[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 273 points
Date : 2025-04-27 22:08 UTC (1 days ago)
| davidbarker wrote:
| Currently working on HN Alerts -- a simple free site I made to
| alert me (via email) to trending stories on Hacker News.
|
| It sends me an email once a story hits a certain number of
| upvotes per minute, so it's useful for keeping track of breaking
| news.
|
| https://hnalerts.com
| nandomrumber wrote:
| If you're not aware, compare https://www.hnreplies.com/
| davidbarker wrote:
| Thanks. Been a happy user for a few years!
| mmarian wrote:
| I have a similar domain - https://hackernewsalerts.com - but
| it's for tracking replies to comments and posts you've made.
| It's on maintenance mode at the moment, couldn't gather as much
| interest as I'd hoped. Have open sourced it.
| dewey wrote:
| Is there any difference to the existing one that made you
| built another one?
| mmarian wrote:
| Yep, it notifies you when you get comments on your HN
| posts. The existing one only tracks replies to comments.
| quintes wrote:
| I'm still working on these.
|
| SaaS - I'm working on this mostly marketing that tech.. harder
| than it looks am I right? https://prfrmhq.com - see
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538744 [Show HN: My SaaS
| for performance reviews setting goals and driving success]
|
| - Shows I can use AI and I've integrated into AWS Bedrock
|
| - Shows I can integrate with Stripe for payments
|
| Consulting (Architecture, Strategy, Tech) - I'm working on
| getting my consultancy started. If anyone wants the kind of
| skills I offer here let's talk https://architectfwd.com
|
| Next SaaS - Starting a SaaS for managing core strategy and tech
| concepts. I created goals for it but I'm failing to kick the
| tyres
|
| Last night I actually also started playing with firebase studio,
| though the app I prompted isn't even doing save of the document
| properly. I figure can't be me but will try again and work
| through the errors.
|
| And playing drums, must get better
| iamwil wrote:
| A reactive notebook with managed side effects for building
| backend/AI-engineering pipelines.
|
| Reactivity can update the state of the notebook automatically, so
| you don't have to keep track of which cells to execute again.
| Side effects are managed to make it easier to reason about while
| maintaining reactivity and ability to interact with the outside
| world.
| rashidae wrote:
| I just discovered a new meta-discipline, which most likely will
| become a new science.
|
| I know, it sounds crazy.
|
| In a month or so, I'll be sharing some news.
| SuperV1234 wrote:
| I've recently added autobatching to my SFML fork
| (https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML/tree/bubble_idle).
| Drawing multiple objects that use the same RenderStates will now
| be automatically coalesced into a single draw call, for example:
|
| for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) renderWindow.draw(sf::Sprite{/*
| ... */});
|
| Upstream SFML: - 10000 draw calls (!) - My fork: 1 draw call
|
| This (opinionated) fork of SFML also supports many other changes:
|
| - Modern OpenGL and first-class support for Emscripten - Batching
| system to render 500k+ objects in one draw call - New audio API
| supporting multiple simultaneous devices - Enhanced API safety at
| compile-time - Flexible design approach over strict OOP
| principles - Built-in SFML::ImGui module - Lightning fast
| compilation time - Minimal run-time debug mode overhead - Uses
| SDL3 instead of bespoke platform-dependent code
|
| It is temporarily named VRSFML
| (https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML) until I officially
| release it.
|
| You can read about the library and its design principles in this
| article: https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml.html
|
| You can read about the batching system in this article:
| https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml2.html
|
| You can find the source code here:
| https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML
|
| You can try out the interactive demos online in your browser
| here: https://vittorioromeo.github.io/VRSFML_HTML5_Examples/
|
| The target audience is mostly developers familiar with SFML who
| are looking for a library very similar in style but offering more
| power and flexibility. Upstream SFML remains more suitable for
| complete beginners.
|
| I have used this fork to create and release my second commercial
| game, BubbleByte. It's open-source
| (https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML/tree/bubble_idle) and
| available now on Steam:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499760/BubbleByte/
|
| BubbleByte is a laid-back incremental game that mixes clicker,
| idle, automation, and a hint of tower defense, all inspired by my
| cat Byte's fascination with soap bubbles.
|
| A trailer is available here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db_zp66OHIU
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| The first ever SQL debugger - runs & visualizes your query step-
| by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY,
| aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated
| ones!), CTEs, you name it.
|
| You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query
| lineage - which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries
| contributed to the result you're searching for.
|
| Entirely offline & no usage of AI. Free in-browser version (using
| PGLite WASM), paid desktop version.
|
| No website yet, here's a 5 minute showcase (skip to middle):
| https://www.loom.com/share/c03b57fa61fc4c509b1e2134e53b70dd
| anitil wrote:
| Is this postgres only? What an interesting idea!
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| For now, yes, but I'll start working on adding support for
| all other DBs (especially OLAP) as soon as possible. The
| geberal approach is the same, I just have to handle all the
| edge cases of the SQL dialects
| parrit wrote:
| Was thinking today... not a debugger but even a SQL progess
| bar, so I know that my add column will take say 7 hours in
| advance.
| IceDane wrote:
| This seems like it could be extremely useful.
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| Thanks! Would you mind sharing what would be your use cases?
|
| At my job, all of our business logic (4 KLOC of network
| topology algorithms) is written in a niche query language,
| which we have been migrating to PostgreSQL. When an
| inconsistency/error is found, tracking it can take days,
| manually commenting out parts of query and looking at the
| results.
| alok-g wrote:
| Am not the person you asked, but feel that it could have
| good value for education and learning as well, besides
| debugging.
| binary132 wrote:
| Nice one!
| Ni3l55 wrote:
| Cool! We're dealing with many complex CTEs and costly queries.
| Would be useful to have those visualized one by one.
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| What database are you using? I'd be happy to hear about your
| usecases and hopefully help you, shoot me an email (in
| profile)
| benjaminsky2 wrote:
| This is awesome! I'm work with a team of analysts and data
| engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We
| write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels
| on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior
| devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex
| models.
|
| I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and
| bigquery where the query complexity and thus value prop for a
| tool like this is potentially much higher.
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| Thank you, nice to get some idea validation from folks in the
| industry. For sure data warehouses are the top priority on my
| TODO list, I picked PG first because that's what I'm familiar
| with.
|
| I can ping you via email when the debugger is ready, if
| you're interested. My email is in my profile
| jeffhuys wrote:
| This would be incredible to understand why some queries execute
| slow; most of the time it's one of the steps in between that
| takes 99% of the execution time at our company. Do you record
| the time each step takes?
| xarici_ishler wrote:
| You're onto the original idea I started out with!
| Unfortunately it's very difficult to correlate input SQL to
| an output query plan - but possible. It's definitely in
| future plans
| thenaturalist wrote:
| Possibly look at
| https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/parser_to...
|
| Even if not for DuckDB, you can use this to validate/ parse
| queries possibly.
| agentultra wrote:
| A TigerBeetle client for Haskell.
|
| The smallest (in terms of system calls and code) event sourcing
| database I can make.
|
| Being more present.
| delduca wrote:
| My 2D engine
|
| https://carimbo.run/
| codr7 wrote:
| A practical hacker's guide to the C programming language:
|
| https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
|
| Also learning to deal with having very little to no money atm.
| clone1018 wrote:
| I'm working on a workflow automation tool that lets devs write
| workflows in simple yaml files, and then deploy them to the cloud
| _or_ on premise. Each workflow is a set of actions and a trigger
| that can transform data, make api calls, run AI models, or really
| anything (via docker!). Each step relies on the output of the
| last step, and the workflow framework is engineering to be
| declarative, testable, and versioned. Similar to GitHub actions,
| but for *anything*. Think webhook to slack, email to support
| ticket, nightly aws backup & restore, mirror a file each night,
| etc.
| Tepix wrote:
| premises, not premise :-)
| clone1018 wrote:
| Thank you! Learned something new.
| 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 for this purpose
| aren't good enough IMHO, which led me to build it.
| egypturnash wrote:
| No Pizza On Luna, a graphic novel about a future run by AIs who
| have discovered that the best way to get humans to do what they
| want is to present as patronizing, unctuous clowns.
| Http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/
| WiggleGuy wrote:
| Still working on https://theretowhere.com since I announced it to
| HN in February.
|
| It's an website who's goal is to make it easier to find
| apartments/hotels/etc that fit your housing preferences (starting
| with places that are close to the people and things you care
| about). It's flagship feature is the ability to make heatmaps of
| cities based on your preferences.
|
| Since February I've slowed down on feature development
| temporarily as I try and find a way to sustainably increase it's
| popularity and learn what's the most important thing to focus on
| next.
| ngokevin wrote:
| A language learning app for couples (https://couplingcafe.com). I
| wanted to learn my wife's native language, so I've been building
| this on my own for a long time and testing solutions! Just a few
| paying happy users. Cooking up a lot of ideas
| Gerardox wrote:
| Looks nice. I really tried but couldn't find it: Pricing
| please! :)
| fabianlindfors wrote:
| I'm working on extending Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB.
| The goal would be turning Postgres into a distributed,
| horizontally scalable database with automatic sharding and
| replication.
|
| Hoping to share a first version of it soon. It's been absolutely
| fascinating digging into Postgres internals!
| parrit wrote:
| Is this something like what TiDb does with MySQL compatibility?
| Sounds fascinating!
| jsemrau wrote:
| I am working to better understand AI agents.
|
| What they are. their capabilities, and their and risks and write
| about it on my Substack
|
| Encyclopedia Autonomica: https://jdsemrau.substack.com
|
| On that note, I also curate a list of resources around AI Agents
| that fit my narrative:
|
| https://github.com/jsemrau/Agent-Repository
| snats wrote:
| I am working on the https://moviemovie.club/about, it's a tiny
| website about film review.
|
| It works like a run club, where you have to make a review first
| to see other people's reviews.
|
| I am currently implementing watchlists, comments and a mural to
| make it feel a bit less lonely. Right now I like the UI but it
| feels to lonely.
| dewey wrote:
| This seems like it would only work if "reviews" would be
| something rare to come by. Like some forums where you have to
| contribute to be able to download attachments, or see higher
| level subforums.
|
| But reviews are everywhere, good ones too so it will be a hard
| chicken egg problem to solve.
| wagslane wrote:
| Just finished porting Boot.dev's backend learning path to
| TypeScript (used to only be available in Python/Go, now also
| Python/TS)
|
| Official release is Cinco de Mayo, I'm very excited!
|
| https://www.boot.dev
| lylejantzi3rd wrote:
| I'm working on a WASM clone of the original Castle Wolfenstein.
| I'm going to call it Castle WASMstein.
| misterflibble wrote:
| Please keep posting updates about this because if I could
| instantly fire up a game in my browser, I would definitely pay
| for that and play with it all day!
| division_by_0 wrote:
| I'm working on a correlation matrix with Svelte 5.
|
| It has hierarchical clustering, rolling correlation charts, a
| minimap, time series data detrending, and 2D matrix
| virtualization (to render only visible cells to the DOM).
|
| It has up to 130K matrix cells and correlates up to 23.5M time
| series data points.
|
| https://covary.xyz
| farkanoid wrote:
| Schematic and PCB design relating to Lighting and Control Systems
| for my main job. Schematics and PCB Design after hours as a
| contractor too, because I have a daughter now, my wife can't
| work, and life has become /very/ expensive in Sydney.
|
| What I'd love to be working on: Try to initiate a high voltage
| arc through the air to a target device, and modulate it to send
| "Data over Lightning", like Alyx does in Half-Life 2. It won't
| work the way it does in the game, but I'd it's an idea I've had
| for a long time and I'd love to prototype it some day.
| gumshoe30 wrote:
| Iterating on my geography site: https://geolede.com
|
| Next feature is search.
| Scrounger wrote:
| This is a dope idea, nice job!
|
| I would love to see some UI/UX improvements like split view
| where the map is on the left and the news reading/scrolling
| happens on the right reading pane instead of on the bottom
| while horizontally scrolling.
|
| You could even use AI/LLM's to summarize the most important
| news from each country etc.
| dayjah wrote:
| A TUI for categorizing financial transactions into valid plain
| text accounting records.
| zzlk wrote:
| I'm working on a distributed object storage system to be the
| backing store behind my website (https://scmscx.com). It
| currently uses back blaze b2 which is good and cheap but I
| thought it would be fun to roll my own.
| jason_zig wrote:
| [1] Surveys. Thinking about how to tighten up the onboarding
| experience, improve brand awareness, improve in-app data
| analysis, and how to integrate AI in new and exciting ways... and
| handling customer support tickets!
|
| [1]https://www.zigpoll.com
| jasonthorsness wrote:
| Very early stage, no link, but I have been working on getting
| terminal fonts (like Cascadia Code) to work in the browser more
| progressively without requiring such a giant single download, and
| on using them for text-based animations. One of those
| unimportant, low-stakes kind of projects that makes it relaxing
| to work on :P.
| neontomo wrote:
| working on saying no to new projects, i have a tendency to fill
| up all the time i have available with startups or creative ideas.
|
| thinking about taking dancing lessons instead, maybe afrobeats.
| rchowe wrote:
| I have two:
|
| The first is a preventive maintenance and calibration tracker
| (https://pmcal.net) that was born out of my day job as an
| engineer in small business manufacturing.
|
| The second is an AI engine for pulling structured data out of
| incoming email (either via IMAP on your email server or via SES).
| If you think of the engine that powers TripIt, they had to write
| about 10,000 different ingestors for each airline and hotel and
| travel booking site. With a structured output AI, the need to
| write specific ingestors goes away.
| andris9 wrote:
| You can also get structured data out of mailboxes with my
| project EmailEngine. You can use an API request to fetch
| message contents, or you can configure EmailEngine to send a
| webhook for every new email in a structured JSON, for example,
| like this: https://emailengine.app/webhooks#messageNew
| rchowe wrote:
| I don't think I was specific enough on what kind of
| structured data. The idea is that it extracts information
| from the text/HTML content of emails (e.g. a flight itinerary
| from an airline booking email or an ingredient list from a
| recipe) using AI.
|
| Since you already have a method for reaching into folks
| Microsoft 365 inboxes and such, you could probably train an
| LLM to extract arbitrary data based on a user's prompt quite
| quickly though.
| silentsea90 wrote:
| Interior design with image gen AI models. Getting AI to follow
| your prompt with inpainting is painful.
| johntopia wrote:
| Open source Granloa alternative
| https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote
| IshanMi wrote:
| I'm working on a long-term project to better understand Operating
| Systems, video game development, and Rust by building the
| simplest possible OS in Rust that boots directly into a game of
| Doom, which will also be re-written in Rust.
|
| I'm giving myself 18 months- it's been super fun so far!
| asdf6969 wrote:
| crap
| seafoamteal wrote:
| Mostly just exams this month haha, but technically a self-
| hostable workout tracking app.
|
| The only self-hosted option I found was wger.de and while it
| looks great, it's a bit too much for my needs. I want something
| lightweight (so as not to hog resources on my cheap VPS) that
| does what it needs to do and nothing more.
|
| It's been a while since I've done web dev, so I'm going to try
| out Deno (TypeScript) with htmx.
| imadkhan wrote:
| I'm just currently spending my free time learning elixir/phoenix
| to build some fun useless real time apps just to learn the ins
| and outs of it all
| dom96 wrote:
| A social network where each participant is guaranteed to be a
| human. It's a tricky problem but I think I've got a pretty good
| first prototype[1].
|
| 1 - https://onlyhumanhub.com
| aorloff wrote:
| Mastodon solves this
| ronyfadel wrote:
| how?
| MortyWaves wrote:
| I'm making some minor changes to my personal site/blog to improve
| contrast, have a more uniform usage of colours throughout, and
| also replacing "categories" with tags so that I can have related
| content easily linked and searchable.
|
| I may also finally finish implementing WebMentions support too as
| a kind of comment section.
|
| I may also work some more on my long-term relaxation/creative
| maze generation and solver project.
|
| At work, I keep putting off yet more refactorings that are
| required because of poor/missing requirements and non-technical
| leadership of the project.
|
| It wouldn't be so bad, but part of this "new" project involves
| communicating with some awful SharePoint """database""", as well
| as a poorly designed real database (it has multiple values in one
| column, not even with any standard, just sometimes there's extra
| numbers I need to parse, sometimes not - just lots of this type
| of crap repeated everywhere), and the worst
| development/deployment experience I've ever had to deal with in
| ~10 years.
|
| To write code involves Remote desktop to what was a single core
| VM (and much protesting gained me... one extra core) to Windows
| Server 2016 meaning most modern/nice developer tooling isn't
| supported, and deployments are all done by copy pasting files
| over yet more _nested_ remote desktop sessions.
|
| Sadly there's no real way of automating any of this, every
| suggestion is always a "default no", again most of the tools I'd
| need for this won't run on Windows Server 2016, and even if I
| worked around it the stakes are way too high for "It's easier to
| ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".
|
| The turn around time for even a small change is huge because of
| this mental burden, it's a complete slog to get anything done.
|
| So I guess what I'm saying is I've been casually looking around
| at jobs this month.
|
| This is why I always stress the importance of being able to work
| on my own projects, because otherwise, I'd have burnt out.
|
| /rant
| rezahussain wrote:
| ml program for stocks
| rogutkuba wrote:
| Building visual AI research tool https://why.new
|
| just waitlist for now, but I have posted some demos on my twitter
| - https://x.com/rogutkuba/status/1915533678207262931 -
| https://x.com/rogutkuba/status/1915226139812839690
| entrep wrote:
| I'm working on a desktop-based, performance- and privacy-first
| note-taking app that lets you quickly capture notes from any
| selected text using hotkeys.
|
| I'm curious: what are your must-haves in a note-taking
| application?
| zolotorevich wrote:
| > I'm curious: what are your must-haves in a note-taking
| application?
|
| Unlimited undos. Even if I deleted text a year ago, app must
| bring it back. Ideally something like git, with branches and
| auto-commits.
| entrep wrote:
| Great, thanks. This is already in my minimum requirements.
| maxrimue wrote:
| I thought about doing something similar some time ago, because
| I never quite found the perfect note taking app for myself.
| There's a million ways how to do notes, and it feels like
| there's just as many different notes apps.
|
| Eventually, I've settled with Obsidian because of its
| simplicity and extensibility. You can leave it with basic
| features and truly own your notes in a simple format (you can
| also put them into any cloud, as long as that cloud reaches
| your filesystem). It doesn't do everything just like I'd want
| to, but I've thought about just building another notes app that
| reads and writes to the same path your Obsidian notes are in,
| instead of trying to cover every possible editing feature like
| most big notes apps. Then I'd use different apps for different
| needs, with one place to store data.
|
| Since you're focusing on privacy, have you considered using
| Obsidian? Is there anything particular you want to do
| differently?
| entrep wrote:
| Basically I want to build it with focus on speed and work
| efficiency from start. To not bias myself too much, I will
| refrain from doing too much market research. First of all I'm
| building this for myself, and I'm guessing it might translate
| into at least a tiny market share.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| Manabi Reader - native iOS / macOS reading tool for Japanese with
| flashcards and Anki integration
|
| https://reader.manabi.io
|
| Currently working on adding a manga mode and Netflix auto-
| captioning
| qwikhost wrote:
| I'm working on a SEO agent: https://qwikrank.com
|
| People hate AI generated content, but the quality is actually
| good and Google likes it.
| mrnotcrazy wrote:
| I'm working on an escape room! Initially I was working on a
| software/hardware bundle that I was planning to market to other
| escape rooms but I think that is the wrong approach. So I am
| going to build a bunch of modular stuff in my garage and
| eventually start my own, its been an awesome project so far! I
| want a more dynamic and action oriented experience so it might
| not really be an escape room anymore but I don't know what to
| call it yet.
|
| Escape rooms are honestly... almost always a let down but the
| concept has a lot of potential and there are some really neat
| ones that standout like this local one where you pilot an airship
| https://www.portlandescaperooms.com/steampunk-airship
|
| Once I build the best escape room on the planet, I can consider
| selling the tools.
| davepeck wrote:
| Have you ever visited a Boda Borg? They're not quite escape
| rooms; generally, the experiences are fast-paced. Some are
| puzzles; some physical challenges; some, an interesting mix.
| Lots of computer automation to make it all work.
| graypegg wrote:
| Some sort of escape room backbone software that links together
| all of the hardware according to a script is such a neat idea.
| It would be so cool to have something like Twine [0] to build
| out the story graphically, where input/output is via cues to
| staff/hardware rather than just text on screen. An old boss of
| mine used to run home-haunts for halloween. (a walk-through
| haunted house experience scaffolded-up in his yard) I helped
| him a few times, and I was always amazed by how big of a
| community there was. There were at least 5-6 people doing a
| haunt next week and would come help out at his, then he would
| help at their haunt the next week. My boss was even making a
| magazine for the community for a while. Something for those
| folks doing quick popup theatrical events/escape rooms that
| could handle some "duct tape engineering" would totally have an
| interested market, and if it was open source you'd get great
| patches.
|
| BUT I also get what you mean, have find out what works first.
| Do you have a blog for your escape room progress? That sounds
| like such a cool thing to follow you making!
|
| [0] (https://twinery.org/)
| willmeyers wrote:
| I updated the catalogue of movies and added some internal tools
| to my movies released on YouTube website: We Love Free Movies
| (https://welovefreemovies.com/). It's hard to share it because it
| gets flagged because of the name... But yeah, planning to add
| search, design touch ups, more movies, etc. this year.
|
| Also working out the logistics of offering a microgrant to award
| people who want to make movies like this!
| coderinsan wrote:
| Venture backed thing on language agnostic semantic mutation
| testing- testcode.ai
| tudorrr wrote:
| I'm building an open source game backend for Unity and Godot:
| https://trytalo.com. GitHub: https://github.com/talodev.
|
| Talo makes it easy to add systems that traditionally need extra
| non-gameplay build time like authentication, player analytics and
| game stats.
|
| Right now you can drop Talo into your game or use the API
| directly. Importantly, I've made Talo easy to self-host and you
| can point the Unity package/Godot plugin to your own Talo
| instance.
| daemonologist wrote:
| I'm prototyping a Depth Anything[1] -assisted segment annotation
| tool, with an eye toward plant detection in non-agriculture
| environments (where the backdrop is an endless sea of green
| complexity). Even if the task I have in mind doesn't pan out, I
| think this tool could be useful to people for other difficult
| segmentation tasks.
|
| [1] - https://depth-anything-v2.github.io/
| mmarian wrote:
| Just launched a free, online tool to easily copy Cloudflare
| firewall rules across multiple domains:
| https://configberry.com/blog/042025/copy-cloudflare-waf-rule...
| jgm22 wrote:
| I'm working on a customer service product, that aims to bridge
| the gap in the industry now.
| Avicebron wrote:
| I'm teaching myself category theory, I'll kick back off a local
| trail, keep notes on the birds I see and read and do the problems
| in my notebooks. I've got Basic Category Theory by Leinster, and
| How to Read and Do Proofs by Solow as my references, notebook,
| pen and a pair of Nikon binoculars.
| misterflibble wrote:
| Can I ask what prerequisite mathematics you would need to know
| before reading those? I'm really interested in that topic and
| better understanding functional programming.
| hyperbrainer wrote:
| If you wish to approach Category Theory from the viewpoint of
| a programmer, not a mathematician, I suggest Bartosz
| Milewski's book _Category Theory for Programmers_. For this,
| all you need is some previous programming experience. He uses
| C++ and Haskell iirc but as long as you can read snippets of
| code, you 'll be fine.
|
| I am suggesting this since you said you want to better
| understand functional programming. Category Theory, as
| mathematicians look at it, is an extremely abstract field. If
| you want to do pure math related stuff in Category Theory,
| and only then, I would say important prereqs are Abstract
| Algebra and Topology. I believe the motivation for Category
| theory lies in Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology, but
| you definitely don't need to be an expert on these to learn
| it.
| misterflibble wrote:
| Hey thank you for the excellent tips! I really appreciate
| it!
| zero_kool wrote:
| I'm working on platform that helps you vibe code APIs. It'll
| generate clean, scalable, maintainable monolithic backend APIs
| built using Express + Postgres.
|
| Launch soon! Drop a comment if you want early access
| mbanerjeepalmer wrote:
| RSS -> LLM -> RSS
|
| https://zacusca.net
| hlfshell wrote:
| Taking a break from my agentic AI framework for prototypes and
| makers arkaine(1) and made two fun useful apps for myself
|
| 1. Eli5 equations(2) uses an LLM to convert a given picture of an
| equation to latex and, if given additional context, breaks down
| the equation parts to explain it. Gemini for the model.
|
| 2. reflecta - a journal prompting app with deepseek to help
| reword and target the prompts towards you better.
|
| (1) https://arkaine.dev
|
| (2) https://eli5equation.com
|
| (3) https://reflecta.hlfshell.ai
| davidkuennen wrote:
| Event based portfolio tracker: https://stockevents.app
| woutr_be wrote:
| Great work, I've been using Stock Events on iOS for a while
| now. It's what got me into dividend investing, and it's
| fantastic to just keep track off all the dividend income.
| davidkuennen wrote:
| Thank you so much! That's very kind of you. Good luck on your
| journey.
| bsnnkv wrote:
| I'm still mulling how to go about porting my tiling window
| manager for Windows[1] to another platform, or even if I'll do it
| at all. There is some demand, but I don't know if there is
| _enough_ demand
|
| Regardless of if I target macOS or Linux first, this would be a
| pretty full time endeavour on my part. I could wait until the
| commercial use licenses of the Windows version sustain me enough
| to be able to work on this full time, or try to raise a
| Kickstarter for $X00,000 to be able to quit my 9-5 and work on
| porting full time for a year or so
|
| [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
| ghoshbishakh wrote:
| A one command tunneling tool to get public URLs to localhost. No
| installation required. https://pinggy.io
| barrell wrote:
| I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning
| & acquisition tool for polyglots. I've been using it to study ~12
| languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually
| "studying") and it's starting to feel really good. If anyone is
| learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I'm
| looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it
| supports 120+).
|
| In what I believe is still the spirit of the question though, I
| discovered Maltese these week and have added it to my casual
| study. It's a Semitic language (closely related to Arabic),
| written in the latin script, with about 40-50% of its vocabulary
| being Italian/Sicilian based. It's become my new obsession
| pandemic_region wrote:
| Would be great to be able to login via Google or Facebook.
| Creating an account is cumbersome on mobile.
| muzani wrote:
| Yes, please. I've been looking for something like this. Lately
| I've been just casually going into another language with
| ChatGPT and asking it to correct me. I do I like some of the
| old languages, things like Aramaic, which just have a different
| feel.
|
| I signed up, but now it's asking me for a "reference language"
| (which is a little ironic because it tells me this in English
| lol). I guess I'll play with this later.
| barrell wrote:
| Start by creating some expressions ("create" in the nav bar)
| and you should be able to play around with it. If you want to
| learn more, please get in touch. As mentioned elsewhere, I'll
| be adding a video tutorial soon (probably not this week, but
| sometime next week if all goes well).
|
| Would love to get feedback on the old languages! It's been
| really good for the minority languages I'm learning
| yurishimo wrote:
| Since you're in Amsterdam, I'm curious how well you think it
| performs for learning Dutch? I'm a native English speaker with
| a B2~ in Dutch and just looking to progress more. I've not used
| spaced repetition up to this point in my learning journey
| (almost 3 years).
| barrell wrote:
| It does really well, 95% of the time. The application was
| built to jump in at any levels - find a movie you want to
| watch, align the subtitles, see the most important words,
| create expressions with words you don't know, and the SRS
| should focus on the words most important to you.
|
| For my Dutch (which was probably once a high B2, now probably
| a low B1) I only use the audio review when walking my dog or
| cooking. It plays the audio of the cards in a playlist, so I
| practice hearing and repeating them.
|
| It's not so self serve at the moment, but if you get in touch
| I can get you up and running.
| yard2010 wrote:
| "...are we still doing phrasing?"
| barrell wrote:
| So much of this stemmed from me wanted to learn French &
| Italian by watching archer :D
| _puk wrote:
| Sounds good.
|
| What languages do you support?
|
| Learning Latvian through Anki flashcards, but it's not well
| supported by the main platforms, and there's not a huge amount
| of content out there for learning.
|
| This alongside a couple of the usual suspects.
|
| As a side note, on a Pixel 4a 5G (old phone , but functionally
| not ready for e-waste) the homepage bleeds all over. Some
| components into each other, others off screen. Might want to
| check that.
| barrell wrote:
| Oh no, the website is brand new, it should be working
| everywhere. I'll have to dig up an older android, I should
| have one somewhere.
|
| Languages below, if you know their alpha 3 code. Currently
| having some issues with Thai and Zulu though, so they're
| temporarily disabled until I have time to fix them.
|
| I have not ~tested~ _verified_ it for Latvian, I would be
| curious to hear your thoughts. It has been working pretty
| well for Maltese, Albanian and Macedonian though, which
| should be lower resource than Latvian!
|
| As mentioned elsewhere, the first time user experience is
| abysmal. If you reach out though we can hop on a call and get
| you set up - or in a few weeks I'll have a video done and up.
| In the meantime, you should be able to create an expression
| (in the nav bar for desktop and mobile) fairly intuitively.
|
| afr, amh, ara, ara-are, ara-bhr, ara-dza, ara-egy, ara-irq,
| ara-jor, ara-kwt, ara-lbn, ara-lby, ara-mar, ara-omn, ara-
| qat, ara-sau, ara-syr, ara-tun, ara-yem, asm, aze, bel, ben,
| bos, bul, bxr, cat, ces, chu, cop, cym, dan, deu, ell, eng,
| est, eus, fao, fas, fil, fin, fra, fro, gla, gle, glg, glv,
| got, grc, guj, hbo, heb, hin, hrv, hsb, hun, hyw, iku, ind,
| isl, ita, jav, jpn, kan, kat, kaz, khm, kir, kmr, kor, lao,
| lat, lav, lij, lit, ltc, lzh, mal, mar, mkd, mlt, mon, msa,
| mya, myv, nan, nep, nld, nno, nob, ori, orv, pan, pcm, pol,
| por, por-bra, por-prt, pus, qaf, qpm, ron, rus, san, sin,
| slk, slv, sme, som, spa, spa-arg, spa-bol, spa-chl, spa-col,
| spa-cri, spa-cub, spa-dom, spa-ecu, spa-esp, spa-gnq, spa-
| gtm, spa-hnd, spa-mex, spa-nic, spa-pan, spa-per, spa-pri,
| spa-pry, spa-slv, spa-ury, spa-usa, spa-ven, sqi, srp, sun,
| swa, swe, tam, tel, tha, tur, uig, ukr, urd, uzb, vie, wol,
| wuu, yue, zho, zht, zul
|
| EDIT: I have _tested_ it for Latvian, I know it technically
| works. I however have not had any Latvian speakers review it
| 's quality
| android521 wrote:
| i signed up and tried to use it. The UI is very confusing. i
| couldn't find the place to setup what language i want to learn
| and what language i know (for translation). It is best if you
| can have a video or images documenting how to use it.
| barrell wrote:
| Agreed. I'm getting close to a video to put on the landing
| page, probably some time next week.
|
| The first time user experience is really bad, but the app
| itself makes a lot of sense once you see it in action. Feel
| free to get in touch with me (there are several methods
| listed when you log in) and I can give you a personal
| introduction!
|
| If not then check back in a few weeks for a cool video :)
| Mumps wrote:
| I was quite eager to check this out. As some polite feedback, a
| few things turned me off quite strongly:
|
| 1. I want to get confirmation that the language I want is
| covered (Hungarian). "120+" doesn't confirm it for me, as
| Hungarian seems fairly rare for language apps. Can we not just
| have a "search your language" field?
|
| 2. I need to see what the app actually looks like, how it
| proposes it'll teach me.
|
| I'm one of the eager-to-pay people, because Duolingo is frankly
| dogshit (ok. Mostly polite) at teaching languages (doubly so
| ones that it doesn't care about like Hungarian). But I'm so
| suspicious of language apps, due to being burnt a dozen times.
| barrell wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you completely.
|
| 1. I just started the marketing website a few weeks ago, and
| if you can believe it, I didn't readily have that
| information. One of my tasks last week was to compile a list
| of languages that could work, write some tests for all of the
| languages, and get a list of supported languages. I have that
| list now, I just need to put it on the marketing page.
|
| 2. As mentioned in other comments, I'm working on a video.
| I'm preferring to fix glaring issues before making the video,
| although at this point I'm verrrrrrry close. I have started
| scripting it, but it takes a lot of time to make a good video
| (1-2 full days if I don't want to edit it).
|
| Your feedback is completely valid, and they're both reasons
| why I'm not really marketing the product yet. This thread
| seemed like a good middle ground though as having some people
| using all the languages would be really helpful. Also, I've
| genuinely been loving using it and want to share.
|
| It's just me working on it, so these things are coming, but
| everything takes a while! Hopefully these didn't sour you on
| the project permanently :)
|
| EDIT: And yes, it supports Hungarian :)
| barrell wrote:
| And fwiw, I've added the languages to the marketing page
| now in the FAQ section. I'll add a more prominent section
| in the coming weeks!
| Mumps wrote:
| Thanks for addressing, really!
|
| Nope, not soured. And don't worry, I totally get that
| things take a bunch of effort and time (doubly so as a solo
| project). I'll give it a re-look in a little while :)
| helenite wrote:
| The UI was a little unresponsive on mobile, and when I opened
| the "Media" page on desktop I got multiple block rendering
| errors. Opening the console reveals a syntax error (missing ]
| after element list) and some type errors.
|
| Also, it looks like you have to get the subscription to use it
| in any way? It's hard to gauge whether it is for me or not if I
| have no way to trial it. I found the UI a bit confusing too, I
| was not sure what I was supposed to do after logging in. As
| another commentator mentioned, it's asking me to set a
| reference language but I see no way of configuring it.
| barrell wrote:
| Block rendering errors on the media page is new to me. I will
| look into it.
|
| The reference language error should not be shown (I mean it's
| not incorrect, but there is a "no expressions error" that
| should take precedence).
|
| A video is coming :) I didn't expect so much interest from a
| comment in this thread. If you get in touch, I can walk you
| through it personally, otherwise check back in a couple weeks
| and there will be a video overview.
| KerryJones wrote:
| Great job on the design. I like the idea here, but the app was
| unresponsive on Windows > Chrome to most clicks
| bogdansolga wrote:
| I have just created an account and tried to use the app; either
| I am dumb (at this hour), or the app has a very not intuitive
| UI :-)
|
| I (think I) managed to create an expression, but: 1. it takes
| forever, I don't know what it's doing and it's still not done
| 2. I have no idea how to use it, onward 3. does not seem that I
| will be actually able to use it, as the app requires to be
| subscribed to use it...
|
| Looking forward for a how to use manual / page + a real trial
| period. If the app requires a subscription with this UX
| experience, I will be gone :-)
| barrell wrote:
| I am the first to admit that the UI does not make sense to
| people who have not seen it in use. I have done some user
| onboarding sessions where you just "let them ask questions
| and click" and it goes terribly if it's any consolation, I
| have never gotten that feedback after showing people how to
| use it (quite the opposite actually!)
|
| Wrt to the expression, all expressions created today
| succeeded, so if you're still seeing a progress bar let me
| know as that's a bug. It's possible something failed with the
| live updates, or it does take several minutes to create an
| expression (depending on servers, it can take up to 10
| minutes at times, although the typical timing is 2-4 minutes
| depending on the expression)
|
| If you click on any of the review methodologies, it will
| start reviewing any of your successful expression. From
| there, the experience should be a lot more explorer-friendly
| :)
|
| What it's doing is: analyzing the sentence, splitting it into
| phrases, aligning it across all languages, tagging all of the
| gender/case/tense/etc, researching pronunciation, generating
| audio, aligning the audio, prioritizing the words (across
| several axes), and generation explanations/dictionary for
| each individual word
| jmkr wrote:
| A midi sequencer, which does or is supposed to do what you
| expect.
|
| In the process of adding stuff like euclydian sequences, and
| trying to figure out how to generate melodies. Been considering
| using something like a simple markov probability from a bunch of
| jazz standards, but also starting to read more music theory
| behind it.
|
| It's a programming project but it's directly related to me trying
| to figure out music. So not a random sequence of notes in scale
| or not. The idea is more to generate backing tracks or song
| starters.
| ludston wrote:
| That's a cool project, but learning music via music theory is a
| bit like trying to learn English via grammar theory. It's
| backwards, and out of the hundreds of musicians I've met, I've
| never met one that walked that path.
|
| Strong recommendation: Hire a teacher. Even with experience
| playing four instruments, and when I decided to learn another,
| I still hired a teacher.
| jmkr wrote:
| One of my goals for this years was to get a jazz teacher,
| specifically for guitar.
|
| A layoff killed that goal for the foreseeable future.
|
| Theory has helped me practice like I think you're supposed
| to. More structured, more analysis. It also tickles the same
| part of the brain the certain comp sci topics do.
|
| I think it came from wanting to learn how to improv, and then
| wanting to make my own songs. So I make a few tracks a week,
| of different genres, depending on what I'm interested in at
| the time. I've seen improvement, and I take notes about what
| I learned/what works.
| stevage wrote:
| Ah, I have a thing vaguely like this in the pipeline too. Fun
| stuff!
| reincoder wrote:
| Building an IP Geolocation guessing game:
| https://abdullahdevrel.github.io/ipguessr/
|
| Let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests.
| aniketsaurav18 wrote:
| Very interesting idea. Are those IPs real? Where are you
| getting these from?
| dewey wrote:
| You can download data sets from Maxmind.
| reincoder wrote:
| I work for IPinfo -- I described my process of how I made
| the game in the other comment.
|
| Using a dataset-based implementation would require me to
| have a backend, which is out of the scope of this project.
| Right now, I'm generating random IPv4 addresses, but if I
| were generating random IPv6 addresses, I would have to go
| the database route. For that, I would use our free IPinfo
| Lite dataset: https://ipinfo.io/lite
|
| My colleagues actually developed an extremely fast
| algorithm to select truly random IPv6 IPs from a series of
| CIDRs, which is what you see reflected in our dataset.
|
| Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for me,
| please.
| reincoder wrote:
| I appreciate you enjoying the game! I work for IPinfo but
| initially made it as a sort of meme for our users.
|
| I'm generating random IP addresses on the frontend, then
| making an call to our free API to validate the "realness" of
| the IP addresses -- mainly to remove bogon IP addresses, non-
| routable IPs, and IPs from large ASNs (national ISPs, the
| DoD, car companies, etc.).
|
| Our free API supports 1,000 requests per day from unique IP
| addresses, so there shouldn't be any issues for low usage.
| However, if we get more power users who enjoy the game, I'll
| switch to our Lite API service (which is also free,
| https://ipinfo.io/lite) to validate IP addresses, as it
| supports unlimited requests.
|
| Let me know if you have any feedback for me :) I made it
| mostly by "vibe coding", I will write a post about the whole
| process of it.
| level09 wrote:
| A CMS but instead of forms, it is based on Natural language
|
| https://medium.com/@level09/build-the-future-an-ai-powered-n...
| bradly wrote:
| Recipin - https://recipin.com
|
| Private recipe archiving/bookmarking. No ads, no AI, no
| javascript . Join a server or host your own
| (https://github.com/bradly/recipin).
|
| Bacon Wrapped Urns- https://baconwrappedurns.com
|
| Mortality is so hot right now so why not celebrate with a custom
| urn to enjoy your journey into the spirit world in style.
| 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
| Bug out bags, emergency contact phone trees, burner phones,
| places with cheap visas
| wibbily wrote:
| Working on an electronic dictionary for my sister. She wanted
| something to look words up in Italian that wasn't her phone, and
| well I like a project. E-paper display, snapdome keyboard, an
| ESP32 to round it out. (Runs lisp.)
|
| Pictures at the link. There's also some webtoys on there, feel
| free to peruse
|
| https://lmao.center/babble/
| Scrounger wrote:
| This is kinda cool.
|
| I would use a polished version.
|
| When I read books, I find myself getting easily distracted
| since my phone has so many alternative apps/things to do OTHER
| THAN looking up a word in a dictionary.
| fouronnes3 wrote:
| Torch Lens Maker -
| https://victorpoughon.github.io/torchlensmaker/
|
| Open-source differentiable geometric optics in PyTorch.
| csomar wrote:
| code input - https://codeinput.com
|
| A merge conflict resolution tool integrated with GitHub. Now
| working on a solution for preemptive conflict detection and a
| smarter/simpler merge queue.
| optimiz3 wrote:
| Improving trend day detection signals.
| Scrounger wrote:
| Clarify?
|
| Are you building a Google Trends like tool?
|
| I've been using / testing out such tools lately for market
| research + discovering new ideas etc.
| dewey wrote:
| I'm working on supporting photo posts on my blog (Kirby), I
| bought a new camera and thought it would be nice to share them in
| one place (Cross post to Mastodon).
|
| I'm still looking for a new SaaS idea, so if you have something
| you want to partner on do reach out. Preferably Rails or Go.
| Previously I built stuff like https://getbirdfeeder.com/
| sauravt wrote:
| i am building a search engine for fashion with a virtual fitting
| room https://likeo.me
| tha00 wrote:
| I'm currently working through Frank Sikora's "Jazz Harmony" book
| [1] to learn to play Jazz piano.
|
| In parallel, I'm building an exercise generator "Jazzln" [2] to
| help me practice.
|
| [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54391815-jazz-harmony
|
| [2]: https://jazzln.vercel.app
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Here is a weird album you might find fun:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJHPWlaCrc
|
| Cheers =3
| theden wrote:
| I'm working on https://catmatch.theden.sh/ as a fun way for
| people to adopt rescue cats
| 90s_dev wrote:
| Honestly a little bit hesitant to say anything yet. There are a
| few more features to add, and a whole lot more work to be done to
| showcase just how cool it is. But the short version is, I'm
| working on a sort of meta-pico8, a game maker for WebGL2 2d pixel
| art games (e.g. 320x180 games like Animal Well) that runs in the
| browser, but one that's firstly collaborative, so that we can all
| build it together. And some of the coolest features are the based
| around that. For example, I got arbitrary imports of user code
| working _in the browser_ , so all you have to do is create an
| account, add a JS file, and other people can import it as if it
| were a built-in module, and it _just works_. Plus the SDK I ended
| up making is simple, and the API is clean, and there 's a few
| innovations in the GUI layer that I'm excited to share. I wish I
| could explain just how cool this is.
| whitehexagon wrote:
| Interesting, I have been working on a similar project, albeit
| 320x240.
|
| I also got some code-share and collaboration features working,
| but got a bit stuck on fonts. But I can appreciate your feeling
| of 'how cool this is'
|
| I ground to a halt once I realised I had no barrier to entry,
| ie it could be cloned very easily. Always an issue with Web
| Development I guess. Plus I hate what modern browsers have
| become in recent years and not sure I want to target such a
| fast moving platform. I got burned once already with WebStart
| 'warning this app might do something scary' and certificate
| fiasco.
|
| I thought about some native binaries, but I know I am kidding
| myself. I had an ios app that was pixel cloned within 6 months.
| But somehow a web app feels like publishing straight into
| public domain.
| 90s_dev wrote:
| It's not just the web, native apps have always had free open
| source clones that technically render them useless, often
| just as good quality, yet they didn't go out of business.
| There are other considerations people make when deciding to
| use an app, including network effect, a strong community,
| sheer level of quality and passion from the developers, etc.
|
| For fonts, I just went with a simple raster bitmap font and
| pixel grid storage format. Creating these limitations makes
| it easier for me _and_ for developers and artists. I choose
| 320x180 because it fits the 16:9 perfectly, which would make
| full screen ideal on most monitors.
| pacmansyyu wrote:
| I'm working on Damon[1], a Nomad Events stream operator that
| automates cluster operations and eliminates repetitive DevOps
| tasks. It's a lightweight Go binary that monitors the Nomad
| events stream and triggers actions based on configurable
| providers.
|
| A few examples of what it can currently do:
|
| - Automated data backup: Listens for Nomad job events and spawns
| auxiliary jobs to back up data from services like PostgreSQL or
| Redis to your storage backend based on job meta tags. The
| provider for this is not limited to backups, as it allows users
| to define their custom job and ACL templates, and expected tags.
| So it can potentially run anything based on the job registration
| and de-registration events.
|
| - Cross-namespace service discovery: Provides a lightweight DNS
| server that acts as a single source of truth for services across
| all namespaces, solving Nomad's limitation of namespace-bound
| services. Works as a drop-in resolver for HAProxy, Nginx, etc.
|
| - Event-driven task execution: Allows defining custom actions
| triggered by specific Nomad events; perfect for file transfers,
| notifications, or kicking off dependent processes without manual
| intervention. This provider takes in a user-defined shell script
| and executes it as a nomad job based on any nomad event trigger
| the user defines in the configuration.
|
| Damon uses a provider-based architecture, making it extensible
| for different use cases. You can define your own providers with
| custom tags, job templates, and event triggers. There's also go-
| plugin support (though not recommended for production) for
| runtime extension.
|
| I built this to eliminate the mundane operational tasks our team
| kept putting off. It's already saving us significant time and
| reducing gruntwork in our clusters.
|
| Check out the repository[1] if you're interested in automating
| your Nomad operations. I'd love to hear your thoughts or answer
| any questions about implementation or potential use cases!
|
| [1]: https://github.com/Thunderbottom/damon
| blackbutterfly wrote:
| Currently working on launching a virtual receptionist service
| that helps SMBs stop losing revenue on missed calls.
| https://www.oliviaassist.com/
| mgz wrote:
| I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer:
| homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built
| https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I'm working on turning
| it into a product.
| mkayokay wrote:
| If you add some remote command execution, you basically created
| some sort of a trojan ;-)
|
| Really like to look of the product page!
| lnsru wrote:
| I really like this idea of silent monitoring. Monitoring and
| talking about bad things seen weeks/months later. Because while
| I can block everything I want at home... there are other kids
| with free Internet access where everything is available and
| then I have no idea what's happening.
| muzani wrote:
| I've been using something like Google Family Link, which works
| fine, except that it ties in to Google Family, along with
| YouTube, Play Store, Google One. I'd have to kick my sister out
| of the group to monitor another daughter and it means there's a
| limit on the number of children you have; such terrible design.
|
| I do want to give them a little privacy and it gets to the
| appropriate level. Like restricting some apps at certain times,
| access to chrome but not xhamster. Locking it for certain
| periods of time and having them request more screen time past 4
| hrs/day. Locking the phone whenever they've barricaded
| themselves in the room the whole morning.
|
| I don't necessarily mind that they're watching YT or TikTok and
| such. I just want to kick them out of the doom scrolling cycle
| every now and then.
| rvtdrake wrote:
| They might as well get used to being spied upon now. Beat the
| rush! :)
| spacebanana7 wrote:
| I hope they fight back and become the generation of the linux
| desktop
| jamesshamenski wrote:
| Genius. Could this work with iPads?
| mgz wrote:
| No way currently( I hope Apple will open something in the
| next iOSes.
| neuroelectron wrote:
| A special zero-latency service called Nonya
| bicepjai wrote:
| Working on a fridge camera; no good solutions exist and I need it
| to avoid that feeling that I get when I dump my large bag of
| fresh vegetables.
| timthorn wrote:
| There is the Smarter Fridgecam - not sure if you're unaware of
| it or just that it doesn't meet your brief. In any case, this
| is it: https://smarter.am/products/smarter-fridgecam
| _kush wrote:
| I'm working on LookAway (https://lookaway.app) to help people
| stay healthier and more productive during prolonged screen time.
|
| My main challenge has been making meeting detection more robust
| -- it currently uses both mic and camera activity, which led to a
| lot of false positives. In the next version I'm switching to mic
| only (the camera caused most of the noise) and I've added a way
| to identify which app is using the mic, so users can exclude non-
| meeting apps.
|
| I've also added plenty of small tweaks throughout to make
| LookAway even less interruptive. I'm excited for the next
| release!
| jansan wrote:
| Working on a bitmap vectorizer for my SVG editor Hyvector
| https://www.hyvector.com
|
| I am also working on the last few remaining issues of Hyvector,
| of which some are surprisingly difficult to solve and AI
| unfortunately cannot help me a lot.
| raybb wrote:
| LLM document editor using your voice only.
|
| Sounds basic, and it is, but I've yet to find any open source
| project (let alone product) that does this.
|
| All I want to tap a button, talk to the little guy about how to
| update my document, and see the changes flow. I guess Claude
| projects or similar might do this but I'm making it more for
| friends and family. Current use case is keeping track of a house
| renovation project going on.
| kavalg wrote:
| I am working on the sunflower plant density estimation problem.
| The goal is to be able to estimate the germination rate as early
| as possible. Farmers benefit from such information, because:
|
| - there are lots of expenses still to be made (fertilizer,
| pesticide, salaries), which may not be worth it if germination is
| under certain threshold
|
| - if detected early, there is still time to plant another grain
| or to fill up the missing plants (requires precision seeders and
| seeding maps)
|
| - is a very good proxy for yield estimation (farmers often trade
| futures even before they have harvested)
|
| For the purpose I have created a dataset (a collaboration between
| my employer and Sofia University) and published it in order to
| enable scientific collaboration with other interested parties.
| Still working on the dataset annotations.
|
| https://huggingface.co/datasets/su-fmi/sunflower-density-est...
| ragebol wrote:
| Interesting, I'm also involved in a project to do yield
| prediction, but with a ground-vehicle with camera's on top to
| drive between strawberry and blueberry plants.
|
| Yield prediction is huge indeed, because overshooting your
| prediction means seller stuff for a lower price. Undershooting
| means paying for someone's product to make up for the
| difference. Probably there's quite a bit of matchmaking in
| between those under and overshooters and someone making a good
| buck out of that too.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| Very cool, what type of parameters are within your control if
| detected early?
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Feel like this basically enabling the use of ANOVA? (Compares
| yields across different treatments (e.g., irrigation methods,
| seed types).
| tringuyen_cse wrote:
| Hey, this is interesting. I used to work on a somewhat similar
| problem. Our problem was more general, but one usecase is to
| predict the number of interactions between flowers and
| pollinators, given some initial counts. As these initial counts
| are obtained manually (by going to the fields, taking pictures
| and count, like number of bees within a frame), those count
| numbers are likely to be lower the the actual numbers. We
| addressed this under-counted issue using low-rankness and
| Poisson mixture model. Take a look if you're interested:
| https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10888717
| zilyova wrote:
| TTS api for voice chatbots for customer support teams.
| animeshjain wrote:
| I develop Chips of Fury, a poker app for playing privately with
| friends. Currently I am building support for lots of home game
| variations like pineapple (regular, crazy, lazy), different
| Holdem variations like Super, reverse, super reverse, blind man's
| bluff etc and many more. I am thinking about how to implement AI
| bots for a wide range of variations.
| soylentgraham wrote:
| Ah, I've made the same! I made a very flexible turn-based
| framework - write the game logic on server in javascript, then
| state+options are given to clients, so platforms (swiftui, web,
| unity, webxr etc) "just" have to implement UI on top (Also
| means I have a default/debug view, which works for all games).
| The games can run offline (via javascriptcore on ios, natively
| on web etc) and supports bots for all games (they randomly
| choose options on their turn) which has a very simple opening
| to get some reinforcement learning in.
|
| Then specifically I was making an app which let me customise
| rules for poker - extra streets, antes, throwaway cards,
| passing cards, multiple boards, multiple decks, etc to support
| as many variants as possible, and ideally, stumble across new
| ones.
|
| As an aside, I posted to reddit for research of other home
| variants people play (Basically to stumble across more fun
| variants in our home games) there's a few good alternatives
| I've not heard of in here!
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/1i91mnz/what_are_you...
|
| I've run out of steam a little bit (burnt out & seeking work
| isn't great for own projects), but has been an excuse to learn
| swiftui. I'd be tempted to team up with people to keep the
| project alive...
| prash2488 wrote:
| I am working on a PromptLibrary
| (https://promptlib.prashamhtrivedi.in/) to organise my prompts
| and make it accessible from multiple clients (Including chatbots
| (via chrome extensions), CLIs, IDE extensions amongst the few).
|
| I wanted a library to store my own prompts once and retrieve it
| in multiple locations (i.e. Try something on claude desktop and
| then once I wrinkle out the edges, load it in Roo code or claude
| code and use it.) Give some variables to the prompt and creating
| infinite versions of same prompt by providing the value. Or
| having the versions of each prompt.
|
| Currently I have the landing page, soon (In max 10 days) I will
| make it live for everyone to use.
| solresol wrote:
| Trying to measure how well LLMs can make scientific hypotheses,
| and more generally, execute on the scientific process (as part of
| a pivot in my PhD).
| chenquan wrote:
| I'm writing a lightweight high-performance stream processing
| engine:https://github.com/arkflow-rs/arkflow
|
| docs:https://arkflow-rs.com/
| oulipo wrote:
| We're building electric batteries for e-bikes that are repairable
| and fireproof!
|
| https://gouach.com
| olalonde wrote:
| Are there standardized e-bike battery formats or are you hoping
| to partner with e-bike manufacturers?
| oulipo wrote:
| There's no standardized format, but:
|
| - we ship with a mounting piece that is easy to put on any
| bike frame to mount our battery
|
| - our app and communication protocol is open-source, and we
| provide code for compatibility with the major bike
| controllers, meaning we're compatible with 90% of the
| e-bikes!
|
| so in practice we're the perfect battery for e-bike
| enthusiast who want to change their battery to a repairable
| and fireproof one
|
| and we also do B2B deals with some brands who want custom
| design etc
|
| but basically if you are running Bafang / Shimano / Bosch
| controllers, it will work with our battery
| jppope wrote:
| 1. Helping set up a friend's company to scale. 2. Interview about
| homeschool for my blog 3. A software project I'm not ready to
| talk about ;)
| rijavecb wrote:
| I recently started working on a fishing journal/log kind of app.
| I got that idea last year when returning from fishing with dad,
| that it would be nice if we could track what we caught each time
| we went fishing, where we went, and to track some details (water
| and wea details). There apps that already do that, and one could
| also use Excel or just paper notebook, so I'm making this mainly
| for us and his friends to use. It's still early, but I'd like to
| add groups so you can exchange messages or catches with your
| friends, add stats allowing you to see for example at what time
| and where you caught most fish, or using which lure or bait. The
| app is in Serbian though, but here's a link if you want to check
| it out: https://buckaros.com
| reverseblade2 wrote:
| Nemorise.com 3dpack.ing
| nickandbro wrote:
| I'm working on https://vimgolf.ai, to help me learn new vim
| commands and in doing so hopefully help others. Right now, still
| working on adding the ai assisted level creation for each motion,
| but more to come on that.
| reassess_blind wrote:
| Is it possible to add an interactive challenge or two on the
| homepage prior to sign up? I think that would hook people in
| and make them want to sign up.
| nickandbro wrote:
| Good idea, currently I spin up a 2 neovim instances for each
| challenge, so can only spin up so many at once with my
| current setup. But, am moving to a kubernetes setup where I
| can scale up and down the number of neovim instances more
| reliably and will add that in then.
| reassess_blind wrote:
| Ah, I assumed it would be an nvim JS clone running client
| side. Had you looked into that route?
| nickandbro wrote:
| I have, but all the JS vim clones are emulations of vim,
| and don't support all the vim motions (like copying from
| registers, etc). I honestly could do that and it would be
| easier, but doing it this way, also allows me to record
| the keystrokes directly from the neovim runtime.
| callamdelaney wrote:
| I'm working on a UK business search tool for people looking to
| buy businesses (ETA/Search funds/ M&A). No name yet.
| lnsru wrote:
| So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something
| completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It
| includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30
| or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern
| ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything
| afterwards. On one hand it's interesting, because it's very
| different from the dayjob. But doing it by myself pays my newish
| car in cash immediately. However I wouldn't do it for money
| somewhere else, it's really really hard work.
|
| Instead of masonry I would like to work on time of flight
| cameras. But the day has only 24 hours :-(
| jasfi wrote:
| I'm building a no-code AI agents builder.
|
| https://aiconstrux.com
| olalonde wrote:
| I recently got into embedded development and built a small 12V
| Bluetooth relay that lets me start my ATV without a physical key.
| I shared it with some friends, but mostly got blank stares and a
| few "but why?"s. -\\(tsu)/- I just don't like carrying keys.
| shikaan wrote:
| As a follow up to my relatively successful series in x86 Assembly
| of last year[1], I started making an OS that fits in a
| bootloader.
|
| I am purposefully not doing chain loading or multi-stage to see
| how much I can squeeze out of 510bytes.
|
| It comes with a file system, a shell, and a simple process
| management. Enough to write non-trivial guest applications, like
| a text editor. It's a lot of fun!
|
| Not quite done with it yet, but you can see the progress here
| https://github.com/shikaan/OSle and even test it out in the
| browser https://shikaan.github.io/OSle/
|
| [1]
| https://shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86/guide/2024/09/08/x86-...
| debarshri wrote:
| I have working on a pluggable secret and key scanner from scratch
| [1]
|
| The idea is to build scanning databases, file systems, buckets,
| etc. for static keys and credentials while allowing users to add
| new file types and parsers.
|
| [1] https://github.com/adaptive-scale/blacklight
| tasoeur wrote:
| I was recently looking for a simple minimalist app launcher for
| iPhone that would respect my privacy and didn't come with a
| stupid subscription plan, so instead I made my own!
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/applist/id6743515756
|
| I also published the list of url schemes / universal links on
| GitHub: http://github.com/sxp-studio/app-list-catalog
| NaOH wrote:
| Just downloaded this. This is a great format for how my head
| thinks, especially for apps I use periodically but not so often
| that I want them on the main screen. Thank you.
|
| (Minor note: The Setup Tutorial says, "Swipe right to continue"
| when the user actually swipes left.)
| discordance wrote:
| That's cool. Reminds me of the Windows phone launcher.
| heliographe wrote:
| I've been making photography software as an indie developer for a
| bit over a year now:
|
| https://heliographe.net
|
| A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some
| exciting more things in the pipeline.
|
| If you're a photographer who has frustrations with current
| mainstream photography software (whether
| capture/edit/publishing), I'd also love to hear from you - you
| can find me as Heliographe on (mastodon,bluesky,threads,x) or
| just email me at contact@heliographe.net :)
| theenchantrion wrote:
| Hobby photographer, I shall check this out! :)
| frontendstrong wrote:
| I manage remote engineering teams and I'm building a series of
| tools to help facilitate our standard ceremonies (standups,
| retros, ice-breakers etc.).
|
| I'm trying to capture a sense of fun, wonder and connection
| through these tools which I feel has been lost in recent times
| with remote working.
| reassess_blind wrote:
| Working on redesigning my SaaS template. It uses Dokploy to
| deploy the NodeJS app, and Pocketbase instance within the same
| server, so DB reads and writes are very fast. Also doesn't use
| the Pocketbase client library at all, all calls are wrapped in
| their own API routes and everything is server side rendered.
|
| You might ask why use Pocketbase at all, and I'm not sure
| anymore. I suppose the dashboard is great, built in auth is great
| (although I've had to write cookie middleware to make it SSR
| anyway). I wish there was a lightweight Pocketbase/Supabase style
| "backend in a box" setup that didn't push the whole client
| library directly communicating to DB paradigm.
| ncruces wrote:
| Improving the libc that gets used when compiling C to Wasm
| (usually based on musl).
|
| https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/main/sqlite3/libc
| jakegmaths wrote:
| As a teacher of computer science, I'm working on various free
| resources for teachers and students, such as a guide to
| simulating forces and collisions in JavaScript
| (https://www.mathsuniverse.com/particles) and super simple real-
| time forms for lessons (https://www.mathsuniverse.com/forms).
| What brings me joy is seeing that they are actually useful for
| people other than just me.
| ecce_homo wrote:
| IP Geolocation service with the best UX/DX possible.
| Straightforward API and SDKs https://ip-sonar.com
| ColinEberhardt wrote:
| I'm working on a simple app that logs Karting activity and data.
| My son has been karting for a year or so, and there is so much
| data to collect - times, pressures, sprocket set up, track
| location, weather and more (about 30 datapoints a session)
|
| Collecting the data helps with recording engine performance, tyre
| ages, best lap times but is also really useful for recalling how
| well each setup performed for future reference.
|
| I'm deliberately doing this all in a very low-tech way as my son
| will be creating a more polished version for a school project.
| We're front-running that a bit to give him a good dataset and
| explore various ideas.
|
| On that note, they do Python in school. For the backend it will
| be SqlLite and Flask. Any suggestions for the front end tech?
| This will mostly be forms- and grids-based so nothing
| sophisticated needed, but some simple client-side logic (e.g.
| validation, geolocation, simple stop watch) would be good.
| Ideally this would be python as well. We could use WebAssembly
| but am wondering if there is a suitable framework that does the
| is out-of-the-box.
| auston wrote:
| https://www.accessgrid.com/ - The best way to issue and manage
| secure NFC credentials for Apple and Google Wallet via API.
|
| No app required!
|
| We took all of the complexity of issuing MIFARE DESFire enabled
| NFC credentials and made it extremely developer friendly. SDKs in
| most major languages (python, ruby, csharp, js, etc), developer
| console with request logs, and more.
| thelastgallon wrote:
| This is really cool!
| FlyingSnake wrote:
| I hacked my old kindle and turned it into a eink dashboard for my
| daughter's school! Now planning to enahace it a bit further and
| make it easy to customise.
|
| Here's a a detailed write up of the process:
| https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/
| pranav7 wrote:
| Love it! Nice work
| A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote:
| Genuinely brings a smile to my face. And such a nice exposure
| for the kid.
| FlyingSnake wrote:
| Thank you for the kind words. I'm trying to get back into
| writing and such feedback means a lot to me.
| mgl wrote:
| https://github.com/openkoda/openkoda
|
| I am working on an open-source insurance application platform.
|
| The main goal is to accelarate time-to-market for insurance and
| insurtech innovations, providing all these "boring" enterprise
| features (like multitenancy, role-based security, audit trails,
| etc.) out of the box, so that you can focus on building the
| actual product.
| Keyb0ardWarri0r wrote:
| https://markdown.ninja
|
| A Markdown-first CMS and website builder for blogs, newsletters
| and documentation websites.
|
| I've been blogging since more than 10 years, and the only thing
| that made it possible is Markdown. That's why I've decided to
| build a complete publishing platform to replace the complex and
| fragile setups of bloggers and startups. Do you really need a
| CI/CD pipeline, static site builder, hosting, CDN and analytics
| just for a website? :/
|
| The platform is currently 100% operational and I'm now working to
| Open Source it.
|
| The best thing? You can publish directly from the CLI:
|
| $ mdninja publish
| rvtdrake wrote:
| I'm working on a programmer's calculator specifically as a
| companion for legacy computer programming. It's geared toward the
| kind of calculations a person might need when writing 6502
| assembly language. It even uses the C-64 palette of colours.
| rmnclmnt wrote:
| https://github.com/datalpia/laketower
|
| Slowly building an open-source Data Lakehouse management utility
| application for local development, scratching my own itch and
| trying to accelerate development workflows with customers
| developing for Databricks.
|
| For now it only supports Delta Lake (using delta-rs + duckdb),
| only supports table metadata inspection and querying, but in the
| near future will add dashboards as code, simple Markdown notebook
| like mode, and Apache Iceberg support.
|
| For now it's an enabler for me and others, hopefully I can turn
| it into a product somehow at some point.
| davedx wrote:
| Working on an EU domiciled PaaS
| jakelsaunders94 wrote:
| I'm just putting the finishing touches on
| (https://jtrack.app)[JTrack]
|
| I spent a long time working in manufacturing and struggled to
| find a piece of software where we could define a process, share
| instructions and collect data all in one go.
|
| The idea is you can basically turn your process into an
| interactive flowchart and follow it through. I'm almost code
| complete on the MVP, moving into distribution mode in a few
| weeks.
|
| I'd love to hear from any HNers who've gone from 0 to 1 on a SaaS
| for non technical users. What worked for you?
| cipz wrote:
| www.promptcol.com
|
| A prompt collection platform that let's you organize your
| prompts, share them, learn prompts from other users and reuse
| them on multiple LLM / AI platforms. It's aimed at improving
| prompt engineering skills for both technical and non technical
| LLM users. Currently in Alpha phase and actively looking for
| feedback.
| vincent_s wrote:
| Finishing my book: https://www.rapid-saas-with-laravel.com/
| else42 wrote:
| Worked a little on Server Radar [1] again, the Hetzner Auction
| price tracker.
|
| It's my fun little project to resort to. Implemented dark mode,
| sorting, grouping and various layout improvements. Also added a
| Drawer with Auction view the other week. UI is finally fun again
| with component libraries and LLMs.
|
| Oh, and I added a Cloud Server Availability [2] page as I noticed
| people on /r/hetzner were complaining about lack of resources.
| Looks like their Cloud offerings are going quite well.
|
| [1] https://radar.iodev.org/ [2] https://radar.iodev.org/cloud-
| status
| akoculu wrote:
| https://mitte.ai -- an AI image generator with focus on quality
| and details
|
| so you can get logos / icons that doesn't look AI generated.
|
| it comes with Photoshop-like editor (https://mitte.ai/editor) so
| you can zoom into details and change / remove anything, or
| upscale, etc.
|
| I built it for myself but now there's good amount of paying users
| as well.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| So I wanted to try this and it turns out you can't sign up?
|
| simply go to the sign in button and then there is a reset
| password and then when you click on it , there adds an optional
| sign up and when you click on it , it leads you to
| mitte.ai/join which says Not Found.
|
| Kind of interesting, wappanalyzer shows its written in erlang?
| So are you raw dogging erlang or maybe elixir or gleam? What's
| the tech stack behind this.
|
| Where are you generating the images / videos at? Are you using
| something like openrouter api or are you self hosting the gpu /
| using aws for it??
|
| I am also interested in what percentage of users are paying?
| and also the abuse vector that might arise from generating some
| pretty down bad images... , are all images that are generated
| here public or what exactly??
| akoculu wrote:
| You can sign in with Google.
|
| I had to close the sign up because there was so many abuse
| coming from regular sign ups.
|
| 'Sign in Google' is great because it eliminates low quality
| traffic who never pays and tends to be there for abusing the
| system.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| We need a better mechanism than this for testing the abuse
| system, because I use proton mail and though I have a
| gmail, I don't want to use it anymore... I know Oauth is
| convenient, but please for everyone's sake, can we guys not
| either add literally every single Oauth / I think one of
| the best options is probably matrix OAuth with a captcha
| and rate limits
|
| https://account.matrix.org/
|
| Seriously, I don't mind a sign in option, I just don't want
| to be forced to use gmail / inferior privacy solution to
| use your app, no offense.
|
| > Please add more Oauth solutions > I am investigating what
| can be the most universal Oauth solution while still
| preventing spam unlike emails, sounds interesting enough of
| a problem,IDK
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Sounds like keycloak can sort of allow some sort of
| decentralized option or have many and I mean many
| including the matrix sign in as a option.
|
| Keycloak also has strong integration in a lot of
| languages, there are other projects like authelia etc.
| but for some reason keycloak actually seems to me of
| having a little bad ui but still absolutely great in what
| it does
|
| But authelia/ authentik are easier to host/integrate IDK
| alok-g wrote:
| I see that it does drawing and illustrations as well. How good
| it is for science illustrations, like those seen in a Physics
| book.
| twoperkg wrote:
| Continuing to work on my indie app https://textsniper.app
| igeligel_dev wrote:
| https://workplacify.com/ - an open source desk booking software.
| Can be self-hosted.
|
| There is some small improvements to make but I want to focus on
| onboarding via a sandbox environment first next month.
| he1d1 wrote:
| While Git is great at asynchronous collaboration, its a bit
| clunky to try and work on the same commit with other devs or
| across devices. This is because Git tracks what changed, not how
| it changed.
|
| It'd be cool if you were on the same branch as somebody else, or
| another device, and your working directories could be synced.
| It'd also be cool for the commit history to be a bit richer, so
| you could see who, what and when for a change at a keystroke
| level.
|
| So I'm working on real-time sync for Git! I'd represent the
| working directory as a tree CRDT [1] and sync that through FUSE
| and p2p networking.
|
| Not sure whether this is actually a good idea! This is a POC :)
|
| [1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/move-op.pdf
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| One idea I have had for years is that it would be great if file
| system would support structured data.
|
| This would combine well with your idea.
|
| So let's say that I change python source code, the "file
| system" would understand the syntax of python source. Your tool
| could then use this to derive the sematics of my change, i.e.
| "added a function foo() with the following signature and body"
| icy wrote:
| We're building a new social-enabled git collaboration platform on
| top of Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://tangled.sh
|
| You can read an intro here: https://blog.tangled.sh/intro (it's
| publicly available now, not invite-only).
|
| In short, at the core of Tangled is what we call "knots"; they're
| lightweight, headless servers that serve up your git repository,
| and the contents viewed and collaborated upon via the "app view"
| at tangled.sh. All social data (issues, comments, PRs, other repo
| metadata) is stored "on-proto"--in your AT Protocol PDS.
|
| We just shipped our pull requests feature (read more here:
| https://blog.tangled.sh/pulls) along with interdiffs and format-
| patch support!
| https://bsky.app/profile/tangled.sh/post/3lne7a4eb522g
|
| We've also got a Discord now: https://chat.tangled.sh -- come
| hang!
| paradite wrote:
| https://eval.16x.engineer/ - 16x Eval: A desktop GUI app to
| evaluate prompts and models
|
| With 16x Eval, you can manage your prompts, contexts, and models
| in one place, locally on your machine, and test out different
| combinations and use cases with a few clicks.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| An AI Agent API service:
|
| https://agentscode.dev
| mortsmel wrote:
| http://blueintegrations.com
|
| Jobless and no prospects ... Working on a couple projects at
| once.
| ekusiadadus wrote:
| Almightty: AI Terminal Emulator
|
| which enables you to debug faster with error optimization.
|
| you can join our community from website.
| https://www.almightty.org/
| starsky411 wrote:
| Im working on a slackbot that translates passive aggressive
| messages into empathic speech.
|
| https://goodspeech.chat
|
| It's not launched yet officially, only friends and family so far!
|
| Any feedback is welcome!
| Magma7404 wrote:
| Nice. Wrongspeak is ungood and should not happen.
| vlindhol wrote:
| Fun, although often I find myself wanting to do the opposite
| translation :D
| yurimo wrote:
| Trying to make interpretability research practical. A bit early
| for the demo, but I am getting some interesting results for large
| multimodal models in terms of their reasoning.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| I am working on a telegram bot deployed on cloudflare which is
| just a basic app for van drivers to sign up on a fixed location
| near my area and see which drivers are online and see how many
| people have sit in a van which the drivers can
| increment/decrement by just chatting with the telegram bot who
| want to go to a popular spot where I have to go to quite daily
| because I am studying at a place which is way far away and its
| the most economical and sane method to travel..
|
| Yet my problem really arises that its too luck based, sometimes I
| can be the last guy, Sometimes I can be the first guy so I have
| to wait for the van to get fully occupied which will take a lot
| of time...
|
| I have just made it, and I find it pretty nifty, I made it all
| completely via AI and this one absolutely crazy good youtube
| video on deploying telegram bots on cloudflare...
|
| Also, I had seen this telegram bot ai maker idea on HN a few days
| ago, So I had also created a project which you can chat with the
| microsoft deepseek r1 post training bot for free because the api
| key of open router for this model is free, It doesn't have
| incremental streaming or multi chats, really basic, and It can
| generate me the code but I am not sure how I would deploy that
| code .. , I used to think its easy but not... ,any resources out
| there? (Though I want to open source this, but I am not going to
| be building this ai idea further because I lack time and I have
| to study)
| jacknews wrote:
| clocks
| perihelions wrote:
| Reverse typesetting: reflowing page layouts where you don't have
| knowledge of the typesetting structure, i.e. a scanned physical
| book or PDF paper. Naive rules-based heuristics based on the
| dimensions of bounding boxes and gaps. Point is to reflow things
| for resizing to eink readers. (Specifically the size that fits in
| my pocket which I carry around. User #1 is me). Building in
| Common Lisp and targeting an Emacs mode for interactive execution
| with manual feedback.
| Foreignborn wrote:
| i don't quite understand, what makes it reverse typesetting?
|
| my understanding is your typesetting books for responsive eink
| readers.
| perihelions wrote:
| You're inferring the structure of the document from the
| printed result. If typesetting takes a set of layout
| directives and outputs a page, this is taking a finished page
| and guessing what layout directives could create it. Then you
| can take that inferred structure and reflow the page in a new
| layout.
| froh wrote:
| so like ocr but not recognizing characters and words but
| recognizing the layouted structure and transforming it into
| content markup and layout markup?
| perihelions wrote:
| That's a way to view it!
|
| The reason I'm not falling back on OCR is because the
| general case is full of things, like math equations and
| inset graphics/diagrams, that _can 't_ be OCR'd. The only
| robust way to deal with those is to treat them as
| graphical atoms: "this bounding box can be moved around,
| but should not be split up into pieces".
| perihelions wrote:
| Err, here's a visual explanation of what I mean by this, from
| my REPL:
|
| https://ibb.co/album/MDw79y?sort=name_asc
|
| (The source example is from David Tong's physics lectures
| notes, that were featured on HN last week --
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43763223 )
| tezza wrote:
| I'm working on a review website for Generative AI. Targeted at
| people who want to use GenAI to build stuff.
|
| e.g.: Following up on one of my HN comments on OpenAI ImageGen
| gpt-image-1 _quality_ : Side by side comparison of more
| challenging prompts at Low/Medium/High:
|
| https://generative-ai.review/2025/04/apple-a-dog-how-quality...
| Drewza wrote:
| I've been working on onsite deployments for
| https://www.keystash.io, which is a Linux SSH Key and User
| management system. It's been going for a while now and I am
| finally implementing onsite deployments as so many customers
| actually want to run this themselves. When we started, we really
| thought customers wouldn't want the hassle of another piece of
| infrastructure to manage, guess we were wrong :-)
|
| Onsite deployment is a lot more difficult to make slick and easy.
| We've been thinking about the best way for our customers to
| deploy while reducing the load on our support team. So far, we
| are thinking about RPM's, Debs and Docker and trying to make this
| as close to a '5 step process' as possible.
|
| I would love to hear people's thoughts on other mechanisms that
| make it easier for SRM's / DevOps to manage key platform
| infrastructure software.
| ddxv wrote:
| MITM on Android Emulator to capture which 3rd party IP/URLs apps
| talk to:
|
| MITM + Waydroid doc: https://github.com/ddxv/mobile-network-
| traffic
|
| Actual scraper (look in adscrawler/apks/waydroid.py):
| https://github.com/ddxv/adscrawler
|
| Final product of reporting for which apps talk to which country /
| companies will go on: https://appgoblin.info
|
| Feel free to contact me if you're interested in learning more.
| hsx wrote:
| I've been building an Elixir app to poll RSS feeds and pipe new
| entries to Discord.
|
| Performance is rock solid, and it's almost ready to release, I
| just need to tweak a few things (like free trial with no CC).
|
| I have a very long to do list, and ultimately want to extend it
| with "change detection", e.g. notify when an HTML element on a
| website changes.
|
| All feedback is welcome
|
| https://feedsync.net
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Cool, could also check out a unified App platform framework:
|
| https://quasar.dev/
|
| Cheers =3
| wturner wrote:
| I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an
| administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and
| summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the
| ones they like to a landing page as a collection to read later.
| Many of the sites I like don't have the conventional RSS
| "structure" so I have to modify my main parser and adapt it to
| the outliers. I'm curious, how do you adapt to feeds that don't
| fit the conventional RSS structure? I was thinking of just
| using an LLM to automate it as I keep using Claude AI to
| expedite the process.
| cookiengineer wrote:
| For the last months I've been working primarily on building a UI
| framework for Go in Go via WebASM.
|
| Had to implement the bindings first, because js.Value kind of
| sucks. Meanwhile I am building web components and widgets and
| it's slowly getting where I want it to be.
|
| Maybe after a couple more weeks I can finally build apps in 100%
| Go and together with webview/webview. Still needs a lot of work
| around the edges here and there.
|
| [1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/gooey
| prell wrote:
| I keep adding new features to my hobby project at
| https://nobsutils.com It's a collection of various tools that run
| locally in your browser. The latest addition is a simple color
| palette maker https://nobsutils.com/colors
| twooclock wrote:
| ShippentPlanner - easily plan and organize your sku paletizing!
| Make a shippment to a destination warehouse in minutes! For
| ecommerce sellers. I'm preparing a demo to be able to show to
| others...
| kappasan wrote:
| Did a Show HN about a month ago, but we're hard at work building
| dedede [1] - it's a not-for-profit website that invites people to
| casually share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces.
|
| [1] https://dedede.de/en
|
| We're based in Kyoto and the posts are heavily Japan-centric;
| we'd love to see posts from all over the world!
| raybb wrote:
| I love this idea! I'll probably add it to the next edition of
| https://urbanismnow.com
|
| Are y'all involved with "for Cities"?
| (https://www.linkedin.com/company/for-cities/posts/)
| schappim wrote:
| I'm building ninja.ai -- it looks like a one-click App Store for
| MCP Servers, but the real goal is much bigger: creating a
| "Universal Fabric of Context" that lets AI tools tap into
| structured information across the web easily.
|
| It started when I found it surprisingly hard for my partner to
| install and connect MCP Servers -- even simple ones. I realised
| if we want AI agents to really interact with the web, it needs to
| be as easy as installing an app.
|
| Right now, you can browse, install, and connect servers in one
| click. Over time, it'll make AI integrations as easy as
| installing an app -- no messy APIs, no custom scraping.
|
| If you're working with AI models, agents, or data-heavy tools,
| I'd love to hear what kinds of "context pipes" you'd want to see
| added.
| mmcconnell1618 wrote:
| I've been thinking about the need for something like this.
| Another person told me the idea was like Neo in the Matrix
| saying "I know Kung Fu." I think the most powerful idea is to
| create unique bundles of context for specific use cases.
| Context A + Content B = best context for Situation C.
| byteware wrote:
| first order zero knowledge proof system (zk-stark), it works on
| android, macos, linux, webassembly, vulkan/cuda backend (metal
| coming), but the composition polynomial evaluation is suboptimal
| so i am working on that now
|
| https://theorium.org/constraints.html
| kenrick95 wrote:
| I'm working on a travel planning application. I know a lot of
| other apps exist, but I'd like to build one myself.
|
| https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo
|
| So far it has some sort of activity calendar + expense tracker
|
| There's still so much ideas to implement, like adding map,
| improve UX of creating activities, to-do list, etc
|
| I've used it once or twice of a short trip, but in 6 months time,
| I'll have a 2-weeks trip, so that's my self-imposed "deadline"
| for this project
|
| Anyway this project is a pure static web page and all the 'back-
| end' is handled by InstantDB ( https://www.instantdb.com/ ) after
| I saw their submission on HN >.< So far it has been quite a good
| experience overall except maybe the permissions model which can
| be a bit confusing to me
| bcye wrote:
| Awesome project! Which other alternatives did you find/get
| inspiration from? I haven't really found great options in the
| (more broad) travel planning space, which is why I am building
| in it.
| gitmagic wrote:
| I'm working on Nelly, a no-code AI agent platform for building,
| using and (soon) sharing AI assistants.
|
| It's currently in beta for macOS but I'm waiting for Anthropic to
| extend my rate-limits before I announce it here on HN.
|
| https://nelly.is
| vincent-uden wrote:
| A native PDF-reader with hot-reloading and keyboard navigation,
| obviously inspired by https://github.com/pwmt/zathura but also
| cross-platform.
|
| It's in a functional state, I use it myself but it needs some
| more ergonomic features before I'd suggest for someone else to
| use it.
| SebastianSosa1 wrote:
| Self Improving Agents with Test Time Reinforcement Learning
|
| https://github.com/CakeCrusher/self_improving_agents
| Cyphase wrote:
| Myself.
|
| Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love
| that word) imminently. Just moved to reduced hours, still in the
| transition and unwinding phase.
|
| Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects.
| Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter)
| of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things.
|
| I'm excited.
| keepamovin wrote:
| This sounds very cool! Do you have any travel planned? A move
| within country to more of a "reset" locale? :)
| Cyphase wrote:
| I do want to travel more, in general.
|
| I'm eyeing some tech conferences in the next months, which
| would involve varying levels of travel and sightseeing.
|
| I went on a ~three-week roadtrip once, which I saw as a
| shorter/practice version (it was originally planned for two
| weeks) of a longer one I'd like to do one day. So I might do
| something like that.
| cookiemonsieur wrote:
| I like the concept of "refactoring" one's life.
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| When I move cities it feels like a rebase.
| nicbou wrote:
| Will you write a bit about it? I find this sort of move really
| interesting. I'd be curious to see what you've learned by the
| end of that sabbatical.
| Cyphase wrote:
| I do want to write and publish more, generally. Perhaps some
| of it will be about the sabbatical itself.
|
| I'll let you know what I've learned by the end when I figure
| out what "end" means. It's not my goal to go back to what I'm
| doing now.
|
| I'll post about this again the next time (end of May
| presumably) this "What are you working on?" thread is posted,
| for anyone who wants to follow along. Also, email address in
| my profile; use subject, "What are you working on?".
| alok-g wrote:
| I am in a similar stage.
|
| In brief:
|
| 25 years of experience including FAANG. Recently got divorced
| (complex litigations, fought hard, very satisfied with the
| outcome).
|
| Now rethinking myself. Want to do something useful for
| humankind in the rest of my life. Having big ideas for the
| future. Trying some research-focussed 'side' projects.
| Considering writing a book. Learning new things. So on.
| abound wrote:
| Depending on how long you're planning on sabbatical-ing, you
| might consider applying to the Recurse Center [1]. It's
| basically a (free) 6- or 12-week self-directed learning program
| that you do with others.
|
| I had done a half batch last year and really enjoyed the
| experience.
|
| [1] https://recurse.com
| Cyphase wrote:
| Ha. It's long been on my someday list, since before the
| rename from Hacker School, and something that I've been
| explicitly considering for my sabbatical. I've glanced at
| batch schedules more than once in the past weeks. Glad to
| hear you enjoyed it!
|
| 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778951
| bluocms wrote:
| We're building BLUO - https://bluo.cms a modern multi-website CMS
| focused on simplicity and performance.
|
| Key features: - Multi-website management with single sign-on (one
| dashboard for all sites) - Static rendering via Cloudflare KV for
| 100% uptime and blazing speed - Real-time editor with AI-powered
| automated internal backlinks - Theme switching without breaking
| functionality
|
| We're currently serving 100+ websites. It's completely free for
| non-profits.
|
| Would love feedback from anyone managing multiple content sites!
| ecralx wrote:
| Can't access your link, is it https://bluocms.com/ ?
| bluocms wrote:
| That's correct. Somehow the link was wrong in the original
| post.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Building a simplified inexpensive <20 nanometer accurate vacuum-
| tolerant positioning stage for microscopy and lithography
| projects. Trying to unlock the caveman achievement by keeping
| tools/budgets necessary to replicate the work accessible for
| other hobbyists.
|
| Also still working on a custom Slicer for a special metal printer
| design. The VTK library version needed replaced by a simpler
| Blender Geometry nodes solution to extract texture information,
| and infill hull features.
|
| Also considered a beautiful solution to Roger Penrose's Andromeda
| paradox. That guy has a wicked sense of humor... very funny. =3
| sandruso wrote:
| I'm working on https://kaiboard.com which was at first throwaway
| project that somehow survived and now has couple of users who
| love it :)
| lormayna wrote:
| I am collecting IPs and other IOCs from some servers and
| honeypots that I have around and aggregating them with well known
| IPs and IOCs.
|
| I would like to create a sort of search engine for that.
|
| Nothing fancy or innovative, but just to learn Golang in a bigger
| context.
| Bramhoven wrote:
| I'm working on Proflect -- a personal and professional growth
| platform that connects goals, journaling, and feedback into one
| flow. To help you grow by reflection, not just action.
|
| The idea is that growth becomes a lot more intentional when you
| can reflect daily, set goals clearly, and get structured input
| from people you trust -- all in one place instead of scattered
| across different tools.
|
| I'm getting ready to open early access soon. Curious if others
| have tried combining these areas or if you use separate tools for
| goals, journaling, and feedback!
|
| https://proflect.io
| l-one-lone wrote:
| I'm continuously building and improving https://lectronz.com/, a
| marketplace for electronic enthusiasts and professionals that
| focuses on the open-hardware and DIY electronics communities. We
| recently introduced "Threshold Pre-Orders," a pre-order mechanism
| that lets hardware creators gauge the market before committing to
| production/PCBA. We have successfully tested this on four low-
| volume products already. See
| https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/introducing-thresho...
| rellfy wrote:
| I've been working on https://asterai.io -- a platform for
| developing, running and managing AI agents.
|
| It lets you create multiple agents, configure them via the web
| console (such as LLM parameters and system prompts) and manage
| their plugins and functionality.
|
| The system is fully plugin-based, where each plugin is a WASM
| program that exposes functions/tools that the agent can call, and
| can also hook into the query lifecycle. Because plugins are WASM,
| they can be written in various languages such as Rust, Go,
| TypeScript etc. Plugins can also act as libraries, which is
| possible because of WebAssembly Components (a great piece of
| software!) -- so you can dynamically call functions from other
| plugins within your agent, and you get type support for your
| chosen language too (with codegen via WASM Components tooling).
|
| More recently, I've been working on an SSH server for agents. The
| idea is that you can add public keys to your custom agent and
| then SSH into it to talk to it easily from terminal.
|
| If this sounds interesting, feel free to join our Discord! The
| project is still new and feedback is highly appreciated.
| http://asterai.io/discord
| meander_water wrote:
| This looks interesting, how do you plan to handle agents which
| operate apps with a UI - for example playwright, obsidian etc.
| Or is this out of scope?
| rellfy wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| That's a good question. Currently, there is one way to do it.
| The client querying the agent receives JSON-encoded values
| that are returned from plugin function calls made by the
| agent. These values are received alongside the agent token
| response stream (via SSE). So plugins can essentially emit
| events that the client can forward to the UI application,
| such as to click a button etc. The limitation with this is
| that there is no built-in way to send a success/error status
| back, it's one way only. It works well for actions that are
| infallible such as simple UI actions.
|
| The client here would also need a way to interact with the
| target program of course, e.g. from a JavaScript browser you
| can click buttons and manipulate the DOM, or from a VSCode
| Plugin you can interact with the editor etc.
|
| It's definitely something that can be improved though! I've
| been thinking about some type of MCP interoperability that
| could maybe assist with this.
| sydneyboo wrote:
| crm
| moechofe wrote:
| I'm working on a fantasy console that work on iOS and iPadOS
| https://github.com/moechofe/LowResRMX
|
| My goal is to create games on the go, during my commutes.
|
| It's a fork of https://lowresnx.inutilis.com/, there is some
| videos of my progress on
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmKVaz_2Cxe6pG7VbQfw...
| and a Discord channel https://discord.gg/jcT9CXDgHB
| acureau wrote:
| Fantasy consoles are awesome, very fun project and I love your
| demos. The way the bombs fall with the music in Kaboom is
| smart. I've thought a lot about building a hardware PICO-8. Not
| just running the software, but implement the APIs for real
| hardware and transpile the game cartridge. One of those ideas
| that will probably forever stay in the back of my mind.
| curiousigor wrote:
| Working out some smaller bugs of my meta tags checker / builder
| HeyMeta, which I've rebuilt in Svelte (prevously used Node.js for
| both FE and BE and it was buggy as hell)
|
| https://heymeta.com
|
| Also revisited and updated Let's see, an eye trainer, which is
| basically a PWA you can "install" on your tablet/mobile/e-reader.
| I'm not a scientist, but have had some success training my eyes
| with this technique and wanted to make a simple app that I can
| share with my friends to try.
|
| https://letssee.publicspace.co/
|
| Any feedback welcome :)
| dilliwal wrote:
| nice work
| curiousigor wrote:
| Thanks :)
| mattrighetti wrote:
| I've been working on https://ulry.app - a simple link archiver
| that lets you tag and attach notes on each URL. Right now I'm
| working on a feature that uses LLMs to summarize an article.
|
| Plus, implementing encryption for
| https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope
| winwang wrote:
| I'm working on GPU-accelerated SQL+Spark in a zero-hassle
| package: https://paraquery.com
|
| Been prod for a few months, recently ripping through 900TB with
| ~5x efficiency (customer was on BigQuery).
|
| If anyone has any data/infra challenges, or just wanna talk about
| this kind of tech, lemme know :D
| ludovicianul wrote:
| I'm building a CLI time tracker.
| https://github.com/ludovicianul/timi
| soheilpro wrote:
| https://volt.fm - Advanced Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
| jasimvk wrote:
| After struggling with bloated, ad-filled debugging tools, I
| decided to build MyDebugTools--an open-source, clean, and ad-free
| debugging tool. It's designed to simplify the debugging process
| and help developers stay focused. No ads, no distractions--just
| efficient debugging. You can check it out at mydebugtools.com,
| and I'd really appreciate your feedback or suggestions!
|
| https://www.mydebugtools.com/
| vianarafael wrote:
| Last year, I repurposed an old laptop into a simple home server.
|
| Linux skills? Just the basics: cd, ls, mkdir, touch. Nothing too
| fancy.
|
| As things got more complex, I found myself constantly copy-
| pasting terminal commands from ChatGPT without really
| understanding them.
|
| So I built a tiny, offline Linux tutor: - Runs
| locally with Phi-2 (2.7B model, textbook training) - Uses
| MiniLM embeddings to vectorize Linux textbooks and TLDR examples
| - Stores everything in a local ChromaDB vector store - When
| I run a command, it fetches relevant knowledge and feeds it into
| Phi-2 for a clear explanation.
|
| No internet. No API fees. No cloud. Just a decade-old ThinkPad
| and some lightweight models.
|
| Full build story + repo here:
| https://www.rafaelviana.io/posts/linux-tutor
| psviderski wrote:
| Working on Uncloud [1] -- open source tool for self-hosting
| containerised apps across multiple machines. You can combine
| cloud VMs and on-premises to create hybrid compute environments,
| e.g. for cost optimisation or data privacy.
|
| While Kubernetes offers power at the cost of complexity, Uncloud
| focuses on simplicity for common deployment workflows.
|
| Progress from this month: - Enhanced Docker
| Compose support: You can now deploy your entire stack from
| standard Docker Compose files. This includes volumes, environment
| variables, resource limits, scaling and logging configuration.
| - Volume management: Create and manage Docker volumes across your
| cluster with automatic scheduling based on volume location.
| - Context management: CLI command to quickly switch between
| multiple clusters, e.g. homelab and production one
|
| I'm particularly excited about the volume management system as it
| provides the cluster semantics to the good old Docker volumes. It
| uses a constraint-based scheduler that ensures services sharing
| volumes are properly co-located.
|
| If you're seeking something between "just Docker" and full
| Kubernetes for deploying applications on your own infrastructure,
| I'd love to get your feedback on Uncloud.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud
| shubhamjain wrote:
| I've been working on https://textquery.app -- query raw data from
| your desktop.
|
| I love exploring data, but it always felt clunky to juggle
| multiple tools, write code/commads, just to import and query a
| dataset. While there are multiple GUI tools for databases, none
| are focused on raw data.
|
| TextQuery is the tool I built to solve that. You can import CSV,
| JSON, and XLSX files and start querying them instantly using SQL.
| Want to create a chart? Just hop over to the Visualize tab.
|
| I'm also rolling out a major update this week -- adding tabs,
| filters, a redesigned UI, and keyboard shortcuts.
|
| Looking ahead, I'm planning to expand support for more formats
| (like Parquet and ORC) and data sources (like Postgres and
| BigQuery), so you can import data from anywhere, and query it
| right from your desktop. Something like a local data warehouse.
| With Apple Silicon, the capability of a desktop can make it very
| cost-efficient compared to something like BigQuery, Snowflake, or
| Athena.
|
| Happy to hear any feedback!
| h4kor wrote:
| I'm working on my own mini time series database.
|
| It only stores (timestamped) floating point values with a series
| id and uses a B+Tree as the backing data structure. Querying is
| done with a lisp-like query language.
| bambax wrote:
| I wrote a novel in French a couple of years ago that I want to
| translate to English. The way I do it is paragraph by paragraph:
| copy/paste a paragraph in OpenRouter (Sonnet or Gemini), get back
| the translation, and rewrite/adjust it.
|
| It works well but copying/pasting back and forth gets old very
| fast, and it would be better if the process was done inside the
| word processor. For some reason (various reasons) I still use
| Office 2003, which doesn't have any AI feature. (It does have a
| "translate" function but it's awkward to use and not very good.)
|
| So I wrote a macro to send selected text to OpenRouter and
| replace with the response (with a system prompt that says to only
| output the translation, otherwise most models start with "Here's
| the translated text:")
|
| I had never written a macro in vba; I got started with Sonnet and
| adjusted many parts with the help of StackOverflow (which turns
| out to have more information about vba than Sonnet...)
|
| And finally it worked; and it turns out to be an incredible boost
| to translation productivity!
| smoke998 wrote:
| I'm working on Catchcam -
| https://hackaday.io/project/199220-catchcam-speed-camera-det...,
| a privacy-first, offline speed camera detector for drivers.
| Unlike apps like Waze or Radarbot, Catchcam doesn't track your
| location or require an internet connection. Just plug it into
| your USB socket, and you're good to go.
|
| Key features:
|
| * Built-in speaker and LED for alerts
|
| * Preloaded with 66,000+ known speed camera locations (more to
| come)
|
| * Easy updates via drag-and-drop on your PC
|
| It's been a fun project to build, and I'm excited to see it help
| drivers stay away from speeding tickets while keeping their data
| private.
|
| I'd love to hear your thoughts or suggestions!
| detaro wrote:
| in what way does this help drivers "stay safe"?
| smoke998 wrote:
| Safe from speeding tickets of course!
| czbond wrote:
| Here is another thread today that could give you prospect
| ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812856
| maxbond wrote:
| I'm working on a Kaggle competition about predicting subsurface
| models - a map of the geologic layers beneath a given area - from
| seismic data.
|
| I don't expect to place competitively but I learn a lot from
| these competitions. I like competitions like this that are
| connected to physical problems and datasets (though sadly this
| one is largely simulated), I learn as much about the broader
| world as I do deep learning. I've always idly wondered how
| seismology worked, and now I have an excuse to dig into it.
|
| It's also given me a greater appreciation for the "seismology" we
| perform in our day to day, like knocking on things to see if
| they're hollow, or (as I learned here a while back) the way
| battitores test the porosity of cheese by knocking on it with
| hammers.
| renegat0x0 wrote:
| Some time ago I create a RSS client. RSS feeds operated as
| Sources for data. I have extended them to be able to parse pages,
| collect links.
|
| Currently I have decided that I can add "Email" as source, to be
| able to read not only news, but emails in my app.
| chrismatic wrote:
| I am working on Grog, the "grug-brained" alternative to Bazel. A
| mono-repo build tool where all you do is provide your build
| commands and interdependencies and the tool will run everything
| in parallel while caching as much as possible.
| skandergarroum wrote:
| Why should I use this and how is it better than Bazel?
| chrismatic wrote:
| If you are a small to mid-sized team, moving to Bazel is
| massively painful and basically requires up to one full-time
| position to provide your team with a good experience.
|
| Grog on the other hand let's you keep your existing build
| setup while just parallelizing and caching it. It's not a
| full replacement, but it's more than enough for most mid-
| sized teams that want to have fast mono-repo builds.
| chaosprint wrote:
| After trying to start a business for a year, I basically gave up
| negotiating with VCs.
|
| My current goal is to spend half of my time on the development
| and maintenance of open source projects, such as Glicol
| (https://glicol.org/).
|
| The other half of my time is to do some business that can
| generate profit from day 1.
|
| I just found that the VC model is not suitable for my current
| situation.
| ciccionamente wrote:
| https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency
| notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your
| death or if you are seriously injured.
| rixed wrote:
| I've been thinking about something like that. So the message is
| not stored, but if I scan it then it's in your HTTP server
| logs, isn't it?
| estsauver wrote:
| universalestimator.com
|
| I started experimenting and I think this builds out pretty neat
| estimations from jira tickets/other descriptions. When I was
| sitting in the CTO role, I spent a ton of time talking with
| people about how long/short various projects would be. When I was
| a developer, I hated the estimation piece because it felt like it
| was both keeping me from building and was almost never done with
| enough context to get really accurate results.
|
| I was playing with the OpenAI API and I noticed that they can
| actually return a set of probability x next tokens and I thought
| that it might actually give you kind of cool ways to see the
| distribution of potential outcomes. (You can see an example here:
| https://universalestimator.com/estimates/c68db45b-7622-4bab-...
| that looks at a detailed ticket for implementing filtering on a
| dashboard.)
|
| Let me know if you have any feedback, it's free with the promo
| code TYHN. If you run into any issues, please send me an email at
| earl@unbrandedsoftware.com
| sameline wrote:
| Cool idea! Does it take your team's prior estimations into
| account to improve future estimates?
| estsauver wrote:
| No, but it's on my roadmap! https://feedback.universalestimat
| or.com/p/calibrationnorms-f...
|
| Right now, it asks you some follow up questions and assumes
| you're a medium sized org, but I'd like to start to move that
| into configuration and do some sort of time/bayesian
| expiration of memory/information as part of the questions it
| asks.
|
| I think a ton of the variance between teams is probably
| captured by some version of a few calibration questions, aka:
| - How large is the org? - What region is your org based in? -
| How long does it take to get the smallest possible change
| into production?
| pheelicks wrote:
| A pentagonal geospatial indexing system: https://a5geo.org/
|
| If you've used H3 or S2 it should be familiar, the major
| difference (apart from the fact it uses pentagons) is that the
| cell areas are practically uniform, whereas alternative systems
| have a variance of around 2 between the largest and smallest
| cells, making them less useful for aggregation. The site has many
| visual demos, e.g. https://a5geo.org/examples/area
|
| The code is open source: https://github.com/felixpalmer/a5
| westcoast49 wrote:
| Is it based upon repeated subdivision of an icosahedron?
| pheelicks wrote:
| No, it is based on applying a lattice onto the faces of a
| dodecahedron (technically a pentakis dodecahedron). Take a
| look at https://a5geo.org/examples/teohedron-dodecahedron and
| other examples on the website.
|
| H3 is based on a dodecahedron it is it the reason the cell
| areas range so much, the same is true of S2 - but this is
| based on a cube.
| stevage wrote:
| Wow, that's a really fascinating problem to work on. I work in
| mapping but haven't actually come across this field of what you
| call DGGS's.
|
| Is it essential that the cells be the same shape?
|
| Also where does the name "A5" come from exactly? I get that 5
| is because it has five sides, but why A?
| pheelicks wrote:
| The cells being the same shape is useful in some use cases
| and irrelevant in others. For example, see the Airbnb demo:
| https://a5geo.org/examples/airbnb. The H3 tiles are very
| different sizes in the two cities, and make it appear that
| there is a much higher density of listings in Malta, even
| though that is not the case.
|
| However the symmetry of H3's hexagonal cells lends itself
| well to flow analysis, or routing - which is no surprise as
| it was developed at Uber.
|
| As for the name, it follows the convention of S2 and H3,
| which come from group theory and refer (loosely) to the
| symmetry groups of the various systems
| alecsm wrote:
| I've never coded in Python anything besides some scripts here and
| there.
|
| So I started making a simple roguelike and an engine for a
| browser game. Nothing fancy but entertaining.
| simonebrunozzi wrote:
| I am a tech guy, now turned VC in Europe. However, something
| curious and interesting I'm working on with some partners is the
| renovation of a Palazzo in Venice. Learning new things almost
| every week. Absolutely stressful, and exhilarating. Completely
| different from coding or investing in tech startups.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Cool! Got a blog or similar?
| simonebrunozzi wrote:
| No, but I should.
| zby wrote:
| I am working on an app for rhythm training for dancing. The first
| step is beat detection in music - here is my code for generating
| videos with beat counting: https://github.com/zby/beat_counter
| (vibe coding warning). Beat detection seems to work OK, downbeats
| are a bit more tricky and I have found not good solutions for
| further structuring of music (for dancing they usually count to 8
| - that is two 4 beat measures - or 6 - two 3 beat measures for
| Waltz for example, I am not sure about 2/2 measures and other).
| Seeing all the LLMs generating music I thought there should also
| be LLMs interpreting music - but so far I have found no such
| model the available algos seem to be from a previous decade.
|
| My current plan is to test the counting with people with good
| rhythm sense and once I find a good algo for beat detection I'll
| proceed with writing the app.
| spech wrote:
| Very cool! Dancer here. Looking for something that counts music
| so I can do some choreopgraphy faster.
| zby wrote:
| I assume that it would mostly help beginners (and maybe
| instructors) - but we'll see. If you send me an audio file I
| can generate the counting video (with the current model) - I
| am curious of your opinion.
| cahaya wrote:
| Building a AI-assisted aviation regulation compliance tool for
| aviation professionals: https://aviation.bot At the moment just a
| RAG with EU aviation regulations. Soon FAA, UK CAA, and more
| complex AI agent features that do more complex deep research.
| johnjungles wrote:
| https://skeet.build
|
| Building a tool to supercharge your Cursor, Windsurf, Claude and
| other developer tools by connecting it to polished, high quality
| mcp servers for linear, slack, DBs, and other useful workflows.
| veraero wrote:
| Building a foot traffic API to see the busiest venues (bars,
| shops, museums, etc) in (your) worldwide neighborhood:
| https://besttime.app We are now busy adding more demographic data
| like age, male/female ratio, tourist level, etc
| pduggishetti wrote:
| I am building https://hire.blue, its a platform for HR to reduce
| time to interview by 90% while being applicant friendly, this can
| be used as a ATS for small companies and for founders!
| noaccesstomy wrote:
| Working on my university degree. I failed my first one and now I
| got myself into a critical situation again. Started using Anki. I
| often put in the hard work of thoroughly understanding a subject
| but don't profit off it because I don't keep the understanding
| after that. I am working on improving that.
| aliilyas wrote:
| I'm building a simple, minimalistic web-based note-taking app
| called tonotes.com. https://tonotes.com
|
| It's still a work in progress, but it's already functional if you
| want to try it out. I'm keeping it super lightweight, clean, and
| focused just on writing without the usual bloat.
| gaiagraphia wrote:
| A bit of a mix between Pokemon Go, Tripadvisor/Wikivoyage and
| Duolingo.
|
| Basiclaly an app where you can travel a city on a hex grid (h3)
| and learn about it/receive recommendations on things to do.
| Different activities and landmarks are hooked into language
| learning games, which when completed, add phrases/words to a
| flashcard deck for future study.
| Igor_Wiwi wrote:
| Jar File Explorer: https://jar-viewer.fly.dev/
| jonathan-re wrote:
| Recall Audio - A multichannel audio recording app that has your
| back, even if you forget to hit record.
|
| Basically it continuously records into a buffer (length is
| configurable), and if you realize that you wanted to start
| recording 30 minutes ago you can recall the buffer and have
| everything saved.
|
| In my work and an audio engineer I was in this situation a couple
| of times, and since there was no tool for that on the market, I'm
| building it.
| anjanb wrote:
| I've been thinking about this app for about 5 years but didn't
| build it yet. It could be used in professional and personal
| settings. Can you share the link to this app ?
| abnercoimbre wrote:
| My own terminal emulator [0] currently in closed beta with a
| hundred users. Reach out if you're into testing experimental
| stuff (info on the site.)
|
| Terminals are tragically under powered as well as hostile towards
| beginners! We're moving the needle there.
|
| [0] https://terminal.click
| _Chief wrote:
| https://mysukari.com - A Diabetes management platform
|
| I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Feb (technically LADA as
| it's late onset). I'm the first in my family with it so I had
| zero info on it. I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't
| work in Kenya as they are geo-locked, and even apps for measuring
| carbs like CalorieKing are not available in my region. I was
| really frustrated with the tech ecosystem, and started working on
| My Sukari as a platform of free tools for diabetics.
|
| I mostly get time to work on it on the weekends, so it's not yet
| ready for public use, but I've fully fleshed out one of the main
| features: Sugar Dashboard - A dashboard that visualises your
| Glucose data and helps you easier analyse it.
|
| To help with demos, I've shared my Sugar Dashboard here:
| https://mysukari.com/tools/sugar-dashboard/peter
|
| I'm really passionate about this and getting as much free,
| practical tools in the hands of patients (it honestly shouldn't
| be this hard to manage a disease)
| westpfelia wrote:
| Is this just for Type 1 or would type 2 work well also? Seems
| like it would?
| _Chief wrote:
| All types. The sugar dashboard allows import of data from
| different glucose apps, so its goal is to allow you visualize
| and analyze your data. I hope to integrate with cgms directly
| if I get some that allow it, and also source from Health
| connect. Sharing with specific people eg doctor is also a big
| ask that I'm working on. The other WIP tools will be fore
| general health, not just diabetes, like carb counting from a
| photo via AI
| jekude wrote:
| Also recently diagnosed and just open sourced how I'm using
| AI to count carbs + get insulin doses [1]. Biggest issues
| I've seen to starting a legit business is not having
| sanctioned access to real-time blood sugar values (the APIs
| are all one hour behind), and dealing with the FDA. Love
| the idea of more tech-enabled diabetes management, good
| luck!
|
| [1] https://github.com/kennedyjustin/BolusGPT
| _Chief wrote:
| Love this! Thank you for sharing! My backend is also in
| Go so this is a godsend. Will see how I can incorporate
| and let you know if I do!
|
| > not having sanctioned access to real-time blood sugar
| values (the APIs are all one hour behind)
|
| Ah, I didn't know this. One of the prospective tools I
| had in mind was real time alerting in case of drastic
| drops eg ping doctor or relative. I think will have to be
| limited to the apps/tools that do support realtime.
| jekude wrote:
| Technically there is unsanctioned access (someone reverse
| engineered the real-time APIs [1] which I ported to Go).
| I think the FDA does not want easy access to real-time
| values so that folks can't easily recommend insulin
| dosing without oversight. I am personally of the opinion
| that it is our right to have programmatic access to the
| real-time data and do with it what we please.
|
| Would love to get in touch to hear more about your long-
| term vision for the project!
|
| [1] https://github.com/gagebenne/pydexcom
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| >so that folks can't easily recommend insulin dosing
| without oversight //
|
| Is there genuinely a consideration here beyond not
| allowing activity without paying money to the hegemony?
| shiggaz wrote:
| That's so cool! Nice work!! Are you happy to share how you
| built and host it? How long has it taken you to get it to this
| point?
| _Chief wrote:
| Thanks! I started out with a Nextjs full stack on Vercel,
| with db on Turso but ended up with a React frontend (next on
| vercel) and Go backend (selfhosted on vps).
|
| Decided to port the backend to Go + postgres (on a Hetzner
| VPS), and retain the frontend on Nextjs - A lighter weight
| client, moving most of the compute to the backend API. Few
| reasons for the port: I've had a lot more success/stability
| with Go backends, Turso pulled multi-tenant dbs which is what
| I mostly wanted them for, Nextjs is getting too hard for me.
|
| Go backend is just the std lib (1.22+ server with the nice
| routing) - I mostly write all the lines in this
|
| Frontend is textbook modern react: React19,next15,tailwind4 -
| AI mostly writes the code in the frontend (Cursor + Cline +
| sequentialthinking + context7 + my own custom "memory bank"
| process of breaking down tasks). AI is really, really good at
| this. I wrote this https://image-assets.etelej.com/ in
| literally 2 days 2 weekends ago with less than 10% of code
| being mine (mostly infra + hono APIs)
| kakoni wrote:
| Great stuff!
|
| > I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't work in Kenya
| as they are geo-locked
|
| Are you familir with xdrip?
| (https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip) It works
| directly with various cgm sensors (dexcom etc.)
| _Chief wrote:
| yes, came across xdrip+ when looking for an android app I
| could use for Libre 2. I don't think Dexcoms are sold in
| Kenya, and even the Libres around are UK ones so you need 1)
| a VPN to setup, 2) an iphone. Both things being a challenge
| for most - I had to buy a my first ever iphone for this.
| Anyway, found xdrip a bit of a challenge to setup and a bit
| too technical to suggest to others; needs sideload and
| manually disabling a lot of Android defaults.
|
| I had a lot of success with Juggluco[1] which is available on
| the Play Store and provides easy to use APIs to interact with
| supported CGM readings. Juggluco has an inbuilt xdrip web
| server but I haven't tried it yet.
|
| Will definitely look into xdrip+ further.
|
| [1] https://github.com/j-kaltes/Juggluco
| selimthegrim wrote:
| I used to work for another diabetes management platform
| (NuMedics), great to see more entries into the space especially
| from LDCs
| jeeeb wrote:
| I just wanted to say I had exactly the same experience this
| month.
|
| I was diagnosed with LADA type 1 diabetes. First in my family
| to have it.
|
| My immediate reaction was wanting to put together something to
| track my diet, blood glucose weight and so on.
|
| Thank you for sharing your experience.
| franze wrote:
| a multi ai workflow wizard engine
|
| basically a user give an initial prompt ie "create a game" and
| then a series of ai (gemini, openai, claude) prompt themselves
| until a finished outcome. the user can change any output step in
| between so the end result can be tuned instead at any point
| ewidar wrote:
| https://recipit.me
|
| I was tired of all the ads, and the poor formating on recipe
| websites.
|
| So I made a website to import food recipes from any location
| (text, YouTube, file...).
|
| It has been fun so far! I tried importing from fb/ig by using a
| meta app but it has been a horrible experience so I scrapped that
| ^^
| dusted wrote:
| Silly lisp-inspired language, but it turned into something
| different as I started asking myself more and more questions, and
| now it's more of a model for computation that tries to think
| about computers as different from looms (aka harward
| architecture). One where self-modification is the norm, where
| there is no stack unless you make one, and where there's no
| difference between a program extending itself or the programmer
| doing it (unlike LISP macros, my language, and model, does not
| have a distinction, there's no macros).
|
| I'm not doing this because I'm convinced it's a great idea, or
| because it's going to revolutionize computing, or because it will
| be a good language, model or beneficial in any particular way,
| I'm doing it because I think it's fun, neat and interesting to
| think about (and talk about).
| alexisread wrote:
| Have you looked at Kernel and wat? They use a fundamental
| operator (vau) to make macros, instead of a special form:
| https://github.com/manuel/wat-js
|
| maru has this vau operator implicitly, rather than explicitly:
| https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru
| chrisvalleybay wrote:
| I'm creating a keyboard driven list application like Trello. It's
| going to be the <<Obsidian of lists>>.
|
| Everything will be bound to a key in the spirit of VIm :-)
|
| I don't have a landing page yet, but if this sounds interesting
| to you, you can sign up here: https://lindon.app
|
| I'd also love to hear what would be important to you in an
| application like that.
| willemh wrote:
| I'm building a small integration to take scheduled transactions
| in YNAB and display them in any normal calendar application. I'm
| hoping to add historical transactions one day as well to help
| with reconciling.
|
| https://calendarforynab.com
|
| Any feedback is welcome!
|
| I once saw an idea on here[1] about putting a lot more historical
| information into a calendar, including past activities. It
| resonated with me and I wondered if bank transactions could be
| part of this activity layer. At the time I was working on a real-
| time integration between my bank and YNAB so I was already
| thinking about the space.
|
| 1: https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/
| ripe wrote:
| For people like me who didn't know what YNAB means:
|
| YNAB stands for "You Need A Budget." It is a privately-owned
| personal budgeting software company.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| https://nuenki.app - a browser extension that translates
| sentences at your level while you browse, so you learn a language
| through immersion while you go about your day.
|
| I'm also working on and off on a hardware device for blind
| people.
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| (1) Business process modeling tool where processes are data and
| not graphs. I am doing it according to the USM method. USM is
| kind of "open source" service management method, although it
| works on different level than other frameworks and standards, and
| is compatible with all of them.
|
| This makes it possible to create a kind of requirement
| "programming language" where the requirements can be evaluated.
| With this language it becomes possible to create cross-references
| from various compliance standards/frameworks, like ISO27K, to
| USM, and automatically evaluate the compliance.
|
| (2) Dance event calendar in Finland, running in production for
| over a year. 1-2M page views/month. Django app, but I am now
| implementing a copy of the unauthenticated user views to S3
| bucket and delivering it through Cloudflare.
|
| (3) Django app to handle all the data related to custody trial.
| Emails, SMS, notes, official records, voice memos, etc. can be
| attached to a timeline, and tagge and searchable. It has command
| line interface for adding data, in addition to UI, so I can
| quickly add notes and attach files.
| olegp wrote:
| If you're in Helsinki, you should come to the next Hacker News
| meetup on May 18th: https://bit.ly/helsinkihn
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| Interesting, did not know that you have HN meetups in
| Finland. I am quite busy but maybe I could drop by sometime!
| 1010s1011 wrote:
| Do you have any more information about your USM modelling tool?
| It sounds interesting.
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| No, it is not public at the moment, although I am/we are
| looking for pilot customers especially interested in getting
| ISO27K compliance.
|
| It is very interesting. I am very surprised how well it
| worked out.
| asim wrote:
| Two things.
|
| I have revived my work on Go Micro (https://github.com/micro/go-
| micro) and rewritten the v5 cli/api from scratch
| (https://github.com/micro/micro). As a VC funded company there
| was a lot of confusion around the tools we were building and we
| veered off in a direction that alienated the community. With the
| company dead, funding gone, etc there's an opportunity to rebuild
| value around the Go Micro framework.
|
| The second thing I'm working on is the Reminder
| (https://reminder.dev && https://github.com/asim/reminder). As a
| muslim I feel like it's my duty to spread the word of Islam and
| as an engineer I feel like an appropriate way to do that is build
| an app and API for the Quran, names of Allah and hadith. It's a
| slow patient building of something as opposed to expecting
| anything from it.
|
| In terms of new ideas, maybe not new but less screen time, less
| phones, more nature.
| williamcotton wrote:
| Soloing over the changes to Peggy-O as well as Dylan's Senor on
| my Tele.
| rasulkireev wrote:
| https://marketingagents.net - Marketing Automation for Founders
| who Suck at Marketing. Open Source and Self Hostable
|
| Building this for myself mainly, but hoping others might find it
| useful. Still very early and building out the bear essentials,
| but then the hope is to keep reading marketing books and use that
| to improve the platform.
| permanent wrote:
| Looks interesting and would love to try it out! but your repo
| is missing a Open Source license
| (https://github.com/rasulkireev/marketing-agents)
| rasulkireev wrote:
| done: https://github.com/rasulkireev/marketing-
| agents/blob/main/LI...
| alok-g wrote:
| Nice!
| nickjj wrote:
| 7 years ago I posted my dotfiles at
| https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.
|
| 4 years ago I made an install script that worked for Debian,
| Ubuntu and macOS. This made it easier to get going with them.
|
| Over the last week or so I extended and polished that script to
| make it even easier and customizable, including adding Arch Linux
| support. The next step is to start installing and configuring GUI
| tools instead of only focusing on command line tools and
| environments.
|
| I just used it the other day to set up a fresh work laptop in 5
| minutes. Given the script is idempotent I run it all the time on
| my personal box.
| LiamHex wrote:
| Hi Nick - I did your Flask course in 2020 when I first learnt
| to code. Thanks for putting it together, it was a big help!
| nickjj wrote:
| Hi Liam, thanks a lot. Happy to hear it.
| hakcermani wrote:
| Hey cool will see how much more it is from what I have.
| (Ubuntu/bash only atm) .. https://github.com/appsmatics/linux-
| setup
| jstanley wrote:
| I'm working on a new open source CAD program for 3d printing
| based on Signed Distance Functions.
|
| Benefits of SDFs over the standard Boundary Representation (used
| in Freecad and similar) are that you can do "pattern" operations
| with domain repetition, which means making N copies of a feature
| is O(1), vs O(N^2), you can deform objects with domain
| deformation, which means if you have a closed-form representation
| of how you want to deform space you can basically directly apply
| that to your object, procedural surface texturing is easy, CSG
| operations are easy.
|
| The big drawback is that it is hard to provide any workflow based
| around "selecting" faces, edges, or vertices, because you don't
| naturally have any representation for these things, they are
| emergent from the model's SDF.
|
| I have some blog posts on my progress:
| https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/sdf-thoughts.html and
| https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/frep-cad-building-blo...
|
| I am solving the "selecting faces" problem by having the SDF
| propagate surface ids as well as distances. So the result of the
| evaluation is not just the distance to the nearest point on the
| surface, but the id of the specific surface that is nearest.
|
| My next big frontier is reliably providing fillets and chamfers
| between arbitrary surfaces. I have a handful of partial solutions
| but nothing complete yet.
|
| The most promising idea is one that o3 came up with called
| "masked clones", the idea is roughly to make a clone of the 2
| surfaces you want to blend, mask them by intersecting with an
| object that is like a "pipe" along the intersection of the 2
| surfaces, apply the blend within the pipe, and then add this
| "blend pipe" as another child of the lowest common ancestor of
| the 2 blended surfaces.
|
| And after that I need to work on more standard CAD stuff like
| constraint solving in the 2d sketch editor.
| mungoman2 wrote:
| This is super neat, cool that you have an online demo as well.
|
| I wonder if there are any ideas on how to make this a OpenSCAD-
| style editor instead of interactive? I like the text-based
| style for simple regular shapes, but they tend to end up too
| simple and regular. Maybe tools like filleting edges SDF-style
| is a game changer?
| jstanley wrote:
| I actually don't really like the OpenSCAD-style interface.
| For me FreeCAD is the current state-of-the-art in CAD.
|
| But if you are into code-style SDF interfaces, I have some
| links on https://incoherency.co.uk/notes/sdf.html
| tonyedgecombe wrote:
| Plugging away on my PostScript interpreter.
|
| PostScript has two mechanisms to save and restore the machine
| state and they are intertwined and only vaguely documented. I'm
| trying to get my head around all that this week.
| pingou wrote:
| A simple LLM client, for the simple reason that the one I bought
| stopped being supported and I could not find any replacement.
| It's free, right now only for Mac (Windows coming soon when
| Microsoft finally decides to approve my account). You just need
| an api key from your favorite LLM provider (right now it supports
| Gemini, OpenAI, Deepseek, and Anthropic).
| https://elleelleaime.org
| meta87 wrote:
| quit my senior eng manager job to vibe code on youtube
| www.youtube.com/@travis-vibes
| nonethewiser wrote:
| I'm actually really interested to see how other people are
| coding with LLMs. I guess this sort of thing is already
| happening on youtube and I could have searched it out but I did
| not. Will checkout your channel.
|
| I am particularly interested in seeing how you handle the
| transition from LLMs doing great at one-shot prompts but then
| struggling as the scope of everything expands and you have to
| get smarter about breaking down problems.
| tmilard wrote:
| A Unity for immersive visit :
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEsqp93sq3w
| tmilard wrote:
| A visit generated by the tool.https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
| rojeee wrote:
| I'm working on a running app. Mainly for me but others have
| expressed interest.
|
| It's a performance analytics platform for runners who love to
| dive into the details after they've been for a run and to be able
| to accurately track their progress over time.
|
| It's not like Strava because I'm not including any social
| elements, intitally. And not like trainingpeaks because it's
| focused on individuals as opposed to teams or coaches. Also the
| analytics and models I offer are peronalised as opposed to one-
| size-fits-all. It's also running only. No cycling or anything
| else.
|
| Ideal target market would be fairly decent amateur runners (e.g.
| sub 3 hour marathoners) who already know quite a bit about
| training but don't have a coach and are not good enough to be pro
| and have a full team doing this stuff for them. The pros have
| awesome tools but sadly most are not available for us mere
| mortals BUT I can build some of them! Example features:
|
| 1. Personalised "adjusted speed" models. The strava GAP model
| doesn't fit very well for me and many others, so I've made my own
| personalised model which gets updated each week. If you get
| better/worse at running up hills then model adjustments take that
| into account. The idea is not to provide a physiological correct
| model but more a performance based one.
|
| 2. I'm trying to do the same for surface types, heat and humidity
| as well. Of course these models are not personalised. I'll get to
| wind later on as it's much more complicated than the former. The
| idea is to have an accurate representation of "effort pace",
| which you can use as an input to performance models.
|
| 3. Using adjused pace data I will offer a pace/duration model to
| estimate critical speed/LT1/LT2/VO2max and this model forms the
| basis of tracking progress over time. Clearly most training wont
| be all out efforts, so I also estimate race performances based
| upon current fitness as well. E.g. if you ran X speed for Y time
| at a sub maximal effort then you can estimate what a maximal
| effort would be based upon the remaining aerobic and anaerobic
| power. From reading sports science literure, this is the most
| advanced way to track performance at the moment. The actual model
| I use is called an omniduration model.
|
| 4. I also have build some other models, e.g. Daniels running
| formula, which can be used but I don't find them to be as useful
| as the omniduration model.
|
| 5. I'm also trying to model how a workout or training session
| will effect your fitness. Where it's base/aerobic, threshold,
| VO2max or an anaerobic effect. Then, the idea would be to look at
| future training performance to assess whether the model was
| correct. You can then assess which types of training you respnd
| best to as well as which types of sessions you need to get the
| performance gains you need for your next race.
|
| 6. Specific race time predictor. Most platforms offer a single
| figure prediction for a distance but I want to offer specific
| race perdictions which take the course and weather into account.
| The model will give you splits taking all this into account.
|
| 7. Cohort adjusted performance models. How are you tracking
| against people your age? But more importantly, how are you
| tracking against people doing a similar volume and type of
| training to you? Are you improving at a similar rate?
|
| There's a tonne of other stuff I can add but I'm going to keep it
| simple and focus on performance modelling for now because no-one
| seems to offer any decent tools around this at the moment.
|
| If anyone found this interesting then I'd love to hear any
| feedback - let me know. Cheers!
| saejox wrote:
| An online coop game inspired by Ice Climber (NES) and Spelunky.
| Randomly generated chaotic coop fun is my goal.
|
| https://bsky.app/profile/arcadenest-games.bsky.social
| bonniesimon wrote:
| I'm working on an application that will help me install
| AppImages. The problem I'm solving is that some apps come with
| the wrong logo/icon. So in the app I'm building we'll be able to
| set a custom icon for the AppImage.
| Saigonautica wrote:
| I made an electronic board game:
| https://github.com/seanboyce/Calculus-the-game
|
| It's compatible with Settlers of Catan. However, I plan to make
| my own rulesets, artwork, manuals, etc. It will not be a
| commercial product, of course you can make your own with the
| files I provide.
|
| Right now the boards, electronics, and firmware are in good
| working order. Although the routing is pretty YOLO.
|
| It feels like there's a lot of unpleasantness going on in the
| world right now. I thought maybe I could put my other projects
| aside and try to make something that might brighten your day (It
| certainly has enough of LEDs).
|
| A big TODO is to replace the 0402 SMT components with something
| larger and easier to work with like 0603. I'll find time within a
| week or so and push it to the repo. (I am notoriously cheap and
| only keep 0402 in stock)
| Tepix wrote:
| Very cool, i like it a lot!
|
| Just needs some slick design for broader appeal.
| maz1b wrote:
| https://medangle.com
|
| Since my third year in medical school, I've built the largest
| medical education platform in MENAP. 90k+ users, 100m+ questions
| solved, billions of seconds spent learning across our Super App.
| Now working on sustainably scaling further, building medGPT.
|
| It's awesome, exciting and impactful work. I am the first medical
| doctor + full stack technologist in Pakistan (250m) people, and
| we've helped the country move medical education decades forward.
| daveydave wrote:
| Are you aware of anything similar for vets, or would there be
| interest in building this?
| maz1b wrote:
| Part of my vision is to also help revolutionize adjacent
| healthcare fields, as we're focused on premed, medical and
| dental currently for undergrads + recent medical graduates,
| but nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy and veterinary school
| all are of great interest to me. I am a big animal lover
| personally.
|
| For such markets, you can imagine that the TAM etc is
| smaller, but still important. For us it's a blend of mission
| driven and business.
|
| Thanks for the comment! I would love to chat vet-ed-tech
| further, I am on LinkedIn (/in/az1b) or email: azib [at] az1b
| [dot] com
| tetris11 wrote:
| A tree cutting tool.
|
| Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D
| model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph
| representation of the tree.
|
| The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a
| restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one
| side).
|
| I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall
| plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping them back
| to their original state, but in an order that does not intersect
| other branch vectors.
|
| The idea came to me as a particularly difficult tree needed to
| come down in my friends yard, and we spent hours planning it out.
| I've already gotten some interest from the tree-surgeon
| community, I just need to appify it.
|
| Second rendition will treat the problem more as a physics one
| than a graph one, with some energy-minimisation methods for
| solving.
| r0fl wrote:
| That's a great idea, but so much liability if the user is an
| amateur and follows steps incorrectly
| JackFr wrote:
| Or perhaps follows the steps correctly.
| conductr wrote:
| Making this determination alone will sink you in legal fees
|
| Does an insane amount of fine print really save you? Even
| if you say the model is only an aide to be used by licensed
| or certified professional arborists or whatever, I fear
| some Joe blow whose tree lands on his house will be suing
| you.
| vintagedave wrote:
| This is the kind of thing that makes me love HN. An idea I
| would never have thought of, with an immediately obvious use in
| multiple ways (fall path plus ideal lumber cutting?), probably
| very difficult, yet being tackled with one implementation
| already... and spoken of quite humbly.
| javiercornejo wrote:
| Where I live this could be very helpful becuase people is too,
| how to say it, maybe ignorant in safety and logic specs. Also
| could be usefull to know or estimate what tree are in a
| innminent or highr posibilities of fall with wind.
|
| Happy to help!
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Do consider the value of the wood in relation to your cuts. A
| well-placed cut not only guarantees safety but will also take
| the maximum board feet from the tree.
| dyauspitr wrote:
| Seems insignificant. What are you optimizing for- an extra
| foot or two?
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Yes, board feet is usually measured by the inch.
| mon_ wrote:
| Aren't longer boards worth more per boardfoot too?
| trollbridge wrote:
| Yes, but most trees are plenty tall enough.
| jermaustin1 wrote:
| Yes, and the wider the more it costs per bf as well.
|
| I have a couple products I make that require 12" widths,
| which means I pay a whole lot more per bf than < 10"
| widths at my hardwood supplier.
| dyauspitr wrote:
| Then just make the cut as low to the ground as possible.
| You don't need a lot of complex math for that.
| oslem wrote:
| No offense, but this comment is very reductionist. The
| problem isn't nearly as simple as you're making it out to
| be.
| boogieknite wrote:
| the right cuts at the right heights while working down
| the tree from a specific max height of the tree to still
| produce viable board feet while maximizing boards per
| cut. in most places, unless youre pulping the entire
| tree, its quite a bit more complicated than cut as low as
| possible.
|
| its surprising to me how little work is done to make the
| tools which do this accessible considering how much money
| and open data there is.
|
| it gets less open and more complicated is when you
| consider certain mills only can make certain cuts,
| produce certain products, and accept certain logs. then
| factor in distance between mills and the products they
| can make, and also log lengths accepted by the trucks
| which can travel those routes.
|
| its all solvable and should be, but its so niche and that
| i still think there isnt an accessible solution
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| with dimension lumber it's way more about the width you
| can cut than length; sometimes shorter is more valuable
| depending on supply & demand (and transport). Accounting
| for the fact that trees are not perfect cylinders (or
| cones, really) is where all the fun optimization comes
| from anyways.
| boogieknite wrote:
| good ol conical frustum
| boogieknite wrote:
| i work a lot with NVEL for this. one time even tried porting
| nvel to wasm for fun and client accessibility. we "virtually
| buck" trees which seems like could be applied to your
| proposed use case. if op wants to go down this path:
| https://github.com/FMSC-
| Measurements/VolumeLibrary/tree/77d4...
| mon_ wrote:
| How does the graph representation help you solve the problem?
| tetris11 wrote:
| I was mixing methods, sorry. My initial rendition for solving
| the cuts would initialise a somewhat sparse network from tree
| to ground, and solve for non-overlapping paths.
|
| This became convoluted and I just opted for a far easier
| method of solving vector intersections.
|
| Its also not perfect since I haven't factored in rotation
| origin very well, and I'm now pursuing a far simpler physics-
| based approach
| monkeywithdarts wrote:
| I was imagining something like this for pruning fruit trees --
| something to help noobs like me see how to put pruning
| guidelines into practice on a real, overgrown tree. Good luck!
| chaosharmonic wrote:
| Funny, one of mine also involves trees -- but is mostly outdoor
| cleanup. The kind that involves decades' worth of it, thanks to
| what I'll just say is a lot of maintenance that wasn't done
| over a long time. There's an extensive amount of brush, leaves,
| etc of varying ages that could maybe be shredded up into
| something useful, invasive vines I'm still trying to deal with,
| and more old trash than I've fully figured out how to properly
| dispose of.
|
| It's turning into _various_ DIY rabbit holes, actually, with
| the next one (outside of various related landscaping stuff)
| being to gut a basement.
| defterGoose wrote:
| I would love to have such a model tell me how to prune my fruit
| trees as they grow up. Should be a fairly straightforward
| supervised problem with the right front end for the graph
| generation.
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| When i read OP this is what I thought it was going to be -
| these branches are going to be apex competitors, these are
| crossing or going to cross, this one shows signs of disease,
| this one interrupts air flow through the centre, etc.
| toss1 wrote:
| You can start right now with an algorithm I learned from an
| expert when I was working in a landscaping business.
|
| It is a very simple three-pass plan: "Deadwood, Crossovers,
| Aesthetics".
|
| So, first pass, go through the tree cutting out only and all
| the dead branches. Cut back to live stock, and as always make
| good clean angle cuts at a proper angle (many horticulture
| books will provide far better instructions on this).
|
| Second pass, look only for branches that cross-over other
| branches and especially those that show rubbing or friction
| marks against other branches. Cut the ones that are either
| least healthy or grow in the craziest direction (i.e., crazy
| away from the normal more-or-less not radially away from the
| trunk).
|
| Then, and _only_ after the other two passes are complete,
| start pruning for the desired look and /or size & shape for
| planned growth or bearing fruit.
|
| This method is simple and saves a LOT of ruined trees from
| trying to first cut to size and appearance, then by the time
| the deadwood and crossovers are taken later, it is a scraggly
| mess that takes years to grow back. And it even works well
| for novices, as long as they pay attention.
|
| I'd suspect entering the state and direction of every branch
| to an app would take longer than just pruning with the above
| method, although for trees that haven't fully leafed out,
| perhaps a 360deg angle set of drone pics could make an
| adequate 3D model to use for planning?
|
| In any case, good luck with your fruit trees -- may they grow
| healthy and provide you with great bounty for many years!
| boogieknite wrote:
| i work in forestry software and am curious about your methods.
| is any of this open source? any intention on supporting growth
| modeling?
| tetris11 wrote:
| I plan for a time-bomb license (closed source for 10 years,
| make my money (if any), GPLv3 after that).
|
| My methods are all over the place. Tree is taken as-is on the
| day, and cuts calculated on the fly, no future growth-
| modelling if that is what you're asking
| postscapes1 wrote:
| This is great idea - I have a huge tree in front yard that will
| either cost be $5-10k to come down or was going to rent lift
| and do it myself - A few particular branches scare me though in
| terms of how they will come down... Bonus points for where to
| tie things off.
| pm2222 wrote:
| Perhaps an opportunity for weed control for lawn as well.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| You should branch out (hehe) into flower and plant pruning
| suggestions with your app. ChatGPT can do this now if prompted.
| hunvreus wrote:
| 1. Still maintaining Pages CMS [1], a CMS for static sites and
| apps.
|
| 2. Basecoat, a HTML/CSS port of shadcn/ui v4 [2] (no React).
|
| 3. DevPu.sh, a Vercel for Python apps.
|
| Releasing both Basecoat this week and DevPu.sh hopefully in the
| next 2 weeks.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms
|
| [2]: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/tailwind-v4
| arifliftos wrote:
| https://repoiq.be
|
| Website allows you chat with all github repository.
| Snild wrote:
| Swedish and English subtitles for Eurovision sensation KAJ's 2018
| musical Gambamark: https://github.com/dolkow/gambamark-subtitles
|
| My wife and I are fans, but their Finland-Swedish Vora dialect is
| not easy to understand, especially for us in the very south of
| Sweden. I have watched the recording too many times to count, and
| made these so she could enjoy it more.
| jiwidi wrote:
| an agregator website for camera lenses. lens-database.com
| jhunter1016 wrote:
| Working on static website hosting. Thinking about how I can build
| backend functionality for customers as well while maintaining the
| openness that the static hosting has offered.
|
| https://orbiter.host
| carlosjobim wrote:
| I use Fastpanel, which is an incredible tool for that, but
| seems to be completely unknown. Free as well.
| piker wrote:
| I'm working on an IDE for lawyers: https://tritium.legal
|
| It's inspired by VS Code and hopefully positioned to eventually
| be a Cursor-like experience for transactional lawyers. The LLM
| integration isn't baked in yet to keep the in-house onboarding
| frictionless.
|
| It's a desktop application written in Rust. It uses egui (an
| immediate mode UI library) for speed.
|
| I'd greatly appreciate any comments.
| rrr_oh_man wrote:
| https://mydogisthebest.org -- my partner wants to build a self-
| therapy-through-dog-memories game, I'm doing the coding. :)
| westpfelia wrote:
| Is it supposed to be a photo album of your old dog photos??
| seebeen wrote:
| I'm finetuning and improving a DI system I made for WordPress
| (https://github.com/x-wp/di)
| Tdsone wrote:
| Predicting RNA-sequencing data from DNA sequence!
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Chrome extension to organize web-based learning into journeys.
| Uses the tab group API and sidebar to bundle a set of websites
| into a "container". Sidebar tracks progress through visiting the
| pages. Requires an LLM token for generating "packets" from a
| prompt. Requires s3 bucket token because it generates web sites
| just in time.
|
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unpack/mcgdbnjjnnfm...
| westoque wrote:
| > This weekend I'm working on mobile app that allows you to
| upload photos and it turns everything into a stitched anime
| (ghibli or not) with movements and eventually sound and script.
| Great to make mini animes from your day or travels or anything.
|
| I vibe coded the above including everything: code, design, logos.
| Just did it solo. It has all error handling, video generation
| notifications (it takes a while) and credit system. I myself
| can't believe it's been done in a month with AI. It's already in
| closed beta in iOS and android app stores. Let me know if you
| want to try it out before public release.
|
| My quoted comment above was 28 days ago. This is working on this
| part time and with a family.
|
| EDIT: Added context.
| gigatexal wrote:
| Trying to remain employed. I can't lose my job in this chaotic
| simulation we call life.
| nemasu wrote:
| I'm working on creating a volume mixer, basically like Deej, but
| more polished.
|
| Some things I'm planning on including: - App drag & drop for
| assignment. - Programmable macro buttons. - Small OLED displays
| to show app icon and volume levels.
|
| Attempting to do everything in Rust too, even the MCU firmware.
| It's been a lot of fun. xD
| iddan wrote:
| A sales co pilot that helps startups move deals faster. You can
| think of it of Cursor for sales. It knows to perfectly summarise
| deals activity and prepare the next action. Saving you precious
| time and enables you to close more customers faster
|
| https://closer.so
| pompidoo wrote:
| https://undetectag.com I developed a device that turns an Airtag
| on and off at specific intervals. Current Airtags are detectable
| right away and cannot be used to track stolen property. That
| device allows you to hide an Airtag in your car, for example, and
| someone that steals your car will not be able to use some app to
| detect it. The Airtag will also not warn the thief of its
| presence. After some hours, the Airtag turns on again and you can
| find out its location. It's not foolproof, as the timing has to
| be right, but still useful.
| lyjackal wrote:
| An idea for more complete coverage: have 2 of them, and invert
| their intervals, such that one and only one is always on
| pompidoo wrote:
| Yes it's also a good strategy.
| thruway516 wrote:
| This will work for a while, before thieves know to check for
| multiple airtags. Better to not detect any in the first place
| arjvik wrote:
| Is 4 on 1 off really the best strategy? Seems like it just
| makes it a 20% chance that the thieves detect the AirTag,
| right?
| pompidoo wrote:
| Yes, I'm thinking of offering various set-ups in the future,
| if I see that people are interested
| Tepix wrote:
| Airtags are detectable to prevent abuse, how do you want to
| prevent abuse with your product?
| pompidoo wrote:
| Due to its timing, the device is not suitable for stalking
| someone. Additionally, if you place it in someone's handbag,
| for instance, once the AirTag comes back online and the
| person starts moving, they will be alerted that the AirTag is
| tracking them.
| raudette wrote:
| Have you considered adding an IMU/motion sensor?
| pompidoo wrote:
| Interesting idea... I think it would increase the price a bit
| too much
| brulard wrote:
| I'm working on a better frontend (in sveltekit) for Udio - music
| generation app. Udio has good models to generate audio, but awful
| UI and organization/management tools. My frontend allows
| collecting all the generated content from udio, organize them by
| topic, rate them with 5-star rating system, add custom labels,
| filter by these, make playlists, generate prompts and create an
| arbitrarily long generate queue (udio allows you to create 4
| prompts simultaneously so you can sit in front of UI babysitting
| it if you don't have custom tooling and you want to actually use
| your 4800 credits you paid for). I use LLMs heavily here, so the
| quality of code is so-so, but work very well for me and I'm
| having a lot of fun with this.
| Weryj wrote:
| Taking on a fun technical challenge, building a distributed
| database to serve the needs of Actor State saves in Orleans.
| Using the guarantees around actor placement to implement
| something optimal for its needs.
|
| Much cheaper to hire a VPS with attached local storage, than to
| use an external database and a lot quicker too.
| arewethereyeta wrote:
| https://visitorquery.com a proxy & VPN detecting tool that does
| it's thing based on the specifics of a connection rather than
| parsing list and known databases which makes it very effective
| against residential ones too.
| sameline wrote:
| I shared this last month as well but I've added a couple new
| features since then: a weekly digest email, a list of what you're
| tracking and a price history chart.
|
| I've been building https://lowlow.bot, it tracks price changes on
| any website. I was inspired by https://camelcamelcamel.com, but
| wanted something that worked for more than just Amazon. It's been
| handy for big purchases I'm ok waiting for and stocking up on
| recurring non-perishable essentials when they go on sale. It also
| lets me know when something has come back in stock.
| 13unk0wn wrote:
| How are you scraping the prices? Are you using AI for that?
| sameline wrote:
| I try to use JSON-LD metadata on the page if it's available
| and fall back to AI if it's not.
| fullstackchris wrote:
| Still cracking away CodeVideo, a way to create software
| educational content in a declarative manner. Design your course
| once, export it to every format you can think of (video, PDF,
| markdown, HTML, and more). I was recently inspired by the feature
| set I saw at Scrimba, so we just added slide functionality! The
| blog post is here: https://codevideo.substack.com/p/introducing-
| the-slide-displ...
|
| And an example video is here: https://youtu.be/1duE604MGHs
|
| It definitely has not gotten the traction I'd expected, but at
| the very least I'm very close to start making my own courses with
| it!
| mattdesl wrote:
| Developing an open source library that simulates pigment mixing
| in the browser, inspired by mixbox[1].
|
| [1] https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox.pdf
| bovermyer wrote:
| I'm preparing to leave the corporate world after twenty years and
| go get a master's in software engineering this fall in
| Newfoundland.
|
| Pretty anxious about that, given how massive of a life change it
| is, and how much will be riding on me getting good grades.
| kylecazar wrote:
| That's awesome. I often dream of returning to a formal learning
| environment, I didn't appreciate how special dedicated
| (extended) time for learning was when I was in school.
|
| Best of luck!
| alok-g wrote:
| Lovely.
|
| This is on my mind too.
|
| Am an engineer (EE + CS) with 25 years of work experience, with
| a passion for Physics. Am widely known in my circles as a
| scientist/physicist, however, I do not actually know much.
| Learned some Lagrangian and Hamiltonian classical physics
| recently.
|
| I personally do not mind going for even an undergrad in Physics
| if that would be a better fit for me to learn. :-)
| binary132 wrote:
| I've also been ruminating on the idea of getting a formal
| education in physics since I always imagined myself as a
| physicist when I was a child. :)
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| That's super cool! Good for you!
|
| I'm kind of contemplating the same thing - not leaving the
| corporate world, because I have too many bills and debts for
| that - but getting a PhD in something, maybe math or CS. I
| don't know that anyone really does that in their forties,
| though...
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| That's awesome.
|
| The majority of people in my MSSE program were also heavy on
| work experience. It made for a far more interesting peer group
| than the few that had just come in from undergrad. Having that
| work experience meant that you could look at the coursework
| from the framework of how it would play out in an actual
| corporate environment.
|
| It was really fun discussing how to apply the SQA and Project
| Management coursework in the workplace with people from very
| different companies.
| milindsoni wrote:
| Im working on https://udf.ai/ ,Build and host data analysis
| agents quickly!
| johnernaut wrote:
| Working on: Pantry Recipes - AI meal generation based on what's
| in your kitchen
|
| Over the past few weekends, I've been building Pantry Recipes - a
| mobile app that lets you quickly generate recipe ideas based on
| the ingredients you already have at home.
|
| The idea is simple:
|
| - Save or quickly select ingredients you have on hand - Tap
| Generate Recipes and get ideas instantly - You can also describe
| what you want to make free-form (e.g., "cheese omelette") and the
| app will generate a recipe for you.
|
| The app is free for a number of recipe generations, then offers a
| low-cost subscription if you want unlimited use. It's live on the
| iOS App Store now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantry-
| recipes/id6744589753
|
| Happy to answer any questions if anyone's curious about the tech,
| UX challenges, or what I learned from launching!
| devsda wrote:
| Since you are using AI, what are the chances of your app
| suggesting existing recipes vs "inventing" new recipes.
|
| Also, there can be set of ingredients that should not be mixed
| together or be cooked in certain way. Are these cases
| considered when generating recipes ?
| sameline wrote:
| Cool idea! I'm a big fan of AnyList so this was intriguing.
|
| I think it could be useful to have a "recently generated"
| section in the Recipes tab that lets you find things you might
| have forgotten to save. Substitutions could also be a useful
| feature. For example, if I can't find Mexican oregano, what
| else can I use?
| robviren wrote:
| Trying to use genetic algorithms to evolve voice styletts2
| tensors for kokoro. Using Resemblyzer as part of fitness
| calculations. Results have been interesting with over fitting
| occuring where the voice sounds horrendous but scores high
| (usually later generations). The funnest part has been exploring
| how it all works and finally committing to a Python project.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Nothing fancy. Just this[0].
|
| It's a bottom-to-top rewrite of a timer app that I've had in the
| App Store since about 2012. This is probably the fourth rewrite.
|
| [0]
| https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara/tree/master/...
| Oras wrote:
| Resume builder
|
| 7 months ago, I was looking for a job and got frustrated with the
| current resume builders, so decided to build one exactly how I
| wanted a resume builder to be.
|
| - Free (like really free).
|
| - No signup, no login.
|
| - Has AI features to improve text.
|
| - Find jobs matching the resume.
|
| https://resumeyay.com
| alok-g wrote:
| Nice!
|
| Would like to see more written down on how the resume-building
| part works.
|
| Would love to see something that can start from a pre-existing
| CV and help refine. (My current CV is my own record of projects
| I have undertaken, so it has a lot of detail and runs into
| approx. 10 pages.)
| Oras wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| You can upload your current CV, and it will parse it to fill
| out the form for you. You can then amend or improve it,
| choose a design, and export it as a high-quality PDF.
|
| I will try to write about it. I faced some challenges related
| to exporting as a high-quality text PDF, including
| multilingual support and ensuring JS messages are all
| translated, among others.
| graypegg wrote:
| Really neat app! A button that says "instantly" and actually
| does the thing instantly already makes this better than every
| alternative! ;)
|
| Maybe just an idea I think would be worth charging for to
| offset costs on yourself: if you could get a few accounts on
| different recruiting software packs (BambooHR, smartrecruiters,
| etc) and then let users test their resume with different
| recruiting software's AI filtering tools, that could help a ton
| of people. You'd have to make a lot of different job
| descriptions/postings in each one, but you could probably craft
| them all generically enough to fit most careers.
|
| Once that's going, maybe a pay-per-use fee to test your resume
| that gives the paying user a couple unique recruiting links to
| a few job postings, and then use playwright or something to
| capture screenshots of their profile in the backend(s).
| Oras wrote:
| Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.
|
| I like your idea, but its hard to implement due to privacy
| concerns and could violate the ToS of these platforms (for
| sharing the account).
|
| But I do have a feature in mind to do something similar. My
| plan is to always keep it free, with any feature, but I have
| to think of monetisation. Right now, it would be charging
| employers/job boards instead of job seekers. I've been there,
| the job search is stressful enough to add financial burdens.
| mishu2 wrote:
| Started working on a case discussion platform for students almost
| two years ago. Mostly for dentistry and medicine, but it's
| template-based so works well for other purposes (e.g. teachers,
| social workers, etc.). It's going well and is being used by three
| universities right now.
|
| On the way, I developed lightweight image editor and 3D model
| viewer components, which I've open sourced [1].
|
| [1]: https://github.com/kigun-org/
| podnami wrote:
| Checkra, an inline assistant for UX, copy and conversion feedback
| right on your site. It's easy to set up with a tiny JS snippet
| and free to use - no account needed. We're using it for our in-
| house product development and it has streamlined our workflow for
| generating A/B versions of pages and copy significantly
| d_luaz wrote:
| After a 30 years delay, perhaps I can finally build a game with
| AI. https://youtu.be/5_73DO9juBA?si=DCRH89vXapOI3nWG
| siva7 wrote:
| Haha similiar story, with AI I got now the enhanced
| productivity to build things myself instead of wishing to split
| myself into multiple clones.
| hbroadbent wrote:
| I'm currently building AttendList -- https://attendlist.com -- an
| attendance tracker for google meet.
| gregdetre wrote:
| Language learning app for intermediate learners who want to
| practice reading and listening:
|
| - As you're reading, AI helps you with words it thinks you might
| not know
|
| - Highlights etymologies & mnemonics
|
| - Shows you words in their natural habitat, e.g. listen to
| example sentences
|
| https://www.hellozenno.com/
|
| I'm trying to read a kid's version of The Odyssey in Greek and to
| be able to understand my partner's mum, and these are the
| features that I wanted.
|
| Also, I wanted to experiment with "what would an app like this
| look like if we could trust AI to be very cheap/fast/correct?".
|
| - So, for example, it's a fully generative dictionary & search,
| e.g. the dictionary entries/metadata/example sentences don't
| exist until the first person searches for them!
|
| - You can upload any kind of content (image, audio, text), and
| it'll automatically transcribe, translate, annotate, etc.
| siruva07 wrote:
| PodSnacks (https://podsnacks.org) -- Personalized AI summaries of
| top podcasts, delivered to your inbox.
|
| I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to
| keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science.
| PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from
| shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best,
| and more.
|
| You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short, high-
| signal summaries -- no audio to skim through, no endless backlog
| guilt.
|
| So far:
|
| 126K+ episode summaries generated 92K+ hours of podcasts
| processed 48-50% open rates 2,900+ early users
|
| Still iterating and adding features like bundling by theme,
| language translations, and audio feeds.
|
| If you're the kind of person who wants more inputs without more
| noise -- would love for you to check it out.
|
| Always open to feedback from HN!
| jbverschoor wrote:
| I'd prefer summaries of my YouTube subscriptions, where I can
| also add my own "summary template"
|
| In currently have a prompt for it that works for me, based on
| the transcripts.
|
| Problem: too much duplicate information in any type of
| publication and too much fluff
|
| Problem2: YouTube/transcriptions
|
| Probably wouldn't pay for such a service, but would be very
| happy using it. Perhaps some channel promo / email based ads
| for discovery or recommendations.
| qwertox wrote:
| Interesting. Once signed in, how do I search for podcasts?
| Discover is not showing a search field, unlike
| https://www.podsnacks.org/newsletter/podcasts
|
| Edit: Ok, I found the search function in the hamburger menu. A
| bit unintuitive.
| akudha wrote:
| What are the costs like, for such a service? You have to spend
| for transcribing (even if you ran something like Whisper) and
| pay for APIs to summarize, correct?
| hsuduebc2 wrote:
| I'm also interested in this. :)
| atlgator wrote:
| Just signed up! Do you use different AI prompts for each
| podcast based on the specialty or a single prompt?
| bcye wrote:
| That's awesome! I'm really not a podcast person, but a lot of
| good content is available primarily through podcasts. Hope that
| can help with it.
| quichenp wrote:
| any way to expose api access for the keyword search feature?
| would be cool to build this into some topic summaries delivered
| via email I'm building for my team
| SrFil wrote:
| A storytelling/creativity card game. I was struggling for a bit
| to figure out a mechanic that could make it more fun and I think
| I am finally making some good progress. If anyone has tabletop
| simulator and wants to help test, hit me up. Stephen at the
| domain below.
|
| www.fableflops.com
| emursebrian wrote:
| I am working on making it easier to learn languages. We provide a
| platform for teachers and educators to create their own language
| courses. The platform offers features similar to software like
| Babel or Anki, along with some unique features for phonetics
| study and customizing the learning experience.
|
| We're currently working with language influencers to build
| courses on Emurse. This year, we launched Japanese Phonetics
| course created by the YouTuber Dogen
| https://emurse.io/course/japanese-phonetics.
|
| If you want to try out Emurse, we have a free Thai reading course
| available. You can view the first lesson without out creating an
| account: https://emurse.io/courses.
| memset wrote:
| I am working on a direct competitor to Netsuite. I've worked on
| ERPs, accounting, and inventory long enough to think I can do it.
| And with AI I can make progress on this in a way that would have
| been unfathomable a year ago.
|
| (Thoughts welcome!)
| maelito wrote:
| https://cartes.app.
|
| A free French alternative to Google maps. Soon European.
| guappa wrote:
| Learning to record my songs with Ardour, Hydrogen on Debian.
| avastel wrote:
| I am working on a curated database of proxy IP addresses
| frequently used by bots:
| https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/product/proxies-ips
|
| So far I have ~ 3M distinct IP addresses per 30 days, with a lot
| of fresh proxy IPs, 1.7M. The DB contains only verified IP
| addresses through which I've been able to route traffic. It
| DOESN'T rely on 3rd party/open-source data sources.
|
| I also made an open-source proxy IP block list based on the data:
| https://github.com/antoinevastel/avastel-bot-ips-lists
| Havoc wrote:
| Wouldn't this end up flagging a lot of residential IPs due to
| residential proxies?
| avastel wrote:
| The DB contains different types of proxies: - Residential -
| ISP - Data center
|
| I don't include mobile proxies since they're heavily shared,
| so knowing that an IP address was used as a proxy at some
| point is basically useless.
|
| Regarding your remark, indeed, there are several shared
| residential IPs, including IPs of legitimate users who may
| have a shady app that routes traffic through their device.
| That's why I don't recommend blocking using IP addresses as
| is. It's supposed to be more of a datapoint/signal to enrich
| your anti-fraud/anti-bot system. However, regarding the block
| list, I analyze the IPs on bigger time frames, the percentage
| of IPs in the range that were used as proxies, and generate a
| confidence score to indicate whether or not it is safe to
| block.
| Havoc wrote:
| Sounds like pretty sophisticated filtering!
|
| I'm working on a scraping project at the moment so looking
| at this too but from the other end. Super low volume though
| so pretty tame - emphasis on success rate more than
| throughput
|
| I bought a 4G dongle for use as last resort if nothing else
| gets through. And also investigating ipv6
| avastel wrote:
| Using a 4G dongle makes it easier to hide in the crowd
| indeed. Since your traffic will go through heavily shared
| mobile IPs, probably with thousands of users behind them,
| anti-bot vendors won't/shouldn't block per IP, but per
| fingerprint/session cookie instead.
| Havoc wrote:
| Ah hadn't realised it's the NAT. I thought it's because
| the IPs are dynamic and rotate too much. Interesting.
|
| Currently planning on doing a layered approach. Cloud IPs
| first etc.
|
| Interesting challenge but also trying to be somewhat
| respectful about it since nobody likes aggressive bots
| cedel2k1 wrote:
| I'm working on an app for collectors that comes with an inbuilt,
| curated database where users can mark things as having, wanting
| and/or selling. It will have an invuilt marketplace soon, but
| currently I'm using links to external sales to cover the supply
| side. I'm also starting very niche by just covering Neo Geo
| games, systems and accessories for starters.
| https://sumthings.com
| iveqy wrote:
| Om working om a distributed erp system. The goal being native ui
| in android, iOS, Mac OS, web, windows, Linux and curses with
| crazy fast response times. No user operation takes longer than
| 100 ms.
| queenkjuul wrote:
| A very misguided project that started with me trying to run Linux
| on a newly acquired 386DX-40 and has led to me building my own
| Linux distribution for said purpose
| yawlerdawkins wrote:
| I've been working on a web app that tracks ammo prices from
| various US ecomm merchants with the shipping costs included. It
| also tracks price trends and historical prices. Added some tools
| for enthusiasts to calculate trajectories, recoil, and compare
| calibers. Using rails, it's been fun and is generally a joy to
| work on, have learned a lot. https://ammosight.com
| tyleo wrote:
| A new way to type on gamepads designed around the hardware rather
| than trying to fit gamepad input to a qwerty keyboard.
|
| I've been working on it for a few months and I'm hoping to have a
| demo up at 7:00 PST today for HN to play with :)
| likium wrote:
| I'm making a presentation ai assistant. Existing ones don't cut
| it... they're really nice to demo but not good enough for
| professional use. Full MVP by next week. https://unblank.ai
| james_anderson wrote:
| Working on a database compatibility tool. So your app works on
| SQL Server 2022 on-prem, but does it work on Azure SQL DB, AWS
| RDS, GCP CloudSQL, etc?
|
| These cloud flavours have a compatible SQL dialect, but it's
| often details like missing features (CDC and Auditing on RDS are
| good examples) or differences in system objects that make it
| difficult to support your app on these platforms.
|
| I capture all sql statements, run them through multiple SQL
| parsers to find all the system objects your app is using (tables,
| functions, stored procedures, etc). I then check them all against
| a catalog I have built of all system objects for every version of
| SQL Server on every platform.
|
| I then give a report to see which platforms your app will work
| on, which ones it wont work on and which system objects are the
| problem.
|
| Other database engines will be added once I get it working end to
| end (almost there).
| JohnScolaro wrote:
| I made a game called "So you think you know Brisbane?", in which
| you guess the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia.
|
| https://johnscolaro.xyz/projects/so-you-think-you-know-brisb...
|
| I'm working on expanding it to all large cities in Queensland,
| moving it to its own domain, and monetizing it to cover hosting
| costs.
| hmdai wrote:
| I'm building a client-side encrypted personal management tool for
| myself, with support for file encryption:
| drev wrote:
| I am working on a super mario land re-implementation for game boy
| using C. It's made with the GBDK toolkit so the ROM can be run on
| a gameboy. Currently the scrolling and background collision has
| been implemented, I am working on drawing the enemies... their is
| still a long way to go. As for why I am doing this is nostalgia
| and fulfilled a childhood dream repo at
| https://github.com/odrevet/marioland-gbdk/
| cedel2k1 wrote:
| Love it, good luck with the project!
| merolish wrote:
| I remember SML fondly, best of luck.
| fertrevino wrote:
| I am extending my pet project menuop.com, a digital menu maker
| for restaurants. I plan to integrate AI to enhance visual impact,
| analytics and recommendations to restaurant owners.
| freeone3000 wrote:
| A semantic music visualizer :) real-time capture of elements of
| music --- not tracks but true elements --- paired with time-
| stable frame generation for display. It likely won't be as good
| as a real VJ, but I want to outshine all the visualizers which
| are basically a demo atop a grapheq.
| cobalt60 wrote:
| Interesting, right now using LedFx for the experience
| cgadski wrote:
| In little bits of free time I get here and there, I've been
| working on using reinforcement learning to build some better bots
| for my favorite multiplayer game. Project is up here:
| https://github.com/cgadski/autotude
|
| So far all my work has gone into the technical side of setting up
| the game (a Java app written in 2010) to work as a reinforcement
| learning environment. The developers were nice enough to maintain
| the source and open it to the community, so I patched the
| client/server to be controllable through protobuf messages. So
| far, I can:
|
| - Record games between humans. I also wrote a kind of janky
| replay viewer [1] that probably only makes sense to people who
| play the game already. (Before, the game didn't have any
| recording feature.)
|
| - Define bots with pytorch/python and run them in offline
| training mode. (The game runs relatively quickly, like 8 gameplay
| minutes / realtime second.)
|
| - Run my python-defined bots online versus human players. (Just
| managed to get this working today.)
|
| It took a bunch of messing around with the Java source to get
| this far, and I haven't even really started on the reinforcement
| learning part yet. Hopefully I can start on that soon.
|
| This game (https://planeball.com) is really unique, and I'm
| excited to produce a reinforcement learning environment that
| other people can play with easily. Thinking about how you might
| build bots for this game was one of the problems that made me
| interested in artificial intelligence 8 years ago. The
| controls/mechanics are pretty simple and it's relatively easy to
| make bots that beat new players---basically just don't crash into
| obstacles, don't stall out, conserve your energy, and shoot when
| you will deal damage---but good human players do a lot of
| complicated intuitive decision-making.
|
| [1]
| http://altistats.com/viewer/?f=4b020f28-af0b-4aa0-96be-a73f0...
| (Press h for help on controls. Planes will "jump around" when
| they're not close to the objective---the server sends limited
| information on planes that are outside the field of vision of the
| client, but my recording viewer displays the whole map.)
| pvcnt wrote:
| Critic (https://getcritic.dev) - An improved inbox for GitHub
| pull requests
|
| The experience with GitHub can be terribly frustrating when it
| comes to managing the stream of incoming pull requests. The
| default inbox and notification systems are not so good, and not
| flexible. Critic allows to create any number of sections, each
| section being defined by an arbitrary search query.
|
| I would now like to expand it to provide a better code review
| experience, similar to what Graphite or Reviewable may provide -
| but under as an open source project. Source code is available at:
| https://github.com/pvcnt/critic
| domysee wrote:
| Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/) - a different take on RSS
| readers, focusing on inbox zero
|
| RSS readers show content based on the feed they're coming from,
| and show read and unread items in the same list. That makes it
| difficult to know which items you've already seen, and is
| especially annoying for managing items that you want to read at
| some point but not anytime soon.
|
| Lighthouse splits it into Inbox (new items) and Library
| (bookmarked items). This makes it possible to process new items
| quickly, and take your time with reading them.
| soneca wrote:
| Rebuilding most of my serial literature + newsletter service for
| fiction writers because I used FaunaDB for both DB and
| authentication and now they are shutting down by the end of May.
|
| https://www.confabulists.com
| csnate wrote:
| PwnScan - https://pwnscan.com/
|
| My current side project is a vulnerability scanner for binaries.
| I do VR in my day job, so im trying to figure out how useful (or
| not) AI is for this domain.
|
| Jury is still out. Getting false positives and negatives, but I
| can find some known CVEs!
| thedangler wrote:
| I'm looking for an open source system that has the following
| features. Forum for questions and answers. A section to upload
| video tutorials A way for experts(teacher) can upload their own
| series of videos.
|
| Basically looking to clone laracasts.
|
| If I can't find one, that is what I'll be working on.
| bawis wrote:
| This is an exciting project, Where exactly have you looked
| until now ?
| xena wrote:
| I'm working on making Anubis way less aggressive so that it only
| challenges the worst of the bad bots. I found a pattern that the
| bots can't fake client side and I've turned that into a sample
| rule that I've deployed to my website.
| anubis_policy_results{action="CHALLENGE",rule="bot/lies-browser-
| but-http-1.1"} 3891
|
| This is coming soon to an Anubis near you!
| edweis wrote:
| I am geoengineering yeast and bacteria using CRISPR to produce
| raw materials critical for European sovereignty.
|
| Which one? We are figuring this out.
| strzibny wrote:
| I am currently redesigning how we blog with lakyai.com. The first
| version will likely be focused on technical writers like myself.
| dm03514 wrote:
| Duckdb for streaming data!
|
| https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow
|
| I think the industry lacks lightweight fully featured stream
| processing solutions. I think it's either heavyweight jvm or
| bespoke custom solutions
|
| Sqlflow aims to be a middle ground , performant, fully featured,
| observable and supports sql
| EFFALO wrote:
| Three Kind Words (https://threekindwords.com)
|
| It's a small vending machine on the internet where people
| anonymously send a friend three postcards, one word at a time.
| The first two cards are unsigned, and the last one reveals who
| sent them. It's meant to be a slow, kind surprise in the mail.
|
| I shared this on HN a while back, and it gave us a quiet little
| push. Since then, we've sent 246 out of the 300 postcards we set
| out to deliver this year. Things have slowed down lately, but the
| whole thing is automated, costs almost nothing to run, and has
| been a lot of fun to work on!
| stevage wrote:
| Just some feedback, I think this would be much more compelling
| with better choices of messages. It feels like the first two
| words are setting something up and the third should have some
| kind of payoff, but a lot of the messages don't work like that.
| The third word is usually predictable and obvious and something
| of a letdown "Never give....up".
|
| There's really nothing in that list that is interesting enough
| to send to anyone in my life. I'd be wanting to send something
| very specific like "Remember cycling Iceland?" or "Soy chicken
| success" or something.
|
| I get your concerns about "writing something inappropriate" but
| you could probably let people choose 3 words from a list of a
| few hundred pre-vetted words?
| EFFALO wrote:
| thanks for this genuine feedback, it's really helpful
| insight. i like your idea of pre-vetted words and imagine
| there is something i could do with an LLM to moderate user
| generated messages.
|
| "soy chicken success" hits close to home :D
| collingreen wrote:
| Or just moderate them - 100 three word sentences a year is a
| very very achievable pace.
| antony_pond wrote:
| D Library - 100% decentralized operating on the D.Licence (pun
| intended).
|
| Currently working on a solidity upgrade for a leader-board, and
| public analytics.
|
| D-Safe for children, adults and plants. I am looking for
| contributors to integrate it on https://internet-in-a-box.org .
|
| No worries, I'll do it myself if everyone is busy.
|
| https://datapond.earth
|
| Email: data at datapond.earth
| shriracha wrote:
| https://drawbeats.com
|
| This is one of my long-standing passion projects, a simple web-
| based music sequencer built to have a very low barrier to entry.
| mclau157 wrote:
| I am very interested in web based music creation, have you seen
| web-synth on github? https://github.com/Ameobea/web-synth
| artificialprint wrote:
| Looks good! I think adding timing grid would be cool, ala 1/4,
| 1/16 etc
| pajamasam wrote:
| Fun! I used to play a PC game like this as a kid, but sadly
| can't remember the name.
| iamthepieman wrote:
| Creating stealth group in a huge Fortune 500 company with the
| blessing of my immediate boss but no other higher-ups. Trying to
| productize critical consulting tool sets in the utility industry
| so we can stop repeating ourselves for the 100th consulting
| engagement.
|
| Yes, customer is a special snowflake but they still need 90% or
| whatever every other client in this industry needs.
|
| Feeling increasingly like this is a fools errand.
|
| Even though we've proved this out with tool sets strung together
| with duct tape and safety pins, and are therefore the most
| profitable group within our department, we still need to be 100%
| billable.
|
| It's only because we're the most profitable group that we can
| pretend we're all billable while I work with two other people to
| bootstrap this crazy project
|
| Edit: anyone hiring? Just found out my boss is quitting.
| collingreen wrote:
| Oof. This post started so good and then got progressively more
| sad until the edit nailed it home. I hope your story continues
| and works out as a huge win, either as a new, good boss, you
| getting to openly lead this kind of thing, someone reading this
| and poaching/sponsoring you, or maybe even you working on this
| under your own name.
|
| Good luck and we're rooting for you!
| iamthepieman wrote:
| Thank you for the enthusiasm!
|
| It was not intentional but my post really does read like a
| little story vignette that ends with a gut punch.
|
| Not looking for sympathy so much as fellow appreciators of
| irony and schadenfreude but here's another kicker.
|
| I pitched this idea to my previous company and was told there
| was no appetite for it. Just saw on my old company's blog
| that they released a "digital transformation in a box"
| program for mid-market clients in this space which is 90% of
| what I pitched to them. Bad and hilarious timing all around.
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| Good lord, how many times are you going to get punched in
| the gut today?
| pajop wrote:
| Very interesting. Maybe we can chat and explore? DM me on my
| X.com - it's on my HN about page - copy-paste the HN link here
| for context :)
| XetiNA wrote:
| I'm working on a cookie clicker style web game that's secretly
| about AI safety: https://preview.mancato.nl/clean
|
| My primary goal is to make a game that's fun. Secondary goal is
| to make you experience why an AI might do things you don't
| expect. Specifically, to further instrumental goals like
| collecting resources, refusing being turned off, things of that
| nature.
|
| There are two endings currently but I'm working on adding some
| more.
| weakfish wrote:
| A note taking app - I know, I know, been done a billion times.
| But really, no software I've found works the way I want it to, so
| I'm just trying to write my own, starting with a front-end
| agnostic core and a TUI.
|
| If it strikes a chord with anyone, I'd love to collaborate! The
| concept is centered around organization bubbling up naturally
| from dumping info in with tags, and "typing" your tags so that
| when you go to a tag's page, the layout is customized based on
| what it is - a project, person, etc. A project could have all
| relevant tasks and notes listed, whereas a person might have
| name, contact info, etc.
|
| https://github.com/weakphish/yapper
| weakfish wrote:
| Expanding some - the tags concept is similar to AnyType[0]
| types, but the rest of the software I'm writing is more
| oriented towards dump-first, tag, and let it sort itself out,
| whereas AnyType requires careful management and configuration
| of the workspace.
|
| [0] https://anytype.io/
| reconnecting wrote:
| An open-source security platform, unifying SIEM and fraud
| prevention for web applications.
|
| https://github.com/TirrenoTechnologies/tirreno
| jviotti wrote:
| Premium tooling to work with JSON Schema
| (https://www.sourcemeta.com).
|
| I'm a member of the JSON Schema Technical Steering Committee, and
| been making a living consulting with companies making use of JSON
| Schema at large. Think data domains in the fintech industry, big
| OpenAPI specs, API Governance programs, etc. The tooling to
| support all of these use cases was terrible (non-compliant, half-
| baked, lack of advanced features, etc), and I've been trying to
| fix that. Some highlights include:
|
| - An open-source JSON Schema CLI
| (https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsonschema) with lots of features
| for managing large schema ontologies (like a schema test runner,
| linter, etc)
|
| - Blaze (https://github.com/sourcemeta/blaze), a high-performance
| JSON Schema C++ compiler/validator, proven to be in average at
| least 10x faster than others while retaining a 100% compliance
| score. For API Gateways and some high-throughput financial use
| cases
|
| - Learn JSON Schema (https://www.learnjsonschema.com/2020-12/),
| becoming the de-facto documentation site for JSON Schema. >15k
| visits a month
|
| Right now I'm trying to consolidate a lot of the things I built
| into a "JSON Schema Registry" self-hosted micro-service that you
| can just provision your schemas to (from a git repo) and it will
| do all of the heavy lifting for you, including rich API access to
| do a lot of schema related operations. Still in alpha (and
| largely undocumented!), but working hard to transition some of
| the custom projects I did for various orgs to use this micro-
| service long term.
|
| As a schema and open-source nerd, I'm working on my dream job :)
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| That's really neat. I've been doing some JSON schema work on
| our products recently, especially trying to take a schema and
| generate info compliant with the schema for e.g. testing
| accounts with clean data on non-production environments, etc. I
| feel like the area's underdeveloped.
| thehappyfellow wrote:
| Learning Rust by building a simple database using it.
|
| I've done my share of programming languages (PHP, C++, Python,
| Ruby, Haskell) and for the last 10 years I've been working in
| OCaml (which I love _so much_ ) but Rust would be a nice addition
| IMO.
|
| And I never implemented LSM style database before! So that's fun.
|
| I only just started and the pace will be slow (I have 3h/week to
| spend on it on a good week), if you are curious:
| https://github.com/happyfellow-one/crab-bucket
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| LOL, love the name.
|
| LSM style should be an interesting path, especially when it
| comes to optimization.
| 9dev wrote:
| https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/
|
| Colibri--a self-hostable web application to manage your (and your
| family's) ebook library, intended as a companion to Calibre. I
| want it to be a friendly, simple, capable, opinionated app to
| review your books, add metadata to them, get them onto your
| reader, share them with family and (few) friends, create a public
| shelf for bragging, connect with Goodreads etc., and exchange
| comments and reviews on books.
|
| This is explicitly _not_ intended to ever be monetised, and I
| enjoy all the implications that has on the design. Colibri is as
| much a tool I personally want to use, as it is a study in small-
| audience user interfaces, and the quest to build the perfect book
| catalog schema.
|
| I'm looking for fellow book-loving people to work on Colibri, to
| create the best personal digital library possible. If you're
| interested, feel free to reach out via email (in bio), or on
| GitHub.
| vallode wrote:
| A fan chiming in. I'm really happy someone someone is tackling
| this and it's looking good. One thing: can we get a demo
| instance just for initial snooping? A screenshot or two is fine
| but to get a feel for features it would be nice to have
| something (even heavily limited) we can just interact with?
| 9dev wrote:
| That's the first thing I'm going to do as soon as it's
| possible! I recently refactored the code base to a monorepo,
| and still need to make some adjustments so it'll run stable
| again. Stay tuned :)
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| Ooh, this looks fantastic. I'd love to help, but I'm spending
| almost all of my off-work hours looking for jobs right now.
| Maybe I'll find a good one sooner rather than later...
| 9dev wrote:
| Thanks you, that means a lot. And good luck for your search!
| ian-g wrote:
| This is super interesting. Where do you store the ebooks and
| the metadata?
| 9dev wrote:
| Ebooks in an S3 compatible storage bucket, metadata in a
| Postgres database. That has the huge advantage of being able
| to do full text search and kNN similarity right in the
| database, for example.
|
| Colibri is built around a pretty solid data schema (I hope).
| Check out the migrations folder if you're curious :-)
| criticalpudding wrote:
| I'm working on an unified MCP server that can search and use a
| large number of tools. The current way of using MCP server
| (adding each MCP server directly) simply doesn't scale. If your
| AI agent needs to use 100 tools, you need to manually configure a
| lot of MCP servers. And when you feed those tools to the LLM, it
| may get confused and tool calling accuracy starts to drop.
|
| This is why I'm building a unified MCP server with just two meta
| tools: - Search Available tools - Execute a tool
|
| When I want to send an email, I ask LLM to use the Search Meta
| tool to search for Gmail related tools in the backend, then the
| meta tool returns the description of relevant tools. The LLM then
| uses the Execute meta tool to actually use the gmail tool
| returned. https://github.com/aipotheosis-labs/aci
| samyar wrote:
| I work for an asshole, it's been 4 years but i can't find any
| other job (frontend) i found the job when i was 17. i hate it so
| much that i don't have any will to code on other things but
| lately i have been learning more low level programming like c and
| doing shaders using c.
| karpour wrote:
| Writing a _complete_ API client for the Internet Archive in
| Typescript, with proper documentation, proper typing, unit tests
| and integration tests, so people can have a proper library for
| both front-end and back-end applications.
| tikotus wrote:
| I just put live a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. I've been
| working on it for a while now, mainly on the level generator. It
| was tricky to generate levels that are solvable using logic (no
| guessing needed), and also fun to solve (no crazy long deduction
| chains, but also not just obvious things). I'm sure the
| implementation still has some quirks on some devices, so would
| love to hear if you encounter issues!
|
| https://cluesbysam.com
| sxv wrote:
| Highly enjoyable (after I finally read the definitions of
| "neighbor" and "to the right/left")! Did you write a program
| that can automatically generate these?? I'll definitely try
| this again. Note, the emoji graphic in "share" might be buggy?
| I'm seeing one green checkmark, one green square, and four red
| squares..
| tikotus wrote:
| Thank you so much for trying out the game and taking the time
| to write the feedback!
|
| I did! That was the main workload of this project, and is
| still ongoing. I have ideas for improvements, and I also have
| to fix some sentences manually sometimes. But it's getting
| there.
|
| The sharing shows a kind of "health bar". Every time you make
| an illogical guess, it reduces one. Running out of "health"
| doesn't prevent you from completing the puzzle, but it does
| show up in your share. Based on this, you made 4 "illogical"
| guesses. If you didn't, then there's a bug. But feels like I
| should anyways clarify this, if it wasn't clear to you.
| Thanks again!
| sxv wrote:
| I think it's the green checkmark and the green square that
| are confusing. Like why is there a check on the first green
| square and not the second one? Maybe it would be cleaner
| without any checkmark at all? Anyway, nice game, I shared
| it with my sister who also wants to solve more of them!
| tikotus wrote:
| I can see the confusion. I have to think about it. Thanks
| for sharing!
| mgkimsal wrote:
| frustrating. i eventually just clicked every single one, and
| keep getting the "This choice can't be made based on pure
| logic" message. maybe i'm just dumb...
| tikotus wrote:
| You might be misinterpreting what "neighbor" means or what
| "to the left" means. There is always at least one choice that
| can be made logically. If the logical choice is, say, that
| Jess is innocent, and you say Jess is a criminal, the game
| won't let you do that choice. Maybe that's what happened to
| you?
| swatcoder wrote:
| This is great, but the need for a long glossary of terms is a
| sign that you might want to keep tuning language/word-choice.
|
| As you've seen in replies here already, many term choices
| you've made have enough variety in how they're conventionally
| used that people incorrectly assume they know what it means
| only to see the "nope!" popup when they try to apply it. That
| frustration is going to spoil first impressions of what
| actually seems to be a really great puzzle system, which is a
| shame. The more you can reduce that experience, the less likely
| you'll be to prematurely burn off players.
|
| A good measure for getting it right would be that you don't
| even need a glossary at all, or that you can get it so
| condensed that you can make it more prominent without becoming
| distracting.
|
| Alternately, you could maybe use symbols instead of words to
| represent your rules, as more players would intuit that they
| should learn the symbols before making (wrong) assumptions.
| tikotus wrote:
| This is great feedback, and I think you're spot on. It's been
| really challenging to find wording that is brief enough, but
| also specific enough. I hope it's something I can improve in
| the future as I keep exploring new ways of giving hints. The
| idea of using symbols is interesting, hadn't considered that!
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| I really enjoy this! I like Murdle, too. I was very interested
| in a sort of quest generation system that would use similar
| concepts to generate RPG quests, basically constraint solving I
| suppose.
| tikotus wrote:
| Thank you! This was definitely inspired by Murdle, so glad to
| hear it's finding the right audience. And yes, constraint
| solving is definitely at the heart of the generator. And you
| mentioning using it for RPG quests sets my mind racing...
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| If you haven't heard of it before, also check out Goal-
| Oriented Action Programming. I was looking at that for
| giving NPCs essentially their own questlines. So you have
| some random event happen ("Grug the orc steals Marf the
| orc's prized club!") and that would generate a quest for
| Marf to find his club. So he investigates; he sniffs the
| air (orcs have good noses). He strolls around and
| interviews the other orcs he sees and asks them if they've
| seen his prized club. Eventually, he might find his way to
| Grug the orc and they have a confrontation. Now, all of
| this is while you're sneaking through the orc hideout to
| retrieve some MacGuffin...
| hsuduebc2 wrote:
| I'm building an MVP for an "AI bedtime stories" app. The idea is
| that you just input the character names, a theme, and choose a
| voice (including the option to clone a parent's voice for
| narration). It generates a story and reads it out using TTS.
|
| There are already a few services like this, but most don't
| support using a parent's voice, and very few can connect stories
| together into a continuous narrative based on previous ones. Also
| I would like to hold context for fairy tales kinda local. For
| example Polish folklore is different than British. Most common
| villains are different and it can be fun and educating problem to
| solve.
|
| I'm mainly doing this as a learning project, but curious to see
| where it ends up.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| I'm trying to figure out how I can turn hobby products (that me
| and family and friends are using) into real products for a wider
| audience. So far, I've found 2 main failure cases:
|
| 1. While I can share source code and documentation with
| trustworthy people, that won't work at scale: the market would
| get flooded with Chinese clones that re-use my Open Source
| software but then I have no ongoing revenue to fund support /
| maintenance.
|
| 2. Especially for products with a physical component, shipping,
| taxes, refunds, CC chargebacks etc. add considerable overhead.
| Plus I need to add in Amazon fees and marketing spend. And
| suddenly I need to charge 8x the manufacturing price, which means
| I either need to massively cheapen out with quality, or it's
| going to be a very premium product.
| juxtaposicion wrote:
| I'm working on Popgot (https://popgot.com), a tool that tracks
| unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco,
| Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings
| ("family size", "mega pack", etc.) to surface the actual cheapest
| option for daily essentials.
|
| On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product
| descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g.,
| flagging peanut butter with BPA by checking every photograph of
| the plastic or avoiding palm oil by reading the nutrition facts)
| or brand lists (e.g., only showing WSAVA-compliant dog foods).
| Still reviewing results manually to catch bad extractions.
|
| Started this to replace a spreadsheet I was keeping for bulk
| purchases. Slowly adding more automation like alerting on price
| drops or restocking when under a threshold.
| KerryJones wrote:
| I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to
| grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price
| tracking/alerting?
|
| And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of
| items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate
| - is the cheapest.
|
| For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than
| alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my
| shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.
| mynameisash wrote:
| > For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper
| than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my
| shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.
|
| A few years ago, I was very diligently tracking _all_ my
| family's grocery purchases. I kept every receipt, entered it
| into a spreadsheet, added categories (eg, dairy, meat), and
| calculated a normalized cost per unit (eg, $/gallon for milk,
| $/dozen eggs).
|
| I learned a lot from that, and I think I saved our family a
| decent amount of money, but man it was a lot of work.
| juxtaposicion wrote:
| Glad you guys mentioned Costco -- I happen to have written
| a blog post on exactly that:
| https://popgot.com/blog/retailer-comparison Surprisingly,
| Costco does not win most of the time, and especially if you
| are not brand loyal. Costco has famously low-margins, but
| it turns out that when you sort by price-per-unit they're
| ok, but not great.
|
| @mynameisash I'm curious what you learned... maybe I can
| help more people learn that using Popgot data.
| mynameisash wrote:
| One thing to call out is that costco.com and in-person
| have different offerings (& prices) -- but you probably
| know that already.
|
| I just dusted off my spreadsheet, and it's not as
| complete as I'd like it to be. I didn't normalize
| everything but did have many of the staples like milk and
| eggs normalized; some products had multiple units (eg,
| "bananas - each" vs "bananas - pound"); and a lot of my
| comparisons were done based on the store (eg, I was often
| comparing "Potatoes - 20#" at Costco but "Potatoes - 5#"
| at Target over time).
|
| Anyway, Costco didn't _always_ win, but in my experience,
| they _frequently_ did -- $5 peanut butter @ Costco vs
| $7.74 @ Target based on whatever size and brand I got,
| which is interesting because Costco doesn 't have
| "generic" PB, whereas Target has much cheaper Market
| Pantry, and I tried to opt for that.
| juxtaposicion wrote:
| I'm so glad you like it!
|
| We have historical price tracking in the database, but
| haven't exposed it as a product yet. What do you have in mind
| / what would you use it for?
| unvalley wrote:
| Cool! I hope it's coming to Japan (I live) near future.
| mynameisash wrote:
| I like that you have the ability to exclude on some dimension
| (eg, I don't use Amazon.com). Do you have or are you
| considering adding more retailers beyond the four you
| mentioned? For example, I buy a lot of unroasted coffee from
| sweetmarias.com, and excluding Amazon from Popgot results
| eliminates all but one listing (from Walmart).
| juxtaposicion wrote:
| Ah, hell yeah! My buddy on this project has been itching to
| add sweetmarias.com ... he just needed this as an excuse.
|
| So yeah, we'll add it. If you shoot me an email (or post it
| here?) to chris @ <our site>.com I'll send you a link when
| it's done. Should take a day or two.
| shibel wrote:
| A custom Python/Django based mini-app (mini -- at least for now)
| that will allow me to import transactions sanely and safely to my
| local GnuCash install.
|
| I've been doing tedious manual entry for a bit over two years now
| and after having missed three consecutive months, the only other
| option was to bail.
|
| As a start it should help with 3 main things:
|
| - Translation, categorization: my source documents aren't in
| English but my GnuCash entries are. This is one of the reasons I
| don't use the built-in imports. (This should shave off at least
| 90% of time spent entering data)
|
| - Human-error prevention: there were at least 5 times where it
| took me over 15 minutes to reconcile a discrepancy because I
| entered some number or some account wrong somewhere.
| timbowhite wrote:
| https://domdb.com - aftermarket domain name aggregator and search
| engine.
|
| It has integrated BIN inventories from Afternic, Sedo, Namecheap,
| Porkbun, and Gname.
|
| Currently working on custom price alerts and an API.
| thingscoledoes wrote:
| I built a tool to help hiring managers scan and categorize
| resumes against a job description:
| https://app.joinrunway.io/rank/create.
|
| It gives you a ranked list so you can quickly spot the strongest
| candidates, or at least get a solid starting point without
| reading every resume manually.
|
| It scores applicants based on job requirements, flags any
| concerns, and suggests interview questions you might want to ask.
| bcye wrote:
| I'm working on a mobile app for exploring places with Wikivoyage
| (https://mapvoyage.app) and a wikitext to structured JSON-tree
| parser to support that (https://github.com/bcye/structured-
| wikivoyage-exports) and am finally getting pretty close to a beta
| version :) I hope to unify the workflow of going back and forth
| between Wikivoyage, the favourites list on Google Maps and notes
| into a single app.
| KerryJones wrote:
| Create a two-sided deal review app: https://dealcred.com
|
| I work a lot with smaller investors, in real estate, private
| money lending, etc. It's sometimes hard to do due diligence on
| someone, and after having a couple bad deals and realize over 30
| people were scammed, I wished there was a simple review site
| where you could see someone's past reviews.
|
| Site is 80% there, hoping to enter beta in the next month.
| Jefro118 wrote:
| Building browser-based RPA workflows with https://browsable.app/
|
| Notably _not_ an AI agent like Operator, Manus, etc. which are
| largely unreliable for the time being. Instead this uses AI to
| turn your task into something repeatable and configurable.
|
| Currently focusing on scraping use cases but hope to make it more
| powerful soon so it can actually do complex tasks rather than
| just extracting data.
| vishalontheline wrote:
| OkNext! (https://oknext.io) - a task manager for solopreneurs and
| small teams.
|
| I'd love for you to try it out! It is browser based only for now
| and pretty basic. I'm adding features sparingly as needed but my
| next task is to add some documentation for brand new users and
| making what it can already do more obvious.
| emushack wrote:
| The screenshot on the homepage should be a demo instance of the
| web app that uses session storage.
| precompute wrote:
| A dense UI, nice.
| acureau wrote:
| I've been writing a software synthesizer, I want to use it to
| make an album when it's finished. As of now I've implemented a
| basic subtractive synth with the usual primitive oscillators,
| random noise, high and low pass filters, and an ADSR envelope.
| I've implemented input and output "drivers" for Windows and
| Linux: WASAPI, ALSA, Windows Raw Input, and evdev.
|
| Soon I'll start work on Lua bindings. The idea is to configure
| the core engine programmatically. Hook up inputs, modify synth
| parameters, route output. It's going to be inferior in every way
| to something like SuperCollider, but I just think it'll be
| insanely cool to materialize music from thin air. I've learned
| lots.
| DamnInteresting wrote:
| My home-grown daily word game Omiword[1] (previously discussed on
| HN[2]) is nearing completion. Just a few last features and bug
| fixes to go, including a hint feature, access to archives, and a
| sharing feature.
|
| [1] https://www.omiword.com/
|
| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43654350
| zciwor wrote:
| A little free library style box, but not free and not a library
| (https://thingio.dev)
|
| I've got an LTE module connected to a solenoid lock. The module
| listens for a "checkout complete" callback from a Stripe payment
| link which will unlock the solenoid. There's also some weight
| sensing involved to track the current product inventory inside
| the cabinet.
|
| I built this for a family friend who does a lot of wellness
| outreach around combating food deserts by introducing small scale
| farming to local schools.
|
| As a result of their community bee hives, they have a bunch of
| excess honey. So, I thought I'd build them this little honey
| vending cabinet for their neighborhood.
|
| I've expanded the service a bit to be more product agnostic,
| maybe someone else can find a use for it.
| michaelanckaert wrote:
| Virtual Staging with AI for real estate!
| Ni3l55 wrote:
| B2B SaaS for Sponsorship ROI measurement (https://wehave.io)
|
| We use data from club & sponsor to measure conversion over time.
| Our challenge lies in attributing a select group of people who
| appear in both datasets. Sponsors spend millions on their
| sponsorship, and they have no idea what comes back.
|
| We also got funded last week & looking for a founding engineer
| (2nd employee) :)
|
| https://wehavenotes.notion.site/backend-engineer-aws-python
| whatamidoingyo wrote:
| I'm currently working on Academy Referral*
| (https://academyreferral.com). It's a referral platform for
| martial arts academies, allowing owners to reward their students
| for bringing in new members.
|
| I've trained martial arts for a few years, and have always been
| _that_ person who tries to introduce those close to me to the
| community. I know a lot of other people do the same.
|
| Now, I don't care that I wasn't rewarded for it, but why not? We
| have point-based programs for nearly everything. Why not for
| martial arts as well?
|
| * Have a few academies in the process of testing it out. Still a
| lot to do, including the demo video that isn't going to load on
| the main page.
| pizlonator wrote:
| I'm working on improving Fil-C's stability and compatibility.
|
| Fil-C is a memory-safe implementation of C.
|
| https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...
|
| You can try it easily on Linux/X86_64:
|
| https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases
| TheSophiaG20 wrote:
| Browsing jobs nearby and watching old movies to gather ideas on
| what to do next, getting as many documents as possible and making
| copies of them, and updating eye prescriptions and dog and cat
| shots.
|
| streamlining the house to save money and sanity when we both
| start working and/or going to school
|
| and starting to seriously start using a simple phone book
|
| and mentally preparing for rent to go up or a car issue by
| causing controlled chaos and finding new ways to calm down as a
| family with as little money and energy as possible
|
| by watching old movies from movie Madness, we're gaining insights
| into the origins of the items we use today. The futuristic
| visions of the sci-fi pioneers are serving as a Wikipedia of
| sorts, helping us break free from generational curses and regain
| a sense of control.
|
| since it helps because, understandably, not being employed makes
| us feel ultra vulnerable, and that is not only normal but what
| the tech cults thrived on, but it is insane to take out our
| nerves on each other constantly and or/the animals. And to be on
| mass amounts of pharmaceuticals or heavy drinking is no walk in
| the park either in terms of ROI on keeping the embers of love and
| growing old, but Gandalf/Sith Lord grandaughter redemption
| President signed letter die at 102 years old happy clearly an
| attainable trajectory
|
| As my upcoming birthday approaches, I can't help but feel that it
| might be the most special one yet. despite the tears, anger, and
| losses, I feel some reality based it is gonna be hakuna Matata
| SophiaG20
|
| while zero jobs I see and know about are for me, I'm content
| knowing that my brain's imagination, creativity, and curiosity
| machine is still growing at 36. And feeling bad ass
|
| read an article from Wired about Patricia Moore and honestly
| thinking about how Empathy and how the need for tech to let the
| ones like my mom freaking out and having plastic surgery and
| going overboard on Facebook and freaking out over menopause
| because she's 20 years older than when most of the women in our
| direct family died
|
| I am inspired to find a real way to a home we actually own, a
| home we feel we have worked and earned. I am also motivated to
| soften the blows that life inevitably brings, such as the
| possibilities of allergies due to eventual menopause or the loss
| of a loved one. I see myself working for me and the current and
| women who are girls right now.
|
| So tech will be more on their side not telling them to worry
| about the outside while the inside rots or worse something is off
| and no one cares or listens.
|
| I am navigating these challenges on newly Medicare (newly
| disabled) and still finding ways to go back to the default
| feeling of being the fierce queen that I had when I was 5 years
| old with my grandpa.
|
| but also letting the mind wonder so that others will be the
| fierce queens that they are because that is how my grandfather
| and his team made things after being POW in the holocaust, and he
| would want it for me and my badass mothers. Not to follow in what
| he did but find my own path for my own tribes with our own ways.
|
| It feels like a rebirth of some kind for the trillionth time, but
| this time sober with a family (who loves me and I chose) and less
| toxic companies in my subscriptions or emails (because I nuked
| entirely the old Ecosystems which is making taxes pretty
| astonishing) like the intro to Hackers. Still, I killed myself
| online on purpose, crying and laughing, saying: don't threaten me
| with a good time On a Pixel and Samsung phone and Apple phone
| while Microsoft and all of them were like, NOOOOOOOOOOO!! ~ 20th
| Nov 2024, and it feels like that was a sinister evil evil Cult,
| but damn, reality tastes crisp, and there is more to chop to make
| it to 102. With the vibes still fresh from the interesting dozens
| on dozens of 100+ year-olds I took care of when I was 14-22 years
| old in Alaska and coming to terms my grandpa who I was TWO peas
| in a pod was one of the architects of DARPA and architects of
| NASA, and that is fricken cool
|
| but now it is time to start pulling in the resources for this
| growing family instead of being salty about wasted time in Cults
| moving forward, like my father and grandfather's visionaries. I
| am finding a way forward by choosing not and withholding this
| visionary raw energy from DARPA and NASA because, in the end, all
| the promises they gave my grandpa did not happen. at. all.
|
| And being cool with the fact that I will learn how to live life
| without ADHD meds even though it has been an option since I was 5
| years old, but like the olds who came off Prozac recently, I want
| to start life anew without that stuff. 15 years is enough to say
| that shit wont get me to 102 years old comfortably with the
| family and loved ones knowing I'll be fine if 5-20 terrible
| terrible things happen back to back again.
| ploden wrote:
| > the default feeling of being the fierce queen that I had when
| I was 5 years old with my grandpa
|
| love this.
| ing33k wrote:
| Shipped a new programmatic ads debugging tool https://floors-
| check.mile.so/ .
|
| It has these capabilities for now : - Prebid flooring insights (
| uses an LLM to generate a summary )
|
| - screenshot at various times
|
| - real time console logs
|
| - Prebid detection
| dougdonohoe wrote:
| I'm writing more software-related articles. Just finished my 2nd
| in the past month, this one on why you should "always be
| refactoring."
|
| https://medium.com/@DougDonohoe/ce45d56c8773
|
| Writing well is hard and takes time. Was it Mark Twain that said
| "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."? I
| can totally relate to that this month. Getting your point across
| without being long winded is challenging.
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| https://github.com/ndouglas/whispers
|
| Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes
| propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic,
| decentralized consensus.
|
| Basically a shared knowledge graph of proposed partial inferences
| in CRDTs using verification as a merge function. There're some
| issues I know I'll run into with e.g. admissibility but I have
| some solutions in mind.
|
| I'm in the very early stages but I think it's a simple idea so I
| have high hopes for a cool demo soon.
| sleepydog wrote:
| I'm working on a multicast dns implementation in OCaml. It's a
| library allowing one to build custom queries/responders, plus a
| conventional querier that can be used as a stub resolver for
| .local to get the resolver functionality of avahi.
|
| My main motivation was to implement a service that publishes the
| addresses of containers and vms that I run on my workstation to
| my local network, but it gradually has grown into a full-blown
| implementation of RFC 6762, which has been fun.
| rodwyersoftware wrote:
| Bookkeeping, automated :)
|
| https://invoicepilot.net/
| casualmike wrote:
| I'm working on a site that lets you tile and watch multiple
| videos from different platforms all at once.
|
| You can drag and drop links from YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, or Kick
| --and they show up in a grid.
|
| You can reload or remove streams without refreshing, save mixes
| for later, and share them as links. It works best on a really big
| screen --phones aren't really supported and even notebooks are
| too small to get much benefit.
|
| There's no backend, no login --everything runs in the browser.
|
| https://panoptic.live/
| mclau157 wrote:
| brainrot.com
| casualmike wrote:
| Did this used to be a site?
| mindcrime wrote:
| I spent the weekend working on the Ansible automation needed to
| deploy Tomcat and Roller Weblogger for my new personal
| website/blog[1]. Once the loose ends are tied up with this, I
| plan to deactivate my Facebook account and mainly focus on the
| personal site + Fediverse sites for sharing stuff. This is both
| to be consistent with my principles, which say to disfavor
| closed-source / walled-garden sites like Facebook, and because it
| should free up some time I waste when I allow myself to get
| pulled into political discussions on FB. It'll probably be better
| for my mental health as well.
|
| [1]: https://www.philliprhodes.name
| mclau157 wrote:
| Infinite 3D worlds! Also love how the Godot engine is so small
| and fast
|
| https://github.com/bsubard/Godot-3D-Procedural-Infinite-Terr...
| pizzafeelsright wrote:
| if you haven't seen, there is a fun game on the xbox called Exo
| One. i am certain it could be done in the browser.
| rickcarlino wrote:
| I am exploring ways that LLMs can be applied to language learning
| and spaced repetition.
|
| https://github.com/RickCarlino/KoalaCards
| tamtam99 wrote:
| I am working on a text based android RPG Game, its a boring
| incremental game, no graphics just some icons and button, and a
| battle log.
| digital_sawzall wrote:
| A 'social casino'. I know it's competitive but I think there is a
| room to make games targeted toward gen-z.
| nake89 wrote:
| Creating a modern development environment for win98. Currently
| I'm working on a git client. I have no patience for learning C.
| So backporting git is not an option. I also don't want to use
| cygwin. So I'm using a server to expose git as http endpoints and
| coding a git client in php to use in msdos. I have Vim 7.3 and
| and gnu coreutils working in msdos already. So soon I will have a
| very nice dev environment. I want to create a one click installer
| which gives you xampp, vim and then all the tooling I've created.
| I'm also interested in creating SPA that works in IE5.5. But I'll
| do that when my tooling is ready.
| joshuaissac wrote:
| For Git, you may be interested in JGit, which runs on the JVM.
| From some MSFN forum posts, it seems to be possible to run
| Hotspot JRE 8 on Windows 98.
| cyrve wrote:
| Currently I'm developing https://findl.top. Lately I've added
| sort of an AI-analyst, which can help to find meaningful changes
| from one financial report to another
| danbrooks wrote:
| Building a Magic: the Gathering draft assistant trained on
| historical data.
|
| Produces a pick order that shifts as the draft progresses.
|
| Have a browser runnable colab notebook for 20+ sets.
|
| https://github.com/danieljbrooks/statistical-drafting
| harlanji wrote:
| Building a suite of apps and a piece of hardware for my Sovereign
| IT stack. CarPuter and Daily Driver App Club
| (dailydriverapps.com).
|
| Think multi-generational family and asset data. Everything in
| common formats, written in simple code.
|
| Looking for early customers or modest pre-seed investment.
| thenipper wrote:
| In my last week of funemployment before going back to work. I'm
| working on fun stuff like gardening, designing battle tech
| terrain in cad and building a web tool for solo roleplaying.
|
| Nice to do something just for myself
| fjm2u wrote:
| I've been working hard on MCP Router. MCP Router is a free
| desktop app (Windows/Mac) that lets you securely manage local or
| remote MCP servers via GUI, with access control & logs.
|
| https://github.com/mcp-router/mcp-router
|
| Works with VSCode, Cursor, Cline and any MCP client, and connects
| to servers from any registry (Zapier, Smithy, etc.).
| rollcat wrote:
| ELI5: What is MCP, and how would I find it useful?
| fjm2u wrote:
| It's a protocol to extend the capabilities of LLMs.
| https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol
| lucasfdacunha wrote:
| Working on a series of interviews with gamers about how the hobby
| is part of their lives, called Unmuted [1]. It's been awesome to
| interview people from different backgrounds and see how gaming
| has influenced them.
|
| It's the first original piece of content for a newsletter of
| curated gaming content that I've been running for more than five
| years now, called The Gaming Pub [2].
|
| [1]: https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/ [2]:
| https://www.thegamingpub.com/
| codazoda wrote:
| I've been trying things for 25+ years and I'm about to kick off a
| test of a whole bunch of new business ideas. You might have read
| my article, How to Lose Money with 25 Years of Failed Businesses.
|
| https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
|
| I've created a mailing list. Please sign-up if seeing all my new
| business tries is something you might be interested in.
|
| https://tally.so/r/wvggOX
| BasilPH wrote:
| I'm still developing podcast websites with transcripts[^0] while
| maintaining a part-time job.
|
| This thread made me realize I've made no progress in acquiring
| new clients since posting about this 6 months ago. However, my
| part-time job ends in May, which will allow me to focus
| exclusively on Fanfare. It's somewhat intimidating, but I'm also
| looking forward to it; the prospect of resolving this uncertain
| situation (either through success or failure) feels liberating.
|
| [^0]: https://www.withfanfare.com/
| mguerville wrote:
| A social advocacy platform for small and medium sized B2B
| businesses. LinkedIn is more or less the only social platform for
| B2B social selling and smaller firms could benefit from their
| posts getting a bit more augmented and coordinated engagement. So
| we're building a solution for a marketing manager to request
| advocates (employees, partners, others) to engage or reshare
| (tweaked in their own voice if they want) their content. Not
| world altering but shockingly underserved market. With few
| players who raised money and therefore have to price expensively,
| whereas as a bootstrapped side-hustle we can offer it in a flat-
| fee way that doesn't "penalize" growth by charging per-user or
| for inactive users.
|
| (Pre-launch [https://www.sevenbaton.com] would welcome feedback
| from marketing folks)
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Working on a FOSS card game.
|
| I realized after trying multiple tools like Supabase and
| Firebase, I really need to program my own solution. I don't need
| a bunch of *Enterprise* level features. I just need to read the
| card data from a database, and process the games with some simple
| server side code.
|
| I hope to have the server, along with a basic front end done by
| this summer. Then it'll be released under a permissible license.
| Probably MIT.
|
| I want a community of different front ends compatible with the
| same server. I suspect a straight up cli client without a bunch
| of effects might be popular with some of y'all.
|
| If you want to code a frontend in Unreal, the server doesn't
| care. The game remains the same.
|
| Of course your free to fork it privately, build a commerical
| product, etc.
| timgreen wrote:
| A few things:
|
| - Snapshot (https://apps.shopify.com/snapshot): AI generated
| product photos for Shopify. Previously used Flux and Stable
| Diffusion but always had quality problems. Was very tricky
| ensuring text remained the same and the product fit into the
| generated background. Just integrated the new OpenAI image
| generation model and results are much better however their
| masking feature doesn't work properly so need to wait for them to
| fix that before I can offer the same feature of keeping text/fine
| details the same
|
| - Lurk (https://apps.shopify.com/lurk): New one I just launched -
| allows Shopify merchants to track the prices of competitors and
| adjust their own in response with dynamic pricing rules. It's
| cool because you just have to paste a URL and it uses AI to
| figure out the price. Again, there's a surprising amount of
| things you need to figure out to make this work reliably at scale
| (e.g. popups, ambiguous HTML, location-based pricing, etc.)
|
| - Origin UTM Tracking (https://apps.shopify.com/origin-utm-
| tracking): Simple UTM analytics for Shopify stores. Acquired this
| last year and its being growing nicely.
| elpakal wrote:
| iOS app size analysis running locally on your mac:
| https://dotipa.app
| abiraja wrote:
| Working on a web app builder that generates code via AI, much
| like hundreds of other tools out there. The differentiator is
| that the tool automatically sets up a Postgres DB (using Neon)
| for you. So, it's a lot easier to get started and it can handle
| large complex apps that require auth and database, but it can
| also build simple websites. The stack is next.js and code is easy
| to export and view.
|
| Primarily uses Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Gemini Pro 2.5. But you can
| choose other models too.
|
| You can try it for free while I'm beta testing it here:
| https://lumosbuilder.com?ref=hn
| starwin1159 wrote:
| hacking a illegal gamble website
| matt_heimer wrote:
| It tried out vibe coding this weekend. I've been using AI to get
| smaller examples and ask questions and its been great but past
| attempts to have it do everything for me have produced code that
| still needed a lot of changes.
|
| I hit an OpenSearch bug this week where you can't get any browser
| based requests to work. Its due to zstd becoming a standard part
| of Accept-Encoding and OpenSearch not correctly supporting it so
| I wanted to install a browser plugin that modified the browser
| HTTP request headers to my servers.
|
| I don't know about everyone else but I love that browser plugins
| are possible but I hate having to find them. Its mostly due to
| never knowing if you can trust a plugin and even if you find one,
| you have to worry about it being bought out in the future. With
| vibe coding I was able to build a browser extension in 45 minutes
| that had more features than I originally planned for.
|
| I spend more time documenting the experience than building which
| is wild. If you are interesting you can look at the README in
| https://github.com/mattheimer/vibe-headers
|
| But I left the experience with two thoughts.
|
| Even seasoned developers will be using vibe coding in the future.
|
| I think in the near future the browser plugin market will
| partially collapse because eventually browsers will build
| extensions themselves on the fly using natural language.
| begueradj wrote:
| So there is no technical debts ?
| matt_heimer wrote:
| That's a difficult question to answer because I don't know if
| I'll grow the extension in the future. Only time will tell.
|
| After I completed the extension I did try on another model
| and despite me instructing it to generate a v3 manifest
| extension, the second attempt didn't start with
| declarativeNetRequest and used the older APIs until I made a
| refinement. And this isn't even a big project really where
| poor architecture would cause debt.
|
| Vibe coding can lead to technical debt, especially if you
| don't have the skills to recognize that debt in the code
| being generated.
| nonethewiser wrote:
| In my experience, "vibe coding" can produce a rich prototype
| very fast.
|
| Then as scope expands you're left with something that is
| difficult to extend because its impossible to keep everything
| in the LLM context. Both because of context limits and because
| of input fatigue in terms of communicating the context.
|
| At this point you can do a critical analysis of what you have
| and design a more rigorous specification.
| falcor84 wrote:
| But my reading is that the parent wouldn't have tackled this
| at all without the vibe coding, and would have used an off-
| the-shelf extension. So in that case, it's a pure win, no?
| nonethewiser wrote:
| Yeah I could have framed it better. I was responding to:
|
| >I've been using AI to get smaller examples and ask
| questions and its been great but past attempts to have it
| do everything for me have produced code that still needed a
| lot of changes.
|
| In my experience most things that aren't trivial do require
| a lot of work as the scope expands. I was responding more
| to that than him having success with completing the whole
| extension satisfactorily.
| matt_heimer wrote:
| I don't disagree but context limits are expanding rapidly.
| Gemini 2.5 Pro which was used here has a 1 million token
| context window with 2 million coming soon. Cost will be a
| concern but context size limits will not.
| loufe wrote:
| Totally agree, I mentioned it in another comment but Gemini
| was a game changer for allowing me to increase the size of
| the project I can feasibly have AI work on.
|
| Only issue is Gemini's context window (I've seen my
| experience corroborated here on HN a couple times) isn't
| consistent. Maybe if 900k tokens are all of unique
| information, then it will be useful to 1 million, but I
| find if my prompt has 150k tokens of context or 50k, after
| 200k in the total context window response coherence and
| focus goes out the window.
| hnuser123456 wrote:
| I'd love some more innovation on increasing context size
| without blowing up RAM usage. Mistral small 2503 24B and
| Gemma 3 27B both fit into 24GB at Q4, but Mistral can only
| go up to about 32k and Gemma about 12k before all VRAM is
| exhausted, even with flash attention and KV cache
| quantization.
| theyinwhy wrote:
| What editor are you using with gemini 2.5 pro? I really
| don't like their vscode extension.
| benjaminsky2 wrote:
| If your project is well organized and individual files are
| small and the dependency graph isn't too crazy, Claude code
| does an amazing job building only the context it needs even
| as the project grows. You just have to be aggressive about
| refactoring for maintainability. The bonus here is that it's
| easier for humans to work on too.
| unvalley wrote:
| I'm working on an Ephemeral Markdown Paper:
| https://github.com/unvalley/ephe
|
| If you're tired of bloated to-do and note-taking apps, give this
| a try. It's OSS, free and No sign-up.
| tlb wrote:
| Robot walking. But really, a programming language and tools to
| make it easy to solve hard nonlinear control problems like
| walking. There are videos & source code for 2-legged walking
| robots (in simulation) at https://throbol.com/post/how-to-walk,
| and videos & source code for 4-legged walking robots (on real
| hardware) at https://throbol.com/
| kageneko wrote:
| I've always been into MUDs since the mid-90s and every now and
| then I get this idea to write one from scratch (again) and I get
| pretty far and then I lose interest.
|
| The new one is browser based.
|
| The mud engine runs in a web worker and takes advantage of some
| of the modern web tricks to do stuff. For instance, data files
| (think: area files that don't change often) can be stored
| remotely and then cached with a service worker. This allows the
| MUD to run offline. But that's only fun if you're playing solo.
|
| IO between the UI and worker is handled by message passing.
|
| Multiplayer is handled by the MUD opening an outbound connection
| (probably websocket) to a connection collector host. Other
| players would then connect to that host and have their IO routed
| appropriately. The host can even be smarter: it could be a
| specialized Discord client, allowing users to play from there.
| Firebase may also be involved. I don't know.
|
| The important bit is that this is still basically message
| passing, so the engine won't need to know the difference between
| the local user and a remote user.
|
| The MUD database would be an IndexedDB. Probably. I haven't
| thought as much about that yet.
|
| I am sure all of this is theoretically possible, at least.
| nonethewiser wrote:
| IndexedDB seems really cool. Never really worked with it but
| seems like a good option for you.
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| YES! Another MUD programmer! I started writing one in Meteor
| about eleven years ago. I don't even know if Meteor's still a
| thing anymore... I've had a few projects in Rust that were
| mixtures of roguelike and MUD models, conceptually. I usually
| got aggravated with the models I created, though.
|
| I really like your multiplayer idea. That sounds really clean
| and flexible.
| earksiinni wrote:
| AI bookkeeping for solopreneurs.
|
| As a freelance web dev who also has an Airbnb side hustle, I got
| tired of expensive bookkeeping for a few transactions per month.
| I tried DIY, but my time is worth more than that.
|
| Most importantly, both pros and DIY got subtle things wrong and
| caused me to miss out on thousands of dollars in deductions and
| credits.
|
| So I'm making an AI bookkeeping chatbot that will handle all that
| for me. The aim is full automation while surfacing tax deduction
| and credit opportunities throughout the year. Like wouldn't it be
| awesome to just have the research and tax credit or do home
| office deductions with zero effort?
|
| At the end of the year, Kumbara puts together a series of
| financial reports that you plug into your tax software or hand to
| your CPA.
|
| Working hand-in-hand with CPAs and some platform partners on
| this. Would love to hear from other solopreneurs or engineers who
| want to help build the future of financial freedom.
|
| https://www.kumbara.money
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| I'll keep this in bookmark.
|
| I procrastinate on taxes for the silliest of reasons: I don't
| want to spend the time to create a P&L for my side gig to give
| to my accountant. Takes less than an hour but it is just
| annoyingly tedious.
|
| All my income and the majority of my expenses are done through
| PayPal because I want to minimize the bookkeeping effort. For
| some unknown reason, they don't have an annual P&L statement as
| a standard report. This year I tried a bunch of things with
| Copilot using PayPal reports. The most eye-opening result was
| that I could give it a .csv file with all my transactions for
| the year and tell it to generate a P&L statement with expense
| categories. It managed the task almost flawlessly. The only
| cleanup I had to do was to recategorize a couple of items. To
| say that I was blown away is an understatement.
| nidnogg wrote:
| Billing. Subscription plans and invoices in micro services
| architecture.
|
| I honestly hate it at this point and would appreciate any reading
| on the topic. It's been a grueling 4 months of back and forth
| with a lot of mission critical business aspects to handle that I
| had to learn on the fly.
| brendoncarroll wrote:
| The Want Build System
|
| https://github.com/wantbuild/want
|
| https://doc.wantbuild.io
|
| Want is a hermetic build system, configured with Jsonnet. In
| Want, build steps are functions from filesystem snapshots, to
| filesystem snapshots. Want calls these immutable snapshots
| _Trees_. Build steps range from simple filesystem manipulation
| and filtering, to WebAssembly and AMD64 VMs.
| iugtmkbdfil834 wrote:
| I have small solo project that I am slowly expanding on. It
| started as an old-fashioned text sentiment analysis more for my
| amusement more than anything else ( no real insights were gleamed
| so original version was used as a foundation for what came next
| ). I don't think I will ever put it out there publicly, but it
| keeps me occupied when I need a distraction.
| efromvt wrote:
| A open-source Looker/Data Studio alternative, supporting
| Bigquery/Snowflake/DuckDB. Has a custom SQL dialect with embedded
| semantic layer to make reusable and interactive visuals easier.
| Can be self-hosted, but a public version is available. Still very
| WIP!
|
| https://trilogydata.dev/trilogy-studio-core/
| achandlerwhite wrote:
| A multitenancy library for .NET https://www.finbuckle.com
| artofpongfu wrote:
| I'm working on a human-like AI opponent for VR table tennis. It's
| something I really want myself, love playing table tennis in VR,
| but with online play you get the latency issues, people that have
| adopted a playing style which basically hacks the game physics or
| other aspects, or people who are just plain rude. Playing against
| the AI is much nicer, but it's not varied or realistic enough
| such that when you actually play against real people you are ill
| prepared.
|
| At a very early prototyping phase, but having a ton of fun.
| https://x.com/artofpongfu
| eru wrote:
| I'm working on running sequences of heap operations (insert and
| delete-min) in linear time instead of O(n log n) total time. It's
| a silly little project in theoretical computer science I have.
|
| Crucially, to make this bound work, you only learn the final
| state of the heap, not which element got deleted when.
|
| I'm also building a simpler soft heap.
| redbackthomson wrote:
| Working on a browser extension to make it easier to find content
| on YouTube that fits your interests.
|
| I watch a lot of YouTube videos and have found it very annoying
| that YouTube latches onto one or two topics that you've watched
| and only recommends that type of content over and over again.
| Even if you use their "Not Interested" tool, not a whole lot
| changes in your recommendations.
|
| At the end of last year I launched Relevant - a crowdsourcing
| website where users can categorize the channels they watch into a
| defined hierarchy of categories ranging from broad topics like
| "Science" and "Gaming" to more specific ones like "Phone Reviews"
| or "Speedrunning".
|
| Although I've had good feedback on the website, engagement has
| been relatively low and I think that's because it's a big ask to
| have someone navigate to the website to find the content. This
| year I decided that I'd bring the content to them by making a
| Chrome extension that lets users interact with Relevant directly
| from within YouTube.
|
| It's still a work in progress but I'd love to get a first version
| out within a month or so to start spreading the idea and
| gathering feedback. If this is of any interest to the people here
| on HN then please let me know what you'd like to see most on your
| feeds.
|
| https://relevant.watch/
| HaZeust wrote:
| I strongly, strongly recommend adding video essays as a
| category as well - they're very big now.
| redbackthomson wrote:
| Yeah absolutely! The category list is meant to be dynamic as
| the industry changes and new forms of contents crop up. I
| can't stay on top of it myself, so I'm always looking for
| suggestions/maintainers from anywhere.
|
| If you have a look at the category tree, where do you think
| video essays would go in that?
| matty22 wrote:
| Working on a site to help people find stained glass windows to
| visit in their towns/cities. No exciting tech (vanilla
| HTML/CSS/JS) and lots of data entry, but making some decent
| progress!
|
| https://www.stainedglassatlas.com
| rorylaitila wrote:
| AI has taken over the hype in sales and go-to-market strategies.
| But for independents, solopreneurs, professionals, and many
| founders or CEOs, relationships and partnerships are still
| central.
|
| I think sales will bifurcate: either fully automated self-sale,
| or fully relationship based. All of the major CRMs (customer
| relationship management) software are going all in on AI and
| sales automation.
|
| I think relationship sales is going to see an increase in
| comparative advantage. I've always been a relationship seller but
| the current crop of CRMs are not designed for me. So I've built
| https://humancrm.io/ to scratch my own itch.
| jobswithgptcom wrote:
| I've been working on a side project called jobswithgpt -- after
| months of building and refining, the first version is finally
| live: https://jobswithgpt.com
|
| The idea is simple: a job search site that actually works for job
| seekers. It focuses on listings posted directly by companies (no
| spam, no middlemen, no bloated sponsored posts drowning out real
| opportunities). It uses AI to surface better matches, recommend
| jobs intelligently, and pull out the most important info from job
| listings automatically. You can also bookmark jobs you're
| interested in and track them easily -- no signup needed unless
| you want personalized suggestions.
|
| It's still early, and we're improving it constantly. Would love
| for you to check it out, try a search, and let me know what you
| think -- good, bad, rough -- all feedback helps. Thanks a lot for
| the early support!
|
| Site: https://jobswithgpt.com
| ghgr wrote:
| Main work: tokenization of real-world assets, but on the side I'm
| building two projects as a solo dev: - XRoll.io
| -- a fully on-chain gaming framework on the XRP Ledger, inspired
| by SatoshiDice but built for compliance. Commit-reveal fairness
| (HMAC_SHA256(secret, bet_txn_hash)), full transparency on-chain.
| Integrated KYC, AML, self-limits at the protocol level. Frontend
| is optional; ledger is the source of truth. - Nexula
| -- an evolutionary image generation system. Embeddings extracted
| with CLIP, clustered via HDBSCAN, visualized with UMAP. User
| behavior (time spent) drives fitness scores; top samples
| recombine through weighted interpolation to generate new images.
| Built on Django backend, session-based personalization without
| login.
|
| Looking for like-minded people interested in exploring both the
| technical and business sides of these systems.
| reynaldi wrote:
| Currently building a CORS Proxy.
|
| After working on it for a while, I noticed there's a stigma
| around using CORS proxies, often associated with fetching
| undocumented APIs.
|
| While that's sometimes true, I'm hoping to change that
| perception, to show that they can also be used for accessing real
| APIs. It just requires the proxy to correctly handle credentials
| and secrets.
|
| The idea is to open up more possibilities for building static-
| first apps without worrying about CORS.
| TOGoS wrote:
| Some music control using Wii balance boards thing:
| https://gitlab.com/TOGoS/SG-P27
|
| So far this has means orchestrating a set of processes just to
| talk to bluetoothd, automatically connect to boards, guess which
| /dev/input/event* device each one is associated with, and start
| reading those and sending data somewhere over OSC. Every step of
| the process is about 10 times as difficult as I initially
| expected it would be, which is why, after months of work, I'm
| still putzing around with process orchestration instead of
| actually doing anything with music.
|
| The bit of hair on this yak that I'm currently shaving is
| building a TUI library for Deno so that I can build a nice
| dashboard for keeping tabs on the state of all the different
| pieces. I prototyped a bit of the orchestration process in Node-
| RED, which was neat, but not exactly what I'm going for. There is
| a TUI library for Deno already, but it's kind of buggy and non-
| ergonomic for my brain.
| bendangelo wrote:
| I'm working on an open-source Pivotal Tracker. I just started a
| week ago but if anyone is interested in following please checkout
| the repo: https://github.com/bendangelo/Iterator
|
| I'll have a working project in about a month. But for now it's
| just a readme.
| rubb3rDucc wrote:
| so I'm working on side project to make managing and exploring
| your music library easier.
|
| The idea is you can set a few filters (like bpm, key, decade,
| genre) and then swipe through random songs, accept or reject them
| for inspiration or playlists. Kinda like Tinder but for digging
| through your own tracks.
|
| It also tracks what's trending on TikTok/YouTube/SoundCloud
| weekly, so you can find stuff that's blowing up, filterable by
| region. Plus it can build smart playlists automatically based on
| rules you set (like "new 90s house under 120bpm" every month).
|
| It is just a tool to make working with your existing
| local/Apple/Spotify/SoundCloud library faster and more creative.
|
| Here's a demo of it: https://filtered-f.web.app/
| nathan_douglas wrote:
| Will it work with Beets? :)
| rubb3rDucc wrote:
| I hadn't heard of Beets until you mentioned it. I took a look
| at it and yes, it'll work with Beets.
|
| I was using Python to get the bpms and keys on local tracks,
| and was going to start figuring how to fill in the missing
| metadata.
|
| Thank you!
| noor_z wrote:
| Working on supporting MCP (model context protocol) in my LSP
| (language server protocol) proxy:
| https://github.com/noredeen/lspwatch.
|
| I wrote this tool to make instrumenting language servers very
| easy. MCP (both protocol and architecture) seems heavily inspired
| by LSP which made me curious about what it would take to support
| it through my telemetry-capturing proxy.
|
| Haven't thought too deeply about how useful an MCP proxy can be
| but I see it as potentially a general platform for monitoring or
| debugging MCP servers or clients.
| ddahlen wrote:
| I am about to begin a PhD in astronomy. Until last month I was
| working at Caltech for 3 years on code which calculates orbits of
| asteroids to high precision. This code is being used on several
| NASA telescopes now to predict when they will image known
| asteroids (NEO Surveyor, SphereX, maybe Roman eventually). I was
| allowed to open source it and I am planning on making it the
| basis of my PhD research:
|
| https://github.com/dahlend/kete
|
| It can predict the location of the entire catalog of known
| asteroids to generally within the uncertainty of our knowledge of
| the orbits. Its core is written in rust, with a python frontend.
| jxjnskkzxxhx wrote:
| Ever thought of making a presentation about this subject and
| putting it on YouTube? :-)
|
| It sounds really impressive.
| ddahlen wrote:
| I've never really dabbled in youtube. I have several
| projects/papers I am working on using this code, I have
| thought about writing some blog posts as I publish those. But
| a PhD is going to be a major time sink, we will see what
| happens.
| dang wrote:
| Do you want to post it as a Show HN soon, before the PhD
| sucks you in altogether?
|
| (If so, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the
| second-chance pool
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will
| get a random placement on HN's front page.)
| ddahlen wrote:
| Thank you for the offer! Unfortunately the PhD has
| already sunk its claws in. I should have some flashy
| stuff to show off in a 2-3 months (I have a conference
| talk coming I have to prepare material for).
| dang wrote:
| Drat! Well, if you ever have some cycles to share your
| work on HN, contact us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be
| happy to help.
|
| More importantly, good luck with the PhD and we all hope
| it goes swimmingly!
| Intralexical wrote:
| I like the daredevil asteroids going for the close dive of the
| star emoji sun :)
|
| Would it be appropriate to communicate on the README which
| telescopes this is used for? You see these very niche, very
| professional-looking repositories on GitHub now and then, and
| it's never clear how much credibility they have and whether
| they come from a hobbyist, student, experiment, or are in
| operational use.
| truetaurus wrote:
| https://interestingbars.com: Discover the best, most interesting
| bars in your area
|
| https://tallytabby.com: The simplest way to keep track of
| anything in your life. From habits to inventory, TallyTabby makes
| counting effortless.
|
| https://qrfeedback.app: Get honest customer feedback with a
| simple QR code
|
| https://skillriskaudit.com: Knowledge Risk Management
|
| https://shiftingtictactoe.com: The classic game with a twist--
| play in real-time, and there's never a draw!
| dskhatri wrote:
| A children's book about creative problem solving and
| entrepreneurship.
|
| The book is written in the Choose Your Own Adventure style.
| Readers get to join the protagonist Daphne on a fun, week-long
| adventure launching her own mini-businesses. Readers help her
| make smart decisions, solve fun challenges, and learn about money
| and problem-solving in the process.
|
| The book has been a fun endeavor in both writing the manuscript
| and code! On the latter, I wrote an exporter for Twinery to Org
| Mode and an Emacs Org export backend to do the reverse.
|
| The book is currently open to beta readers - Happy to let a few
| more in through the sign up page here:
| https://tendollaradventure.com/#get-notified
| ammmir wrote:
| Last month, I started playing around with code sandboxes and how
| LLMs might interface with them and wrote a little blog post about
| it [1]. I then took the code and vibe coded my way to a multi-
| tenant (untested!) sandboxing server that lets you run arbitrary
| Docker containers and provides a simple HTTP interface and UI. A
| cute, novel idea is that you can fork containers easily, as seen
| in the video in my repo:
|
| https://github.com/ammmir/sandboxer
|
| It may not be useful, but it's been fun, and I've honed my gut-
| level experience in Docker, Podman, Linux namespaces,
| Checkpoint/Restore, CRIU, and more. The ultimate goal is to hand
| each AI agent iteration a sandbox of its own (forked from the
| previous iteration), and have it build apps in private sandboxes.
| You'll be able to view intermediate progress as the app is being
| built (or failed rabbit holes), since each sandbox gets a unique
| URL automatically. Like, imagine if each commit of your git repo
| had its own URL to preview the app!
|
| [1] https://amirmalik.net/2025/03/07/code-sandboxes-for-llm-
| ai-a...
| mindaslab wrote:
| Injee - The no configuration instant Database for front end
| developers.
|
| https://injee.codeberg.page/
| Ingon wrote:
| Still working on Connet[1] and the associated Connet.dev[2],
| which is a p2p reverse proxy with NAT traversal (and hosted
| version of it). Currently, adding support for defining multiple
| points of ingress, next will be adding support for PCP port
| forwarding.
|
| [1] https://github.com/connet-dev/connet
|
| [2] https://connet.dev
| tomaytotomato wrote:
| Working on my Java NLP library that can figure out what
| geographical location is from a piece of free text.
|
| e.g.
|
| "san francisco ca united states" - San Francisco, California,
| America
|
| "california, san francisco" - San Francisco, California, America
|
| "glasgow, kentucky" - Glasgow, Kentucky, America
|
| "glasgow, UK" - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
|
| It started as a project when I was scraping websites, and some
| data had inconsistent ways of writing a location or address.
|
| The library is called location4j -
| https://github.com/tomaytotomato/location4j
| tonyonodi wrote:
| I launched my web-based notepad calculator, https://numpad.io/, a
| few years ago.
|
| Right now I'm working on a version 2 that has user accounts,
| multiple documents, markdown support, and document exports.
| Everything is local-first and it uses CRDTs to sync documents.
|
| It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/Plk1DQ4.png the
| calculator is mostly the same for now, with a few improvements.
| It's unstable right now, so I don't want to publicise the dev
| url, but if you'd like to become a beta tester email me at
| contact@numpad.io
| GlacierFox wrote:
| That 'per' and 'to' syntax you got there is _chefs kiss_.
| tonyonodi wrote:
| Thanks! Though I can't really take credit for it, Soulver did
| it before me.
| ch33zer wrote:
| I think this is super cool, but feel like the killer
| implementation would be an extension for VSCode. Just a
| thought.
| kevinqi wrote:
| super cool
| iNate2000 wrote:
| MAGiE: Your MAGnetic Interactive Explorer
|
| A simple puzzle game: a cassette-futuristic story, heavily
| inspired by Nell's adventures at Castle Turing in Neal
| Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
|
| I could go on and on...
|
| I'd love your feedback:
|
| Rewind to the start of the story:
| https://magiegame.com/test/2025/04/04
|
| Or skip to today's puzzle: https://magiegame.com
|
| Right now I'm focused on story development and integrating it
| with the daily-puzzle system I built last time I was between
| jobs.
|
| This is a years-long slow-burn side project. My career moved away
| from the frontend long ago--this is my first React app, with a
| Django backend running on AWS Lightsail.
| axelMI wrote:
| I'm working on a pure js webgl image editor with effects,
| filters, crop & perspective correction, ... oh and it's
| opensource as unfortunately most comparable solutions are closed
| sources
|
| https://mini2-photo-editor.netlify.app to try it out
| (https://github.com/xdadda/mini-photo-editor)
| kushan2020 wrote:
| I'm working on a web based note taking app that is open source
| and lets you own the notes in your file system -
| https://bangle.io
| io84 wrote:
| Great name!
| keepamovin wrote:
| TUI browser for the Modern Web. Runs JavaScript, works
| everywhere, but only shows text. Quietude, noise cancellation for
| content. Sneak peak: https://youtu.be/rmykR_OLYhg
|
| I also just today made a fun way to fully host a front end and
| SQLite back-end on GitHub for free using Pages + Actions, you can
| try it right now: https://do-say-go.github.io/fully-hosted/
| LeonM wrote:
| Working on designing and building an interface to properly
| integrate a modern phone with Toyota/Lexus infotainment systems
| from before 2010 (which are using the proprietary AVC-LAN
| protocol).
|
| I've explored all existing commercially available solutions and
| none match my requirements/standards (high-quality audio
| codec/DAC, USB-PD, steering wheel controls, no splicing or
| cutting into the loom, no cutting up the dash, etc.).
|
| After researching how the Toyota/Lexus infotainment systems work
| I found they are highly modular, and actually quite easy to
| produce custom modules for. The proprietary AVC-LAN protocol is
| well-understood, and actually makes it really easy to integrate
| with. The display are just NTSC composite, and touch events (in
| fact, all button presses, including steering wheel media
| controls) are emitted on the AVC-LAN bus.
|
| An simple board with some interfacing logic, a DAC and an RPi
| nano should be all I need to allow good Bluetooth audio
| integration, and lossless audio via wired USB, both controllable
| from the steering wheel. You could do all sorts of fun things
| with the display (such as displaying vehicle status from ODB, lap
| timer, G-force meter etc.). If I use a RPi compute module then
| running Android Auto should be quite feasible.
|
| It's just a hobby project though, I'll probably open-source
| everything. Not planning on commercializing it.
| MrG3D wrote:
| I'm already working on something like this and have a prototype
| board designed.
|
| Here is my version 1.
|
| https://youtu.be/pJjq_0hZEh4 https://youtu.be/drCtDADRJe8
| https://youtu.be/jLCiIB6z968
|
| Version 2 is being built around a CM4 IO board and will include
| my AVCLAN implementation, DAC, GPS and is intended to run AOSP
| Android. The board is fully designed already and I'm working on
| the custom Android build now.
| LeonM wrote:
| That's really cool! Looks like you found the same resources
| as I did on the AVC-LAN inner workings.
|
| It's also fun to see how each Toyota product uses the same
| modules and buttons, just different layouts and front panel
| designs. Your solution (sans the custom display that will
| only fit your model) should work on just about every Toyota
| and Lexus model from the AVC-LAN era (2000~2010)
|
| Not sure if you'd be willing to share your code or diagrams,
| but anything would help me tremendously. My contact info is
| in my bio.
| MrG3D wrote:
| Yes, my coding should allow my module to easily be usable
| by any Toyota or Lexus, even to create new custom modules.
| I'm also working on a proximity sensor module to integrate
| into my custom LCD using the AVCLAN protocol.
| loufe wrote:
| Godspeed. I find it frustrating these systems don't follow some
| sort of international standard, still. I can't justify
| replacing the system in my 2016 Highlander just to get Android
| auto, but the Bluetooth system handles non-phone calls poorly
| and the album art database hasn't been updated for basically
| the entire life of the vehicle. I don't like having to rely on
| the manufacturer nor Google/Apple for connectivity basics.
| LeonM wrote:
| > I find it frustrating these systems don't follow some sort
| of international standard
|
| They do, actually!
|
| Most car manufacturers, including Toyota, now use the MOST-
| bus for infotainment system interconnects, which is an open
| standard. So your car being a >2010 Toyota, it will have a
| MOST system.
|
| > I can't justify replacing the system in my 2016 Highlander
| just to get Android auto
|
| You don't have to, there are plenty of aftermarket modules
| available that will add Android Auto to your existing MOST
| infotainment system. Can be a hit-or-miss though in terms of
| quality and integration. If you want something reliable and
| well integrated, stick with the OEM solutions.
|
| > I don't like having to rely on the manufacturer nor
| Google/Apple for connectivity basics.
|
| You're already relying on the car OEM for mobility and your
| safety, and you're already relying on Google or Apply for
| connectivity (aka: your phone's OS).
|
| Remember that your 2016 Highlander (3rd gen XU50) was
| introduced in 2013, so developed well before that. Android
| auto didn't even exist back then, and we still hadn't
| consolidated on the iOS/Android duopoly we have today. Heck
| we were still using Windows phone and Blackberry OS back
| then. How could Toyota engineers have designed something that
| would still remain compatible with devices in 2025? Quite
| remarkable actually that it still works at all.
| offbeatport wrote:
| https://VoteFeature.com - An open catalog of products and
| features where users can vote to help build what matters.
| devgoth wrote:
| i am building a little iMessage app called Whenish.
|
| this was spurred from group texts with friends planning a
| vacation or outing. we would just throw a bunch of dates that
| would get lost in the mix and people would forget who was open on
| what dates. Whenish just allows user to select dates they are
| free and then it will show what is the best date that works for
| everyone.
|
| i have a testflight right now and if anyone wants to give it a go
| please do! i would love feedback :)
|
| https://testflight.apple.com/join/4HaADNMF
|
| ps: i am not a designer and app icons are hard
| GirishSharma643 wrote:
| Trying to understand the possibility and feasibility of LLM on
| Indian vedas and ancient hindu mythology. I am thinking like
| there is a input box where user will enter his problem,/query and
| get resolved with the help of Vedas, puran and old hindu
| religious books.
| linsomniac wrote:
| I used "Claude Code" to create a local-only webapp for tracking
| symptoms of my chronic sinusitis, which seems to be tricky for
| the doctors to figure out, over time, using the "Sino-Nasal
| Outcome Test" (SNOT-22) questionnaire. Trying to correlate
| environmental and medical factors and interventions with raises
| or decreases in my symptoms.
|
| https://snot-22.linsomniac.com/
| thoughtpeddler wrote:
| This is awesome! I suspect I have vasomotor rhinitis and could
| use something like this to track the same sort of sinusitis-
| type symptoms. My nose basically hasn't stopped being wet and
| runny for the last 20 years. Two questions: (1) Where is data
| stored? (2) Are you comfortable sharing an open repo on GitHub?
| linsomniac wrote:
| The data is stored entirely in your browser. Meaning, be
| careful about using an incognito browser window. I probably
| should have it add a "download data" button combined with
| "upload". I should also add an "About" with information about
| this and also a pointer to the SNOT-22 sources.
|
| My situation is I possibly have a "local rhinitis", though my
| ENT dismissed that. I base that on him visually confirming
| that I have an allergic reaction in my sinuses, but my
| allergy screening on my shoulder showed no reactions. But it
| might also be a lot of other things including being in an
| extremely dry environment. Next steps are to get a CPAP,
| which will give me high humidity air and treat minor apnea,
| and a nebulizer treatment once a quarter, plus taking allergy
| medicine semi-regularly.
|
| ATM, I'm not planning on releasing the source. Due largely to
| being way, way underwater on time available to deal with my
| existing projects. Is there something you wanted from the
| source? If you are interested in auditing it for where the
| data is stored, try using your browsers developer tools and
| watch the network traffic while using it.
| loufe wrote:
| Work wise I'm building a discrete event simulation with pysim. I
| manage the autonomous vehicles program and underground control
| center for the subarctic mine I work at, and we've desperately
| needed some means to evaluate efficacy of designs and forecast
| productivity. Using it to model scoop-truck movement and loading
| operations, and it's working very well. It's been a joy. I've
| been taking advantage of the enormous context window of Gemini
| 2.5 pro to have it make upgrades, fix issues, and just generally
| doing all the legwork.
|
| Personally I'm having fun learning some web design and three.js
| as I try to debug the very tricky issues with my new personal
| website loufe.ca using AI is fantastic but you need to
| micromanage when things get complicated, I find.
| raymond_goo wrote:
| How To Beat Procrastination And Write A Book With Github Copilot:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnjt1gJo3Ts
| gengstrand wrote:
| I recently released an AI software architect chat app.
|
| https://www.exploravention.com/products/askarch/
|
| It is an interesting discovery journey on extracting relevant
| information from both code and documentation with a sufficient
| density to stay within the context window and extracting
| efficient criteria from arbitrarily phrased questions.
| yathern wrote:
| Still supporting https://monkeys.zip - my pet art project where
| users simulate thousands of monkeys on typewriters for silly
| rewards. After which, moving on to a music creation app.
| apineda wrote:
| just finished https://www.treesnap.app/ now just doing some light
| marketing on the daily. next project is multi-vendor monstrosity
| so happy to have gotten that win.
| jccalhoun wrote:
| Last year I bought a broken jukebox. I wanted to convert it to be
| powered by a raspberry pi. I wanted it to work like a traditional
| jukebox where you used the buttons to input the song number.
| While there are a few existing projects to convert Jukeboxes to
| run from raspberry pi, most of them used a touch screen or didn't
| work well on RP5 which is what I had or the current version of
| raspberry pi os.
|
| So despite not being a programmer, barely knowing a little
| javascript, and nothing about python, linux, or gtk, I was able
| to use AI to muddle my way through to creating a program that
| takes the input from a numpad, looks up the song from a list,
| sends it to mpd, and posts a picture from the album art embedded
| in the music file. https://github.com/jccalhoun/mpcButtonJukebox
| stitched2gethr wrote:
| I've been building proxymock, a CLI tool which automatically
| builds mocks and load tests from captured traffic.
|
| Feedback appreciated - https://proxymock.io/
| gfai wrote:
| Building SecretCrush.ai (NSFW) (https://secretcrush.ai) from
| scratch, form zero to one, with AI's support
| Kuyawa wrote:
| I am working on an administrative app for small shops. It has
| inventory, invoices, quotes, returns, purchase orders, payables,
| receivables, finances, etc. It's almost ready for v1, just
| finishing the final touches to start onboarding first users
|
| https://my.adminix.app/demo
|
| If you like what you see please let me know, all feedback is
| appreciated
| jmmv wrote:
| At home... about to welcome a dog, so that's going to shrink my
| free time even further.
|
| On the "side projects" side of things, I've been working on a
| "boot to EndBASIC" disk image since December with the goal of
| creating a small "dev kit" box that boots quickly and directly
| into the interpreter. The disk image is pretty much done for a
| first release, so now I need to get to the design and 3D-printing
| of a case for the board+screen combo. The latter is brand new
| territory for me, and I have a self-imposed deadline of June when
| I'll be presenting this at BSDCan.
|
| ... but I've also taken a small detour to improve the EndBASIC
| website and provide a dynamically-generated gallery of user-
| uploaded projects. This has been a deficiency for a while and I
| felt it'd be easy to add it, right on time for the "dev kit"
| release.
|
| Stay tuned!
| bttf wrote:
| The Goodreads of music. I'm a lifelong music nerd and have
| developed habits for finding and curating good music, both new
| and old. I'm codifying my habits and heuristics for discovering
| new music into an AI-powered social platform that can be used by
| anybody to widen their horizons in terms of music they listen to
| and to share their taste with others. https://waxnerd.com/adnan
| enricozb wrote:
| Working on writing a series of blog posts on interaction nets.
| The first one is up already an is an introduction to the topic
| [0]. I feel like the topic is very accessible but the ideas are
| spread out across discord channels, papers, twitter, and GitHub
| repos. Hoping to centralize it a bit.
|
| [0]:
| https://ezb.io/thoughts/interaction_nets/lambda_calculus/202...
| superdocs1 wrote:
| Building an app that extracts key information from PDFs +
| highlights citations.
|
| You provide a PDF and a JSON schema defining what to extract, and
| it returns the extracted values, the citations and their precise
| locations in the document.
|
| This is especially valuable in workflows where verification of
| LLM extracted information is critical (e.g. legal and finance).
| It can handle complex layouts like multiple columns, tables and
| also scanned documents.
|
| Planning to offer this both as an API and a self-hosted option
| for organizations with strict data privacy requirements.
|
| Screenshot: https://superdocs.io/highlight.png
|
| Feel free to get in touch for a demo.
| peterldowns wrote:
| I've been working on some structured OCR tools recently (in the
| context of reading resume pdfs and allowing much more useful
| search filters over them than our ATS system allows) and I've
| found Gemini with structured outputs capable of doing a
| fantastic job. I'm curious, do you have any rough pointers for
| how to do this self-hosted?
| stego-tech wrote:
| I'm in the midst of a tectonic career shift, from being laid off
| from a position and place I loved, to another gig while I keep
| looking for another unicorn role like before.
|
| So most of my project work is home-based, after years of being
| able to chase (and execute) dreams at work.
|
| On the technology front, I'm finally investing in a proper
| network core for home. WiFi 7 AP, 2.5Gig core, PoE everywhere,
| zone-based firewall. Still mapping out DHCP scopes and VLANs, but
| once that's done it'll be moving on to proper IoT and Home
| Assistant build-outs to prepare for the Unfolded Circle 3 later
| this summer. Also looking to redo my two N100 hypervisors off
| Proxmox and back to RHEL + Cockpit, or some other Linux + KVM
| implementation; from there, it's all about Kubernetes, Ansible,
| and Terraform. Really just a lot of oft-postponed side projects
| because I had amazing fulfillment at work, that I suddenly have
| ample time for now.
|
| Outside of the tech stuff, I'm still trying to get some decent
| photos of two local birds of prey that have been hunting in my
| neighborhood. They seemingly spite me by only showing themselves
| when I don't have my camera with me, but dangit, I _will_
| photograph them.
|
| On the writing front, I've got a few topics jostling around in
| drafts: speculating on potential futures of LLMs, the internet as
| a psychohazard, and a series of "fundamentals" to try and teach
| my non-techie circles more about how computers and the internet
| work, so they can do some modest self-hosting and get off
| centralized services. I'll likely dovetail some of them with my
| own home projects, writing them alongside the documentation as I
| make progress.
| boogieknite wrote:
| visionOS app for adding a spatial component to real estate pre-
| listing checklists. a for-fun prototype to demo how helpful it
| can be to tie standard form data to a physical location in
| certain use cases
| troman_dev wrote:
| Letterboxd for video-games! Don't know if it's novel enough but
| it's given me the chance to get into front-end design and think
| harder about database design.
| clintmcmahon wrote:
| A simple coffee shop app that shows the nearest coffees shops
| that are closest to you. Using Google's AI, each shop has a
| Gemini AI overview that describes the shops offerings and other
| information that might be useful to the user.
|
| I've only built it for Minneapolis and Chicago for now.
|
| https://mplscoffee.com
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| A database of indieweb/blogosphere pages that lets people search
| for peer content.
| SN76477 wrote:
| I find tracking movies and series I have watched with my partner
| an impossible task. Spreadsheets are too fiddly for my partner,
| and I want to look up what is next on my phone so I have turned
| to Airtable and n8n for automation.
|
| input a relevant url, it will decide if it IMDB or Youtube or a
| list. using an llm, it will attempt to extract the movies or
| series from the list and find the relevant IMDB link.
|
| Then I have a masonry view of movies & series I have and have not
| watched, sortable by tags that I can rate and add notes to.
| nooyurrsdey wrote:
| (Deleted)
| abhchand wrote:
| I'm working on SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app.
|
| https://github.com/abhchand/simplee-food
|
| I found most of the offerings out there to be too bloated.
| Recipes are a simple thing - you want to store them, search them,
| and view them easily.
|
| It has a full screen viewing mode for easy cooking with your
| tablet or phone.
| maedayx wrote:
| Learning iOS development by building a the habit-tracking app I
| wished existed - habit tracking has been done to death, but I
| couldn't find anything that worked _exactly_ the way I wanted, so
| I figured I 'd build it. I've found Swift / SwiftUI alternately
| delightful and infuriating so far. Most of my experience has been
| with web tech, so it's exciting to build something that doesn't
| run in a browser.
| arcsincosin wrote:
| I'm building a simple web-based drawing app for home sewing
| patterns. It's a little bit CAD and a little bit sketching tool.
| Born of my desire for easier and 100x cheaper home drafting
| tools. The app is still quite early (adding Bezier tools today)
| and the core workflow is not functional: of draft, lay out,
| print, repeat, only draft is working. But one step at a time!
| https://github.com/twaldorf/flatland-client
| z5h wrote:
| A Prolog TUI library that sticks to relational/logical
| programming, is conceptually simple, complete, and performant.
| Only requires some core ansi features that exist or are easily
| implemented in most Prologs. Currently have stuff like nested
| scrollable areas, toggles, frames, buttons, layouts working.
|
| Also, a visual programming language implemented as a PICO-8
| script, where the "programming" is done fully in the sprite
| editor.
| scottfalconer wrote:
| A minimalist, text-based memory system designed to naturally
| store and recall important events. It emphasizes simplicity,
| portability, and human-friendly structure by using six optional
| fields: who, what, when, where, how, and thing. These fields
| capture factual context clearly, deferring interpretation for
| later use or analysis.
|
| https://github.com/scottfalconer/vibedb
|
| I still have no idea if it's a good idea or a bad idea but it's
| been fun to think through.
| cmdrk wrote:
| I'm still tinkering on my multiplayer game server framework when
| not grinding away at my day job.
|
| The idea is essentially: An Erlang-based control plane,
| supporting ENet and WebSocket connection modes, with Protobuf for
| messages. Erlang has an excellent concurrency story, and I think
| it's a great fit for game servers. I've wrapped up a bunch of
| this work into behaviors on the Erlang side, such that developers
| can target the "gen_zone" behavior (for instance) to implement a
| tick-based game server. I'd like to expand that into other types
| of games, such as turn-based games.
|
| I've also got a Godot plugin for generating a client library
| based on your protobuf schema. The plugin handles session stuff,
| exposes functions for client-to-server messages, and emits
| signals for server-to-client messages.
|
| These days I'm working on integrating Luerl (Lua in Erlang) and
| Love2D support. I want to be able to take advantage of Erlang on
| the back-end while writing the majority of game logic in Lua.
| Further down the road I want to explore hot reloading parts of
| the Lua game state on the client/server, perhaps with an in-game
| editor, to develop the game "inside-out", in a way.
| bottlero_cket wrote:
| An eBook sever on raspberry pi running nodejs. I had a lot of
| issues with iCloud not being able to download my books, plus my
| entire library is almost 1 GB. So, my solution is to serve a list
| of PDFs over node and allow download of a specific page range.
| johnxie wrote:
| Working on Taskade (https://www.taskade.com), building the
| execution layer for AI collaboration.
|
| Taskade started as a real-time workspace for teams to organize
| projects and ideas. It's evolved into something bigger -- a
| platform where humans and AI work side by side.
|
| We're moving past simple chatbots into real agentic workflows,
| where teams can generate structured task lists, mind maps, and
| tables, train custom AI agents with dynamic knowledge, and
| automate work from start to finish.
|
| Today, Taskade is built around three core pillars: Projects,
| Agents, and Automation. It's like giving your team a second brain
| that can think, plan, and get work done across projects,
| automations, and real-time collaboration. If you're interested in
| the future of human-AI collaboration, take a look!
|
| https://www.taskade.com
| awaseem wrote:
| I launched Foqos here a few months back:
| https://github.com/awaseem/foqos and just working on the
| feedback. Since then added QR codes, breaks, ability to block
| apps manually and even a mini redesign. It's been a ton of fun so
| far!
| bjornlouser wrote:
| Detected a signal from extraterrestrials!
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/warm-sesam3/id6744872364
|
| Please take a look at the 'About' in settings
| deenadz wrote:
| https://www.cobolcopilot.com/
|
| We use a combination of 1) static analysis/PL theory and 2) Large
| Language Models to help large enterprises decode their legacy
| COBOL systems
| SteveMorin wrote:
| Batteries included python starter template `py-launch-blueprint`
|
| - https://github.com/smorin/py-launch-blueprint
|
| Features TLDR - Bootstrap commands -
| Command Runner - Dev Tools: Ruff (linting/formatting), MyPy
| (type checking), Pre-commit hooks - AI Ready: Default
| configs for Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code - Production:
| Python 3.10+, uv package manager, testing setup - DX -
| Developer Experience: VS Code integration, sensible defaults,
| quality documentation - CI/CD: GitHub Actions workflows,
| automatic testing, version management - Task Templates, PR
| Templates - License and Contributor License Agreement
| Checks
| BSOhealth wrote:
| I'm working on https://dropbag.co (fyi, not optimized for mobile
| web yet)
|
| It's a service for endurance athletes to configure nutrition
| packs to be available along the course at aid stations.
|
| Right now it's just a cool tool to build the bags based on your
| nutrition goals. I'm still doing a lot of outreach to race
| directors to get an opportunity to pilot the distribution of bags
| at an event.
| talonx wrote:
| I'm building Incidenthub.cloud - a B2B SaaS that monitors public
| status pages of third-party dependencies.
|
| It was born out of a personal need in past roles and teams. I
| launched it last year.
| chaosharmonic wrote:
| Various interviews. Ideally putting various other things back
| together thereafter.
|
| Conversely, tearing apart a bunch of things, around my family's
| house -- invasive vines, old worn-down structures, an extensive
| amount of brush, etc.
|
| Aside from that, getting a landing page working for my side
| project along with various ancillary tasks for a demo deploy.
| koistya wrote:
| WebSocket Router for Bun -- A type-safe WebSocket router for Bun
| with Zod-based message validation. Route WebSocket messages to
| handlers based on message type with full TypeScript support.
|
| https://github.com/kriasoft/bun-ws-router#readme
| NickC25 wrote:
| Growing a non-tech company.
|
| I started a functional beverage brand about 2 years ago and
| rebranded for larger scale about 7 months ago. I am located in
| South Florida and have had some decent success so far but still
| investing all profits back into the biz. Raised about $50k of
| outside money.
|
| If you're in South FLA and are into fitness and health, consider
| reaching out to me or responding.
|
| I will also have the capacity to sell in to the NYC market quite
| soon. If this sounds interesting, again, please respond or DM!
| creature_x wrote:
| I am building a couple of apps:
|
| https://spicychess.com: A real-time chess playing app where you
| can taunt your opponent and smack them during the game! If you
| smack them enough times to completely drain their health, you can
| steal their turn and make their move. There is also has a
| progression system where leveling unlocks increasingly fun
| abilities designed to torment and troll your opponent.
|
| https://wordazzle.com: Inspired by the quote 'the limits of my
| language are the limits of my world,' it's a daily game
| delivering 7 carefully chosen, sublime words designed to
| genuinely elevate your verbal prowess. You can also save the
| words you love as flashcards to review them later!
| goodgrief99 wrote:
| I'm developing trading bot for Pocket option binary options
| https://github.com/VitalySvyatyuk/pocket_option_trading_bot I
| created it to myself dreaming about passive constant profit.
| vishkk wrote:
| Surviving.
| angrigo wrote:
| Building atlez.app with my brother to manage our BJJ course.
|
| Loving the journey!
| tomatohs wrote:
| Computer-Use Agent for QA Testing https://testdriver.ai
| 698969 wrote:
| I'm preparing my t-shirt store for launch soon.
|
| I was having trouble meeting people after moving to a new city so
| I designed and printed some goofy funny t-shirts for my wardrobe,
| and that has really helped on getting the ball rolling on
| conversations.
|
| Hoping to make the launch within the next few weeks.
| jraby3 wrote:
| What are some examples? I'd love to check out your store but
| I'm worried by the time you launch this post and any
| communication with you will have vanished to the ether.
| 698969 wrote:
| Usually some commentary or puns on a random relatable life
| topic, I started with jokes about allergies.
|
| I'll setup a redirect on https://shop.gtmnayan.com when it's
| ready, still have to figure out logistics.
| vpianykh wrote:
| Building a GnuCash companion app for personal finance, with
| budgeting and auto synchronization over iCloud.
|
| P.S. Link https://apps.apple.com/us/app/handsonmoney/id6740042181
| axwaters wrote:
| I know its been done before but im building/tinkering on a window
| manager for windows called "Doors".
| https://github.com/A-Waters/doors
|
| Ive got a MVP right now, but i'm reworking the region build
| system and potentially reworking the underlying designing to
| follow a more tree based approach for managing the windows
|
| I've just tried other windows managers on windows and felt that
| have either been slow or buggy and wanted something that looks
| nice. My inspiration is based on Hyperland, as im currently dual
| booting and when I work on windows, all i want is a nice window
| manager.
|
| still very early in development but im excited for its potential.
|
| This also goes in line with my current studying of the windows
| OS, so its a bit of learning and then working. :)
| czhu12 wrote:
| Been building HelloCSV - an open source FlatFile alternative.
| I've been building this for work and the folks at work were cool
| enough to let me just build it in open source.
|
| https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/
|
| It basically runs 100% on your / your users browser, and I'm
| adding localstorage support so the user can refresh their page
| without losing their progress.
|
| Love flatfile but it sends your data to remote servers, and we're
| a healthcare company, so we need to have full control over our
| data storage
|
| Hoping someone on here will find this useful!
| hiddenest wrote:
| I'm building an AI meeting assistant that can help you "during"
| the meeting. https://caret.so
| wayneshng wrote:
| I'm building an accounting automation tool that captures and
| extracts information received from your billing inboxes and send
| them to your accounting system. I had this idea after freelancing
| and running a small software business in Estonia for 4 years. Let
| me know if you want to become an early adopter!
| jmcphers wrote:
| Positron, a data science IDE. Has roots in RStudio but it's built
| on VS Code and has robust support for both Python and R
| workflows. If you use VS Code and install a bunch of extensions
| to try to make it a competent R/Python data environment, you'll
| probably love Positron.
|
| https://positron.posit.co/
| omoikane wrote:
| An entry for the IOCCC (https://www.ioccc.org/), which is
| currently open until 2025-06-05.
| karmicthreat wrote:
| I've been doing a lot of work with ros2 lately at work. Been
| seeing some moves with VLA models driving robots with text
| prompts. I think I'm going to focus more of my "free" time on
| mastering that technology.
| gitroom wrote:
| so much cool stuff here, every time i read these threads i get
| fired up - makes me wanna double down on my own projects. you
| think the urge to build and tweak ever really fades or does it
| just shift into new stuff as life goes on?
| mawise wrote:
| (open source) Self-hostable, private social media alternative
| (like Facebook circa 2012). Functionally it is a private blog
| that speaks RSS with a built-in RSS aggregator. Self-hosting
| being the only way to actually have privacy in a social-media-
| type space.
|
| https://github.com/havenweb/haven
| Towaway69 wrote:
| Erlang-RED[2] a combination of Node-RED[1] and Erlang to create a
| visual low code programming environment for Erlang based on the
| principles of flow based programming.
|
| Reached a milestone today by being able to create a http endpoint
| and route the traffic (based to path variables) between various
| pathways. Thus it is possible to create a blog using Erlang-RED -
| what all good frameworks should be able to do ;)
|
| [2] = https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red
|
| [1] = https://nodered.org/
| jacobrussell wrote:
| https://timer-task.com
| xxmarkuski wrote:
| Just a small hardware project: I am building a cocktail mixer in
| an old PC case. I saw something similar at a con over Easter and
| had to build one myself, it had a tap coming out of the 3.5" bay
| and the ingredients were inside the pc case. It uses peristaltic
| pumps to move the different ingredients to the cup. It is very
| simple, but still took a couple of days to complete. In detail it
| consists of 6 x peristaltic pumps, 3 x L298N motor driver, 3 x
| PCF8574 io expander and an esp32. The software for the esp32 is
| very dumb and I actually coded it correctly before I had all the
| parts, it just enables and sets the speed for the motors and is
| attached via USB to a laptop. There a webapp is used to manage
| ingredients and recipes.
| fHr wrote:
| OSGI >.<
| dustywusty wrote:
| We're working on the successor to Weebly, with
| https://www.articulationsites.com. My partner and I were founding
| engineers at Weebly. It's clear that the brand is in decline at
| the hands of Square, and it drives us every day to make a great
| alternative that Weebly users can rely on.
| spudlyo wrote:
| My project is an ongoing one of self improvement. I've spent most
| of my adult life working on technical stuff, and it's taken a bit
| of a toll on me.
|
| I quit working about ~20 months ago, started a low-carb time
| restricted eating regime, lost ~230 lbs, have been doing 15-25
| hours of cardio a month for the past year, started going to
| therapy, got an ADHD diagnosis, read a bunch of classic
| literature (Middlemarch and The Count of Monte Cristo are my favs
| thus far), maintaining a 19 week streak of Latin language
| learning through the killer Legentibus iOS app, and I'm playing
| guitar every day (trying to nail the the major scale in three
| different fingerings across all 7 modal starting points).
|
| I miss my old job working with Vitess and Kubernetes a lot (Hi
| Sam!) but eliminating all work stress has really allowed me to
| take control of my life.
| prmph wrote:
| Really inspiring; most of what you've done are things I've been
| trying to ge the wherewithal to do since like forever. I wish
| you well.
| samlambert wrote:
| so proud of you Mike. we still regularly talk about how we miss
| you. i am so glad you are doing well.
| javiramos wrote:
| 230 lbs in 20 months -- that's amazing. Congrats.
| Tallain wrote:
| A series of pulpy short stories, sort of a Dark Americana / weird
| fiction thing. Noir, magic, existential dread, horror. Warming up
| for a novel in a completely different genre but I wanted to iron
| out some of my own shortcomings and stretch some muscles before I
| write yet another 100k words on a project I'm unhappy with.
| spoonsort wrote:
| That's right up my alley. I've been thinking about writing
| something in this style but with a jazz biome twist (kind of
| like steampunk but with a jazz-centric world instead of steam
| power). Do you use a specific text editor or git workflow to
| manage your work?
| Loic wrote:
| Need to renovate an old house, built in the 50's, extended later
| in the 60's, 90's and 2000's. I want to calculate the heat loss,
| energy requirements to install a heat pump. So, I am writing a
| relatively simple Python program to compute the heat requirements
| (max total and max per room) to get the possible energy savings
| if changing windows, isolating etc.
|
| By doing the calculations myself, I can play with different
| scenarios, I can also integrate the effect on the material
| quality uncertainty. Nothing fancy, but it fits my needs.
| zahlman wrote:
| I'm developing PAPER (the Python Application, Package and
| Environment wRangler, a Python package installer), and will soon
| return to bbbb (the Bare-Bones Build Backend, a build backend for
| Python packages).
|
| PAPER is designed from the ground up to avoid Pip design
| mistakes, directly taking advantage of new standards while also
| offering Pipx-like functionality. Unlike uv, Poetry etc., PAPER
| is not a project manager or workflow tool; it installs the
| packages that you tell it to (and their dependencies),
| when/where/because you do. It's entirely user-focused, and
| usefulness for developers is treated as mostly incidental.
| (However, it can of course form a useful part of a proper
| development toolchain.)
|
| It's not in a publicly-usable state yet, but these are the main
| design principles I'm working from:
|
| * It's designed from the ground up to provide a programmatic API
| and to install cross-environment (in fact, you're only expected
| to install in its own environment in order to provide plugins).
| The API is provided by a separate wheel; other projects can
| explicitly cite that as a dependency and don't have to
| `subprocess.call` to a CLI.
|
| * Size and performance are paramount. (Much of Pip's slow
| performance on smaller tasks is due to its size). I'm aiming for
| ~1MB total disk footprint for the base installation (compare
| ~10-15 for Pip, which is often multiplied across several
| environments; ~35 for uv). Dependencies are very carefully
| considered; installations are cached as much as possible (and
| hard-linked when possible, like with uv); etc.
|
| * The program bootstraps itself as a zipapp that pre-loads the
| program's own cache before having it install itself from its own
| wheel (within that cache). This entails that there aren't any
| "hidden" vendored dependencies; anything that ends up bundled
| with PAPER can immediately be installed with PAPER, without an
| Internet connection.
|
| * Non-essential functionality can be provided later by simply
| installing optional dependencies. The default is sufficient for
| the program to install wheels with minimal feedback.
|
| * The CLI is built around separate hyphenated commands rather
| than sub-commands, for simpler implementation and better tab-
| completion. Commands are aimed at offering somewhat finer-grained
| control while keeping simple use cases simple.
|
| bbbb is largely inspired by Flit, but is also intended to support
| projects with non-Python code, and doesn't enforce distributions
| with a single top-level import package. It uses the same split
| between a core package and a full development package, except the
| core package is treated as default. It's designed to be _even
| more_ minimal than flit-core, and in fact can only build wheels
| by itself (dynamically pulling in the dev package if asked to
| make an sdist).
|
| The goal is to minimize download footprint and maximize
| modularity when end users download an sdist and want to make a
| wheel from it (for example, implicitly via an installer). Users
| will declare the dev package as the build system in
| pyproject.toml, and may even declare it as an in-tree backend
| which will then be automatically added to the sdist. So people
| who (for some reason - perhaps to satisfy Linux distro
| maintainers) want to distribute an sdist for pure Python code,
| won't need any build-time dependencies at all.
|
| Building non-Python code in bbbb, as well as customizing sdist
| contents and metadata (beyond what's directly supported), works
| by hooking into arbitrary Python code. Unlike the setup.py of
| Setuptools, the code can have custom name and locations specified
| in pyproject.toml, and it has specific and narrow purpose. I.e.:
| it's _not_ part of implementing a class framework to power a now-
| deprecated custom CLI; it _only_ implements compilation /metadata
| creation/manifest filtering - and does so with a much simpler,
| more direct API. You're meant to build upon this with additional
| support libraries (e.g. to locate compilers on the user's system)
| - again, modularity is key - that are separately listed as build-
| time dependencies.
|
| I'm trying to make _simple, elegant_ , pure-Python tools that
| complement each other and respect (my understanding of) modern
| Python packaging standards and their underlying goals. A
| developer could end up with a toolchain that looks like: PAPER,
| bbbb, build (the reference build frontend provided by PyPA),
| cookiecutter (or similar - for setting up new projects), twine
| (the default uploader), and some shell scripts - for things like
| "install dependencies with PAPER in a new environment and then
| add a .pth file for the current project to that environment".
| (And if you like linters and typecheckers, I certainly won't stop
| you from using them.)
| hackerkarlos wrote:
| Im working on a Discord Bot that can spin up game servers on
| demand. We are two developers, me and my friend from uni. Its
| called SLASHPLAY (https://slashplay.gg) . We are trying to make
| it as convienient as possible to spin up a game server for
| friends or fellow gamers. Currently we are trying to find out if
| we can make a living from it :?
| fdisk122 wrote:
| A new fitness app! Sign up for the waitlist at
| https://gaintain.co
| leansensei wrote:
| I'm working on my second self-published technical book related to
| Elixir. The first one has been a surprising success, but since it
| was about learning to use Ecto on the basis of an old pedagogical
| toy database (and tiny dataset), the new book is about the
| development of a production-grade REST API with Elixir and
| Phoenix.
|
| I find that many books out there are focused on documenting the
| "happy path" for rather small and simplistic applications without
| boundary conditions or business thinking behind them.
|
| So, I thought (as with the first books) that it mix things up by
| also documenting the business context, the questions, decisions,
| and the decision-making process itself, as well as all the
| gotchas and "side-quests", rather than showing "here's how you do
| it" and then expecting the reader to suddenly make the jump from
| tutorial hell to actually software engineering.
|
| Overall, it's enormously enjoyable, and I hope it goes as far as
| the first book, and possibly even farther.
| derwiki wrote:
| An email-based service to mail your photos as postcards. As a
| parent of littles: the littles love the postcards, and the
| grandparents love them too.
|
| I know you can print photos at Walgreens etc, but I never do it
| because it has some friction: email-based reduces almost all of
| the friction in my use case.
| patrickdevivo wrote:
| I've been meaning to build a Stripe app to experiment with their
| UI SDK, which allows you to extend the Stripe dashboard interface
| with custom code. I took a go at it with a Customer Enrichment
| app: https://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/hybound-enrichment and
| got a couple of installs!
| zakariaelhjouji wrote:
| I want to increase my presence on Twitter by posting more, but I
| don't like going on Twitter. So I created a chrome extension that
| opens a small text box and I write my post there and send it.
|
| https://tweettoilet.com
| 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. Just this weekend I
| began adding cypress tests. I can finally see an official release
| in the distance!
|
| - 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
| gooseus wrote:
| I recently published this library for routing messages within an
| application using the same kind of wildcard semantics that NATS
| uses - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gooseus/natsrun
|
| Currently just test driving it in some relatively simple work
| scenarios, but I imagine it could be a useful tool for consuming
| a NATS firehose of messages in a single application and routing
| them internally using the same semantics subject rules so that it
| would be easy to split them out as separate consumers when/if
| that became necessary.
| kmdupree wrote:
| http://makefizz.buzz/
|
| I work at a small startup trying to hire engineers and got tired
| of looking through resumes. As Joel Spolsky points out, they're
| not great indications of technical ability. Instead, I decided to
| throw together a take-home challenge that applicants could access
| via an API. "If they can't solve the challenge, I don't need to
| see their resume," I told myself.
|
| FizzBuzz.md is a better version of the solution I built for work.
| It lets applicants send questions and submissions to configurable
| email addresses via API so the email addresses aren't exposed
| directly. (Less spam, FTW)
| marvinblum wrote:
| I'm still working like crazy on our privacy-friendly web
| analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) :) I've been doing
| this for more than 4 years now and I'm still super motivated,
| especially because it's challenging from a technical point of
| view and very rewarding (I live from it now).
|
| There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing
| department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy
| space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started
| working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite
| well with our existing product. I think it's always a good
| starting point to solve your own problems.
| jsiva wrote:
| Working on a python library for combining shell commands and
| python functions with pipeline operator syntax. Hasn't progressed
| beyond an experimental prototype, some of the tests (i.e.
| test_bash_pipe.py) show how it works.
|
| - repo: https://github.com/JanukanS/cudgel/tree/main
| pistoriusp wrote:
| https://docs.rwsdk.com
|
| RedwoodSDK is a React Framework for Cloudflare. We wanted to
| build something that allows people to focus on the software that
| they want to write, rather than the infrastructure that it runs
| on. Writing software isn't really a barrier anymore, the parts
| that developers find annoying can be shortcut with generated
| code, but you can't gloss over pushing to production.
|
| Cloudflare gives us the ability to offer developers compute,
| database, storage, queues, AI, realtime with durable objects,
| etc... and to emulate that locally with just a single package
| installation.
| Two_hands wrote:
| A privacy app for macOS which tells you when someone is looking
| at your screen.
|
| It uses the webcam and a locally running facial detection model
| to alert you if it detects someone in frame.
|
| It's FOSS and available @ https://www.eyesoff.app
| artpani wrote:
| Setting up new projects shouldn't be a chore. We built DevExp
| (dx) to fix it. -Secrets stay local (or sync across devices).
| -Tunnels with unlimited subdomains + WebSocket support. -Full
| HTTP/WebSocket traffic inspector. -Git profiles per project -- no
| more editing .gitconfig. -Instant deploys to lightweight Deno
| isolates.
|
| Coming soon: embedded DB, password manager, dotfile manager,
| boilerplate generator -- all inside the CLI. waitlist:
| https://devexp.pro
| vseplet wrote:
| Currently, I am exploring one of the simplest and fastest ways to
| create a command-line utility (in TypeScript) and its
| distribution mechanism
|
| - repo: https://github.com/vseplet/PPORT
| dcatx wrote:
| I'm hacking on Trailbound, a hiking and backpacking planning
| tool. The goal is combining a light version of the routing
| capability of Caltopo or GaiaGPS with more granular "leg" mapping
| based on how I learned to plan off trail trips and sharing
| functions that make it easy for my wife to know where I'm going
| to be, who I'm with, and who to contact if I'm not back in touch
| when I said I would be.
|
| Its been a blast to build. At one point I was hosting my own ORS
| server but that's extremely silly to do when Mapbox has a very
| generous free tier. Learning about all of the open source tooling
| and open data available in the mapping world has been incredible.
|
| The cost of the Hetzner box it runs on isn't much more than a
| Caltopo pro subscription with the added bonus of being much
| easier to share with non-hikers.
|
| A quick demo:
| https://www.loom.com/share/a5f7a7c23457400aa92b3f0f71a0008f
|
| The app: https://go.trailboundapp.com
|
| No marketing site, no onboarding, or any real UX attention paid
| to the app at this point, it is mostly Just For Me and will
| probably remain that way once I land a job again.
|
| I'm starting to chip away at an iOS app so I can get offline
| access to maps and routes, but I'm not a Swift dev so the going
| is slow.
| pranav_cm wrote:
| I'm building Meteor (https://browse.dev) - an agentic browser.
| The goal is to remove the prompting layer in CUA, and to have a
| browser that just gets you and can do actions like a personal
| assistant.
|
| I got tired of waiting for Perplexity to launch Comet, so me and
| a friend just decided to build our own. This is probably the most
| fun I have had building a project.
| devenjarvis wrote:
| https://github.com/runsecret/rsec
|
| An easier and more secure way to work with secrets during local
| development. It's open source, cloud/vault agnostic, and doesn't
| require a single line of code change to use. I call it RunSecret.
|
| RunSecret is a CLI that replaces your static secrets with "secret
| references" in your ENV VARs (or .env files). These references
| are then replaced when your application starts up by reaching out
| to your secret vault of choice - making your .env safe to share
| across your whole team and removing a slew of gotchas when you
| use git ignored env files. Even better RunSecret redacts any
| instance of these secrets from your application output, reducing
| your chances for accidental leaks.
|
| The approach is inspired by the 1password CLI, but built for the
| rest of us. I've got AWS Secrets Manager support pretty well
| baked, but the goal is to support all major secret vaults within
| the next couple of months (Azure KeyVault is already in
| progress).
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Interesting approach. Why this over GitLab secrets that are
| integrated with a vault of choice?
|
| I assume this is to cover the non-CI/CD scenario.
| devenjarvis wrote:
| Thanks for checking it out! The pain point for me has largely
| been during local development, especially in a team setting
| when secrets change or people onboard or roll off and those
| manually managed .env files get unwieldy.
|
| Gitlab Secrets looks cool, but that hits at another reason I
| think RunSecret is valuable even for CI - we don't use GitLab
| at my day job so it's not an option for me! I think GitLab
| and 1password have interesting proprietary solutions that
| definitely have inspired RunSecret, but I'd love to see an
| open source, universal solution here - which I'm hoping
| RunSecret can be!
| firesteelrain wrote:
| The disadvantage to GitLab is to get the feature mentioned
| is you need to pay for the premium version. We host it
| ourselves and looking to buy the Enterprise version to get
| us the vault integrations (specifically AKV)
| devenjarvis wrote:
| Ahh, yup! The RunSecret CLI is completely free and open
| source.
|
| Azure KeyVault support is in progress and should land
| soon. I will notate it in the release changelog once it's
| ready, but I'm also happy to reply here or let you know
| another way if you are interested!
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Will monitor your progress
|
| Also be interesting to see what trufflehog finds (should
| be false positive)
|
| https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog
| thedanbob wrote:
| I just finished a small personal project: a self-hosted web app
| which stores and indexes my archived emails. None of the existing
| options I tried were very good so I made my own. A simple Rails
| app that ingests .eml files and stores the text in postgres for
| full-text search.
|
| I learned a lot about text encodings, multipart emails, inline
| attachments, postgres' tsvector/tsquery, etc. I'm particularly
| proud of how I was able to use `WITH RECURSIVE` to get an email's
| entire thread, which seems basic but the other archive apps I
| tried didn't have that feature.
| openplatypus wrote:
| Fourth year of Wide Angle Analytics and going strong :)
|
| More advanced digital marketing features, scaling and what's
| typical for mature product, an upgrade cycle of for major 3rd
| party dependencies.
| vishakh82 wrote:
| https://monadicdna.com
|
| Open, secure personal genomics using fully homomorphic
| encryption.
|
| With 23andMe bankrupt, I want to put out somewhere secure people
| can put their genomic data and receive insights. In a few months,
| I'll have a protocol in place to open up the data to third party
| apps (with user consent). The data does not have to be decrypted
| ever to be operated upon!
| akprasad wrote:
| As a side project, I'm creating resources for learning Tamil, my
| parents' native language:
|
| https://akprasad.github.io/tamil/
|
| It's been a lot of fun getting the basic tools going:
| transliterators, morphological generators and analyzers, and some
| other things on top. But the main goal is to improve fluency as
| quickly and efficiently as possible.
| aadhavans wrote:
| As another Tamilian, thank you for making this! I'm fluent in
| spoken Tamil from my parents and I've learned to read and write
| at a basic level, but I'd never formally learned the language.
| aadhavans wrote:
| https://indiantranslate.com
|
| It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see
| the translations across 22 languages.
|
| I was inspired by this HN post
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587), and wanted to
| make something similar for India (which has similar linguistic
| diversity). Translations are fetched with Google Translate, but I
| also display 'romanizations' (transliterated into Latin script),
| which are generated with a local ML model.
|
| Now that it's done, I've mostly been working on a little
| Markdown-to-HTML parser in Haskell.
| lancekey wrote:
| https://computeprices.com
|
| A side project I started at the end of last year.
|
| It's pretty clear that compute and energy are going to be two of
| the most important resources to track and manage in the coming
| decades. I'm trying to get a sense for prices and usage of
| compute and this project is my attempt to do that hopefully
| providing useful info to others as well.
| eamonobr wrote:
| UTM builder for marketers in Flutterflow. Most on the market are
| hard-to-configure, bloated, and/or expensive.
| rakete wrote:
| A blender addon for uncluttering the viewport:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91LbFFcMVY
|
| It is a smaller part of a whole collection of addons I've been
| working on meant for helping with animating character assets from
| Daz Studio in Blender and then bringing the animation back into
| Daz Studio.
|
| Eventually I want to have a zero effort way to get characters
| from Daz Studio into Unreal or Godot with FACS morphs, JCMs, etc.
| already setup.
| mNovak wrote:
| Recently started building a rules-engine for Warhammer 40k, so
| that I can finally play a game RTS-style in the browser.
| Hopefully one day I'll get to a public lobby / matchmaking (think
| chess.com for WH40k).
|
| It's something I've been thinking about for years, but kept
| avoiding because I knew it'd be a huge commitment and I figured
| surely someone else would do it eventually. But I decided to
| finally tackle it and learn some new skills. 40k has literally
| 1000s of special rules across all the armies, so it's been fun
| designing a highly modifiable architecture.
| psion wrote:
| Still trying to make my CMS a thing:
| https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMS
| https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMSBundle
|
| It's a PHP application running in Symfony. All the CMS heavy
| lifting is done in the Bundle, and a minimal amount happens in
| the actual application side. I have worked hard on what is there,
| and still have a ton of work to go. Always could use the help.
| androng wrote:
| A website that extracts useful images from youtube videos. It
| would be a summary but includes the images because "text only"
| doesn't work for really new ideas. and "text only" doesn't show
| bar graphs. And I think I will make it also make it draw boxes
| and arrows on top of the images for extra clarity.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| https://easel.games/about
|
| A programming language for teenagers to learn to code by making
| multiplayer games. I've spent 3 years making the multiplayer
| completely automatic so you can just code it like a singleplayer
| game, then flick a switch and it just works. My hope is that
| teenagers will find it more engaging if they can play their games
| with their friends. A bit like a combination of Roblox and
| Scratch.
|
| Currently trying to implement some region affinity so it doesn't
| just put everyone in the world in the same game. It's rollback
| netcode so the latency is very good even across continents, but
| it can't overcome the fact that the world is just too large.
| dh1011 wrote:
| https://github.com/dh1011/c2p
|
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=H337.c2p
|
| I'm developing a VS Code and Cursor extension that helps
| developers quickly copy all code in a workspace to the clipboard
| for use with LLMs.
|
| It also displays the token count for each file, as well as the
| total token count across the workspace.
|
| By default, it ignores files listed in .gitignore, but this
| behavior can be customized in the extension settings, along with
| many other options.
| luizpv9 wrote:
| https://github.com/luizpvas/explicit
|
| Explicit is a validation and documentation library for REST APIs
| built with Rails that enforces documented types at runtime. This
| week I added support for MCP servers with the Streamable HTTP
| transport.
| peignoir wrote:
| working on muhu.ai : ai product manager
|
| and this small site makes a curriculum for anything you want to
| learn and gives you books + sources to do so:
|
| https://curriculum-me.fly.dev/
| peignoir wrote:
| https://curriculum-me.fly.dev/ makes a curriculum with books
| links for anything
| peignoir wrote:
| muhu.ai : an ai product manager (makes biz reports and benchmark
| your dev team, keep everyone aligned)
| nicksergeant wrote:
| I'm building a platform for small-city business directories
| called TownWire: https://townwire.com
|
| We launched our first location last week and have had a great
| response so far from business owners and residents alike:
| https://canandaigua.com With the current tech climate of AI and
| big tech, things have gotten so impersonal for the majority of
| actual people. I'm betting on communities and the small
| businesses that serve those communities in the medium and long
| term.
| raybb wrote:
| I love this idea! Do y'all push/pull the data to OpenStreetMap
| at all or the users have to add it all manually?
| simple10 wrote:
| https://github.com/LLemonStack/llemonstack/
|
| Little personal project that started as a means to try out AI
| tools that can talk to each other. Turned out to be super useful
| for building and debugging complex AI automations. I haven't had
| the time to promote it. But maybe someone here will find it
| useful.
| polishdude20 wrote:
| I'm making a hymn presentation website for my dad. He's an
| organist at the local church and they've got TV's at the front
| showing everyone the words to the hymns. He switches the pages
| using a foot pedal while he plays and sings.
|
| The software he currently uses is too complicated and he gets
| lost easily with all the buttons and features. My website is
| basically the same thing but only the buttons he needs, only his
| hymns and is completely controlled by me so I can fix things to
| suite him.
| felixding wrote:
| https://kintoun.ai
|
| A translation app that keeps document layout almost intact. It's
| also better than Google Translate and DeepL.
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