[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Author : david927
Score : 78 points
Date : 2025-05-25 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
| iamwil wrote:
| A reactive notebook with algebraic 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.
| axegon_ wrote:
| Fully open source cinematography drone. Spoilers: I only started
| a few weeks ago and I've got a long way to go still. Currently
| prototyping the gimbal for more context and wasting a ton of PLA
| in the process.
| cadr wrote:
| Neat! What makes a "cinematography" drone different than a
| generic drone?
| sagering wrote:
| I am working on kel, a typed configuration and templating
| language both written and embeddable in rust:
| https://github.com/sagering/kel.
|
| Feedback, suggestions or contributions are very welcome! :)
| austin-cheney wrote:
| A PTY in JavaScript. XTERM.js is not pure JavaScript as it builds
| binaries to do this.
| mgl wrote:
| Assembling my CPS5 underwater drone: https://www.cpsdrone.com/
| oulipo wrote:
| I'm working on building a repairable and fireproof e-bike
| battery! Check it out at https://gouach.com
| hardlianotion wrote:
| Cool - is it easy to tell which batteries have a problem when
| you need to replace some?
| akkartik wrote:
| A programming environment where boxes and arrows and hyperlinks
| are pervasively available to source code.
|
| https://akkartik.name/post/2025-03-08-devlog
|
| https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/114547652849162554
| sgammon wrote:
| Elide, a new polyglot runtime. https://elide.dev
| theThree wrote:
| The fastest PostgreSQL Node driver written in TypeScript:
| https://github.com/stanNthe5/pgline
| kacesensitive wrote:
| Dude those benchmarks are nice great job
| mindcrime wrote:
| As far as what I'm focusing on this weekend:
|
| 1. Right now, working on standing up an MCP server in Java. Not
| using the Spring Boot support at the moment, but rather setting
| up embedded Tomcat and doing it the more "low level" way just for
| didactic purposes. I'm sure I'll use Spring Boot once I get
| deeper into all of this.
|
| 2. Plowing through the "AI Agents in Action" book. I'm just
| wrapping up the section on AutoGen and about to move into crew.ai
| stuff.
|
| 3. Reading a book on Software Product Line Engineering.
|
| 4. I have an older project that's Grails based that I let linger
| without any attention for a really long time. I'm working on
| updating it to run on the latest Grails and Java versions and
| also writing some automated smoke tests.
| 35mm wrote:
| Email newsletter tracking the latest VC rounds, built in Rust:
| https://gtmintel.com
| clone1018 wrote:
| Really like your web design!
| jlaneve wrote:
| On the home page right now it links to the Slash funding
| announcement 4 days ago, but the description looks way off
| AlbinoDrought wrote:
| Unifi Video was replaced by Unifi Protect some time in 2020. I
| wasn't sure how to self-host Protect, so I never migrated to it.
| I've recently reached a situation where some phones can no longer
| install the Unifi Video app. These phones are now relegated to
| using the rough-on-mobile UI. The Unifi Video web UI has also
| never worked well in Firefox for me.
|
| In the past few months, I've finally started working on a basic
| replacement NVR that works for me:
| https://github.com/AlbinoDrought/creamy-nvr
|
| Like many video projects, it's a glorified ffmpeg wrapper :)
| patatman wrote:
| You might be interested in running Frigate NVR (
| https://frigate.video/)
|
| Replaced my Synology surveillance station since 2023, and has
| been running great. I also have a Google Coral for the image
| processing, but this is optional.
| kacesensitive wrote:
| Thought it was goofy that I was still reading newsletters through
| my inbox. I really don't want to open my email unless I'm
| working. Anyways, some friends and I made Scrollz to fix that and
| also add some cool features to the newsletter reading experience.
| AI summaries, newsletter discovery, audio narrations, etc.
|
| https://www.scrollz.co/
| muhammadusman wrote:
| moving off of Ghost to an astro blog b/c I don't write often
| enough to justify a $110/year fee and I also found out there's no
| way to moderate spam comments.
| euvin wrote:
| Inspired by MathAcademy, I'm developing:
|
| 1) a note-taking workflow in Obsidian (you take bite-sized notes
| about a topic, then connect "prerequisite" notes in Obsidian's
| canvas editor)
|
| 2) a tool that uploads each note and graph data to a database
|
| 3) a webapp that presents those notes algorithmically using
| spaced repetition. This enables you to allow others to "traverse"
| your note graph in a guided and self-paced manner.
|
| You can add "challenge presets" to each note so that your mastery
| of each piece of knowledge can be tested with simple flashcards,
| multiple choice, free response, or some visual/actionable task to
| force active recall. An algorithm uses your success rate and
| spaced repetition data to introduce & drill more advanced notes
| into your long term memory.
|
| Here's some more reading I was inspired by:
|
| https://www.mathacademy.com/pedagogy
|
| https://www.justinmath.com/individualized-spaced-repetition-...
|
| Even if there are a lot of imperfections and flaws about this
| project (like the sheer difficulty of curating a good knowledge
| graph to begin with), I'm hoping to make my note-taking in
| Obsidian more structured and thorough, replace my Anki routine,
| and make any of my notes into an automated + algorithmic course.
| If someone has another similar project (combining note-taking
| with hierarchal, topological knowledge graphs with spaced
| repetition and testing all in one platform) I would love to hear
| more about your approaches. Quick shoutout to one person I've
| seen who is doing something similar:
| https://x.com/JeffreyBiles/status/1926639544666816774
| suncemoje wrote:
| You think current AI could create such a knowledge graph? And
| use it?
| acenturyandabit wrote:
| I'm building something similar in my free time! Please let me
| know how you go :)
| ravroid wrote:
| I was getting tired of summarizing long articles & threads on
| HN/Reddit with ChatGPT so I made a simple little Chrome/Firefox
| extension to do it for me:
|
| https://literead.ai
| daza wrote:
| I'm currently setting up Hyprland--it's my first experience with
| a tiling window manager.
| nickpeterson wrote:
| Converting a 600GB database into a 1GB database through
| refactoring/normalization/compression.
| axi0m wrote:
| Wow, nice optimization.
| Oras wrote:
| Free Resume Builder
|
| When I was looking for a job last summer, I got frustrated with
| the current resume builders on the market and decided to build
| one exactly how I wanted to use it.
|
| - No signup, no login, and no payment.
|
| - Suggest a professional summary (with highlighting) to match a
| job description [0].
|
| - Preview as you go.
|
| - ATS friendly templates.
|
| - Find relevant jobs for my resume.
|
| [0] Recruiters skim through resumes, and highlighting the
| keywords they look for has always helped me to get their
| attention, so I decided to implement this feature using AI.
|
| https://resumeyay.com
| ranuzz wrote:
| I'm building small web and mobile games. Always exploring new
| game ideas, happy to chat with others in game dev
| AaronAPU wrote:
| Just released a "Loudness Contour" audio plugin. Let's you apply
| various equal-loudness contours like Fletcher-Munson, ISO-226,
| LUFS style K-weighting, etc.
|
| Fits into my "loudness series" suite of tools.
|
| Have 3 more in development and then it'll be on to the next
| series.
|
| https://apu.software/contour/
| shayanbahal wrote:
| Vibe coding a few apps I always felt humanity deserves (a bit
| exaggerated but kind of not :) )
|
| - https://padsnap.app/ : PadSnap is a simple web app that adds
| customizable padding to your images so they fit
| Instagram's/custom dimensions -- no cropping, no quality loss.
| All on browser, no server uploads. Also no ads or login.
|
| - https://shiryakhat.net/ : redid my podcasts website last week:
| Shir Ya Khat podcast, which translates to "Head or Tails" in
| Farsi, began its non-profit journey in 2016 with a mission to
| make blockchain and cryptocurrency technical knowledge accessible
| to Farsi speakers worldwide.
|
| - life timetime visualizer, still WIP, feedback welcome:
| https://shayanb.github.io/timeline/
| windowshopping wrote:
| A new site of daily puzzles, mostly word puzzles but also one
| numbers puzzle. Releasing soon!
| tha00 wrote:
| I'm working on a new secondary dominant exercise for my Jazz
| pratice app: https://jazzln.vercel.app/
| NoTranslationL wrote:
| A few things:
|
| Reflect - an app to track anything and analyze your data,
| including a feature to run self-guided experiments [0]
|
| Later - an app to schedule non-urgent tasks and ideas, with an
| SRS-like scheduler to punt items [1]
|
| [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-
| anything/id64638...
|
| [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/later-set-
| intentions/id6742691...
| murrion wrote:
| I've been experimenting with data formats like Parquet and
| Iceberg, and recently came across Lance. I wanted to try building
| something around it.
|
| So I put together a simple Digital Asset Manager (DAM) where:
|
| * Images are uploaded and vectorized using CLIP
|
| * Vectors are stored in Lance format directly on Cloudflare R2
|
| * Search is done via Lance, comparing natural language queries to
| image vectors
|
| * The whole thing runs on Fly.io across three small FastAPI apps
| (upload, search, frontend)
|
| No Postgres or Mongo. No AI, Just object storage and files.
|
| You can try it here:
|
| * https://metabare.com/
|
| Or see the code here:
|
| * https://github.com/gordonmurray/metabare.com
|
| Would love feedback or ideas on where to take it next -- I'm
| planning to add image tracking and store that usage data in
| Parquet or Iceberg on R2 as well.
| nullderef wrote:
| I was building an intentionally annoying app against
| doomscrolling [1]. Being technical, I tried to focus on product,
| marketing and more instead of the implementation. But I still
| didn't ship quick enough. It's so hard. Only after a few months
| did I start with marketing, and it hit me like a wall.
|
| So I'm giving a try to a project which _started_ with marketing.
| No implementation, just a TikTok to see if people like it. And
| holy crap, we got 75k views!
|
| The new idea [2] is easier to explain (1 pushup = 1 minute of
| scrolling) and already has a community. Plus, not working alone
| helps me focus on what I'm good at: programming. I don't regret
| learning about other areas but doing marketing for a living is
| not my thing.
|
| I'm not getting rid of SpeedBump, though. It's a fun side project
| and it does help people :)
|
| [1] https://speedbumpapp.com
|
| [2] https://pushscroll.com
| rgyams wrote:
| I'm working on MyPhotosGallery, an application that allows people
| to create photo galleries from their Google Photos. I've made it
| easy to onboard users and also priced it in Ghana Cedis so that
| it's cheaper for anyone. Currently there are templates for
| birthday, graduation, wedding and general photoshoot.
| https://myphotosgallery.com/
| eqmvii wrote:
| AI agents and testing "vibe coding"
|
| It doesn't feel there yet, but starting to seem some workflows
| could be close. And non-technical folks at business are starting
| to pay attention and want projects moving in those areas.
| flashblaze wrote:
| Currently working on InstaClock. Time tracking app for
| individuals. Do check it out: https://instaclock.app
|
| I redesigned the home page today itself. Any feedback is
| appreciated!
| herol3oy wrote:
| I'm working on Austen[0] which generates story relationship
| graphs with Mermaid
|
| [0] https://github.com/herol3oy/austen
| tunesmith wrote:
| I've been working on a calibration website / app.
|
| Along the lines of predictionbook, metaculus - something that
| helps you be "well calibrated", but more playful/fun than
| metaculus.
|
| It doesn't have a lot of upside - predictionbook actually went
| offline due to lack of interest. But it was a good excuse to try
| out some vibe coding, and learn react native (I've mostly been a
| backend programmer).
|
| In an attempt to make it more engaging and fun, I decided to have
| it focus on sports picks. Also partly because calibration graphs
| need to have a _lot_ of predictions to yield any reliable
| information about your calibration.
|
| I got it up in time for March Madness and about 25 of my friends
| joined and it was a good time. I nagged and reminded them a lot
| about about 15-20 of them predicted all 63 games, by picking the
| winner of each match and what their percentage confidence was. I
| had a leaderboard and live-blogged and gave silly awards.
|
| I later added support for multiple "tournaments" and currently
| have tournaments going for NBA Playoffs and NHL Playoffs, but
| interest is waning. Of my friends, only 2-3 others are still
| regularly predicting.
|
| Maybe it'll be more fun for the NFL season but I might also let
| it go a bit dormant.
|
| Biggest challenge is that there isn't really a bulletproof way to
| rank people if people only predict _some_ games in a tournament.
| I 've tried all sorts of things, minimum # of games, bayesian
| kernel smoothing, but it's ultimately arbitrary when choosing how
| to penalize someone for not participating.
|
| If I were to continue I'd be looking at things like automatically
| integrating with sports apis and odds/bookmaking apis, allowing
| users to create their own tournaments, etc. But ultimately, the
| UX of the site isn't much more than making a prediction, and then
| checking back later when the game is over to see your score. Not
| much more reason to hang around on the site than that.
| nico wrote:
| A CLI ai-powered job matcher and application tracker for finding
| tech/startups roles. Open source:
| https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs
|
| Also having fun one-shoting or few-shoting, little games and
| interactives:
|
| * https://openjam.ai/stupid_coral_852/yj34um3hkq
|
| * https://openjam.ai/lonely_ant_702/v3nyt4if54
| ecce_homo wrote:
| Because I love building APIs and backend services, I built a
| simple IP geolocation service with the best developer experience.
| It has free (rate-limited) access and affordable paid tiers.
| Check it out: https://ip-sonar.com
| anonu wrote:
| This is cool - how does IP geolocation work? How do you know
| that xyz IP is at this particular spot?
|
| Edit: I see you are using MaxMind database - do you add some
| sort of additional analytics or overlay on top of that?
| ecce_homo wrote:
| At this moment, I'm still very early with the service, I
| don't do any serious data crunching on my end (but I plan
| to).
| anttiharju wrote:
| On https://github.com/anttiharju/vmatch as a hobby. It's starting
| to get to a workable state, I'm using it to manage Go and
| golangci-lint for the project itself. It even works with the Go
| vs code plugin.
|
| I think many version managers make things unnecessarily
| difficult, especially if one hops from one repo to another.
| vmatch automatically uses and installs the right versions.
| dmitshur wrote:
| The toolchain management added in Go 1.21 sounds related to
| this. Hopefully you're already aware of it, but if not, see
| https://go.dev/blog/toolchain.
| anttiharju wrote:
| It's a helpful link, thank you. I think I need to play with
| toolchain more. Last time I checked I think there was some
| corner case that was not covered but I could be wrong.
| anfractuosity wrote:
| I'm working on 3D printing a lens mount and battery holder for
| Canon EF lenses to a night vision tube I've got
| (https://github.com/anfractuosity/darkplace).
|
| As well as been playing with creating plastic keys using a
| flatbed scanner with the printer.
| contingencies wrote:
| Fundraising.
| runarberg wrote:
| I am restarting my free and open source SRS kanji learning app
| https://shodoku.app which is based on free and open source
| dictionary data and Anki's FSRS algorithm.
|
| What I have is a basic flash card app with double sided cards
| (for writing (i.e. drawing) the kanji, and reading). What sets it
| apart is that each card contains all the relevant dictionary
| data, and users are encourage to bookmark a couple of words to
| help them remember the writing or the reading of the kanji.
|
| What I am working on now is the database backup/sync system. I
| store all the user's progress in indexeddb store in their local
| browser. To sync I am writing a simple patch system, so they can
| pick a remote somewhere (e.g. a gist on github) and push their
| latest patches, when syncing progress I would check the hash of
| the patch and apply the relevant patches.
|
| After that I am planning on turning it into a progressive web app
| so users can download the app onto their devises.
|
| https://shodoku.app/
|
| https://github.com/runarberg/shodoku
| acenturyandabit wrote:
| Love the aesthetic! Also your handwriting input is super
| smooth, amazing!
|
| I've been building something similar for Chinese, just for
| myself: https://hazel.daijin.dev/ It's got PWA, let me know if
| you want my presets for working with PWA with Vite.
|
| Will definitely be taking a few pages out of your (app) when I
| get a chance!
| hilti wrote:
| I'm working on some scripts to make my Mac life a little easier:
|
| 1) Setup Apache https://github.com/marchildmann/IDS-Scripts
|
| 2) Setup MLX and MLX-LM Finished by tomorrow
|
| 3) Working on a micro PHP framework to instantly deploy an API,
| connect a database and have a basic middleware
| mattbettinson wrote:
| I'm working on https://voicecast.app/ but struggling to get
| users. It's a way for podcasts to get voice messages for their
| shows. Any advice appreciated!
| gessha wrote:
| This sounds like a cool idea. What have you tried so far?
| 0x000xca0xfe wrote:
| Looks like a cool idea but not immediately apparent how it
| works. E.g. there dont' seem to be voice messages visible when
| I go to the example?
|
| Have you thought about using the landing page itself as a demo?
| I.e. to allow users to post voice messages on your main page.
| Would at least be intriguing.
| zacharycohn wrote:
| https://www.moviemixup.com
|
| A wordle-like game based on a road trip game my friends and I
| used to play. It serves you up a mashup of two different movie
| plots, and you have to guess the combined movie title. There's
| always some sort of shared word or wordplay between the two movie
| titles.
|
| An example from the tutorial: the day after tomorrow never dies.
| prmph wrote:
| Since I had so much trouble managing my entire digital
| information universe [1], I decided to scratch my itch and solve
| it for myself and maybe others as well. Here are my ideas about
| my product:
|
| - Manages the entire range of personal (and maybe business)
| information/content: Documents, Media, Messages (email, instant,
| etc.), Contacts, Bookmarks, Calendar, etc.
|
| - Is tag based, so that where to put and find content is easy to
| answer. Think of a set of flat folders, on one or more devices,
| within which the files are stored with tags attached. Since
| people often find navigating/browsing files more natural than
| searching, virtual folders will be dynamically generated to guide
| navigation. Also, entire folders can be treated as atomic, and
| tagged/managed as one object (useful for repositories &
| projects). And, heuristics (and maybe AI) will be used to
| automatically tag files when they are imported into the tool,
| greatly reducing the tedium of adding tags.
|
| - Is file based, so that all information is physically stored as
| individual files. This allows information to be more easily
| managed on a physical level: moved around, backed up,
| exported/imported, searched, navigated, etc. So in addition to
| docs, each email/instant message, contact, scheduled task/event,
| bookmark, etc. would ultimately be stored as a file, unlocking
| all the things you can do with files.
|
| - Has a local web-based UI launched from a local agent, so actual
| file content does not usually need to move across the network and
| stays local, and the tool is also easily multi-platform, with
| consistent UI irrespective of platform.
|
| - Provides a cloud web UI as well, that communicates with content
| devices through the local agent, so that content stored across
| multiple devices can be managed in one central location, even
| without direct access to those devices, team/org features can be
| provided. However, file content still stays local, except when
| shared.
|
| - Provides tools for exporting data as file from the data islands
| of various apps and service, and backing up as files to cloud
| storage services.
|
| My vision is a situation where I am in charge of my own data
| irrespective of whatever device, app, or service I use, can
| ensure that it is always available and will not be lost, and that
| I can easily navigate and search through it all to find whatever
| I want, no matter how scattered and massive it is.
|
| [1] Here are some of my issues with personal information
| management affordances of current tech, which is driving me to
| work on a solution:
|
| - Our data is too bound to device and vendor islands. Can't
| easily move my information across Apple/Google/Whatsapp, etc
| accounts. Can't easily merge and de-duplicate either. I almost
| always somehow lose data whenever I have to move to a new phone,
| etc.
|
| - Hard to own your data on many services: Discord, Slack, etc.
| Can't easily export, search.
|
| - Hard to have a 360 overview and handle on all your data assets
| and query them in a consistent manner.
|
| - Files as a unit of information storage and management is very
| ergonomic; we shouldn't allow that concept to be buried by
| vendors for their own gain.
| benhoyt wrote:
| A program that will play chess (written in Go). My 18yo daughter
| can now beat me at chess (not that I'm any good). I figured if I
| can't beat her, I'll see if I can write a program to beat her
| instead. My idea for v1 is that I'd write the algorithm myself,
| without looking up anything about how to write a chess program
| (I'm sure such literature abounds). I've just about finished v1;
| still a few bugs to iron out. To be honest, I didn't find it all
| that fun, mainly because of all the special cases (all the
| castling rules and the like).
| jkoff wrote:
| I can't help but point out the irony of a chess program written
| in Go, as someone that enjoys playing Go [1] myself. Sorry to
| hear it wasn't that fun, hope you still got something out of
| it!
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
| benhoyt wrote:
| Yes, definitely still got/getting something out of it,
| thanks. And I'll probably get more out of it when I read up
| on "how to write a _real_ chess program " for v2, and learn
| about all the things I didn't think about.
| TZubiri wrote:
| Same, always wanted to do this, especially without looking
| stuff up, which feels like cheating. I haven't yet figured out
| the recursive tree search thing.
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in
| nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm
| working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that
| came out of the woodwork):
|
| - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of
| procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice
| that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality
| assurance programs easily and quickly while also making a new
| format in which nuclear companies can share lessons learned in
| efficiency.
|
| - Reactor Database --- similar to the iaeas PRIS but focused on
| reactor development rather than power reactors. Will include
| nuclear startup company tracking with details gleaned from
| statements and maybe extrapolated where necessary from simple
| simulations. Will include things like fuel cost and licensing
| progress. This way people can more easily separate vaporware from
| real nuclear, and keep track of promises vs delivery.
| sureglymop wrote:
| Sounds very interesting! How did you get into this industry
| initially?
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| I wanted to do energy stuff and happened to be at a college
| that had a nuclear engineering dept. The peer advisor told me
| to take a class in the dept and I loved it.
| andrewfurey2003 wrote:
| Is there a repo for the starter kit yet that I can bookmark?
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| Not yet! Will probably show up in this org
| https://github.com/whatisnuclear
| eftychis wrote:
| This is really really interesting. Do share any links, or do
| post about it here on hn.
|
| Have fun!
| ahd985 wrote:
| Very nice! I ejected from the nuclear industry almost a decade
| ago and have played around in Healthcare/IoT/Oil&Gas/Finance
| software tech, but I'd love to figure out how to apply these
| skills to nuclear energy somehow.
|
| Also - love whatisnuclear.com! About 10 years ago, I tried my
| hand at creating a generalized JS-based viz system (see
| examples in https://github.com/ahd985/ssv), but could never
| figure out a market/path forward for it.
| pants2 wrote:
| Check out Voibe: https://github.com/corlinp/voibe
|
| Open source Mac-native menu bar app for speech to text using
| GPT-4o-transcribe (current STT SOTA)
| Etheryte wrote:
| Whenever speech to text apps come up, I get curious how people
| use them in their workflow. I've tried to integrate it into my
| daily work a few times, but have found myself dropping it not
| too long after. If I'm already at a keyboard, I just don't seem
| to find any case where I don't prefer that as an input. What
| are other people using these for?
| alexnastase wrote:
| I'm currently working on an online gallery platform for
| professional photographers: https://picstack.com
| cryptoz wrote:
| The plan: You are a PM _and_ Engineer - and so is the AI. You
| both write tickets and you both complete them to iterate on your
| code.
|
| https://codeplusequalsai.com
|
| You can build webapps very quickly, especially AI-enabled ones,
| and deploy them on a subdomain. Other users can sign up and use
| your webapp, and any tokens they use will be billed to them and
| you will get a large cut (80%) of the margin earned on the tokens
| billed - as I bill 2x OpenAI API token costs to create this
| margin.
|
| So ideally you can validate your idea by rapidly building a
| prototype and evening earning revenue to boot.
| sanswork wrote:
| I built https://startthelanding.com mostly for myself as I have
| needed it a lot over the past few years and always ended up
| building quick one offs. I'm now working on marketing it through
| a few different channels while at the same time starting work on
| my main project that I needed the landing pages for which is a
| fashion for tech/finance people site. I'm going to be doing a big
| social campaign for that one soon involving myself so I'm pretty
| excited but also quite scared since I'm not really the post
| myself on socials type.
| 1270018080 wrote:
| I have a ton of spare time and wish I could write some kind of
| side project, but I simply have no good ideas. I already have
| everything I need.
| piker wrote:
| https://tritium.legal
|
| Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review
| PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust
| using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some
| interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the
| web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities
| and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your
| thoughts or to share mine!
| clone1018 wrote:
| I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go
| through with documents this product would be extremely useful.
| I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely
| risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes
| through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's
| a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with
| their usual format, therefor making it a less risky product to
| try?
| piker wrote:
| Great question - it aims for 100% compatibility with MS Word
| documents. It falls over on the rendering side, but
| guarantees not to drop data or miss any text. If you see it
| on your screen, someone using Word will see it too.
|
| Getting it onto the desktop is the big challenge for the
| moment!
| frainfreeze wrote:
| Now my lawyer will be using vscode too, sweet!
| piker wrote:
| Hopefully it will save you some billable hours :)
| recsv-heredoc wrote:
| Nice idea! Some possible really good reading here for you:
| https://substack.com/@jordanbryan - YC 2021 building out "git
| for lawyers"
| piker wrote:
| Concur with most of that.
| TZubiri wrote:
| What experience do you have in law?
| rorylaitila wrote:
| I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements
| and publishing them (https://adretro.com).
|
| I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would
| take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to
| extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100
| ads/day this way.
|
| One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers
| riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-comp-digi-
| comp-1-table-top...
| cahoots8727 wrote:
| That's really cool.
| eps wrote:
| Indeed it is!
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you!
| ashwinsundar wrote:
| Is there a way to contribute? I have some old National
| Geographics I bought for 10 cents each a number of years ago.
| The old ads are one of my favorite things in every magazine.
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thanks for the offer! I need the physical magazines in hand
| to catalog, so if you want to part with them let me know. It
| can be a little pricey to ship a lot of paper but if you're
| up for it, my connect details are in my profile.
| Yoric wrote:
| Graph algorithms running on existing quantum computers.
| andoando wrote:
| I've been working on a drawing/animation library/language based
| on patterns and abstractions.
|
| On one hand the idea seems so simple and intuitive (Define
| patterns (like 3 red blocks to the right), combine patterns ( 5
| up * 3 red right), use patterns inside patterns (each block is a
| square), but implentation wise I keep running into so many
| intracies and I want it to be perfect so it's been kind of tough
| and slow.
| clone1018 wrote:
| Timely posting! I've been inspired by some recent... large gaps
| in data at work (silent analytics processing failures) to build a
| service called QueryCanary. It's a surprisingly powerful but
| simple tool that lets you define scheduled SQL checks to run
| against your database, and then checks those results for
| anomalies, variances, and other issues.
|
| Really hoping to get some early feedback on this tool, I've been
| using it for two production sites for about a week now and I've
| already discovered (at work) that we've had the 2nd largest user
| signup day, and that we deployed a change that inaccurately
| tracked a specific metric. Check it out at
| https://querycanary.com
| csnate wrote:
| https://pwnscan.com
|
| A binary static analysis tool that identifies vulnerabilities.
|
| Right now, still just focused on buffer overflows. It can find
| some known CVEs and I've made several reliability improvements
| over the past month or so.
|
| I think I'm going to expand to additional vulnerability types
| soon.
| plankers wrote:
| modeling the heat transfer modes in Enceladus' icy shell that
| rests above its liquid water ocean. previous modeling has assumed
| that all heat transfer is conductive, but using dynamical
| simulations i've shown that under certain conditions convection
| can occur at in the shell. specifically, these conditions are
| having a thick enough ice shell, the right amount of porous
| fluffy ice deposited from the plumes at Enceladus' south pole
| which jet water into space through fissures in the crust, and the
| right thermal conductivity of this porous layer.
|
| now i'm starting on adjusting the model to include the liquid
| water ocean underneath the shell and observe the effect of
| changing viscosity gradients in the equilibration of the ocean
| and ice shell, as well as adding in compositional impurities
| (chloride brines) and tidal heating effects.
| bishopsmother wrote:
| Expanding the functionality of Wabbit S2[0], e.g. Sesame AI[1],
| and improving existing features based on feedback over the last
| few weeks of Mabel's testing.
|
| [0] https://blog.walledgarden.ai/2025-05-20/wabbit-s2-welcome-
| to...
|
| [1]
| https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_...
| ramoz wrote:
| Context and "memory" (not really a fan of this term and how
| industry uses it) are actually complex to manage for power users
| including humans and agents.
|
| While it may sound counterintuitive, the agents of today aren't
| truly autonomous in that you need to really guide them and plan
| their actions well.
|
| I believe this is true today, and will be even more true when
| agents are guiding agents.
|
| We need new infrastructure for dynamic context management.
|
| The answer is not as simple as "hook up your agent to an MCP that
| pull docs from the web" ... also MCP needs its own revolution. I
| tend to use no MCP and prefer raw agent performance.
|
| I'm evolving the simple concepts I built in my VS Code extension
| to address this. Nothing public now, but I and a few others use
| this everyday to feed parts of large codebases into Gemini (to
| build plans for Claude code, other coding agents):
| https://github.com/backnotprop/prompt-tower
| xandrius wrote:
| Started working on a geo-location game about birdwatching.
| Imagine Pokemon GO but for taking photos and audio recordings of
| birds around the world.
|
| Planning to have a first testing session some time next month.
| Really excited but still lots to go!
| wcedmisten wrote:
| That's awesome! I recently picked up bird photography as a
| hobby and have contributed a few pictures to wiki commons.
|
| Do you have a website I can follow?
| RobinL wrote:
| I've been experimenting with whether I can use LLMs to produce
| interactive maths explainers for kids. There are a few examples
| here: https://rupertlinacre.com/
|
| Unless I'm missing something, it's amazing how few free, _high
| quality_ materials are online.
|
| Ultimately I'm interested in two things: genuinely fun games that
| make you do some maths, and quality visualisations that help make
| concepts easier to learn
| wcedmisten wrote:
| I got tired of trying to pick a date spot with my girlfriend, so
| I made this website to randomly pick an restaurant/date activity
| for me based on OpenStreetMap data.
|
| I've also used the data corrections submitted by users to
| contribute over 3,000 edits back into OSM!
|
| https://surprisedatespot.com/
| lunarcave wrote:
| ParseLM: https://github.com/parselm/parselm
|
| It's a Typescript library that allows you to wrangle structured
| outputs from LLMs and pipe them to programmatically useful
| control flow or structured data.
| pabna wrote:
| I'm working on a data-visualization blog. Hoping it will lead to
| some cool projects / apps.
| qu0b wrote:
| We're building conversational product discovery tools for
| e-commerce stores, moving beyond the limitations of traditional
| search bars. Our system lets shoppers explore and find products
| naturally--using their own words. We're about to launch with our
| second customer, and early results show a faster, more intuitive,
| and more convenient shopping experience. For our retail customer
| we've had users just copy and paste their complete shopping list
| and be done within one conversation turn.
| https://www.isartech.io/
| dennis16384 wrote:
| I'm still working on Routing24 https://routing24.com - free route
| optimization and planning app without stops or vehicles limit.
|
| It's been 6 month since our first appearance on Show HN [1], and
| I'm working with first free users on bugs, improved workflows and
| UX, geocoding, solver features, future mobile app etc. etc.
|
| We officially crossed the limits of 1500 stops per optimization
| with some waste collection guys, all still running fully client-
| side in the browser.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995427
| tiondo wrote:
| I'm working on https://greatriftsafari.com -- a travel planning
| platform that uses AI + local expertise to help people design and
| book personalized safaris in Kenya.
|
| Most safari booking sites are either outdated, opaque on pricing,
| or offer one-size-fits-all tours. We let travelers customize
| everything -- dates, interests (e.g. big cats, birding,
| photography), travel style, and budget -- and generate a full
| itinerary with lodge picks, activity suggestions, and accurate
| cost estimates (including seasonal pricing and transportation).
|
| We also partnered with local operators so users can actually book
| what they see -- not just get ideas. The goal is to make safaris
| more accessible and planning less overwhelming.
|
| Still early, but if you're curious or planning a trip to Africa,
| I'd love feedback: https://greatriftsafari.com
| henning wrote:
| My stenography app is stable enough that I can actually use it to
| learn stenography with it.
| Zaloog wrote:
| Working on a pytest plugin with a tui to run tests interactively
| and manage plugins and options
| frainfreeze wrote:
| A hybrid between forum and (headless) CMS, with customer support
| tools built in, so people can build websites that are kinda like
| posthog.com without having to patch everything together from
| scratch (and instead focus on their actual product AND not lose
| their community content in slack/discord/whatever).
|
| Checkout how posthog did it [1], it's an interesting approach.
| Having something that can support both devs and content folks
| (non technical) is great. It is easy to get bogged down in
| building the website and reinventing bunch of wheeels, instead of
| focusing on the product & content, esp in smaller teams.
|
| [1] How PostHog built a community forum, roadmap and changelog on
| Strapi https://strapi.io/user-stories/posthog
| bbx wrote:
| A tiny numbers mobile game, playable on Android, iOS, and the
| web.
| umvi wrote:
| I'm working on a programming game called "Pragma Twice". As in,
| playing the game involves programming. I just put up a steam page
| for it (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3528840/Pragma_Twice/)
| and have a demo submitted to Valve for review (which should
| hopefully be approved any day now, since I'm trying to
| participate in June's NextFest)
|
| This game was originally inspired by the game "Untrusted"
| (https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/untrusted)
| acenturyandabit wrote:
| This gives me exapunks / Zachtronics vibes
| bruno_rzn wrote:
| I'm working on Karl [https://www.veloursdevices.com], a MIDI
| controller. It's quite unique because it features 32 encoders
| over a display, which allows you to have a fully customizable
| interface--like a touchscreen, but with actual knobs you can
| touch.
|
| I have a software engineering background, and I've been working
| on this for nearly 3 years now! I used to play with the Electra
| One controller before, but having the encoders over the display
| is really something I've always wanted.
|
| I presented Karl last month at Superbooth (a fair in Berlin) and
| got really good feedback. After 6 months of beta and 2 years of
| touring with it myself, the first batch will be dispatched in
| August, and this is quite exciting!
| Zamaamiro wrote:
| I'm working on a research cybersecurity tool that attempts to
| combine the natural language understanding and information
| synthesis strengths of LLM-driven agents with symbolic logic and
| knowledge bases expressed as Datalog programs for determinism and
| declarative semantics.
|
| The approach is to perform system scanning using a combination of
| LLMs and traditional algorithms to dynamically populate a Datalog
| knowledge base. The facts of the program are constrained to a
| predefined "model schema" of sorts and a predefined set of rules
| that encode specialized domain knowledge of how new facts can be
| derived from known facts.
|
| We generate proof trees / attack graphs from the knowledge base
| and queries posed to it. The attack graph uses big-step semantics
| to plan and guide the execution flow, and the system dispatches
| to agents with tool use to fill in the details and implement the
| small-step semantics, so to speak. This may include API calls to
| a Metasploit Framework server or RAG over vulnerability and
| exploit databases.
|
| We use Pydantic AI to constrain the LLM output to predefined
| schemas at each step, with a dash of fuzzy string matching and
| processing to enforce canonicalization of, e.g., software names
| and other entities.
|
| Tl;dr: neurosymbolic AI research tool for cybersecurity analysis
| and pentesting.
| l72 wrote:
| I am working on a music recommendation algorithm for your self
| hosted music. Think of it like your personal pandora.
|
| Backend is already working: Boldaric
| https://github.com/line72/boldaric
|
| And a simple iOS native front end (which I haven't submitted to
| the App Store yet). Tor Jolan https://github.com/line72/torjolan
|
| It has been interesting tweaking the algorithms and models for
| various similarity searches.
|
| I really like that it focuses on music characteristics and not
| metadata, so popularity of a song/artist isn't even taken into
| account. This has really helped me explore my rather large music
| collection especially when I get stuck in a rut of listening to
| the same things.
| ata_aman wrote:
| Dora: https://dorafiles.com
|
| It's a file explorer where it embeds your local file structure so
| you can use natural language to search your file system.
|
| Started off as a local inference/vector-db only project last year
| and now also using cloud inference/vector-dbs for faster
| processing.
|
| You can also use "agent-mode" to organize your files/folders,
| create items, move, copy and save content to disk directly from
| chat.
| jaronilan wrote:
| Finished my 4th short story. This one is about Life Expectancy. I
| wrote it after reading something on HN.
|
| https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.p...
|
| Will now move at the usual snail pace to write the next one.
| nhatcher wrote:
| I'm redoubling work on IronCalc (https://www.ironcalc.com), a
| spreadsheet engine. Actually considering going full time on what
| it begun as a side project.
| adhamsalama wrote:
| I'm writing an easy to use APM platform in a single executable
| (plus the database).
|
| I tried self-hosting Sentry recently and found out there are a
| lot of moving parts, which makes sense for their scale and use
| case.
|
| I was wondering if I could build something small and not multi-
| tenant. So I started experimenting with writing a server (in Go)
| that collects OpenTelemetry data and inserts into Clickhouse, an
| API for retrieving data/statistics (P95 in a time range, etc...),
| and a frontend (React.js) that displays them. All of this in a
| single executable file (yes, including the frontend, but not
| including Clickhouse).
|
| This is all very new to me so I'm learning Go, Clickhouse and
| OpenTelemetry at the same time.
|
| https://github.com/adhamsalama/nabatshy
| aantix wrote:
| A new YouTube app/player, for my kids.
|
| It allows us to control the algorithm. It's all LLM translating
| to YouTube search queries under the hood.
|
| Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from
| predefined buckets on topics they love.
|
| E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities.
|
| Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc
| don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with Minecraft in it,
| never gets surfaced.
|
| For anyone interested in using it, send me an email.
|
| I'll put you on my list. And you can contribute ideas to our
| community Google Doc.
|
| jim.jones1@gmail.com
| nlh wrote:
| Love this. As a new(ish) dad to a 16-month-old little girl,
| we're not in the YouTube vortex yet, but I know it's
| inevitable. When it comes time, I want to balance "she can
| watch and learn stuff" against my general sentiment against
| screen time / devices (which we've been pretty good at so far).
|
| Anyway, a long way of saying awesome - would love to be on your
| list. I'll send you an email separately.
| kemyd wrote:
| https://shuffle.dev
|
| For the last few weeks, we have been working on catching up on
| features for vibe coders (prompt -> project), but now we are back
| to our strengths (visual editor and new beautiful UI libraries
| for Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, and more).
|
| We realized there are just too many apps for vibe coders, and it
| would be better to work on something unique that we are really
| good at!
| mingodad wrote:
| I'm collecting a collection of PEG grammars here
| https://mingodad.github.io/cpp-peglib and Yacc/Lex grammars here
| https://mingodad.github.io/parsertl-playground/playground both
| are wasm based playgrounds to test/develop/debug grammars.
|
| The idea is to improve the tooling to work with grammars, for
| example generating railroad diagrams, source, stats, state
| machines, traces, ...
|
| On both of then select one grammar from "Examples" then click
| "Parse" to see a parse tree or ast for the content in "Input
| source", then edit the grammar/input to test new ideas.
|
| There is also https://mingodad.github.io/plgh/json2ebnf.html to
| generate EBNF for railroad diagram generation form tree-sitter
| grammars.
|
| Any feedback, contribution is welcome !
| calebkaiser wrote:
| This is awesome! I've recently begun diving deeper into working
| with grammars, using them as part of a new project, and these
| tools look super useful.
| ryansworks wrote:
| Testing the limits of vibe coding. Created a programming language
| 100% via prompting a o4-mini-high, but did carefully review the
| code. https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/spress
| lukan wrote:
| Sounds interesting. How much manual labour you had to do? Or
| was the code completely vibe coded and not edited?
| ryansworks wrote:
| It took about 10 hours. Arguably would have taken me 100 to
| do it manually but likely would have fewer bugs, there's a
| few I'm aware of, but I bet there are many.
|
| I started with a basic syntax for expressions and specified a
| lot up front such as it being a bytecode interpreter and
| using a recursive descent parser.
|
| I found building it up feature by feature to be much more
| effective than one shotting an entire feature rich language.
| Still there was a lot of back and forth.
| sisve wrote:
| Really cool!
|
| Only 1 commit :/ Would love to see the prompts and how you
| iterated on this
| leslielurker wrote:
| I'm working on https://lurkhub.com a web app that lets me store
| my bookmarks, articles to read later and rss feeds in a private
| GitHub repo.
| tallytarik wrote:
| Working on expanding https://iplocate.io - an IP geolocation and
| threat data service I've worked on since 2017.
|
| I've found it really satisfying to solve the data challenges that
| come along the way, from "where on earth could this data come
| from" to collecting, storing, parsing, validating and serving
| constantly. It's also - by nature - something that's never going
| to be "done". There's always something to improve. I love it!
|
| We now offer more types of data (ASN/whois, proxy/threat
| detection, so on) than most other providers, more accurate and
| more frequently updated, at a tenth of the cost, which is
| something I'm really happy about.
|
| For anyone interested, you can make 1,000 requests day free, or
| reach out if you have an open source/public interest project for
| an unlimited key or access to the data.
|
| I'd also love to hear any suggestions for additional data types
| to add.
| codr7 wrote:
| Currently taking a break from my C book to iterate my Lisp
| dialect in Go.
|
| https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
|
| https://github.com/codr7/eli-go
| simquat wrote:
| I'm working on https://blueprintapp.design an app to simplify the
| creation of user flows.
| yoav wrote:
| I'm building Electrobun
| (https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun)
|
| It's an alternative to Electron/Tauri that uses Bun.
|
| It has a bsdiff based update mechanism that lets you ship updates
| as small as 4KB, a custom zstd self extractor that makes your app
| bundle as small as 12MB, and more.
|
| I'm currently working on adding Windows and Linux support.
| TOGoS wrote:
| Ostensibly, making French cleats to put on the walls around my
| house to hang all my computers (and other stuff) on.
|
| In practice, writing journal entries about why I can't seem to
| get myself to make all these French cleats that I supposedly
| need.
|
| Also some software stuff.
| elpakal wrote:
| iOS app size analysis tool that runs locally on your Mac
| https://dotipa.app/
| transformi wrote:
| Create alternative self-made feed of videos using VEO3 based on
| my intercation in social media.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| I am working on a platform to improve product management and
| communication between the product team and engineers at
| https://Full.CX - got a few paying customers. Would love and
| welcome any feedback or suggestions.
| burgerquizz wrote:
| I'm working on an AI web game generator for businesses. I spent a
| year developing our custom game engine to build a few games that
| didn't work, but I made the game engine to have reusable modules
| we can reuse for creating new games quickly . Now I've pivoted to
| allow anyone (business especially) to create new games on the
| fly.
|
| here the games result so far: https://playcraft.fun
| tehlike wrote:
| On and off building https://pricetracker.wtf
| ginkgotree wrote:
| Counter-drone defense tech https://orcrist.us
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| That's a really cool idea.
|
| I'm curious, why electric motors vs a solid rocket booster?
| Volatility? Control over thrust? Making it safe to throw
| without worrying about backblast?
| mikeytown2 wrote:
| https://github.com/mikecarper/meshfirmware
|
| CLI Meshtastic flasher that works well. No internet mesh
| networking sounds awesome; just the bandwidth is extremely
| limited
| cadr wrote:
| Neat! Question - how have you used Meshtastic so far? It sounds
| cool, but the use cases people always bring up seem a bit
| forced.
| hemmert wrote:
| I'm writing a visual travel guide for the edge of the humanly
| thinkable:
|
| https://www.unthinkable.net
|
| (I made a small newsletter sign-up form, feel free to join the
| wait list for betas and a free e-Book!)
| thom wrote:
| I am creating a heavily LLM-oriented distribution of Emacs (with
| a lot of the heavy lifting done by Karthink's gptel). This is
| primarily me rebooting my .emacs.d for the LLM age, but I've come
| to think that Emacs is a far, far more interesting place than
| VSCode as the basis for an AI coding environment: a text-first,
| eval-enabled, constantly self-improving IDE.
| 0x000xca0xfe wrote:
| I just finished my useless Brainfuck compiler (
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087363 ) and was thinking
| of a more novel application that hasn't been done already, like
| going the other direction and turning RISC-V assembly back to
| Brainfuck code. Currently trying to get MD5 work...
|
| Also another fun idea I want to try is to let the Claude design a
| new programming language, i.e. where the AI makes all the
| decisions and goal-settings and I just help it instead when it's
| stuck.
| ChicagoDave wrote:
| I have several projects in the works:
|
| - mach9poker.com: incorporated startup developing a poker
| tournament training app for novices and unprofitable players.
| Looking for UX/product designer co-founder.
|
| - policyimpact.org: A journalism site for highly vetted articles
| responding to actions of the current U.S. administration and
| other import political vectors.
|
| - sharpee: a new interactive fiction platform built in Typescript
|
| - bsky.poker: root domain for poker community to have nice
| handles on BlueSky
|
| Happy if anyone wants to pitch into any of these projects.
| tomek_zemla wrote:
| A modern take on ESL (English as a Second Language) vocabulary
| building flashcards. It might also be fun for native speakers who
| like language games. It is in beta and feedback is very welcome -
| iterating to improve it... https://www.dictionarygames.io
| gagik_co wrote:
| Continuing my 2+ year project of building a texting-based
| productivity app. Started as a way to get a grip on Flutter and
| local-first sync for mobile, ended up being my by far longest
| running commitment. Still really enjoying it.
|
| https://tetrify.com/
| smeej wrote:
| I'm just trying to get my ideal PKM collection system working the
| way I've always wished it would. It involves trying to coax an
| LLM into writing code for me when I'm not a developer myself, so
| that's been an adventure.
|
| All I really want to do is be able to clip/save articles (and
| maybe generate transcripts from videos) from my phone or
| computer, read them in KOReader on a Boox tablet, and then export
| them and my eBook notes into Logseq, but every time I think I
| have it figured out, some project pulls a rug out from under me
| and I end up back at the drawing board.
| quintes wrote:
| I'm working on these in the wee hours
|
| * prfrmHQ SaaS The modern way to manage performance reviews, set
| clear objectives, and ensure alignment across teams or
| individually -- all in one place
|
| https://prfrmhq.com
|
| see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538744 [Show HN: My
| SaaS for performance reviews setting goals and driving success]
| https://youtu.be/ygvKdgiKRj4?si=Q9ael-oCLEGKMIgN - Shows I can
| use AI and I've integrated into AWS Bedrock
|
| - Shows I can integrate with Stripe for payments
|
| * Consulting (Architecture, Strategy, Technology leadership and
| advisory) - 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
| technology concepts.
| jkoff wrote:
| Link: https://infinitepod.app/
|
| I'm building Infinite Pod, a web app that generates language
| learning podcasts tuned to your individual learning goals and
| level.
|
| It's based on the principle of language acquisition through
| comprehensible input, as described here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug
|
| It's still a bit rough, but feels magical in my own testing so I
| wanted to make it available to others.
| benstigsen wrote:
| I am building a webserver using Luau[1] and Lune[2], which will
| be used to host my own website. I haven't been this excited in a
| long time, when it comes to trying out a new programming
| language. Luau seems to make Lua _perfect_ (except for the
| classic 1 based indexing). And with Lune it also includes a very
| simple way to serve requests, which has always been a headache to
| do with regular Lua in a cross-platform way.
|
| I am hoping this will be the way in which I write most of my
| future scripts and projects.
|
| [1]: https://luau.org/
|
| [2]: https://lune-org.github.io/docs
| lukehollis wrote:
| Text to 3d simulation on a map. It does historical or fictitious
| events pretty well if it's interesting: https://mused.com/map/
|
| I was working on world models / generative environments but
| without the training data available as an independent researcher,
| ended up focusing on building with existing geospatial data.
|
| The same architecture of the '24 Genie paper's dynamics model is
| instead trained on historical data for risk analysis and creating
| a heatmap in the 2d map. I'll try to adapt this for a more
| generalizable urban mobility model as well.
| ml- wrote:
| Love these threads..
|
| Decided to do an extended sabbatical after being part of one of
| the many tech layoffs the last years, and I'm thus working on
| things I like, instead of things that pay..
|
| Collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the
| world, at https://wheretodrink.beer Still a WIP, and it's not
| trying to be the most extensive list, but I want it to be a
| substantial list. Once I reach a certain maturity in the data
| I'll probably look to spawn minor projects off from the data
| set.. have a couple ideas already that I'll just keep to my self
| for now :D
|
| I also had a set of left over domains relating to beer that I'm
| offering up for use with BlueSky handles, and beer related link
| pages at https://drnk.beer - a bit on the back burner.
| leansensei wrote:
| I've been working on a kinda-sequel to my first technical book,
| Northwind Elixir Traders. This one (Phoenix Product Codex) is
| about developing and deploying a production-grade REST API with
| Elixir and Phoenix.
| ubavic wrote:
| I am reverse-engineering a PKCS#11 module for Gemalto smart cards
| and re-implementing it in Zig (https://github.com/ubavic/srb-id-
| pkcs11). The original module is published only for Windows, and
| my implementation targets *nix platforms. This is my first
| project in Zig, and I am very happy with the language.
| recsv-heredoc wrote:
| For the past almost 3 years - full-stack vertically integrated
| business AI systems. We got a nearly perfectly timed start on
| this.
|
| We're solving the problem of "How can agentic AI interface with
| legacy and existing business systems." - if you've got a boring
| job and are tired of filling out forms in business software or
| swapping between 10 different systems, convince management to let
| us come and have AI do it for you.
|
| https://mindfront.ai
| lihaoyi wrote:
| Working on my Mill build tool, aiming to bring a modern developer
| experience to the JVM ecosystem:
|
| - https://mill-build.org
|
| Build tools are generally an un-sexy field, and JVM build tools
| perhaps doubly so. But Mill demonstrates that with some thought
| put into the design and architecture, we can speed up JVM
| development workflows by 3-6x over traditional JVM tools like
| Maven or Gradle, and make it subjectively much easier to navigate
| in IDEs and extend with custom logic.
|
| If you're passionate about developer experience and work on the
| JVM, I encourage you to give Mill a try!
| quadrature wrote:
| Is mill ready to be used in production ?
| lihaoyi wrote:
| There are some companies out there using it in production. I
| know Netflix and Disney have some teams using it, and the
| Chisel project (and associated SciFive company) recently
| moved completely onto Mill from SBT. They all seem pretty
| happy
| 6stringmerc wrote:
| Currently developing templates and resources for a consulting
| business to enhance B2B and B2G contracting process -
| specifically selling _against_ AI in the same space. The English
| language used for business is nuanced and must have factual
| basis, especially in Procurement and Contracting in the US, and
| clients therefore cannot afford to trust AI content. As such my
| platform and service connecting SBEs with skilled, knowledgeable
| Humans will provide a solid ROI.
|
| A totally bootstrapped, professional services undertaking with no
| investors needed. The value is in the knowledge acquired over a
| decade plus in sales support roles and learning about an
| underserved, viable market.
| ayaros wrote:
| A web os; it's full recreation of the Lisa Office System GUI in
| Javascript. The entire thing is output to a single canvas
| element, which has forced me to write a number of the UI
| components from scratch that I'd normally take for granted. It's
| got an IndexedDB filesystem, and it's got apps. I'm almost done
| working on the first _real_ app for it - a word processor akin to
| LisaWrite. Once I roll that out, I intend to do a ShowHN post.
| jsemrau wrote:
| I still haven't found what an actual working product in AI Agents
| could be and write about my journey into capabilities,
| frameworks, and restrictions here: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
|
| Initially I thought there is a use-case in finance, but the
| barriers of entry are incredibly small and the value add is not
| that large.
|
| Currently, there seems to be a lot of traction in code generation
| (Cursor, Lovable, et al), but I have not seen that work on a
| useable code base/workflow.
| recsv-heredoc wrote:
| From our observations on why - you need to have an extremely
| tight validation loop on everything you do for AI agents to be
| useful. They also need a ton of highly specific instructions
| and context. This requires a deep understanding of the
| platforms and tooling or a highly standard way of working
| (coding).
|
| This is why tools like cursor work so great, they're able to
| work in a super tight feedback loop with the compiler, linter
| and tests. They operate in a super well-known, documented
| environment.
|
| If we can replicate the same thing on business systems...
| that's when the magic happens - just very hard to do without
| deep knowledge of those platforms and agentic AI because
| everyone does stuff differently in each org. The overlap of
| people with skills in both AI and specific business ops areas
| is absolutely tiny.
|
| An example of where we're using this is in a fully AI native
| CRM (part of SynthGrid - see https://mindfront.ai). We don't
| even have any way to interface with it outside of AI, but we'd
| also never want to do so again anyway because the efficiency
| gains are so huge for us.
|
| The Pareto frontier will continue to inexorably advance
| forward, dragging even the complex or non-standardized domains
| in with it. For those tightly integrated business systems,
| we'll probably see huge gain in utility, if not function, from
| the improved underlying models combined with the excellent
| tools. Be sure to try out Claude 4 Opus hooked into some
| systems if you haven't already!
| trikko wrote:
| Yesterday I released version 0.7.17 of Serverino, my HTTP server
| written in D
|
| Serverino is a small, fast, and dependency-free HTTP server
| implemented in D. A minimal app with serverino can handle on my
| laptop ~150k reqs/s and it uses just a few mb of ram.
|
| https://github.com/trikko/serverino
| dhuan_ wrote:
| I've been working on mock: https://dhuan.github.io/mock/
|
| the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be
| as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good
| enough, they require you to use their programming language of
| choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I
| built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain
| it.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| I'm working on a chrome extension for use in a headless browser
| in marginalia search to capture information about network
| traffic, ads, and popovers when visiting a website, to better
| identify nuisance websites.
|
| A bit of a janky setup, but I've mostly gotten it to do what I
| want it to do after some head scratching.
| archiepeach wrote:
| My collection of art, philosophy and poetry apps. They have
| previously just been on iOS but I just finished the Kotlin port
| of the art one, so will be releasing that soon.
|
| The poetry one is react native. Art and philosophy ones are
| swift/kotlin. I wanted to see if you could use LLMs to
| effectively create a cross-platform app. The idea behind react
| native was that you write it once in an approachable language,
| then the framework compiles to native app code. In 2025, the
| approachable language you code in is English, and the LLM now
| generates native app code.
|
| It was generally a success and I feel less of a need of the
| development overhead of react native these days.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/for-arts-sake/id6744744230
|
| https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/daily-philosophy/id6472272901
|
| https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624
| cadr wrote:
| I'm building an amateur radio SSB transceiver for the 20 meter
| band.
| semessier wrote:
| legal tech apps via AI
| gudzpoz wrote:
| An "JIT interpreter" for Emacs Lisp [1] with Graal Truffle [2] in
| Java. And it is really amazing how the frameworks these days
| simplify building a JIT runtime for a language. Currently I'm
| working on a pdump[3]-like feature for it.
|
| [1] https://codeberg.org/gudzpoz/Juicemacs/src/branch/main/elisp
|
| [2] https://www.graalvm.org/latest/graalvm-as-a-
| platform/languag...
|
| [3]
| https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...
| jobswithgptcom wrote:
| https://diffwithgpt.com is a tool that summarizes GitHub diffs
| using a locally hosted Qwen/Qwen-8B model. It currently indexes a
| small set of Go/devops repositories and enriches commits with AST
| derived context to improve semantic accuracy.(only past 3y of
| commits for now) The goal is to evaluate whether lightweight,
| local LLMs can provide meaningful changelog summaries. Any
| feedback welcome.
| siliconc0w wrote:
| AI app generator that also generates the backend, a database
| schema, and auth. Mostly a test bed for different workflows and
| to see how good the SoTA models are.
| catchmeifyoucan wrote:
| I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could
| open and start working immediately. Also one I could stare hours
| at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like
| that out there. I'm designing everything from the chassis to the
| software OS. E-ink has it's own design constraints. I'm building
| 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor.
| It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far:
|
| https://www.heyraviteja.com/kitiki.png
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Depending on what your goals are just adding a Bluetooth
| keyboard to an Android E Reader gets you 90% of the way there.
|
| https://shop.boox.com/products/go103
|
| I dabbled in hardware and I quickly found you need millions to
| do anything.
|
| However, this definitely is a market waiting for a product. I'd
| lean towards looking if you can add a custom screen to the
| framework laptop.
|
| That'll be much cheaper to build and easier. I reckon you'd
| only need a custom Linux driver for the screen.
| seanwilson wrote:
| A tool for creating custom/branded palettes that have accessible
| WCAG contrast by design:
|
| https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
|
| No AI or autogeneration stuff, more like an advanced editor that
| lets you tweak large sets of colors to your liking and test they
| pass contrast checks in advance before you start using them in
| your UI/designs.
| harisund1990 wrote:
| YugabyteDB a distributed postgres database.
|
| Think of it as a true drop in replacement for postgres that runs
| on multiple nodes. It internally does replication, sharding and
| leader election. Just add more nodes and you get to increase both
| read and write scale.
|
| I personally am working on a few things like online major
| upgrades, async replication for DR, enhanced
| backup/restore/pitr/clone capabilities, and more recently
| supporting DocumentDB extension which provides a true Mongodb
| API.
|
| Being a startup I also get to talk with large customers, help
| with marketing content, and participate in database conferences.
| nlh wrote:
| I'm a tech guy turned rare coin & currency dealer -- this is my
| world:
|
| https://rarity7.com
|
| The retail site is 100% custom code built in Crystal (server) and
| Svelte (client). The only part that isn't running my own code is
| our checkout flow -- I let Shopify handle everything after "Add
| to Cart".
|
| Our system backend is a separate Crystal app which handles
| inventory management, pricing research, and price prediction.
| I've developed an ML model to do price prediction and it kinda
| works?
|
| What I'm actually working on: This is my full-time gig and
| probably 60% of my time is spent running the business (going to
| coin shows, buying coins, photographing new purchases, etc.) and
| 40% is spent writing code to make the 60% run more efficiently
| :). It seems I have an infinite list of things to do --
| improvements to our retail site; Improvements in how to
| efficiently go from coin to retail listing (turns out you can
| send just photos of coins to Claude and with the right prompt it
| will actually give you a reasonably good description that doesn't
| sound toooooo AI slop-y); Next "big" project is adapting our ML
| model for paper currency. The taxonomy is similar but not the
| same and there's a whole world of notes out there that need to be
| priced.
|
| Always happy to talk about this stuff so always feel free to
| email with any numismatic (or tech-numismatic) questions.
| noah@rarity7.com.
| nazcan wrote:
| For those in Canada, I've been working on SnapEntry - which
| automates entry into apartment buildings with one time use codes.
|
| I got tired of missing deliveries, so now software answers the
| buzzer.
|
| Using a mix of telephony, transcriptions, and websockets.
| Webserver is in C++.
|
| https://snapentry.ca
| weakfish wrote:
| https://github.com/weakphish/yapper
|
| A block-based TUI note/task application using the Charm tools. I
| know there's a billion note apps out there, but none fit my
| mental model, so just hacking my own.
|
| Goal is to have a system of dumping info in and letting
| organization naturally rise from tagging.
|
| Each tag has its own page that aggregates all blocks tagged with
| it, and can have a custom page layout depending on the defined
| "type" of the tag I.e. a person, project, etc.
|
| Tasks are also first class citizens and can be aggregated with
| dependencies on other tasks.
| nozmoking wrote:
| A proof-of-work based imageboard; as you navigate through
| different threads and mouseover certain images and such it mines
| on them. Threads are sorted and bumped based on PoW.
| coro_1 wrote:
| A web UI that enables collecting of the dollar amount of the
| local major utility providers monthly bills (Before engineering I
| worked in marketing research). I am concerned about the data
| collecting part, not because the local consumers don't seem okay
| too provide it (there's outrage) but because I'm not working and
| don't feel confident in publishing anything live. State
| government only publishes the annual yearly rates. There's no
| transparency on the rest.
| kelsey98765431 wrote:
| i lead our ai products team at io.net, come get some free credits
| (1m tokens per model per day). contact us if you like the
| service, our api is openai compatible and we have deepseek,
| qwen3, and llama 4 maverick along with lots of other neat models.
| hope to have more cool stuff out by the end of the quarter,
| thanks.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I'm working on https://nuenki.app. It's a browser extension that
| translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language
| you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about
| your day.
|
| I've been doing a lot of experiments evaluating LLM translation
| performance, and I used what I learnt (that LLMs make mistakes,
| but different LLMs make different mistakes, and they're better at
| critiquing translations than producing them) to make a hybrid
| translator (https://nuenki.app/translator) that beats everything
| else.
|
| And I was invited to do a talk about that to a company, which was
| really cool! I'm 19, doing this in my gap year before uni.
| sp1982 wrote:
| Working on https://jobswithgpt.com to solve my own frustration
| with job search. Indexes only jobs posted directly by companies
| (on their own sites or ATS). Offers simple features like saving
| jobs, reviewing resume against job listing using openai.
| brynet wrote:
| Making rent this month so I can unslack.. help appreciated. :-)
|
| https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
| litemn wrote:
| Started a small Kotlin project - an llm-based assertion library,
| to verify the response from another LLM, check images or,
| actually, anything https://github.com/Litemn/llm-assert
| tmilard wrote:
| Working on a 3D-Editor that transforms photos of a place into an
| FPS game. - Editor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEsqp93sq3w
| - FPS Example : https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
|
| This has been my WE project for a long time. But it's only
| working really now.
| kegs_ wrote:
| 2 hours in and this thread is already stacked, but I'll bite
| since I am stuck on this problem and need help. I am working on a
| language learning solution that involves llms. The way I am
| branding it is "Anki meets Ai" because it combines a flashcard-
| esque method of generating complete exercises such as multiple
| choice, cloze, etc. with the tried-and-true SRS methodology.
|
| I think it works great! The problem is, I _think_ it works great.
| The issue is that it is doubly-lossy in that llms aren 't perfect
| and translating from one language to another isn't perfect
| either. So the struggle here is in trusting the llm (because it's
| the only tool good enough for the job other than humans) while
| trying to look for solid ground so that users feel like they are
| moving forward and not astray.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Hey, I happen to have run into a similar issue with my project!
|
| I've documented a lot of my research into LLM translation at
| https://nuenki.app/blog, and I made an open source hybrid
| translator that beats any individual LLM at
| https://nuenki.app/translator
|
| It uses the fact that
|
| - LLMs are better at critiquing translations than producing
| them (even when thinking, which doesn't actually help!)
|
| - When they make mistakes, the mistakes tend to be different to
| each other.
|
| So it translates with the top 4-5 models based on my research,
| then has another model critique, compare, and combine.
|
| It's more expensive than any one model, but it isn't super
| expensive. The main issue is that it's quite slow. Anyway,
| hopefully it's useful, and hopefully the data is useful too.
| Feel free to email/reply if you have any questions/ideas for
| tests etc.
| kegs_ wrote:
| Hey thanks for the reply! Is this "hybrid" method what you
| wrote in the last line - llm comparison?
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I'm not quite sure what you're asking?
|
| It is in the LLM comparison blog posts, at least the newer
| ones, though it tends to be on the first line.
| GMoromisato wrote:
| I'm still working on https://gridwhale.com
|
| It's basically a full-stack web platform written entirely from
| scratch. One of these days I'll write about it and get yelled at
| for reinventing the wheel.
|
| But I'm using it internally and for my biotech clients and I'm
| still excited about it.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| https://easel.games
|
| A game engine that lets you code multiplayer games without coding
| the multiplayer! My idea was to put multiplayer into the fabric
| of the programming language itself. This allows the engine to
| automatically turn your game into a multiplayer game, without you
| needing to learn anything about networking or synchronization. I
| imagine there are lots of people who have the talent and
| creativity to create a multiplayer game but don't have the
| interest or patience in learning how to code multiplayer, and so
| that's who this is for!
|
| I've been working on this for 3 years and there were lots of
| tricky parts rolling back and deterministically executing a whole
| programming language, but it's working now! My next phase is to
| increase the breadth of features so better games can be made with
| it!
| shayway wrote:
| Very cool! I'll play more around with this later but right off
| the site UX is great. Being able to hit 'launch editor' and
| have it load a project right up without requiring an account or
| anything is just beautiful.
| lelandfe wrote:
| "Make games with Ease," and the cursor forming the "l," is
| really nifty.
| gabriel-uribe wrote:
| Nudges Mandarin-Chinese learners to read comprehensible input for
| 3 mins/day without an app :)
|
| Simply emails you the story with chinese characters, pinyin, etc
| based on your level and story topics of interest
|
| Link: https://dailychinesestories.com
| static_void wrote:
| A card game in Ruby on Rails, with an emphasis on deep reaction
| trees, and where the resolution order of action trees depends on
| whether actions resolve before or after their triggers.
|
| Its real purpose is twofold: I enjoy data modeling, and doing
| just enough Rails work to regain fluency after a gap.
|
| https://github.com/alexnyeoverride/causality-rails/
| rjmunro wrote:
| I've made a couple of silly browser games,
| http://matchmoji.arjam.net and
| http://matchmoji.arjam.net/minesweeper
| Amza wrote:
| Tailor your resume and cover letter in minutes:
| https://resumebuildai.com
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| I had an idea at one point that I'd record every cover letter I
| wrote, so that eventually I could fine tune a model to write in
| my style.
|
| I didn't end up sending many, but I've noticed that it's really
| difficult to get AI to write in a decent style. I've tried
| giving it a list of AI-isms to avoid, and it just doesn't work.
|
| I has the most success with deepseek V3, giving a list of AI-
| isms, then ending with "You have been randomly assigned the
| following writing style/personality: [codeblock]" then a
| stereotype. Eg "Write in the style of a to-the-point, concise
| HN commenter" works alright, while "Write naturally and without
| AI-isms" is hopeless.
|
| (Don't worry, I'm not using it for HN botting or whatever, it
| just tends to write in a nice style when you give it that)
| egorbatik wrote:
| https://zerem.fi - Offshore Real Estate - Crypto Friendly
|
| * We are just starting with Projects in Porto Belo - Brazil. We
| are adding more countries soon, but it is worth to explore the
| catalog.
| samirsd wrote:
| working on an app that lets you take multitrack "voice memos" by
| plugging your phone into an interface. then the audio is
| automatically synced to the cloud, akin to a primitive dropbox
| for audio. there's a simple mixer to adjust levels for local
| playback. for now i use it to get hi fi recordings of band
| practice and shows.
|
| https://carnyx.ai
| aag wrote:
| I got tired of using Markdown and Org mode for writing web pages
| last year. They're so limited, and so full of odd gotchas and
| limitations. Instead, I started writing raw HTML, but with a
| post-processing step to add titles, headers, footers, and CSS,
| and to do macro-like things, e.g. insert pull quotes and YouTube
| viewers. But raw HTML is not great, either. I'm now working on an
| editor that lets me use Emacs-style commands and key bindings
| (e.g. character, paragraph, sentence, and word motion, deletion,
| and transposition; Emacs-style undo/redo; incremental search; and
| case conversions) to edit HTML in a WYSIWYG view. The new editor
| does it all in a Webkit-based HTML view built with Tauri. Editing
| this way is so much more pleasant and more powerful. I plan to
| publish it under an MIT license once it's good enough.
| LarsDu88 wrote:
| Gemini 2.5 TTS client integration for the Unity game engine so
| indie games can generate dialogue directly in the editor (and
| perhaps live games, eventually)
| stared wrote:
| Making it easy to create good charts. Put your CSV data, write a
| prompt, and get a professional chart in any style - e.g. matching
| your company's website, slide deck style or blog post.
|
| https://charts.quesma.com/
|
| Now it is early alpha, but you can already give it a try.
| bengold14 wrote:
| RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users
| crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3
| years & it's grown into a lovely community of people who help
| each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional
| photos etc.
|
| I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!)
| people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on.
|
| I recently completed a leaderboard function that cross compares
| photos from different tests using Claude, which was really
| impressive and scared me for my day job..
| arsalanb wrote:
| https://livedocs.com
|
| An AI data scientist for serious data work. Think of it like an
| AI native Jupyter notebook.
| peab wrote:
| HN is probably not the target audience for this, but hey, here we
| are: https://www.youtarot.app/pages/about
|
| A web app for people to get tarot readings, and create their own
| tarot cards using AI. I'm enjoying working on this because I'm
| using as an opportunity to learn parts of the stack that I didn't
| usually do at my day job - frontend, design and marketing (my
| career has focused more on the backend).
| crabsand wrote:
| I built an RSS to Bluesky poster an hour ago.
|
| In the long run, writing a gui for https://github.com/iesahin/xvc
| and Git.
| monkaiju wrote:
| CopDB (https://app.copdb.org/)
|
| A community powered, wikipedia-like, database for tracking police
| and their activities.
| michelangelodev wrote:
| https://www.saintbeluga.org/
|
| I was a YC founder in 2006 and still do software engineering and
| data science full-time, but on the side I also do Christian
| apologetics, helping fellow engineers/scientists/mathematicians
| seek answers to life's deepest questions.
|
| Some cool articles for the HN crowd:
|
| - My interview of Evan O'Dorney, a three-time Putnam Fellow and
| two-time IMO gold medalist, who converted to Catholic
| Christianity: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-i-
| conversion-of-a-p...
|
| - In-depth scientific overview of Eucharistic miracles:
| https://www.saintbeluga.org/eucharistic-miracles-god-under-t...
|
| - Conversion testimony by the Chief Scientist at NASA JPL:
| https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-iii-bellows-of-aqui...
| kingo55 wrote:
| I'm trying out vibe coding a bit on my olive oil index site --
| building a full website with 11ty, tailwind and LLMs. The LLMs
| also serve as a data pipeline to watch and update content as new
| information is published online:
| https://www.extravirginvault.com/
|
| I've always enjoyed the farm-to-table concept, but I find it
| really hard to identify trustworthy companies. Wine has been done
| to death, but I feel extra virgin olive oil is currently
| underserved.
| p-s-v wrote:
| New Knife Day: (https://new.knife.day/blog/knife-steel-
| comparisons/all) My goal is to build the most complete wiki and
| social network for knife collectors, makers and consumers
| researching a new purchase
| AttentionBlock wrote:
| Using LLM as a judge architecture to optimize multi-agent system
| prompts and configurations. For now it's achieved through LLM
| based consensus system that evaluates another LLM output, and
| based on its performance for a specific task, it's tune the
| architecture and the prompt e.g. refine the prompt, change the
| base model to a smaller or cheaper model, etc
| crsn wrote:
| I'm building software to augment human cognition.
|
| In particular:
|
| To help solve forecasting & planning problems too hard to hold in
| your head, I'm converting natural-language formulations of
| constrained optimization problems into (back)solvable
| mathematical programs, whose candidate solutions are "scenarios"
| in a multi-dimensional "scenario landscape" that can be pivoted,
| filtered, or otherwise interrogated by an LLM equipped with
| analytical tools:
|
| - 5 minute demo: https://youtu.be/-QdqiLp_9nY
|
| - Details: https://spindle.ai
|
| Eager to connect with anyone interested in similarly
| neurosymbolic "tools for thought": carson@carsonkahn.com | +1
| (303) 808-5874
| kaiherng wrote:
| A cute medicine tracking app featuring an adorable mascot that
| gets increasingly annoying if you miss a dose (art & animations
| are original by me) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pill-buddy-
| meds-tracker/id6742...
| TZubiri wrote:
| Oh hey, I saw this on product hunt or some copycat, and thought
| it stood out. It mades me wonder, is it based in a particular
| experience with yourself or a loved one?
| Havoc wrote:
| Building a budget home server. Ebay style. There is a lot of gear
| out there that isn't suitable for gaming anymore but still very
| sound as home server.
|
| Software wise doing proxmox + nixos LXC
| egonschiele wrote:
| http://github.com/egonSchiele/typestache - Mustache with static
| typing
| emadm wrote:
| I'm building a system for free universal ai access for the
| important things in life - education, health, government etc
|
| Stuff that should be open source, open data
|
| Made state of the art datasets, health models, research systems &
| agents so far @ www.ii.inc but the plan is ai first open source
| full stack systems for every regulated sector
|
| Have a distributed ledger announcing soon to tie it all together
| and create a flywheel so more folk can get access to ai
| StackRiff wrote:
| https://dateit.com
|
| A social event planning app to capture the fun my friends and I
| had with facebook events, but without the facebook. We have
| native apps for iOS, Android and the web. dateit has a generous
| free features compared to competing apps (SMS invites, photo
| upload, customization).
|
| My cofounder and I have fully bootstrapped this and now it mostly
| self sustains which is an exciting achievement!
|
| It's been a fun project to hack on for the last couple years and
| spawned several interesting side quests. For example, the backend
| is in Swift (as I started as an iOS dev) so that has been an
| exciting space to work in.
| Benjamin_Dobell wrote:
| I'm working on tooling to turn kids from consumers into creators.
| I'm focusing on game development initially, but have plans for
| video production and hands on crafts.
|
| For older kids I've been making it easier to write games in Godot
| using TypeScript:
|
| https://breaka.club/blog/godots-most-powerful-scripting-lang...
|
| I'm building tooling using this technology which allows kids to
| create their own games, this is itself presented as a game kids
| can play through. Basically, imagine if Roblox actually delivered
| on its promises to kids.
|
| Most of what we're building will be open sourced, so that older
| kids / young adults will be able export their projects and share
| their creations stand-alone.
|
| Of course, telling kids they can create their own game is only
| relevant is kids want to do that. We're not locked into one way
| of thinking. We've also modified Overcooked 2, a traditionally
| co-op game and introduced a visual scripting platform which
| allows kids to code their way through levels:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ackD3G_D2Hc
|
| Overcooked 2 won't be the only game for which we do this.
| Introducing coding to existing games is a fun way to teach kids
| to code, without yet burdening kids with too much creative
| freedom. Kids already want to play these games, so this approach
| allows us to bring educational tooling to kids rather than vice
| versa.
|
| I used to be Head of Engineering at Ender, where we ran custom
| Minecraft servers for kids: https://joinender.com/ and prior to
| that I was Head of Engineering at Prequel / Beta Camp, where we
| ran courses that helped teenagers learn about entrepreneurship:
| https://www.beta.camp/. During peak COVID I also ran a social
| emotion development book subscription service with my wife, a
| primary school teacher.
| TZubiri wrote:
| If I told you I'd have to kill you
| turbotim wrote:
| I'm working on https://spoken.me language practice for
| intermediate and advanced learners of English and Spanish. Hoping
| to launch a new flashcard experience in the next few days and a
| new role playing mode in the coming weeks. We're small fry at the
| moment but it beats working at FAANG (except for the money)
| TZubiri wrote:
| A local-first multi device app for digitally shuffling, dealing
| and recording game history and points for a specific points based
| card game (Truco)
| monroewalker wrote:
| Now that Claude 4 is out, I'm making some updates to the project
| I've built primarily just with Claude Code:
| https://github.com/mwalkerr/BookmarkCanvas
|
| It's just a basic IntelliJ plugin which provides an infinite
| canvas to add code bookmarks to. I work on a large code base and
| often have to take on tasks involving lots of unfamiliar areas of
| code and components which influence each other only through long
| chains of indirection. Having a visual space to lay things out,
| draw connections, and quickly jump back into the code has been
| really helpful
|
| The canvas and UI is built using Java AWT since that's what
| IntelliJ plugins are built on, but it occurred to me that I could
| just throw in a web view and use any of the existing JS libraries
| for working on an infinite canvas. React Flow has seemed like the
| best option with tldraw being what I'd fallback to.
|
| But then.. if the canvas is built with web technology then
| there's no reason to keep it just within an IntelliJ plugin vs
| just a standalone web app with the ability to contain generic
| content that might open files in IntelliJ or any other editor.
| I'm pretty sure the "knowledge database on a canvas" thing has
| been done a number of times already so I want to also see if
| there are existing open source projects that it'd be easy enough
| to just add a special node type to
| bob1029 wrote:
| I'm currently beating around the bush on building a GitHub clone
| minus react, copilot, etc.
|
| There's no reason I should have my browser tabs crash when I view
| a pull request involving more than 100 files. The page should
| already have been generated on the server before I requested it.
| The information is available. All that remains are excuses and
| wasted CPU cycles.
| aduermael wrote:
| I'm building an open-source and mobile-first Roblox alternative
| called Blip. (https://blip.game)
| greentec wrote:
| https://sublevelgames.github.io/blogs/2025-05-24-armor-games...
|
| I analyzed 7 years of Armorgames.com data (999 games) to
| understand web gaming market trends.
|
| Key findings that might interest fellow developers:
|
| User standards are rising: Average ratings dropped from 7.02
| (2018) to 6.45 (2025), but the percentage of high-quality games
| (8.5+ rating) actually increased from 12.3% to 14.7%. This
| suggests quality polarization rather than overall decline.
|
| Genre trends: Rising: Idle games, Strategy, RPGs (deeper gameplay
| mechanics) Declining: Traditional arcade/action games Stable:
| Puzzle and Adventure (web gaming staples)
|
| Innovation wins: The highest-rated "hidden gems" all had one
| thing in common - innovative mechanics rather than genre
| variations. Games like "Detective Bass: Fish Out of Water" (9.3
| rating) and "SYNTAXIA" (9.1 rating) show originality still pays
| off.
|
| Market maturation: The correlation between rating and popularity
| is surprisingly weak (0.126), suggesting quality [?] virality.
| However, play count strongly correlates with favorites (0.712).
| wtf242 wrote:
| recently launched book recommendations feature for my books side
| project that I put a LOT of work into. I might be biased but I
| think it works well as long as you give it your favorite books.
|
| https://thegreatestbooks.org/recommendations?demo=tgb2025
|
| warning: account required, and the full featured version where
| you can specify book length, include/exclude genres/subjects, etc
| requires a membership. if you would like to test it though just
| e-mail me at contact@thegreatestbooks.org and I'll mark your
| account as paid.
| heliographe wrote:
| I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW
| capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your
| device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd and has
| noise reduction, etc).
|
| https://bayercam.app
|
| I had fun with the interface - it's themeable, and inspired by
| classic cameras: lets you quickly switch between full auto/half
| auto/full manual modes with dedicated dials.
|
| Going to add more features in the coming months, but the #1 focus
| is keeping it super simple and blazing fast.
|
| Given that virtually all processing pipelines these days stack
| multiple shots to create a photo, as far as I'm aware this is the
| only way of getting a "traditional" single-exposure photo on
| iPhone, where the shutter speed is actually meaningful.
|
| There are other camera apps that support Bayer RAW capture, but
| those support a bunch of other formats, and you probably don't
| want Bayer RAW for most of your shots anyways, so for my own
| workflow it's better to have a dedicated app that I can launch
| really quickly rather than tap around in menus.
| oliwary wrote:
| My favorite sideprojects are daily games. One I am currently
| enjoying building is VideoPuzzle: https://videopuzzle.org/ where
| you have to unscramble a video split into 4x4 tiles.
|
| We are up to almost 200 puzzles, with around 700 players per day.
| I've become much better at finding videos that work well as
| puzzles and am working on adding small quality of life updates.
| adityapurwa wrote:
| I am currently working on AnythingSticker -
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anything-sticker/id6745157608
|
| An app that can turn anything into adorable stickers. In my
| region, people uses WhatsApp a lot, and there's this ability to
| create custom stickers. So we uses a lot of stickers on a
| conversation.
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