found it very frustrating, bumped against some
| missing documentation and ran out of free trial time. Tried
| FreeCAD 1.0RC/Ondsel, and it's a fantastic piece of software.
| Yesterday I decided to give Fusion 360 a try and it's just so
| much more refined. Started the Product Design Online tutorials on
| Youtube yesterday and the stuff you're building in the first 5 15
| minute lessons are frankly amazing.
| vinnyglennon wrote:
| LookOutWindow.com , mapping the routes between airports, and
| showing points of interest along the route. I wanted a way to
| read about what I was flying over, and which worked offline. We
| have amazing views up there, but no idea what we are looking at.
| telesilla wrote:
| I'd love an offline version of this, though not sure how useful
| it is without GPS.
| vinnyglennon wrote:
| All maps,data is offline, once route is selected. Have a few
| ideas for tracking without GPS offline, ping me, on the
| Feedback button
| ray_ wrote:
| Magnetic levitation
| ramshanker wrote:
| Yesterday I created a simple Nubmer Factorization website.
| Basically to learn webasm. Will be spending few days implementing
| different algorithms and optimizing the hell out of it.
|
| https://www.ramshanker.in/prime/?n=15081947
| yoav wrote:
| https://electrobun.dev
|
| A new batteries-included app framework for writing fast and tiny
| desktop apps in typescript.
|
| Like electron but under the hood it uses bun and zig, and the
| system webview by default.
|
| Like Tauri but you use typescript instead of rust.
|
| batteries-included: a cli to build, code sign, bundle, create
| tiny 4KB diffs for updates, all you need is S3 or similar to host
| the artifacts.
| LawrenceKerr wrote:
| In general: technoetic software - tools for exploring
| consciousness through technology. I have this idea to try to
| revive the terms "technoetics" and "psionics". I feel like
| there's still so much ground to cover in this space, yet no one
| pays much attention to it, except for a small niche of weirdos
| like me.
|
| If you're into tech and (non-materialist) ideas about
| consciousness, follow me on X (see profile or
| https://technoetics.org/ )
| csjh wrote:
| Been interested in programming language implementations recently,
| so I'm working on an in-place WebAssembly interpreter
|
| Currently passes all the WebAssembly 1.0 test suite minus the
| tests that require imports (around 9) - should have those ones
| fixed this week
|
| https://github.com/csjh/wasm-interpreter
| devmor wrote:
| Lately I've been thinking about the "enshittification" of
| productivity apps, how everything is having features crammed into
| it that really get in the way of what users want to do, in the
| name of selling them subscriptions or optional buy-ups.
|
| I've been mulling around the idea of some kind of foundation that
| could sponsor the development of what I would consider "Good for
| the end-user" software of this nature. Something to encourage
| building apps that are pleasant to use and keeping them pleasant
| to use.
|
| It's a rough problem to figure out how this would work though,
| realistically. Some kind of binding license or legal contract
| that says "here's what you can't do to this software, for this
| many years, if we give you resources" essentially. But I am well
| aware that solutions like that also generally end with someone
| finding a sneaky loophole to take advantage of it.
|
| I'm very passionate about this idea, but I just don't know how
| feasible it is. Maybe I should have gone to law school instead of
| learning to program.
| vishalontheline wrote:
| I finally got around to building and hosting my personal website
| on my own tiny VP. In the medium to long term, I'm hoping that
| people will find me through my website or word of mouth, instead
| of online social networks.
| bradley13 wrote:
| Re-working my course on Android Development. Next year will be
| the third year I've taught the course, and usually the third year
| is where I'm happy with the content. It's a fun course to teach,
| but I would never, ever want to work in the area professionally.
|
| The biggest problem is the instability of the tools. IntelliJ is
| already complex, then you pile on all the Android Studio stuff.
| Within Android Studio, you are working with a hugely complex
| framework (Jetpack Compose) that depends, directly or indirectly,
| on probably hundreds of libraries. Sometimes, things just break,
| for no apparent reason. On some students' computers, the whole
| wobbly tower never works quite right. It reminds me of this XKCD:
| https://xkcd.com/2347/
| tudorrr wrote:
| Nowhere near as exciting as some of the other cool stuff in this
| thread but... I'm building https://trytalo.com - an open source
| self-hostable game backend. Talo makes it easy to drop in
| features like leaderboards, player stats, analytics and more into
| games. There's a Godot plugin, Unity package and Steamworks
| integration too.
|
| I'm really early on in getting Talo out there so appreciate any
| feedback/criticism/roasting!
| BasilPH wrote:
| I'm building a service for podcast websites with transcripts[^0].
| I have paying customers, including Volts[^1], and I'm genuinely
| passionate about serving them.
|
| What's holding me back from scaling is primarily my own
| resistance to marketing, plus some pending improvements to the
| ChatGPT-based transcript editing system. Once I finish optimizing
| the LLM integration, I'll have no more excuses to avoid sales
| outreach. One thread I want to pursue is a magazine of podcast
| transcripts that I inherited: https://podread.org
|
| I'd appreciate advice on authentic outreach strategies for
| reaching knowledge-focused podcasters. If anyone here has
| experience in this space or wants to collaborate, I'm open to
| connecting.
|
| [^0]: https://www.withfanfare.com/
|
| [^1]: https://transcripts.volts.wtf/
| WideCharr wrote:
| As a software developer who later got into hardware design, I've
| always been pretty disappointed with the quality of HDL tools.
| You get a bit spoiled by the quality of compilers like gcc and
| clang, and then you run into ridiculously expensive closed-source
| SystemVerilog compilers that fall apart on valid and obvious
| code, can't be run in a build farm, and which report cryptic
| messages for errors. So I've been working on my own open source
| SystemVerilog compiler / frontend for a while now, and it's
| nearing 100% completion in terms of language support.
|
| https://github.com/MikePopoloski/slang
| dbodin11 wrote:
| AI Web Layer to communicate with people and AI models.
| https://wwww.kontxt.io
| czbond wrote:
| Interesting project, thanks for sharing. Your link above has an
| extra "w".
| dbodin11 wrote:
| Whoops. Thanks. My phone's auto-correct "joke of the day."
| Just re-typing the correct link so folks can click on it.
| https://www.kontxt.io
| ddxv wrote:
| I've been making https://AppGoblin.info for an overview of mobile
| app advertising ecosystem. I've been expanding it to include
| development tools and marketing companies as well.
|
| My main, but longer, main project is building an MMP (mobile
| advertising attribution platform). It's really far from done, so
| if anyone is interested please reach out. I need help writing
| Android and iOS SDKs and with the analytic dashboard for the
| frontend.
|
| Also, interested in starting a skyscraper construction blog if
| anyone is interested.
| navanchauhan wrote:
| A macOS menu bar app to convert image snippets to LaTeX. I'm
| trying to turn it into an open source replacement for MathPix's
| Snip.
|
| https://github.com/navanchauhan/iTeXSnip
| shelled wrote:
| - Trying to get over my procrastination and finally start (the
| standard way of) prepping for software dev (staff/etc) level
| interviews after having taken a considerable number of months as
| a gap
|
| - An idea of a platform to connect sports venues to players. (In
| a way that is better and richer than the only/shitty option
| available in my geography. Why do I call that service shitty?
| They have been around for almost a decade or close to that by now
| and they are still shitty and unstable and barely useable). With
| a bit of differentiation - instead of individual and venue
| bookings (the service that offers right now) - connect venues and
| groups where payment is taken care of already (no running around
| collecting payments and worrying about no shows and ignoring them
| in future them/etc). We were reaching towards a demo kinda
| product but the friend on the backend side got bored of software
| and started focussing on stock trading where he is sadly doing
| spectrally bad
|
| - Also did a bit of work on trying to connect users with the
| laundry list of (e)bicycles, e-scooters et cetera providers (i.e
| how there are common booking platforms for all airlines; or for
| buses; etc) so that they won't have to install all the apps until
| it finally reached our skulls that maybe those services are
| looking for a lock-in so they would never open up their APIs and
| we lacked perseverance and resources to force them to adhere to
| the Govt suggested broad inventory db mechanism in my country.
| Basically we started on it without any research.
|
| The problem with me is - software engineering/coding (I have been
| told I am not bad at it though)/platforms/libraries/etc excite me
| fuck all. But problem solving does. I should not have been a
| software engineer really. So interviews get tricky. While I can
| (and have) clear interviews at early stage startups, the work-
| life balance they offer is horrendous, but MNC/etc ask for every
| thing I have never used and will never use, or anybody ever will
| (mostly), that means thorough prep. I am just ranting, ignore it.
| taikon wrote:
| For me, the most important problem that needs to be solved right
| now is a way for people to access reliable health information.
|
| I'm working on plumfin.com, which lets you ask questions to
| Canadian or U.S. board certified doctors. Theres no need for
| video chats or waiting for appointments, you can message a doctor
| anytime and you'll be alerted with a response.
|
| https://plumfin.com
| bambax wrote:
| I'm trying to OCR a very large book: 45 volumes of ~500 pages
| each. The digitization has been done (not very good but not too
| bad either), but the pages have comments in the margin and lots
| of footnotes.
|
| Just doing plain OCR doesn't really work because the notes in the
| margin and the footnotes get mingled with the text, which results
| in gibberish.
|
| But, when sent to Google Vision API, each page results in a json
| file that has an object for each word and the four coordinates of
| its bounding box.
|
| That json file is pretty big (around 1.5 Mo when pretty printed,
| or 500 k with no indents or line breaks) but it can then be fed
| to Gemini, taking advantage of its large context window.
|
| Gemini is pretty good at identifying each section of the page
| (headers, main text, margin comments, footnotes) but it takes a
| looong time to respond (2-5 minutes per page).
|
| So another approach is to ask Gemini to write a python script to
| analyze the json result and group sections depending of the
| coordinates of each word, and then run that script against the
| json output by the OCR phase.
|
| But it's quite difficult to have a script that works for any
| page; comments in the margin are always in the margin so that's
| pretty easy, but footnotes can start at any height of the page
| (some pages contain only footnotes running from previous pages)
| and Gemini likes to be pretty specific, giving hard 'y'
| coordinates for where footnotes should start, which obviously
| only works for the one page it's working on.
|
| I'm iterating and making some progress but I feel like I miss a
| big breakthrough and it all should be simpler than it currently
| is. Information about OCR is pretty scarce online. Any pointer is
| welcome!
| infoseek12 wrote:
| Can you talk about what book you're trying to digitize?
| abdullahkhalids wrote:
| Are the footnotes in a different font or fontsize? If so, then
| the bounding box for footnote words should be smaller. Perhaps
| that can help with categorization.
| sachin_rcz wrote:
| I am working on companion AI with realistic conversations and
| unlimited memory
| ukuina wrote:
| I just rewrote https://hackyournews.com/ for its first birthday
| and am trying to optimize its performance and extend the
| different sites it can work with, beyond HN.
| Kabukks wrote:
| I'm currently building an open source CMS in Golang. Meaning
| fully implemented backend and frontend + support for custom
| themes in the frontend and custom collections/items in the
| backend.
|
| Now, there is a lot of CMS software out there. Some of the better
| ones are paid products.
|
| What I'm hoping to eventually accomplish is easy local creation
| of a website (content and themes) and after that easy one click
| deployment to a cheap hosting provider. Alternatively just
| copying a local folder to your own vps/server with the CMS should
| be enough.
|
| My dream outcome would be a CMS that is a one-stop solution for
| most types of websites (blogs, company sites, shops, ...). To
| hopefully contribute to making people stop using facebook,
| twitter, other centralized and eventually login seeking services
| for hosting content people would like to read.
|
| For this, a free/cheap one click hosting solution after locally
| creating and previewing a site would be necessary.
|
| PHP is still pretty widely used here because cheap web hosting
| package support that. I like PHP, but for open source projects I
| prefer Go because of the maintainability and fun of writing it.
| gooseus wrote:
| I spent the weekend working on a simple Typescript app router for
| the NATS messages similar to what Express/Koa does for http
| server apps:
|
| https://github.com/Gooseus/natsrun
|
| Gotta shout out to the author of HemeraJS who shared their
| project here 8 years ago and provided a starting point for me:
|
| - https://github.com/hemerajs/hemera
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704694
|
| Really just started and very much a work in progress, but figured
| I'd share while we're sharing. If anyone has any feedback I'm all
| ears.
| Boxxed wrote:
| I'm working on software for use by home hospital practitioners
| (scheduling, routing, and so on). Ever since the pandemic home
| hospital (where the doctors come to you, at home, rather than you
| taking a hospital bed) has been on the rise both to save the
| hospital bed and because being at home is a huge win for many
| patients. If you're in this space too I'd love to talk!
| 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
| shortrounddev2 wrote:
| I'm working on my own game, but I'm trying to generalize some of
| my code to be reused in future projects. I don't wanna say I'm
| making an engine as much as a framework for writing graphics code
| in DirectX. I'm also working on various tools for creating
| configuration files
| boogieknite wrote:
| Drupal Module for extending ArcGIS Online's features.
| https://github.com/you-knowww/agocms
|
| Apple vision pro app for documenting realtor's pre-listing-
| checklist notes in space and then exporting notes as PDF forms
| required by local MLS.
| fasteddie31003 wrote:
| After years of building virtual things out of code, I want to
| pivot into building buildings. I'm working on
| https://buildersqrcodes.com/ to scratch my own itch to easily
| communicate technical requirements to workers on the ground
| through QR codes.
| iancmceachern wrote:
| I've designed medical devices, implants, surgical robots and
| other complex, mission critical hardware that has been used to do
| thousands of surgeries, implanted in people all around the world
| and even in the Smithsonian.
|
| After celebrating the 10th anniversary of my product design firm,
| nerdian inc, this year I've been focusing on building my San
| Francisco Design Lab here in SOMA.
|
| We can design, 3d print, cnc machine, injection mold, build
| electronics and do all the integration for a complex piece of
| hardware all under on roof, right here in SF.
|
| I've shipped dozens of complex pieces of hardware that are in use
| today. What can I ship for you?
| kfarr wrote:
| Working on 3DStreet, people-centered urban design. Think of it
| like a figma for street design: https://3dstreet.com/ or
| https://github.com/3dstreet/3dstreet
| skittleson wrote:
| Still working on the bluetooth "wall of sheep" app.
| https://github.com/skittleson/bluetooth-wos . im hoping to put
| more insight on each device and receive avaliable notifications
| from the devices. I even figured out a rough estimate of how far
| devices are away with just RSSI and other available devices that
| have TX Power and RSSI within a few meters.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| A few years back I developed a system of 3 sided cards
|
| https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365055855971750
|
| https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111168528593969946
|
| https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111052075781351382
|
| which didn't really connect with people. I did a collaboration
| with some people where I'd barcoded work prints and found that
| the system was not so reliable and I'd gotten out of the house
| without publishing the "web side" of the prints. Also I had a few
| boxes of glossy paper which wouldn't let me print on the back so
| I developed a new generation of card
|
| https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365041910591036
|
| https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113385742853987268
|
| The new system reliably associates the QR code and "web side"
| with a print because it prints the front. I am planning a better
| "web side" than I had before, particularly to view stereograms
| with a VR headset, also to publish with the Looking Glass Go.
| bitbasher wrote:
| Trying to get over burnout and actually make progress.
| mmclar wrote:
| I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline,
| which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my
| timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server.
| It also includes an import function for exports of your Google
| Timeline data so that your historical data from that can be
| integrated as well. I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web
| app and the POC Android app early next month.
| cellularmitosis wrote:
| In line with the self-hosting idea, I'm working on an iOS app
| which can be used as a native app, or can serve itself as a
| webapp on your local network (so that you can also use it from
| your laptop). There is no cloud, your phone is the server, your
| data stays with you at all times.
|
| I'm kind of surprised no one seems to have explored this idea
| before (happy to be shown examples proving otherwise!)
| io84 wrote:
| Is there a repo we can follow for this?
| idatum wrote:
| Self hosting Ente and Minio (Debian and FreeBSD). I can now have
| an encrypted backup of my phone's photos without privacy issues
| of Google photos etc.
| SuperV1234 wrote:
| I've been working on an experimental modern C++20 fork of the
| popular SFML library, that introduces the following new major
| features/changes:
|
| - *Modern OpenGL and first-class support for Emscripten* -
| *Batching system to render 500k+ objects in one draw call* - *New
| audio API supporting multiple simultaneous devices* - *Enhanced
| API safety at compile-time* - *Flexible design approach over
| strict OOP principles* - *Built-in SFML::ImGui module* -
| *Lightning fast compilation time* - *Minimal run-time debug mode
| overhead*
|
| It is temporarily named
| [*VRSFML*](https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML) until I
| figure out a nice name.
|
| You can read about the library and its design principles [*in
| this
| article*](https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml.html),
| and you can read about the batching system [*in this other
| article*](https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml2.html).
|
| You can find the source code
| [*here*](https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML) and try out the
| interactive demos [*online in your browser
| here*](https://vittorioromeo.github.io/VRSFML_HTML5_Examples/).
|
| The target audience is mostly developers familiar with SFML that
| are looking for a library very similar in style but that gives
| more power and flexibility to the users. Upstream SFML is more
| suitable for complete beginners.
| austin_y wrote:
| A sqlite extension that provides a virtual table backed by an
| Automerge document (https://automerge.org/).
|
| I believe that there are plenty of applications that could
| benefit from the collaboration or sync-ability that CRDTs*
| provide, but that don't need to manage the CRDTs directly. Moving
| the CRDT management into the database seems like a natural fit.
|
| It's very early, and not public anywhere, but I'd be happy to
| chat about it if anyone has any thoughts or questions.
|
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
| gritzko wrote:
| Looks like we overlap somewhat
| https://github.com/gritzko/librdx
|
| I had some success embedding CRDT into LSM databases. Those are
| built around merge operators.
| austin_y wrote:
| librdx looks interesting, I'll be taking a look, thanks!
| gritzko wrote:
| A "greatest common denominator" format for data synchronization.
| Like, JSON done right. CRDT and very algebraic.
|
| https://github.com/gritzko/librdx
| mathgladiator wrote:
| Myself, mind and body
|
| Everyday, I get up and cold plunge. I exercise twice a day. I eat
| carnivore diet. I do red light therapy. I drink a gallon of
| water. I read 10 pages out of two books. Sometimes I get a third
| exercise in. I use the sauna (20 minutes at 205F). I stand on a
| vibration plate for 10 minutes.
|
| I also play factorio.
| cannibalXxx wrote:
| I've always struggled to find a place where serious programmers
| would be there to talk and exchange experiences on various topics
| related to software development. So I built a simple site from
| scratch where we can chat, send files, post things and share
| images and links on a single platform. https://chat-to.dev
| AndrewVos wrote:
| A colouring app that is free and simple. I want it to avoid
| advertising or anything that makes apps nowadays irritating.
|
| https://color.vos.lol
|
| Try it out, it's free!
|
| If you don't have an iPhone, you might have success with the
| desktop version at: https://color.vos.lol/app
| AndrewVos wrote:
| Also, my next app is a stacking game (it's very rough around
| the edges): https://stackable.vos.lol/app
| martin_a wrote:
| Last time I posted that I'd work on my first PCB. That somehow
| fell off the table, can't really grip where the time went.
|
| Job is very stressful as Q4 is peak-season for us. Managed to
| stick to some healthy habits though, like doing sport regularly
| and trying to eat less junk food. It ain't much but it's
| something I guess.
|
| Also made a good deal on a broken Kitchen Aid machine. I want to
| repair it for a friend of mine who would like to have one but
| can't afford it right now. I think that will be a nice christmas
| present. Really need to get that going though, when time flies
| again.
| ctrlw wrote:
| I've always dreamed of flying by just flapping my arms, and have
| been building osm4vr to do just that. It's a 3d / VR experience
| that runs in the browser and allows you to fly around buildings
| with the data taken from OpenStreetMap.
|
| https://ctrlw.github.io/osm4vr/
| kfarr wrote:
| +1 this is a super great implementation of OSM in VR!
| ctrlw wrote:
| Thanks Kieran, I'm really happy about your feedback and that
| it's useful in your project! :-)
| Ladsko wrote:
| I've been tinkering with my own keyboard layout:
|
| https://ladsko.github.io/hexed/
|
| It's hexagonal, compact and optimized for German and English
| thanks to noted (https://dariogoetz.github.io/noted-layout/)
|
| Right now I'm testing key shapes and sizes and the manufacturing
| of key caps. I thought I needed a resin printer for best results
| but FDM printed caps with a blob of epoxy resin on top works
| surprisingly well.
|
| There's no firmware yet, I have not even decided on a micro-
| controller or software. But I want to use Kailh Choc v1.
|
| This is my first time exposing this project to the public so I'll
| be very happy about some feedback!
| bloopernova wrote:
| This looks really cool!
|
| What's the "up/down" key in the bottom row, centre, between the
| 2 return/enter keys? (I ask because my "dream" keyboard would
| have a thumbwheel just below/between the 2 spaces bars on an
| Alice layout keyboard) EDIT: it's a toggle key.
|
| The different heights and layout look interesting; did you
| perform any statistical examination of which symbol keys were
| most used? Are you intending on using QMK layers to enter the
| extra symbols?
|
| Can your fingers accurately hit all those modifier keys? Does
| that layout lead to less or more pinky usage? (I'm terrible at
| hitting other keys, I'm just a clumsy person)
| Ladsko wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| That would be the perfect spot for a thumb wheel, it's a cool
| idea.
|
| I myself did not do any statistical analysis, the effort was
| done by the neo layout project (https://www.neo-layout.org/)
| and the hybrid English/German variety called noted. I
| modified it slightly to fit my hex grid.
|
| The height difference makes it possible to hit the edge of
| the key without pressing the key below. And you'll find the
| home row more easily just from the bent layout shape. This
| should also help with hitting the right modifiers.
|
| I want to try Jan Lunge's Keyboard configurator
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYJYFMWjNM) for KMK but
| have not made a final decision. If I hit a road block with
| his configurator I might try QMK. Either software supports
| layers.
| bloopernova wrote:
| Yours is about the most innovative keyboard I've seen in a
| while. Good luck with it, I wish you every success :)
| tatubola wrote:
| It looks awesome. Like a prop from a sci-fi movie!
| yizhang7210 wrote:
| my mental health lol
| jpb0104 wrote:
| I've been hacking on a super simple on-call rotation manager.
| Been fun to learn Hotwire/Stimulus. https://majorpager.com
| nkg wrote:
| I am working on a private transportation service. Think Uber, but
| in a small market. We have an aging population, poor public
| transportation and some of the bumpiest roads you can find in the
| West. It will fill a void.
|
| Not my idea, though. Through our local geek community, I met this
| taxi driver who pitched his app idea. He convinced a few other
| drivers to pay a small fee to kickstart the project. Then he
| convinced me to help with the technical stuff, and I convinced a
| friend to tag along.
|
| He is on the road looking for funding!
| kfarr wrote:
| I am intrigued by the concept of an open source Uber
| equivalent. I was involved early in a few rideshare app
| concepts before Uber came to market and it was surprisingly
| complicated. You have the technical challenges combined with
| being a "market maker" for both riders and drivers. It's
| possible but hard.
| pratyushnair01 wrote:
| You might be interested in "Namma Yatri". It's a fairly
| successful open source ride hailing app from India.
| conductr wrote:
| > I was involved early in a few rideshare app concepts before
| Uber came to market and it was surprisingly complicated.
|
| Can you explain some of the difficult parts? I'd think it
| would be fairly straight-forward. Is the technical challenge
| of market making the hard part? or getting enough users on
| the app to actually make a market?
| matcha-video wrote:
| I've been working on a free, in-browser "pre" video editor.
| Upload your clip, use a transcript interface to cut it down to
| the takes and salient bits you want to keep, then export your
| cuts to FCP or Resolve to complete your editing. This tool saves
| me about 25-30% of my editing time.
|
| Uses transformers.js & WebGPU for running transcription, so it's
| pretty fast. It's still a bit rough around the edges, so I'm
| looking for feedback.
|
| https://matcha.video
| MurageKabui wrote:
| I've been working on an android app that lets you automate
| android the JavaScript way, it's made using Cordova. The tech
| stack is Vue, Sqlite, bootstrap and jQuery. The idea is that a
| user can create js scripts containing methods I have provided
| that programmatically interface with androids native features
| like sim card, Bluetooth, WiFi, battery, network, TTS,
| Flashlight, etc.. https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo
| flanbiscuit wrote:
| This is really cool. Does it handle setting up scripts that can
| run in the background? Or can I only manually run a script?
| liamdgray wrote:
| I'm trying to combat disruptive chatter in K-12 classrooms.
| matcha-video wrote:
| Thread-to-Markdown, a browser extension for saving Twitter
| threads and articles to a markdown file.
|
| ---
|
| Chrome
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eoapehkjjmekhkeinma...
|
| Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thread-to-
| mar...
|
| ---
|
| Example output https://sharetext.io/?slug=61fa044c
|
| Original thread
| https://x.com/johnrushx/status/1850899186528473097
| totemandtoken wrote:
| I kind of got back to looking at my newsbetting app called
| Rashomon. I posted about it on here a few weeks ago to no
| attention.
|
| Basically you get untitled articles and have to bet whether they
| are from far left, left, center, right or far right sources. The
| idea was to maek readers aware of their biases. I wrote my
| findings here:
| https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/projects/Rashomon.htm...
|
| You can demo the site here: https://www.rashomonnews.com
| flanbiscuit wrote:
| Sounds like an interesting concept.
|
| Is there a demo account we can use to test it out? or maybe
| give 1 or 2 articles for free so people can get a feel of it
| and then have them setup an account after.
| oli5679 wrote:
| I get this error when I try signing up.
|
| ValueError at /accounts/signup The given username must be set
| Request Method: POST Request URL:
| http://www.rashomonnews.com/accounts/signup Django Version:
| 2.2.10 Exception Type: ValueError Exception Value: The given
| username must be set Exception Location:
| /home/deployer/newsbetenv/lib/python3.5/site-
| packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py in _create_user, line
| 140 Python Executable: /home/deployer/newsbetenv/bin/python
| Python Version: 3.5.2 Python Path: ['/home/deployer/rashomon',
| '/home/deployer/rashomon', '/home/deployer/newsbetenv/bin',
| '/usr/lib/python35.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.5',
| '/usr/lib/python3.5/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',
| '/usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload',
| '/home/deployer/newsbetenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages'] Server
| time: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:36:54 +0000
| fimdomeio wrote:
| I trying to create a management software for Integral Coops in
| Portugal. In a gross oversimplification Integral coops tend to be
| location based and allow freelancers and small groups to come
| together and have a infrastructure as if they were a big business
| while keeping their independence on the work they want to do
|
| I'm trying to make it: a collective project shared between
| multiple coops, open source, sustainable in the long term.
|
| I've already did some micro projects to the coop I'm a part of,
| like changing the workflow of expense invoice management from a
| totally manual process to an 80% automated process so I'm pretty
| sure I can provide significant benefits to the coops. Right now
| There's already a prototype andI'm in the process of talking with
| cooperatives finding financing and making it real.
|
| website is at https://coops.pt (very early stages, in portuguese)
| robby1066 wrote:
| After a LONG time out of the tech world (burnout destroyed me
| right before the pandemic) I'm building something new and it
| feels great.
|
| It's an online service that helps immigrants prepare their
| citizenship application and get affordable feedback from an
| attorney.
|
| https://www.clearboxlegal.com
|
| (Met my co-founder on the YC founder matching platform, Thanks
| YC!)
| bilsbie wrote:
| Was it hard to find a cofounder on there? Everyone seems really
| opinionated and focused on their own ideas.
| delduca wrote:
| Adding physics support (Box2D) because my child asked for the
| character to jump.
|
| Context:
|
| https://nullonerror.org/2024/10/08/my-first-game-with-carimb...
| GarnetFloride wrote:
| I am working on a presentation about meals in space that I'll be
| giving just before Thanksgiving to some writers. I am also
| working on cataloging my books. This will be my third try and I'm
| just using a spreadsheet this time. One time it corrupted all my
| date and the backup got mangled when I tried to bring it in. Then
| the online space went under. So I'm doing it the simplest
| possible way.
| tirex wrote:
| Building a niche data science job board. Bought a catchy domain
| name and slowly started building. https://datasciencejobs.com/
| justnw wrote:
| I'm working on a LLM project that makes text content review
| faster.
|
| You can specify rules you want the content to follow, and it'll
| analyze and highlight sections in your content that differ from
| your rules.
| paddy_m wrote:
| If anyone here has an open source project that they want a docs
| or README review from fresh eyes, please reach out. Establishing
| what problem your software solves, for who, with no initial
| context is a fun challenge. I don't pretend to be an expert, but
| I enjoy looking at new stuff.
| ceritium wrote:
| I have been working on improving the editor UI (svelte), the
| project wizard and adding payments on https://babelfu.com
|
| I haven't merged those improvements on the community edition
| (yet) because of time constraints.
|
| The next thing I will be working on is the GitHub Marketplace.
| maddalax wrote:
| Right now I'm working on https://htmgo.dev
| ngokevin wrote:
| I'm building a language learning app, specifically for multi-
| ethnic couples that want to learn each other's language in a very
| personalized way: https://couplingcafe.com
|
| I've eschewed jobs and even a funded YC startup to work on this
| idea for years, ideating. Just following my passion and deep
| belief I'm making a more effective way to learn a language while
| also strengthening an emotional relationship!
| robby1066 wrote:
| Oh wow, that looks great!
| benfarahmand wrote:
| I made a music visualizer.
|
| Background: Over the past several years my friends and I would
| get together for music nights where we share albums and songs
| we've been listening to. We also have a projector in case we want
| to showcase music videos.
|
| Eventually, I made us a music visualizer that analyzes real-time
| microphone input and draws various geometries on to the screen,
| giving us something to engage our eyes. I built it using the
| Processing library for Java.
|
| Here's a few demos of it:
|
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNIBagttRU
|
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJ192bQt1k
| triwats wrote:
| A pure passion project. I have been fortunate enough to ride a
| bike across the world in numerous amazing places and it's been
| wonderful.
|
| What is not great, however, is the amount of money it costs to
| get a tour planned which is often expensive for very little
| value.
|
| Therefore, I have started collating my information slowly but
| surely and trying to give people confidence to plan their own
| trip. Doing it with Sanity.io, NextJS and a few new technologies
| to me. I have learnt a lot.
|
| Still a long way to go, but you can find current progress here:
| https://rides.bike
| pancakemouse wrote:
| Fantastic. I hope it inspires some epic journeys!
| crgk wrote:
| I'm working on a crossword app, with the intent to add "kaizo"
| elements, as a way to take any puzzle and add obstacles aside
| from the clues, which I hope will be fun. But I guess I won't
| know until I try.
|
| I have a little project page and a WIP demo here:
| https://crossobear.chadobear.world/
|
| Typing this up, I realize I should stop fiddling with styles and
| implement some of my kaizo ideas to see how they feel to play
| with.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| Burned out with the job hunt after a rough year so I'm building
| out a remote job listing site... because I'm searching for a job.
| I figured I will build something that scrapes top sites I visit
| and normalizes job postings and company profiles, to which I can
| subscribe/save/apply/archive listings, get jobs matched to my
| resume etc. Just a nice little CRUD app.
|
| I figure it's better to launch something then go job hunting
| instead of job hunting off a resume that hasn't been updated in a
| good while.
|
| I built dailycodingproblem.com with a friend way back and we got
| #2 on PH so I am trying to get back to that life again!
| f8 wrote:
| Great stuff! What tech stack did you decide on? Also what sort
| of jobs are you gunning for?
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| Thanks! I'm going with nuxt3 on the frontend, and just
| firebase for everything else. Anything in the startup/remote
| world. There's a few go-to job boards I go to so it would be
| nice to get it all into once place.
| tomcam wrote:
| This is going to be good. He is a terrifyingly smart guy.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| Haha thank you Tom :)
| tanvach wrote:
| I'm making a battery powered e-ink dashboard that uses openai api
| to summarize the weather and suggest the correct toddler clothing
| for my son at a glance. It refreshes every hour and so far been
| pretty good at catching things I might forget, for example wind
| chill and sun exposure.
| bilater wrote:
| Currently focusing on making my main app the best YouTube
| productivity tool ever.
|
| https://www.you-tldr.com
|
| It initially was a simple youtube transcript + summarizer but
| I've added a bunch of more features. My goal is to make it the
| tool that lets a user go from video to insight in the shortest
| amount of time.
|
| Would love any feedback and ideas around this!
| lieks wrote:
| I'm currently working on a programming language that will
| probably be very boring in practice (Algol/Pascal structure,
| C-ish syntax, traits/typeclasses but only modules can be generic,
| not sure if GC or borrow checking but probably a hybrid).
|
| The idea is to have something efficient enough, with the least
| amount of implementation complexity (including codegen), and
| still being nice to use, which is a really interesting balancing
| act.
|
| For example, instead of implementing loop optimizations I could
| add APL-style broadcasting; I could make a complicated but
| efficient GC runtime or a complicated but efficient borrow
| checker, but I could also make both a dumb GC and a dumb borrow
| checker that somehow complement each other.
|
| It's kind of a researchy language, but not trying to be new or
| interesting. Just "globally simple".
|
| Most features are in an theoretical design phase, but I'm
| currently working on a new backend (LLVM is too fancy to count,
| QBE is too basic).
| grepLeigh wrote:
| I'm researching and writing a paper on Noisy Intermediate Scale
| Quantum (NISQ) computer architecture. I'm focused on comparing
| the advantages/limitations of three different qubit modalities:
| superconducting, trapped ion, and neutral atom.
| chatter_edu wrote:
| I have been developing methods to help K-12 teachers reduce
| disruptive chatter in classrooms. Example feedback from a
| student: "It was relieving to not get a headache for once."
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15j0QD3dqrJjTapTB4K31...
|
| If you find that useful, or are interested in collaborating,
| please hit me up! (Contact info in profile.)
| son_of_gloin wrote:
| I'm working on a WebGL-based timeline that covers the entire
| history of our Universe and let's you zoom in to see more detail.
| After I finish this 2D version, I plan to create a 3D VR timeline
| that you can "walk" through, complete with animated dinosaurs,
| etc. A while back I had started on the VR version using Unity but
| unfortunately lost all the code when I made a mistake migrating
| from Google Drive to iCloud :(
| https://youtu.be/Jj0tfwX3JVE?si=3WDYUzYjQUnsLU7E
| probablygrillin wrote:
| My son loves collecting pokemon cards and trading with his
| friends at school.
|
| We talked a lot about Pokemon on Friday and it got me into a
| nostalgic mood...
|
| Side Note: Pokemon has done a great job staying relevant for 3
| decades.
|
| So... I made a python script with gpt-vision where he can manage
| his collection and uncover the value of each one. He just snaps a
| photo and boop, there's the returned valuation. He's now got his
| whole collection documented and appraised. :)
|
| Most importantly, we had a lot of fun spending time with each
| other on this.
| escapecharacter wrote:
| Valuation can sometimes depend on things like whether it's
| still in the package, and wear and tear. It would be
| interesting to try to estimate that, have you tried?
| andrethegiant wrote:
| I'm building a platform for developers to build, deploy, and
| share web crawlers. It's built entirely on Cloudflare and aims to
| be the cheapest and easiest solution for crawling tens of
| millions of pages.
|
| https://crawlspace.dev
| absoluteunit1 wrote:
| Starting out in self-hosting.
|
| Got a VPS from Hetzner and will start by self hosting my blog and
| setting up actual (budgeting tool)
|
| Then will move to self host my notes, media, and my applications.
| peterkos wrote:
| Cabinette[0], a macOS app for musicians/producers to manage their
| music catalog. My WIP folder has about 75 songs, ranging from
| electronic/orchestral/piano, and I wanted something with
| dedicated filtering, tracking progress over time, and pretty
| drag/drop. So... I built it!
|
| Currently in TestFlight, but 1.0 is launching soon :) Feel free
| to give it a spin, and drop thoughts on the feedback board.
|
| (Another idea I'm starting is an easy-learn, hard-to-master,
| productivity app: split calendar and todo list, with fluid
| drag/drop and power user features. Targeting the iPad at first,
| and will hopefully bring to more platforms. Keep an eye on my
| website[1] for launch!)
|
| [0]: https://cabinette.app
|
| [1]: https://peterkos.me
| marmakoide wrote:
| A nodal real-time video processing tool : put together pre-made
| "processing boxes" to generate interactive video. It runs on
| pretty much anything, uses a plugin architecture.
|
| Say, plug a camera, and it will blend two videos streams using a
| silhouette detected on the camera, with various effects. It's
| very, very early, pre-alpha stuff, but it already was used for a
| demo by a customer.
|
| GitHub pestacle, be warned, it's undocumented and larval stage
| cyberlimerence wrote:
| Will it be something like TouchDesigner[1] ? I never used TD
| myself, but I follow a lot of creative types who do for making
| music visualizations, art installations, etc.
|
| I can't find it on Github though, maybe repo is private ?
|
| [1] https://derivative.ca/
| raible wrote:
| I'm working on a PEG-based Turing complete language. It is self-
| hosted, generates standalone/embedable C, is reasonably small,
| and comes with a fully-featured REPL. It has only a single
| keyword: "macro". Feel free to reach out if interested.
| bequanna wrote:
| An app that syncs a timeline containing posts with whatever
| you're watching (TV Series, Movies, etc).
|
| The discussions and content displayed will be relevant to
| whatever is currently playing on your TV at the specific time.
|
| Have a rough app built and my potential initial target audiences
| identified. The integrations aren't TOO technically challenging
| and should be feasible.
| _bramses wrote:
| From my last comment in August 2024 [1], I have made progress!
|
| The project I'm developing is called Your Commonbase, a self
| organizing scrapbook built around Personal Library Science.
|
| The big updates are:
|
| 1. From Fleeting Note to Connected Note with The Entry/Comment
| Model - An entry has its own marginalia (comments), which are
| also embedded as first class data. These comments allow your
| search model to improve over time, and create surprising
| clusters. See this video to see an example of the Entry/Comment
| model in a d3 graph [2]. All the connections are created
| automatically! Entries go from "fleeting entries" inbox (not
| linked or commented on) to "main entries" which spread and
| connect ideas from across the space.
|
| 2. Using yCb as a creator - I created a Google Docs extension and
| have been using it to create Zettelkasten's for my blogs. On
| average each blog references 12 or more books. This is a real use
| case of a PKM system outside doing it for the love of the game
| [3].
|
| There's so much more including mobile upload, [[links]], audio
| upload, and more, but you can explore the Notion page in [2] to
| see the features I've added.
|
| [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347206
|
| [2] - https://bramses.notion.site/Your-Commonbase-
| BETA-10b034182dd...
|
| [3] - (blog: https://www.bramadams.dev/issue-59-are-inboxes-evil/
| | zettelkasten: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eW-
| hfRxHEMXE70JO7_PC3Lf...)
| rogutkuba wrote:
| Working on building a modern API management and monetization
| platform. https://useultrance.com/
| d883kd8 wrote:
| I'm building https://chattysun.com
|
| We make it easy for any website to take advantage of the latest
| LLMs for sales and support function. Been reaching out to
| freelance clients and finding many of them want this type of
| feature so we can provide it to them easily, sometimes with
| little to no customization.
| wanderingbit wrote:
| I am working on a personal digital mentor, in the spirit of Dross
| from Will Wight's "Cradle" series.
|
| I am a huge notetaker, so I'm trying to do RAG on my notes every
| week and have the mentor run a scrum-like retrospective for me.
| So far I've got the data ingestion from Notion finished, and next
| I need to setup the LLM mentor component as well as the CLI
| interface. For this first MVP I'm just trying to do better than
| Notion AI's response when I tell it something like "look at the
| last 7 days of notes I've taken and run a retro with me.
|
| I like it because it scratches a personal-improvement itch of
| mine, it's a nice project to become acquainted with the popular
| LLM app tech, and I can share it with others who may find it
| useful.
| gbrindisi wrote:
| I like it! How does your stack look like?
| chriskkim wrote:
| I personally believe Toronto hosts some of the best child care
| resources and options for young working parents, though issues of
| affordability and information asymmetry are palpable.
|
| I'm not naive to think that technology alone can fix this
| problem, but we are looking to balance the scale by 1) making
| existing child care resources easily accessible and 2) connecting
| parents and alternative caregiver options to fill the gaps that
| the current industry left behind. We are calling it Kindervillage
| (http://kindervillage.ca/).
| matthewfcarlson wrote:
| I'm working on an ESP32 based NFC record system using OwnTone
| (https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/) as the music hosting
| and playing solution (as it supports AirPlay to all the HomePods
| in the house). Each HomePod has a smaller ESP32 with a knob for
| adjusting the volume in a room.
|
| I've been buying lots of music after getting rid of Spotify and
| wanted the experience of walking in, picking an album, dropping
| on the player, and then listening to it throughout the house as I
| make dinner or do chores.
| popol1991 wrote:
| I've been building a chrome extension called Skipper [1] that
| helps people to organize their browser tabs with AI.
|
| For my whole career so far I've been applying ML (as they called
| it back then) / AI to various domains like drug discovery and
| cybersecurity. Both were fun but, man, it feels really different
| to build a consumer app. It's just very exciting to be able to
| develop something, push it, and get compliments/complains the
| second day! We've even noticed that the ADHD community are
| especially engaged with the extension because they suffer the
| most from the tab overload problem.
|
| Anyways, for those who might need it, here's the link:
|
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skipper-fewer-tabs-...
| dleink wrote:
| I've been working things that could be classified as "a11y for
| ADHD folks" lately, stuff like this really inspires some of my
| own projects. thanks for the work! (I am doing something much
| less robust/featured on my workstation with firefox, but I'm
| going to try this next time I'm on chrome.)
| skadimoolam wrote:
| I am working on implementing Double entry accounting system for a
| D2C startup. It's been a fun learning but a lot of nuances that
| never seem to end.
| matthewfcarlson wrote:
| I'm also working on an ESP32 open trivia button platform. The
| project was for a small class of high school age students I teach
| in an after-school program but I no longer volunteer there. Part
| of me wants to just finish it.
| breadchris wrote:
| I am building a web framework in Go that has all of the nice
| advancements in development experience that React has. Having
| spent a significant amount of time writing js, I get frustrated
| when things break and my developer momentum comes to a grinding
| halt. For everything that Go is, it is not a language that breaks
| because time has passed. Building this project is my long term
| bet that with the right tooling, Go can become a competitive
| language for writing full stack websites.
|
| https://github.com/breadchris/share
| mikewarot wrote:
| Troubleshooting the high loop digital board in an IFR-500 service
| monitor. We're waiting on replacement parts.
|
| We just got done with a Collins KWM-1.
| alonsonic wrote:
| My inbox was full of film related newsletters for special
| screenings in NYC so I decided to build an ai agent to track
| upcoming events and publish to a web and social media
|
| https://filmspotlight.org
|
| Now I don't need to read through all the emails, just check the
| occasional posts on upcoming events and book if interested
| cacozen wrote:
| A keyboard that is ergonomic without looking or feeling
| intimidating (https://github.com/cassiozen/fatbee).
|
| The term "ergonomic" isn't regulated in the US, so the market is
| full of supposedly "ergonomic" keyboards that offer little real
| benefits--and in some cases, may actually cause harm.
|
| My main gripe is with split keyboards. The traditional keyboard
| layout is wrong in so many ways (from the perspective of
| physiology and biomechanics) that just "splitting in the middle"
| isn't enough to avoid long-term injury.
|
| Splitting is not wrong, but alone, it's not enough. You need to
| tackle it from multiple perspectives: Yes, Split the keys, so
| your wrists aren't bent outward, support the palms so they're not
| bent upward, and angle the middle part up (like a tent) to keep
| your forearms from twisting. That twisting is especially bad
| because it squeezes the carpal tunnel and can lead to nerve and
| tendon problems.
|
| FatBee is my attempt to incorporate all these elements while
| creating something that doesn't feel too overwhelming to use.
| tatubola wrote:
| As someone who tried (and failed) to adapt to other ergonomic
| keyboards (like a Microsoft Sculpt a few years ago), this
| really speaks to me.
|
| The interesting thing is I did manage to fix most of my right
| wrist pain, but not through an ergo keyboard - switching to an
| Apple magic trackpad did the trick.
|
| But I'm still intrigued by your design - if it was something I
| could buy (instead of building) I would give it a go.
| dleink wrote:
| I'll first say that is a very pretty device that I would be
| glad to introduce to my workspace.
|
| This might be outside the scope of your work, but I'm
| considering going more extreme with ergonomics. What if the
| keyboard was split and mounted on my chair arms? What
| possibilities are there with a keyboard on a free-floating arm,
| whether it's full-sized or several smaller ones? I like that
| you use the word "familiar", I'm not looking to reinvent how
| keyboards work, I just want to rethink where I hold my arms.
|
| A concurrent project, I'm working on finding a chair that fits
| my specific dimensions. I'm too tall for the average chair and
| have been searching for solutions. Currently, I use a $40
| Coleman camping chair that lets me sit at a 135-degree angle
| with my laptop on my lap and a portable monitor to the side.
| However, it offers very little support for my head and
| shoulders, so I'm looking for a chair that can adjust from 90
| to 135 degrees and support my frame.
| angrypie wrote:
| I've been working on a free language learning app that uses a
| local AI model to translate words and sentences. You can read
| sentences, short stories, or watch YouTube videos with
| translatable captions. It mostly follows the principles of the
| comprehensible input theory. Think of it like LingQ, but free and
| with any language combination.
|
| The main goal is for the app to run entirely on the client side
| and stay completely free.
|
| Personally, I can't stand Anki or Duolingo--I'd rather read
| actual sentences that are fine-tuned to my level.
| wordpad25 wrote:
| I love the concept of translating at user level for learning.
|
| I'm building a directory of language learning tools, let's
| connect, please.
|
| wordpad@gmail.com
| trzy wrote:
| I'm working on robots. In the long run I'm interested in
| dexterous manipulation for industrial or commercial tasks (e.g.,
| assembly of products) but given the big $$$ already deployed in
| this space, am wondering if I can find a simpler (and faster to
| build!) application.
|
| Playing with 6-axis arms but also built RoBart for fun,
| controlled by Claude. Would love to connect with folks to ideate
| on the concept of a very cheap autonomous robot (maybe with some
| very limited manipulation ability for e.g. opening doors). I can
| think of an application in the health care space already.
|
| Footage at my web site (which badly needs a redesign lol):
| http://trzy.org
| nullfocus wrote:
| I'm building an online forms-as-a-service for static websites. I
| decided recently to revive my personal static site on netlify,
| where I share out with friends and family my recipes and movie
| recommendations. I wanted a simple "contact me" form, and decided
| to scratch my own itch with this service, and build out the
| server underpinnings so I can iteratively solve more problems
| static sites may have.
|
| In building out my cheap CI/CD process I wrote a simple web hook
| utility, using pure python and base libraries, and called it
| Duct-Tape-Hook: https://github.com/nullfocus/duct-tape-hook/
|
| If this is at all useful or interesting, drop me a line!
| cosbgn wrote:
| We are building an AI rag system and selling it to shipyards.
| Each ship requires thousands of unique documents to be "read"
| daily by big teams.
| ehsania wrote:
| I built and release https://rememit.com
| dexteeer wrote:
| in my work, inventory of raw material (computer system, scanner,
| printer, computer screen) is still done using paper so i'm
| building this android studio app that uses OCR and sends text to
| the server that will write it on excel sheet.
|
| the data I want: model, serie, inventory id, type
|
| so I have limited the text output extracted from the image to 4
| lines and started each line by the necessary property e.g model:
| HP prodesk 3000 MT serie: XCQOUNF24 inventory id: to be added
| manually type: to be choose manually (printer, screen, computer
| ... )
| awbvious wrote:
| Samsamelo
| https://g8way.io/WazWieKElugDkoQhDrpUfqK4P-hEFoxTmPVqSnU49Nc
|
| Inspired by three people, so I tried to find three fitting ways
| to let people know this story exists. 1: On a website currently
| showing deep-fake propaganda to support a fascist (felt a bit
| icky posting there). 2: On a dapp/chain that is the premiere
| place to lose money on sh*coins (as a sh*coin itself, but at
| least I'm not going to call it collateral as a pretense for
| fraud). 3: Here, where they actually managed to get rid of
| someone (who later proved himself un-rid-able elsewhere).
| jameslmilner wrote:
| I'm working on a JavaScript library for drawing on web maps
| called Terra Draw - it uses an adapter pattern so aims to work
| with a bunch of different mapping libraries such as Leaflet,
| Google Maps, MapBox and MapLibre. You can see it at:
| https://github.com/JamesLMilner/terra-draw
| project2501a wrote:
| corroborating packages between fedora and debian, but for off-
| line usage.
| kebsup wrote:
| A language learning app that combines Anki like spaced repetition
| with language learning ai tutor. https://vocabuo.com
| aneeshsoni wrote:
| This is an awesome idea. Traditional use of anki (i.e. med
| school) is super helpful for memorizing and retaining a vast
| amount of information making it especially great for recall
| when solicited on a test or irl. Have you found the ai
| component to help with learning the meaning of a word or phrase
| in various contexts?
| hiddevdploeg wrote:
| I'm working on an app called Helm. It's the all-in-one macOS app
| that replaces App Store Connect, supercharging your app updates,
| localization, and ASO with AI-powered tools.
|
| You should give it a try if you ship apps for any Apple platform
| :)
|
| https://helm-app.com
| dbingham wrote:
| You might want to choose a different name and branding.
| [Helm](https://helm.sh/) is already a package manager for
| Kubernetes with pretty similar branding.
| rgbrgb wrote:
| broadly, thinking about up-leveling careers for tech people who
| are very talented but not natural self-promoters.
|
| https://www.hedgy.works
|
| Currently going through the predictable chicken/egg motions of
| bootstrapping what is essentially a talent marketplace (need
| supply, more demand, more supply, etc).
| realmcqueen wrote:
| Finally pursuing my childhood dream and making a video game for
| mobile - https://galacticadmirals.com/
|
| Always wanted to make a truly grand epic space real-time strategy
| inspired by homeworld, anime, and of course the classic rts of
| past.
|
| this is a passion project... maybe turns into something real. who
| knows. I am having a blast working on this.
| laconicmatt wrote:
| This looks really cool, ill definitely be keeping track of it
| :)
| hinkley wrote:
| I'm teaching myself elixir/phoenix by building a SDLC tool
| inspired by Trac, the simplest tool that ever worked for me. But
| with CI/CD.
|
| It has morphed in the offing into two tools. One a federated
| CI/CD tool and one a personal productivity tool with affordances
| for neurodivergent people.
|
| Atlassian struggles with being a jack of all trades. Bamboo's
| integrations make it harder for devs to create repeatable,
| reliable builds, not easier. I've seen Atlassian struggle to
| scale with dev count so I want something more federated. Jira is
| in constant danger of becoming a panopticon, using developer's
| transparency as a weapon against them at review time, destroying
| psychological safety. Devs only use these tools if they see
| personal benefit or are harangued to do so. My thesis is that you
| need one tool for personal accountability and a separate one for
| team accountability both to fight Goodhart's Law and for people
| with variability in their daily productivity. There are many
| little tools for doing bits of this but they don't talk to each
| other, leaving the plate spinning up to the developer, many of
| whom plate spinning is onerous.
|
| I'm hoping this will do for bug databases and possibly wikis what
| interactive rebase does for pull requests. Do what needs to get
| done, then make it make sense to others afterward.
| NoRagrets wrote:
| I am converting all the short farm stories I wrote into little
| audio stories using AI voiceovers. It's not perfect and has
| kinks.. but I am enjoying it.. 5 done, 15 more to go!
|
| https://youtube.com/@mushroomsonmars
|
| My next project is one about lunar habitat and food production
| systems but as a podcast ..entirely with AI voices. Because I
| can't find anyone from NASA or SpaceX to speak with me..hah!
| trevinhofmann wrote:
| This is not very concrete, but I've been thinking about the
| parallels between software development and Factorio and how to
| tie the two together to be (personally) beneficial. This includes
| finding ways to make software development as enjoyable as the
| game* and also pondering ways to make programming more visual. It
| would be cool to "see" a software project functioning similar to
| the moving parts of a factory.
|
| * setting small, clear objectives
|
| * spending enough time on refactoring
|
| * giving myself a small reward for completing objectives
|
| * automating more of my repetitive tasks
| davidclark22 wrote:
| I run a single-person SaaS company, https://easyteegolf.com/. I
| started it a couple years ago as a side project and have grown it
| organically.
| bigs wrote:
| That looks really cool!
| tristanb wrote:
| https://CodePeer.com - An AI-assisted code review platform that
| manages the lifecycle of a PR. We make sure everyone knows whose
| turn it is, we show you only what needs to be reviewed, and all
| historical edits and comments are intelligently presented. We say
| "AI-assisted" because it's a human-first approach to design -
| that said, you can use AI to do everything from making simple
| code suggestions to executing the entire review for you.
| vanrohan wrote:
| I recently started using X (Twitter), and got annoyed with my
| daily new followers that were obviously bots.
|
| I made a Chrome Extension to automate the bot follower removal:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...
|
| I suspect these bots are being used to boost certain content
| controlled by their owners, so definitely not good to leave them
| alone.
| benbojangles wrote:
| Mixed Reality application. I'm so stoked for what is about to
| happen.
| fandorin wrote:
| I'm developing a simple iOS app to detect Ultra Processed Food
| (UPF). The ones that are in Apple Store now are either too
| complex or paid-only without a chance to test it for free. I
| believe people should be able to detect UPF and learn how to
| detect it even without the app (in a long term). I will launch it
| in 2 weeks max.
| jastuk wrote:
| English language only, or language independent?
| pizzamiheart wrote:
| i'm working on a website to report trail conditions after
| Hurricane Helene in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North
| Carolina and the Smokys of Eastern Tennessee.
|
| there's a lot of unknowns as trails are still closed and there's
| not a conditions report feature in strava to use to figure out
| conditions as they do start opening up.
|
| goals are to have:
|
| - map search for a trail in the region - click the trail, see a
| popup summary of open/closed, and number of reports on that trail
| - page for each trail with most recent reports and ~maybe~
| pictures - recent reports on any trail on the home page
|
| currently, i'm stuck on full functionality with mapbox directions
| api and getting the search-for-trail working.
| lekashman wrote:
| I am putting together a media site dedicated to aging and how to
| better prepare for health changes as we get older.
| https://seriousaging.com
| veidelis wrote:
| I'm working on a digital version of a board game. It's 2-4
| players, turn based. Im using Rust (actix) on the backend for
| learning purposes; React, redux, immer on frontend. Communication
| via Server-Sent Events.
|
| Im experimenting with redux-like contstructs, which reduce the
| boilerplatey stuff, for example: export
| function setStatePlain(state: State) { return {
| type: SET_STATE, payload: state, } as
| const; } export function setState(state:
| DeepPartial<State>): Thunk { return (dispatch,
| getState) => {
| dispatch(setStatePlain(Object.assign({}, getState(), state)));
| }; } export function someAction(data:
| Data): Thunk { ...
| dispatch(setState(immer.produce(getState(), state => {
| state.lobbyGames[result.data.uuid] = {
| ...result.data, adminId: state.playerId,
| players: [{ id: state.playerId,
| name: state.playerName, ready: false,
| }], }; ... }
| })));
| chasd00 wrote:
| PID controller that I tune for wife happiness augmented by a
| variable interval reward system tied to a florist API as like a
| happiness autopilot. i call it "husband's little helper"
| AlexanderTheGr8 wrote:
| A text-to-speech (TTS) model. Most good TTS models are closed-
| source. I intend on making this one open-source.
|
| All the decent open-source ones are fairly basic with limited
| fine tuning and no alignment (RLHF).
|
| I plan on adding those things. Although I am not sure if there
| will be any demand for it. Plus, there's a decent chance meta
| will make llama 4 speech output making this one obsolete.
| upmostly wrote:
| Right now, I'm working on a startup with my cofounder called
| Hypership - an all-in-one platform designed to cut through the
| chaos of modern web development. After years of building
| products, I've seen how tangled the ecosystem has become. It
| feels like every tiny feature is another SaaS subscription, with
| its own login, data silos, and integration headaches. Want error
| logging? That's another $20. Need analytics? Another login. And
| don't get me started on the documentation for half these tools.
|
| Hypership is our attempt to fix that mess. We're building a
| platform where you can deploy, manage, and track everything from
| one place. No more juggling 15 different tools just to keep your
| app running. The vision is simple: let devs focus on building
| great products, not wrangling disconnected micro-SaaS.
|
| https://hypership.dev
| DropPanda wrote:
| Today, kindergarten was closed and I had to take much of the day
| off to take care of my five-year old daughter. We asked Chat GPT
| to assume the role of a master board game designer and to lead us
| through the creation of a novel boardgame, with input from us.
| She came up with the setting - we are unicorns that need to
| rescue princes and princesses that have been captured in a scary
| forest full of monsters. Quickly, the LLM proposed a full list of
| rules and props to make. We then had fun for around two hours
| drawing various cards and markers.
|
| The game was playable on the first try with only a few minor and
| very quick rule tweaks from me. Even I felt we went on a
| stressful quest in the forest. Honestly among the best games for
| this age group that I have ever played.
|
| 10/10 activity, will try again.
| username135 wrote:
| This sounds fun! Great idea, thanks.
| jakewil wrote:
| I'm building a window manager for macOS. I got frustrated with
| Divvy having inconsistent resizing on several apps, eg Firefox,
| and I wanted to be able to fully control window size and position
| with _only_ my keyboard (like increasing the width/height or
| moving the window one column to the left).
|
| I _should_ be done within a week or two :)
|
| https://www.bayview.app
| username135 wrote:
| http://choose.games/story/tales-of-borvia-2
|
| This is an original choose your own adventure game created by
| some friends. The score is original, as is the art work. Its a
| bit raunchy, but fun.
|
| Give it a try!
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