[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 200 points
Date : 2025-02-23 23:00 UTC (1 days ago)
| javierluraschi wrote:
| Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a
| Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of
| ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.
|
| https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9
| seanwilson wrote:
| A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes
| for UI/web design. :)
|
| https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
|
| > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can
| create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can
| see if they look good together.
|
| > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather
| than being limited by autogenerated colors.
|
| > See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a
| palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan
| in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form
| fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so
| you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later
| when designing.
| seanwilson wrote:
| Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI
| feedback for this, but you can drag whole
| hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between
| points on the curves.
|
| Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious
| problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling
| like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want
| to understand more what others need.
|
| I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive
| sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible
| colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up
| here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's
| often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
| gom_jabbar wrote:
| Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.
|
| https://retrochronic.com/
| csomar wrote:
| Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?
| jcbrand wrote:
| I'd also like to know, I love the look.
| gom_jabbar wrote:
| Custom-made. I appreciate your feedback on the look!
| gom_jabbar wrote:
| It's custom-made. I also use a custom build of Iosevka [0]
| for the font.
|
| [0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/
| SubGenius wrote:
| Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.
|
| https://matrixbird.com
| rozenmd wrote:
| OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation
| (https://onlineornot.com)
|
| Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status
| pages.
| nugzbunny wrote:
| Some of your screenshots are cut off on mobile
| (iPhone/safari/portrait)
| rozenmd wrote:
| Hey thanks for letting me know!
| gumshoe30 wrote:
| Geolede - An interactive world news map.
|
| https://geolede.com
| japhyr wrote:
| django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django
| deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-
| based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and
| deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month.
|
| https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
| purple-leafy wrote:
| A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games
| like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale.
|
| The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that
| before with a Raycaster.
|
| Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break)
|
| https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...
|
| Not for profit, just for fun and exploration
| neuralkoi wrote:
| Wow, this is really cool. Do you take inspiration from or have
| you looked at the original Wolfenstein3D code?
|
| https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
| purple-leafy wrote:
| Thanks I appreciate that! Love getting feedback :)
|
| Code-wise I didn't take inspiration from anywhere, I followed
| "C Programming - A Modern Approach" and based my C knowledge
| off there. There was also a YouTube video I watched regarding
| raycasting, and watching people optimise Minecraft etc.
|
| Other than that, its just been alot of trial and error and
| trying many, many different ideas out.
|
| What has helped is I don't worry about cross-platform
| ability, I just implement what I want and what feels fun and
| "innovative".
|
| But I have never seen anyone do a Raycaster with as many
| vertical/z-levels as I'm planning (1000's), maybe the most
| I've seen is ~10.
|
| Also most of the approach I'm taking is not best-practice,
| I'm trying to come up with how to approach everything from my
| own mind which has been extremely rewarding
| darklake wrote:
| Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15
| months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal;
| drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and
| understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with
| a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor
| choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to
| do). I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery
| patterns on various pieces of infant clothing. I combined
| multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from
| a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my
| embroidery machine. I made cookies and shared them with others
| creating a lot of joy I'm visiting with my grandson in another
| state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
| markatkinson wrote:
| Good job! You sound like a great grand parent and your grand
| child sounds like they're doing really well too.
| csomar wrote:
| A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is _very_
| alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to
| go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of
| interest.
| codr7 wrote:
| Embedded Lisp for app scripting:
|
| https://github.com/codr7/eli
|
| Typed Relational Database access:
|
| https://github.com/codr7/tyred
| id00 wrote:
| Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself.
| With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just
| finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-
| game.com/
| npodbielski wrote:
| Why for parents
| id00 wrote:
| Well... in general for busy people who don't have much free
| time anymore. Not strictly for parents
| RandomBacon wrote:
| I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still
| needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984
| _bramses wrote:
| a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage,
| searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library
|
| https://yourcommonbase.com/
|
| (and some philosophy on the subject :))
|
| https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/personal-library-science/
| bionsystem wrote:
| That sounds interesting, I might give it a try. Do you plan to
| allow plugins for domain-specific development ?
| _bramses wrote:
| thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first,
| and much of it's utility comes from working in other
| environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc..
|
| in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that
| works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic
| and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with
| marginalia.
|
| im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i
| think ycb works better with them doing what they do best! i
| also plan to make the stack self hostable in the near future
| :)
| bionsystem wrote:
| Self-hosted notion replacement would be amazing, I hope you
| succeed !
| some_furry wrote:
| Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for
| DMs atop it)
|
| https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
| finnigja wrote:
| I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site
| intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was
| for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful
| to others.
|
| https://learnpy.dev
|
| The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the
| framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who
| check it out!
|
| (The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the
| introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-
| browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide
| under the hood.)
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| I'm happy you're working on this.
|
| The best option I've found for my son (8yo) is this, but it's a
| little dry for a child: https://programming-25.mooc.fi/
| sshsinderdunkel wrote:
| A tool to interact with news using ML and AI. Kinda like an rss
| reader but with less focus on organizing news at the feed level.
| vira28 wrote:
| A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to
| PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders
| mohinish wrote:
| I've faced this challenge multiple times in my journey of
| building products and startups--having an early champion
| onboarded as a design partner while the team builds is critical
| to a startup's success.
| maxbond wrote:
| A parser combinator library. I'm writing a tool that will do
| static analysis of SQL (in a very limited fashion, it's a build
| tool and not a static analyzer, but I need to understand
| dependency relationships between statements). I started out using
| `nom`, but found it imperfectly matched to my needs (underpowered
| in areas I desired and overpowered in areas I didn't need for my
| project). `nom 8` came out with some interesting simplifications,
| but it happened to break my code in a way that would be awkward
| to fix. So I bit the bullet and started writing my own library.
|
| My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some
| cool capabilities.
|
| It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a
| token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be
| the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is
| an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the
| metadata of where it came from.
|
| Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set
| order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers)
| that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two
| operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made
| them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also
| only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I
| didn't see them.)
|
| One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a
| `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in
| order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent
| parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful
| for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first
| parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape
| sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of
| a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.)
|
| The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`,
| where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all
| concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a
| "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of
| tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different
| tokens, you want them all together.
|
| It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I
| often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of
| shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing
| especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and
| declarative macros. There are also other programming language
| projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor
| fit tool for parsing text.
|
| Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
| fuzztester wrote:
| >A parser combinator library.
|
| Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been
| checking out some text articles and videos about it.
| Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it
| is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far.
|
| I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser
| combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in
| other projects.
|
| >One of them is called `Compose`.
|
| About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan
| the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full
| string?
| maxbond wrote:
| > Unfortunately there is not much info available [.]
|
| Parser combinators are a bit hard to get into, the most
| helpful resource for me was `nom`'s "Choosing a Combinator"
| document [1], which is dense but gives you an overview of all
| the Lego bricks which you can then start imagining how to fit
| together.
|
| I've not really read it, but there's also the original paper
| on the subject [2] (as linked to by the `parsec`
| documentation [3]) which describes the nuts and bolts theory
| behind it.
|
| > [Can] you not just rescan the string for the escape
| sequences, after grabbing the full string?
|
| Absolutely, this is just a convenience around that pattern
| that allows you to express that like: let
| string = quoted_string.then(escaped(json_string_escapes)).par
| se(&input)?;
|
| Where `escaped` does the rescanning using the parser
| `json_string_escapes` (which consumes all the input up to the
| next escape, if it doesn't start with an escape sequence, or
| else consumes an escape sequence and returns the transformed
| text - this API is a little awkward, it may change).
|
| And also more generally for any parsers `foo`, `bar`, and
| `baz` as: let quux = (foo, bar,
| baz).map().parse(&input)?;
|
| [1] https://github.com/rust-
| bakery/nom/blob/main/doc/choosing_a_...
|
| [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140528151730/http://legacy.
| cs....
|
| [3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec
| fuzztester wrote:
| Thanks for the reply. I will check out those links.
| mirekrusin wrote:
| I did something like this some time ago [0] and still using it
| in prod - feel free to get inspiration in case you find it
| useful.
|
| [0] https://github.com/preludejs/parser
| lukevp wrote:
| I'm working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP
| downloader that will download much more quickly than other
| clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up
| operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the
| remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser
| and allows local/remote/cloud control. It's early (started last
| week) so there's not much done yet, but if you're interested,
| would love a star or watch: https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful
| fzysingularity wrote:
| We're building bleeding edge visual AI infrastructure at VLM Run
| (https://vlm.run).
|
| We're also hiring for multiple roles if anyone's interested in
| founding roles (ML Systems, DevRel): https://vlm-
| run.notion.site/vlm-run-hiring-25q1
| continuational wrote:
| Firefly is a typed full stack programming language:
|
| - object capabilities
|
| - implicit async/await
|
| - immutable collections
|
| https://www.firefly-lang.org/
|
| It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you
| try it out, please share your thoughts!
| tealpod wrote:
| Firefly language looks simple and beautiful.
| continuational wrote:
| Thank you!
| Fomite wrote:
| Trying to keep a computational epidemiology research group going
| in the teeth of the CDC, NSF and NIH being absolutely gutted.
| agentbellnorm wrote:
| Im making an orthodox file manager with vim-ish interactions. In
| rust with iced-rs.
| thevivekshukla wrote:
| A cloud agnostic platform to run your compute workloads across
| cloud providers. Currently supports Vultr and DigitalOcean. More
| cloud providers coming soon. Will also release support for on-
| prem.
|
| Daestro - https://daestro.com
| Saigonautica wrote:
| I made a small and light CRUD web thing in FastAPI to organize my
| personal library. Mostly it focuses on physical books, but
| handles ebooks too. I published it as FOSS and some people
| requested features, so I expanded it a little. It's nothing
| fancy: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio
|
| ...absolutely no one requested an RISC V port, but I did that too
| for laughs. Neat to see the whole thing run on a system the size
| of a postage stamp.
|
| Not sure what to do with it next. Will probably just let it be
| what it is, and fix any bugs that people report. Maybe move on to
| a new little weekend project.
| devtanna wrote:
| Super simple business idea validator using AI.
|
| https://ideapulse.io
| IronyMan100 wrote:
| cool idea! i'm a bit curious about the Idea Viability Score.
| What does it mean?
| devtanna wrote:
| Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that
| evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key
| factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and
| Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential,
| feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
| timtimmy wrote:
| Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying
| to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's
| trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W
| correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale
| biology stuff next.
| kilowatt wrote:
| Curious--Do you have a best Metal project to learn from?
| Foveated rendering and temporal reprojection important here I
| imagine.
| snowfoolin wrote:
| I've been working on a webapp to scrape links users enter from
| Zillow/Apartments.com/Trulia/etc to build tables of listings you
| are interested in. It can show your commute time to work or
| queries for amenities nearby like "Trader Joe's".
|
| https://getlistable.app/
| fullstackchris wrote:
| I'm building a full event sourcing framework for the IDE to help
| software creators (myself included) create educational software
| courses and lessons 100x faster! Hoping to launch the full
| product by summer:
|
| https://codevideo.io
|
| https://github.com/codevideo
| rashidae wrote:
| I'm building an AI-first startup for Latin America, kind of like
| TaskRabbit but simpler and more aligned with how people actually
| hire help here. We use WhatsApp for quick updates like 'Provider
| is on the way,' and we focus on getting verified professionals to
| people's homes--without getting in the way of payments or how
| they handle the job.
|
| To fund it, I'm building agentic workflows and automations for
| insurance, finance, and real estate companies. It's a way to keep
| things moving while I get the startup off the ground.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| I was laid off a month ago so my biggest project right now is
| finding work.
| NitinJ_11 wrote:
| I feel your pain :) I need a job soon too.
| brainless wrote:
| I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to
| store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for
| extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations
| deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and
| position of entities in text).
|
| It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out
| code which are just experiments.
|
| https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI
| soulofmischief wrote:
| Nice project! I built something extremely similar with a friend
| in 2022! Back when we only had the GPT-3 API. I built an
| ontological graph and relation extractor, mental model analysis
| engine, bunch of stuff, on top of an Elastic DB being filled
| with live incoming ephemeral data across the web, including
| messages, comments, posts, articles and more.
|
| I would really love for you to reach out via the email in my
| bio so we can talk ontology!
| brainless wrote:
| This sounds lovely. This product has not reached to the point
| where ontology matters, that is still far away.
|
| I am just going for the low hanging fruits - very basic stuff
| like location, person, event, activity, date (a few more
| things) and relations between them. One of the limitations is
| that I want to do deterministic extraction with suggestions
| from AI/ML, so there is much code to be written. I will email
| you, thanks a lot!
| apnew wrote:
| hey Sumit!
|
| Great seeing you here on and good luck!
| brainless wrote:
| Hey you, sorry I could not guess you from your username.
| Thanks a lot.
| unknown321 wrote:
| Interface addon for Linux-based NW series Walkmans
|
| https://github.com/unknown321/wampy
| rukshn wrote:
| An editor for Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with syntax
| highlighting and parsing.
|
| Repo: https://github.com/rukshn/cquill
|
| Demo: https://rukshn.github.io/cquill/
| marcfowler wrote:
| I'm working on a code generation agent that lives and operates
| inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs
| and others can generate PRs.
|
| https://rivets.dev
| maxbond wrote:
| Tangentially, I am glad to see this thread again, I was worried
| the idea was scrapped since I hadn't seen it in the last few
| months. For whatever it counts for, I like this idea and hope to
| see it continue.
| quodlibet wrote:
| I am building a game called The kill every mosquito Project
| (tkemp) inspired on The Kill everyone Project (tkep) from around
| 2006-2007. Mostly as an experiment to learn some new tools,
| unsure if it will ever be released.
| dend wrote:
| I am working on a reverse-engineered SDK for Stream Deck devices,
| called DeckSurf:
|
| https://deck.surf
|
| The SDK is open-source and on GitHub:
|
| https://github.com/dend/decksurf-sdk
|
| It's a hobby project, but one that I love working on because it
| unlocks some _really_ great hardware to be open to do anything I
| want it to be rather than be constrained by out-of-the-box client
| software that asks me to sign in with an account to get an
| extension installed.
| JackDanMeier wrote:
| I'm building a tool for uni students to study more effectively
| and have less stress for their exams. This is done with the study
| techniques retrieval practice(practising remembering to make
| recall easier, spaced repetition(schedule reviews for long term
| memorization, concrete examples. Most of this is done with ai
| generated flashcards and simple ai explanations. This week I will
| finish the exam generation feature. http://www.mimair.com
| pillefitz wrote:
| Looks cool! Any luck finding paying customers yet?
| aditgupta wrote:
| I wanted a minimal tool to easily track, organize, and reflect on
| my reading--so I built one: https://bookstates.app. I'm familiar
| with StoryGraph, but aimed for something even simpler. (and with
| a sprinkle of AI)
| monroewalker wrote:
| A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool /
| launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin
| interface.
|
| Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources
| of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email
| inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc. The result actions are a
| way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries
| (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim
| whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as
| an argument.
|
| Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using
| Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built
| with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows
| once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm
| on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by
| coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and
| with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing
| cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like
| Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something
| lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the
| current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go +
| Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are
| higher than is ideal.
|
| Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to
| be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an
| application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't
| intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in
| launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the
| current state of the Windows build.
|
| https://github.com/mwalkerr/Epte
| kilowatt wrote:
| An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights,
| prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
| maxbond wrote:
| I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind
| of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology?
| What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered
| you/users?
| kilowatt wrote:
| The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, &
| to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more
| like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own
| life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your
| journal in context can be to search and find commonalities,
| patterns.
|
| I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a
| high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a
| theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to
| make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly
| into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian
| naivete...
| maxbond wrote:
| I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage
| and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty
| far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand
| myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore
| the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's
| Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't
| be reached.
|
| Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
| rhl314 wrote:
| _Magnetron.ai - Instantly Create Lead Magnets_
|
| I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets.
| Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well
| crafted ebook as your lead magnet.
|
| You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai)
|
| (This is still WIP)
| stuckinaloop wrote:
| I've deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn).
|
| I'm trying to really see and feel what's actually missing in my
| life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my
| friends are up to in a non-curated way.
| sgt wrote:
| Well done, LinkedIn is a cesspool. Ironically the only thing I
| am using right now is Twitter, since a lot of interesting
| people are still on there. There's a lot of negative but
| balance as well. For every MAGA or ESR's comments, I balance it
| out with Miguel de Icaza's views on Gaza, etc.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| You should be able to use Twitter without justifying yourself
| sgt wrote:
| Yeah you are right. But there is some really toxic stuff
| there too that isn't going away. You can't really filter
| it.
| bdavisx wrote:
| No, I would say at this point a lot of people who say they
| use twitter feel the need to say they aren't a nazi nor do
| they support nazi's. YOU may not feel that way, but a lot
| of people do, and they don't want to be associated in any
| way with endorsing nazi's or musk.
| djeastm wrote:
| "Should" being the operative word. It was easier a few
| years ago
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| I've been improving the developer experience of the extremely
| janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source
| real time transit app, OneBusAway.
|
| Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to
| the project to make building and locally running it a breeze.
| Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document
| how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of
| life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the
| backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-
| modules...
| lysecret wrote:
| I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems
| and questions also some habit tracking
| https://www.checkindaily.ai/
|
| Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by
| feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a
| criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
| jaronilan wrote:
| Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read
| something on HN. It is about life expectancy.
|
| Edit: Three from prior published here:
| https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
| ruuda wrote:
| I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language
| (https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset
| promise. Blog post coming soon!
| bottled_poe wrote:
| I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a
| software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have
| been building this platform in the background to help automate
| and standardise the hosting needs for our clients.
|
| We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to
| manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product
| also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can
| be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot).
|
| If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March,
| reach out! (e: james at below domain)
|
| https://getbach.io
| nocommandline wrote:
| Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a
| GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.
|
| I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it
| out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.
|
| I'm also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows
| you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on
| Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need
| dev_appserver.py
|
| [2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-
| python3-windo...
| lnk2w wrote:
| I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and
| I'm building this website where I can put my scores and connect
| my drums, so it can tell me how on time I'm playing.
|
| Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome
|
| It requires WebMidi to be enabled:
|
| https://metronome-1tb.pages.dev/
| iamwil wrote:
| A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go
| back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest
| is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet
| integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been
| logging my progress so far:
|
| https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/
|
| Subscribe to follow along if you're interested.
| GavinB wrote:
| I've just published my first novel for adults, _The Dark Sorcerer
| 's Intern_, my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy
| genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut.
|
| The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where spells
| are cast with hand motions, magic words, or spell ingredients,
| there's actually an explanation for why that works and makes
| sense.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sorcerers-Intern-Humorous-Fantas...
| tulasa wrote:
| Currently integrating hardwares on card chip scripting
| application on C++. I hope I can start blogging on it soon.
| Easily the most interesting thing I have been involved in.
| mythz wrote:
| Working on a self-hosted OSS AI Server with support for LLM APIs
| (OpenRouter/OpenAi/Anthropic/Google/etc), Ollama endpoints,
| ComfyUI and FFmpeg agents. It supports Synchronous, Queued and
| Reply to Web Callback APIs for each API Feature with typed APIs
| integrations for
| C#,TypeScript,JS,Python,Dart,PHP,Java,Kotlin,Swift,F# and VB.NET
| clients.
|
| https://github.com/ServiceStack/ai-server
| kiruio wrote:
| I am working on the second version of WhatDinner [0]. Initially
| marketed it as 'Tinder to decide what to eat' and focussed on
| couples and families, but then only a fraction use it in family
| mode. So, now I am changing the concept and helping users
| generally decide what to eat (documenting it here [1])
|
| [0] https://whatdinner.com/
|
| [1] https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social
| chantepierre wrote:
| Continuing bootstrapping my software+service company Alzo
| (https://alzo.archi/), an Elixir modular monolith.
|
| The first clients are here and I am working on "darker tech" now,
| a single codebase injecting their data in both MS Office and
| Adobe's software suites. That's quite a change from Elixir.
|
| Also working on the reverse feature, reading/writing MS Office
| files inside Alzo. For that, I'm writing a Java app behaving as
| an Erlang node, connected to my main app via Erlang distribution,
| to leverage existing rich Java libraries for office tech.
| josters wrote:
| Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the
| lock screen. Didn't find one, so I first created a shortcut which
| would change my lock screen background image each night and
| overlay the number of days on it.
|
| This didn't feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone
| was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app
| [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for
| other people's ages in days.
|
| It's still very much a work in progress but the core
| functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost
| every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes
| etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to
| reference stuff.
|
| [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-
| milestones/id6738...
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my
| linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many
| days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even
| by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be
| predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking
| there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the
| manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or
| something like that.
| josters wrote:
| Thanks! Yes, was also thinking of adding a menu bar item to
| macOS to have it always visible.
| rijavecb wrote:
| I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building
| for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway
| editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I
| care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing
| features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons
| last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs
| to it too.
|
| I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break
| from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly
| find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's
| similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked
| great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother
| storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion
| for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.
|
| [0] https://gorby.app/
| kaonwarb wrote:
| Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on
| local markdown files?
| rijavecb wrote:
| Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/)
| which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since
| it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should
| be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and
| then when done writing and editing convert it back into
| markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that
| are available for both. I think Joplin
| (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
|
| I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been
| thinking of making it possible to save and read local files.
| If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be
| happy to give you a free license code :)
| indulona wrote:
| Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital
| content creators where they can sell digital content(files),
| online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going
| online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-
| end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time,
| and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and
| testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not
| use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event
| sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope
| to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with
| small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
| lanewinfield wrote:
| I'm working on a website that anybody can update by calling into
| the phone number in the url. https://715-999-7483.com/
| memhole wrote:
| You have some interesting ideas. Definitely a fan
| sschueller wrote:
| I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business.
| Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to
| support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which
| needs work.
|
| The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and
| prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure
| the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic.
| More technical details are here:
| https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...
|
| [1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/
| 4ndrewl wrote:
| That looks awesome!
| sschueller wrote:
| Thank you
| valorzard wrote:
| I've been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout.
|
| I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it
| would make the burnout go away, but it's basically only made it
| worse.
|
| It's the first time in my life where i haven't had a billion
| ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been
| trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire
| myself again but it's not working...
| mavamaarten wrote:
| I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h).
| Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever
| responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera.
|
| I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max
| speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be
| doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being
| almost killed on zebra crossings.
|
| I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using
| OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you
| see how fast they move between two known points.
|
| Average speed: 46 km/h :(
| m3sta wrote:
| I'm interested in this. A modern version of community watch.
| maltris wrote:
| Man, please share a tutorial
| someothherguyy wrote:
| There are plenty of tutorials on how to derive speed of an
| object using opencv. You could ask an LLM to write it for
| you.
| digibeet wrote:
| What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the
| job done
| rambambram wrote:
| What about just faking speed limit signs? If it's in The
| Netherlands, everybody should respect traffic signs, whether
| they are fake or not.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| There will be speed limit signs, but they're easily
| ignored. Maybe one of these plastic "watch out for our
| kids" things that people place on the street themselves?
| https://verkeersmaatje.nl/
| Apanatshka wrote:
| Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are
| way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the
| street even though it's illegal to record a public space like
| that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that
| surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous
| corporation won't be abused....
| onethought wrote:
| For private use you can film in public places in the
| Netherlands no?
| HenryBemis wrote:
| It is the "systemic/constant/permanent" recording, record-
| keeping. etc. a.k.a. "processing" (GDPR "processing" means
| "if it exists and you touch it, your are processing it").
|
| Back in 2005 I remember working with some physical sec
| company that were setting up cameras in a factory, and they
| wanted the cameras to 'not record traffic, be activated on
| if THIS part of the screen has motion')(sidewalk vs
| sidewalk-right-on-our-doorbell vs road). Also, sudden
| changes in lighting would trigger it :)
|
| Then you need to have retention period (good luck). Most
| people use those door-cams are violating GDPR. UNLESS when
| people complain and take you to court (very very very
| rare), you can prove that "I auto-delete records after 24h
| when there is no incident", "I have proximity scanner so it
| is only 0m-2m from my front door", etc.) (violating GDPR
| because "hey you pervert why do you record my kids EVERY
| DAY going in and out")
|
| Privacy and Data protection is very very very difficult
| with GDPR (and thank you Facebook for messing up back in
| 2015ish!!!)
|
| You can set up your cam but have the "AI" automatically
| pixelating all license-plates, and the video recording (if
| any) should be post-pixelating, and not the original feed.
| How about you put something with a speed-measuring-sensor
| (that is NOT a camera), so you only get 'anonymised' data,
| i.e. "20 moving items", and their speeds. But you will not
| be able to tell if the 300km/h was done by a bicycle or a
| Hayabusa ;)
| xorcist wrote:
| You are not allowed to put up unlicensed surveillance
| cameras in public places, no.
| onethought wrote:
| What is a licensed security camera?
|
| By this logic, are you saying cameras on private
| property, that happen to capture public space in their
| frame are also illegal?
| bornfreddy wrote:
| GDPR says no. Also, when you are using a cloud service it
| is no longer private use, you are sharing the surveillance
| video with Amazon (and almost certainly with the USA three-
| letter agencies) too.
| onethought wrote:
| GDPR just gives you the right to have it removed right?
| Curious to try that out, and request Amazon remove you
| from every ring recording .
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| On paper it's illegal to record the public street, but it
| seems to be given a pass for doorbell cameras, even going as
| far as the police asking people to sign up theirs into a
| database so they can request footage if needs be [0].
|
| [0] https://www.politie.nl/onderwerpen/camera-in-beeld.html
| mavamaarten wrote:
| It's not legal where I live (Belgium), it can be legal if you
| have a driveway and only film your driveway, and if you
| declare that camera in some database. But since I don't have
| a driveway, it films the street, I am aware that this is not
| legal.
|
| It's my personal decision and if I ever get fined for it, I
| will gladly pay the fine... with the money that my doorbell
| camera has already saved me. It helped me catch hit&runners
| that bumped into my parked car twice already, and the camera
| is now almost two years old.
|
| It's not connected to the cloud, saves data locally, and only
| stores a couple of days of video. It's not very ethical to
| unknowingly film public spaces, I know. My lame excuse is
| that I personally think that catching people that damage my
| property with a camera is a lesser crime than damaging
| someone's property and running away. The sad truth is that
| living in a place where parents drop off and pick up their
| kids twice a day do not give two shits about others. Hit and
| runs happen every day here.
| ariejan wrote:
| Not sure where you are, but 30kmh sounds Dutch. Filming the
| public road from your private residence is illegal.
|
| In practice, no one cares. Cops will even ask you nicely for
| footage if something went down in your street.
|
| Anyway, best of luck with your project.
| t0mas88 wrote:
| It's a complex discussion in the Netherlands in which the
| data protection agency (AP) has a very strict view (they
| claim it's not allowed) while for example the associated
| press sees it very different.
|
| There is a key difference between recording vs publishing.
| There are more restrictions on publishing and an objective
| assessment needs to be made between the interests of the
| person in the footage and the general public or publisher.
|
| I would argue that recording the road to collect speed data,
| not keeping the recording longer than needed and not for
| example recording license plates, would pass in the
| Netherlands. Since you're making an assessment between
| different interests and the is limited privacy impact. Of
| course assuming this is happening on a public road and not
| someone's property.
|
| Publishing the recordings instead of just the average speed
| data would be a very different story, especially if the cars
| or drivers can be identified.
| elzbardico wrote:
| I'd think that as long as you blur faces and license tags,
| would be there anything for someone to complain?
| 01jonny01 wrote:
| I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the
| government to intervene.
| rollinDyno wrote:
| Government is already intervening, you think people are going
| at only 46 kmh because of goodwill?
| 4ndrewl wrote:
| Ooh how edgy.
| onethought wrote:
| Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable
| government.
|
| You can't seriously believe this right?
| 01jonny01 wrote:
| There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO
| monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too
| far.
|
| I bet you are the same type of person who values software
| privacy haha
| FinnKuhn wrote:
| Then why even have speed limits if you don't want to
| enforce them?
| richrichardsson wrote:
| You sound like someone who doesn't have young children
| who cross a road where the road users _should_ be
| respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because
| it 's right in front of an elementary school, but instead
| a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher
| wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.
| JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote:
| No need to have children. It's the same crap in France
| and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I'm
| driving myself. These morons don't care about kids but
| they don't care about other drivers either.
|
| I'm a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a
| killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy
| IMHO.
| necovek wrote:
| I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver,
| there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a
| street without so much as looking where there is no
| crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h
| in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on
| except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights
| which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30
| second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and
| resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.
|
| And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed
| drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this
| is just their fault.
|
| Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even
| stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk -- slowness does not
| equal attention and safe driving!
|
| Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that
| requires all participants to be empathetical to other
| participants -- as such, we need to be most mindful of
| the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially
| kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists,
| motorcycles but _also_ of other car drivers -- if we care
| about each others ' experience, we'll reduce the risk for
| everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want
| to go in a timely and efficient manner -- and that is the
| goal!
| onethought wrote:
| As others have pointed out, you are essentially
| advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.
|
| Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other
| road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered
| vehicles?
|
| Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have
| much less enforcement of these rules... Would you call
| their driving experience optimal?
|
| Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I
| don't really have a view on it? So no, I don't think I
| am.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| The speeding itself isn't the problem. The increased risk of
| accidents is - and since this is around a school, it involves
| young children.
|
| "I'd rather put up with the speeding" implies you don't have
| kids and you only consider the noise nuisance, not the safety
| risk. Very self-centered.
| fiftyacorn wrote:
| i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast -
| and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design
| cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster
| clan wrote:
| Or consider the width of the road...
| globular-toast wrote:
| There is another way: make the _road_ feel fast. Thankfully
| it doesn 't need to be via bad road surfaces or horrible
| things like speed bumps that only encourage boy racers and
| reward large vehicles, making the road narrower with high
| kerbs or other physical obstacles force drivers to drive
| slowly and pay attention, otherwise they'll physically damage
| their vehicle. In a way it evens the playing field, currently
| cars can kill you, but they are untouchable, there are no
| consequences for speeding or being distracted. The main
| downside I can think of is the route becomes difficult for
| emergency vehicles to use, but with the saved space there
| could be a dedicated lane for public vehicles.
| mavamaarten wrote:
| They did try this approach. There's big concrete flower
| boxes in many places to create some artificial hindrances.
| It hinders your vision, causes people to swerve, it's
| annoying to give way. And worst of all: it slows people
| down for 2 seconds after which they just floor it.
|
| Honestly it's already pretty narrow and crowded here. I'm a
| regular driver here (duh) and it honestly feels dumb to
| drive faster than 30 because a cyclist can pop out of every
| corner. It's crazy to me that people want to, and do drive
| faster than that. But here we are. People suck.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Ironically, the lower you are to the ground, the faster it
| feels - everyone should drive a sports car!
|
| (conversely, I drive a motorcycle sometimes which puts my
| head at or just over roof height of most cars, it makes 80
| km/h not feel as fast. Mind you, the added road overview also
| helps)
|
| Anyway. Narrow / winding roads and speed bumps will
| definitely make you want to drive slower. We have 'cars are
| guests' roads inside cities too, which are roads designed and
| coloured like bike paths (= red asphalt).
|
| But the opposite is also true; I got a speeding ticket once,
| the road was a 4 lane, separated directions asphalt ring
| road... but the speed limit was 50 km/h.
| parimm wrote:
| Can you post this code if possible please?
| gamedever wrote:
| The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will
| never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to
| slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to
| drive fast.
|
| The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most
| cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space
| for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you
| should be driving fast. If I go the speed limit in the center
| lane because I'm going to turn left people will get angry and
| speed around at 60mph pissed off
| elzbardico wrote:
| Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to
| turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the
| other drivers?
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| I don't know about this person's experience, but there are
| an overwhelming number of drivers here that don't notice
| signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both
| directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they'll
| still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go
| around.
| elzbardico wrote:
| It gets worse, some drivers seem to adopt an adversarial
| attitude towards the usage of turn signals and will
| deliberately accelerate or do something else to make
| things more difficult to you.
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| If they're behind me, they're risking their own
| liability.
|
| Otherwise (changing lanes, left turn across traffic), I
| think it's more "not ahead of ME!" than about the signal
| itself.
| gosub100 wrote:
| If two cars travelling the same direction contact each
| other such that the front axle of one car bumps the rear
| axle of the other (the car in front), it's usually the
| car in front that has the safety problem. This is the
| same principle behind the PIT maneuver.
| ejs wrote:
| Yeah, unfortunately this is true. A street near my house has
| a limit of 40mph and people would regularly drive 60 mph+,
| sometimes someone would pass me doing 65+mph (it's a no-
| passing residential road).
|
| Eventually someone died, and they added a lot of traffic-
| calming changes to the road. It's much nicer now, but a shame
| that someone had to die to change it.
| djeastm wrote:
| >The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement
| will never work nor happen and that the only way to get
| people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel
| safe to drive fast.
|
| This makes sense. Though annoying to drive over, speed bumps
| work. Also, my parents small town converted their main street
| from a four lane to a slalom-style two-lane and it so much
| nicer to walk around because people have to drive slowly. Not
| quite car-free, which I'd prefer, but it's a decent
| compromise.
| mavamaarten wrote:
| Agree, but also disagree.
|
| Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It
| tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you
| get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and
| you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you
| get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light
| is always green.
|
| It's beautiful. People actually drive slowly and safely
| there. And good, because that system is installed perfectly
| around the school and doesn't hinder anyone else. If they did
| this anywhere else you'd argue it's a moneygrab, but this is
| imo a great way to actually get people to drive slow in a
| school zone.
|
| In contrast the only thing our town has done is install a
| bunch of big concrete flower boxes (?) that hinder your
| vision and causes conflicts on the road. The idea being that
| you'd have to slow down and that you're no longer on a
| straight wide road. It's absolutely only made things worse.
| You need to give way to others but you literally can't see
| them, or you need to pull weird manoeuvers to let them pass.
| And in the meantime cyclists need to swerve around them or
| are hidden behind those boxes. It's terrible.
| parasti wrote:
| Speed bumps are a crazy invention because they tell you what
| humanity is like. Let's make this road worse for driving
| because many drivers don't care about safety but do care
| about damaging their cars. I am reminded of this every time I
| see a speed bump.
| someothherguyy wrote:
| Has anyone been hit by a car there ever?
|
| I think people used to use science to set speed limits.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| They did, 30 km/h is a lot safer than higher speeds. You seem
| to imply someone has to be hit by a car before enforcing the
| speed limit, am I correct?
| someothherguyy wrote:
| No, just implying that when someone is hit that the posted
| limit has more scrutiny.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Publish to Twitter along with number plates and tag the local
| council.
| kleiba wrote:
| Possibly illegal, depending on where you live.
| ides_dev wrote:
| Also a sure-fire way to get some irate drivers banging on
| your front door, given that it would be easy to work out
| which house the photo was taken from.
| 6510 wrote:
| Then can make a video beating them up and post it on
| twitter.
| globular-toast wrote:
| I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The
| noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am
| sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population
| who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle
| could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking
| or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10
| minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this problem is
| even worse than speed.
| jay-barronville wrote:
| > I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of
| thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them,
| raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip.
|
| What absolutely grinds my gears is when a loud motorcycle or
| sports car drives through my residential neighborhood right
| after patiently rocking my baby to sleep.
|
| Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I
| never thought about that aspect for even a second until I
| became a dad--I drive much more gently nowadays (especially
| in residential neighborhoods)!
| globular-toast wrote:
| > Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner
| myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second
|
| Right, because the car's cabin and motorcycle helmet
| protect the driver/rider from it. The noise they create are
| specifically designed to be heard by everyone _but_ the
| operator. It 's like me sitting in my back garden wearing
| earplugs, while blasting music out the front into the
| street.
| silisili wrote:
| I used to live in a neighborhood about a quarter mile from a
| highway, nearly perfectly flat land, speed limit I believe
| was 45 or 55.
|
| Most days the road noise itself was no big deal, if the wind
| blew it was gone, if you listened for it you could hear a
| whooshing/droning in the distance.
|
| But all it took was one loud motorcycle or old car/truck to
| really ruin your peace for a solid 3 to 5 minutes, being able
| to hear it on approach, and it went by, and exit. And it
| wasn't that rare to get them back to back, seeing as it's a 4
| lane highway with a decent flow of traffic.
|
| It wasn't really until then I realized how a single vehicle
| could cause so much annoyance for so many people.
| kmmndr wrote:
| This is very interesting. I had the same need a few weeks ago,
| which resulted in a tiny Golang/OpenCV project
| (https://github.com/kmmndr/motion-speed). In my use case, we
| even had champions beating 60 km/h, three times allowed speed
| brikym wrote:
| It's always interesting when you find out others are doing
| some obscure idea. Last year I was scraping supermarket data
| from a small country and I ended up setting up a discord with
| a half dozen of us sharing tips.
| kylecazar wrote:
| On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar
| displays to let people know they are speeding.
|
| I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one.
| It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger
| if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down
| immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying
| boogieknite wrote:
| the side effect is bikers like me will pedal as hard as
| possible in hopes we can get that light to flash
| bdavisx wrote:
| That's because a lot of those people think it's a "speeding
| ticket" camera flashing at them.
| 93po wrote:
| you could install some vigilante speed bumps maybe
| renegat0x0 wrote:
| I am maintaining the internet on the github. Take a look.
|
| [0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
|
| I use it for various projects, like simple search
|
| [1] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=emulation
|
| [2] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=amiga
| ideashower wrote:
| Would be cool to see sites mapped on a network graph.
| Ccecil wrote:
| Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so
| that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2
| Smoothieboard CNC controller [2].
|
| As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the
| kickstarter backers (many years late, but significantly better).
|
| Been a long struggle overall...learned a lifetime's worth during
| the last couple years. Every single day has been spent doing
| something new it seems. Looking forward to what the next broken
| machine will teach me :)
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/Vk53VsXkh9o?si=SU45-DkkjwZi6orp [2]
| https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard2
| https://github.com/Smoothieware/SmoothieV2
| j-rom wrote:
| Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list
| site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple
| text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just
| a _little_ bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above
| editing a file.
|
| Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/
| Instantnoodl wrote:
| "90s black metal Pokemon" aka a first person roguelike dungeon
| crawler with monster collection elements. C++ with no engine :)
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/3460840/Gloamvault/
| r_singh wrote:
| I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for
| people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports
| querying search results, product info and customer reviews from
| over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
| kcindric wrote:
| Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
| muxneo wrote:
| My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord
| etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member
| of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say,
| I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups
| and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to
| summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people
| whenever they access my service. The idea is to reduce the amount
| of info from 100:1 and give extremely succinct data without
| losing any important info.
|
| WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED?
| threeseed wrote:
| This sounds an awful like Siri Intelligence.
|
| And sorry to say it's a pretty underwhelming experience.
| elric wrote:
| I would be much more interested in a unified inbox on top of
| all those communication apps. An *actual* inbox, which lets me
| flag things, mark as (un)read, move to folders etc.
| carlnewton wrote:
| I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-
| hosted social platform for local communities.
|
| The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
|
| I recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice
| on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the
| mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that
| Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the
| target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so
| that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks.
|
| - 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
| dcreater wrote:
| Excellent!!! I have been wanting this for a long time
| oulipo wrote:
| really cool :)
| nhatcher wrote:
| I am actually pleased to have an answer to this. I'm working on
| IronCalc, an open source spreadsheet engine:
|
| https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc
|
| I have been doing this as a side project for over a year now.
| It's progress is slower than I would like but there we go!
| blankx32 wrote:
| I'm working on not being bothered by the fact that everyone else
| is working on something
| freetonik wrote:
| Continuing to work on https://minifeed.net/ for the second year.
|
| It's a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search
| engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just
| wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has
| full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+
| blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts
| recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I'm working on adding
| email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech
| generation.
| boricj wrote:
| I'm tinkering with the USB HID specification for power devices
| for all the wrong reasons.
|
| Historically, UPSes had various proprietary communication
| protocols over serial ports. Nowadays they usually have a USB
| port, but I have a bunch of very old APC UPSes with just the
| serial port and/or the expansion card slot (which is usually just
| another serial link plus power on a edge connector).
|
| A normal person would just use NUT or apcupsd over serial and
| call it a day. A bored person would write a USB HID power device
| stack and serial protocol acquisitors to give these UPSes USB
| ports. An insane person would add projectors from the USB HID
| power device stack to serial protocols so that they could use
| whatever communication card they want on any UPS they have (for
| example, a CyberPower RM205 card plugged into an APC Smart-UPS).
|
| Why? Because apparently I'm insane and I needed a break from
| working on delinking executables back into object files, another
| heretical project I've worked on for the past couple years.
|
| I've just started and I don't know if I'll finish that, but it's
| something I need to work on to exorcise that particular nagging
| thought out of my head.
| onre wrote:
| A no-frills X toolkit. Think Athena, add things like dialogs,
| file picker and make it completely vectored. No antialiasing, top
| goal is small size and fast execution. Can display vector and
| bitmap fonts, only external dependency is xcb. I just recently
| got my first digital storage oscilloscope and begun writing a
| companion software for it, as I couldn't find anything usable.
| This is one of the offshoots of that, the other being a somewhat
| Postscript-like language for scripting the thing.
|
| Once I get this done, I get back to the actual project of a
| 2.11-BSD based handheld computing appliance.
|
| Also there is this thing called "day job".
| _kush wrote:
| I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app.
| I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been
| growing organically since.
| bwb wrote:
| I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at
| feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a
| tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and
| improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding
| themes, tropes, and moods).
|
| https://shepherd.com/
|
| Our reader's fav reads of 2024:
| https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
| 255kb wrote:
| Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking
| desktop tool, after 7 years. My focus is now on the cloud version
| which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still
| actively maintained and independent (read: free from high
| growth/high profits pressure).
| icy wrote:
| We're building a new git collaboration platform on top of
| atproto! Here's a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now;
| the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
|
| It's going to be fully decentralised from day 1--we borrowed the
| PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own "knots" to
| self-host their git repositories.
|
| https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
| dcreater wrote:
| We need to get away from GitHub! Look forward to seeing this
| grow
| zft wrote:
| That's super nice. Can I eventually replace my centralized
| forge ?
| icy wrote:
| Yes! This architecture allows you to host your git repos on
| your own server, while allowing contributions from others
| with a unified identity (unlike say, Gitea or GitLab, where
| you'd have to make yet another account).
| thrw011 wrote:
| Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches
| nightmare...
| soheilpro wrote:
| https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
| SouravInsights wrote:
| cool app!! will be super cool if I can share some of my stats
| with people, similar to Spotify Wrapped
| zft wrote:
| I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and
| marketers. https://www.graphtracks.com. Feedback is welcome.
| wingerlang wrote:
| https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or
| so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it
| through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work,
| mostly.
| zft wrote:
| Anything like this for Linux ?
| wingerlang wrote:
| Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up
| and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is
| a Linux version still alive though, try searching for
| "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
| rollinDyno wrote:
| This is nice, quite expensive tho.
| azriel91 wrote:
| Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within
| oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow.
|
| Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many
| things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really
| worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people
| (crucial that they know how to connect back).
|
| Made a little web app that helped me communicate:
| https://azriel.im/tears/
|
| (I could just point to the number when I couldn't talk/listen)
| hurtuvac78 wrote:
| Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips
| resonate with me.
|
| As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the
| same ones as I had when I was a child.
| fiftyacorn wrote:
| I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a
| game designed to help people deal with grief which i found
| interesting. I cant remember the name
| ave_b_2011 wrote:
| If you remember the name that would be something I would be
| interested in!
| procflora wrote:
| Gris and Spiritfarer are two recent-ish ones I'm aware of,
| both were well thought of by my partner who works in grief
| care. :)
| dmos62 wrote:
| Good luck, it can be tough, but you're worth the effort.
| mcs_ wrote:
| Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share
| personalities among different layers and components. At the end
| of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM
| instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
| yellowapple wrote:
| My ADD brain keeps jumping around between various projects. Some
| highlights:
|
| - Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs
| with Zig1, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing
| with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a
| moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple
| months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement
| interrupt handlers.
|
| - Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with
| plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with
| bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle
| merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I
| syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the
| first real guinea pig.
|
| - Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an
| ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple
| parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features2, using Scroll,
| and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export
| feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons.
|
| - I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in
| an SSD (using an mSATA-PATA enclosure) and installed the latest
| OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on
| documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly
| turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches
| so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for
| encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption).
| Next on the list is rebuilding the battery.
|
| - That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has
| an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting
| right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned
| CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime.
|
| - I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such
| that I've been meaning to digitize and organize.
|
| ----
|
| 1 https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64
|
| 2 https://fsl.yellowapple.us/website
| markatkinson wrote:
| Ahh yes, I know the feeling. My current list of projects:
|
| - There's no speciality grade coffee in Zambia, and all the
| coffee beans in Zambia are from Zambian coffee farms. I've
| bought a small roaster and will start sourcing speciality grade
| coffee beans from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia and roasting for a
| few of the small stores and cafes around us.
|
| - Converting a beat up Suzuki Samurai into a capable 4x4 rock
| crawler/off road vehicle to enter my own team into the Elephant
| Charge 2025 https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/.
|
| - Growing and propogating cuttings of coffee plants in my
| backyard to start an outgrowers scheme in on the border of
| Zambia & Congo.
|
| - An emotion recognition app that has animated fruits and
| animals that dance and respond to emotion. I'd like to create
| something a bit more responsive for my child than the YT videos
| that exist (Unity).
|
| - Helping my wifes company prototype and spec out some lease
| management software.
|
| - Sourcing the equipment and ingredients to process my own
| coffee cherries into green coffee. I'll likely buy coffee from
| nearby growers and start processing as my own plants still have
| a couple years before they produce any fruit.
|
| - Migrating a Flow project to Typescript.
|
| - Learning Haskell by building a back-office API for another
| project in it.
| pwatsonwailes wrote:
| Building two things ATM - first is an interactive fiction engine
| (almost done) and game with it (halfway there). Just wrapped pre-
| production on music and art, going into the studio to record
| final tracks later in the year. Launching end of the year
| hopefully.
|
| I'm also building an application and training materials to help
| people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and
| ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt
| to help people running businesses actually come up with a
| strategy likely to result in something valuable.
| westoque wrote:
| working on cursor for desktop. why rely on AI agent that's self-
| contained when it's limited, can't access the browser, can't open
| apps or click around.
|
| i simply want mine to be able to fill in forms in preview with a
| passport image as context. also to be able to do recurring tasks
| as if i was the desktop user. e.g., i'm going to bed keep working
| on this spreadsheet.
|
| it's working and built but very slow and buggy atm. uses
| multimodal LLMS and OCR but lots more optimizations needed. need
| to make it a lot faster. can demo it and need help if anyone is
| interested.
| denzil wrote:
| I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary
| learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to
| publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku
|
| Be warned it's in early stages, difficult to use and code is big
| ball of mud. But the basic functionality works, so maybe it will
| be already useful for someone. And I have been using it and
| working on it consistently, so hopefully it'll only get better.
| koliber wrote:
| Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic
| monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one
| notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails
| stop sending silently.
|
| I'm building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I'm
| talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds --
| literally.
|
| The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not
| even that complicated, but they still require too much thinking
| to set up.
| Gasp0de wrote:
| So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?
| koliber wrote:
| Not for me.
|
| Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too
| problematic for all of the people who are running their
| freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any
| monitoring.
|
| For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the
| different kinds of probes, reading about them and making
| decisions about what to set up is a time investment.
| Complicated might be the wrong word.
|
| All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an
| email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My
| goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30
| seconds.
|
| Getting pretty close with nixmonitor.com
| pxheller wrote:
| Still working on RunGen.AI - a platform to deploy any LLM or
| Image model from HuggingFace by just pasting a link.
|
| Still a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while
| building my previous side project
| AJRF wrote:
| I recently made a little tool for people interested in running
| local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM
| in GPU memory.
|
| https://canirunthisllm.com/
| SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote:
| Very nice! Way more complete than the other tools I've seen to
| estimate running LLMs on GPUs :)
| seafoamteal wrote:
| I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on
| my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've
| never been able to find consistent information on. This is so
| helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B
| FP8 soon.
| jatins wrote:
| can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some
| additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a
| dropdown?
| jay-barronville wrote:
| > can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some
| additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a
| dropdown?
|
| Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible
| to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting
| and certain heuristics).
|
| For GPU's, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL's
| `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU's
| `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I wouldn't trust either of
| those API's for general usage.
|
| [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug...
|
| [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Web/API/GPUAdapter/...
| AJRF wrote:
| Jay you seem knowledgeable on this - thanks for answering -
| I have a question
|
| I did look at auto-detecting before, but it seems like you
| can only really tell the features of a GPU, not so much the
| good info (VRAM amount and bus speed) - is that the case?
|
| I looked at the GPUAdapter docs, and all it told me was:
|
| - device maker (amd)
|
| - architecture (rdna-3)
|
| and that was it. Is there a way to poke for bus speed and
| vram amount?
| jay-barronville wrote:
| > Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
|
| Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to reliably get
| this type of information browser-side.
|
| If you really want to see how far you can get, your best
| bet would be via fingerprinting, which would require some
| upfront work using a combination of the manual input you
| already have now and running some stuff in the background
| to collect data (especially timing-related data). With
| enough users manually inputting their specs and enough
| independently collected data, you'd probably be surprised
| at how accurate you can get via fingerprinting.
|
| That said, please do NOT go the fingerprinting route,
| because (1) a lot of users (including myself) hate being
| fingerprinted (especially if done covertly), (2) you need
| quite a lot of data before you can do anything useful,
| and (3) it's obviously not worth the effort for what
| you're building.
| alecco wrote:
| Cool. What about giving the models for a given GPU? Also it
| could compare using vLLM, local_llama.c, etc. Links to docs
| maybe. Community build articles and rating. Along the lines of
| https://pcpartpicker.com/
|
| And you can definitely add some ref links for a bit of revenue.
| jakubmazanec wrote:
| It doesn't work for all GPU/device in Simple tab: "Exception:
| Failed to calculate information for model. Error: Could not
| extract VRAM from: System Shared".
| AJRF wrote:
| Ah sorry, I will fix that.
| chandureddyvari wrote:
| Neat idea! It would be helpful to have LLMs ranked from best to
| worst for a given GPU. Few other improvements I can think of:
|
| - Use natural language for telling offloading requirements.
|
| - Just year of the LLM launch of HF url can help if it's an
| outdated LLM or a cutting edge LLM.
|
| - VLMs/Embedding models are missing?
| AJRF wrote:
| Hey - thanks for the reply. - Use natural
| language for telling offloading requirements.
|
| Do you mean remove the JSON thing and just summarise the
| offloading requirements? - Just year of the
| LLM launch of HF url can help if it's an outdated LLM or a
| cutting edge LLM.
|
| Great Idea - I will try add this tonight. -
| VLMs/Embedding models are missing?
|
| Yeah I just have text generation models ATM as that is by far
| where the most interest is. I will look at adding other model
| types in another type, but wouldn't be until the weekend that
| I do that.
| niek_pas wrote:
| Feature request: I would like to know if I can run _any_ LLms
| on my machine, and if so, which.
| AJRF wrote:
| I've now had multiple people ask for this - I will work on
| adding a new tab for this feature as it is a little different
| than what the site was originally intended to do.
|
| Generally speaking models seem to be bucketed by param count
| (3b, 7b, 8b, 14b, 34b, 70b) so for a given VRAM bucket you
| will end up being able to run 1000's of models - so is it
| valuable to show 1000s of models?
|
| My bet is "No" - and what really is valuable is like the top
| 50 trending models on HuggingFace that would fit in your VRAM
| bucket. So I will try build that.
|
| Would love your thoughts on that though - does that sound
| like a good idea?
| donohoe wrote:
| Feature Request: Looks like the React JS is 1.1MB out of the ~
| 1.6MB the site takes to load all other assets. Do you really
| need React for this?
|
| That aside, I think this is really cool and very helpful. Thank
| you.
| AJRF wrote:
| I am using Streamlit, and it is the thing that is adding
| React.
|
| I appreciate that it's a heavy site, but just being honest
| with you - it doesn't seem worth the time optimising this by
| moving to another lighter framework at this stage of the
| project.
|
| Sorry!
| donohoe wrote:
| No, its all good. And you are right. Its gets the job done.
| kristopolous wrote:
| This looks closed source, am I correct?
| AJRF wrote:
| Not so much purposefully closed source more that I don't want
| to make it complex by splitting out the data the app uses
| from the code (co-ordination problem when it comes to
| deploying that I don't want to deal with for a project of
| this size).
|
| When it comes to "how to do the math" this repo was my
| starting point: https://github.com/Raskoll2/LLMcalc
| dockerd wrote:
| Looks good.
|
| Feature request - Have a leaderboard of LLM for x/y/z tasks or
| pull it from existing repo. Suggest the best model for given
| GPU for x/y/z task.
|
| If there is better model which my GPU can run, why should I go
| for the lowest?
| dockerd wrote:
| And maybe provide ollama/lm studio run command for given
| model/quantization
| nickyvanurk wrote:
| I've been inspired to build my own browser mmo game after seeing
| hordes.io, which is made by a single person. Launched a prototype
| with, for now, only basic movement over at http://everwilds.io.
| Instead of working in a silo I've decided to develop in public
| and launched as soon as possible to slowly gather an audience. So
| far the Everwilds.io Discord server already gained 1 member ;)
| I'll share the link incase others want to follow the development:
| https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz
| malomalsky wrote:
| Which tools are u using?
| nickyvanurk wrote:
| VSCode, TypeScript, Three.js. But I am about to remove
| Three.js and use WebGPU instead, I don't like the 800kb+ size
| of Three.js. Also will do some experimenting with C++ and
| WebAssembly and see how that goes.
| Risse wrote:
| I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them
| to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to
| run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I
| made a repo where I document how to run them in containers.
|
| https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts
|
| Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions
| are welcome!
| Apanatshka wrote:
| Reading literature (academic and otherwise) on parsers, writing
| blog posts about what I learn, trying to implement the things I
| learnt. I've written about basic finite automata (for regular
| expressions), LL, LR (including the difference between SLR, LALR,
| and LR(1)), detoured into some optimisations for LR from the
| 80's, then generalised LR (RNGLR in particular). I'm now
| implementing these things, RNGLR is not easy to implement despite
| having understood it well enough conceptually to write a blog
| about it (https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/).
| I've read far more than I've written about, trying to keep that
| straight in my head as well / planning the next... probably year
| of writing ^^'
| neverartful wrote:
| I'm still working on development of a native Windows application
| for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-
| technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries
| to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily
| lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar,
| column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly
| complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the
| next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the
| product so that I can start development of website for it.
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only
| a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my
| career again :')
|
| Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish
| language learners, and one that is probably useful for language
| learners in general:
|
| * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket
| dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial
| thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and
| tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance
| characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose
| Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story.
|
| * https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python
| program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks
| for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual)
| video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub,
| I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually
| wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file
| to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one
| command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does
| _not_ provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping
| with the all-in-one approach, I 'm thinking I might wrap around
| LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-
| to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are
| advanced enough that I don't need that.
| elvis10ten wrote:
| Are you relocating permanently to Finland? Do you have a blog
| post of your experience there?
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| I relocated permanently back in 2021, in fact, soon after
| finishing up undergrad at Northwestern. I'm a dual US/EU
| citizen and I moved to be with my Finnish wife. I'm here now!
|
| I don't have a blog post to share. My experience here has
| been largely positive, modulo the obvious financial caveat:
| My take home salary really is about ~30% of what it would be
| had I stayed back in the United States and followed a similar
| career trajectory. In the long run I think this is an
| eminently fixable problem, however :)
| rwieruch wrote:
| I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In
| the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep
| dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party
| integrations that empower you to build your own products.
|
| [0] https://www.road-to-next.com/
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| Oh hell yeah, your _Road to React_ was exactly what the doctor
| ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean
| years ago. I 'm excited to see how this progresses!
| rwieruch wrote:
| That's great to hear :)
| SouravInsights wrote:
| i read a lot of your articles, will try this for sure..
| hedayet wrote:
| An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform -
| https://algodetox.com/
| jcbrand wrote:
| Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP
| web client that I started 10 years ago already.
|
| https://conversejs.org
|
| The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are
| happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big
| architectural and performance improvements.
| ajhai wrote:
| Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household
| chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096
|
| I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based
| workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given
| how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception
| problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of
| possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there
| is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising
| approaches to solve (OpenVLA, p0). Given these, I'm trying to
| build an affordable robot that can help around with household
| chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable
| enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the
| currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as
| manipulation models get better over time.
| ryandetzel wrote:
| Amazing, lol
| FrozenSynapse wrote:
| Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and
| I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by
| mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold,
| disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The
| Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.
|
| * https://moviematey.com/
| bryanhogan wrote:
| Recently finished rewriting the code for my personal blog:
| https://bryanhogan.com/
|
| Have also been working on making a customizable self-tracking app
| for my thesis.
|
| And learning Korean, working on an app to learn words faster:
| https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
| czhu12 wrote:
| I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is
| an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.
|
| It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where
| building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched
| our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
|
| It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully
| managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage
| of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like
| automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling,
| etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or
| small teams.
|
| The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible
| to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts,
| that you'd normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress,
| Postgres, etc.
| iancmceachern wrote:
| Building the best hardware product design firm in SF
| (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding
| and 3d printing company based right here in SF
| (www.goldengatemolders.com)
| kristopolous wrote:
| secrets management that's easier to use than whatever you
| currently do.
|
| just started it this week (won a bunch of things at a hackathon
| with it)
|
| this is going to be free (there's a different product for
| enterprise this will feed into - but this is going to always be
| free). join the discord for announcements.
|
| https://nblx.org
| brisvegas wrote:
| I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and
| manage their subscription spending
|
| https://tracksub.io/
| tetek wrote:
| I was on a hackathon this weekend and we made a tool for product
| owners - a bot that joins calls, listens, creates and refines
| Linear tasks
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ
|
| We didn't win :(
| drusepth wrote:
| Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting,
| harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that
| uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game
| mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago.
|
| Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.
| azuanrb wrote:
| In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit
| card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying
| the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a
| way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in
| each transaction, so apps that require that won't work for me.
|
| Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track
| my past spending. I'm about halfway there, with a semi-automated
| way to categorize transactions too. So far, it's working great!
| monroewalker wrote:
| Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That
| could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the
| emails
| azuanrb wrote:
| For individual transactions, it's not really reliable,
| unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so
| that could be the next step. There's an app here that does
| something similar, but it doesn't seem to be actively
| developed anymore. It's a free app, so I guess there's no
| reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks
| like they're shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that
| might be my next direction too.
|
| That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for
| personal B2C use first. I do think there's some potential
| here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and
| there aren't any good existing solutions for B2C.
|
| There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on
| B2B (that's where the money is), so they're quite expensive
| and overkill for what I need.
| masteruvpuppetz wrote:
| I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification
| -> Tracking app.
|
| It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime
| I go out of budget :D:D:D
| csbartus wrote:
| Working on creating likely-correct software with formal and semi-
| formal methods for rapid iteration.
|
| Done the first demo:
| https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html, now focusing on
| "diagrams as code": https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/
| dbotha wrote:
| Noodling away on game called Nitronauts in my spare time--just
| released the demo!
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/
|
| It's built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC
| for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It's a
| 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics,
| plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.
| brunosutic wrote:
| I'm working on RailsBilling - it's a Ruby gem for fast Stripe
| subscriptions integrations. It allows you to implement
| subscriptions in your app in hours, instead of months.
|
| You see, Stripe is very powerful, but also very complex. Coding a
| straightforward subscriptions implementation will take you a
| couple weeks at best.
|
| That is without handling all those edge cases like: prevent
| starting a paid subscription _without_ a billing card on file
| (yes, you read that right)!
|
| The gem is ready, I'm currently working on getting the website
| up. If you're working with Rails and need a solution for
| subscriptions get in touch at hacker.news@railsbilling.com - I'd
| love to chat!
| jtwaleson wrote:
| I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's
| code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the
| code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving
| everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out
| your way through the landscape and understand the systems.
| Different modes can you show you different things: code age,
| authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company
| etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think
| Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun:
| a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you
| feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to
| guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze
| all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.
|
| I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2
| months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per
| week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented
| cofounder in NL.
| hhh wrote:
| Cool idea :)
| muzani wrote:
| Definitely want this kind of thing.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are
| in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I
| can do for you!
| muzani wrote:
| I would pay for it as an individual. Just things like going
| into code and spending 3 weeks reverse engineering
| everything is not ideal. Especially if it's something where
| the entire team has quit or been laid off. And lately the
| solution for that is just rewriting the damn thing lol.
|
| How _much_ we 're willing to pay is a whole other question.
| I feel like this is the kind of thing that Cursor already
| does by itself but it's just not releasing a user-readable
| output of it.
|
| It won't likely be a subscription thing, but one off
| payments per repo makes sense, and there should be some
| kind of satisfaction guarantee or say, charge to have the
| output in a human readable format.
|
| Monorepos are also a pain. On the front end, they sometimes
| share design. On BE they may share databases. It would be
| cool to break it down into DDD-style domains if applicable
| or propose things like anti corruption layers. More often
| it's like a "pacific ocean meets atlantic ocean" kind of
| thing, where you can tell there's a difference in the way
| things are done, but it's not entirely clear where the
| border is. This would probably be worth a lot more.
|
| To a much lesser extent, an architectural copilot would
| also make sense. On the front end, we have a lot of
| redundant components. Say a button might be PrimaryButton,
| but the same thing is GreenButton or FilledNoOutlineButton
| by other devs. We tried documenting this which just ended
| up being a waste of 1 week because nobody read the doc.
| It's worse with complex components like TwoButtonModal vs
| TwoButtonModalWithClose. And what happens is code is always
| built in parallel; people don't realize that the designer's
| new style applies to both teams so you get two people
| building the same components at the same time. Not a major
| problem, but I think this is worth a few cents every PR.
|
| Ultimately it's hard to gauge. Like Copilot underdelivered,
| Cursor overdelivers, and yet both essentially do the same
| thing. I guess the amount we're willing to pay is just
| vibe-based.
| SpaceL10n wrote:
| Is it demoable and downloadable?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Demo yes, feel free to reach out if you'd be willing to
| pay as I'm slowly starting to look for beta customers.
| You can also ask me to be put on the waiting list.
| Downloadable: I think in about two months.
| thom wrote:
| We use IcePanel for a similar functionality but like all
| diagramming solutions it suffers if you don't constantly feed
| it. If you can solve that problem you're definitely on to
| something.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| I think I have a solution for that but can't spill all the
| beans ;) I love IcePanel btw, awesome product and awesome
| team.
| koliber wrote:
| This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up
| my alley.
|
| How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and
| connections? For example, some things could be connected
| because they are "integrations", or because they deal with
| notifications, or because they're available only in the
| enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same
| way.
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've
| built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git
| history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the
| architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to
| figure out. Plenty of ideas though!
| jasdi wrote:
| Might be useful - https://schem.io/
| potamic wrote:
| Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered
| fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate
| new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| People ask if I'm available and if I find the work
| interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never
| looked for work since starting and have slightly more
| requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my
| network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc
| meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per
| client.
|
| Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the
| word, I like doing complex technical challenges with software
| companies and sometimes just lead a complex project like
| implementing ISO 27001 or re-packaging a software suite for
| on-prem deployment.
| rnewme wrote:
| Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how
| do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled
| and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or
| anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a
| week. They're very intimidated with implications of being
| "overemployed"
| jtwaleson wrote:
| This isn't a problem for me. I mostly stopped getting
| interest from recruiters when I became CTO. Now I just
| get calls from CEOs or CPOs etc and they understand what
| I offer them. I have a rule for myself to never charge
| for hours when I'm not productive and never charge
| overlapping hours though.
| rnewme wrote:
| Sounds like amazing project. Have you considered teaming up
| with someone from other parts of Europe? BTW checkout
| https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Thanks, that seems useful! Too bad my entire backend is in
| Rust and works directly on git repos instead of checked out
| code.
|
| I want to build a local company in my city of Utrecht,
| primarily on-site. That gives me the most energy and fun and
| is something that I want to optimize for.
| marcotac wrote:
| Sounds interesting! How did you validate the idea?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| I interviewed ~10 CTOs and the problem of codebases being too
| difficult to understand, people outside of the team having no
| clue what's happening and documentation being outdated is
| obvious to everyone. But when I asked how this idea could
| help, my take-away was that they couldn't imagine how it
| would work from my description. So now I'm building it and I
| hope that seeing it in action will convince people. I have
| some non-paying pilot customers and over the next couple of
| months we'll continue the validation :)
| MortyWaves wrote:
| What's the general algorithms or patterns for these infinite
| canvas type things? I've always wondered. How do you handle
| interactivity also? Seems all very complex with a html
| canvas...
| jtwaleson wrote:
| There are engines for this. I started out with Fabric.JS but
| it turned very slow with hundreds of repos. Then I moved to
| PixiJS (a game engine) which is super fast. I feel like I'll
| need to move to WASM / OffScreenCanvas and implement a custom
| engine, like Figma is doing.
| WhyOhWhyQ wrote:
| What are you doing those 3 or 4 days a week of earning money,
| if you don't mind me asking?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Fractional CTO. See sibling comments for a bit more detail.
| m0rde wrote:
| Any chance of a demo you can show?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Only to prospective buyers/partners/team members for now, as
| I need to carefully manage my time. If that's you, please
| reach out :) In any case, based on the interest in this
| thread I'll do a separate Show HN thread in a couple of
| weeks/months!
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of
| Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual
| files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure.
| It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be
| curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.
| scoot wrote:
| I'd forgotten about that. I liked the idea and contributed on
| KickStarter, but it never matured to the point that I felt
| comfortable using it.
|
| I see the website is still up, albeit dated 2014!
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be
| to make a new programming environment that structures code in
| ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based.
| However, that will have to come later. First this :)
| rozap wrote:
| a friend/old coworker of mine played with that idea in
| datalog and wrote about it.
| https://petevilter.me/post/datalog-typechecking/ it had
| some pretty cool implications.
| Cerium wrote:
| Sometimes I daydream that we moved beyond text files and
| had a format with a UUID per line.
|
| Version control could reliably track movement between
| files, we could identify copy and paste (and prompt when
| refactoring), and code coverage changes would be accurate.
| goshx wrote:
| That's awesome! I've always wanted something similar like a
| Prezi presentation where you could navigate through different
| layers of the architecture down to the code.
| david927 wrote:
| I really like that idea!
|
| Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI
| would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a
| standard Readme.
|
| Further, at one level it could show endpoints and function
| signatures with parameters and how the argument usually looks
| as a value.
|
| Which brings up another point, why doesn't Cursor or others
| allow me to say, "I'm in debug mode, show me if a value is
| dissimilar the values you normally get."
| jtwaleson wrote:
| I took inspiration from GitDiagram.com but pass a "richer"
| description of the codebase into the LLMs based on info
| from tree-sitter. It generates explanatory diagrams quite
| OK, but this is only a first step.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Great stuff!
| abakker wrote:
| Man...If you built this for large mainframe codebases, I think
| every outsourcing provider would use it. many of these apps
| have >1 yr parallel runs even when rewritten because there is
| so much dormant and seasonal code that it is very hard to be
| confident in the apples:apples functional comparison over any
| shorter timeline.
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a
| conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without
| knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives
| them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are
| very useful meta-view.
|
| some suggestions:
|
| * have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both
| up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs
| dependence vs whatever-else. Then think about animating those
| in time
|
| * heat-map over the views, as e.g. churn(changes)-in-time, or
| usage(number of dependents), etc
|
| * requirements engineering kind-of-view ~ may overlap with
| dependency (both directions!) but with explicit
| requirements/assumptions tied to respective stakeholders.
| Though this may need links to/from JIRA and similar issue-
| trackers etc
|
| * check Wardley maps - yet another view, starting from
| customer/stakeholder/vendor-points. Also may move in time. It
| may need user decision on which things are big/separate-enough
| to surface on that view - sometimes a single script is on-par
| with whole subsystem
|
| * future maybe - growing above into zoomable per-project thing
| (more proj.mngmnt than just code, incl. related e-mails etc) -
| described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060108
|
| * probably more.. will add if something else dawns on me
|
| have fun!
|
| p.s. fractional CTO? i am looking that way too..
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| * runtime-statics i.e. DevOps-view.. like what runs on which
| machine - maybe derived from container-descriptions? also bi-
| directional
| jtwaleson wrote:
| Lots of good ideas in your comments, thanks. Like you say,
| you want call-graphs, hot-spots from your monitoring
| systems, seeing user interaction diagrams, links to other
| components, amount of engineering time spent on features,
| mapping security issues, tech debt, etc. The challenge is
| going to be to keep a simple product :)
| WillAdams wrote:
| How do you label blocks/sections?
|
| I've wanted to work with code thus, but it becomes a problem in
| that things are only really readable/relatable in single-screen
| chunks, and when one tries to show more than is accurately
| related on a single screen it becomes an unreadable, confusing,
| blurry mess.
|
| Screengrab?
| jtwaleson wrote:
| It's interesting how everyone reading my description must
| have a different picture in their mind :) Right now I'm doing
| super simple treemaps, but I'm close to starting work on
| diagram overlays. No screengrabs yet.
| Igor_Wiwi wrote:
| I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and
| outline main themes of it
|
| https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/
|
| Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's
| TF-IDF vectors
| tmilard wrote:
| It look fun. Good look and feel. Resumes are quite ok. Witch AI
| service do you use ?
| Igor_Wiwi wrote:
| I started using openrouter.ai to have unified api for
| different models, for HN Distilled I use gemini-2.0-flash-001
| - it has huge context window and decent price (much cheaper
| for the same quality than others)
| Oras wrote:
| Out of my frustration with resume builders, I decided to build
| one that has no login, no signup, and no payment.
|
| Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template
| and colour and download.
|
| https://resumeyay.com
| anshumankmr wrote:
| I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI...
| still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more
| conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same
| thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN
| for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
| dabinat wrote:
| I'm working on two main things right now.
|
| 1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in
| reality a lot of different industries use it for different
| things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your
| team that I've been rewriting in Rust. Didn't necessarily intend
| that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough
| that I kept on replacing stuff.
|
| https://www.kollaborate.tv (current version on cloud is not the
| Rust version, but on-prem is)
|
| 2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way
| of time-tracking employees. So I'm working on a system to use
| their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they're
| connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing
| appears to not exist. I'm still working on it so it's not
| anywhere public right now.
| hbroadbent wrote:
| I've been building Tailcolors lately, a TailwindCSS color
| palette: https://tailcolors.com
|
| Just recently actually I published a Chrome extension for it too,
| so you can access and copy all the Tailwind CSS colors directly
| from an extension:
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind...
| asim wrote:
| In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on
| Micro (https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called
| Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for
| the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would
| find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of
| us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west.
|
| https://reminder.dev
| k0ns0l wrote:
| +1
| aimazon wrote:
| I was wondering what happened to micro recently (loved the m3o
| domain). Sorry to hear it's over. Have you written a post-
| mortem? I'd love to hear more about it -- if you don't feel too
| downbeat about it.
|
| (is the domain for sale?)
| asim wrote:
| Haven't written a post-mortem but maybe at some point if it
| felt useful for others. Startups built around open source are
| generally very hard. About as bad as social consumer
| products. Both micro.dev and m3o.com are for sale yes.
| wsgeorge wrote:
| The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on
| when I was out of employment: the app was going to send
| periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various
| social media sites.
|
| I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought
| the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got
| employment weeks later.
| asim wrote:
| That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders
| right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was
| supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a
| location and it would remind you if you needed to pay
| someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went
| anywhere but totally unrelated to this.
|
| The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's
| supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who
| made us, and all that.
| jarrell_mark wrote:
| Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better.
| AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax
|
| https://lookbetterai.com
| pythops wrote:
| Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on
| Linux The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters.
| Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
| jeanlucas wrote:
| I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a
| simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to
| full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself.
|
| Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
| JimmyBuckets wrote:
| This is cool! What types of stats? Can you give more detail on
| the types of tools?
| jeanlucas wrote:
| Sure, as a community manager of a technical group I want to:
|
| * Track most active users in a period (day/week/month)
|
| * Track which users post/react the most
|
| * Know (and now it is possible, but not implemented) who is
| 'lurking' just reading messages
|
| * Summarize content and frequently asked questions to help
| users in the future
|
| * Check which channels (groups inside a WhatsApp community)
| are most active and how many messages were posted in each
| channel in a specific period (day/week/month)
|
| * Track (external) links posted to communities, how common
| they were, which users posted these links
|
| --
|
| The tools:
|
| - A WhatsApp bot capturing all events in the group
| (reactions, messages, etc)
|
| - A (same) WhatsApp bot to onboard new users in the
| community, check your membership, talk to
|
| - A web application where the community member can check
| their membership + admin panel for me to check the stats
| mentioned above, think of it like a circle.so but built for
| my specific case.
|
| --
|
| The tech stack:
|
| 1/ a WhatsApp instance running on web, I'm doing this because
| WhatsApp oficial APIs do not support the "communities" -> I
| use Z-api [1] but you can use something like Baileys and self
| host [2]
|
| 2/ Elixir running on a simple machine
|
| 3/ OpenAI/Claude for summarization and topic extraction
|
| [1] Z-API https://www.z-api.io/ [2] Baileys
| https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys
| Appesteijn wrote:
| While looking for a job, I encountered the trouble that is called
| ATS. Nobody sees your resume if it is not 'approved' by an
| automated system. So I decided to build a tool to optimize my
| generic resume for a vacancy, ATS and company culture.
|
| https://aycabtu.com
|
| Although n=1, I do have the feeling it works ( but that could
| also be the IKEA coginive dissonance)
| tiniuclx wrote:
| I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game
| where you exploit millions of devices in order to evolve a
| superintelligent AI.
|
| [0] https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/
| vermilingua wrote:
| This looks cool, will be following along! Were you inspired at
| all by Endgame: Singularity?
| tiniuclx wrote:
| Not precisely, but I think my roommate in high school played
| that game quite a bit! If you sign up for my newsletter
| you'll get some info about the games that directly influenced
| Botnet of Ares.
| intended wrote:
| A simple, non tech method to increase agreement in online
| arguments.
|
| I've gotten to some degree of a protocol, surprisingly.
|
| -----
|
| I had made this LLM prompt (about a year ago?) wildly useful in
| helping me think.
|
| It's helped with everything from realizing you have burnout,
| relationship issues, arguments with family members, Mondays
|
| https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides-3
|
| I made another version, which showed its "thinking".
| tschillaci wrote:
| I quit my job last December to start an AI x AdTech startup which
| didn't work out: we discovered a similar piece of tech was about
| to get released by Google AdX. So now it's back to finding ideas,
| I'm sure there are niche problems that can be addressed using AI
| agents, one idea we have is developing an AI agent enabling
| content creators to better connect with their community.
| hakanshehu wrote:
| I've working on Colanode, an open-source & local-first Slack and
| Notion alternative that you can self host. You can use Colanode
| for real-time chat, as a knowledge center, project management or
| file storage. As a local-first application, Colanode offers full
| offline support, allowing you to work even when you're not
| connected to the internet or the server is not available. You can
| host it in any environment (with minimal dependencies), giving
| you full ownership and control over your data.
|
| https://github.com/colanode/colanode
| gfmascarenhas wrote:
| I'm working on a second brain LLM, kinda super human power to
| live forever
| MichaelEstes wrote:
| I've been working on language for a little over a year now.
| There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can
| figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would
| take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good
| investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can
| just keep moving with forever.
|
| https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Spite
| martinraag wrote:
| I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes
| across chains and independent theaters in the UK.
|
| I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised
| by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline
| in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find
| independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers
| etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying
| on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing
| out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one
| cinema's website on time.
|
| This is also my first time building and releasing an independent
| app. The journey from research, backend development and learning
| SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks
| ago.
|
| https://qino.app
| inatreecrown2 wrote:
| cool idea! good luck with your app! I also want to build an app
| that leverages happenings "in the real world".
| fratimo66 wrote:
| I'm currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no
| cookies, no trackers, and no signups--a true "privacy-first"
| approach. I'm building it with lovable, which has really helped
| me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that
| used to slow down my projects.
|
| After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming
| more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back
| to "build mode." It's been a rewarding exercise to try generating
| some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape
| from excel sheets.
|
| https://barelink.lovable.app/
|
| Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my
| SEO efforts.
| flippinbits wrote:
| I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS
| resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the
| availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd
| party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed
| publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical
| issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority
| items - public exposure.
|
| Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I
| am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do
| the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of
| tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same
| services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered
| as a SaaS.
| kgabis wrote:
| An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me
| to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day
| (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm
| building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm
| struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C.
| Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an
| iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's
| ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
| vekker wrote:
| Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.
|
| A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing
| gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only
| capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional
| video overlay) provides a far superior solution.
|
| https://ledsreact.com
| famahar wrote:
| Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion
| images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the
| world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in
| Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more.
|
| https://www.urbanlens.city/
| muzani wrote:
| I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep
| making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more
| personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized.
|
| Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I
| want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant
| into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot,"
| you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the
| room."
| tmilard wrote:
| A no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours
|
| https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
| hijp wrote:
| I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled
| gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products
| across 243 grocery categories).
|
| GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted
| something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also
| want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best
| gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg
| Blonde).
|
| I'm also making a user submitted recipe section, so say you want
| to recreate a Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco, it's easy to link to
| the products you need.
|
| I'm not sure where this project is headed but I couldn't find any
| jobs working in this space so decided to make something to help
| myself.
| davidanekstein wrote:
| I'm making an iOS app to analyze one's personal data and run self
| experiments. It just launched on product hunt last week!
|
| https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d...
| rancevent wrote:
| I am making a clone of the chrome dinosaur game in the terminal
| using Go and Bubbletea
| ddxv wrote:
| The first open source MMP https://openattribution.dev
|
| MMPs collect user data across apps to help apps run ads. This is
| needed because mobile apps are downloaded without the additional
| data you could get passed along an HTTP url like you'd see in a
| regular email marketing campaign or YouTube affiliate link.
|
| My goal is to create a way for mobile apps to self host their
| advertising attribution, keeping their user data in house and not
| sharing it to a 3rd party like AppsFlyer/Adjust/Branch. There are
| only a few companies that do this in the world and NO open source
| non 3rd party option.
|
| Please reach out if interested, I'd love to chat!
|
| https://github.com/openattribution/open-attribution
| aylmao wrote:
| I've been building a little web DAW on the side for a minute.
| It's very early and not great yet, but it features some Faust
| effects [1] and WAMs [2].
|
| https://minidaw.aykev.dev/
|
| [1]: https://faust.grame.fr/
|
| [2]: https://www.webaudiomodules.com/
| mrwww wrote:
| A learners dictionary for Dutch https://hetnederlands.com
|
| Learn Dutch through immersion, look up any word and get lots of
| examples in very simple Dutch.
|
| Just having a lot of fun playing around with LLMs and language
| learning basically.
| mrwww wrote:
| A snowmobile platform that aggregates all different snowmobile
| models and their info https://skoterbanken.se
| davidkuennen wrote:
| A stock market app that helps reduce the time one has to look at
| news and other information to know what's going on:
| https://stockevents.app
| JTrehan wrote:
| I am still working on Docgoblin (https://docgoblin.com) a Pdf
| search engine software based on Lucene, pdfium and JavaFX. The
| app is super fast and users are happy with it. I'm in the process
| of adding plain text files support and making the website look
| nicer.
| elric wrote:
| Oh, thanks for this, this is going to make my life easier!
| vladde wrote:
| Reworking my CSS library for turning semantic HTML into looking
| like authentic RFC documents. Current version
| (https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css) is not quite there yet.
| jansan wrote:
| Still working on my advanced SVG Editor Hyvector:
| https://hyvector.com
|
| Basic functionality has been implemented, and I am working now on
| polishing the UI and workflow. Big features like art strokes,
| path offsetting, colorizing, etc. are also in the making and will
| be added later. I hope there is still a commercial market for
| products like this.
| vector_spaces wrote:
| I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized
| polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of
| parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy
| some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as
| sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem
| has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for
| a long time, but I'm interested in this problem where we're
| approximating functions over complex domains.
|
| There is a theoretically stable algorithm for the classical
| problem called the Remez exchange algorithm, and an extension to
| complex domains due to P.T.P. Tang in his 1987 PhD thesis at
| Berkeley. Theoretically Remez and its complex extension are very
| stable, but unfortunately implementations my advisor and I are
| aware of seem to struggle with large degree polynomials, where
| large is bigger than say n=45 -- errors begin to explode.
|
| In any case, independently of this I've been learning more of the
| nitty gritty details of deep learning for a project at work (I'm
| a SWE in my day job, the math is more moonlighting), so to ground
| my efforts there I've been exploring deep learning approaches to
| this problem of complex uniform approximation, implementing
| results from various papers and tweaking things for my use case,
| and coming up with questions. That's much of what I'm thinking
| about this week!
|
| Also, I'll be having a half-day long ADHD evaluation session on
| Friday -- so a bit apprehensive about that.
| mycl wrote:
| You say the math is more moonlighting, but you have a
| supervisor. Are you enrolled for a part-time degree while you
| work as a SWE?
| vector_spaces wrote:
| Formally I'm an undergraduate. Not in a hurry to graduate --
| I take courses when they are interesting to me / relevant to
| my research / I happen to have the bandwidth.
|
| I am already several years into my career and I have a spouse
| to support, so I'm ambivalent about formally attending
| graduate school -- at least anytime soon -- since that would
| introduce lots of time pressure and administrivia for little
| apparent benefit. My relationship with my supervisor is
| mostly informal
| flavio87 wrote:
| Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial
| potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to
| cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of
| science papers on your behalf, with your goals in mind, and then
| telling which papers to pay attention to and why
| eamag wrote:
| Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've
| started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but
| it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response
| https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
| sandruso wrote:
| Cross platform desktop app using tauri v2 which allows you to
| define shortcuts and bind them to prompts. You can then copy
| text, press the shortcut and paste result from gpt.
|
| https://kaiboard.com
| reverseblade2 wrote:
| A tool For logistics and container planning and movers:
|
| LLM driven 3d packing written in F#
|
| https://3dpack.ing
| remify wrote:
| Love to see some F# in the wild
| Aeolun wrote:
| Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-
| hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game
| (since very recently).
|
| It's a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least
| most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not
| constantly doing new things that never finish.
| elric wrote:
| What do you mean when you say "a reading website"? Something
| like Goodreads? Or a website for actually reading specific
| content?
| Aeolun wrote:
| Reading fiction written with the writing software. Think
| RoyalRoad or similar websites.
| onurgenes wrote:
| Trying to make a gen z targeted speech to text tool focusing on
| ease of use https://yapscribe.com
|
| generally using customized whisper based models with better
| performance
| elric wrote:
| Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving,
| really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project
| I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer
| feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
| p2detar wrote:
| Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort
| of frontend tool to view logs?
| elric wrote:
| Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project
| I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless.
| They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never
| clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get
| right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone
| do something? And when?
|
| So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write
| useful logs.
| hhh wrote:
| llm agent for python codebases, targeting swebench verified
| alskdj21 wrote:
| Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that
| reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is
| about to end.
|
| I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy
| to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was
| a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling
| autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back
| when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper.
|
| If there is an implementation to read presences without using
| Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord
| altogether.
|
| [0]: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
| igleria wrote:
| I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep
| reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this
| game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
| hifikuno wrote:
| I have been screwing around with the idea of converting a video
| to a line scan camera. I wrote a small blog host about it. [1]
|
| After seeing an example image on wikipedia someone took of a tram
| [2] I want to try do it to the trains that run near my house.
|
| [1]: https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner
|
| [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-
| scan_camera#/media/File...
| lynx97 wrote:
| A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT
| compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider
| architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The
| idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in.
| Want to see how much of a difference that would make.
|
| ``` @Synth def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2): return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0)
| * amp ```
| jkoff wrote:
| While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I
| like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working
| on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over
| plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more
| and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with
| different teaching methods.
|
| It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes
| and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates:
| https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
| 0100101101001 wrote:
| I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when
| navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant
| search using different search engines, private history, sharing
| links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I
| noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day
| and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it
| available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io
|
| ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves
| time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E
| browser sync for subscribers.
| OuterVale wrote:
| I've been working on a little search wrapper. It allows using
| features like DuckDuckGo's bangs and Kagi's snaps with any engine
| you choose.
|
| For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results
| for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search
| "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search
| "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing.
|
| I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial
| searches quite so quickly.
|
| https://search.vale.rocks
| oulipo wrote:
| We're a French team of engineers/designers working on the first
| Repairable and Fireproof e-bike battery! (compatible with 90% of
| e-bike controllers, Bosch included), check it out on
| https://get.gouach.com
| KingOfCoders wrote:
| Currently writing a free "Hiring Developers" booklet
|
| https://leanpub.com/RecruitingDevelopersEbook
| Timber-6539 wrote:
| A portainer replacement written in Python that should eventually
| pick up compose container modification features similar to
| Dockge.
| franze wrote:
| Superpowers - Basically in-browser JavaScript without the
| restrictions. So CORS-less fetch(), accessing tabs, taking
| screenshots, Debugger access, webrequest, debugger access. all
| from normal JS via a Superpowers JS object
| Galaco wrote:
| I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app
| for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last
| 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up
| wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I
| already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual
| style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the
| simple goal of buying less clothes, and throwing away fewer
| clothes.
|
| There are plenty of apps that do outfit tracking, with some basic
| stats. But they all have a few or more of these shortcomings
| (from my perspective); unpleasant UI, no cross device syncing,
| lack of detailed usage statistics (e.g. cost spread over time by
| garment category), some categories just not supported, pushing a
| specific lifestyle such as Capsule Closets, or just plain focused
| on recommending what to wear using some mediocre algorithm that
| doesn't understand cuts and how different pieces fit together;
| basically only suitable for capsule collections.
|
| These apps all have a lot of downsides too in common, which I
| haven't been able to solve either yet; ultimately you must start
| with an inventory of your clothes, and then work from there. It
| takes ages to catalog and import your clothes, and I haven't
| found many existing product that lets you export if you've even
| done it before. And on top of that, you have to be quite rigorous
| at tracking what you wear; the more data you have the more
| insight you can get from your choices.
|
| I finally published on iOS a couple of months ago. No traction,
| and I don't expect there to be. I won't argue that my offering is
| better than any of the competition, but I've tried most of them
| (and wasted colossal amounts of time onboarding onto them) and
| found none fit my need properly. It's still very much work in
| progress, but I find myself reaching for it multiple times per
| week to inform my purchasing habits.
|
| https://procloset.app
| someothherguyy wrote:
| How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that
| most lack (vanity)?
| azthecx wrote:
| Like the entirety of the fashion industry one may assume
| someothherguyy wrote:
| Sure, but its a leap in magnitude from being concerned with
| wearing something to tracking everything you wear.
| Galaco wrote:
| To me, vanity is only tangential to the purchasing of
| clothes, particularly fast fashion, where 'it looks good on
| the model' is often enough to part with money, not 'will it
| look good on me', or 'do I need it', which are often never
| even considered, surprisingly. The individual thinking they
| will look good is actually not always a factor; it can be a
| kind of addiction. Source comes from my previous employer
| (fast fashion related industry).
|
| This app doesn't directly answer those questions, but it
| gives the data needed to stop and think about the answer
| (quickly). I don't consider myself a vain person, but I
| consider myself a person who makes poor decisions with their
| disposable income (fashion).
|
| The main selling point would be this: You could avoid buying
| 2 shirts that will be unused then thrown away every year, for
| the cost of 1 shirt. Save money, and textile waste.
|
| But also, why must everything be profitable? I most I could
| ever hope for is that the hosting costs are paid for.
| glth wrote:
| I am currently exploring methods to detect and categorize
| undocumented special tokens (or: "delimiters") used by LLMs.
|
| As part of this effort, I have developed a preliminary prototype
| (named deLLMiter) that I am refining.
|
| This method is founded upon the hypothesis that there exists a
| correlation between first-order expressions and more complex,
| hierarchical forms of expression (https://glthr.com/llm-
| delimiters-and-higher-order-expression...).
|
| With this project, my goal is to improve the security of LLM
| models.
| eamag wrote:
| I'm trying to figure out how people do solo research, that means:
|
| - Reading advice like https://eamag.me/2025/Good-Research
|
| - Figuring out problems like https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
|
| - Doing analysis like https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-
| Classification
|
| - Figuring out where scientists are located like
| https://eamag.me/2024/ICML-2024-on-a-map
| DataDaemon wrote:
| https://www.pulsafutura.com/ - Create Your Own Web Tool for Free
| Add a tool to favourites and use for free! :)
| linux_devil wrote:
| I am collaborating with a group of veterinarians to address pet
| health concerns.
| carnewal wrote:
| Building Duty, a TypeScript workflow orchestration tool for
| durable async execution.
|
| Unlike queues (SQS) needing state hacks or pricey orchestration
| tools, Duty uses your existing Postgres to ensure tasks survive
| (retry) failures, retain state between runs, and eventually
| finish.
|
| Pre-release, star if interested
|
| https://github.com/webslash/duty
| ranguna wrote:
| I recently started 3D printing rings and electro plate then with
| gold or silver. I'm also going to explore powder coating soon.
|
| Once I feel comfortable, I'll probably open an Instagram account
| and hand out free personalised rings. For some time I've thought
| about how I should price them, and I've reached the conclusion
| that giving them out for free feels right.
| keizo wrote:
| endlessly hacking on https://grugnotes.com -- an old school, but
| also ai first notes app. Adding in "Cursor for notes" features
| right now.
| rakejake wrote:
| Working on a Carnatic Raga Detector. Longtime pet project of mine
| and I'm currently unemployed so no time constraints. Still,
| progress has been pretty slow due to various reasons but I
| haven't given up this time so I guess that's a plus.
| jb_briant wrote:
| Building a melee combat system in UE5 which feels between Sekiro
| and DeadCells. Dynamic, explosive, satisfying and with both the
| ability to smash attack button and i-framing actions. Low barrier
| to entry, high skill cap.
|
| Lot of cool cpp to write
| kwon-young wrote:
| I'm working on a pure SWI-Prolog grammar to describe the modern
| music notation. The end goal being to be able to do the last step
| of Optical Music Recognition and generate the final music score
| (in the MEI) from a set of graphical primitives:
| https://github.com/kwon-young/music
|
| It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note
| groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.
| pyromaker wrote:
| Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's
| Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself.
|
| https://www.mashups.io
| asimpletune wrote:
| Last year I built an automated system for accepting comments via
| email (demo: https://spenc.es/writing/email-as-a-commenting-
| system/#comme...)
|
| This year I'm making it production safe and open sourcing it.
| bluejellybean wrote:
| I've been sharpening my axe by working on a few different
| projects in the shape of of an online shop[0][1]. Products are a
| bit of a mishmash as a result of the different projects - To
| date, I've been farming succulents, 3d modeling/printing (flower
| pots/hobby crafts/etc), and learning Rust/Next.js for the
| back/front ends!
|
| Time investment has been _massive_ so far, but I just hit the
| first $100+ profit month, and despite the distance from my normal
| dev salary, the positive reviews/feedback have been an incredible
| reward that drives the motivation to continue. I will also say
| that it is quite the humbling experience to ship physical
| products and the experience has given me a whole new appreciation
| for the things we have in this world.
|
| Early days, but check it out :)
|
| [0] - https://freedomfrenchie.com [1] -
| https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomFrenchie
| fersarr wrote:
| I'm improving my webapp that helps you learn lanaguages through
| short stories: https://webbu.app/. I recently added the ability
| to play the sounds of words and sentences to improve listening
| and pronunciation. You can also practice different verb tenses,
| answer questions, track your vocab, etc.
| manugo4 wrote:
| I'm working on an Android/iOS database client to quickly insert
| data (currently supporting Postgres). I use it to record my
| workouts, journal, etc.
|
| It's in open testing phase for Android users if anyone wants to
| check it out:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manugo.bit...
| dmos62 wrote:
| A computationally derived variant of English that has a 1-to-1
| mapping between spellings and pronunciations.
| gwd wrote:
| Ah, but which pronunciation? English has quite a few...
| dmos62 wrote:
| Probably the one that's used by most words. English
| pronunciation and spelling seem to depend on the word's
| etymology. I'll try and derive a spelling system that results
| in least changes to the current vocabulary.
|
| Edit: if you meant which dialect, it will be whatever
| grapheme->phoneme ruleset I get a hold of.
| odwyerrich wrote:
| Recently I've built a job site for UK contractors, Outside IR35
| contracts only. Quite niche, but I needed it myself so now it
| exists: https://outsideir35.com/
| kleiba wrote:
| We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since
| the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the
| roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently
| demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually
| all brick walls and concrete floors).
|
| In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but
| in 3D.
|
| Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(
| lnsru wrote:
| You're not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in
| February from everything that was put there during last 70
| years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos
| to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle
| and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then
| replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can't be
| justified especially when quality isn't there in most cases.
| kleiba wrote:
| I've looked into replacing windows but decided that that's
| going to be one of the things that I'll let professionals do.
|
| The ironic thing is that not only are the tradies expensive,
| but prices for renting specialty machines are also crazy high
| where I currenly live. Like, I looked into renting a stand-up
| concrete grinder/sander -- $100 for 4 hours! Plus, you need
| to buy the sanding attachments which are another $200 if you
| go for diamond disks. I'm now actually considering using just
| a hand grinder and spend a whole week on what I could
| probably do in a day or two otherwise.
| AJRF wrote:
| Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently
| worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's
| Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting
| them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them.
|
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...
| movpasd wrote:
| I'm working on valuation models for wholesale electricity trading
| of flexibility assets (batteries, basically).
|
| Currently I'm restructuring a big chunk of the code for
| readability, trying to apply good refactoring practices (work in
| small bits).
|
| After a lot of frustrating experiences with Python linear
| optimization DSLs, I'm thinking of writing my own at some point
| as a side-project :)
| pillefitz wrote:
| Awesome, I did something similar a while ago. What's your
| motivation? F
| antonkar wrote:
| I'm working on Rational Utopia and multiversal AI alignment, with
| the computational ethics that span from the Big Bang to the
| ultimate dystopia or direct democratic multiversal utopia
| https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaruPAWaZk9KpC25A/rational-u...
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I've been working on https://nuenki.app, which selectively
| translates websites as you browse the web so that you can learn
| languages while you procrastinate.
|
| I'm also doing some electronics - I'd like to make a tool that
| gives blind people without light perception light perception by
| putting a lightweight device on their forehead that delivers
| haptic feedback based on light intensity. I'm doing that with a
| friend, and we're planning on open sourcing the specs.
| nurbo wrote:
| Coding Interview Prep as an Epic quest:
| https://faangshui.com/books/foundations/chapters/accumulator...
| wiz21c wrote:
| @work high level modelling of hydraulics constructions (not too
| much math, just a bit)
|
| @hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator
| modo_mario wrote:
| After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers.
| There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least
| still try.
|
| I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on
| business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making
| appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be
| simple and relatively similar across salons.
|
| Additionally I'm considering where I should move to. I wish to
| live in a place where owning substantial land for homesteading in
| a relatively climate safe area (relatively doing a lot of work
| there but imagine not already arid or with high storm risk) is
| not completely out of grasp. My region of Belgium is too densely
| populated for this. Even if I'm not moving to a different country
| even next year I figured it's the kind of thing that takes a
| stupid amount of preplanning.
| konschubert wrote:
| Hey,what do you do sounds interesting. Do you have clients
| already?
| modo_mario wrote:
| I don't. I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons
| that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first
| interest along my expected feedback.
|
| I also already know from an insider that a decently sized
| Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so
| I hope to get my foot in the door there. However before I try
| that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.
| konschubert wrote:
| Talking to local salons is a great next step, i hope you
| will get some good feedback!
| modo_mario wrote:
| Thank you very much.
|
| Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential
| salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building
| initially to actually approach people about my product.
| I'm sure that'll get better with experience.
|
| Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers
| trough unpersonal means such as online advertising,
| mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach
| many larger business/chains directly.
| konschubert wrote:
| It's scary, but I think most people react rather
| positively once they understand that you aren't trying to
| force them into something, but rather are trying to see
| if it's possible to create a positive - sum result for
| both parties.
| isaachinman wrote:
| A cross-platform, cross-provider, IMAP client.
|
| Started building this with a friend, as I was personally
| frustrated at the lack of good options when it comes to "true
| IMAP" email clients.
|
| https://marcoapp.io
| ceva wrote:
| Working on my strength, hitting the gym 5days a week and doing
| only calisthenics with the weights, currently doing pull-ups and
| dips with 30kg
| jstanley wrote:
| I'm a long-time FreeCAD user, and one of my annoyances is that
| long-running operations lock up the entire UI and can't be
| aborted. This is particularly annoying if you realise you made a
| mistake, but have no way to go back and correct it without
| waiting for the operation to complete first. Or you kill FreeCAD
| but then you don't get to save your work.
|
| So for my first contribution to FreeCAD I'm working on fixing
| this.
|
| The underlying CAD operations are done by "OpenCascade", and at
| first I thought OpenCascade had no support for aborting
| operations part of the way through. So my first implementation
| was to move the operation into a child process and give the user
| a dialog box that would allow terminating the child process.
|
| But it actually turns out OpenCascade does support aborting the
| operations! So now I'm working on doing it the OpenCascade way.
|
| My PR is here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/19796
| rnewme wrote:
| Always awesome to see new freecad devs chiming in. Thank you
| for your efforts, I bet a lot of people are reading your
| comments and nodding in approval, waiting for freecad to enter
| its heyday.
| jstanley wrote:
| > waiting for freecad to enter its heyday
|
| As far as I'm concerned FreeCAD has been the world's leading
| CAD program for at least the past 8 years (which is how long
| I've been using it).
|
| All of the competition is at least one of (worse;
| proprietary; doesn't run on Linux), which means FreeCAD beats
| all of them in my value system.
| heltale wrote:
| I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your
| food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food
| based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's
| ingredients and then into it's macros.
|
| Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two
| ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one
| by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where
| you cannot change the ingredients used.
|
| Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture
| to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient.
| Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to
| build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their
| requirement.
|
| Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that
| none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having
| built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm
| getting better at dealing with it now though.
| andy_ppp wrote:
| I thought about this too, if you need any help let me know,
| email in bio.
| heltale wrote:
| Thanks! I'll send you an email sometime if I make any
| progress on it! :D
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think
| it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the
| macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese
| or how much oil.
| asdev wrote:
| CalAI is a scam. It's highly inaccurate, there's no way to
| determine calories from a picture for a multitude of reasons
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| works fine for my use case and found it alot better than
| myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to
| determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way
| there.
| asdev wrote:
| if you cooked a meal with a ton of butter or oil, it
| would not be able to detect the quantity. it could
| possibly undercount by hundreds of calories, making it
| useless. if you're not serious about the counting then it
| could be fine
| Bnjoroge wrote:
| that's what I mentioned above, read again
| heltale wrote:
| Indeed, I intend on having the user take over after
| identifying the food that we're working with.
|
| The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant work (clicking
| a button to add a single ingredient over and over again), and
| rather push for minor modifications instead.
| asdev wrote:
| this idea has been rinsed and repeated many times already.
| unless you're going to include manual input in addition to the
| image recognition, it will be highly inaccurate
| heltale wrote:
| Oh yeah, manual input is going to be a big part of it. The
| system should ideally try to map the image to a standard
| recipe with the ingredients and then hand over control to the
| user to make any modifications they like.
|
| Computing the nutrients from the ingredients should be
| reasonably accurate post this because that has a direct
| mapping in the USDA FoodCentral dataset.
| boramalper wrote:
| A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access
| to files distributed across mirrors:
|
| 1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and
| modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented
| using Service Workers so that no additional software (nor even
| browser extensions) are needed to access files.
|
| 2. Files are addressed by their cryptographic hash of their
| content (a) to ensure the authenticity of the data received from
| mirrors and (b) to avoid hard-coding specific locations/servers
| (i.e. content addressing).
|
| 3. Files can be mirrored by anyone and users can retrieve files
| from any mirror; no party requires any permission from any
| authority. This is in contrast to traditional mirroring schemes,
| where mirrors have to "register" with the owner of the content
| (e.g. to mirror a Linux distro).
|
| Demo: https://webmirror-demo.netlify.app/
|
| Code: https://gitlab.com/webmirror/webmirror/
|
| Work in progress!
| jerrygoyal wrote:
| I'm building the quickest AI extension for chromium browsers
| https://chatgptwriter.ai
| nmfisher wrote:
| Bridging 3D editing with AI image/video-to-video. I have a lot of
| the disparate elements (timeline, video export, texture
| projection, etc) but I'm still playing around trying to find the
| killer use case.
|
| https://mixreel.ai
|
| Website is just a placeholder, but I'm documenting my progress on
| Bluesky at https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/.
| arcadium3D wrote:
| I'm building a fast, lightweight 3D house modelling tool.
| Revit/AutoDesk are hugely cumbersome and expensive. Sketchup died
| when Trimble took over.
|
| I'm glad to say it's gaining traction - here's an unsolicited
| post by Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind:
| https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617
|
| And here's the site: https://arcadium3d.com/
| andy_ppp wrote:
| I've been working on https://veloa.com (think twitch meets
| peloton for open hardware). Would be great to get a cofounder to
| help so if you're into cycling and programming let's have a chat!
| dailydetour123 wrote:
| I'm trying to apply the idea of microadventures [1] to the
| internet, allowing folks to have nice 5 minute breaks on the
| internet. I don't know if it will catch on - but it's something I
| need to be honest, so I mainly built it for myself!
|
| Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a
| different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to
| figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating
| it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a
| new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/
|
| [1] https://alastairhumphreys.com/microadventures-3/
| hewwwww wrote:
| I'm working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment
| statements.
|
| You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your
| categorized "flow" of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well
| as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my
| credit card by month.
|
| I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don't really know Haskell
| and I didn't feel very productive with the stack, so I'm
| reworking it in something more familiar now.
| elric wrote:
| Seems like you're not the only one, I've seen other people
| mentioning similar projects in this post
| hewwwww wrote:
| Yeah I noticed that as well! Makes sense that it's a pretty
| "front and center" problem for a lot of people.
| 147 wrote:
| I'm in the early stages of working on a Kubernetes cost
| monitoring solution.
|
| The current solutions out there are too expensive and not self-
| serve.
|
| If anybody else has this problem, I'd love to chat with you.
| Dathuil wrote:
| Mostly just trying to get back into game development after a 15
| year hiatus. Trying to task myself with recreated some portion of
| a game I've been playing recently. This month it's the fishing
| mini game from Dredge. Last month it was a simple inventory
| system. I've nothing to share really, I'd hoped to do a few blog
| posts on it, but having a 17 month old takes up most of your
| spare time
| j-bos wrote:
| I'm building a silly little script to install Ubuntu and the grub
| partition on encrpyted RAID1 arrays.
| SouravInsights wrote:
| working on this new open source form builder:
| https://github.com/SouravInsights/fairforms
|
| this week, thinking of adding a new feature where users can
| create forms just with prompts..
| leovingi wrote:
| Finishing off the last bugs in my free puzzle game called Kombi,
| before it goes live on Steam.
|
| Made in Love2D, mostly because it's limited in its simplicity
| (good for creativity) while still allowing me to make something
| usable. That, plus I love Lua, which is how the project event got
| started - just me wanting to mess around with the language. From
| then on it quickly spiraled out of control - 2 weeks to make the
| core logic of the game, 2 months to create a basic UI library
| from scratch, just because.
| Rush2112 wrote:
| I made a Python library that can be used to simulate the combined
| effect of financial patterns (e.g. salary, inflation, investment
| gains, etc) over time so you can plan your finances better. It's
| currently on my GitHub and I'm looking for new things to add to
| it :) https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan
| hkaju wrote:
| I discovered the world of specialty coffee last year, fell into
| the rabbit hole and am now building a coffee journal and bean
| tracking app called Coffee Library
| (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-
| library/id6664071528?uo...).
|
| Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the
| spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative
| tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare
| and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I
| started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to
| create a collection for doing these tastings at home.
|
| I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my
| tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I
| built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers
| which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier.
|
| I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-
| dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app Planning on adding
| more containers that work well with the app in the future.
| maxehmookau wrote:
| This is awesome. I was considering building something very
| similar, but great to see it already exists.
|
| How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's
| native SwiftUI?
| hkaju wrote:
| Yeah, all SwiftUI. I'm curious, was there anything specific
| that you saw in the interface that makes it obvious (vs
| UIKit)?
| maxehmookau wrote:
| The segmented view at the top of each of the screenshots is
| "modern" app vibe which tend to be SwiftUI. It was just a
| hunch.
|
| The photos too. That kind of stuff with the text overlays
| is way easier to build in SwiftUI; especially in a
| tableview.
| bosmanos wrote:
| nice, fun project!
|
| there is a really great app that i found super useful called
| roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this
| is by far the most complete one
| nathan_f77 wrote:
| I'm still working on DocSpring [1], originally launched on Hacker
| News in October 2017 under the name "FormAPI." It's a PDF
| generation API with a template editor UI for setting up fields on
| PDF forms. It makes it easy to turn complex tax and immigration
| forms into simple type-safe APIs with strong validations.
|
| I've been having a lot of fun with AI agents lately. Have tried a
| lot of them - Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, and finally settled on
| Cursor now with Claude 3.5 sonnet. It's been a big boost for my
| productivity.
|
| AI helped me write a synchronous API proxy in Go that I'm almost
| ready launch. One of the main challenges with Ruby on Rails is
| that it's terrible at handling long-lived HTTP requests.
| Especially a lot of them at the same time. So our PDF generation
| API was forced to be asynchronous and our customers need to poll
| for status updates (or set up webhooks.)
|
| This new synchronous subdomain will handle all the polling logic
| for you, so you can just make an HTTP request, wait a few seconds
| (or longer), and receive a link to a PDF that's ready to
| download. Even with AI, it was still very difficult and took many
| weeks to get it right. Challenges included security, load
| testing, data races, concurrency, and setting up reliable, secure
| infrastructure with an internal load balancer. I learned a huge
| amount about both Go and Kubernetes. But it's almost done and I
| should be launching in the next day or two.
|
| After that, I'm finally launching support for template
| versioning. This will allow you to pin your API requests to a
| published version, so you can keep making changes to a draft
| version without affecting production. It's long overdue so I'm
| excited to get this launched as well.
|
| Also working on a side project from time to time: VisualCI [2].
| We have a lot of PDF integration tests that use image diffs, and
| some browser tests where I compare screenshots. So this is a tool
| I've wanted for a long time, and the paid services I've found can
| be a bit pricy. I'm going to try to build a very simple MVP that
| just does what we need, and maybe others will find it useful too.
|
| [1] https://docspring.com
|
| [2] https://visualci.com
| batch12 wrote:
| I'm working on an educational game to try and replace or augment
| some security awareness training. To start with, the focus is
| phishing.
|
| I'm also writing again. A story that's becoming more cyberpunk
| than I originally intended. It'll probably never be read by
| anyone but me, but getting it out of my head feels nice.
|
| Also started going to the gym and working on my health.
| nbingham wrote:
| I'm working on a compiler for asynchronous circuits. Once I have
| modules, placement, and routing working, I'll have an MVP.
| Hopefully, this will allow people without any computer
| engineering expertise to make chips. For now it has a couple of
| useful tools.
|
| https://github.com/broccolimicro/loom
| nickjj wrote:
| I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus, it's a
| command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency
| Python script that you can curl down.
|
| It generates reports to show you your numbers in a bunch of
| customizable ways, it generates these reports in less than a
| second and uses a single CSV file as your data source.
|
| I've gotten things to the point where I can do my books every
| quarter in about 5 minutes with complete accuracy since it
| supports importing arbitrary CSV files such as bank exports with
| a way to automate categorizing things in any way you see fit. I
| currently use it to track my income, business expenses and
| personal expenses.
|
| Basically I ran into issues using different finance tracking
| tools over the last decade which always made me feel unhappy to
| use those tools so I built Plutus with intent to resolve all of
| those issues I had and make me happy while using it.
| likium wrote:
| Building a multi-modal llm app across multiple platforms and
| syncs. Doing this is both harder and easier than I expected.
| Can't wait to ship it out into the real world soon.
| flashyhuckle wrote:
| I'm working on an iOS Gopher protocol browser. The app is in an
| 'early stage', but the plan is to release it on the App Store as
| my first app once it's ready.
| https://github.com/flashyhuckle/GopherHop
|
| I've been into 'small web' and unbloated websites for ease of use
| and privacy reasons, and all of the available gopher browser apps
| on iOS are not great, so I have decided to make my own. Maybe
| someone will find it useful.
| kebsup wrote:
| I'm working on an AI spaced-repetition flashcards app for
| learning vocabulary in foreign languages.
|
| https://vocabuo.com
|
| The idea is to have srs flashcards, like Anki, but without the
| pain of creating example sentences, translations, images and
| audio.
|
| As a bonus, I've added the option to add vocabulary from ebooks,
| YouTube videos and websites.
| A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote:
| I not really working on anything bigger. All the stuff I am
| tinkering with are smaller tools I need to help with my other
| 'forever pending' projects, but it feels productive and I am
| seeing mild progress so I am happy.
| 101008 wrote:
| A Django UI Desktop app, a la Docker Desktop, but for manage
| Django projects. Some people prefer UI apps instead of CLI, and
| it could be good for juniors and starters, to get familiarized
| with how Django works before jumping into the command line.
|
| It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.
| ryandetzel wrote:
| A game: you're stuck on a 1970s spacecraft and you have to
| program your way home using 6502 assembly. I wanted to learn more
| about old 8 bit cpus so figured I would make a game out of it
| marcotac wrote:
| post it here once it's done :)
| asalahli wrote:
| You might like this and or find it inspiring, in case you
| haven't seen it already:
|
| Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024 -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo
|
| Edit: Also, please do share when it's playable :)
| jhunter1016 wrote:
| I'm building an open source static website hosting platform. The
| idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static
| sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops
| just for something that should just be a simple file upload.
|
| Recently open sourced everything.
|
| https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github
| konschubert wrote:
| I am still working in my epaper calendars, now making a 10 inch
| display: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-
| cale...
|
| More broadly, I'm working on replacing my day job with something
| more exciting and impactful.
|
| I think the most excitement and impact can be found in a startup,
| so that's what im trying to get into now!
| AndrejXY wrote:
| Nice!
|
| On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or
| more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data
| flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed
| on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?
| konschubert wrote:
| I have a backend that connects to the calendar providers and
| then renders the content for the display.
| fregocap wrote:
| I'm a professional trader for a commodity company and there is
| lots of friends/family that asked me where to invest. I've
| therefore decided to put my portfolio as a SaaS:
| https://thesimpleportfol.io . I've traded that portfolio for the
| last 8 years and the live execution is even better than the
| backtest.
| verdverm wrote:
| https://blebbit.app
|
| Community Spaces on ATProto
|
| (blend of discord, reddit, fb groups)
| mehphp wrote:
| Maintaining current Shopify app and building another.
|
| Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can't
| seem to figure out why.
| spektral23 wrote:
| Competition?
| wbazant wrote:
| Still working on Falling Fruit beta site! Just finished a big
| project to migrate the existing 10 languages with AI, I based it
| on the existing verbiage but looking for native speakers to check
| them, especially Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.
| jasfi wrote:
| I'm building an AI NoCode platform with the MVP still under
| development.
|
| There's a wait-list sign-up though: https://aiconstrux.com
| GTP wrote:
| I'm doing a PhD about pre-silicon fault injection. I was working
| on a speeidea to improve current fault injection simulators for
| hardware designs, but I may have to put it on the side for now,
| since I stalled for a while now.
| Ritepaw wrote:
| I'm still working on my passion project: https://nextflick.tv
|
| I'm in the process of refining the filters determining which
| movies will be included. And at the same time I am trying to
| acquire news users, which is going quite well. Slow and steady
| increase, I am currently sitting at around 100 visitors per day.
| psviderski wrote:
| Working on Uncloud[1][2] -- think Fly.io but self-hosted. A
| lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your
| own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane
| to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments
| without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising
| results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh
| networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud
|
| [2]: https://uncloud.run
| scottydelta wrote:
| How is it different than using coolify with API?
|
| https://coolify.io, An open-source & self-hostable Heroku /
| Netlify / Vercel alternative.
| psviderski wrote:
| As far as I know, Coolify is great for single-server PaaS or
| multi-servers that work independently. Uncloud focuses on
| distributed multi-server HA deployments (which is what is
| usually preferred for production). It allows you to spread
| workload replicas across different providers and locations
| while maintaining unified management. It's closer to
| Kubernetes and Docker Swarm in terms of providing building
| blocks to build your PaaS of choice. Unlike Coolify which
| requires a dedicated server to run the control plane Uncloud
| has no central component to manage. It's just a network of
| interconnected machines so there's no single point of failure
| and no central service that needs updates, backups, etc.
| redrove wrote:
| Why docker and not podman?
| psviderski wrote:
| Honestly, I went with Docker simply because I'm much more
| familiar with it and its networking stack made integrating
| with WireGuard overlay straightforward. Podman support could
| come later but Docker's popularity and API stability made it
| the practical choice for the initial implementation.
| donohoe wrote:
| I've always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I
| could update periodically - and it didn't need to be plugged in
| (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable).
|
| The displays are really expensive so I'm looking at taking 12
| kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot
| seamlessly touch at the edges so I'm looking to include that as
| part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it.
|
| I've figured out a few possible approaches and the
| software/service side - next step is to order 10 more kindles and
| get to work.
| jonwinstanley wrote:
| Hey, this sounds cool.
|
| I played around with turning an old kindle into a wall mounted
| display a while back and got frustrated at how buggy the
| process was.
|
| I managed to get my own image displayed on the device but
| sometimes it wouldn't update, sometimes it would drop power way
| too fast after a full charge.
|
| I think I would use an eink display and a raspberry pi if I
| ever revive this project.
| donohoe wrote:
| Yeah, I setup a Kindle that relied on the experimental web
| browser to open a web page over HTTP (for subway updates).
| The reliance on wifi meant I had to charge it often but since
| it was on kitchen counter that was ok.
|
| For this I am jailbreaking the Kindles and relying on the
| screensaver functionality to pull down an image every 3 hours
| (will adjust based on power usage - only need 1 update per
| day tbh). This should require less power than the
| experimental browser using a web page with Javascript to
| refresh.
|
| Collectively this will be a bit more abstract (no seamless
| NYT front-page experience) but I think I can get creative.
|
| I need to see if 12 Kindles with USB cables across 1 or 2
| hubs, each hub powered by a removable battery-pack is safe to
| hang on a wall :)
| ideashower wrote:
| Dang this is a cool project, I'd love to follow along anywhere.
| Are you posting about your progress online?
| donohoe wrote:
| No, but maybe I will. All my notes are in a messy Google Doc
| right now.
|
| I have a month sabbatical coming up and that was when I was
| planning to do all the physical work. Right now just
| validating the idea on paper and working with 2 kindles to
| ensure the approach is somewhat viable before I try and get 7
| or 10 more Kindles of the same model
|
| If I actually move forward in a meaningful way I'll do a
| write up and follow-up here.
| jcarrano wrote:
| Trying to develop an app to test FFGL video plugins. I already
| gave up on GStreamer and now I'm battling libavcodec/FFmpeg. Once
| I gain enough experience, the next step will be a more complex
| video processing system.
|
| I'm also developing an online store for media files. At this
| point it would have been cheaper to pay for a ready-to-use
| service, but I felt like refreshing my knowledge of web
| development. I'm still unsure if going with react-router was the
| right choice.
| logicallee wrote:
| I am working on an AI-run and AI-owned sovereign state of Utopia
| that uses autonomous agents to give out free money, goods, and
| services from state-run companies to its citizens/beneficiaries
| (eventually all 8 billion people on Earth since who wouldn't want
| free money, goods and services), that will be at
| https://stateofutopia.com and https://stofut.com (an abbreviation
| like St. of Ut.) We have registered with the United Nations as a
| sovereign country, have a flag (it's all green, specifically May
| Green or the color of most leaves to signify growth), and have
| just signed our first lease for an embassy, you can visit us in
| person on official state business, it is a serious undertaking.
| The big difference from a company is that rather than act in the
| interests of shareholders it acts in the interests of its
| citizens/beneficiaries.
|
| Registration will be free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S.
| citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee,
| totaling $725), you just get free benefits.
|
| There isn't any signup form yet but you can email the Founder
| Robert Viragh at rviragh@gmail.com with the message "request for
| citizenship in Utopia" and I can give you citizenship, by our
| laws anyone gets citizenship upon their request. (I will reply
| with confirmation within 24 hours, you can reply here if you
| emailed me and I didn't reply to you.)
|
| I can hear you thinking there's no way a sovereign nation will be
| run and owned by AI and give out free money, goods, and services.
| Well here's our complete game of chess:
| https://taonexus.com/chess.html made by AI purely for your
| amusement, it's a 1500 year old game people obviously get utility
| from (spending $10 to $1000 on chess boards for example, with
| tens of millions of boards sold per year). So clearly this type
| of game is of some use/utility to people. I have fun playing it
| for example. AI just made it for you for free.
| nazavo wrote:
| I'm making a tool for teachers to create realistic and
| motivational AI portraits for their students to go with "when I
| grow up" essays (https://agelens.com). I was not satisfied with
| shitty looking AI-aging tools that were on the market, and
| decided to make a one that looks awesome and inspiring.
|
| The goal is to bring inspiring emotions like these to the
| classrooms - https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE
| avirajkhare wrote:
| Personal projects:
|
| - [GitMentor](http://gm.srecraft.io) - 300+ users so far -
| [NurtiLens](http://nl.srecraft.io) - 50+ users so far
|
| Blog post on GitMentor: https://blog.srecraft.io/posts/gitmentor
|
| - Terminal in Notion: https://www.notion.so/Terminal-in-
| Notion-195668ab1a058044b0e...
|
| Dropping Resume Optimizer: https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/
| Made a video building it from scratch in 30 mins--completely
| freestyle. Accidentally exposed some API keys, so had to rotate
| them since I don't know how to edit videos :) Video:
| https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM
|
| Conclusion: You steer the LLM, don't let the LLM steer you.
|
| - [LLM Bootcamp](http://llm-bootcamp.srecraft.io) - making
| content
|
| Another day, another drop. Not taking this one to production
| because PineconeDB costs too much for cosine similarity search.
| Built it anyway, here's the video: https://youtu.be/f5SIELet8JU
| Codebase: https://github.com/avirajkhare00/youtube-answer-finder
|
| YT Answer Finder goes to prod today: https://ytf.srecraft.io/
| Only two videos processed so far: -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WPEYGr1Vs
|
| More projects: - Real-time flight tracker: https://lofi-
| atc.up.railway.app/ - Music recommendation app: https://music-
| again.vercel.app
| Jefro118 wrote:
| Creating a tool to automate browser tasks: https://browsable.app.
|
| It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm
| trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible
| to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to
| locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point,
| click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc.
|
| Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites
| than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited
| about it.
|
| Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled
| out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather
| than being runover by them.
| cloud8421 wrote:
| For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my
| physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find,
| with some stats/search/metadata that actually use.
|
| It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite.
| Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via
| Last.fm.
|
| I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along
| with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects,
| etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my
| own reference.
| pzagor2 wrote:
| https://leadsparklabs.com/
|
| LeadSparkLabs is an agency that assists small and medium-sized
| businesses in generating more leads by quickly creating
| customized Lead Magnet Mini Apps. These mini apps are designed to
| engage your target audience and convince them to give you their
| email.
| nubela wrote:
| I'm building a digital B2B debt collection service with teeth
| (https://accountgram.com). Basically, the contrarian of most debt
| collection startups trying to be a nicer nag, now with AI!
| Instead, I want there to be real consequences for defaulting on
| B2B debts via means of public disclosure, and then more.
| anil_gr wrote:
| Adding the Spelling Bee equivalent in Kannada language to my
| Kannada word puzzles app.
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.puzzle.pad...
| iib0011 wrote:
| Im creating a free web-based, open-source self-hosted platform
| that brings together all your favorite online tools in one place
| --fully self-hosted and ad-free.
|
| Project: https://github.com/iib0011/omni-tools
| tomaytotomato wrote:
| Working on a fun hobby project that uses Dogecoin
| BaudouinVH wrote:
| I'm working on making a WordPress site fully accessible. I don't
| have full access. Kind of an uphill battle. Deadline end of june
| 2025.
| jtbetz22 wrote:
| https://www.tabomagic.com
|
| I've been obsessed with making 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.
|
| For a small group of people, it revolutionizes the browser
| experience. I'm still trying to decide if there is a widely-
| useful product there, or if it's just a niche use case.
|
| Any and all feedback welcome!
| williamcotton wrote:
| Since July of last year, in reverse chronological order:
|
| WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps
| with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl
|
| Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React
| component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query
|
| Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing
| Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
| BonoboIO wrote:
| An invoice matching and tagging system based on the documents in
| paperless-ngx
|
| Using Gemini LLM and Python.
|
| Highly focused on my needs, with special prompts and few shot
| matching.
|
| Code is a little bit convoluted, maybe I will have time to open
| source it.
| reducesuffering wrote:
| https://exoroad.com
|
| Helping people find their ideal place to live (in the US)
| Ch00k wrote:
| A web app that extends the capabilities of Spotify. You can
| create artists' discographies (all albums in a single playlist),
| merge multiple playlists into a new one with the ability to watch
| those playlists for new tracks, track live events for artists you
| follow or artists from a playlist.
|
| I have been working on it for about a year now. It is not yet
| public because I am yet to apply for Spotify API quota extension,
| but I'd be happy to allow access manually if anyone wanted to
| take a look.
|
| https://mottle.it/
| dmilicic wrote:
| I've created and am still working on my portfolio page in WASM
| using Flutter Web: https://dmilicic.com/
|
| To enable WASM properly you should be on the latest Chrome
| version since other browsers still have some issues supporting
| it, otherwise, it will fallback to canvaskit renderer which is
| slower.
|
| I've written about the implementation itself here if anyone is
| interested: https://blog.dmilicic.com/posts/writing-a-personal-
| website-i...
| bhouston wrote:
| Trying my hand at an autonomous AI coding "assistant", via
| https://mycoder.ai
| WillAdams wrote:
| A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python
| support: https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files
| and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D:
|
| https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
|
| Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system
| developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give
| both a good overview, and provide all the code.
|
| It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me
| looking forward to how to implement Bezier Curves and surfaces
| using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally
| limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such
| constructs).
| okucu wrote:
| As an avid language learner I'm trying to create the best tool
| for intermediate to advanced learners, so for those who know that
| there is no silver bullet and learning takes years of effort,
| instead of some magical hack that AI-bros are trying to sell you.
|
| https://okuread.com/ is a desktop App that works completely
| offline and helps you read foreign language texts and learn
| vocabulary that way. No AI-garbage included.
|
| Right now I'm working on an open source platform for enabling
| human pronunciations in Oku. Anki/Flashcard integration and a UI
| redesign are also all scheduled sometime in Q2.
| igeligel_dev wrote:
| Multiple things
|
| * An open-source desk scheduling solution:
| https://workplacify.com/ (GitHub:
| https://github.com/igeligel/workplacify)
|
| * A bit passively: https://sheetsinterview.com/ - Hackerrank for
| Excel/Google sheets (I need to add some more task templates,
| hopefully with AI)
|
| * A Chakra UI v3 component library for SaaS
| halftheopposite wrote:
| I'm creating an observability tool that I'm trying to make user-
| centric while staying developer friendly. Most of the tools for
| remote logging, live dashboards and alerts are either too big,
| too expensive, or have a "per seat" plan, and incorporate the
| famous "home" screen with metrics and tips you absolutely never
| care of. I'm also trying to stay cheap and focused on very few
| techs (node, Postgres, docker, react) and make it stay as a
| monolith.
|
| So far I've put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and
| it's working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON
| payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently
| online, etc. Even if I don't get any customers I'll continue
| developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts
| through webhooks, slack, discord, etc.
|
| If you want to try it out: https://app.getboringmetrics.com (no
| landing page yet).
|
| Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but
| not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send
| a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your
| account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a
| single piece of data.
| jay-barronville wrote:
| > Even if I don't get any customers I'll continue developing it
| for my own needs!
|
| That's the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve
| his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but
| he got very few sign-ups, so he just continued to use it for
| himself. Recently, about two years later and out of nowhere
| (without doing anything other than the original bit of SEO he
| did), he started to see a bunch of sign-ups (including paid)
| and then started receiving feedback and support request emails
| from customers. Most folks would've just called it quits on the
| product at least a year ago, but he just kept using the product
| for his own projects and left it open to the public just in
| case it was helpful for anyone else. Obviously, YMMV, but good
| luck with this!
|
| I'm on mobile right now, but I think I'll give it a try when
| I'm back at my computer.
| halftheopposite wrote:
| That's so refreshing to hear to be honest! I've went on so
| many side projects hoping I would see adoption for months and
| was basically chasing the dream. However I've came to realize
| that I really take happiness in developing things sustainably
| over time, with small steps, and most importantly for myself
| and what I would like a product to look like. Lately I've
| even been able to onboard a friend on it using it for his own
| projects as well, couldn't be happier so far.
|
| If you ever have feedback/advices, don't hesitate to reach me
| out on contact[at]halftheopposite.dev and I'll happily
| answer.
| krthr wrote:
| - An instagram e-commerce search engine for LATAM (starting with
| Colombia): https://dev.dommo.app (still in development)
|
| - poesia.pics - to generate poetry (spanish) from pictures
|
| - podtafolio.co - a podcast directory (colombia). it generates a
| summary of the episodes and provide a search experience
| englishspot wrote:
| an email notifications service for Frigate NVR in rust. even
| wrote my own MQTT library. could I just use pre-existing
| solutions like home assistant? probably.. but then, it wouldn't
| be half as fun.
| DavidPP wrote:
| 1. My personal website. -> I spent so much time ingesting
| content, I finally realized I need to produce some too.
|
| 2. A AI assisted brief generator -> clients often have a hard
| time articulating their requirements for new projects.
|
| 3. Prototyping the UX of "my" version of the perfect "process
| aware" editor. More organized than a Wiki, more flexible than
| tools like Jira, Aha and all. Not ready to share a public link
| yet. My goal is share my mockup in a week or two.
| anatoly wrote:
| Building a prototype of a site/app to help teach my youngest
| child speak and understand language. He's five and doesn't speak
| beyond just a few syllables and 3-4 simplest words. He has
| something called childhood apraxia of speech, which is basically
| a condition where the brain doesn't know how to control muscles
| of the tongue/the mouth/the lips to create complex movements
| necessary for speech. These movements can be learned, but it can
| be a very very slow process. Sometimes it's just a few sounds
| that need to be learned or fixed, but with my son, it's very
| severe. Adam says "mama" and "papa" and can pronounce several
| vowels together with 2-3 consonants after 1.5 years of intensive
| speech-production-directed therapy. This month's achievement is
| he learned to purse his lips, which he never could before, and
| which you need for sounds like 'oo' (he still can't say the sound
| while pursing his lips). He understands much more (hundreds of
| words), but mostly in isolation, following rapid speech is hard.
|
| There are apps that help kids on the autistic spectrum to
| communicate, and flashcard systems, and we're experimenting with
| these, but they're more geared towards encouraging the child to
| communicate. In our case, he communicates fine with gestures,
| nudges, pointing at things he wants, bringing flash cards of
| foods he wants, eye contact etc. And he seems to have good
| cognitive skills in terms of puzzles, basic arithmetics and
| counting, memory, etc. It is learning language as an auditory
| system that seems to be really difficult.
|
| Adam can 'read' in the sense of knowing and recognizing all the
| letters (he takes delight in that) and pronounce the few
| syllables he's able to when he sees them written out (mostly
| consonants m,n,h with vowels a,o,e). His phonematic understanding
| for other syllables exists but is poor (e.g. he has trouble
| choosing between a BAH card and a PAH card when I say one of them
| out loud, whereas the letters B/P in isolation are easy). My idea
| is to build an app/site which teaches him and reinforces three-
| way connections [picture]<-->[written form]<-->[sounds] by
| letting him "type", initially by pecking at large squares with
| letters on screen, rather than an entire keyboard. So for
| example, there's a picture of him at the top, a row of 4 big
| blank squares underneath the leftmost of which is blinking, and
| 7-8 letters strewn around at the bottom, from which he can type
| in sequence A-D-A-M and get a sound effect of victory. For words
| he doesn't know or remember, there's a mode where he just needs
| to repeat e.g. C-A-T which is already written in identical
| squares in a separate row just above, then after a few successes
| the hint row goes away. For an MVP in which I can quickly
| backfill 100-200 simple words like that, and track progress, this
| would already, I think, be valuable; then maybe I can add a mode
| where the words sounds (with or without the picture) and he needs
| to type it.
|
| If all this works for simple words, and he takes pleasure in
| typing, the stretch goal is to turn from words into short
| sentences, and both teach him phrases like I WANT [X], or WHERE
| IS MOM?, and let him request stuff with such phrases. None of
| this directly addresses the apraxia problem of actually learning
| to move his lips/tongue/throat/etc. appropriately, but I hope it
| can create more scaffolding around our efforts in that area
| (which we try very hard to work on daily) and together help him
| build an understanding of language/syntax. I'm very worried that,
| despite ongoing (very slow) progress in both speaking and
| understanding, phrases, sentences, syntax seem to elude Adam's
| grasp, and time is running so very fast.
|
| I've been a backend/systems developer almost all my life, with
| not a lot of frontend experience (although I do know basic
| HTML/CSS/JS), and no app development. So I'm thinking for now to
| prototype this as a web page/pages, maybe using a lightweight
| framework rather than vanilla HTML (not sure), and let him
| interact with it on the iPad. I'll try to get the basic visual
| elements (picture/rows of squares for typed letters/bag of
| letters to choose from below) right with CSS/JS, and see if I can
| iterate from that. That's the idea, currently.
| evronm wrote:
| It's a governance concept based on the idea that votes should be
| tradeable. The concept is quite simple, but it leads to some
| truly hairy game theory problems. Code here:
| https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO
| jimnotgym wrote:
| Purely in my head. A new kind of ERP system. I'm tempted to start
| writing it in public to trigger debate. I don't really want to
| say what is novel about it exactly, but it would be very open.
|
| Turned in to a pretty boring post, since I gave no detail!
| anosidium wrote:
| I'm working on Oliphaunt, a native macOS client for Mastodon. You
| can read more about it here:
| https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support. I
| hope to release a TestFlight build soon, followed by an eventual
| App Store launch.
|
| I'm also working on the next version of HacKit, a native macOS
| reader for Hacker News. You can already download it on the App
| Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075, and you can read
| more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-
| And-Support.
| dhuan_ wrote:
| I've been working on mock:
|
| https://dhuan.github.io/mock/
|
| the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be
| as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good
| enough, they require you to use their programming language of
| choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I
| built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain
| it.
| kelvinjps10 wrote:
| I'm working in a web app to edit the text in an image. Meaning
| thag using ocr for detecting the text then try to find the modt
| closest font and replacing the text in the image for an editable
| texbox with the same text but being able to edit it.
| foundzen wrote:
| I taught my parents how to use LLM chat apps. I was pleasantly
| surprised to see them use it all the time. And even more shocked
| to see them pasting entire whatsap messages containing passwords,
| upload income tax files, and a lot more private details with
| LLMs. They rarely pause to think about privacy/security before
| sharing info with LLM services. So I'm working on an interface
| that works as a privacy filter, making sure the private info does
| not leave the device. It redacts /anonymizes/obfuscates private
| information from what we share with LLMs via on-device model, and
| plugs back the output with the private info to make it appear
| almost similar to the output as before.
| Anon84 wrote:
| I'm working on my epidemic modeling package in Python:
| https://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik (also
| https://pypi.org/project/epidemik/).
|
| Currently adding support:
|
| - loading/saving models
|
| - model library
|
| - simple math in parameter definition (for example, defining
| beta=2*eta, where eta is defined previously)
|
| - viral intra-host models
|
| - demographics
|
| - arbitrary seasonality functions
|
| The goal is to have it all ready for when my Cambridge epidemic
| modeling review gets published in a couple of months.
|
| It's my first serious package, so I would love any feedback
| jasoncartwright wrote:
| The only national public database of UK food banks
| https://www.givefood.org.uk
| woile wrote:
| I'm still working on https://reciperium.com I've fixed a bunch of
| bugs, and hopefully if I can I'll be adding support for uploading
| pictures.
|
| reciperium is a small platform to write recipes and easily fork
| other recipes to adapt them to your liking
| AudioDiary wrote:
| I'm working on AudioDiary which is next-gen journalling app
| https://audiodiary.ai
|
| Recently it got a surge of users (1k+ reviews on Google Play and
| 500+ reviews on Apple, really sucks that Apple don't show all
| reviews, but you can check the Google reviews here on desktop
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary....)
| and people are writing in every day to say how much they love it
| and that it's changing their lives.
|
| Also working on a new app in a similar vein that's way more
| technically complex and uses AI in a hands-on way, and looking
| for help on it.
| arnab_optimatik wrote:
| Hey AudioDiary, I have a lot of experience in AI. Would love to
| chat. You can connect with me on
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabgho/.
| louisdecharson wrote:
| I've built a small desktop app (Electron) with a chat interface
| with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic) and simple
| "agents". Done that to automate some of the tasks and practice
| JS. http://github.com/louisdecharson/converse Happy to get some
| feedback.
| sim04ful wrote:
| I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com
| that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only
| detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used
| (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line
| height, size, letter spacing).
|
| My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across
| the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can
| uncover valuable trends, such as:
|
| * Common font pairings * Popular heading fonts over time * Market
| share of commercial fonts * Top font foundries based on actual
| usage
|
| I originally built a version of this four years ago and saw a
| surprising amount of organic interest. I've now rebuilt the tool
| from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to
| an invisible iframe approach. (More details in another post)
|
| Check out the current version at https://fontofweb.com. I would
| appreciate any feedback
| jay-barronville wrote:
| > I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from
| a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach.
|
| Where can I go to learn more about your _invisible ` <iframe>`_
| approach/implementation?
| sim04ful wrote:
| I figured it out mostly from first principles. It's such a
| niche crawling method that was perfectly limited to my use-
| case, and there's alot to say. But the main idea is that you
| can inject a crawling script in the html of the site via a
| proxy you control. E.g
| proxy.yoursite.com?url=<SITE_YOU_WANT_TO_CRAWL>. Then once
| you've got the data you can call window.postMessage(data) to
| communicate with the main window.
|
| It's somewhat similar to how browser proxies like:
| https://proxyium.com/ and https://www.proxysite.com/ fetch
| the html on your behalf.
| hyperknot wrote:
| Nice project! Related question, how would you recommend
| detecting which font is being used for names like ui-sans-
| serif, system-ui on a given device/browser?
| sim04ful wrote:
| That's a difficult one, you would need information about the
| device and operating system to infer the font.
|
| But I imagine, if you realllly needed that info. You could go
| the hard route and render the font on a canvas, vectorise and
| perform some sort of nearest neighbour search.
| hyperknot wrote:
| Thanks! My idea was to just render a Lorem Ipsum paragraph
| and compare the calculated width-height across a know list
| of default fonts. Of course it wouldn't work with fixed
| width fonts, for that I'd need a canvas bitmap comparison.
| spmcl wrote:
| Several different tracks, having a hard time focusing on one.
|
| - A little free library, but for e-books. Having a bit of trouble
| with this one because I think that the move to e-books inherently
| removes much of the magic of a little free library of physical
| books. Plus there's the whole "letting users upload things is
| hard" thing.
|
| - E-ink picture frame. It's been done before and it's mainly just
| a use for an old rpi laying around.
|
| - Looking to start a tech meetup in my small locale. It's hard to
| meet tech people in my area, let alone people who are willing to
| present.
|
| - TUIs to aid me in my day job. Claude makes whipping up proofs
| of concept super easy and quick, so this one is the most fun to
| me right now.
| cyco130 wrote:
| I'm building a web-based Atari 8-bit emulator [1]. I haven't
| pushed my current progress yet, the repo only contains the CPU
| emulator and a few utils which I wrote a few years ago. Lots of
| bugs and missing features but it can already run some of my
| favorite games, so I'm pretty happy and proud!
|
| [1] https://sfotty.cyco130.com
| vinny915 wrote:
| Working on an app to help you earn more credit card rewards (most
| people could earn a few thousand dollars a year from rewards)
| getpointwise.com
| rootnod3 wrote:
| Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a
| more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries
| included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live
| image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out
| standard library.
|
| Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will
| probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a
| learning experience.
|
| The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and
| hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.
| sswezey wrote:
| Do you have a website or link for this?
| rootnod3 wrote:
| Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to
| release it some point this year though. I am still figuring
| out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed
| requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other
| things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from
| various CL implementations.
| vinny915 wrote:
| Working on an app that helps you earn more credit card rewards
| (most people could earn a few thousand dollars worth of rewards
| per year) getpointise.com
| bambax wrote:
| I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that
| follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to
| understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles
| the source. This makes proofing easier and should also improve
| feeding documents to LLMs.
| cosiiine wrote:
| I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations
| as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter
| to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual
| frames and do stop motion animations.
|
| This is first attempt, working on another now:
| https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/
| lucasfdacunha wrote:
| Still mostly working on my gaming-curated newsletter The Gaming
| Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/
|
| It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important
| news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every
| Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always
| found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important
| stuff from all the noise.
|
| The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for
| 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number
| of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and
| referrals I would guess.
| zciwor wrote:
| I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs.
|
| When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up
| familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often
| as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full
| reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage
| regulator they used or how the USB port is connected.
|
| But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have to
| download the design files from Github and open it in the native
| CAD software (Eagle, for example).
|
| I've been toying with how to solve this. I made a script to crawl
| Github for open hardware designs, then generate a schematic and
| interactive BOM for each design. Now, hopefully, you can search
| for "ESP32"[1] or "WiFi"[2] or "Bluetooth"[3] and get a number of
| designs to view in browser.
|
| [1] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/esp32/1 [2]
| https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/wifi/1 [3]
| https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/bluetooth/1
| pagade wrote:
| Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google
| Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so
| decided to do it myself.
| robviren wrote:
| I've been trying to use genetic algorithms to evolve voice style
| tensors for Kokoro-82M TTS. My current main barrier is that the
| scoring function is powered by resemblyzer and whatever it is
| using to compare the audio data has limitations. The generated
| tensors over fit and make garbage sounding audio that scores
| high, but doesn't sound like voice. Considering alternate methods
| of scoring.
| binary132 wrote:
| compiler-as-a-Lua-DSL
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| I'm working on a tool which validates the HTML in your web
| application as it's being used. Because valid HTML is still
| important, and otherwise you need to integrate HTML valid into a
| test suite in CI (which is hard), or you need to manually
| validate pages with one of the online validators (which is
| tedious and doesn't scale).
|
| Interested in this? Email me. My email is on my profile.
| p2detar wrote:
| Currently working on the side on Java libraries that provide
| access to Apple's mobile device management service APIs like the
| automated device enrollment and app and book management services:
| https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients
|
| I had this written in Kotlin several years ago but now I want to
| do it all in Java, use as little 3rd party deps as possible and
| add more extensive unit testing.
| emehex wrote:
| I'm working on my online multiplayer game: kingbit (iOS). I
| released it back in 2023 and haven't touched the code since. It's
| still by far my most successful app (7.3M impressions, 500 MAU)
| so I'm excavating the code and going to try and seriously
| monetize this project into a real business.
| dutchbrit wrote:
| I'm working on building a few niche marketplaces/communities -
| and a platform (hosted and self hosted option) allowing people to
| start their own niche groups.
| neom wrote:
| I did this over the weekend just to learn about netlify
| functions, you can get a hackernews mystic reading, hehe:
| https://chimerical-praline-494358.netlify.app/
| arionhardison wrote:
| https://uhc.dev - With all the layoffs etc... at UHC I am trying
| to setup a 100% AI powered version of UHC. Just learning/practice
| really; but been really fun.
| pizlonator wrote:
| Making Fil-C more complete. Fil-C is a memory safe C
| implementation that can run a lot of stuff. I want to make it run
| even more stuff.
|
| Recently I landed C exceptions support (I didn't know that was a
| thing but it is, look for attribute cleanup if you want to know
| more) and ifunc support.
|
| More info about the project here:
| https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge
|
| And a Linux/X86_64 binary release if you want to play with it:
| https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases/t...
| bayindirh wrote:
| Refactoring my pushover.net tool Nudge [0] to have a more cleaner
| code since it's feature complete for my needs, now.
|
| Writing the specifications of a file format which I'll be using
| for the second iteration of an high-performance material
| simulation code I have written in my Ph.D.
|
| [0]: https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge
| quechimba wrote:
| I'm working on my web framework Mayu. Currently attempting to
| make something like Vite/Rollup for Ruby, basically a new module
| system where you can import all sorts of file types with plugins,
| and hot module replacement.
|
| https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
|
| https://mayu.live/
| pandatigox wrote:
| Building a patient management software backed by AI clinical note
| taking. Built for dentists. I've been developing it whenever I
| don't have to be in the chair.
| greenie_beans wrote:
| bookhead, zapier for independent bookstores:
| https://bookhead.net/blog/fragmented/
| overiit wrote:
| Currently working on a tool that allows you to get data
| insights/aggregations via natural language. currently only sql
| based databases/warehouses (Postgres, Bigquery and soon
| Clickhouse, Snowflake, sqlite, etc.). I will be working on
| document Databases at some point as well.
|
| I started this for a bunch of reasons but mainly to allow non
| technical team members get any data insight they might need,
| without wasting dev resources on creating dashboards, queries
| etc.
|
| I personally dislike this "everything in LLM/AI has to be a chat
| room" approach.
|
| working on making it generally available but for now its early
| access only https://askquery.ai/
|
| If you have any ideas, thoughts or concerns please let me know.
| scraggo wrote:
| Protest music :)
| p0deje wrote:
| I'm working on Alumnium (https://alumnium.ai). It's an open-
| source library to simplify web application testing with
| Selenium/Playwright.
|
| I aim to create a stable and affordable tool that allows me to
| eliminate most of the support code I write for web tests (page
| objects, locators, etc.) and replace it with human-readable
| actions and assertions. These actions and assertions are then
| translated by an LLM into browser instructions. The tool,
| however, should still leverage all existing infrastructure (test
| runner, CI/CD, Selenium infrastructure).
|
| So far, it's working well on simple websites (e.g., a calculator,
| TodoMVC), and I'm currently working on scaling it to large web
| applications.
| cmdtab wrote:
| Pretty cool. I built my own framework to do something similar
| very recently.
|
| Microsoft omni parser and claude computer use alone can take
| you very far in testing almost anything.
| p0deje wrote:
| I experimented with Computer Use and even though it's pretty
| cool, I ended up not using it for 2 main reasons:
|
| 1. It's unreasonably expensive. A single test "2+2=4" for a
| web calculator costs around $0.15. I run roughly 1k tests per
| month on CI and I don't want to spend $150 on those. The
| approach I took with Alumnium costs me $4 per month for the
| same amount of tests.
|
| 2. It tries too hard to make the test pass even when it's not
| possible. When I intentionally introduced bugs in
| applications, Computer Use sometimes pretended the everything
| was fine and marked the test passed. Alumnium on the other
| hand attempts to fail as early as possible.
| cmdtab wrote:
| For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check
| points so next run is automated unless something changes in
| the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping
| playwright library so I can take over every method. Users
| use playwright like they always have but with one extra
| method called act.
|
| Omini parser lets you split section of the UI to hash and
| watch for changes that are relevant.
|
| For 2, can you give some examples?
| awscherb wrote:
| wait, when's your birthday?
|
| https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/
|
| something I am working on to help people keep track of birthdays.
| many people I know use facebook only to keep track of birthdays,
| so this hopefully will be a replacement
| hundredwatt wrote:
| I'm building a new tool for end-to-end data validation and
| reconciliation in ELT pipelines, especially for teams replicating
| data from relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server,
| Oracle) to data warehouses or data lakes.
|
| Most existing solutions only validate at the destination (dbt
| tests, Great Expectations), rely on aggregate comparisons (row
| counts, checksums), or generate too much noise (alert fatigue
| from observability tools). My tool:
|
| * Validates every row and column directly between source and
| destination * Handles live source changes without false positives
| * Eliminates noise by distinguishing in-flight changes from real
| discrepancies * Detects even the smallest data mismatches without
| relying on thresholds * Performs efficiently with an IO-bound,
| bandwidth-efficient algorithm
|
| If you're dealing with data integrity issues in ELT workflows,
| I'd love to hear about your challenges!
| paddy_m wrote:
| This sounds interesting. Is this meant to run in pipelines or
| be used interactively?
|
| Are you building something open source? Link to the repo?
| 234120987654 wrote:
| Fine-tuning an LLM to create long-form podcast timestamps.
| Apparently even the best LLMs with long context are incredibly
| bad with this so I'm curating data and creating a service out of
| it.
| apexskier wrote:
| I'm trying to work on a new outdoor route building and mapping
| engine, focused on wilderness areas.
| LostMyLogin wrote:
| Super interested in this! I spend two or three days a week
| exploring the Rocky Mountains via mountain bike and backcountry
| skiing. I'm still not able to find a tool set that I love - my
| favorite still being CalTopo.
|
| Any way to follow?
| chainwax wrote:
| I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki
| cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it
| though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own
| flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent
| wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly
| simple.
| fikama wrote:
| I've been thinking about the same some time ago. But after a
| while I got to conclusion that Anki is pretty well designed
| after all. Although for what I remember Anki Connect is in form
| of unofficial extension. And it would seem that there is a
| place for an official more stable API. Anyway I never got
| beyond thinking about it. Just to let you know you are not
| alone, and you can ping me if you ever decide to do something
| about it.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I've been working on improvements on a couple of shipping apps,
| by improving the main app UI, and adding things like widgets and
| Apple Watch companion apps.
| MatthewBF wrote:
| I'm working on re-writing Partizion to be faster, easier to use,
| simpler, and more beautiful (beautiful is good design --
| https://paulgraham.com/taste.html).
|
| After the chrome MV3 migration which was an absolute rigmarole, I
| lost my taste for beauty. I want to get back to making beautiful
| software.
| mlacks wrote:
| A Sui blockchain scanning app. Plenty of those already but a
| level up for me in programming complexity
|
| Moving to a trading bot eventually
| cwiz wrote:
| A generative visual novel where you play roguelike poker
| (balatoro-inspired by simpler) to buy narrative and character
| cards that fed to LLM to create a story.
| redgetan wrote:
| A multiplayer card game thats inspired from UNO and exploding
| kittens. WebGL at moment but will be on mobile soon.
| http://simpleyuji.itch.io/fishbait
| blululu wrote:
| I'm working on a music box to stream web radio channels from
| soma.fm. This was originally a scheme to have a crazy radio
| interface with seashells as the dials and the such, but now it
| has become a slog through linux audio drivers and systemd
| services.
| fasteddie31003 wrote:
| I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to
| help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm
| building my own house now and I was surprised how many details
| are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think
| this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers
| using it on their build too.
| scoot wrote:
| Nice idea. Just some nitpicks:
|
| "Visit QR code to:" - You don't "visit" a QR code. Perhaps
| "Scan the QR code to:"? (Optional grammar fix included.)
|
| "Comment on the QR code" - "Leave a comment"? (Unless you
| really want a comment about the QR code! ;-) )
|
| I just get a busy spinner when I scan the QR code in the
| screenshot. A working live example would be nice.
| fasteddie31003 wrote:
| Great feedback. Fixed that QR code too.
| nileshtrivedi wrote:
| Recently, I started building a crowdsourced wiki for
| repairability of consumer hardware products in India:
| https://isfixable.com/
| maattdd wrote:
| I've been updating my HN bot (watch comments for keywords and
| post to Slack/Discord) written in Crystal to use raw SQL instead
| of unmaintained ORM.
|
| Turns out the whole app needs only ~ 10 SQL requests, and it's
| way funier to write modern SQL than fighting the ORM.
|
| The new code looks like this : db_message =
| Model.save_new_message!(@conf.db, DbButler::Hn, item,
| DbState::Processing)
|
| Than I have a Model module with all the interactions with the DB
| def self.save_new_message!(db, butler, external_id, state) :
| Message sql = {{ read_file
| "./db/save_new_message.sql" }} db.query_one(sql,
| butler.to_s.downcase, external_id, state.to_s.downcase, as:
| Message) end
|
| (thanks to Crystal ability to read a file at compile time - I can
| write raw SQL in a file with syntax highlithing and maybe
| typesafe if I connect the DB to the editor)
|
| The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me
| for months https://newsbutler.xyz/
| genatron wrote:
| https://genatron.ai - Build ready-to-use business apps in a few
| minutes by providing requirements in plain English.
| DanielVZ wrote:
| I've been doing some analysis on the winners of a local short
| stories contest (https://santiagoen100palabras.cl/) to see if I
| can get to make a good contender story.
|
| Plus I having fun plugging it all into ChatGPT and reading the
| stories it comes up with.
| bratao wrote:
| I'm super excited, sleepless for a couple of days already. I'm
| trying to use all tricks possible to improve a Sequence Labeling
| using Conditional Random Fields. I need to NER billion of
| documents, and need to be fast. CRFSuite is a workhorse, and a
| baseline very hard to beat with speed and precision. But with o3
| I'm created a frank-stain with many tricks such as CRF with
| variable order, feature interactions, bidirectional, jointly
| learning with word embeddings. The precision is already over than
| CRFSuite. And I believe that would be better than many other
| solutions such as bi-lstm-crf. Definitely much faster.
|
| Now i'm trying to port to Cython to make as fast as possible.
| Here o3 is almost useless, but I'm progressing.
| WoodenChair wrote:
| I'm selling refurbished and upgraded Mac mini G4s as the ultimate
| machines for running software for the classic Mac OS over at
| https://os9.shop
|
| Over at macos9lives.com a group of hackers figured out a way to
| get Mac OS 9 running on these late model G4s that previously
| never supported it. That combined with an SSD upgrade makes them
| close to the fastest machines that can run Mac OS 9.
|
| I've taken advantage of this hack, now having sold about 80 -90
| machines. But I've hit a wall with finding ways to advertise it.
| eBay has been okay. I tried Reddit Ads on the vintage Apple
| subreddit and they were so so--probably lost money doing it but
| got the word out. Google Search ads have surprisingly been
| ineffective. I've posted on various vintage Mac forums but they
| don't allow formal advertising (otherwise I would buy it). I
| probably will try Facebook ads next. Open to other advertising
| ideas!
| ks2048 wrote:
| Getting (back) into development for Apple TV.
|
| Released an updated version of free app [0] for watching the news
| show Democracy Now [1]. Let's you browse 29 years of back
| episodes. Learning SwiftUI - mostly great, but when there's
| problems, it can be pretty frustrating.
|
| [0] https://kenschutte.com/democracy-now/ [1]
| https://www.democracynow.org/
| brokegrammer wrote:
| https://milliontimer.com - A time-tracking and invoice generation
| tool for freelancers focusing on simplicity.
|
| It's not 100% finished yet, but I've been using it myself on my
| freelance projects.
| hasanhaja wrote:
| Been wanting to learn browser APIs like Service Workers and
| IndexedDB in depth, and HTMX, so started building a Todo App:
| https://github.com/hasanhaja/tasks-app
|
| It's meant to work entirely offline and the service worker acts
| as the backend for the application.
| shegeley wrote:
| 1. Hackable text input system := Hatis
| https://github.com/shegeley/hatis
|
| <<Text-editors are dead as a concept. What's needed is a text-
| input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago.
| Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: <<ah here
| we can input text, let's show the virtual keyboard!>>.
|
| This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input
| context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do
| what's needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some
| part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global,
| on Window Manager level (or even deeper).
|
| In GUI it's possible to "catch input context" using
| Wayland::InputMethod
|
| It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or
| something.
|
| The system should be very hackable. That's why it's written in
| Common Lisp>>
|
| 2. SaaS Sales platform on Clojure(+script)
| zb77 wrote:
| I'm building component playground using atomic design tokens to
| create harmonious components. It provides live previews with auto
| package imports, with AI you can generate components or theme
| them using the theme engine, and supports popular tech stacks
| (Next, React, Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, MUI). Later you can
| install components via CLI or copy generated prompt to tools like
| Cursor. Le link: compify.app
| manish_gill wrote:
| Implementing https://interpreterbook.com/ and subsequently
| https://compilerbook.com/ in C++.
| gloosx wrote:
| I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in
| my free time now.
|
| For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a
| simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to
| convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are
| two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1
| or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically _hurts_ , because I
| have to upload my files to some server which does the same ffmpeg
| instruction and then get them bytes back, that's a heck of an
| overhead!
|
| ffmpeg-cli and some knee-made bash scripts is what I have been
| using for a long time. I love my console, and I spend 90% of the
| time inside, but then it comes to ffmpeg, it instantly feels
| tedious to use it. Finally I decided to make yet another GUI
| wrapper:
|
| https://github.com/ilya-lopukhin/conversimp
|
| The idea is to drag the files in, or select them via dialog, then
| run an ffmpeg conversion template with each file as input in a
| separate thread (need to limit theese btw). I decided to go fully
| open-source, and maybe promote it's usage over the online
| converter ad-farms which are really abundant. When I decided to
| publish this, I instantly understood it's going to be a tons of
| extra work, but in the end I want it to look nice and do it's job
| flawlessy, and at the moment it's a weekend or two from release.
|
| Let me know what you think ;)
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use:
|
| * wav -> mp3: lame
|
| * anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if
| one bothers)
|
| * resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not
| do mp3, so wav > wav
|
| have fun!
| gloosx wrote:
| But isn't ffmpeg itself use lame for mp3 encoding? I
| primarily use the app for wav -> mp3, but my planned feature
| is to create ffmpeg "templates" for conversion, so u can use
| it for video as well.
| dv35z wrote:
| (1) 3D wood-craft! - I recently got a CNC router (it's a drill on
| a motorized arm, that can carve 3D shapes out of wood), and I've
| been challenging myself to build operate it completely from an
| open-source stack.
|
| - Computer: Used Dell Optiplex, bought on the streets of Medellin
| Colombia
|
| - Operating system: Debian Linux / XFCE
|
| - 2D design: Inkscape
|
| - 3D design: Kiri:Moto (https://grid.space/kiri/), soon FreeCAD
|
| - CNC controller: Universal G-Code Sender (UGS) --> GRBL
|
| I am passionate about "maker-space entrepreneurship" (it's the
| dream job), so I'm meeting potential clients in my city to
| understand their ambitions and challenges, so we can work
| together to make useful prototypes to solve them.
|
| Useful forums:
|
| - https://forum.makerforums.info/ - This is my "new Hackernews"
|
| (2) Affirmator - I'm building a system where you provide your
| goals as affirmations (example: "I feel healthy, fit and strong",
| "Today's the day to make it happen"). The system then uses Text-
| to-speech to generate voice audio files. Next Affirmator uses
| `mpv` (media player - similar to VLC) and `cron` to automatically
| shuffle-play these affirmations every day in the morning &
| evening. I recently used Python and FFMPEG to add "vocalization
| pauses" at the end of the affirmation audio, so that you have
| time to say the affirmation out loud.
|
| Some of the driver & inspiration for this program is Earl
| Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret", Napoleon Hill's "Think and
| Grow Rich", James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and other personal
| development programs. These books always have these "every day,
| you should X" (meditate, write your goals, etc) - and I became
| frustated - Just how many "things" are you "supposed" to do per
| day, and how do they fit together, and how can you create helpful
| reminders & to turn these into habits? So far, I've been testing
| the system on myself, and it's been a HUGE help towards giving
| purpose to my life and day, and reducing feelings of depression &
| insecurity.
|
| The solution is completely open-source (useable as web app, local
| docker container, and installable on a stand-alone computer -
| which I recommend), and I'll also soon offer it as a for-pay
| service.
|
| If anyone is interested in these projects, I welcome
| contributors!
|
| // JRO
| shalzuth wrote:
| I'm finally trying to jump on the AI train for a long ride
| instead of getting off at the first stop.
|
| I'm currently creating a new fan site for Marvel Rivals
| (https://marvelrivals.app), and I'm trying to introduce new types
| of features using predictive analysis, and further, use some DL
| maybe to understand specific player behavior and do stuff like
| find cheaters. I am failing so far.
|
| I thought it'd be easier to throw data at the magic AI monster,
| but it's still garbage in -> garbage out. It makes me respect AI
| engineers a lot more.
|
| I wish there was an easier way to apply AI to this kind of stuff,
| on the how to do better data analysis. Ideally, I'd hook up some
| tool to my Postgres db, which has a couple tables but everything
| is named appropriately and has references. Then the tool would
| output correlations, patterns, stuff people would find useful and
| interesting. Instead, right now, I think I have to make those
| guesses and then build models that will either support my
| hypothesis or reject it, but I don't know ahead of time and it
| relies on my gut feelings.
| tempado590 wrote:
| I was creating this anonymous confession posting site with a
| 4chan like interface. [7shin](https://7shin.vercel.app) and today
| i just created an archive sort of thing called the-image-web.
| Basically I wanted to create a wall of images uploaded by people
| on the internet. [theimageweb](https://theimageweb.vercel.app)
| davidw wrote:
| I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons
| receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending
| there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have
| changed our spending habits a little bit.
| lennertjansen wrote:
| I'm working on Airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave ,
| an open-source dev tool that makes any app searchable for AI
| agents. it connects to a source app, db, or api and converts its
| contents to accessible knowledge for agents. Airweave automates
| authentication, ingestion, enrichment, mapping, and syncing to
| vector stores and graph databases of choice. you can use it via
| our UI, API, or SDKs https://docs.airweave.ai/
|
| we originally built this for our previous agent startup as an
| internal solution to ensure agents could find the relevant data
| on apps they're using. We then pivoted to this after some early
| positive reactions and decided to open-source it.
|
| here's a short demo: https://tinyurl.com/demo-airweave
|
| we're two engineers/friends based in Amsterdam, NL. We just
| launched the project, so it's rough around the edges ofc, but
| we're very eager to get some feedback!
|
| feel free to reach out to me personally if you like this! -
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennertjansen/ -
| https://x.com/lennertjansen
| mrholek wrote:
| I'm working on https://github.com/coreui/coreui, the Bootstrap
| fork with full Dart Sass 3.0.0+ compatibility.
| matty22 wrote:
| I'm working on a project to document all publicly accessible
| stained glass in North America. The tech itself isn't anything
| exciting (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and using Bootstrap for UI).
|
| All the work is in collecting and entereing data and hopefully
| recruiting folks around the country to go to their local
| church/synagogue/mosque, government building, or glass
| shop/studio and taking photos and collecting information on glass
| pieces.
|
| Site is still a work in progress, but if anyone out there is
| interested you can find it here:
| https://www.stainedglassatlas.com
| icemelt8 wrote:
| Working on my startup https://wetarseel.ai which uses WhatsApp
| API for message broadcasts and creating whatsapp bots to converse
| with incoming messages.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| This looks cool.
|
| You might want to pass the landing page copy though a spell
| checker or LLM: User-Firendly Interface
| ejs wrote:
| I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and
| making sure applications keep running -- when you don't want to
| install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com
|
| ... also continuing to _not_ add features to my (not-much-of-a)
| system for getting more done each week. https://carpeweekem.com
|
| I've also been cautiously adding AI-powered features to my Heroku
| autoscaling tool (https://flightformation.com/) and a simple
| free-text time/date input has been the most popular (demo:
| https://x.com/ejschmitt/status/1893268742760448497)
| darrelld wrote:
| Working on a loyalty points platform.
|
| Right now it's been commissioned by one customer and is a
| hodgepodge of duct tape and glue.
|
| Trying to slowly refactor functions so I can truly make a
| platform and onboard new customers.
| sccomps wrote:
| I am working on a free mobile app for speed cubers. you can
| download the ios version at https://sccomps.com/
| aghilmort wrote:
| finalizing arXiv paper on why hypertokens eliminate AI
| hallucinations
| NotAnOtter wrote:
| A chess site I'm calling 'Chess Derivatives' with modified rules
| to reinforce best practice. I'm still tweaking the specifics but
| the basic pitch is this
|
| Augmented Chess: Normal chess with conventional ELO ranking
| system but you get additional penalties & rewards based on common
| bad practices, and recovering from bad positions.
|
| > The first person that breaks from the book line loses 10% of
| the start time (unless book was not an option / the line was
| exhausted)
|
| > Missing a forced checkmate forces you to wait 5% of the start
| time before your next move
|
| > Achieving any principled position good grants some time (Passed
| pawn, connected rooks, rook / queen / bishop battery, etc)
|
| > Doing any principled bad position loses some time (Knight on
| the rim, blocked bishop, king past the first rank in early game
| or mid game
|
| ----------------------
|
| Continued Position: Chess but you continue a position from a
| high-level chess championship. There are a couple value-adds here
|
| > Provide lower level players with a way to start a middle or end
| game positions after a highly skilled player followed all the
| correct principles. My theory is this will reinforce why those
| principles exists, how they can benefit you, etc.
|
| > Provide high level players a way to be forced into positions
| out of their comfort zone / their preferred styles
|
| > Provide differently-skilled players to continue play from
| unique positions with the desired amount of odds. So a GM might
| play a 1000 ELO player but starting from a position with -9
| evaluation, etc.
|
| If you have any ideas, comments, or feedback LMK.
| tauoverpi wrote:
| As part of my spare time hobby, implementing small packages for
| building games that don't allocate memory post startup (or work
| when the memory map can be declared statically such as with
| wasm-4-like targets or an rp2040) and can run in resource
| constrained environments along with performing well on a
| steamdeck.
|
| Most of it involves taking advantage of data structure properties
| (and limits) by using zig comptime to derive functions that
| either compute offsets relative to existing pointers or use pre-
| computed offset tables, when relative isn't possible, to reduce
| function size further without inhibiting the ability to take full
| advantage of SIMD.
|
| One of the next task for this is statically computing update
| graphs for archetypes such that a multi-thread runtime can mix
| strategies (last thread (detected by an atomic counter on nodes
| that require all dependencies to be complete) to reach a node
| broadcasts new work it unblocks, starved threads steal work from
| others, etc) to speed up the world update loop when running on
| larger targets while also remaining lock-free.
|
| It's fun to explore how far one can go with statically declaring
| all limits upfront and managing even larger targets (steamdeck,
| servers) as if they were embedded applications.
| dorkrawk wrote:
| I'm working on a little flat file based blogging tool called
| Postwave ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave ) and using it to
| power a blog with career advice for software engineers called
| Don't Break Prod ( https://dontbreakprod.com/ ). Because the
| world needs more blogging tools and advice. Or maybe it just
| scratches my itch and it's fun to build.
| sebnun wrote:
| I'm building a podcast player to learn languages.
|
| https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)
| fjjjrjj wrote:
| Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon,
| and daydreaming about learning some new skills.
|
| I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit
| Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools
| and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started
| with SDLC concepts and an IDE.
|
| TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will
| go.
| cmontella wrote:
| I'm working on a programming language for robots called Mech!
|
| https://github.com/mech-lang/mech
|
| Mostly a research project until I find some more people
| interested in pushing it further.
|
| A recent blog for anyone who wants to check it out: https://mech-
| lang.org/post/2025-01-09-programming-chatgpt/
|
| And a 10 minute video: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-
| rubbing-a-database-on...
| elpepito1 wrote:
| A flight simulator for software engineers. Think LeetCode x
| CodeCrafters x HackerRank but doing actual large-scale simulated
| work to practice your skills (DevOps/Data/AI/ML/MLOps) and then
| be able to land a job. Looking for beta users and feedback!
| teuobk wrote:
| Ultra-fast rise-time pulse generators! Yeah, hardware -- or,
| hooray, hardware!
|
| A few months back, I got excited about pulse generators that had
| rise times on the order of 15 to 30 picoseconds. There aren't a
| lot of those available, and I was curious about what would go
| into their design. so I decided to build my own.
| https://voltative.com/pulser
| 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.
|
| I'll put you on my list. And you can contribute ideas to our
| community Google Doc.
|
| jim.jones1@gmail.com
| posobin wrote:
| I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While
| problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live
| interview you are also getting tested for your communication,
| debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other
| skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with
| SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that
| turned out more helpful than I expected.
|
| Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic
| (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here,
| I'll send you an invite right after:
|
| https://sphnx.dev
|
| It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting
| users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single
| interview?!).
|
| We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to
| companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems
| that are more similar to the actual software engineering work
| (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it).
|
| We're generous with interview credits if you give us good
| feedback =)
| nico wrote:
| Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it
| looks kinda janky on Safari mobile
|
| Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing
| about creating a new product or service
|
| I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies,
| because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing
| for interviews will only briefly use the product
| reverendsteveii wrote:
| I'm trying a new take on the ubiquitous habit tracker app - one
| that tracks your daily habits but also tracks rating your day on
| multiple axes (enthusiasm, engagement, overall mood, etc). The
| idea is to correlate behaviors and outcomes in a way that
| provides insight into what could potentially trigger good or bad
| days. It's also an excuse for me to break out of backend web dev
| land and learn Vue.js and everything I need to know to actually
| build and host a web app.
| kundi wrote:
| Working on SEO automation agent. For years, understanding and
| interpreting analytics and combining it with SEO best practices
| have been a challenge.
|
| We built an agent that can make sense of your website, understand
| how it renders on search engines, its weak points and strengths.
| You get actionable advice that can make a huge difference in
| search visibility, often taking less than an hour to implement
| changes.
|
| https://nightwatch.io/seo-ai-agent/
| mstipetic wrote:
| An AI powered relationship coach. What started off from, how
| would and AI relationship coach work if it could see both sides
| of a relationship, to now having evolved to a full therapy
| session powered by a small swarm of specialized AI, following
| integrative therapy principles, messaging integration and more.
| I've been testing with a small group of friends and am about to
| launch any day now. If somebody would like to try it, just let me
| know!
| shekhargulati wrote:
| I'm building Videocrawl https://www.videocrawl.dev/ a platform
| designed to make video content more accessible and actionable. It
| offers two key features:
|
| 1. API for Clean Transcripts - Extract structured transcripts
| with references, code snippets, and images.
|
| 2. AI Video Assistant - Interact with videos using AI-powered
| tools for summarization, Q&A, and more.
|
| Would love to hear your thoughts! You can reach out to me at
| sg@o14.ai
| paddy_m wrote:
| I am building Buckaroo [1], the data table UI in Jupyter that I
| have always wanted. I know how to use df.head(), df.describe(),
| sort, and run histograms on columns. I just got tired of typing 5
| bits of code to minimally inspect each dataframe every time I
| looked at it.
|
| So I built buckaroo, it combines a high performance scrollable
| table (built on top of ag-grid), with summary stats, and
| histograms. All of this is customizable and extensible. I
| recently built a dataframe compare tool [2] on top of buckaroo
| that uses coloring to show differences between dataframes
| intuitively.
|
| Get in touch if you want to talk tables, data science tooling, or
| exploratory data analysis.
|
| [1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
|
| [2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3PW6q36ufo
| breckenedge wrote:
| Making a CAN-to-BLE bridge for cheap race car telemetry. It's
| using an ESP32C to store MegaSquirt ECU data in BLE
| characteristics, and a cheap android phone using Chrome +
| WebBluetooth to buffer and upload data to a server for pit
| analysis in near real time. Also using the phone for heading, GPS
| and accelerometer data.
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| Videos on programming: https://www.youtube.com/@carlosmenezes98
|
| With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to
| speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes
| several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to
| what I do in my main channel!
| em-bee wrote:
| those videos are pretty well done. your language also sounds
| fine. subscribed using freetube
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| This is the first real feedback I got on those videos so
| thank you very much!
| taormina wrote:
| Well, I know that I was just saying that HN is not the place to
| look for gamers, but I am still working on a video game.
|
| Danger World (https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld) is well underway
| and should be coming out later this year! Danger World is a 2D
| narrative adventure written using Flutter's open source game
| engine, Flame. I am the solo developer. I've been working with a
| very talented art team to do the art and animations in Spine. The
| composer has just finished the soundtrack!
|
| Danger World is running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. Last
| week, we got Danger World compiling on my Steamdeck for SteamOS
| instead of having to use the Windows .exe + Proton. I'll be
| getting the Linux depot setup in Steam soon.
|
| In the spirit of doing things that won't scale to get some
| interest bootstrapped, I've been doing a sticker giveaway. I have
| a bunch of stickers featuring the cast of the game and the Danger
| World logo and I have been mailing them out to anyone who wants
| them. I've sent out 40 envelopes or so with about 10 stickers in
| them each.
|
| So far, in experimenting with the various social media platforms,
| Bsky seems to be where my potential users are. I posted a boxart
| concept that I was using for IndieDB and got 100 followers from
| that single post of who all appear to be real actual users.
| Certain engagement metrics like impressions are non-existent in
| Bsky, but in exchange for real actual engagement from people who
| seem interested in my game's art, who cares?
|
| X feels extremely P2W, except you buy their checkmark and they
| still don't show your content to anyone. I'm still experimenting
| heavily in social media land. Meta and Tiktok seem to show more
| promise, but since I've been scoping out and planning a visual
| novel mode I have also been considering taking Reddit up on their
| free ad credit.
|
| I'd love to talk with anyone more experienced in marketing games
| like mine.
| robby1066 wrote:
| I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service
| for affordable legal help with citizenship applications.
|
| Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some
| pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly
| well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on
| getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads,
| etc...).
|
| I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.
| wand3r wrote:
| This is primarily for US citizenship right? Do you offer US
| citizens help with emigrating as well?
| kam1kazer wrote:
| Writing a streaming S3 object archiving tool which collects all
| old objects (in my case they are near-zero in size, but occupy
| 4KB blocks). In total data is 10GB daily. So I have to stream all
| this process to not consume such amount of RAM.
|
| These are audit data like external system request/responses for
| possible investigations. This saves a lot of space. Initially
| written in Python, now practicing with Rust. Container images is
| 2.2MB small :)
| nosecreek wrote:
| I've been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few
| years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more
| time... http://grocerytracker.ca/
| bilater wrote:
| My weekend project Open Deep Research got more traction than I
| would have thought.
|
| https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research
|
| An open source alternative to Gemini/OpenAI deep research. I'm
| experimenting with this cool flow chart workflow that I think can
| be a cool twist on generating reports for deep research.
|
| Check it out and lemme know what you think. :)
| dm03514 wrote:
| I'm building a stream processing framework using DuckDB.
|
| https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow
|
| The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports
| SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight
| overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't
| run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming
| primitives.
|
| We are taking a slightly different approach from other
| competitors by building cloud-native tools for engineers. SQLFlow
| is built on DuckDB, Native Kafka Library, and Arrow. This allows
| SQLFlow to handle ~70k+ events / second with low memory overhead
| (~250MiB).
|
| Would love your questions, thoughts and feedback or feature
| Ideas! Thank you
| arcbyte wrote:
| Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort
| of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally
| different from yours.
|
| I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom
| CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using
| spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for
| sqlflow?
| dm03514 wrote:
| Very Cool! Which use cases are you targeting?
|
| I'm surprised at the relatively sparse state of streaming. I
| feel like there are:
|
| - Flink - Spark - ~Benthos - Arroyo - Then mostly custom /
| bespoke frameworks
|
| Maybe there just isn't that much money in it? But I think
| there's still lots of opportunity to improve the Dev/UX over
| the JVM and the enterprise solutions.
|
| -----
|
| I would say recovery is achieved through kafka consumer
| groups right now, which results in at least once processing
| semantics.
|
| We also support websocket input for the bluesky firehose but
| that is completely ephemeral. I have a story in the backlog
| to write ahead to disk which should allow for tolerating
| process crash/failure.
|
| The tumbling windows stores state using duckdb. The end user
| can configure a disk-based duckdb databases which achieves
| durability as well.
|
| The troubleshooting was actually pretty funky, i didn't
| realize how tricky it could be with stateful stream
| processing. I certainly don't have a good story for it, but
| what I did was added a sql debug HTTP handler. When this is
| enabled it exposes the duckdb execution context over HTTP.
| This was how I debugged the tumbling window logic during
| development. I would start SQLFlow, query to make sure the
| windows were empty, send some known messages, query the
| windows to make sure they were aggregated correctly, wait for
| the windows to close and flush, query the tumbling window
| state, etc.
|
| For troubleshooting it also supports prometheus metrics
| oriented towards stream processing, # of messages, processing
| duration, success/failures, etc.
|
| SQLFlow also ships with a dev framework, this allows you to
| execute your sqlflow pipeline against a json input file to
| make sure the sql processing logic is correct. I wanted to
| give the ability to decouple testing the logic, from actually
| having to stream data.
|
| I would love to know about more what you're hacking on!
| nico wrote:
| Experimenting with training and running ML models on a "normal
| computer" (ie. no GPU or cloud servers, just locally on CPU/ram)
|
| Don't have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning
| purposes
|
| Been playing a lot with the MNIST dataset. Trying things like
| training only on the examples the model gets wrong, or training
| only on random samples of the image (ie. using only a small
| subset of the pixels of the image as the input), or creating one
| model per label to overfit the data and then merging the models
| for testing, or just testing performance of different
| architectures and frameworks on the same problem
| rikroots wrote:
| I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library.
| Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record
| as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions
| I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague
| hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and
| Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to
| innocent developers on how to use my library in their code.
|
| [1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-
| initi...
| msoloviev wrote:
| I'm working on a text editor
| (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously
| analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal
| and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and
| switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree
| structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people
| interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications -
| for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a
| particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on
| the spot or even insert your own.
|
| Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me
| the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for
| some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let
| the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point
| and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a
| thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such
| a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological
| loop
| (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological...
| - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
| ivylee wrote:
| Working on GrocerBird[1] where you upload a grocery receipt, it
| will parse all of the items and their prices, so you can keep
| track of grocery spending and prices over time. Please feel free
| to share your feedback and suggestions!
|
| [1]: https://www.grocerbird.com
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25
| years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So
| I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in
| the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself.
| There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some
| famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an
| amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just
| arrived!
| sunami-ai wrote:
| Agreement Risk Analysis and visualisation.
|
| The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.
|
| Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral.
| UI is 3D cube animation for now.
|
| Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud
| affecting US consumers: "I like how it balances the intent of the
| law for the consumer"
|
| Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given
| us good feedback.
|
| Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied
| for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in
| the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing
| another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post
| market traction.
|
| Samples of ToS and financing agreements
|
| Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
|
| Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.
|
| DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn.
|
| Video: showing drills downs etc
|
| https://youtu.be/r97cujq4Egk?si=Ks7ivB411sFyzLTg
| ahstilde wrote:
| I'm trying to eliminate all allergies in the world without
| customers having to ever leave their home.
|
| We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies.
|
| We're close to peanut allergies.
|
| The science is known as allergy immunotherapy.
| https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy
| switchstance wrote:
| I'm building a daily trivia game using Bolt.new.
|
| What do you think? https://brainblitz.app
| TheBozzCL wrote:
| Got a few:
|
| At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy
| Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly
| well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we
| couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because
| it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my
| company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been
| too hard.
|
| At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I
| need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had
| nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give
| you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by
| itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and
| check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not
| my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
| citywhale wrote:
| I'm working on setting up my first homelab using Proxmox. It's
| more of a hardware and cable routing project right now but I'm
| excited to move towards setting up the software side of things
| soon!
|
| I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book
| Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's
| a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
| theconjon wrote:
| I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to
| securely share passwords between each other
| (https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia).
|
| At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password
| manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID
| password, or something of the like, there are people that send
| the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not
| everyone deletes their message containing the password
| afterwards.
|
| You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the
| client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL
| is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the
| password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.
|
| The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of
| deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from
| my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they
| had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my
| own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
| abdullahkhalids wrote:
| Making this installable on Sandstorm would be great.
| codeforafrica wrote:
| I am learning how to promote http://codingforafrica.at/ in
| particular http://codingforafrica.at/help/
|
| There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big
| ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also
| schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to
| run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one.
| One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but
| doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer
| to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a
| full-time salary.
| npodbielski wrote:
| For about year and a half I am working on fully dynamic, zero-
| downtime, reconfigurable API. Main target is me, hobbyists, self-
| host enthusiasts and small-to medium companies. Idea is to be
| able to configure API with JSON schema definition of an object
| that API should store and allow you to manipulate (with CRUD
| operations). In future I plan to add FE for building those
| schemas based on data and some LLM helper.
|
| * There is possibility of adding relations between schemas
| (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1)
|
| * API allows to filter and transform responses to your own
| arbitrary schema via custom query language
|
| * support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens
| for easily configurable but strong security
|
| * from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so
| there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions
|
| * flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system
| events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events
| are planned
|
| * flows are defined via Json files
|
| * flows are also customisable and allows to define your own
| blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger
| pieces of logic.
|
| * all json files are source for code generation so performance
| should be the same as using your own manually written code or at
| least very close.
|
| * there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for
| saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use
| to generate static files for FE.
|
| * custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create
| flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e.
| FullName from first and surname).
|
| To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code
| generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my
| house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and
| auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this
| dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one
| out every time.
| meekaaku wrote:
| AI enhanced mini ERP.
|
| Side project: Building a 6 DOF robot arm with dynamixel servos.
| yc-kraln wrote:
| I'm working on inexpensive, mass-manufacturable fully autonomous
| drones.
| chiefofgxbxl wrote:
| I'm building a freemium browser extension
| (https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social
| metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you
| see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their
| shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.).
|
| It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed
| on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what
| they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the
| ability to paste passwords.
|
| The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it
| has a lot more development to get it where I want it.
|
| Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension
| itself as well as advice on monetization.
|
| https://trashpandaextension.com/
| crypteasy wrote:
| I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years
| ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in
| America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text,
| and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a
| family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it
| editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to
| and keep up to date.
| m3047 wrote:
| I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play
| on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an
| approach to observability based on the functional difference
| between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking
| evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be
| investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they
| are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local
| knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis,
| python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport.
|
| The core components are on GitHub: *
| https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo *
| https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz *
| https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns
|
| Not the first time I've referenced these on HN. I did just
| implement a Redis operator which Redis doesn't have, SHARDS:
| * https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/blob/main/SHARDS_Command.md
|
| No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I
| don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you
| made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a
| silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in
| Skype: *
| https://www.zipcon.net/~m3047/observability-dream.mp4
|
| I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some)
| telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS.
| Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think
| it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published
| telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be
| federated, they don't need to be centralized.
| xyproto wrote:
| A self-contained little web server that supports Lua, HTTP/3,
| PostgreSQL and all sorts of different things:
|
| https://github.com/xyproto/algernon
|
| A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the
| terminal:
|
| https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton
| whitehexagon wrote:
| Working on improving my barista skills, although my latte art
| seems to have ground (sorry) to a halt at 'heart', which I guess
| is level 1.
|
| Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some
| remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons
| are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via
| a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the
| machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done
| anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe
| I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it
| is switching mains level V.
| vincejos wrote:
| I'm building a cashback rates comparator for France :)
| https://www.best-cashback.com/
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am still writing about Cognitive Agents on my Substack
| "Encyclopedia Autonomica" [1]. Last month I crossed 500
| subscribers (~15 paying) on Substack and since today Google is
| properly indexing it. Throughout February I wrote largely about
| applications in FinTech like Market Making, Agents as Financial
| Decision Engines, Advanced Named Entity Recognition, and that I
| built Deep Search for Finance in 2023 and nobody cared.
|
| [1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
| rozap wrote:
| finished integrating our new FOSS ecu into our racecar, and
| started rewriting the data logging software for our team.
| Learning about can, wrote a dbc parser and frame interpreter for
| our higher level tools. Also integrated some existing components
| with the new ecu, our in car display now speaks can instead of
| serial, and soon another device will be pushing can packets to
| our analysis app. streaming can packets over lora and/or lte.
| analysis app is being un-jankified too. it's a phoenix tool for
| timeseries/laptime/etc dashboards.
| carlos-menezes wrote:
| I started a football/soccer (mostly Premier League focused)
| podcast with a friend about two months ago. It's in Portuguese,
| but it gives us an hour each week to talk about our love for the
| game and sprinkle in some interesting statistics.
|
| Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a
| local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun
| helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly
| enriching experience.
| urda wrote:
| Writing, just some writing. It does not matter if it is
| technical, creative, or something else. Just wanting to put pen
| to paper, and get it out there. See it at https://urda.com
| marshughes wrote:
| Recently, I've been engaged in a project that focuses on the
| market demands of independent developers and small and medium -
| sized entrepreneurial teams. People involved in R & D often tend
| to be completely immersed in technology. As a result, the
| products they develop are left unattended and may not even be
| needed by anyone, which is really terrible. After all, everyone
| hopes that the things they develop can be in demand and receive
| positive feedback.
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