[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 : 292 points
Date : 2025-05-25 19:36 UTC (1 days 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.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| It'd be great if it had browser support and seamless ink[0]
| integration!
|
| [0] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
| mgl wrote:
| Assembling my CPS5 underwater drone: https://www.cpsdrone.com/
| rriley wrote:
| Impressive! Love how you have hacked yourself into such a great
| idea.
| 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?
| oulipo wrote:
| yes! the app will show you :)
| 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!
| 35mm wrote:
| Thanks! I'm leaning into the concept of intelligence
| gathering / aviation aesthetic.
| jlaneve wrote:
| On the home page right now it links to the Slash funding
| announcement 4 days ago, but the description looks way off
| 35mm wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback. I should probably make it more clear
| - there is no description field.
|
| The block of text is the 'Likely to outsource' column. I use
| Perplexity Deep research to try to infer what services the
| company might need based on it's probable current challenges.
|
| In this case it was: "Cloud infrastructure support to manage
| rapid scaling, pivoting, and new product integrations as part
| of business model transformation[3]., Specialized consulting
| (e.g., industry-specific financial regulations, fintech
| compliance, and go-to-market strategy) to facilitate entry
| into new verticals and optimize operational resilience[2]."
| 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/
| jayemar wrote:
| I'm also not a fan of email newsletters, and the reading
| interface of scrollz looks nice, but I'm not understanding how
| scrollz actually fit into the reading workflow. How do the
| newsletters in my inbox get opened for reading in scrollz?
| 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?
| euvin wrote:
| I did write about that! tl;dr I think it'd be really cool as
| an augmentation, the only thing steering me away from solely
| AI-generated graphs are hallucinations. But I think it
| definitely has a place in some capacity for anyone who wants
| to discover "what they don't know that they don't know", to
| find the prerequisite skills they don't realize they're
| missing.
|
| https://euvinkeel.github.io/tart/Traversing-Knowledge-Graphs
| 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.
| anttiharju wrote:
| With `brew install go`
|
| and
|
| module github.com/anttiharju/vmatch
|
| go 1.21.0
|
| toolchain go1.21.1
|
| I still get a binary that claims to be built with the
| latest version of Go instead of 1.21.1 or .0
|
| vmatch has version 0.1.6+dirty built with go1.24.3 from
| 83c9aa83 on 2025-05-25T18:43:30Z
|
| I think this is a problem for me. Go 1.22 did a breaking
| change with the for loops for example
| https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview.
|
| I see that I can change it with a command like `go env -w
| GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.21.1+auto` but then again I'm doing
| something I don't want, managing the version.
|
| Perhaps I'm missing some config.
| 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.
| nbbaier wrote:
| What are you fundraising for?
| contingencies wrote:
| A giant factory that builds robots using other robots.
| 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?
| mattbettinson wrote:
| Reached out to some of my favs, got my favorite podcaster to
| sign! But past that cold email has been not super effective
| 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.
| mattbettinson wrote:
| Cool idea! Yeah, an example means the input page but I should
| make it more of the admin view!
| pmdr wrote:
| Aren't podcasters already relying on tools like
| Whatsapp/Telegram for this?
| mattbettinson wrote:
| No. I haven't spoken to any that use telegram, one that used
| WhatsApp but found it a nightmare. A lot of people still use
| landlines/phone numbers
| 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.
| y-curious wrote:
| I'm a big chess buff, and will say that the hard part is not
| making an engine (which is hard!), but making an engine that
| plays poorly, well. What I mean is: engines are very smart and
| better than the best human. When you make a "dumb" engine, you
| are telling a chess god to intentionally make mistakes. The
| mistakes they make, however, are not the same mistakes a
| beginner chess player would make. Today, beginners are
| discouraged from learning by playing against bots because of
| this; It simply doesn't serve you in human games.
|
| Lichess has a "humanlike" bot[1] but I haven't played with it
| yet. I think this problem will haunt you, if you get past the
| whole "create a chess engine" problem :) I have tried and
| failed to do this in the past.
|
| [1] https://lichess.org/@/maia1
| ema wrote:
| I always assumed that chess engines are dumbed down by
| occasionally inserting random moves but now it occurred to me
| that a way to get more realistic mistakes might be feed them
| a distorted version of the game state.
| djfergus wrote:
| Check out chessiverse (I'm not affiliated just found from
| YouTubers). They purport to be a collection of bots that play
| like humans with human-like mistakes matched to ELO levels. I
| like it so far - the main value for me (vs lichess/chess.com)
| is knowing that who's on the other end isn't constantly
| cheating.
| 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.
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| Thanks. I love your viz examples! Those are beautiful.
| sky2224 wrote:
| Just curious: as a SWE, what are the prospects like in this
| field? What kind of background would be necessary to step in
| and what does the demand look like?
|
| I've always been fascinated by nuclear and it seems like a
| field that's never going to be not needed, but I kind of suck
| at physics and chemistry.
|
| Very cool stuff to see on your end, nonetheless!
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| There's a ton of money pouring into nuclear power right now,
| both fusion and fission. There are dozens of small VC-funded
| startups now in addition to the more "traditional"
| billionaire-funded nuclear startups. Each of them need SWEs
| to help with automating the physics/design simulations,
| document creation/management, plant design
| configuration/change management, QA compliance, construction
| management, experiment IT (instruments, controls, data
| collection, data reduction). Most companies have nuclear
| engineers like me who picked up some software skills along
| the way, but I've found it's always a huge benefit to bring
| in some nuclear-interested SWEs to help get things running
| with best practices. Some SWEs I've hired in the past felt a
| little isolated, but others have engaged well with the
| nuclear and mechanical engineers and had a great time. Be
| prepared for some weird fights with nuclear IT teams who are
| extra afraid of criminal penalties associated with export
| control laws.
| fooker wrote:
| Do you think there's a path for ..say.. a competent engineer
| from a small country to obtain such a starter kit and jumpstart
| a weapons program?
|
| I'd guess all the information would already be available on the
| internet, but is there competitive advantage here?
| disentanglement wrote:
| Well hopefully the starter kit doesn't include a few
| kilograms of weapons grade plutonium.
| mrheosuper wrote:
| damn there goes my nuclear program.
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| No I don't think it'd help that much with a weapons program.
| The starter kit would be mostly focused on QA, compliance,
| configuration management, cost modeling, etc. and would not
| include any non-public information about like how to optimize
| a core for high-quality plutonium or U-233 production or how
| to do the chemistry needed to separate plutonium from other
| actinides and fission products. And of course it would say
| nothing at all about weapon design. That said, vast
| quantities of normal core design knowledge are widely
| available.
| 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?
| conditionnumber wrote:
| Papers with code for quantitative finance. Still just thinking
| about it. Replicating research is a great way to learn a field.
|
| >90% of the work to replicate academic research in quant finance
| is data collection and cleaning. Academics have WRDS, Bloomberg,
| and research assistants. Others need to find cheap vendors of
| acceptable quality. Write scripts to fetch and clean. Actual
| algorithms and analysis (the fun part) are a tiny fraction of the
| total effort.
|
| Project objective is "good enough" data collection & cleaning for
| daily frequency equities, futures, and FX. In that order. Annual
| data budget target < USD 500. Cheaper is better.
| 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?
| piker wrote:
| I was a special counsel at a funds practice. I began
| practicing corporate law in 2011. Check it out here:
| https://tritium.legal/about
| owebmaster wrote:
| Looks great! Well done.
| 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!
| adriand wrote:
| Thirded! Really impressive project. Very fun.
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you!
| 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.
| dghlsakjg wrote:
| If you're in the US, make sure you have people ship using
| discounted media mail rates!
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thanks, good idea
| DamnInteresting wrote:
| Ads are like graffiti. When they first appear, they are a
| nuisance, a menace. But in the fullness of time they become
| interesting relics.
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Yep! I feel ads capture a certain authenticity of the time.
| Changing aspirations, preferences and values.
| ayrtondesozzla wrote:
| Except grafitti is cool from the start, so, totally different
| rriley wrote:
| This is absolutely fantastic! What a treasure trove you're
| building. I love that you're using AI to help with the metadata
| extraction while still requiring the physical magazines, that's
| such a thoughtful approach to preserving these cultural
| artifacts. That 1968 computer ad that "answers riddles" is pure
| gold. Can't wait to see more gems as your collection grows!
| atlgator wrote:
| This is really cool! What are you using to digitize the ads?
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you! I've written a web application (I call the
| adverdex) to assist the process and automatically publish to
| the site. Magazines are inventoried, then camera images taken
| for each ad. Each image is cleaned up and cropped, then I use
| OpenAI to extract the brand, product, tagline and other
| details. Then I manually review and add more details for the
| published version. Only full page ads are currently being
| published but I intend to catalog every ad I encounter.
| chkpwd wrote:
| This is awesome-sauce! Any thoughts on an API?
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you! Yep I'm thinking about that. Any input as to the
| use case? The catalog is a full web application I've
| developed. I'm currently only publishing the best ads to the
| site for now to not clutter it up. But I could offer an API
| or access to the full metadata.
| mNovak wrote:
| Really cool collection! It seems like these are just
| photographed on a desk? Would recommend a flatbed scanner if
| you don't have one already!
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you! Yep, just photographed. I considered scanning but
| because of the volume I need to save every second possible of
| effort per ad. I have about 50k ads already and that is at
| best only 1% of the source material out there! Only full page
| ads are being published to the site but I'm cataloging every
| single minor ad too. I want to rig up a static camera and
| better lighting and I think that will get a better overall
| image quality.
| washmyelbows wrote:
| there is a very large collection of old catalogs on archive.org
| for people interested in looking at old print advertisements
| whiskey-one wrote:
| This is a really cool project! I would love to see a timeline
| view where the ads from particular decade are shown together,
| followed by subsequent ones!
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you, will do!
| tomhavoc wrote:
| Super cool project! The website looks great too. Some analytics
| would be amazing. Not sure why but I think it would be really
| interesting to see the data in aggregate from various
| perspectives, e.g. what were the most popular add types by year
| or by publication.
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Thank you! Yeah I agree, I'm hoping I'll see some interesting
| trends I can write about.
| scroogey wrote:
| What a neat idea! I'd second the person requesting a timeline
| view.
| rorylaitila wrote:
| Cool thank you! I'll work on this.
| mistersquid wrote:
| > One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers
| riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-comp-digi-
| comp-1-table-top...
|
| Went to take a peek and my phone content blocker apparently did
| what it's supposed to do...
| rorylaitila wrote:
| I think it's a problem with the cache, seems to be
| intermittent I'll take a look.
| 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.
| lordofgibbons wrote:
| Very cool! Where can I read up on how something like this
| works?
| csnate wrote:
| You're the second person who has asked me this, I think I
| need to start a blog or something.
|
| So I dont want to give too much away about how it works
| because I think I might try to offer a paid version where the
| results are private.
|
| But at a high level it combines an LLM, program analysis, and
| heuristics.
| 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.
| cschmidt wrote:
| Are you planning to publish your results when you're done?
| 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?
| xandrius wrote:
| Oh really?! Could you share your wiki profile with the
| photos?
|
| I have another little game for bird watchers who want to
| improve their recognition skills and we often showcase
| photographers and recordists who contribute to the public
| domain. It's called Birdle and we have a few countries (next
| month will be releasing Mexico and India). Here is the
| website with the country selector: https://birdle.world (or
| directly https://birdle.us for the US one).
|
| If you join our community newsletter, we will be giving
| access to the new game to our Birdle players. You can join it
| for updates at: https://newsletter.birdle.co.za/
| 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/
| habi wrote:
| As an avid mapper (and liking to go on dinner-dates with my
| wife) I absolutely love this. Very slick and quick search,
| congratulations! Do you also parse the `opening_hours` tag to
| filter for currently open restaurants?
| 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!
| rriley wrote:
| Wow! Never seen "encoders over a display" before. This could be
| revolutionary in so many different scenarios beyond MIDI
| controllers. First scenario that comes to mind are car user
| interfaces. Mixing screens with physical controllers is such an
| innovative idea. Thanks for sharing.
| bruno_rzn wrote:
| Thanks a lot!
|
| Yes, the first idea that came to mind (after music/light
| controllers) was indeed car user interfaces.
|
| Maybe some cool interfaces for home automation too, and I can
| also imagine controllers for factories or workshops--pretty
| much anywhere with lots of parameters to control.
|
| But really, if you have other scenarios in mind, please
| share, I'm very interested, as you can imagine ;)
| _Microft wrote:
| The Ford Mustang Mach-E has a physical wheel on its touch
| screen.
| 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.
| rriley wrote:
| Very promising concept! Any link/video/website you can share to
| learn more about this idea?
| 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.
| mfalcon wrote:
| Wow! I was thinking about doing something similar (extracting
| audio features to find really similar songs) some weeks ago. I
| love the idea, it'd be great to have something like this to
| discover music too, but it'll be difficult to discover new
| music because it won't be present in the collection.
| l72 wrote:
| I buy a lot of music on Bandcamp and often a label will have
| their whole catalog on sale, so I'll just buy that. But I
| haven't been good exploring the new 50+ albums I just bought,
| so this is helping.
|
| I also finally took my wife's collection, properly tagged it,
| and added it to my collection. That has been fun to explore.
| mfalcon wrote:
| That sounds nice. Sometimes I listen to a really great
| fragment of a song (the final minutes of Descending from
| Tool) and I think: "It'd be great to hear songs that have
| this kind of fragment".
|
| I don't know if that's possible or not, but it'd be much
| better for me than the recommendations from popular
| streaming services.
| l72 wrote:
| I think for exploring new music last.fm or listenbrainz are
| still good options.
|
| Listenbrainz has some cool tools like troi to come up with
| weekly lists.
|
| They work on popularity and neighbors, so if you listen to a
| lot of underground music that isn't on major platforms, they
| fail
| 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.
| jimmcslim wrote:
| This is a fantastic idea. Do you end up playing whackamole with
| YouTube's URL scheme?
| aantix wrote:
| With the current YouTube, it's definitely whack a mole with
| topics
|
| I can ban 100 Fortnite channels, but there's another 1000 to
| fill the void.
|
| Sadly, YouTube is driven by engagement, so dislikes have zero
| effect on the algorithm.
|
| My algorithm is better suited for exploration and kids.
| plasma_beam wrote:
| Very interested and will reach out, thanks!
| gervwyk wrote:
| This is awesome. having control over your feed makes all the
| difference. Never considered LLM for this. Makes sense. Would
| like to demusk my feed a little.
| stopthe wrote:
| You may be striking the goldmine with this app. There's a lot
| of sentiment about the effects of tech on children and also
| parents spend money like no one else.
|
| On a personal level I'm interested too. My son is too young, so
| we only watch youtube together, even then he's very susceptible
| to the attention-grabbing recommendations. "Theater mode" helps
| put the recommendations off-screen. "Don't recommend channel"
| helps a curate the feed a little bit.
|
| But ideally I should be in control of the whole interface.
| CommenterPerson wrote:
| Nice idea. Do you have a timer .. like after a half hour of
| playing it recommends them to go outside and play (after
| checking with parents)?
| aantix wrote:
| A timer is a great idea.
|
| I'll add it to our community ideas Google doc.
| sillyfluke wrote:
| Is a TV app possible, or only mobile/tablet?
| 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
| ryansworks wrote:
| Great point. I regret not being more systematic about
| this. I have tried on most popular models since gpt 3.5
| launched, but it's all been very ad hoc with the same
| general approach of building up a language feature by
| feature.
| 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.
| campak wrote:
| sounds awesome!
| taroth wrote:
| Excited for this!
| 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 motor?
| Volatility? Control over thrust? Making it safe to throw
| without worrying about backblast?
| ginkgotree wrote:
| All of the above. Thrust vectoring, throttleable, hand
| launchable. Yes, yes, and yes, and a few more covert reasons
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| Really rad idea, are you doing any active pilots? I'm
| currently in Tallinn, Estonia and there is quite a lot of
| crossover with the Ukrainian military (both to support them
| and to help prove out product viability). Happy to chat if
| I can be helpful. Email is jb2956@georgetown.edu
| rriley wrote:
| Impressive!
| 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.
| mikeytown2 wrote:
| Kids text only cell phone. LILYGO T-Deck Plus. I can track
| and communicate with them and not have to worry about giving
| them full internet.
|
| Any sort of disaster they also are useful to get messages
| around. A couple days into a power outage and no cell towers
| work anymore, this happened 1 week before thanksgiving in the
| Seattle area 2024.
| 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.
| adriand wrote:
| This looks very interesting! A bit of feedback for you: the
| number one question I have as I look at this is, podcasts about
| what?
| 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.
| rhet0rica wrote:
| I never knew how much I needed this. Is it just a skin over JS
| apps, or have you done any work imitating the software
| architecture?
| ayaros wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| The answer is neither; it isn't remotely imitating the Lisa's
| architecture, nor is it a skin over some other previously
| written JS code. To be clear: _this is absolutely NOT a CSS
| skin._
|
| The only CSS involved is used for the positioning of the
| canvas element on the page, and for the styling of the
| temporary UI elements which mimic the Lisa's hardware test
| screen (and those that display as a fallback if JS is
| disabled). When the system "boots" all those temporary
| elements are replaced with a single canvas element on which
| the UI is displayed.
|
| I should perhaps have been less modest in my original comment
| in that _all_ of the UI components are coded from scratch.
| This includes a hierarchical system for displaying objects on
| the canvas (not dissimilar to the the DOM), the windowing
| system, a typesetting system, multiple systems for displaying
| and storing image data, and much more. I 've written what I
| hesitate to call a graphics engine, but I guess that's sort
| of what it is... it even supports 1-bit blending modes.
|
| This was originally going to be more along the lines of a CSS
| skin, but I became so deeply frustrated with visual
| inconsistencies across browser engines and platforms that I
| ultimately decided to move all the logic I could into JS. The
| result is what you see now.
| rhet0rica wrote:
| Oh, gosh, I didn't mean a CSS skin, just, like, a frontend
| over custom/modern software with sensible design patterns
| meant to be sensible on modern hardware. I'm guessing
| alpha.lisagui.com is the URL; it's pretty slick!
| ayaros wrote:
| Yes, that's pretty much correct! "Sensible" is
| debatable... And that's the URL!
|
| (Guess I figured I'd emphasize that point before people
| start mistaking it for yet-another-CSS-skin(tm)...)
| 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!
| jsemrau wrote:
| The tighter the scope/validation loop, the closer the "agent"
| gets to a more narrow business case of machine learning.
| These more traditional cases are in comparison significantly
| cheaper to implement and maintain. If you consider as an
| example traditional scorecards+policy rules in credit
| underwriting vs an agent that "reasons" over the loan
| application context.
| recsv-heredoc wrote:
| Yeah for sure - that's exactly why we use that approach -
| it's unsurprising, simple and definitely works.
|
| One difference is that you don't necessarily need
| structured data _in_ , just output validation from the LLM.
| This is a big difference from ML because you're not having
| to worry too much about doing complex data engineering - or
| at least it solves the annoying ingestion problem in many
| cases.
|
| Another observation is that most businesses don't have any
| ML engineering capabilities in-house - they're pretty much
| willing to pay a premium, because unlike the bespoke ML
| solutions, you can just do it with an off-the-shelf system
| (provided it's designed with the right validation loops).
|
| The agent is in some ways an abstraction that just enables
| use and adoption - even if it would be orders of magnitude
| worse than normal ML solutions - it's competing against no
| solution, not ML-based ones.
|
| Last thing is just around what level of autonomy people
| expect from these things. You can go pretty far, but like
| flipping N coins, the more you flip the greater the chance
| that something goes awry. Agents still need a lot of
| guidance and it's up to the system builders to bring that
| to them, either by connecting humans or very tightly
| integrated, well-designed tools.
| 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.
| nichol4s wrote:
| Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch.
| Do you crawl yourself? What is your infrastructure? What is
| your goal for search.marginalia ?
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| > Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from
| scratch.
|
| Yup
|
| > Do you crawl yourself?
|
| Yup
|
| > What is your infrastructure?
|
| All custom built in Java, sitting on a rack server in a
| basement in Sweden.
|
| > What is your goal for search.marginalia ?
|
| I'm basically building what I feel is lacking in internet
| search and discovery, which is tools for finding stuff based
| on something other than a popularity metric, as those tend to
| feed into themselves to make the web seem so small.
| nichol4s wrote:
| I love the 'coffee stain'indicator! How do you rank
| results?
|
| Can you give some rough indications of how many pages you
| index in total? How many page you crawl each day? Size of
| the machine(s) in RAM and HDD?
|
| Sorry, many questions, just genuinely intrigued!
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| > How do you rank results?
|
| There's a ton of factors.
|
| https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob
| /ma...
|
| > Can you give some rough indications of how many pages
| you index in total?
|
| I index like 300 million documents right now, though I
| crawl something like 1.4 billion (and could index them
| all). The search engine is pretty judicious about
| filtering out low quality results, mostly because this
| improves the search results.
|
| > How many page you crawl each day?
|
| I don't know if I have a good answer for that. In general
| the crawling isn't really much of a bottleneck. I try to
| refresh the index completely every ~8 weeks, and also
| have some capabilities for discovering recent changes via
| RSS feeds.
|
| > Size of the machine(s) in RAM and HDD?
|
| It's an EPYC 7543 x2 SMP machine with 512 GB RAM and
| something like 90 TB disk space, all NVMe storage.
| 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...
| ejanus wrote:
| That's great. I will like to be part of your team
| 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
| 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 its 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.
| 3abiton wrote:
| My main gripe with boox is their closed source bloated
| firmware and no ability to unlock the bootloader.
| catchmeifyoucan wrote:
| Thanks for sharing! Agree, building hardware hasn't been the
| easiest thing.
|
| Interesting, I like the idea of a custom screen on the
| Framework. I'm sure that may come with its own challenges as
| well :)
| cheschire wrote:
| hey maybe the kid that made the anyon_e would be inspiring for
| you!
|
| Here's a couple related videos:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fks3PBodyiE
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sLQvuLwxQ
| catchmeifyoucan wrote:
| Huge inspiration! I loved the anyon_e videos. He DIY'ed the
| laptop and made it look really nice.
| nalinidash wrote:
| The site is unreachable for me
| 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.
| wtp30twice wrote:
| Love this bookmarked and will be using this for future web!!
| Good founder
| kinow wrote:
| Will give it a try next time I need to pick a color palette.
| Thanks
| 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.
| happy_pancake wrote:
| Why not integrate with Shopify and do a theme/use its webhooks
| for this?
| 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.
| rriley wrote:
| This is incredibly impressive work, especially at 19! The
| insight about LLMs being better at critiquing than producing
| translations is brilliant, and using that to build a hybrid
| system that outperforms individual models is exactly the kind
| of innovative thinking the field needs. Congrats on the company
| talk, well deserved recognition for solid research and
| execution!
| psyklic wrote:
| Nice work and blog! You might consider crossposting some blog
| entries to LessWrong for more visibility of your research.
| People are very interested in new ideas on benchmarking.
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. I'm thinking
| of writing one big blog article about everything I've found,
| loosely based on the talk, and I'll crosspost it there.
| 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
|
| But seriously, I'm looking for "no-strings" sponsors, if any
| companies (or individuals) would like to help support me so that
| I can focus on open source full time. Feel free to email me:
| https://brynet.ca/
| 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.
| kegs_ wrote:
| Sorry, when you said hybrid I was expecting something
| that was partly an llm and partly something else. How did
| you arrive at your coherence/idiomaticity/accuracy
| numbers (if you'll forgive me not delving too deep into
| the website)?
| Alex-Programs wrote:
| Hybrid as in a combination of different LLMs. I recommend
| trying the demo on the site, it should give you an idea
| of what it's doing. The code is also pretty short.
|
| So those numbers are from an older version of the
| benchmark.
|
| Coherence is done by:
|
| - Translating English, to the target language, to English
|
| - repeating three times
|
| - Having 3 LLMs score how close the original English is
| to the new English
|
| I like it because it's robust against LLM bias, but it
| obviously isn't exact, and I found that after a certain
| point it's actually negatively correlated with quality,
| because it incentivises literal, word by word
| translations.
|
| Accuracy and Idiomaticity are based on asking the judge
| LLMs to rate by how accurate / idiomatic the translations
| are. I mostly focused on idiomaticity, as it was the
| differentiator at the upper end.
|
| The new benchmark has gone through a few iterations, and
| I'm still not super happy with it. Now it's just based on
| LLM scoring (this time 0-100), but with better stats,
| prompting, etc. I've still done some small scale tests on
| coherence, and I did some more today that I haven't
| published yet, and again they have DeepL and Lingvanex
| doing well because they tend towards quite rigid
| translations over idiomatic ones. Claude 4 is also
| interestingly doing quite well on those metrics.
|
| I need to sleep, but I can discuss it more tomorrow, if
| you'd like.
| 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.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| Yes you only have to sign up if you are publishing a game
| permanently, which I figure is reasonable since that means
| you will be taking up space on my server forever. But people
| can make whole games a never sign in if that's what they
| want!
| lelandfe wrote:
| "Make games with Ease," and the cursor forming the "l," is
| really nifty.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| Haha yes I was really pleased with it and you're actually the
| first person to acknowledge it out loud so thank you!
| hopeadoli wrote:
| Awesome!
| videogreg93 wrote:
| I'm not sure who this is for. On one hand multiplayer games are
| complicated to make, even with a dedicated framework, but on
| the other the tutorial wastes time explaining to me how to undo
| with ctrl+z and there's even a large infobubble on how to copy
| and paste text.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| This is good feedback! I thought it'd be a great first
| programming language for people and so I think I have aimed
| the tutorial far too basic, probably even for them. Maybe
| that's where I am losing people. I am going to edit it and
| see if that improves the retention.
| oliverdzedou wrote:
| This is an impressive project and hopefully it will allow
| more programming beginners to get into multiplayer
| programming. Huge congrats. However, I am wondering: if
| your programming language is aimed at complete beginners,
| why make your language untyped and include undefined? Those
| are both fully loaded foot cannons. Sure, the language
| looks more inviting and probably gives the impression of
| faster development, but I'm not sure it's worth the amount
| of bugs that will be introduced eventually.
| BSTRhino wrote:
| Yes, in the end I just made this decision pragmatically
| and it's not a grand statement about how I think
| programming languages should work. I felt that it would
| be possible to add gradual typing to Easel eventually,
| and so chose to prioritise other programming language
| features.
|
| One of the original "agitators" which caused me to make
| Easel was because I was so surprised at how popular the
| modding tools for my previous game were with first-time
| coders. The modding tools used JSON, which might sound
| primitive, but if you look past the JSON it was actually
| defining a hierarchical declarative language for defining
| game behaviour. I have many theories for why first-time
| coders could just pick it up, but one of them is I think
| the hierarchical shape meant everything could be written
| inline, without indirection or jumping around. This
| format allowed all these gamers to just accidentally fall
| into coding and it was quite impressive how far they got
| without any help.
|
| But those old modding tools were quite limited really,
| and that limited how much coding people could learn. So
| for years I just kept wondering what would happen if
| someone made that magic hierarchical declarative shape
| unlimited by merging it with a traditional imperative
| programming language. Would it allow gamers to
| accidentally fall into learning actual coding? It took me
| about 2 years to squash together these two seemingly-
| opposed paradigms and make the Easel programming
| language. Doing this required slimming down on the other
| language features in order to iterate quickly on this big
| problem, so that's how we ended up not having strong
| typing, amongst other things. But I don't regret what I
| chose to prioritise, and I hope to address this in the
| coming years!
| joenot443 wrote:
| Do you have links to the games people have made that you're
| most proud of?
|
| I see you're wanting users to pay monthly to play games with
| for Easel+, do you think the current catalogue provides the
| right value?
| BSTRhino wrote:
| To be honest, that's kind of why I'm here posting about it. I
| think https://gatew.easel.games is impressive, but I also
| know the engine is capable of so much more than what people
| have made with it so far, and I'm trying to find people who
| have dreams but haven't found the right tool yet so I can
| build that for them.
|
| The pricing model and how to run Easel sustainably is a huge
| question. Easel is basically a free product, which is what I
| want because (a) I would just like people to use it and (b)
| multiplayer games need lots of players. I made the upfront
| decision to never run ads on Easel because I want parents and
| schools to be happy with it being used by their teenagers,
| and that has greatly changed the business dynamics. I have
| very delicately managed the cost-efficiency of Easel only
| expecting about 1% of people to ever subscribe to Easel+. For
| this reason, I've avoided expensive features so that one
| dedicated server can run at least 1 million projects and
| handle thousands of concurrent players at a manageable cost.
| It's been a real slimming exercise.
|
| I know the catalogue is small, but despite that, there are
| some people who come back and play one game every single day
| on Easel. There are also people who come back and make games
| every day on Easel. And there are some who do both. We have
| people exceeding 100+ hours a month sometimes. It's these
| people who Easel+ is for. Easel+ is designed as a package
| deal with a bunch of different game-playing and game-making
| perks so that people can decide for themselves what parts of
| the package they find valuable. But I would honestly be happy
| to have thousands of people using it and not paying a cent.
| This is my life's work and I just want it to be used, even if
| I have to fund it all myself.
| artichaud1 wrote:
| Well this is pretty cool!!
| jesse__ wrote:
| That's a cool idea, and seems technically satisfying to work
| on. Well done!
| lebimas wrote:
| Small request: if you could please add a "copy this page"
| button near the top of each page in the docs (perhaps next to
| the title of the page), it would make it easier to feed the
| docs into an LLM for guidance on how to build a project on top
| of Easel. Neat project!
| 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..
| valenterry wrote:
| This is cool. It could be generalized into arbitrary ranking
| (not just photos).
|
| Questions: how do you plan to deal with people that will
| randomly rank other's pictures to get credits quickly (or even
| build a script to do so)?
| mmlkrx wrote:
| Hey Ben, this looks like a neat project/app! I'm always curious
| with apps like this about how financially viable it is. Seems
| to be a fair solution to be able to generate credits yourself
| by ranking and then buying more credits to get ranked, do you
| have any numbers or insights you are willing to share? (or have
| shared somewhere else before?)
| 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...
| hello0525 wrote:
| Love this, great work. Rock on!
| thephyber wrote:
| Interesting.
|
| I was just considering an app to facilitate the other side of
| the apologetics argument with an interactive resurrection of
| IronChariots.org as a native app.
| johnpurr wrote:
| All conspiracies's enemy is logistics. And yet for these
| eucharist miracles, the logistics are simple. They all have a
| clear and obvious point where foul play could be inserted,
| where the complicit number of people can be brought down to
| just 1. You may not like this explanation, but it's one people
| will rightly use to counter it. 'Why would people lie' is a
| pointless exercise. They would. Each person has a different
| story, intent, motivation.
|
| Anyway I just read the first one, but I'm aware of these
| miracles some time ago. I don't think it has outward persuasive
| powers catholics think they do. It sounds trivial and specific.
| It's also so clearly some growth to me. You got the wafer, you
| got contamination, and you put it in a container with water. Of
| course, then they would find a separate heart tissue to send to
| the scientists.
|
| (Also unrelated, but it's kinda funny. Catholics would be
| saying it's the literal body of Christ. And they they dropped
| it to the floor and went 'well, I can't eat that'.)
| michelangelodev wrote:
| You're correct that we can't prove the chain of custody for
| the Eucharistic miracles - this is discussed at the bottom of
| the article.
|
| In general, there's no airtight "proof" for any miracle, and
| the best way to determine whether Christianity is true is to
| live the faith and see what happens. I wrote an article about
| this:
|
| https://www.saintbeluga.org/the-rosary-the-ultimate-life-
| hac...
| CommenterPerson wrote:
| This could be applied to any faith. Likely many people
| would find that faith was also true? So they are all true
| simultaneously? But they also contradict one another, and
| have people killing each other in their "team's" name?
|
| AFAIK there hasn't been any evidence shown for any of the
| faiths yet.
| gtowey wrote:
| > the best way to determine whether Christianity is true is
| to live the faith and see what happens.
|
| So you're telling me you tried this with a bunch of other
| religions before you landed on Christianity? You became a
| Muslim, a Buddhist, a Wiccan and lived those faiths?
| 999900000999 wrote:
| "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not
| omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
| Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he
| neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" Epicurus
| kukkeliskuu wrote:
| There are multiple potential answers to this basic riddle in
| various religions. Are you interested in understanding them?
|
| For example, we can say that while God is omnipotent, he has
| chosen to create a world with humans who have the possibility
| of choosing to be good -- your word -- or not -- and grow
| through this choice. A world cannot exist where the "evil" is
| prevented, unless you also take away the the agency from
| humans and this potential for growth.
|
| Much of which we think of as "evil" is actually consequence
| of things we do. One simple example in modern terms is that
| we tend to repeat the same unconscious patterns over and over
| again.
|
| We often do it because we have a trauma maybe from childhood
| -- that we are not conscious of. If I get a physical trauma,
| muscles around the traums tend to form a tension to protect
| the site where we get hurt. These often become chronic even
| after the wound has healed. We have many such chronic
| tensions in our body.
|
| Similarly, when we get a physical trauma that is too
| unbearable for us to process, we create tensions around it
| that protect us from experiencing it.
|
| These patterns we repeat cause much of our suffering. By
| becoming more aware of our wounds, they can start healing,
| and we can start becoming free of such suffering.
|
| Our "work" is to learn about ourselves, to overcome these
| traumas, and heal our wounds. In such a case the "evil" we
| see is actually a reflection which is necessary for us to
| become aware of these things in ourselves.
| 999900000999 wrote:
| I'm replying to a comment about the Catholic/Christian
| God...
|
| In his myths he has no problem actively interfering with
| man. The great flood story itself is a giant logical
| paradox.
|
| God is perfect. God is all knowing.
|
| Yet God creates a world so screwed up he has to reset it.
|
| What free will does every human who's not Noah have ?
|
| Revalations heavily implies that one day God will get sick
| of this. Too much free will or something.
|
| Honestly everyone has a right to whatever myths get them
| through the day. The issue becomes when your myth infringe
| on the rights of others or are used to persecute. As in,
| your magic book has a few dietary restrictions, cool.
|
| Your magic book calls certain people abominations, or
| suggest they should have less rights, not cool.
| 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.
| faizan-ali wrote:
| I did something similar for Californian oils :)
| https://www.californiaoliveoil.info/
| kingo55 wrote:
| I like the personal touch your site provides with the
| producers' images. How did you source your data?
| 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.
| bhu1st wrote:
| I have interest in this space, but as you wrote the software
| will be only useful if kids want to create games and there
| aren't many kids (I think) who want to create their own game.
| Kids mostly want to play for fun.
|
| My kids play Roblox for pure entertainment, but I think the
| experience can be improved. Making a platform like Roblox
| that's fun to play and has ability to extend (the learning and
| game creation) it easily would be great. Atmosphere was great
| but it vanished.
| 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.
| thephyber wrote:
| Are you just building a web front end on the GitHub API or are
| you building an end-to-end social programming service?
| bob1029 wrote:
| I started with front end for GH API, but the rate limits and
| web hook limitations (must own repo) make it a non-starter
| for total replacement of the typical use cases. 5,000
| requests/hr is a lot, but there are repositories with so many
| issues that you couldn't keep up with things like edits to
| comments.
| omosubi wrote:
| there's also no reason you should be viewing a pull request
| with more than 100 files :p
| 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).
| carom wrote:
| I'm not sure the take away for the first point that user
| standards are rising is correct. Could that also be the number
| of people making games is increasing? I say this because more
| highly rated games and a trending down of the average (more
| slop) could explain that as well. I think the idea that
| standards are rising would hold constant the number of games.
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| It could also be that game standards are dropping, no?
| 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.
| thephyber wrote:
| A few months into creating iOS apps after working on large
| distributed web apps for decades. Just released the first called
| _My Conversation Curator_ (voice to text dictation + AI summary)
| with Halo West[1]. The next app may be an interactive assistant
| to help craft OKRs and KPIs.
|
| Separately, working on building an app to assist with cipher
| analysis of things like Kryptos and Bitcoin/crypto puzzles.
| Loosely modeled after CyberChef, but a native app that is capable
| of far more detailed frequency analysis and brute forcing with
| the GPU.
|
| Also, experimenting with LLM workflows for both work and the rest
| of life. Prompt engineering seems like an incredibly valuable
| skillset for the next decade.
|
| [1] https://halo-west.com/
| petabyt wrote:
| I've been working on a Virtual DOM in C. Basically like dear
| imgui but it uses a retained-mode toolkit like GTK instead of
| rendering manually.
|
| https://github.com/petabyt/rim
| meowzarella wrote:
| an online marketplace for talents, sapces, and funds.
|
| it's a tarpit idea that a lot of users and investors like to shit
| on so i decided to just build something that i like myself.
| kebsup wrote:
| https://vocabuo.com
|
| App with dynamic/flexible spaced repetition flashcards for
| language learning.
|
| Recently I've added dialog & definition cards, so I can learn
| German from short dialogs with images and audio.
| satisfice wrote:
| I am working on a critical thinking class based around the use of
| LLMs.
|
| This involves exploring the ethics of using magic to accomplish
| tasks. The problem then boils down to a matter of epistemology--
| a testing problem. But testing is something you only do in the
| absence of trust. So critical thinking begins with the rejection
| of trust.
|
| It's been interesting to read about "Anomalistic Psychology"
| which is the study of magical thinking. Malinowsky commented that
| not a single canoe was built by Melanesian islanders without the
| use of magic, yet none of them would say that they could be built
| without craftsmanship.
|
| Magic is the belief in the infallibility of hope, to paraphrase
| Malinowski. Which may explain why too many smart people are
| uncritical about LLMs.
| berdon wrote:
| A cross between a text MUD and an early 2k browser based RPG.
| Hoping to incorporate many advanced MMO and LitRPG based features
| plus complex economic, npc, guild, quest, and crafting mechanics.
| It's more of a passion project/hobby with no expectation of
| adoption. It has been very fun to build.
| pizzly wrote:
| https://negativestarinnovators.com We been working on Thieves
| which monitors websites using AI agents. Users set natural
| language conditions for websites and get a email, Telegram,
| Discord, Webhook once their conditions has been met. We also have
| a REST API replicating the full functionality of Thieves.
|
| Currently working on making it even more reliable, navigate pages
| and understand website images not just the text of the webpage.
| Also getting ready for a Product Hunt launch.
| martin-adams wrote:
| I'm working on a resume review service. Really simple, submit
| your resume and I'll record a video analysis of it. I created it
| because every so often I get asked to review someone's resume and
| they've found it very helpful, and it's my way to address the
| poor resumes I've received when hiring.
|
| https://resume.fail
| wateringcan wrote:
| https://veeto.ai
|
| A tool that scans California legislation and flags bills that
| might affect your startup. You drop in a link to your website or
| a short description, and it returns plain-English summaries and
| impact analysis of relevant bills.
| T0Bi wrote:
| Planning a hobby alpaca farm (3-4 alpacas), very early stage.
|
| Everything from farm related stuff (water, food, shelter, etc.)
| to self-sufficiency (solar, etc.) to real time monitoring (which
| cameras, affecting power supply).
|
| Who knows if it'll ever happen, but just planning everything in
| detail is a lot of fun. Especially with weird regulatory
| constraints where I'm living, there's a lot to watch out for.
|
| Example: Solar panels at >3m height need building permits. Snow
| in winter means panels should be set up at a specific angle. So
| my initial plan of putting the panels on my 2.5m high carport
| doesn't work. Either lower carport, lower angle, different place
| or getting a building permit.
| nssnsjsjsjs wrote:
| This must be the dream for a lot of tech people living behind a
| screen. I can see myself wanting to do this (although maybe
| work on the farm not own it)
| coverj wrote:
| I think a lot of people in office jobs day dream about this
| sort of thing. My father-in-law is a third generation farmer
| producing ultra fine wool. I am a source of free labour at
| shearing time and I will tell you that when I treat myself to
| a sleep in on Monday morning and roll out of bed for standup
| at 9:30 I sit there with the biggest shit-eating grin on my
| face meanwhile my father in law is already 4 hours in to his
| 12+ hour day.
|
| Also if I was to go into farming I'd have to do something
| with crops/fruits/vegetables. I am a bit of a softie but the
| realities of livestock husbandry when met with the economics
| of farming can be quite confronting.
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| I already live in a farm with a permanent remote job!
|
| /brag over
| motohagiography wrote:
| Do you forsee the tariff situation improving demand for
| domestically produced wool? I have land and am speculating that
| the economics of livestock may actually improve.
| RobRivera wrote:
| A video game!
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Well, I did a rewrite of this app (RiVal.T, an iOS timer)[0], and
| I'm working on a new release that includes a Watch app (acting as
| a remote control). Getting the Watch and phone talking reliably
| is a challenge, but I seem to be stumbling towards success
| (eventually).
|
| I have a couple of other apps that I have plans for, as well. If
| I get sick of playing traffic cop, with the phone app, I may take
| a break, and work on them.
|
| [0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/ios-apps/rival-t/
| Brystephor wrote:
| Reinforcement learning system. Currently trying to understand how
| to implement contextual thompson sampling and its details after
| doing non contextual thompson sampling. My YouTube history is a
| lot of logistic regression related videos at the moment.
| TMEHpodcast wrote:
| Pfft. Obviously the funniest, most educational science podcast on
| the planet https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com/
| yakshaving_jgt wrote:
| A HTML validator for websites and web applications. It's just not
| scalable having to do this manually, and having valid HTML is
| still important. Wrong HTML can cause bugs, and can harm
| accessibility. This is becoming more important now in Europe with
| new accessibility laws coming into force next month.
|
| https://jezenthomas.com/2025/05/dont-skip-html-validation/
| sage76 wrote:
| Working through PRML and creating a full solution set, albeit
| very slowly.
|
| https://github.com/abhimanyu-jain/PRML_Solutions
| p0deje wrote:
| https://github.com/alumnium-hq/alumnium
|
| Keep working on a test automation library that should allow
| writing browser/mobile tests easier with LLMs help, so I could
| focus more on testing, and less on automating.
| d4mi3n wrote:
| I'm working on a Content Security Policy parser. There are a
| handful of them around the web, but I couldn't find one that
| implemented the entirety of the CSP spec and I wanted something I
| could use to verify structure and validity of CSP directives.
|
| https://github.com/damien/content-security-policy/tree/main/...
|
| Once I'm happy with my take on a reference implementation I'm
| hoping to create some tooling with it to do some interesting
| analysis of CSP abstract syntax trees to identify things like
| policy anti patterns, reporting on capabilities a policy grants
| to a domain/resource, and a better mechanism for allowing tools
| like OPA, SemGrep, etc. to define and enforce rules on a policy.
| alligatorplum wrote:
| I implemented CSP and created internal tools to handle and
| process the reports. Would love to contribute and build a OSS
| tools to process reports.
| d4mi3n wrote:
| Neat! What were your experiences with the tech and how did
| you interface with it? Feel free to respond here or email me
| via my contact deets in my profile--I'd love to hear about
| your use-cases.
| carpo wrote:
| Ive almost finished the first version of a desktop video library
| app I've been writing for myself. I had the idea last year, but
| the cost of sending images to an LLM made it too expensive (to
| run over about 1500 videos), but now it's fairly reasonable.
|
| In the app you pick a folder with videos in it and it stores the
| path, metadata, extracts frames as images, uses a local whisper
| model to transcribe the audio into subtitles, then sends a
| selection of the snapshots and the subtitles to an LLM to be
| summarised. The LLM sends back an XML document with a bunch of
| details about the video, including a title, detailed summary and
| information on objects, text, people, animals, locations,
| distinct moments etc. Some of these are also timestamped and most
| have relationships (i.e this object belongs to this location,
| this text was on this object etc). I store all that in a local
| SQLLite database and then do another LLM call with this summary
| asking for categories and tags, then store them in the DB against
| each video. The App UI is essentially tags you can click to
| narrow down returned videos.
|
| I plan on adding a natural language search (Maybe RAG -- need to
| look into the latest best way), have half added Projects so I can
| group videos after finding the ones I want, and have a bunch of
| other ideas for this too. I've been programming this with some
| early help from Aider and Claude Sonnet. It's getting a bit
| complex now, so I do the majority of code changes, though the AI
| has done a fair bit. It's been heaps of fun, and I'm using it now
| in "production" (haha - on my PC)
| TeamDman wrote:
| Neat! Have a repo?
| carpo wrote:
| Thanks! I have been thinking about opening it up, but not
| sure, as I've never done any open source stuff and don't know
| how useful others would find it - there's some clunky bits!
|
| I also have the whole Aider/Claude prompt history in the repo
| too, as I started this on a platform & framework I'd never
| used, and used the AI to scaffold much of the app at the
| beginning. Thought that might be useful to go back and see
| what worked the best when AI programming.
| Eikon wrote:
| I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/ a certificate
| transparency search engine.
| trevinhofmann wrote:
| I recently launched Early Access for my AI-powered service for
| automated bug reporting, PR review, fearure implementation, a
| difficult test/documentation/refactor suggestion PRs.
|
| It was in the works for about a year, and I'm now trying to find
| ways to make it more marketable and useful.
|
| The three main things I'm working on are:
|
| 1. GitLab support (GitHub only at the moment) 2. A demo on the
| landing page that doesn't require any sign-up. 3. Better "vibe
| coding" experience through the Chat interface for those who want
| it.
|
| I built it with TypeScript on the front- and back-end, React,
| Node.js, and PostgreSQL. And I over-engineeres it, as one does,
| with a Redis cache and websockets to push the latest data to web
| clients so the latest info is always shown without needing to
| refresh. I'm using the OpenAI API right now, but I want to switch
| to local models when I can invest in the hardware for it.
|
| Edit: https://mysticode.ai - Would absolutely love feedback.
| parsabg wrote:
| I've been working on a browser use agent embedded within a Chrome
| extension: https://github.com/parsaghaffari/browserbee
|
| You can use it to check and summarize news and social media, fill
| out forms, send messages, book holidays, do your online shopping,
| conduct research, and pretty much anything else that can be done
| within a browser.
| nichol4s wrote:
| Nice - would you be interested in making this into a saas
| service? We are starting to open up our "automation API" and
| could maybe work together on bringing your extension to
| something that does not use playwright and a remote browser.
| parsabg wrote:
| The raison d'etre for BrowserBee is to control the user's
| browser in a private fashion so they can automate tasks that
| require them to be logged in. I'm unsure how it would work in
| a remote browser setup - tools like Browser Use and
| BrowserBase seem to cover that use case already.
|
| The key differentiator is privacy and local control. When
| users need to automate tasks on sites where they're already
| authenticated (banking, personal accounts, work systems),
| they need their actual browser with their existing sessions
| and cookies, not a remote instance.
| steida wrote:
| I work on the local-first that scales.
|
| https://www.evolu.dev/blog/scaling-local-first-software
| jumploops wrote:
| We're trying to make AI-first apps accessible to everyone.
|
| Here's a simple app my toddler made to generate toy trains[0].
|
| "Real users" are using it to build personal software tools like
| finance dashboards, content generators, and educational apps.
|
| Right now the functionality is great for many simple tools, but
| it's notably lacking a first-class data layer (coming soon!).
|
| All of the AI-generated code runs in secure MicroVMs, and the
| front-ends are just static assets, meaning the apps scale to zero
| when not in use.
|
| We're currently in the process of making the builder less of a
| "workflow" and more purely agentic, which should improve the
| overall success rate.
|
| [0]https://toy-train-generator.magicloops.app/
| bqmjjx0kac wrote:
| > Here's a simple app my toddler made to generate toy
| trains[0].
|
| Can you explain what you mean by this? How did a 3-year-old (or
| younger) meaningfully contribute to the design of this app? Do
| they know how to read?
| jumploops wrote:
| Good question! He can't type and the local voice assistants
| can't really understand him...
|
| He simply asked it to make toy trains, all I did was clean up
| the text to "create toy trains"
|
| From that prompt, it goes through steps to build out a UI and
| any back-end functionality (Loops) needed.
|
| To use it, he tells me what type of train to generate
| ("underwater"[0]) and I type in the prompt. He has a lot of
| fun with it!
|
| [0]https://app.magicloops.dev/storage/v1/object/public/images
| /d...
| hopeadoli wrote:
| A mobile app called Trip o'clock (https://tripoclock.com)
|
| An AI-trip planner with a nice twist. It shows you everything you
| need to know about a place even before getting there: Images, a
| great summary, cost of living broken down weather conditions etc.
| It also comes with the usual features you'll expect in a trip
| planning app (ai itinerary suggestions, travel expenses tracker,
| group chat for group trips, google places integration for looking
| up places to eat, things to do, healthcare places and
| transportation centers, and a private travel checklist). You
| should check it out today!
| VladVladikoff wrote:
| Drowning in technical debt from my 12 year old auction startup.
| While building another startup for the hotel industry. Wish I had
| more time for personal/side projects. I have a million ideas that
| just die on lack of time to execute.
| cmenge wrote:
| Are those startups side projects, or would you want to run
| personal projects on top of those two startups in parallel? Are
| they making money?
| VladVladikoff wrote:
| The auction project makes about 1 million per year gross, but
| net is closer to zero. The hotel project hasn't launched yet.
| arjunbajaj wrote:
| Fostrom (https://fostrom.io)
|
| A developer-focused IoT Cloud Platform. The idea stems from pain
| points experienced while automating an indoor farm a few years
| ago where I had to spend way too much time building the data
| collection and analysis infrastructure instead of focusing on the
| actual automation.
|
| Devices connect via secure MQTT, HTTP, or WebSockets and send
| structured, typed data. Each device gets its own sequential
| mailbox for messages. You can trigger webhooks or broadcast
| messages to other devices based on incoming data, powered by
| programmable actions.
|
| Just deployed to production. Currently working on Device SDKs
| (coming very soon) and time-series analytics. Check out the
| platform, we're in technical preview now. Happy to answer
| questions and appreciate any feedback.
| bryanhogan wrote:
| I'm working on a customizable app for self-tracking, a
| combination of habit trackers, health logging and journaling. You
| should be able to track what you want in a way relevant for you.
| Think of a combination of free form CSV programs x habit tracker
| or health app.
|
| App will be local-first and without locking important features
| behind a subscription.
|
| Very recently I finished my bachelor thesis which was about this
| app (focus usability and market fit).
|
| Also made this site a few days ago, get notified when it
| launches: https://dailyselftrack.com
|
| More about me here: https://bryanhogan.com
| theoreticalmal wrote:
| I've been looking for something like this for awhile, going to
| check it out, good on you for building it!!
| bryanhogan wrote:
| Thank you for the comment! Hearing that people actually want
| what I'm building motivates me a lot. And feedback is also
| always great.
| alprado50 wrote:
| I'm migrating my blog (https://alprado.com/) to a custom solution
| built with Laravel. I know the HN community appreciates
| simplicity, but in my opinion, hosting static HTML is almost as
| easy as hosting PHP. However, PHP gives you the flexibility to
| build an interactive and optimized CMS.
| seveibar wrote:
| This weekend working on an open-source algorithm to automatically
| lay out schematics. Easy problem to do poorly and very difficult
| to do well! My current approach is "match to existing corpus of
| well-laid-out schematics, then adapt until the netlist fits"
| hopefully it works out!
| bdxn wrote:
| OpenCLI - https://github.com/bcdxn/opencli
|
| A document specification for defining command line interfaces.
|
| It's really just a fun side project to get more familiar with Go.
| The goal is to be able to generate boilerplate code in a few
| languages/frameworks and to generate documentation in a couple
| formats.
| joeriddles wrote:
| This looks really cool! OpenAPI for CLIs is a great idea.
| jeanlucas wrote:
| I like this, would you like some help?
| jorisboris wrote:
| Exploring N8N
|
| I have the impression clients like it when their code is "visual"
| so I'm trying to learn more of it to attract new clients
| ryukoposting wrote:
| A POTS line simulator. Basically a telco central office that fits
| on your desk. Up to 16 lines, touch tones only, only 1 call at a
| time. No digital intermediate between the caller and answerer,
| just a pure analog line.
|
| I'm going to plug a couple phones into it, but the main goal is
| to get all my old computers to talk to each other using their
| modems.
| bl4kers wrote:
| Finally got around to cleaning up and publishing my userscript
| for recreating the old Slack UI (before August 2023)
|
| https://github.com/blakegearin/old-school-slack
| synergy20 wrote:
| A wifi router that blocks all websites except for those needed
| for kids to study when you need it, and there is no way to
| escape, not even with vpn or tor or whatever, also with dashboard
| to show where they spent time on for how long.
|
| My middle school aged kids was able to escape with free proxy,
| vpn, tor etc in the past which forced me to figure out a way to
| lock it down totally when it's absolutely needed.
| theoreticalmal wrote:
| Still escape via 4G/LTE. But this is a great idea and I love
| it!
| synergy20 wrote:
| That's true but carriers and android/ios do have parent
| control apps, not ideal but still possible.
| ccvannorman wrote:
| Mathbreakers 2 (https://mathbreakers.com)
|
| A 3D game to help students in grades 5-8 learn Arithmentic,
| Fractions, Geometry, and Algebra.
|
| 50% or more of middle school students experience math anxiety,
| and it's no wonder that so many people grow up believing, "I'm
| not a math person." Math _can_ be incredibly fun and beautiful if
| approached and experienced the right way. Mathbreakers is a
| vibrant, interactive world where all game mechanics are built on
| intrinsic mathematical properties, so simply by playing the game,
| a foundation of understanding of those concepts is built.
|
| We're doing early prototype testing now with a planned launch in
| September 2025. The game engine is PlayCanvas (engine-only) and
| the platform is WebGL (Mac/PC/ChromeOS).
| martyz wrote:
| I just had a flashback to Math Blaster - interested in checking
| this out.
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| Neat - I'm working on fractions and decimals with my son right
| now, and certainly interested in ways to engage him in it!
|
| I signed up for the waitlist, but FYI the heading
| "mathbreakers" on your homepage is skewed off the right side of
| the screen on my iPhone.
| Tanzirul wrote:
| Replyhub (https://replyhub.co), a tool that helps businesses not
| just monitor Reddit and X, but actually engage with the right
| conversations that can turn into customers.
|
| The idea is simple: instead of blasting you with every keyword
| mention like F5bot, Replyhub filters for posts where people show
| real buying intent. These are posts where they ask for
| recommendations, compare products, or look for solutions.
|
| It also suggests context-aware replies and helps collect leads
| from people who show real interest.
|
| If you want to reach niche communities where people are actively
| discussing products, it might be useful.
|
| Would love to hear feedback or questions from folks here.
| busymom0 wrote:
| I am working on version 2.0 of HACK (an iOS, macOS and Android
| app for hacker news). Currrntly only working on iOS and macOS
| version.
|
| It's not exactly version 2.0, it's built entirely from scratch
| and instead of only hacker news, it can also be used for similar
| forum sites like Lobste.rs, Tildes, Lemmy etc. In fact, it's
| built in a way such that more website support can be easily added
| on the fly.
|
| I had restarted this 3 times in the last 2 years. But the current
| code is finally coming together to be released to the public.
|
| Currently, I already have the reader part working. So one can
| read posts, comments, expand collapse comments, read articles
| etc. I don't have the writer part working yet (voting,
| favoriting, commenting). I am debating whether I should just
| release the reader part first and then continue working on the
| writer part and release it as part of update. Thoughts?
|
| https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788
| viksit wrote:
| open source llm compiler for prompts called selvedge.
|
| rather than manually write prompts for llms (which is like hand
| coding byte code for cpus), declare a structure and instructions
| and let the system do prompt writing for you.
|
| it also exposes an optimizer which can do sophisticated prompt
| learning for tasks.
|
| github.com/viksit/selvedge
| cckolon wrote:
| https://ewatchbill.com - a fair schedule generator that uses
| simulated annealing to minimize a 'unfairness' heuristic. I wrote
| it for my friends in the Navy who have to write duty bills every
| month.
|
| https://bearingsonly.net - a submarine combat game in the
| browser.
| simlevesque wrote:
| Free worldwide reverse and forward geoloc. Based on DuckDB +
| Parquet files. I just got access to a big server for free by some
| kind folks to process the planet.osm data.
|
| The idea is that instead of running Nominatim which is costly you
| can just query Parquet files over the network.
|
| Instead of a cluster of PostgreSQL servers all I need is a bunch
| of static hosting holding the dataset that's around 1Tb.
|
| Send me an email if this interest you, it's in my profile.
| primitivesuave wrote:
| TypeScript Coach (https://ts.coach)
|
| While I love the official TypeScript handbook, it's not easy to
| play around with the code examples or approach it as a beginner.
| I started working on a complete TypeScript tutorial that also
| showcases some advanced use cases. All the code examples run in
| the browser, and there are some neat visualizations that clearly
| show what the type system has picked up.
|
| I've been trying to fix some of the performance issues, finish
| writing all the content, and adding documentation before making
| the GitHub repository public - right now the page can hang when
| loading a long tutorial.
| Levitating wrote:
| Most recently, a tool for identifying NTP daemons and testing
| their capabilities:
| https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/ntpscan
|
| I am also working on a web frontend for rrdtool (for graphing
| collectd statistics):
| https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/collectrack
|
| And a wayland bar that is configured via a Ruby DSL:
| https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/rubybar
| reducesuffering wrote:
| How to find your ideal place to live in the US:
| https://exoroad.com
| taormina wrote:
| I'm still working on Danger World!
|
| https://danger.world
|
| Flutter + Flame + Spine + YarnSpinner. After a year of
| development, we're coming up on some very fun milestones!!!
| srcreigh wrote:
| My workplace is a bird conservation non-profit with java code
| from 2006 and the website is many jsp files.
|
| I've added a react SSR system. It has node subprocess code for
| rendering HTML from java via stdin/stdout. There's a Node/Vite
| proxy server that adds the fancy HMR you expect from SPA apps.
|
| It supports multiple roots on a page, every SSR component has
| data-props and data-componentname, and the entry script just
| queries those attributes and hydrates everything.
|
| The node renderer script is packaged as an EXE which is deployed
| in WEB-INF on the server.
|
| It's fun to add the amazing React tooling to an old codebase. It
| also shows how you really, really, really do not need NextJS.
| pizlonator wrote:
| About to port libffi to Fil-C.
|
| Unlike most programs, which just work in Fil-C with zero or no
| changes, libffi needs to basically be rewritten. Instead of using
| assembly for reflectively crafting calls it needs to use the
| Fil-C zcall api. And instead of JITing closures it needs to use
| the Fil-C zclosure_new api.
|
| Should be fun
| fathermarz wrote:
| I have started to lean into my love for education and security
| and created Phended for non-technical users. I just did a
| rebranding, added an LLM chatbot, and a learning management
| system which I am going to be working on courses for the next
| little bit and would am looking for contributors to course
| content.
|
| Would love some feedback overall and suggestions:
| https://phended.com
| raindy_gordon wrote:
| https://finalefeline.com
|
| I'm developing a small community focused on rating TV show
| endings. I've grown tired of investing time in series that get
| canceled and end on cliffhangers. Unless the show is really good,
| and even then, I prefer starting knowingly.
| speed_spread wrote:
| Curious how "Lost" scores on the scale of endings. It's not a
| cliffhanger and it didn't get cancelled but...
| wtp30twice wrote:
| odor tech CPG startup. just dropped $1800 to fund first round
| prototyping. super excited as this is my first startup. loving it
| already
| bckr wrote:
| What's odor tech CPG?
| paulnovacovici wrote:
| https://recallify.app/
|
| A way to store bookmarks all in one place similar to Pocket, but
| built around semantic feature as the primary feature. Been beta
| testing an iOS app, but need to pivot on the name since there's
| another Recallify on the App Store, and haven't gotten around to
| it due to not much user growth.
| mark336 wrote:
| Website for news can post/reply.
| https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
| Toks wrote:
| A cyberpunk-themed hacking game inspired by FTL and Netrunner
| made in Unity.
| Ilasky wrote:
| https://dailytokki.com
|
| It's an email-only Korean (and English) language learning service
| started by me and my partner! We've both been interested in
| language and, since I've been learning Korean and she's been
| improving English, I've been looking for a modality that works
| for me -- apps don't click for me for some reason.
|
| It started by me sending myself an email everyday with new Korean
| vocab/grammar, but we thought it would be nice if it responded
| with corrections and learned from my common mistakes to make
| better questions. So, we've built it out to work for us, and
| turns out other people also like it and are growing everyday!
| jelled wrote:
| A native MacOS app called CutWord that turns command words spoken
| during video recording into automatic timeline edits.
|
| You can grab a TestFlight link at https://cutword.com
| vladris wrote:
| I'm exploring a few ideas at the intersection of tech and
| creative writing, starting with a modal Markdown-based focused
| editor: https://saturn9.studio/flow/ Still in early stages, I
| have more ideas than time to implement them :)
| Yiling-J wrote:
| Prepare to release https://github.com/Yiling-J/tablepilot v0.4.0,
| new workflow feature
| ciguy wrote:
| Kubernetes upgrades and AI agents. www.kubegrade.com
| roland35 wrote:
| I'm building a cli / tui program for dealing with jira. I enjoy
| project management, and even jira, but just hate how long it
| takes to do anything. Luckily the API is pretty easy to work
| with!
| hboon wrote:
| I have been building a Bluesky+X cross-posting tool with Bluesky
| analytics -- https://theblue.social for the last few months. 2nd
| time I've gone full indie in 30 years.
| bradly wrote:
| Been playing with my birdnet detection data. Made a realtime
| synth based on species detections and working on wireless framed
| art piece that displays the latest detection on an eink display.
| inhumantsar wrote:
| > framed art piece
|
| love this idea! my retired mother spends a lot of time at her
| living room window with the Merlin Bird ID app and optimizing
| her bird feeders. it'd be fun to build something like this for
| her.
| adriand wrote:
| You need to post more detail on this!
| bradly wrote:
| Here ya go! https://birdymusic.com/
|
| BirdNET-PI posts detection notifications via Apprise
| interface to a little Rails app running on a tiny vps. Sound
| generation is done through the wonderful Tone.js library
| which wraps the WebAudioContext API.
|
| I'd like to continue building more generative sound
| structures like adsr graphs from sparklines of detections and
| things like that. Trying to keep it generative, but without
| AI blackboxing things.
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| I had built a social network for my friends which is working
| great so now I am building it for the world.
|
| A place to dump all my thoughts in text to people I already know.
|
| No photos, no clout-chasing, ego boosts, infinite scrolling,
| findable profiles etc.
|
| I created a waitlist page (code only) using Gemini 2.5 and hosted
| it in cloudflare pages using D1 for database.
|
| Waitlist page is here: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev
|
| Here's the full feature list for the initial version I am
| building where you can leave comments anonymously:
|
| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkxk01C8ePEQ2jkwwt6p5Z7V...
|
| Any feedback is appreciated.
| creakingstairs wrote:
| FYI I get access denied for your google docs link
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| I have made it public. Thanks!
| guybedo wrote:
| here's the answers by category:
| https://extraakt.com/extraakts/what-are-you-working-on
|
| That's what I'm working on.
| creakingstairs wrote:
| An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to
| your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself
| because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos,
| without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot.
|
| At the moment, the flow goes like this:
|
| 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened.
|
| 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc).
|
| 3. At the end of the week (or month), the app automatically
| creates a newsletter for each group by pulling posts assigned to
| each group. Add some final touches yourself and send it off!
|
| 4. Every newsletter will come with a link to download all images.
|
| I'm trying to design it to be as old people friendly as possible
| which meant making the experience as simple as it can get. This
| made me settle on email newsletters. Emails are ubiquitous, have
| been around and will be around for a while. It's easy to sign up
| and things are just pushed to you instead of having to go to
| another app.
|
| Another thing I want is multilingual support as my family is
| Korean my in-laws are not.
|
| I'm hoping to get an MVP working this week and get some testing
| done with my own parents and in-laws.
| cornfieldlabs wrote:
| Are you self-hosting the email?
| creakingstairs wrote:
| No, it will have to be a third-party provider. Currently
| using Amazon SES, but will be easy to replace with another
| email provider.
| dowager_dan99 wrote:
| I've had good luck with Zoho for sending transactional
| emails, pretty cheap and I have not had delivery issues
| (YMMV).
| abhimanyue1998 wrote:
| this is quite interesting, could actually be an out of the box
| take towards fixing social media. good luck!
| pizzly wrote:
| This is a really exciting idea. I really like how it bypasses
| the algorithmic advertising from Facebook and Co and have more
| content that you actually want to see.
| matthewwolfe wrote:
| If already open sourced, would love a link!
| binarysneaker wrote:
| This!
| creakingstairs wrote:
| Not yet sorry. I want to tidy up and test it out before
| making it public.
| dzink wrote:
| Your email deliverability will be key to survival and easily
| damaged. All it takes is a couple of spam reports from good or
| bad actors and you can get black listed. Your users may forget
| they ever subscribed. Think of some work around to prevent
| that. Some examples - for large mailings you are required to
| add a physical address to your emails and an unsubscribe link.
| Those are filtered by mail providers and automatically sent to
| spam a lot.
| creakingstairs wrote:
| I haven't really thought about deliverability problems
| because at the moment, I'm not planning to provide it as a
| SaaS but only as an self-hostable app. I'm hoping it will be
| a kind of thing a tech-savvy person with their own domain
| will host for their own family and friends.
|
| EDIT: but thank you for your advice! If it were a business, I
| agree that deliverability would be an important thing to
| think about.
| hunter2_ wrote:
| Can a recipient be a member of multiple groups, for example, if
| I happen to be among coworkers and family (or whatever)? If so,
| hopefully I would get one newsletter containing all the posts
| tagged as any of my groups. But this means the potential number
| of different newsletters grows exponentially relative to the
| number of groups (although in practice, it would be extremely
| unlikely that a huge number of combinations actually exist)
| which might or might not matter, depending on whether each
| recipient already gets a bespoke copy (greeting them by name,
| click tracking, etc.) or if you're relying on listserv style
| distribution.
| creakingstairs wrote:
| I've been going back and forth on this. For the initial
| version, I'm making it that a person can only be a member of
| one group just to keep it simple.
| sigkill wrote:
| This sounds like Google+'s circles.
| lylo wrote:
| Once I add private blogs/post support to Pagecord, it will
| kinda do this automatically. Maybe. Sort of.
| https://pagecord.com.
| creakingstairs wrote:
| Pagecord looks really cool. I was once inspired by Bear blog
| and thought about building something similar but ended up not
| going forward with it as I didn't think I could guarantee to
| keep the service up. Best of luck to your endeavor!
| lylo wrote:
| Thanks, appreciate it. Big fan of Bearblog myself, but I
| wanted to scratch my own itch and make something a little
| different for non-techies. Blog by email was the biggest
| thing I wanted.
| dowager_dan99 wrote:
| This is a cool approach that really resonates with me.
| Workflows that extend email can be really powerful (at
| least for us dinosaurs).
| maxibenner wrote:
| Nice project, I'd totally set this up for myself as social
| media replacement. Please let me know once your MVP is ready.
| My main concern would be to overwhelm recipients if they'd ever
| get included in multiple people's newsletters.
|
| I've been building on the opposite end of this. It's an open-
| source form submissions forwarder. I built it mostly because I
| wanted a service thats transparent, with usage based pricing
| that I could use economically for my low traffick sites.
|
| Sometime this year I want to add docker-compose to make it
| easier to self host. Currently it's all manual.
| https://simplecontactform.org
| czhu12 wrote:
| I've been able to have the privilege of working at a company that
| is cool with me open sourcing everything we build along the way
| -- its a nice perk and it also makes me motivated to work on
| stuff outside of work :)
|
| The two things I've open sourced that I've been moonlighting
| after hours for:
|
| https://canine.sh/ - An open source Heroku alternative, 10x
| cheaper. Got sick of paying those prices
|
| https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ a free open source flatfile
| alternative
| leeoniya wrote:
| i saw that the hellocsv link was "visited" for me, looked again
| and remember checking it out when evaluating other csv parsers
| :)
|
| i see you use papaparse. you can try something else, if you
| want :p
|
| https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV
| JanisIO wrote:
| A web os based on Vue components as apps, with a bunch
| preinstalled (including basic app repositories and terminal),
| search and sync (which I just started working on) --
| https://jun.is (a bit more buggy on mobile yet)
| linsomniac wrote:
| I developed "LessEncrypt" for my dev environment, an ultra
| lightweight, hassle free alternative to LetsEncrypt for use with
| self-signed CAs like in a dev or homelab environment. At work we
| have self signed keys for our dev/stg environment, and manage it
| with Ansible and some scripts, but spend a surprising amount of
| time dealing with it. This is an experiment to get us out of that
| business.
|
| https://github.com/linsomniac/lessencrypt
|
| Short description:
|
| - Client generates RSA keypair and connects to server from <1024
| TCP port, sends pubkey. - Server uses reverse DNS to come up with
| cert name (rules can specify alternate CN and SANs, override TTL,
| etc). - Server generates a signed cert and connects back to
| client on <1024 TCP port and sends cert.
| adriand wrote:
| Sounds interesting and useful. How difficult has this been to
| create? Have you encountered obstacles you didn't expect that
| chewed up a lot of time?
| linsomniac wrote:
| Not too hard. I came up with the idea in the shower one
| morning after a week of doing a lot of cert maintenance. I
| spent around 20 minutes writing a design document and did a
| couple back-and-forths with Claude Code and testing, then
| some refinementand improvements. Had some discussions with
| friends and associates looking for security issues I had
| missed.
|
| Maybe 2 hours into it so far, Claude Code did all the coding
| so far.
| jprokay13 wrote:
| I built a web app for looping specific sections of YouTube videos
| as a way to practice songs.
|
| https://proloops.jprokay.com/
|
| Slowtube was a huge inspiration for me (I've spent many hours
| with it), but I wanted a way to save my loops and continue my
| practice.
|
| Saving is solely to the browser's database right now.
|
| Feedback is much appreciated!
| stitched2gethr wrote:
| Been building proxymock (proxymock.io) a free CLI tool to make
| local apps feel connected to prod, or any other environment. Good
| for fast integration testing, mocking, driving load, etc.
| Critical feedback appreciated.
| mxrio wrote:
| Im working in a new form of payment transaction, where you can
| add products, service or money as a new way of payments. This
| will require a previous "perfil trustment" to garantize the
| process of transaction's.
| mikhmha wrote:
| Continuing to work on my MMORPG made with Elixir and Godot. The
| game has been live for 2 months but there's still lots to do. A
| lot of the architecture revolves around the AI simulation run in
| Elixir. I started working on this game after quitting my job on a
| whim (18 months ago!). I've started to get some daily players
| which is exciting.
|
| https://swarmmo.games The game is playable in browser! And theres
| no sign-up required to try it out.
| oliverdzedou wrote:
| Impressive, keep going!
| tootyskooty wrote:
| https://periplus.app
|
| A website for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a
| personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses,
| documents, quizzes and flashcards.
|
| Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a
| graph you grow over time. Currently using the graph for topic
| suggestions, though I've also been playing around with steering
| document generation with it as well.
| marifjeren wrote:
| This is amazing. I tried to build something like this about a
| year ago and didn't get very far. How much time did this take
| and how big are your AI bills?
|
| Feature suggestion: fact checking the contents of a flash card
| with perplexity
| tootyskooty wrote:
| The first prototype was done in a weekend for an Anthropic
| contest a while ago, but by now I've been working on it on &
| off for the better part of a year!
|
| API costs are roughly == subscription costs for power users
| (slightly more) since it uses Sonnet in most places, but I
| have credits to burn right now :)
|
| > fact checking the contents of a flash card with perplexity
|
| Will see what I can do! Main issue is that search grounding
| can be a bit expensive...
| adriand wrote:
| I'm intrigued and made a note to check this out, but I just
| wanted to say that I love this design! It's gorgeous. Is this a
| template or did you hire a designer or design it yourself?
| tootyskooty wrote:
| Thanks! It's done by me (and Claude). I've never done any
| design in the past so I'm glad you like it!
| thingsilearned wrote:
| I recently released suggestion-mode functionality for prosemirror
|
| https://github.com/davefowler/prosemirror-suggestion-mode
|
| and now I'm building it into my reading and note taking app for a
| better interaction of AI giving assisted edits, most similar to
| the Patchwork project from ink and switch
| https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/07/
| TkTech wrote:
| https://tkte.ch/chancy/
|
| https://github.com/tktech/chancy
|
| Chancy is a postgres-backed task queue for Python that scratches
| a lot of the Celery itches. It's not meant for folks that need to
| run a million tasks a second, but for the majority of projects
| (many millions per day) it offers:
|
| - Robust job support, including timeouts, memory limits, retries,
| global uniqueness, global rate limiting, scheduling (cron and "in
| 10 seconds"), priorities, etc...
|
| - DAG based workflow plugin
|
| - It's asyncio-first with support for threading, multiprocessing,
| asyncio, and sub-interpreter tasks so each job can use the
| optimal concurrency model. Workflows can mix tasks across
| multiple queues and concurrency models.
|
| - Can be embedded inside your existing ASGI servers - great for
| things like development docker containers or containers deployed
| on say, unraid.
|
| - Worker's handle scheduling (no need for `celery beat`) and have
| an optional built-in dashboard.
|
| - 1 infrastructure dependency (postgres) and 1 required package
| (psycopg3) - with everything else isolated in optional plugins. -
| Dynamically re-assign queues to new workers based on tags, add,
| pause (with auto-resume), modify or destroy queues at any time.
|
| - Highly observable - unlike Celery, you can just query your
| database when needed to see the entire system state
|
| - Portable - Linux/Windows/OSX
|
| - Permanently free and open-source without any "premium" or paid
| features.
|
| - Django integration - ORM/models, admin, and django auth
| integration for the dashboard.
|
| Chancy is a young tool, but is used in production environments
| with tens of thousands of users and billions of jobs run with
| great feedback from early users:
|
| > ...thank you for this amazing library...
|
| > hey, first thanks for such a great library! Chancy has worked
| incredibly well, and its modular design has made it a pleasure to
| use. Super lightweight but feature-full; it's a hard balance to
| strike.
| yeutterg wrote:
| https://liverestful.com - We're releasing a smart bedside lamp
| that reduces circadian input at night and wakes you up to light
| in the morning. This took about 3 years of active development;
| and we're building out an ecosystem of connected circadian lights
| for the home (think desk lamp, reading lights, etc.).
|
| This builds on the back of our popular Bedtime Bulb light bulb -
| much-improved v2 coming soon: https://get.bedtimebulb.com
| wsintra2022 wrote:
| Been working on a agentic system of Jungian opposites, thinking,
| feeling, sensation and intuition, just for fun and to learn rust
| and LLM combinations, system prompts etc, it's been fun and I
| think that's all for now.
| curlcntr wrote:
| Open source hybrid piano. Been a very part-time hobby for several
| years.
| nikkwong wrote:
| https://blendful.com -- A template generator (currently for
| Tailwind). I've been frustrated by marketing templates and their
| unitary visual style which becomes implemented all over the web.
| I think people want high quality templates and assets that they
| can theme themselves, without diving into the nitty gritty of
| padding, line-height, et al. Super early, launched on Reddit and
| have a few users.
| sothatsit wrote:
| I recently strongly solved the Royal Game of Ur
| (https://royalur.net/solved), and am now back to the less
| academic pursuit of working on our implementation of the game.
|
| Funnily enough, players are much more excited about the
| achievements I am planning to add than they ever were about us
| solving this 4000-year-old board game. I guess you've got to pick
| your audience.
| psviderski wrote:
| After a decade of professionally working with container
| orchestrators like Kubernetes and ECS I quit my job to build
| Uncloud -- an open source lightweight version of those [1]. I
| want the tool to bring me joy when I use it, in a similar way
| Docker did when I first tried it in 2013.
|
| Imagine Docker Compose and Tailscale had a baby. Uncloud is the
| baby that allows you to deploy and manage containers across a
| network of Docker hosts. I feel like we forgot how to build
| simple tools that do the job and not a thousand other unnecessary
| things.
|
| I've started migrating some of my self-hosted web apps from my
| k8s cluster and I really enjoy it. Using the tool early on helps
| me better understand where the biggest pain points are and what I
| need to prioritise.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud
| ilaksh wrote:
| https://github.com/runvnc/mindroot . Basically open source Custom
| GPTs. Heavily focused on plugins. Has browser use, computer use,
| agents can delegate subtasks, Chroma KB, etc. Fully customizable
| front end.
| vahid4m wrote:
| https://desktop.with.audio/
|
| A one time payment (no subscription), local text to speech
| solution for MacOS or Windows. I've been a heavy user of
| Speechify but it was a bit expensive to justify. So I eventually
| built With Audio and after a few iterations now I'm working on
| the desktop app. Our laptops are very powerful and they are more
| capable of running some of these Text To Speech models with near
| to real time performance.
| boredemployee wrote:
| Care to explain more? how is it going? how many paying
| customers? how did u get the first 100 users or how are u going
| to achieve it?
| vahid4m wrote:
| Of course. Its very early days of doing this. I released the
| early access last month and then spent some time compiling it
| for Windows as well (before that it was only Mac arm). I'm
| promoting it again. At the moment I have 5 customers that are
| not friends and families by posting on Reddit audiobooks
| subreddit. My plan is to just keep promoting on social media,
| or communities like study groups or students for a while. I
| believe I should be able to get first 100 customers without
| paying for ads. It might be too naive but I think it not
| being a subscription can be a very good selling point and
| also it being local.
|
| I'm a dev, I'm very much new to sales and marketing world. I
| think its fair to say I have no idea about next steps after
| dev work is finished (enough to attempt to sale). Mostly
| trying to figure that out.
| cookboox wrote:
| I recently quit my job and build Cookboox
| (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cookboox/id6743146885), an iOS app
| that lets you scan cooking recipes (from photos, screenshots, or
| physical cookbooks) and turns them into an interactive, step-by-
| step guide. The idea is to make your existing recipes easier to
| use in the kitchen. Instead of just a static image or page, you
| get a hands-free friendly, guided experience. Would love to hear
| your thoughts and feedback!
| danielvaughn wrote:
| I'm building a keyboard-driven tool for designing in the browser.
| It's like a mashup of Webflow, Storybook, and Vim.
|
| It's still in development, but you can see a codebase for an
| earlier prototype here:
|
| https://github.com/matry/editor
| CliffyA wrote:
| I've been working on a programing language to read and write
| Excel spreadsheets. Or more accurately I've been writing a custom
| programming language and porting my library to it, so I can
| transpile it out to other languages.
|
| Currently it is being transpiled to C++ and C#
|
| https://github.com/NumberDuck/NumberDuck-CPlusPlus
|
| https://github.com/NumberDuck/NumberDuck-CSharp
| andjar wrote:
| notd - A lightweight outliner built with PHP, JavaScript, and
| SQLite: https://github.com/andjar/notd
|
| I'm building a simple outliner focused on core functionality:
| hierarchical notes, backlinks, file attachments, and todo
| management. The goal is portability and longevity - it runs in
| phpdesktop as simple php, js and sqlite without compilation or
| complex frameworks.
|
| I have been a happy user of LogSeq, but the current major
| rewrite, intended to enable real-time multi-user collaboration,
| introduce a lot of complexity and I am now more worried about the
| longevity of that project.
|
| Built with assistance from Cursor, Gemini, and Jules, so vibe
| coding. Still early stage but functional for basic outlining
| needs.
| pfista wrote:
| Working on a new tool to automate busy work and save time for
| founders, engineers, support reps, and marketers.
|
| Most ai apps are focused on reading and synthesizing data, but
| none are great at "write" actions across apps.
|
| We're focused on making the simplest and easiest way to use ai to
| control your apps and get things done
|
| https://stride.systems
| naftalibeder wrote:
| https://polyreader.app
|
| My brother is always sending me articles to read, and I don't
| like reading at a computer, so I made a tool to send articles to
| my Kindle. It makes me happy and I use it every day, along with a
| small but apparently happy customer base.
| fmstephe wrote:
| I've been working on an offheap allocator for Go.
|
| In contrast to the popular arena based allocators (which target
| quickly allocating/freeing short lived per-request allocations),
| I am targeting an allocator for build very large in-memory dbs or
| caches with almost no garbage collection cost.
|
| There's a little no-gc string interner package in there as well.
|
| https://github.com/fmstephe/memorymanager
|
| It's somewhat on pause right now as I have just started a new
| job. (but it has been a very fun project, nerdy joy).
|
| Related to the memorymanager, as in intending to support it are
|
| https://github.com/fmstephe/fuzzhelper A library for setting up
| fuzz tests for complex data structures.
|
| https://github.com/fmstephe/gossert A library for adding runtime
| assertions to Go code. It's developed so that when the assertions
| are switched off the compiler should be able to completely
| eliminate the assertions. But this requires build tags to switch
| the assertions on.
| unsoldbanana wrote:
| I'm working on Finzz; I like investing but was struggling with
| doom-scrolling across various platforms to find things that were
| relevant to me. So I created Finzz which on-demand creates a
| multi host audio podcasts focused specifically on my stock
| portfolio and investment goals. I tell it the reasons behind why
| I hold these stocks and it tries to keep me honest to these goals
| and suggest rough actions from time to time.
|
| https://finzz.xyz
|
| Here's a sample if you are wondering what its like:
| https://finzz.xyz/shared/rnl-oO955IPZN6Ux78E-l8DC
| arionhardison wrote:
| AI powered Public Health Management: phm.ai
| caseysoftware wrote:
| Updating https://webhooks.fyi/ as a resource on designing,
| building, and consuming webhooks.
| DamnInteresting wrote:
| I've been trying to put the finishing touches on my daily word
| game Omiword (https://www.omiword.com/), but I've been waylaid by
| Stripe because they decided that a simple daily word game is a
| "restricted business," and they shut down my account.[1]
|
| Now I need to figure out an alternate payment handler, or just
| give up on my modest monetization plan where players can pay a
| small one-time fee to unlock all of the archived puzzles. It was
| never going to make a fortune, but it would have been nice to
| offset some of the hosting expenses.
|
| Don't use Stripe. They shit on you just because they can.
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075038
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| This sounds like a decent use case for Patreon?
| juancroldan wrote:
| OMIWORD.com Solved #146 (Easy) Time spent: 01:17 29
| moves * 0 hints
| Kuyawa wrote:
| Have you considered crypto payments?
| andrewrn wrote:
| I am working on an agent that can tutor you in introductory
| physics. Beyond being a chatbot, it can summon and mutate several
| kinds of diagrams and graphs to teach concepts like kinematics,
| energy, momentum and hopefully much more down the line.
|
| Here's a very early version for circuits: https://www.circuit-
| tutor.xyz
| z3ugma wrote:
| Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be
| supported by Google starting in October. I'm working on an
| enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest
| thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and
| mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-
| source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant
| sircastor wrote:
| I love this idea. I don't have a Nest, but I really appreciate
| you making an effort to keep these devices at least partially
| in service
| ropable wrote:
| I'd upvote this twice if I could. Love to see efforts to
| /recycle/repurpose otherwise-useful hardware that has been
| abandoned by the manufacturer. I understand the commercial
| imperative to discontinue support for older hardware, but it
| still irks me no end.
| dangus wrote:
| I hate to rain on a cool personal project but you could just
| get a cheap z-wave dumb thermostat like a CT101 for $50 and
| hook it up to home assistant.
|
| Solves the problem permanently, no risk of future deprecations.
| dfc wrote:
| The CT101 looks awful compared to the nest thermostat. I
| don't think you are raining on a cool personal project.
| CommenterPerson wrote:
| Upvoted. Anything that creates off ramps from the surveillance
| for advertising industry is great! Even tiny ones.
| dvdbloc wrote:
| What microcontroller would you use?
| emrah wrote:
| What exactly does "will no longer be supported" mean?
|
| Does it mean they'll stop working altogether?
|
| Will they just not provide support for them but they'll keep
| working until the day they won't?
|
| If it's the former, that's ridiculous and goes in the face of
| all the "good" they have been trying to do with the "leaf"
| program
| reverseblade2 wrote:
| Built an llm based url shortener
|
| https://yurl.ai
| loufe wrote:
| Having fun vibe coding my first personal website with astro and
| three.js - I'd say it's working pretty well so far. I need to
| tone down the amount of animation and glows this, it's a little
| too much.
|
| https://www.Loufe.ca
| jamesdhutton wrote:
| An app for parents to motivate their kids by awarding them points
| for good deeds. There are existing apps out there, but I tried
| them and didn't like them, so I'm building my own. This is a side
| project for me and I only get to spend a few hours a week on it.
| Currently in beta testing and I hope to launch around July.
|
| https://whirl.digital
| CommenterPerson wrote:
| Some 20 years ago my kid's first grade teacher did something
| that motivated the kids to read a lot. Each kid had a small
| notebook where they would list books they read and the date.
| The parent had to sign off on each item on the list. When they
| completed 10, they would be eligible to pick a toy from a
| basket of dollar store junky toys she had in class. I think it
| was not just the toy (because they could get enough toys at
| home) but also the competition and recognition.
| bwb wrote:
| My teacher also did this same thing, I wonder if it was
| something that teachers widely practiced?
| dabei wrote:
| Vibe coding a vibe coder.
| cerlo_team wrote:
| We've been working on a lightweight tool to help small teams and
| individuals manage and publish content across multiple social
| platforms -- currently focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and
| TikTok.
|
| Most tools we've tried are either too bloated, too expensive, or
| limit you to one or two accounts per platform. We're aiming for
| something simpler: connect multiple accounts (free up to 3 per
| platform), schedule posts, organize media, and view basic
| performance stats -- no AI or calendar features yet.
|
| Still early, but the core workflow is live and usable. Would love
| to hear how others here handle multi-platform content publishing,
| especially if you're doing it without a full-time team.
| kinow wrote:
| I am using Buffer and so far it is working well for me
| (arts/programming). Maybe offer a comparison in your site or
| somewhere else when your product is ready. Good luck.
| BrandiATMuhkuh wrote:
| An agent based simulator with LLMs. When I did my PhD in 2016 I
| used Agent Based Simulations to predict how to influence humans
| with chat agents on a large scale. The main criticisms with such
| simulations is always the realism of the agent (and network).
|
| Now, with LLMs, this got much simpler. As LLMs are really good at
| mimicking humans.
|
| The first application will be to simulate a LinkedIn post against
| your own (virtual) followers. I grab your actual LinkedIn
| followers, "turn" each one into an LLM and see how they react.
| yamapikarya wrote:
| building blog using go with postgres and minio and self hosting
| on secondhand. raspberry pi on kubernetes.
|
| building a prometheus exporter to monitoring like temperature,
| cpu, ram and building simple html monitoring tool to expose those
| metrics.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| A free tool to summarize and "chat with your emails"
|
| https://aichat.email
| haiku2077 wrote:
| Converting my home server from Docker + Docker Compose to Podman
| + systemd. (The server runs self-hosting for my movies, TV,
| ebooks, comics and photos, networked to my other devices via
| Tailscale).
|
| The DevEx isn't quite as easy, but I'm very happy with the final
| result. I don't have to run the overhead of a Docker Engine
| anymore, the network policy is far simpler to write and audit,
| and I can use the same logging tools for both containerized and
| non-containerized services.
|
| The main hurdle has been file permissions for the mounted volumes
| for my data; Podman is rootless by default, which means you
| _should_ build your containers to run as non-root UIDs/GIDs and
| map them onto host UIDs and GIDs, then grant permissions for
| those host users and groups to access your data volumes. In
| practice, the easiest path is usually to run Podman in rootful
| mode, which is not a best security practice but avoids the
| difficult-to-troubleshoot file permission errors if you don't do
| the UID/GID mapping correctly.
|
| However, unless you are really trying to optimize for
| overhead/performance, you should probably use k3s.
| maurodelazeri wrote:
| OpenSource Dex agregator for Solana - easy to anyone to integrate
| on their apps, setting their own fees and ui
| stonecharioteer wrote:
| Trying to get out of burnout. I joined a company after being laid
| off, but the previous company has left me so burnt out that I
| feel... Slower. I finally fixed my neovim config, and I've set up
| `aerospace` on my work Mac so I can try to use a tiling window
| manager on this device. I've also set up my workspace tools after
| forever, and I'm starting to feel a little productive. Company
| hustle culture does not help.
|
| I want to build a learning platform powered by deliberate
| practice and AI. To teach how to program from a practical
| perspective.
|
| I am also trying to kick off a podcast for folks in tech at
| Bangalore. I hope to start it in June.
| lancekey wrote:
| I've been researching cloud GPU providers and collecting per hour
| prices at https://computeprices.com.
|
| My thesis is that the next few decades will be driven by the
| prices of compute and kWh. This is my way of getting a better
| understanding of the ecosystem.
| jingntonic wrote:
| A marketing asset generator that allows users to input campaign
| details (eg. feature launch PRDs) to then automatically create
| launch assets (eg. blog, social post, etc)
| jingntonic123 wrote:
| A marketing asset generator that allows users to input campaign
| details (eg. feature launch PRDs) to then automatically create
| launch assets (eg. blog, social post, etc)
| curo wrote:
| Building a Duolingo-like app to "learn from the greats, daily."
| (https://www.scrivium.com)
|
| Until recently, it was cost-prohibitive to gamify topics with
| indefinite answers and progressions. As a result, "left-brained"
| topics have been gamified for years, but "right-brained" topics
| have resisted gamification. LLMs and generative AI unlock game
| economics for unstructured text.
|
| Casual gaming is only category outpacing passive, social media.
| The most direct way to elevate humanity's media appetite is to
| turn human greatness into casual games.
| rriley wrote:
| roleplayr.ai : a browser extension that lets you talk to any
| image on the web.
|
| An LLM answers in-character; Try it free: https://roleplayr.ai
|
| Would love feedback.
| pugworthy wrote:
| Retirement and leaving behind a code base that's not crappy. And
| someone mentored who can take over when I'm gone.
|
| And get my MG Midget back on the road.
| sircastor wrote:
| Writing a silly little iOS app with ChatGPT. I've done a little
| iOS dev, but not enough to be proficient. As an experiment I
| wanted to see how far I could get just asking the AI to write a
| thing and make changes.
|
| It's been a very instructive process and it's shown me where the
| strengths and weaknesses are.
|
| As an aside on that. I don't think AI is going to replace
| Developers. I do think it's going to be a rough couple of years
| while businesses try everything they can to make that happen. And
| that'll probably be disastrous for everything.
| csomar wrote:
| https://codeinput.com
|
| Building Tools for working with Git and managing your code base.
| Initially started with an online merge conflict tool integrated
| with GitHub. Now working on a Code Owners CLI
| https://github.com/CodeInputCorp/cli to improve on the current
| Code Owners functionalities on GitHub.
| codazoda wrote:
| I'm working on another midlife million dollar idea.
|
| https://www.ammid.com
|
| You might have read my previous article about How To Lose Money
| with 25 Years of Failed Businesses.
| jachee wrote:
| A python script to flip and walk quote-skeet meme threads on bsky
| with the object of visualizing them non-linearly.
| userundefined wrote:
| I'm still working on and off on my
| https://dawnofthe.dad/crossword, albeit most of the guts (solver
| backing the crossword builder) have been stable and lately most
| of the work has been on the front-end. On that note, I've been
| meaning to rewrite the UX component to be HTML element based,
| rather than canvas.
| bobofee wrote:
| Post-train an open source LLM on real time news for detect the
| current emotion of stock markets
| wenc wrote:
| I'm casually ideating on a new orthography for Japanese that does
| not require Kanji.
|
| Because it's hard to remember how to handwrite complex kanji
| (many people have character amnesia in real life due to
| smartphone usage), I casually wondered if it was possible create
| a Japanese orthography that was: (1) easily scannable (which
| rules out hiragana); (2) disambiguated words without Kanji; (3)
| still relatively compact? (which hiragana is not).
|
| I figured a good substrate to start from was romaji + a new emoji
| system.
|
| You know how people think LLMs can't invent things? o3 just
| invented this system whose goal is to maximally disambiguates
| homophonic Japanese words (performing the same semantic
| compression role that Kanji does today). This is the first
| iteration. After each romaji noun, it tags it with a geometric
| shape. These are the 30 tags o3 came up with (based on homophones
| requiring disambiguation): | Diacritic | *
| living | # built / object | nature
| | * abstract | [?] action / event |
| | ------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------------
| | ----------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| --------------------------- | | * top dot | ** adult /
| main person | #* building / place | * plant / flora |
| ** idea / thought | [?]* movement / travel |
| | - bottom bar | *- child / minor | #- tool / instrument
| | - water / liquid | *- emotion / feeling | [?]-
| communication / speech | | + right plus | *+ group /
| collective | #+ vehicle / transport | + weather / sky |
| *+ social tie / relationship | [?]+ creation / production |
| | x left cross | x* animal (non-human) | x# food / consumable
| | x mineral / material | x* value / moral | x[?]
| perception / sense | | | center bar | *| deity /
| honorific | #| document / media | | terrain / landscape |
| *| state / condition | [?]| change / transformation |
| | _ bottom arc | *_ anatomy / body part | #_ container / vessel
| | _ energy / fire | *_ knowledge / data | [?]_
| rest / passive state |
|
| I gave it this wikipedia JA text: Xian Dai
| niokeruRi Ben Yu noYi Ban De naBiao Ji Fa haHan Zi Jia Ming Jiao
| ziriWen deari, Han Zi toPing Jia Ming (Xi noFa Ling nadodehaPian
| Jia Ming )woJiao eteBiao Ji suru. Han Zi haShi Zhi De naYi Wei
| woBiao suYu niShi ware, Ping Jia Ming haZhu niHuo Yong Yu Wei
| [Zhu 1]yaZhu Ci niShi wareru. Zhao Xian Yu nadodehaHan Zi gaZhu
| toshiteZi Yin Yu nishikaShi warenainoniDui shi, Ri Ben Yu dehaHe
| Yu nimoShi ware, Wai Lai Yu woChu itehotondonoYu niShi
| ukotogadekiru. Yan Cao (tabako)yaHe Yu (katsupa), Jia Bei
| (kohi)nadoDa Hang Hai Shi Dai Yi Jiang niyorotsupakaraRu tsutaYu
| Hui niha, Wai Lai Yu dearunimokakawarazuHan Zi gaShi
| warerumonogaaru.
|
| And told o3 to rewrite it in the new system it just created:
| gendai*| ni okeru nihongo*_ no ippan-teki na hyokiho*_ wa
| kanji#| kana#| majiri bun#| de ari, kanji#| to hiragana#|
| (mukashi no horei#| nado de wa katakana#|) o majete hyoki*_
| suru. kanji#| wa jisshitsu-teki na imi** o arawasu go*_ ni
| tsukaware, hiragana#| wa omo ni katsuyo-gobi*_ ya joshi*_ ni
| tsukawareru. chosengo*_ nado de wa kanji#| ga shutoshite ji-on
| go*_ ni shika tsukawarenai no ni taishi, nihongo*_ de wa wago*_
| ni mo tsukaware, gairaigo*_ o nozoite hotondo no go*_ ni tsukau
| koto*_ ga dekiru. tabako* (tabako) ya kappa#- (kappa), kohix#
| (kohi) nado dai-kokai-jidai*| iko ni Yoroppa| kara haitta goi*_
| ni wa, gairaigo*_ de aru ni mo kakawarazu kanji#| ga tsukawareru
| mono*_ ga aru.
|
| It's pretty readable, and takes care of the homophone ambiguities
| (remaining ambiguities can be resolved through context). It also
| naturally resolves onyomi and kunyomi. Add italics and
| punctuation, and katakana is replaced.
|
| (of course, it's incorrect in parts... because LLM)
|
| But the idea has legs. It will probably not replace Kanji due to
| cultural inertia, but this could a kind of shorthand especially
| for handwriting.
|
| I'm pretty impressed! o3 just invented something new. It combined
| romaji and a tag system that it hallucinated to design a new
| Japanese orthography. As far as I can tell (I could be wrong),
| something of this nature has not been done before.
| nbbaier wrote:
| Looking for a job (targeting fullstack engineering, ai
| engineering) and trying to get myself unstuck and back to coding
| everyday. Neither going great, but that's life?
| kinow wrote:
| keep trying. good luck!
| nbbaier wrote:
| Thanks!
| schappim wrote:
| I'm building https://ninja.ai/mcp/servers -- an app store for AI
| assistants.
|
| Most AI agents today are like smartphones without any apps.
| Ninja.ai makes it easy for anyone to install and use AI tools
| (MCP initially) that automate useful tasks, without needing to
| write code.
|
| Think: - One-click install for AI-powered tools
| (MCPs, Model Context Protocol servers) - Automatically
| share relevant context so tools know what you're working on
| - "Recipes" that bundle multiple tools into workflows (e.g.,
| check inbox - pull receipts - send summary to accountant)
|
| We're focused on everyday users and small teams who want to get
| things done with AI -- not configure it.
|
| Still early. Just launched our prototype. Bootstrapped so far,
| now fundraising.
|
| If you're excited about agents, app ecosystems, or making AI
| useful to normal people, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
| monsieurpng wrote:
| I'm working on LearnMathsToday, a mobile app that helps students
| learn math in a fun and engaging way. It's self-paced, with AI-
| generated questions that adapt to each student's level. One
| unique feature is AI-powered marking, which gives instant
| feedback on written answers. I've also added gamification--
| points, levels, and a storyline--to keep students motivated.
| Right now, the app is based on the Singapore syllabus, since I'm
| based in Singapore.
|
| Feel free to download here:
| https://learnmathstoday.com/2025/03/02/learnmathstoday-app-i...
| ezhil wrote:
| Quit my job few months back and working on an unstructured data
| to Knowledge Graph building tool - https://graphora.io. The goal
| is to make Knowledge Graph building and maintenance easier.
| wolfoftheweb wrote:
| I'm building https://TaleTwister.com - an AI tool that generates
| and narrates bedtime stories based on a kid's interests, a
| specific moral lesson, age, and optional specifications. The
| product was born out of necessity (a stint of bad behavior that
| comes with age).
|
| It uses GPT-4 for story generation, ElevenLabs for narration, and
| a simple Next.js + Supabase stack for the app layer. I'm
| experimenting with story memory (so kids can revisit recurring
| characters) using vector embeddings, and building a "choose-your-
| own-adventure" mode with dynamic audio rendering.
|
| Biggest challenge so far: aligning narration, ambient sounds, and
| story pacing without sounding janky or robotic. Solved it by
| tokenizing and chunking the story for synchronized audio
| stitching via ffmpeg.
|
| Another challenge was the inconsistent image illustrations via
| Dall-E 3. I've adopted a dynamic prompting method that includes
| as many details about the scene, character details, and other
| visual elements which should remain consistent on each of the
| storybook pages.
|
| If your kid ever demands "one more story" after a long day, I
| built this for you. It's had a meaningful impact on my son's
| behavior.
| durraniu wrote:
| That's really cool! I made something similar but much simpler
| using R Shiny.
|
| Edit: Looking at the featured story, I notice that the
| character illustration is not consistent currently. I got
| relatively consistent character illustration from scene to
| scene by asking the LLM to write a prompt for image generation
| based on the story text and use the same character description
| in each sentence. That got me pretty consistent character
| drawings. Also, to keep the same drawing style, my prompt was
| like:
|
| Drawing style e.g., Digital painting {drawing prompt}
| I_am_tiberius wrote:
| I previously worked in Finance, where collecting forecasts and
| internal data from colleagues - often using Excel - was a
| recurring pain point. Existing systems sometimes covered part of
| the process, but their inflexible data structures made it
| difficult to adjust them for new use cases. Therefore I'm
| building a flexible internal data collection platform: it
| supports multidimensional data, custom workflows, a rules engine,
| automatic consolidation, and a range of configurable widgets.
| rubyfan wrote:
| Insurance policy administration system using Rails 8. HexaPDF
| based document generation. JSONLogic based rating with vanilla js
| WebComponent based embedded sales SDK. Think Stripe for Insurance
| sales.
| drchiu wrote:
| I have been working on Broadcast (https://sendbroadcast.net).
|
| It's an email marketing tool, self-hosted, for use with existing
| ESPs like Postmark, Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc.
|
| Been working on this since September 2024, and have been
| consistently hacking away at it weekly:
| https://sendbroadcast.net/changelog.
| nikodunk wrote:
| My side project is Daily Optimist - a super-simple app that asks
| you a single question every day to train positive thinking and
| boost your mood. Mainly for personal use.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daily-optimist-think-positive/...
| sampullman wrote:
| Image optimizer site using WASM builds of Jpegli and Oxipng:
| https://image.samatech.tw
|
| I made it because the desktop software I use (ImageOptim) doesn't
| support Jpegli, which I find to be much better than mozjpeg for
| most types of jpegs used on the web.
|
| There's still a lot of missing pieces, like adding color
| quantization and other PNG options, improving the UI, parallel
| webworker support, etc. The code is open source and can be used
| as a library: https://github.com/sampullman/image-opt
| lostmsu wrote:
| Realtime voice API. I want you to be able to submit a few form
| fields to an API endpoint and have AI call your customer by phone
| and collect that information.
|
| After that's out (hopefully end of the week), gonna focus on
| ambient voice AI that would do turn taking (e.g. participate in
| conversations when it makes sense).
| bibin765 wrote:
| I am currently working on thethoughtcatcher.com
|
| It started as a side project to explore the latest AI trends. Now
| it's something we use daily -- and others are starting to as
| well.
|
| Thoughtcatcher is a lightweight, AI-powered notes + reminders app
| that acts like a memory companion.
|
| It helps you: - Capture raw thoughts and auto-tag them using AI -
| Set smart reminders triggered by context and meaning - This was a
| game changer for me personally - Search and chat with your notes
| like a conversation -- not just by keywords, but by intent
|
| Example? You're walking out of a meeting and think: "We should
| revisit that pricing model after the new release." You jot it
| into ThoughtCatcher -- no structure, no stress. A week later,
| right before the next sprint planning, it reminds you. Just when
| you would've forgotten -- it remembers.
|
| What started as a learning project has grown into something
| useful -- not just for individuals, but for teams too.
|
| We're now exploring B2B use cases like: * Project knowledge
| management * Shared team notes with smart search and chat *
| Meeting follow-up insights and reminders * AI-powered team memory
| for client or product work
|
| Want to try it out? Android users: Download the app iOS users:
| Use the PWA -- just "Add to Home Screen"
|
| Still early. Still learning. But ThoughtCatcher already feels
| like something I wish I had years ago.
|
| Would love your feedback or thoughts. And if you're building
| something similar-- let's connect
| Falimonda wrote:
| Ingesting idea! I've been looking for an alternative to using
| Android's Tasks app for jotting down thoughts. I prefer it over
| the Notes app because I can curate categories as different
| lists.
|
| Random callout: the copy in your app store preview images would
| benefit from some proof reading. Example: "WE dont just store
| thoughts, but makes sense of them" should likely be
| "ThoughtCatcher doesn't just store thoughts, it makes sense of
| them". My 2 cents is to also rework "Capture your mind" as it's
| a little awkward. Maybe "Organize your thoughts", "Supercharge
| your thoughts", or something along those lines.
| bibin765 wrote:
| Thanks so much for the thoughtful feedback -- really
| appreciate you taking the time to point that out!
|
| You're absolutely right -- the copy needs some polish, and
| that line in particular slipped through. I'm already working
| on updates to clean up the messaging and make it more clear
| and engaging (and less awkward -- "Capture your mind" was
| definitely a placeholder).
|
| Thanks again -- feedback like this is super valuable as I
| shape ThoughtCatcher into something truly useful!
| jll29 wrote:
| Nice to see an entirely new category of program, based on the
| core data type "thought", which is what I would call pre-
| organized information. A spontaneous thought could become a
| task or a whole project plan, a project or product, once
| refined, or a memo, even a book. The value proposition is to
| capture early where other tools force more orgnization before
| or at capture. So one problem you solve is losing a nucleus of
| a thought before having time to enter it in a program that
| requires more metadata. A second way you provide value is that
| despite being pre-organized, your "thoughts" are already
| somewhat actionable - this is what using an LLM gives you.
|
| Personal information management is flooded with useless "TO DO"
| apps that offer little value over plaim text files (which is
| what I use for tasks), but it appears you have put something
| together that caters to the informal side of knowledge
| management in the same sense that Google catered to informal
| (unstructured) Web pages, overcoming the world of relational
| databases and forced categorization of library card catalogs.
|
| My recommendation would be to offer APIs and plain text
| import/export capabilities to grow your app into an ecosystem
| that can accommodate playing with enterprise tools or homegrown
| solutions.
|
| I wish you a huge success with this app!
| bibin765 wrote:
| Thank you so much for this deeply thoughtful comment,you've
| articulated the core intent behind ThoughtCatcher better than
| I could myself!. The idea of capturing a "nucleus of a
| thought" before it dissolves exactly that!. I absolutely
| agree with your suggestion on APIs and plain text
| import/export. That's on my roadmap, I want users to feel
| like they own their thoughts and can plug them into any
| workflow, from personal journaling to enterprise systems.
| Thanks again for taking the time -- it means a lot!
| bibin765 wrote:
| if anyone want to go through the current use cases possible ,
| please see our initial documentation at
| #https://docs.thethoughtcatcher.com/introduction
| natmaka wrote:
| > not just by keywords, but by intent
|
| A relatively "simple" approach (augmented associative memory)
| gives very good results, check for example the good old
| "Remembrance Agent", and it may complement a LLM(?)
| bibin765 wrote:
| I didn't know about the Remembrance Agent, just looked it up,
| and it sounds super relevant! I'll definitely dig deeper into
| it. Thanks a lot for pointing it out and for your comment!
| _kush wrote:
| https://lookaway.app
|
| I'm working on the next major update for LookAway. I'm improving
| the wellness reminders to be smarter - instead of nagging you on
| a timer, blink and posture alerts now only trigger when you
| actually need them.
|
| Also adding productivity stats so you can see how taking proper
| breaks during prolonged screen time affects your work output.
| dvcrn wrote:
| microfn.dev - https://microfn.dev
|
| It started out as a cloud runner for small (mostly pure)
| composable javascript functions that we run for you in the cloud.
| So whenever you have some small code snippet that you want to
| run, you can hit up microfn.dev, paste your code and then plug it
| into wherever you want (pipe into the terminal, use from MCP, add
| a cron to it, add to Siri shortcuts, use for home automation,
| ping it with webhooks, etc)
|
| Now we added agents support, so you can have autonomous AI agents
| take your functions and decide when to use them. Even better, you
| can hook microfn into a MCP and have anything that supports MCP
| use those functions as well!
|
| Suppose you need a new _thing_ that your agent should do, you
| could ask the agent (whether that 's claude or cursor) to compose
| a new function, add it to microfn, then use it itself going
| forward!
|
| microfn.dev wants to be a toolbox for composable small tools.
| Imagine a toolbox at home with a bunch of hammers and screw
| drivers that you collect, share, and use for different purposes.
|
| Some actual examples:
|
| - Pull data off services (twitter, etc)
|
| - Store data from sensors somewhere
|
| - Give agents tools to talk to your specific systems without
| needing to write an entire MCP
|
| - Wrap complex logic (eg slack auth + sending a message to slack)
| into a function and add it to a Siri shortcut, so you can quickly
| send messages to a specific channel with a ping or curl
|
| Still very early alpha (beta-ish), but very excited about this
| dzink wrote:
| I'm a mom. I built https://www.DreamList.com a few years ago
| because all of the wishlist companies were indexing your baby
| registry stuff by your name on Google. It has been growing
| steadily for years and it's going well, so I never needed to
| raise money for it, but I noticed that a number of the Angel
| Investors in my network were former Traders. So I started looking
| into the market as well. A lot of even paid data sources were
| deliberately delayed - putting retail investors behind on any
| trade. I started digging for more reliable real time data,
| started generating my own candles from trades and doing my own
| indicators and doing my own trading and now that's growing too.
| (not an outside thing, just for personal use). You wouldn't
| believe the number of obstacles that get in the way if you want
| to do anything with finance or trading. Not touching crypto with
| a 10 ft pole - this is bread and butter stocks and you will still
| hit 100 gotchas. The more obstacles that show up, the thinner the
| air and the more money end up on the other side of overcoming
| each obstacle.
| nhanotia wrote:
| Voice - Voice llm model.
| nhanotia wrote:
| Voice - voice ai model
| azianmike wrote:
| A free DocuSign/e-sign alternative https://useinkless.com/
|
| Andrew Wilkinson tweeted the other day "I just found out how much
| we pay for DocuSign and my jaw dropped."
| https://x.com/awilkinson/status/1892638803505868824
|
| So I thought "how hard could this be?" and decided to build a
| free alternative that's UETA and ESIGN act compliant!
| marktolson wrote:
| Oh man please make this open source! I'd love to host it in a
| container.
| azianmike wrote:
| Curious why you want open source/why you want to host it
| yourself?
| bhu1st wrote:
| Looks great. How can I contribute as a dev?
| azianmike wrote:
| Don't need much help right now! Honestly still trying to find
| PMF, talking to users, and figuring out what to build next!
| samschoice wrote:
| I have been working on a site to create and share your dev stacks
| over a weekend. Did not have much to do.
|
| https://www.sharemydevstack.dev/
|
| Still working on some updates to it like a search
|
| Add your stack without going to the actual create your stack page
| etc.
| aniket_920 wrote:
| Social voting site Where people will discuss and vote about
| social issues, which could be general, regional, environmental,
| politics, science, IT, etc.
|
| Here every users votes are weighted, means it's not necessary
| that every user votes count equal to one, may be it will be less
| than one or in negative also.
|
| Algorithms is very complex and I'm figuring it out.
|
| Currently at ideation stage and soon start the development.
|
| I'm working on this idea to make sure my platform present a clear
| view about the topics from general public's.
| Tadpole9181 wrote:
| Have you given any thought on how you'll combat bots and AI
| manipulating results or even public opinion (a la that one
| subreddit)?
| aniket_920 wrote:
| Yes, when we launch v1.0.0, all users need to verify
| themselves. And for verification we only accept National ID
| of that country.
|
| And all the non-verified users cannot vote. SO they cannot
| manipulate the results.
|
| And we also allow to anonymous post of Polls, means anyone
| can create Poll, still we need some parameter to make sure
| its not scam, but user ID.
|
| And public opinion is calculated based on lots of parameters.
|
| WORK IN PROGRESS!
| strontian wrote:
| I made a free copy/paste helper meant to help get multiple source
| code files into LLMs. Just something simple to give more granular
| control over context and work with other ides eg xcode
|
| pastybara.com
| robch wrote:
| Putting the final touches on the iOS version of my HN client
| done. Android client was refactored to Kotlin multiplatform and
| just has a few components that need to be reworked for iOS.
| weiwenhao wrote:
| A new programming language inspired by golang. I'm trying to
| share and promote it.
|
| https://github.com/nature-lang/nature
| woutr_be wrote:
| I recently completed https://askannie.it.com, at first it was
| just a tool that I used myself after constantly copy/pasting
| YouTube transcripts into ChatGPT. A couple of friends liked it,
| so ended up building an app around it.
|
| For a next project I'm exploring building something that let's
| you quickly embed charts. Similar to what Google Charts was, but
| I still haven't found a good alternative.
| anonzzzies wrote:
| Trying to replace everything I use daily, outside money/banking,
| with my own fully customizable software. I had enough depending
| on others.
| notnmeyer wrote:
| neat. anything you can share? code, blogs, etc?
|
| probably too far for me, but very interesting to follow someone
| on this journey
| yonatan8070 wrote:
| That sounds like a very cool (and very difficult) project, do
| you rewrite everything from scratch or build on top of FOSS
| solutions for some things?
| Imagenuity wrote:
| I'm looking for a replacement simple accounting software. I'm
| still using Quicken 96, which will stop working at the end of
| next year. I'm tired of subscription software that sucks. Give
| me simple and reliable, without the enshittification.
|
| I've looked at a number of open source projects, but they are
| more complicated than what I'm looking for. Just let me
| manually enter my data or import a CSV into a ledger. All my
| data should stay local.
|
| Suggestions?
| anon-3988 wrote:
| What does it mean for the CSV to be imported into a ledger?
| Do you simply want a CSV viewer?
| steveharrison wrote:
| I'm building an app to do this, will let you know when it's
| in beta. :) Meanwhile, some of the similar apps that store
| data locally I've come across are: - https://copilot.money/
| (nice UI; partly local--think it might use CloudKit for
| syncing) - https://ufincs.com/ - https://actualbudget.org/
|
| I feel like http://monarchmoney.com is still the best UI I've
| come across, but I can't believe how common it is for all
| these providers to store your transactions in their cloud...
| seems like a fundamental security flaw to me, no matter how
| much they claim to lock down access to customer support
| agents/etc.
| Kuyawa wrote:
| I am working on an administrative app for small businesses
| and it has some accounting functionality, take a look at it
| and let me know how I can improve it to suit your needs
|
| https://my.adminix.app/demo
| bobsacamano19 wrote:
| Big 5 Archive (https://big5archive.live/): a Chrome extension
| that auto-opens news articles in Archive
|
| I've been reading the Wall Street Journal every morning this year
| but I'm too cheap to pay for the hefty $39/mo. subscription. My
| routine was: open article - hit paywall - copy URL - paste into
| Archive. After a few dozen times that got old.
|
| So I built Big 5 Archive: a tiny Chrome extension that
| automatically redirects any link from WSJ, NYT, Washington Post,
| L.A. Times, or USA Today to its archived, paywall-free copy.
|
| I had fun making this and I hope it is helpful to the news-
| readers out there. Feedback welcome, happy reading!
| jakevoytko wrote:
| I am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev. It
| started with the writing prompt "what if someone tried to make
| Money Stuff for software engineering?" My time is constrained
| since I have a kid, and I'm still iterating on the format a bit.
| But I recently crossed 250 subscribers and have made the Hacker
| News front page twice in the 6 months I have been running the
| newsletter, so I feel like I'm on the right track.
|
| In the past few months, I've learned that (a) writing a bulleted
| outline is a cheat code for producing decent work quickly, (b)
| every newsletter is a reminder that people could unsubscribe, so
| skip publishing issues that you're not proud of, (c) people
| really like stories, and (d) it's okay to have a mix of formats.
| admiralrohan wrote:
| How often do you share your posts in HN? How do you decide
| which posts to share?
| jakevoytko wrote:
| If one gets any traction (like 10 upvotes or more), I wait a
| month or so. I know the site values pacing out content from
| the same source. If something was on the front page in the
| past week, I don't post it. This eliminates probably 80-90%
| of my posts; "news + reaction as a staff software engineer"
| is my primary format. Beyond that, it's mostly feel.
| wwall3r wrote:
| I turned a game my friends and I play during March Madness into a
| web app:
|
| https://bracketmayhem.app
|
| While the tourney isn't going year-round, it has a demo mode
| where you can play through prior years (with friends! Or with
| yourself on another browser/device). The chat feature is
| admittedly half-baked and is mostly there to get my wife to quit
| asking about it. Will try to get that fully done for next year.
|
| I'm also working on another side project in Gleam just to check
| it out. That seems to be taking shape and once I get something
| decent I'll post it.
|
| All of these are self-hosted via Coolify on a VPS, which has
| almost been a project to itself (I've had it with cloud
| providers). I've learned a lot and it was cool to see some other
| self-hosting solutions in the thread here.
| bitwize wrote:
| Currently trying to bring my NetBSD build workflow staggering
| back to life -- again. This time I'm using hg, which seems to
| have some official support, rather than git. The goal is to
| resume work on my filesystem code -- specifically ext3 journal
| support, which has recently attracted interest from the FreeBSD
| community.
| ayugarg567 wrote:
| I'm building https://signwith.co/ - a pay per doc alternative to
| DocuSign
|
| We used to run a content and product studio, and every time we
| had to get NDAs or service agreements signed, it felt ridiculous
| to pay $30/month for 2-3 documents.
|
| So we built SignWith -- no subscriptions, just simple pay-per-
| document pricing. ESIGN act and UETA Complaint.
|
| Every month you get 3 free signatures - and then you can pay per
| document. So best ROI.
|
| Works great for freelancers, early-stage founders, agency folks,
| or anyone who doesn't need to send docs every day but still wants
| something secure and professional.
|
| Launched recently. Early traction's been interesting. Would love
| feedback if you're in this space or use e-sign tools regularly.
| gervwyk wrote:
| Looks useful. Add a developer tier and an npm module for user
| to embed in their apps.
| ayugarg567 wrote:
| That's a great suggestion - thank you!
|
| We're releasing a lightweight API in a week and even bundling
| an npm module to make embedding signatures seamless inside
| other apps. Especially for internal tools and client
| dashboards.
| nahumfarchi wrote:
| A geometry processing library in the Odin language -
| https://github.com/nahumfarchi/odin-geometry.
|
| Not much yet, it includes a basic half-edge implementation and a
| couple of small examples.
| skoutXII wrote:
| I'm working on a desktop app called runik that lets you generate
| and manage e-reader dictionaries for fictional books and series.
|
| https://github.com/Runik-3/core
| funvill wrote:
| Art project. Counter Productive
|
| A random button in a park with a countdown timer.
|
| Instructions:
|
| - Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer.
|
| - If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and the
| project will be removed.
|
| - To keep the project alive -- press the button
|
| Its been running for 56 days with 820 button presses.
|
| Write up:
| https://blog.abluestar.com/projects/2025-counterproductive/
|
| Stats page
| https://blog.abluestar.com/other/counterproductive.html
| Fr3dd1 wrote:
| You should make them input the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42
| alex5207 wrote:
| Those are cursed!
| Fr3dd1 wrote:
| Are you ready to find out?! :D
| BSTRhino wrote:
| This is cool!
| ifellover wrote:
| Is it dead? According to the stats there's a 25 hour gap :(
| great idea btw!
| deredede wrote:
| Maybe the project is a commentary on a post-truth world
| masquerading as a button.
| thimkerbell wrote:
| Can you have it do something good for the park when it's been
| running for x days? Or would that make it mundane (productive)
| and de-art it.
| radsj wrote:
| https://avrhut.com/web-clipper-to-apple-notes.html
|
| Working on solving my own pain point, around saving web pages to
| apple notes. While there are workarounds like singlefile and
| apple shortcuts, it ends up being a multi-step process, and
| limited search functionality within apple notes.
|
| Also, experimenting with using texting to manage family
| calendars: https://textconcierge.ai/
| patcon wrote:
| A visual exploration tool for mapping large-scale public opinion
| data (derived from conversations hosted with the Pol.is public
| engagement tool), but using more advanced dimensional reduction
| algorithms like PaCMAP/LocalMAP:
|
| https://patcon.github.io/polislike-opinion-map-painting/
|
| Am also working on a python library to generalize the pipeline of
| Pol.is, so that more projects can use its features without
| recreating from scratch:
|
| https://github.com/polis-community/red-dwarf/
| dpacmittal wrote:
| Working on Pandora's Inbox (https://pandorasinbox.com). Aiming to
| be the biggest email search engine. Would love to get feedback
| from the HN crowd.
| amorroxic wrote:
| A real-time video processor in hardware:
|
| - static (mp4) or live (hdmi) input, hdmi output
|
| - a collection of effects (various distortions, color glitches,
| demoscene-like) applied over incoming video stream, maximum of 4
| effects stackable on top of one another
|
| - midi controllers support (controlling actions/params of effects
| via CC)
|
| - modulation of effects params via LFO and audio events (bpm,
| kick, tonal detection)
|
| - loading of .glsl shaders (eq. shadertoy.com)
|
| - dynamic input resolution, output either 360p (rpi 4/5) or
| upscaled to 720p / 1080p (networks like SRGAN over Hailo / RPI or
| RK3588 with a Radxa 5B SBC).
|
| Given a 2nd screen (timeline editor) would love to evolve this to
| something like a hardware editor, somewhat in the line of DAWs in
| the audio world. Most things are working with biggest challenge
| now being building a control surface (buttons, rotaries +
| associated oleds, etc) and attempting laying it all on a PCB, a
| process I don't know much about. If there's interest welcome
| comments and could elaborate more.
| HarshitDoshi wrote:
| Just started out building a micro-agency into software
| engineering and consulting. I left my 9-5 jobs in engineering and
| big-consulting to pursue my dream of building something myself. I
| love to code and build software and have always dreamed of
| bringing in change to the landscape around software engineering
| services.
|
| https://shunyaek.se is my agency, "shunyaek"'s home-page.
| shunyaek refers to "shunya", meaning zero, and "ek", meaning one,
| in Hindi, my native language. It refers to the binary building
| blocks of the software & digital world. The landing-page is still
| under construction. Always open to feedback and crticism.
| adityaathalye wrote:
| _A bitemporal data model in SQLite_
|
| ... for a little SaaS app, because my friend-and-sponsor hasn 't
| given me a deadline, nor sent irate letters asking for results.
|
| Think of it like the poor man's XTDB + Datomic, if you like.
| Readings and conversations have taken me to deep questions
| explored in works by Snodgrass [0], Jensen[1], and Jepsen [2].
| Shout out to the XTDB folk for their feedback and suggestions.
| This is why I hang in the Clojure community... it's full of
| people doing rad stuff who are also unwaveringly kind, helpful,
| and generous with their time.
|
| ---------------------
|
| _The pre-alpha version of "Project Writing for Nerds"_ [3]
|
| A cohort-based workshop to help fellow gentlenerds "spool brain
| to disk" with as little friction as possible.
|
| ---------------------
|
| [0] Developing Time-oriented Database Applications in SQl
| https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/tdbbook.pdf
|
| [1] Temporal Database Management
| https://people.cs.aau.dk/~csj/Thesis/
|
| [2] Jepsen's helpful little notes on Consistency
| https://jepsen.io/consistency
|
| [3] https://www.evalapply.org/index.html#writing-for-nerds
|
| (edit: fix formatting)
| klaaz0r wrote:
| AI SEO/GEO (or whatever it will be called eventually) monitoring
| for companies.
|
| We monitor how companies/brands rank in LLMs/AI Search, we don't
| use the API but the user interfaces (since these are totally
| different). We run thousands of prompts to analyse responses and
| combine that with website traffic to get an understanding of what
| is being said and how well you rank.
|
| I didn't anticipate Google moving to AI mode so fast, to be
| totally honest, which makes it really interesting because we
| likely see rank tracking and keyword tracking disappear in the
| near future.
|
| website: https://promptwatch.com
|
| As a fun side project, I run https://homestra.com a kind of
| Zillow for Europe but for second/vacation homes
| Keats wrote:
| > As a fun side project, I run https://homestra.com a kind of
| Zillow for Europe but for second/vacation homes
|
| This is cool but it really needs a map. If I'm looking for a
| house i know the rough area, I don't want to see the whole
| country listing
| dirteater_ wrote:
| App for learning chinese, aimed at intermediate learners. SRS,
| reader, import content. Lots of fun problems like word
| segmentation, relevant distractors, integrating with LLMs, local-
| first sync.
| madduci wrote:
| I work a project that let doctors and laboratory send
| notifications reports in FHIR format to the Health Offices
| located across Germany, based on their address.
|
| Recently we have released everything as open source, even the
| code for setting a local development Kubernetes cluster using
| OpenTofu
|
| https://github.com/gematik/DEMIS-Development-Cluster
| Hyperized wrote:
| After installing access points we were looking for a quick and
| simple way in a standard (mobile) browser to continuously check
| connectivity.
|
| https://latencychecker.com does just that, because opening a ping
| prompt on a mobile device isn't a thing without installing apps.
|
| And it gave us a good excuse to stretch the legs and dabble in a
| little frontend development.
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| I'm just finishing up a book called Rebooting a Nation on how the
| country of Estonia modernized so quickly after independence from
| the Soviet Union and became a leader in tech and e-government. It
| should start shipping on Amazon in the U.S. later this week!
| Happy to chat with folks who have questions about the publishing
| industry from an authors perspective (I ended up signing with
| Hurst in the UK which distributes through Oxford University
| Press).
|
| https://shorturl.at/LKMxS (Amazon link)
| primaprashant wrote:
| A minimal website (https://lgtms.app/) to get a random ASCII art
| for the acronym LGTM cause I love using them in the comment field
| while approving PRs. Supports CLI as well.
| samsk wrote:
| I'm building MLSync.io [1], an ETL platform that helps real
| estate companies easily access and use MLS (Multiple Listing
| Service) property data without the technical headaches. I've
| originally developed this for internal use in an IDX startup, but
| the complexity of RESO synchronization led me to spin it off into
| its own dedicated tool.
|
| [1] https://MLSync.io
| etewiah wrote:
| Looks good. I created propertywebbuilder.com as an open source
| real estate website builder some years ago. Had wanted to do
| something similar to mlsync next but never got round to it.
| hiAndrewQuinn wrote:
| I've been on parental leave, and it turns out newborns sleep a
| lot - so lots of stuff! :)
|
| The most exciting thing is I'm working on a way to pre-bake one's
| WiFi information and an SSH key into the piCore Tiny Core Linux
| image.
|
| piCore is sort of the holy grail for a lot of people who just
| want to stick a tiny personal-user server onto a Raspberry Pi and
| then not have to worry about the SD card burning out on them,
| because the entire system runs in RAM after first boot anyway -
| the only thing standing in its way, methinks, is that it requires
| you to physically plug in a keyboard and a monitor to get it up
| and running on the first boot.
|
| I think that's dumb. A Raspberry Pi should be a thing you can
| plug into a wall socket in your home and then work entirely via
| SSH with. I do a lot of work with Linux images and virtualization
| like this at my day job anyway, with more scrutiny and regulatory
| compliance in place - if you can imagine what "embedded devops"
| might look like, that's a good way to describe it. So I'm a
| surprisingly good fit by now for this kind of thing.
|
| ===
|
| Currently I'm neck deep in some Fish shell scripting to automate
| writing posts for https://andrew-quinn.me/ , similar to what I
| already have for https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/ . With
| the latter, I just type in `til` at a terminal, and I
|
| 1. Get asked for a title;
|
| 2. Get a fzf multi-select list of all previous tags used on the
| blog (this ensures I actually continue to use the same handful of
| tags, which makes the blog much more fun to dive down); and
|
| 3. Get a vim window open to actually crank out the blog itself.
|
| aqdm doesn't have tags, but it is built on a very similar Hugo
| base. Honestly the hardest thing about writing this script is
| simply wrestling with the fish shell programming language. I
| should really sit down and learn it properly one day...
|
| ===
|
| We changed our modem recently, which broke the cronslave
| Raspberry Pi I had powering
| https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/. That led
| me to spend the weekend finally moving its codebase off of
| Raspbian and onto a fully RAM-based Tiny Core Linux.
|
| Running the OS entirely out of RAM for a Raspberry Pi increases
| its longevity by at least an order of magnitude, because you only
| ever read from the SD card on boot and on backups. If you
| configure the server such that everything is ephemeral anyway,
| you'll basically never see that little green "Writing" LED blink.
| That's how I got interested in the aforementioned prebaked piCore
| project!
|
| ===
|
| I collected my smattering of Finnish language learning software
| projects all in one place at http://finbug.xyz/ . I recently
| added the ability to mark and unmark words to my Finnish pocket
| dictionary https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - that makes it
| super easy to save words during a reading session and then import
| them into Anki later.
|
| Of more general interest to people might be
| https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki , which takes a
| YouTube URL, runs it through Whisper for an automatic
| transcription, then slices it up sentence-per-Whisperified-
| sentence and creates Anki cards out of each transcription for
| spaced repetition listening practice.
|
| I made this for Finnish originally, but it fills a niche I was
| surprised to see had no really good locally-runnable FOSS
| options. There are some startups hawking a similar slice-and-dice
| service which I'm sure is much higher quality. But I figure the
| most likely people to get a lot out of a program like this are
| high school students, who generally don't have credit cards they
| can buy SaaS with - they need something they can dump their hours
| into, to get to work, instead of their dollar bills to get
| something that already works.
| davedx wrote:
| A Europe based PaaS. It's now dog fooding (the management
| dashboard is deployed to the platform). Slow and steady progress
| taroth wrote:
| I get background anxiety while waiting for long-running terminal
| commands. Nowadays that nagging feeling extends to LLM calls too.
| Seems like as AI spreads, the pain will only get worse
|
| So I'm working on a universal progress bar HUD
|
| - inspired by World of Warcraft raid mods
|
| - fun sound effects for job start, end, error, and milestones
|
| - can quick jump back to relevant app/tab
|
| - starting with terminal commands and Claude code, cursor agent
| next
|
| https://youtu.be/6pk7KGOh60A?si=75FRq4kjhDHNSdE9
| devgoth wrote:
| this is awesome. is this on github? i would love to use it.
| maxrimue wrote:
| Very cool idea! Never thought of making use of the notch for
| anything.
| colordrops wrote:
| HomeFree
|
| https://homefree.host
|
| A turnkey self-hosted home router + app server that you can
| (eventually) just plug into your modem and go through a simple
| setup and have self hosting. It's in heavy development, so it
| requires some experience with NixOS to get running, but the goal
| is to have it usable by non-technical people.
|
| Current features - Firewall - Headscale
| VPN, apps private by default - Automated DDNS -
| Dozens of apps with automated subdomain allocation and TLS cert
| management - Ad Blocking - Customizable public
| landing page - Single module configuration for all
| features - Automatic backup for all apps
|
| In Work/TODO: - Better landing page and
| contribution process - Admin Dashboard, Config page
| - SSO across apps - Ability sync to a cloud instance in
| case you no longer want to host at home - Ability to mesh
| with friends/family/associates for social networking, distributed
| backup, distributed CDN, etc - Getting others to install
| it and build a community
|
| Aspirational: - A standard protocol or tool for
| updating DNS entries at registrars - A standard protocol
| or tool for updating modems with suitable settings for self-
| hosting - a free DDNS service to provide to users of
| HomeFree
| vivzkestrel wrote:
| - I am working on a production grade node express, hono, fastify,
| python, fastapi, flask, django generator that configures all the
| tools necessary for a production environment and gives you a
| readymade starter with granular commits that you can directly
| start building features on.
|
| - For node, that means it installs eslint + prettier / biome,
|
| - setups all the plugins,
|
| - sets up typescript with watch mode using tsx and alias support,
|
| - installs vitest with all configuration,
|
| - installs dotenvx and configures it to use separate development,
| staging, test and production configuration,
|
| - installs commitlint, commitizen to ensure all your commit
| messages adhere to specific conventions,
|
| - installs lefthook / husky to run tasks before commit, on push
| etc.
|
| - Adds github actions for linting, running tests.
|
| - Creates a docker development, testing, staging and production
| setup with different dockerfiles for each.
|
| - Development version installs self signed localhost SSL
| certificates for use by nginx/traefik/caddy.
|
| - Test environment runs all tests inside the container and shuts
| it down,
|
| - Staging environment mimicks real production as closely as
| possible with minimal resource consumption.
|
| - Production environment uses actual SSL certificates issued by
| the likes of zeroSSL or letsencrypt with a highly optimized
| dockerfile for minimal footage.
|
| - Direct deployment to AWS / Azure / GCP
|
| - Python version does a tonne of stuff too. Will share if anyone
| is curious
|
| - What is special about this? As dependencies change, the
| boilerplate also updates itself, runs the tests and passing
| configuration is cached
| personjerry wrote:
| Do you guys think it's too late to start building yet another AI
| Agent for writing software?
| stuartdev wrote:
| My first iOS app, a book reading tracker. I used to set a timer
| every time I was reading a book, but I decided to create an app
| for myself to track the time, log sessions, organize my books
| into bookshelves, see progress, etc.
|
| - https://bookreadinghabit.com/ -
| https://apps.apple.com/app/book-reading-habit/id6742913266
| bwb wrote:
| Very cool, checking that out :)
| nnq wrote:
| DragoChat - https://www.facebook.com/ai.drago.chat <~~^(o_o)^
|
| TINY attempt to fight the growing divide between "AI haves" and
| "AI have-not" with
|
| - PREPAID access (+ bring-your-own-API-keys alternatives for more
| technical users) to premium models (ChatGPR plus and above)
|
| - multi-channel access (SMS/MMS, Whatsapp + many many more) to
| give ANYONE, ANYWHERE, regardless of how non-technical they are
| access to absolute TOP/SOTA model advisors with easy access in
| their language + fact checkers + more (think african farmers
| looking for intelligence to grow best crops, former delinquents
| lookeing for rehavilitation, absolutely anyone deservers ACCESS
| TO INTELLIGENCE)
|
| - zero lock-in - paid (freemium, but no adds) product, but 100%
| open data formats, sharing, import/export etc.
|
| STAGE: prototype for personal use as a whatsapp bot+ webui,
| somewhat usable for us but still wip, next stage is building
| accounts and payments for EU access, next for US/international
| dragochat wrote:
| [btw this is "first contact" for a WIP stealth thinggy - fb
| page had to exist for meta apis authorization reasons and
| related + I just made this new HN user now, without the
| baggage, so for any inquiries pls contact us on this user
| instead \\(o_o)/]
| carlnewton wrote:
| I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-
| hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it
| to be federated, but that's a while off yet. My most recent
| addition has been public moderation logs to keep the admin
| accountable.
|
| - The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-
| social-net...
|
| - A build update and plan:
| https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
|
| - The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
|
| - The project board:
| https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
| jamesfly wrote:
| The second version of https://www.physician.fyi/ , a database of
| doctors and other medical practitioners with their disciplinary
| actions for patients to check. In this version, I'm expanding it
| to include all 6.5 million practitioners in the US, and
| integrating more data like how much doctors have been paid by
| drug/device companies. I'm planning on adding patient
| reviews/complaints too.
|
| It's the biggest and dirtiest dataset I've ever worked with, so
| it's been interesting to figure out practical solutions to run
| things fast and generalize cleaning tasks. Of course it'll be
| impossible to get every case (I can only match about half of the
| state licenses to national records at the moment), so I'll have
| to figure out a user-edit/consensus system for the rest.
| catwhatcat wrote:
| I noticed your physician-view is just raw JSON. I had time on
| my hands and this sounded cool so I whipped up a quick desktop
| dashboard [1] based on the JSON I saw. Feel free to use / adapt
| / reach out about it. Either way a great resource!
|
| 1 - https://ibb.co/v6WZ7MFr
| yonatan8070 wrote:
| Trying to build a small tool that will allow me to edit files in
| my local text editor from within SSH sessions, with as few
| dependencies on the remote as possible, so I don't have to depend
| on whatever `vi` happens to be where I'm working.
|
| I started the project around a year ago, then got a little stuck
| and forgot about it for a while, until now.
|
| For anyone curious about the technical details, it's a Rust
| program that wraps `ssh`, copies a small statically compiled
| binary to the remote, and uses SSHFS/SFTP (haven't decided yet,
| maybe configurable?) to allow your local editor to access the
| remote files as easily as local ones
| cmenge wrote:
| Working on a few 'vertical' AI apps that hopefully can bring
| those real productivity gains everyone is hoping for to some
| narrow areas:
|
| TenderStrike (https://www.tenderstrike.com) - AI for tenders in
| the construction industry. Fascinating how large and complex a
| tender can be, and how many there are. LLMs can be super helpful
| here, but there are many challenging parts to it.
|
| Optivise (https://www.optivise.io) - product data optimization
| and translation using AI. We're focusing on a niche here, helping
| customers to onboard onto Mirakl-powered marketplaces, but hoping
| to expand to other marketplaces soon. I have spent the last years
| before that deep down the trenches of product data management and
| the traditional approach isn't fun :)
| kanodiaashu wrote:
| I'm working on something inspired by Cursor and Obsidian -- but
| for research, reading and note-taking.
|
| I've not been satisfied with how AI is bolted on after the fact
| -- reading in one place, notes in another, and AI as a separate
| assistant. So I'm combining them.
|
| It works over EPUBs, PDFs, and HTML -- you bring your own sources
| (BYOS), and it turns them into a AI scaffolded, structured,
| hierarchical reading experience.
|
| Already using it for both reading and deep research style deep
| dives, and its already way better than my otherwise broken
| workflow!
| whytaka wrote:
| Webring.GG - www.webring.gg
|
| It's a democratic webring creator/management app where members
| can vote on new websites to join their ring.
| tomlockwood wrote:
| I'm writing a doorknock organising application for an Australian
| climate action community group, using lots of PostGIS and as much
| vanilla js as I can! Super fun so far.
| straumat wrote:
| Coinbase has just unveiled x402, a protocol that resurrects the
| HTTP 402 status code and enables instant stable-coin payments--no
| bank account, card, or subscription required. APIs, applications,
| and AI agents can now autonomously settle or receive micro-
| payments to buy data, services, or computing power.
|
| To tap into this revolution, I created Mogami: a Java / Spring
| Boot library that lets you make any URL pay-to-access with a
| single annotation. - Code & docs: https://github.com/mogami-
| tech/x402-spring-boot-starter
| smith-kyle wrote:
| Recently pivoted. Working on Cursor for PR reviews.
|
| You can sign up for the beta here: https://diffender.com
| ryanmentor wrote:
| Most of what I'm working on ends up being social clubs.
|
| Tech Pizza Mondays has been going well, as the Toronto HN meetup.
| If you're reading this on HN, you're welcome to join us -> URL
| Mondays.Pizza details on fedi.
|
| We just finished Toronto's Pizza Day, our fifth year in a row and
| most successful so far. toronto.pizzadao.xyz will eventually get
| updated to next year's event invite.
|
| I threw a fun experimental comedy party, and I plan to throw
| another in August. Having a volunteer cast was great, the clown
| burlesque was shockingly great. I hope to find some team members
| who want to join forces and put on the greatest talent show this
| town has ever seen!
|
| Working on founding a school in Toronto has been very difficult,
| feels like I'm making zero real progress over time. If anyone
| cares deeply about education, I'd be happy to talk. I'm extremely
| enthusiastic about the Sudbury Valley School model.
|
| And this last week I started a fitness club, where most weekdays
| we do strength training with giant wooden swords. Looking for
| people who want to join up and get strong and have fun!
| chrisvalleybay wrote:
| I'm building a cross-over between Linear and Obsidian. Think
| Linear for personal use but with full VIM-support in the editor.
| Every action in the application can be bound to a key.
|
| I still don't have a landing page, but if you are curious you can
| test it out here: https://lindon.app
|
| If you do test it out you can see all keyboard shortcuts with
| 'Shift+?' and you'll have to enable VIM-support in the settings
| (Cmd + K to open).
| yoz-y wrote:
| A workout app that uses human readable/writable text file as
| input. I'm on the 4th iteration.
|
| It started as a bunch of spiral bound notebooks. I made an iOS
| prototype but realised it's so niche that it would never get
| approved. Made a PWA that I'm currently using for about a year.
| Now I'm building a second version which I finally plan to share.
|
| The reason I'm making it is that I realized that any other style
| (mainly, tabular input, dropdown boxes, input fields) just
| doesn't fit my routine.
| Herring wrote:
| Why use a separate app at all? I just use notepad (or its iOS
| equivalent).
| yoz-y wrote:
| Multiple reasons:
|
| - first I wanted to always compare my current workout to the
| previous one (to know what weight to use, how did I do my
| warmups etc). This I originally did by flipping pages (on
| paper) or scrolling up.
|
| To solve this I have the history scrolling on top of the
| current workouts input field.
|
| - I still want to see my progression.
|
| The app does allow tapping on individual lines which shows
| the details for the lift performed and expands to history of
| all workouts of the same exercise.
|
| - I want to see which muscle groups I might be neglecting.
|
| The app calculates all the usual statistics like muscle group
| workload for the last 7 day period and recommends exercises
| based on what is needed.
|
| To sum it up, it has all the convenience of a notepad
| (backing up is a copy paste, anything not parseable is a
| comment) but most of the features of a full workout app with
| statistics, periodization and so on.
|
| Eventually I want to add some sharing or coaching features.
| whiskey-one wrote:
| A web app which we plan to be always free for personal use. It's
| called MyMirror 360 [1].
|
| The goal is for you to get complete and honest feedback from the
| team you work with. The killer feature is we make it quick and
| easy. And your reflectors can never initiate the instance of
| giving of feedback, the system invites them; this avoids the "but
| I am angry now" situation.
|
| You can add the team members you work with in any setting and
| specify how often you work together. Depending on that, they will
| get the chance to reflect on you between every four weeks and
| every eight weeks. A reflection takes literally seconds.
|
| Sign up is invite-only atm but invites are handed out pretty
| quickly since we want the feedback! Just sign up for the wait
| list on the site [1]. It will be free because we have a business
| version [2] that will support it; and the personal app will
| hopefully generate interest in the company one.
|
| You can send feedback to "admin" at the domain of the company one
| [2].
|
| [1] Personal: https://www.mymirror360.com/ [2] Company:
| https://www.mirror360.org/
| jazzprogramming wrote:
| I' working on a voxel building environment, but using irregular
| (Voronoi) voxels instead of the usual cubic grid ones. Still very
| much a work in progress:
|
| https://jazzprogramming.github.io/vorfract/
| solomonb wrote:
| I'm starting a Low Power FM radio station for my local area.
| m5x5 wrote:
| I'm building a browser dev tool for tailwind projects that
| provides you with an instant link from your browser to the code
| files with minimal per project setup. It also lets you save the
| changes directly to the code files.
|
| https://quick-edits-extension.vercel.app/
| pawelkobojek wrote:
| Adding a support for direct CDP connection with our custom
| browsers cluster that powers our web scraping API
| (https://scrapingfish.com/) so that our customers can integrate
| it into their existing workflows.
| gue-ni wrote:
| A 3D terrain renderer called 'FreeFlight', using real world
| elevation data and aerial imagery. I am hoping to turn it into a
| flight simulator eventually.
|
| https://www.jakobmaier.at/posts/free-flight/
| mazzystar wrote:
| I'm making a fun app that allows people to share what they're
| doing right now, and you can see what others are doing right now.
| It reminds me of what it was like when the internet was first
| born - seeing what others are living makes me not feel so alone
| anymore.
|
| If you'd like to play, visit: https://cike.app
| rjprins wrote:
| A REST framework for FastAPI and SQLAlchemy, creatively called
| "fastapi-alchemy". A bit on the ambitious side, but I had the
| opportunity to open-source work I did for an employer. It is
| running in production, but it needs extensive documentation and
| testing still before I'll package it and offer it to PYPI.
|
| https://github.com/rjprins/fastapi-alchemy
| skeptrune wrote:
| CLI that abstracts rolling out multiple terminal-driven coding
| agents in parallel with the same prompt using git worktrees
| steveharrison wrote:
| I'm working on yet another spending analysis app. How will this
| one be different?
|
| - Stores transactions locally in a SQLite database, so in theory
| you could build your own Front End if mine didn't do everything
| you wanted. Think someone who wants to do a fancy "year end
| summary" visualisation. And if you want to do a complex filter,
| can just write an SQL query to the database itself.
|
| - Has a great UI.
|
| - Allows you to write your own import connector and mix 'n' mash
| between locally-saved CSV/OFX files and APIs, rather than going
| down the standard route of only supporting Plaid. Current
| solutions leave users high and dry if the Plaid connector doesn't
| work well / they want to import old data (Plaid only gives the
| last 2 years I think).
| chrischen wrote:
| I've been working on a pickleball/badminton (or really any
| doubles type sport) event manager which integrates an Elo-style
| statistical rating system (OpenSkill) into the client-side UI. By
| simply logging the win/loss of every match that happens, it can
| real-time update and estimate skill ratings in only a few
| iterations of matches. Its use cases are to manage open play
| events even with a wide spread of levels, balance the teams of a
| match, and enforce fair turn-taking.
|
| I implemented a simple first-come-first-serve event RSVP system,
| and from the event RSVPS it will pull the players into an event
| management UI from which the organizer can place players into the
| available courts and arrange matches balanced by level
| automatically.
|
| The app does ratings calculations fully locally in the browser so
| it not only works offline but every new match is based on the
| last rounds' updated player ratings immediately. There is an
| option to submit matches to be persisted in my hosted service
| (pkuru.com) so player ratings are retained. The goal isn't to
| rank players like existing popular systems (DUPR, UTR, etc) but
| to do matchmaking within an organized session, or before a
| session.
|
| The web UI and session management app, which is tentatively named
| FairPlay, is open source on my github. The version I host at
| Pkuru.com is free to use as well, and currently used by the #1
| club (by average skill) in central Tokyo, as well as the highest
| level club in Thailand.
|
| I don't plan to commercialize it as it is merely a side project
| but I can't promise the service will always be free to use due to
| potential operating costs at scale. However, the front-end UI
| including the session manager is and will be open source.
|
| There's no fundamental reason the system cannot be easily adapted
| to other sports such as volleyball, soccer/football, or even a
| 100-person race since the rating system was designed specifically
| for team based competitions. It can do everything from ranking
| players in game like PUBG (100 teams of 1-4 players), to 5v4
| futsal (asymmetric teams), to classic 1v1 duels as well.
|
| If any clubs or even businesses are interested in using it to
| manage open play or rec play sessions where people can just drop
| in and out and be put into a balanced match of the appropriate
| skill level, please feel free to contact me. The hosted version
| on pkuru.com is free to use, but I can also assist in my free
| time on a volunteer basis if you wish to adapt the front-end open
| source code.
| Ygg2 wrote:
| SIMD enhanced YAML parser. My original parser didn't have enough
| MB/s (around 2-70 MB/s), so I'm trying out SIMD. I hope it goes
| well.
| allenleein wrote:
| AirPosture: Turn your AirPods into a posture coach on macOS
|
| A macOS app that uses your AirPods' sensors to catch bad posture
| in real time.
|
| How it works:
|
| Real-time tilt tracking - Your AirPods already have the tech
| Customizable alerts - Adjust sensitivity so it nudges you only
| when needed Prevent strain before it starts - Stop neck pain and
| headaches at the source
|
| Demo:
|
| https://youtu.be/UEOla3WBy1g
| willks wrote:
| Cool idea! I used to have a sleek clip on posture monitor that
| is now e-waste due to the company folding. Great idea to use
| AirPods
| allenleein wrote:
| Thank you! let me know if you wanna join the beta (forever
| free).
|
| lseconomist@gmail.com
| AaronKosovich wrote:
| A platform for project prioritisation. Or at least I thought I
| was. It turns out that early users really want to use it as a
| sales tool to demonstrate ROI to their prospects, so I've been
| pivoting towards that. Check out https://www.reschematic.com if
| you're interested.
| pravj wrote:
| I'm working on restoring my website/blog.
|
| I stopped writing right after college when I moved to full-time
| work, but I want to change that now.
|
| Just as I started, I realized the website was hosted on Forestry
| CMS, which has been discontinued, so I will have to figure out
| how to maintain the URL structure, etc. (this is important since
| there are a few popular/top-10 pages for certain queries/searches
| [1]).
|
| [1]: https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv-
| word2vec... (for "Google Semantris")
| max_on_hn wrote:
| I've been building a coding agent SaaS (https://cheepcode.com)
| for the past several months. I waited too long to release it and
| ended up launching after Jules/Codex/CCSDK instead of before, but
| I'm glad I got it out there.
|
| It works by connecting directly to Linear and dispatching
| assigned tasks to agents that submit PRs in GitHub when finished.
| My agents work in a fully-integrated Linux development
| environment, including internet access. This means that they can
| browse the web, install dependencies, and creatively work around
| environment issues to make sure they run and test the code they
| ship.
|
| It's really gratifying to see people asking all over the
| internet, "Where can I just create tickets and get pull
| requests?" because that's exactly the workflow I built CheepCode
| to support. As an engineer for almost 15 years, I knew what I
| personally wanted, and it really makes me happy to see that what
| I built will work for so many others too.
|
| As a bootstrapped solo founder, it's challenging to juggle
| product/growth/development/strategy all at once, but also
| incredibly rewarding. I wouldn't necessarily say no to funding ;)
| but in the meantime, it's quite a thrill!
| reifcode wrote:
| I hacked together a way for my Kindle PW running KOReader to
| connect to my self-hosted Calibre catalogue (OPDS) via Tailscale
| (PW5 is tricky) with a simple Go program.
|
| My brother and his wife would like to have the same setup, but
| it's definitely not user-friendly, so I'm trying to figure out a
| one-click way to set everything up so you can have your own
| private ebook catalogue on the go on the device of your choosing.
| fieg wrote:
| I'm working on TalkCue.app: an simple, clean and intuitive tool
| to generate 1on1 questions for more useful and engaging 1on1s
| [1].
|
| This is a lightweight alternative to my earlier startup attempt
| Strateamic [2].
|
| [1]: https://talkcue.app
|
| [2]: https://strateamic.com
| manuel2258 wrote:
| A small web Podcast player that simly does its core job properly.
| Meaning working autoplay, state syncing and good flaging of
| finished episodes. There are so many players who don't get that
| right, especially when listening to 'drama' Podcast, which have a
| kind of different usage pattern then tradition Podcasts. Once
| that is working I'm also keen on exploring automatic blocking of
| advetisment segments, but that is certainly a harder Problem.
| lylo wrote:
| Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) - an open source blogging
| platform written in Rails. Post by email, reply by email,
| subscribe by email.
|
| Who needs Substack?
|
| https://github.com/lylo/pagecord
| burgerone wrote:
| Far less spectacular or impressive than other projects I've seen
| here bu I wrote a quite small blogging engine
| ramon156 wrote:
| Finally want to make a start this week on a database manager that
| doesn't suck.
|
| DBeaver was my go-to but the UI became too buggy for me.
| Alternatives all cost a buttload of money for basic features and
| I couldn't be bothered spending money just so I can make a backup
| of my DB
| mukeshsoni wrote:
| I have been making a photo management app for myself
| (https://viroop.com/) since i hate paying the monthly Adobe tax
| for Lightroom. I like Lightroom but for my needs, paying $10 per
| month is too much.
|
| I have built the basic photo management functionality. I have
| also added conversational search using the CLIP model, which is
| working really well.
|
| I hope to add a photo editor to the app because that's the part i
| love about Lightroom. It's a photo management app with a built in
| photo editor (which is really good).
| zolotorevich wrote:
| Why not use Adobe Bridge? It's free.
| ema wrote:
| I'm making a website for learning languages through
| comprehensible input: https://input.emanuelrylke.com/
|
| The idea is to aggregate videos by language and then sort them by
| difficulty.
| Two_hands wrote:
| EyesOff a privacy focused macOS app (other platform support
| coming soon) - https://www.eyesoff.app
|
| Built using python the app alerts you to when someone is looking
| at your screen, using locally running deep learning models + your
| webcam.
|
| I developed the app when I felt uncomfortable with working in
| public spaces, I wanted EyesOff to give an extra barrier of
| security to shoulder surfing scenarios
| siddmax wrote:
| I got tired of using SplitWise, personal finance app, and Tab to
| manage budgets/expenses. So I vibecoded a small web app
| (https://web.savida.ai) to do it all in one place (and pay much
| less for it too with no limits). Since I made it, it fills all my
| needs. But would be nice to get feature requests from other
| people if they want to use it too.
|
| First time trying vibe coding as a staff SWE at F, so it's been a
| lot of fun to try things out. 100K+ lines of code without a
| single line myself. Working on a new process to one shot the
| mobile app from scratch (even deployment). Learned a lot that I
| apply to my day job. Hoping to make an agent builder next!
| IshKebab wrote:
| What process did you use? I still find it hard to believe an
| LLM could write 100k lines of code without completely failing -
| it fails on much more basic stuff in my experience.
| scroogey wrote:
| I'm (slowly and haphazardly) working on https://pianobooth.com.
| Give it a midi file and it should visualise the playing on a
| piano (though I make no promises and at least currently it
| doesn't parse all files correctly, but it's mostly there).
|
| I think I've finally gotten it to a point where it's usable and
| it seems to work on my phone as well. Hopefully baking in the
| lighting for the 3d models will give a small performance boost
| and I don't think it will be noticeable at all with the color
| changes and small movements.
|
| I've also been going through the fastai course so hopefully I'll
| be able to put that to use on this project by generating midi
| files from audio! I might be underestimating the difficulties
| there but it should be fun.
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| Low-level deep learning library from scratch in C, without
| external dependencies, while not knowing C well yet
| https://github.com/jmaczan/curiosity
| hbroadbent wrote:
| I'm still building AttendList, a Google Meet attendance tracking
| extension (https://attendlist.com).
|
| It's starting to pick up! Which is cool -- a few new users are
| trickling in each week. I think it's about time I invest more
| time in marketing now though (which is probably what I should be
| doing now instead of posting on HN!)
| estsauver wrote:
| I shipped a tool that uses logprobs to generate pretty detailed
| estimates about how long tasks are going to take (i.e., give a
| new product manager/business person/sales person this tool and
| then they'll have reasonable estimates for how long various tasks
| will take.) If anyone wants to try it at universalestimator.com,
| it's free with code "TYHN".
|
| I'm also making a picture book generator for my kids. I want to
| be from some pictures, a description of a story, and will then
| pop out a ready-to-print picture book for them.
| metladsl wrote:
| A stealth enterprise-grade headless browser for hard automations.
| https://metalsecurity.io
| rozenmd wrote:
| I added dark mode to OnlineOrNot's web app
| (https://onlineornot.com) recently, as part of a new focus on
| making the user experience as world-class as I can.
| vertix wrote:
| We are working on open source platform for AI robotics,
| https://positronic.ro
|
| Fully open hardware and software, including ML, so that you can
| start building useful robots immediately
| denys_potapov wrote:
| I'm working on a block-based visual programming environment for
| kids -- a sort of Scratch alternative -- but instead of inventing
| a new language, it's a subset of Elixir. I'm using Google's
| Blockly to generate real Elixir code from the blocks.
|
| Right now, I'm building a Space Invaders clone in Elixir with
| LiveView, and integrating Blockly so the game's core logic can be
| edited visually. Hoping it becomes a fun way to learn both
| functional programming and web dev.
| duttish wrote:
| I merged the last major big thing for the android version of
| Tricktrapper over the weekend, it's kind of 2FA for normal phone
| calls, verification that you're talking to who you think you're
| talking to in this age of deepfake voice. There's no LLM in this,
| because I think that way only lies model vs model competition and
| nobody can win. Better to try and cut the whole vector if it's
| possible.
|
| Been chasing pilot customer but it's few companies that only have
| android, so I'm picking up a mac mini after work to start working
| on the ios version, see what's possible with the various
| restrictions.
|
| https://www.tricktrapper.com/ if anyone is curious, it's sparse
| of the details though. I'm working on a doc with all the
| technical info. The plan is to release it for free to private
| people, charge companies.
| Cyphase wrote:
| Myself.
|
| Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love
| that word) very shortly.
|
| Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects.
| Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter)
| of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things.
|
| I'm excited.
|
| ---
|
| I posted about this on last month's thread, and mentioned in a
| descendant comment that I was going to PyCon US in May. Someone
| well-meaning asked if tech conferences are in tune with working
| on myself. I just got back from PyCon. Yes! It was an incredible
| experience. Not for learning technical things from talks - the
| talks are mostly online already - but for the social and
| community aspects.
| palm-tree wrote:
| Out of interest, how are you approaching this? Are you trying
| to "refactor" in specific areas, or is it somewhat more ad-lib?
| Do you have something in mind for the next "volume"?
| ludee0 wrote:
| I'm hacking on a tiny open-source/self hostable "prompt vault" so
| you can stash prompts and personas once and use them with
| whatever AI model you're playing with today (or tomorrow). Right
| now it's just a single-binary server with a SQLite file next to
| it--add / edit / tag in a simple UI, then copy or share. Next on
| the list: a lightweight browser extension that pops your saved
| snippets anywhere there's a text box. Maybe it could grow to a
| more serious prompt testing/comparison pipeline, prompt
| templating etc
| redrove wrote:
| Do you have a placeholder repo I can star?
| huksley wrote:
| I am implementing native support for deploying Python apps in
| DollarDeploy.
|
| DollarDeploy is like Coolify and dokploy but with better UI, no
| docker containers and fast deploys for full stack apps, NextJS,
| react
| hummusisdata wrote:
| I am now working on forming a new data strategy framework. I
| think that one of the biggest issues we are seeing out there is
| the rush to GenAI and create automation. However, in reality,
| people tend to ignore the data that is supposed to be used.
|
| So I started my blog Cooking Data, and slowly, using Vibe Coding,
| I am building tools to translate the philosophical conversation
| into actionable tools. I am always happy to learn and discover
| how the team handles the data strategy and answers the business
| goals with it
| ciccionamente wrote:
| https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency
| notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your
| death or if you are seriously injured.
| yuvadam wrote:
| Been building Namekit [1] -- a simple tool that uses AI + a small
| proprietary model to generate domain name ideas and surface only
| the ones that are immediately available. I got tired of bloated
| name generators with useless suggestions, so I built something
| fast, clean, and actually useful -- mostly for myself, but now
| for others too.
|
| [1] https://namekit.app
| puapuapuq wrote:
| I spent hours on prompt engineering recently and I hate it. This
| is for a startup and requirements change daily so the prompt has
| to be revamped all the time.
|
| I decided to develop a system that take requirements and some
| sample inputs as an input, then automatically evalute the outputs
| and fine tune the prompt.
| sumeruchat wrote:
| Tradofire - Swipe Like Tinder on trading opportunities
| https://tradofire.com
|
| I got everything done technically but marketing is challenging
| felipesabino wrote:
| I decided to try the AI train and develop something without
| actually writing any line of code.
|
| The result was very satisfying, https://rss.sabino.me - a rss new
| aggregator, with a summary to save some time on news that I do
| not want to read, but am mildly interested.
|
| I will not say the same about the code quality tough
| level09 wrote:
| Vilcos -- https://vilcos.com/
|
| Futuristic CMS concept with Embedded agent to replace traditional
| forms.
| chimprich wrote:
| A small, cute CLI app that gives overviews about files and other
| entities. I've called it `what`. It's inspired by being able to
| right-click on stuff in a GUI file manager to get an overview
| about what it is.
|
| https://github.com/richsmith/what/
| teekert wrote:
| About what what is?
| lonh wrote:
| a Tool Management Platform - https://toolingmetrics.com - helping
| digitalize and automate tasks in the metal machining shop.
| DigitalNoumena wrote:
| An app to estimate the risk of your job being automated and how
| to hedge against it professionally and financially
| jlengrand wrote:
| I've been working on a tiny library to handle the OpenGraph
| protocol in Kotlin. It's been fun
| https://github.com/jlengrand/opengraphkt
| pul wrote:
| A set of free online internet infrastructure inspection tools.
| Think DNS, IP, ASN, WHOIS, email config, etc. It will replace my
| current main project nslookup.io when it'll launch.
|
| Beta is open at https://beta.nslookup.io (registration wall for
| now, but I'll remove it at launch).
| harubi wrote:
| I've built https://orateai.app
|
| A free macOS that does TTS to any highlighted text in any app
| with AI voices. A Speechify alternative.
| dhamidi wrote:
| More tools / toys / sandboxes to play with.
|
| Growing a coding agent as a "game":
| https://github.com/dhamidi/smolcode. Started with
| https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent and then asked the
| agent to modify itself. It's so much fun and hard to stop!
|
| Since coding is cheap now, I'm building a web framework for
| myself, using reasonable defaults: _built around the transaction
| log_ , _single binary deploys_ , _sqlite3 for everything_ ,
| _runtime introspection tools to make ops easier_.
|
| I want the framework to "compile itself out of the project", so
| that projects don't have devtime dependencies and can be easily
| edited by Cursor et al. It should still stick around in the form
| of a high-level CLI that an AI agent can leverage to fulfill
| common tasks (e.g. add a new UI component, query, command, etc).
| badenglish wrote:
| A new computing system based on parallel addressing.
|
| Two demo are already written: explanation how to compute parallel
| and algorithm of parallel space emulation.
| vldszn wrote:
| I'm building a free, open-source invoice generator with live PDF
| preview -- all browser-based, no sign-in needed.
|
| It supports multiple languages, currencies, European VAT
| deductions, and more.
|
| Originally made it for myself, so it's a bit of a personal tool
| -- but I hope others find it useful too :)
|
| https://easyinvoicepdf.com/en/app
| https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
| ejanus wrote:
| I'll like to use it but it is limited on currency options.
| user070223 wrote:
| Inspired by Steve Brunton(on YT) and his colleague, a platform
| that makes working on/with dynamical systems much easier in terms
| of sensing, modeling and controlling the dynamics. Eventually
| iterating quickly using SOTA techniques(compressed sensing,
| super-resolution(spatial-temporal tradeoff), RandNLA, ML) without
| the need to understand them deeply
|
| Sensing effectively by optimal (re)positining of the sensors
| (both number of sensor and physical placement) Think spatial
| sensor/data fusion, perhaps using more cheap sensors rather than
| few expensive
|
| Building a model of the dynamics (based on both reasonable
| assumption about the system based on grounded physics, and
| dynamical interpretation of the sensor's data (PySINDy, DMD)
|
| And eventually controlling the dynamics
|
| Love to get your feedback, ideas, if you know about such
| products/business etc, how could it help any business, real life
| application, if it interests you, anything :)
| zoidb wrote:
| For fun over the weekend I started an ambitious project of
| creating a "pocket size" space trading game, inspired by a
| classic BBS door game called Trade Wars that I really loved as a
| kid. I'm keeping a development log to keep myself motivated and
| wrote the first post about it here
| https://jarv.org/posts/stardewar-v01/.
| eajr wrote:
| There was a Trade Wars inspired game 25 yrs ago called "Black
| Nova Traders" that was a whole lot of fun. The original author
| is embarking on a v2 after a quarter century since the first
| release. You might find it interesting to see if yours and his
| vision align and work together[1]. All good if not, I'll keep
| an eye on your project as I love Trade Wars inspired games.
|
| [1] https://github.com/harwoodr/bnt2
| zoidb wrote:
| very cool, I'll keep an eye on that project and try to
| connect with the author too
| Dathuil wrote:
| Continuing my return to GameDev. I'm making my own copies of
| subsets of games or recreating games that already exist.
| Currently making FlappyBoo (FlappyBird with the ghost from Super
| Mario). Nearly at parity with the original game and will add a
| few "upgrades".
|
| End goal is to have many reference examples when I start to make
| the game I want to make.
| Seb-C wrote:
| I'm working on a universal tool to generate and print custom dust
| jackets for books, with the goal of making prettier bookshelves.
|
| https://www.jacket-lab.com/
| bwb wrote:
| cool idea, looking forward to seeing that on Show HN :)
| kofta wrote:
| Got me a iCE40 based FPGA which I'm playing around with Verilog
| and an opensource toolchain (icestorm, yosys and nextpnr) and
| using this as a reference https://github.com/BrunoLevy/learn-
| fpga/blob/master/FemtoRV/...
| immibis wrote:
| > What are you working on?
|
| Nothing useful, like always. A non-computer project for the next
| week or so.
|
| > Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
|
| A few, but I'll never do them. It would be cool to offer free
| hosting services to projects (in lieu of places like Github and
| Fandom, and in the spirit of Miraheze) but in the current legal
| environment, feels like I'd be risking my life.
| kanishkalinux wrote:
| Inquisitive - self-hosted knowledge-base with a touch of LLM/RAG.
|
| Link: https://github.com/kanishka-linux/inquisitive
|
| I've been working on this on and off since last couple of months
| to consolidate all of my digital knowledge-base like
| notes/links/pdf etc with the help of LLM/RAG. It is fully self-
| hosted with very minimal setup instructions - which should be
| easily installable by anyone on their local machine.
|
| UI is very bare minimal. It still has some rough edges when it
| comes to the UI part, but usable. I've been regularly using it
| since sometime, and it works well (atleast for my use case) when
| it comes to searching and organizing personal knowledge-base.
|
| Feel free to try it!
| Tsarp wrote:
| Looks neat. How does it compare to the already available
| solutions out there/any thing different about it?
| kanishkalinux wrote:
| Thanks. I've written about it in detailed in the README. But
| most important thing that differentiate it from other self-
| hosted variants is the ability to see references along with
| chat and ability to exclude/include specific sources from
| your local sources for targeted discussion. Moreover it has
| integrated note taking feature in markdown, so that all of
| your digital knowledge-base is at one place.
| _luiza_ wrote:
| Currently working on some research proposals for studying methods
| to detect consciousness as relational capacity in AI systems by
| mapping internal representations, analyzing conversation
| topology, and testing how consciousness-related concepts degrade
| and recover across different model architectures.
|
| In principle, using my current free time (& not only tbf) to
| figure out a way to fund a few positions on full-time study /
| audit of emergence, specifically emergence of consciousness in
| this case.
|
| Setting a basis in semantics & wanting to optimize as sense gets
| un-sparsed.
|
| Hmu if interested to figure out some of these together
| (agiornot@gmail.com)
| quantas wrote:
| A "native" LLM chat application that looks very similar to
| ChatGPT but all chats are saved locally and you can use multiple
| providers. The reason I've built this is because I've used many
| "api wrappers" but none of them felt as good as for example
| ChatGPT's or Anthropic's interface. So the goal was to build the
| best "api wrapper" possible with no subscription.
| https://anylm.app
| Tsarp wrote:
| Looks neat. Have you thought of GTM? Is it B2C or are you
| thinking enterprise.
| pasxizeis wrote:
| A "Postgres lock diagnostics" tool for migrations. We've been
| bitten a few times, by seemingly innocent migrations that ended
| up acquiring locks we did not expect (yes, RTFM).
|
| So I thought: what if, when you opened the PR, you had a tool
| that actually executed your migrations, saw what locks they
| acquired (in runtime) and then reported it as a comment to your
| PR? This would provide you with yet another data point you could
| use to reason about whether your migration is safe to deploy or
| not. For example: ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN
| email TEXT: acquired AccessExclusiveLock on relation
| `users`
|
| It does this by opening a transaction, executing the statement,
| and observing the `pg_locks` view from _a different_ connection
| before the initial transaction is rolled bac (or committed,
| depending in the flags you passed). The idea is to be able to use
| it as a CLI, as a library or with a ready-made GitHub Action
| (which will take care of commenting in your PR).
|
| It's in early-stage and very much a PoC yet, but I think there's
| merit in the idea.
|
| https://github.com/agis/pglockanalyze
|
| P.S. Also, an excuse to learn Rust - so any feedback from Rust
| ppl more than welcome
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| This sounds super useful. I imagine a pipeline where each
| migration has to explicitly mentioned which locks it will
| acquire (and the build failing if there's a mismatch).
| wutwutwat wrote:
| A thing I always go back to, regardless of what language I'm
| working in, is the checks performed by strong migrations
|
| https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations?tab=readme-ov-fi...
|
| It's pretty popular, and has even been ported to other
| languages
|
| https://github.com/Artur-Sulej/excellent_migrations
| fizzbuzz07 wrote:
| Reimplementing from scratch every major idea in modern deep
| learning, to help people transition into deep learning research.
|
| https://github.com/tanishqkumar/beyond-nanogpt
| alok-g wrote:
| Wow!
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| Username... does not check out!
|
| Which resources are you using?
| fizzbuzz07 wrote:
| I just carefully read the papers inventing the techniques I
| want to implement, and verify correctness of my
| implementation by checking outputs from my code match the
| papers and pass sanity checks (ie. diffusion produces nice
| images, RL improves rewards, etc).
| wanderlust123 wrote:
| Nice work!
|
| Maybe I missed it but would be great if there was links to
| the original paper. Will be going through this repo for
| sure.
| dom96 wrote:
| A Pinterest alternative. Sick of seeing AI generated slop on
| Pinterest and want to build something better.
|
| I am also integrating it with ATProto.
|
| Current MVP supports search only: https://imaginarium.picheta.me/
| Tsarp wrote:
| Building a small framework for securely connecting desktop
| apps/clis directly to your existing browser using Native
| Messaging i.e no headless browsers or cloud sandboxes/proxies
| involved.
|
| Inspired by secure password managers like Bitwarden, goal is to
| reduce detectability, avoid CAPTCHAs, and mitigate common
| fingerprinting pitfalls.
|
| The idea is simple: leverage the trust your browser already has.
|
| https://github.com/srv1n/rzn-browser-native
| cloud8421 wrote:
| I'm still working on my physical music management application.
|
| It integrates with MusicBrainz and Last.fm, so that I can easily
| add records, scrobble them, and search/track stats.
|
| I want to figure out how to track availability for records I want
| to buy, which would involve interacting with marketplaces.
|
| Using Elixir, SQLite and Phoenix LiveView, which is what I know
| best and lets me focus on UX and UI.
| throwaway874839 wrote:
| A music for ppl who like to listen whole albums and keep track of
| what they discover (and maybe share it with friends). Something
| like Goodreads, but for music.
|
| Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
| Tsarp wrote:
| A local dictation app for Mac to use when coding. I spend a lot
| of time talking to Cursor, Chatgpt and needed to get rust and
| swift library names correctly.
|
| Spent a lot of time on low level hardware libs to roll out my own
| version of VAD, grammar correction and stitching segments.
|
| Faster than the hosted dictations tools thought it runs locally
| and a lot more control in terms of custom vocabulary.
|
| https://carelesswhisper.app
| sbalamurugan wrote:
| MapAI - https://www.mapai.net
| rpastuszak wrote:
| 1. New version of Enso: https://write.sonnet.io
|
| 2. Getting back to writing regularly after a health break
| (https://untested.sonnet.io)
| r0x0r007 wrote:
| Trying to leverage LLMs for creating custom lessons(from
| prompts)that use stuff like dev-typing simulation(instead of just
| copy/paste), narration, theoretical concepts and quizzes. Basic
| idea is to use 'AI'(yeah I know...) to increase our coding
| knowledge and curiosity about other languages and overall fingers
| memory, instead of just copy/pasting from LLMs.
|
| https://thecoderssage.com/
| henadzit wrote:
| I'm working on a open-source schema migration tool for tortoise-
| orm. tortoise-orm is a mature Python async ORM but it lacks a
| good migration tool. It isn't a super exciting project but it is
| something that people request over and over again.
|
| https://github.com/henadzit/tortoise-pathway
| jumski wrote:
| I'm tinkering on pgflow - an open-source, DAG-based workflow
| engine that uses Postgres to orchestrate workers on top of PGMQ
| queues. It seamlessly integrates with Supabase (no new infra
| needed!) and executes code on Edge Functions using custom,
| serverless task queue worker. All the current and past state of
| all executions is stored in Postgres and can be queries with
| simple SELECTs and flows can be started from within the db
| (think: pg_cron, triggers).
|
| I have strong focus on db consistency and Type safety between
| steps.
|
| ### Built so far - core SQL orchestration (state machine,
| retries, observability, queue management) - strictly typed
| TypeScript DSL + compiler that turns flow definitions into
| migrations - a minimal Edge Function worker that polls, executes
| and reports back
|
| ### Current focus I'm heads-down on a dedicated client library.
| It leverages Supabase Realtime to stream events and progress of
| each flow run back to the browser, while having strict compile-
| time safety for flows defined with the TypeScript DSL.
|
| ### Next on the roadmap - Fanouts for processing arrays of data
| in parallel, with per-item retry logic. - SQL-based
| conditionals/branching that leverages JSONB containment operator
| and step outputs
|
| Docs: https://www.pgflow.dev/concepts/how-pgflow-works/ Repo:
| https://github.com/pgflow-dev/pgflow
| rurban wrote:
| Getting a LLM writing a python module I'm considering
| tonyedgecombe wrote:
| Working on a PDF driver for my PostScript interpreter. The
| drawing model is very similar between the two so it should be
| fairly straightforward. The only exception is the graphics save
| stack which persists between pages in PostScript but doesn't in
| PDF.
| mr-karan wrote:
| I'm working on Logchef: https://github.com/mr-karan/logchef
|
| It's an open-source (AGPLv3), purpose-built log analytics UI
| specifically for ClickHouse. I've been using ClickHouse for logs
| and love its power, but found the existing UIs either too heavy,
| too focused on ingestion (which we already have covered with
| tools like Vector/Promtail/Fluentbit/Logstash etc), or not
| ClickHouse-native enough.
|
| Logchef aims to be a lightweight, powerful log explorer that sits
| on top of your existing ClickHouse setup.
|
| Key things:
|
| - Schema-agnostic: Works with your existing ClickHouse log
| tables. No need to change how you store things.
|
| - Dual Query Modes: Simple search syntax (e.g., level=error
| service=api) for quick looks, and full SQL for complex analysis
| when you need to dig deep.
|
| - Lightweight & Focused: Single binary, easy to deploy. It
| doesn't do ingestion, letting you use best-of-breed tools for
| that.
|
| - Team-centric: Built with multi-tenancy for teams and access
| controls for different log sources from the get-go.
|
| I've got a demo running at https://demo.logchef.app if you'd like
| to try it out. It's still evolving, so feedback (especially from
| other ClickHouse users) would be super valuable!
|
| Wrote an announcement post with a bit more detail:
| https://mrkaran.dev/posts/announcing-logchef/
| stanac wrote:
| Github URL should be: https://github.com/mr-karan/logchef
| (found in announcement post)
|
| Edit: ok, I see you have edited your comment
| mr-karan wrote:
| Thanks! :) fixed the typo.
| digest wrote:
| A daily briefing that bundles content from every source you care
| about into a simple newsletter format.
|
| https://usedigest.com
| dogtorwoof wrote:
| This is really cool!
| ALLTaken wrote:
| AI Augment - Enabling SMEs to keep quality jobs local, without
| giving up data.
|
| Novelty: Massively Agentic multi-modal AI Model with task-based
| agent synthesis and no measurable hallucinations. New consensus
| algorithm able to integrate empathic reasoning and emergent
| motives.
| fullstackchris wrote:
| CodeVideo - https://github.com/codevideo
|
| Basically, event sourcing for the IDE - build entire software
| lessons and course videos without actually recording anything.
|
| You can get up and running pretty quickly at our studio
| https://studio.codevideo.io
|
| Or locally with the CLI tool:
| https://github.com/codevideo/codevideo-cli
| sidyapa wrote:
| I vibe coded a chrome extension that highlights new links on HN
| frontpage since your last visit, so that you dont have to waste
| time looking for which links are new.
|
| https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-new-links-highli...
| Kuyawa wrote:
| I've been using a js bookmarklet every single day for over a
| decade. It sorts the entries by most voted and dims the ones
| already shown last visit. I won't post it here as it may mess
| up with formatting, so here is a link to pastebin:
|
| https://pastebin.com/dzT7PckU
| grxar wrote:
| We develop the best place for typescript job seeker
| https://typescript.jobs/
| noahfk wrote:
| I've just released an update for my spatial audio /3D music
| software https://www.audiocube.app/blog/update-v25520
|
| Now I'm updating the user manual to show all the new features!
| torvald wrote:
| Yesterday's shenanigans: https://clubmate.place/ - find (and/or
| register) where you find your ClubMate! Just click on the map to
| add a store.
| zzsshh wrote:
| We're building a service to generate _consistent_ AI personas,
| and create any media you need with them, photos, videos, tryons,
| product photos, etc.
|
| - Works by selecting traits, which then trains a model(flux) OR
| uploading your own photos.
|
| - Hopefully useful for shopify/ecomm store owners, digital
| agencies, or just about anyone to drastically speed up the time
| and reduce the cost to test creatives, create media content, or
| just do what you want with a model of yourself.
|
| - Web with Nextjs, DB with Supabase, marketing with nothing.
|
| - Happy to share more details into how we built this, and hear
| feedback and thoughts.
|
| https://www.theinfluencer.ai/
| ensemblehq wrote:
| An S3/Blob Storage bucket monitoring system that checks for files
| when you expect them to be there. This allows you to check when
| files are available for processing and if they are not, you'll
| receive a notification via email or Slack.
| f3b5 wrote:
| An intent-based Linkedin B2B lead finding tool that evaluates
| tens of thousands of comments in small thematic niches to find
| prospects that have a certain problem, and are actively looking
| for a solution. I just finished building the backend side of the
| tool, and released it to a group of early customers to find out
| how well it performs. It's a really fun engineering problem to
| cut through tons of spam, bullshit, and hustle porn, and find the
| few gold nuggets in the comment sections.
| sm001 wrote:
| we at https://www.dolphinwhispers.com are building an Android app
| to let you add your own AI models to it and compete with
| DolphinGemma. The app can currently be used without AI models and
| chat ethically with dolphins by using your own intelligence.
| omgmajk wrote:
| I'm working on a isometric rpg/turn based strategy game with a
| sci-fi theme, currently in the writing and design phase with very
| little code done. It's gonna be a multi-year project. Nothing to
| show, sadly :(
| colinnordin wrote:
| I was reading a lot of technical books and kept highlighting
| things I wanted to remember -- but I rarely went back to review
| them. The notes just sat there, on my Kindle or in the reading
| app.
|
| So I started building something simple: a tool that lets me turn
| highlights into flashcards with as little friction as possible.
|
| Just select text on your iPhone, share it with the app, and it
| creates a flashcard using AI -- a Q&A pair and a short summary.
| You can browse cards in the app, or show them on your Home
| Screen, Lock Screen, or watchface of your Apple Watch.
|
| This is my first iOS app, and building it has been a great
| learning experience. I'm using Supabase for the backend which
| have been mostly great.
|
| Check it out: https://komihag.com
| MattRix wrote:
| This is a great idea!
| thechao wrote:
| I really like this. I'm going to grab some of my kiddos 7th
| grade biology notes (handwritten), and see what it does. I did
| notice that's it's a little hard to manage your deck: removing
| and shuffling are not obvious?
| colinnordin wrote:
| Let me know how it goes! I'm not always very happy with how
| the cards turn out, will see what I can do with some LLM
| prompt tuning.
|
| Yeah, it's very barebones at the moment, if you swipe the
| name of a deck left on the list of decks, you should be able
| to delete it, and I haven't added the ability to delete
| individual cards yet. Shuffling is not possible, adding it to
| the backlog.
| eps wrote:
| > select text on your iPhone, share it with the app
|
| Nice. Minimizing UX friction is always difficult and this is
| clever.
| admiralrohan wrote:
| Working on a mathematical model to quantify what is theoretically
| possible for humans to bridge all fragmented theories across
| psychology, mental health, productivity, economics, and more
| (similar to what Shannon did for Information theory).
|
| It stems from my struggle to keep up with the feeling of
| overwhelm with so many things to learn. Currently working on
| organizing all of my thoughts into a coherent theory.
|
| You can check my blog to learn more about my journey and the
| theory = https://www.moderncynicism.com/about
| tim-kt wrote:
| What exactly is the mathematical model? What are the
| mathematics involved? I couldn't find it on your blog.
| henko wrote:
| I am building a device that helps me - and hopefully others -
| learn how to play a brass instrument. When picking up the tenor
| horn I started by making flashcards. On one side there was the
| note, and on the other side the fingering was shown. But this was
| a cumbersome way to learn, and I wanted faster iteration to get
| this into muscle memory. So - to procrastinate - I made a device
| with speakers, microphone and a small lcd screen. It is currently
| showing the notes and fingering automatically. But I am
| implementing a fast fourier transform to pick up what note I am
| playing to show whether it's the correct one or not. FFT for a
| brass instrument is not straight forward as there are many
| frequencies being played, but I think by tuning it - it would be
| a very fast and gamified way to learn an instrument compared to
| playing scores.
| XCSme wrote:
| Trying to do better marketing for my self-hosted analytics apps
| (https://uxwizz.com/ and https://wplytic.com/)
| popupeyecare wrote:
| I'm working on https://postcardlove.com -- a super simple site
| that lets you send real postcards using a photo from your phone.
| No login, just upload, write, and send.
|
| It started because I wanted to send my sister an old photo for
| her birthday, and instead of using CVS or Shutterfly like a
| normal person, I ended up building it using Bubble and Lob.
|
| Now I'm exploring the B2B angle -- a friend asked if I could do
| postcard mailings for her medical practice. Curious if anyone
| here has experience with postcards for outreach or marketing?
| ISL wrote:
| Very cool.
| AutoAPI wrote:
| I launched https://PostalAgent.com recently that solves a
| similar problem.
|
| It also can be used for Marketing because you can circle areas
| on a Google Map to send mailings to, and then filter by
| Household income, home value, etc
|
| Ping me if you want to chat
| EFFALO wrote:
| i wanted to build this! but now i don't need to. very great
| execution here, and your per-unit postcard prices are
| awesome. is there a minimum?
| AutoAPI wrote:
| No, no minimum - send a single postcard if you want!
| popupeyecare wrote:
| Hey!
|
| Let's chat! Postcardlove.com was a small side project that I
| created while working on the larger project. I think I can
| use PostalAgent for that project.
|
| patelamit@gmail.com
|
| Best, Amit
| EFFALO wrote:
| yay, postcard apps! this is my space, too. there's something
| really fun about making an API call and then postcards shoot
| out the other side.
|
| i like your site and the visual design, very simple and
| straightforward. at $3.99 it does seem rather expensive
| compared to other options out there (i have an idea on how much
| it costs you). also, having some actual pictures of what the
| cards look like on the website will surely help with
| conversion.
|
| the first postcard app I built is Three Kind Words
| (https://threekindwords.com). it's a small vending machine on
| the internet where people anonymously send a friend three
| postcards, one word at a time. the first two cards are
| unsigned, and the last one reveals who sent them. it's meant to
| be a slow, kind surprise in the mail. we've sent over 250 cards
| so far.
|
| my latest postcard app is Slow-Mo Rainbow
| (https://slowmorainbow.com). this one lets you send a rainbow
| in the mail, one postcard at a time. i just launched it last
| week and am still getting the rough edges worked out, but in
| the spirit of the thread, i'm sharing it here.
| popupeyecare wrote:
| I love threekidnwords.com, I remember reading a blog post
| that you wrote. I also love your website.
|
| For the pricing, I just picked what I thought I would pay. I
| have been using it to send postcards to myself and my wife!
|
| I'll check out slowmorainbow.com!
| sch00lb0y wrote:
| I'm building an AI based habit tracker.
| https://health.poonai.xyz/ You might like talking to the agent,
| It's pretty funny actually.
| nichol4s wrote:
| I'm working on a MCP Server to get Starlight API documentation
| quickly connected to any model. I have the initial stuff setup,
| doing some experiments now to figure out how to optimize
| performance (reduce number of roundtrips, don't overload the
| context).
|
| For example, if during the conversation someone asks, "tell me
| how this API call works". It should be able to. 1. find the right
| API document (requires search) and then 2. 'retrieve' that API
| document. But if that API document also requires other content
| (eg Authentication is separate) that will require ANOTHER
| roundtrip. So I'm currently trying to figure out what the best
| flow would be for this.
| jason_zig wrote:
| Working on: https://www.zigpoll.com a contextual micro-survey
| tool solo.
|
| I'm now supporting over 30K clients and over 40 million survey
| responses. Naturally lots of things come up when scaling a
| project solo heres a few:
|
| - Optimizing existing reporting dashboards
|
| - Improving onboarding experience
|
| - Tapping new growth channels (Organic SEO, Paid ads, Integration
| marketplaces)
|
| - Resolving customer support tickets and minimizing ticket flow
| in general
|
| Lots of things come up which always keeps the work interesting.
| It's probably time to scale past one person though so that's next
| on the docket!
| dainiusse wrote:
| Working on https://sauna-assistant.com - app to make sauna
| rituals in home sauna - from ambient music and time tracking to
| lighting automation
|
| It is a personal itch for my home Sauna. Lots of stuff to manage,
| but trying to work on consistency as a priority as I dropped the
| ball in many previous attempts.
| brylie wrote:
| Finntegrate: AI-powered multilingual assistant for immigrants to
| Finland
|
| https://finntegrate.org
|
| My co-founders and I are building an AI assistant that helps
| immigrants navigate Finnish bureaucracy. As immigrants, we've
| experienced firsthand how fragmented and inaccessible essential
| information can be, scattered across Migri, Kela, the tax office,
| and municipal websites, often only in Finnish and Swedish.
|
| We're using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to create a
| multilingual chat interface that connects people to official
| resources rather than replacing them. The system reduces "failure
| demand" - support requests that arise because people can't
| achieve their goals through existing resources.
|
| The technical approach is a multi-agent system in which
| specialized AI agents handle different domains (immigration law,
| employment, housing, healthcare, etc.). We've named the agents
| after Finnish mythological figures (such as Tapio, Ilmarinen, and
| Sampo) to create a cultural connection while providing practical
| assistance.
|
| Interestingly, this addresses a systematic problem - government
| agencies spend significant resources on repetitive support that
| could be automated. At the same time, immigrants get frustrated
| trying to piece together information from multiple sources.
|
| We're exploring B2B opportunities (companies relocating
| employees, municipalities, healthcare systems recruiting
| internationally) and EU funding for integration technology.
|
| Happy to share more details or get feedback from anyone who's
| worked on similar multilingual AI systems or government-facing
| tools.
|
| GitHub: https://github.com/finntegrate/tapio
| NiloCK wrote:
| I'm working on a modular OSS stack for creation of interactive
| tutoring systems. Think anki + wikipedia + mathacademy +
| duolingo, but with very generic interfaces that allow for all
| sorts of interactive content (eg, one working prototype is an ear
| training / site reading course with midi keyboard hookup).
|
| I want to sand away the roughest edges of the SRS user
| experience, and to enable individuals and organizations to easily
| spin up courseware that's aligned with best pedagogical practices
| and fits naturally into the hands of educators.
|
| And, in the current wave, also think bolt.new or lovable.dev,
| with 'agentic' workflows for both _content_ (scouring source
| material for ) and for user-authored bespoke interactive, via LLM
| authored artifacts.
|
| Optimistic for some ShowHNs or more general shilling this week.
|
| - https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder -
| https://patched.network
| darkhorse13 wrote:
| https://forms.md, open-source Typeform alternative with a one-
| time pricing.
| apstyx wrote:
| Working on https://are-we-up.xyz/ - A very basic website pinging
| service for non-technical people.
|
| Considering expanding the service for REST endpoints.
| wila wrote:
| Working on AntView.
|
| AntView is an ActiveX wrapper for the Microsoft WebView2
| component. AntView enables programming languages that cannot use
| the WebView2 component directly to have a modern browser
| component in their applications.
|
| You can find it here: https://antview.dev
| ctbellmar wrote:
| WhatSignal, WhatsApp <-> Signal relay, written in Go
|
| https://github.com/bikemazzell/whatsignal
|
| I'm working on a WhatsApp to Signal relay. I.e.: whenever someone
| sends a WA message to you, it appears in your Signal. You can
| reply and it will go back to the original sender.
|
| Why? I'm privacy conscious and don't fancy using a Meta product.
| But some of my friends/associates/family still insist on WhatsApp
| only. Running this WhatBridge service on my micro server behind a
| VPN allows me to communicate without having WhatsApp on my
| mobile.
|
| Behind the scenes, it connects WAHA
| (https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha ) and Signal CLI
| (https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli). Still early stages, but
| getting closer to a workable state.
| maz1b wrote:
| Working on MedAngle - the world's first Super App for
| premed/medical/dental school. tens of billions of seconds spent
| in our family of Super Apps, 100m+ questions solved, ~100k users
| (invite only, doctors+med studnts). We personalize to the
| curriculum of any school we launch at.
|
| https://medangle.com
|
| We're looking on scaling further internationally. I myself am a
| US-Pakistani, the first medical doctor + full stack engineer and
| technologist in Pakistan's history (~250m people). Would love to
| chat with anyone interested!
| nandosobral03 wrote:
| this weekend I created on a graph-based wikipedia explorer to
| make sharing the rabbitholes you go down in wikipedia with other
| people easier
|
| https://rabbithole.fsobral.dev/
| wonger_ wrote:
| Training to run a half-marathon. I recently ran an hour for the
| first time in my life (~5 miles). I enjoy the challenge of long-
| distance running, and the mental clarity, and doing it all
| barefoot.
| fortmeier wrote:
| klartraum.ai: "Klartraum will be a real-time neural rendering and
| inference engine build on top of Vulkan." Currently, it is mostly
| a pipe dream, but Gaussian splatting is nearly implemented and I
| plan to release version 0.0.1 in the next days.
| kenrick95 wrote:
| Still [1] working on my travel planning web application:
| https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/ (repo
| https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo )
|
| This is an example view-only trip:
| https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/trip/2617cd98-a229-45d4-9617-526...
|
| So far it has:
|
| - Timetable view, with drag-and-drop support. I think it will be
| useful for planning the activities as I need to be able to
| quickly swap activities - List view. I think it will be useful
| for actual travel itself as the day go, I'll need to focus day-
| by-day - Maps. To make it easier to plan nearby activities, but I
| think I still need to rely on Google Maps or other kind of maps
| since I still need the navigation/direction in-between activities
| - Sharing & comments. Since I plan to use it to collaborate the
| travel with my friend, this is a must-have feature for me. -
| Expenses. This is still quite basic but maybe I should also track
| who owes whom...
|
| I think now I'm happy with the feature set and will start
| planning my travel using this to polish the UX :)
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818652
| jhunter1016 wrote:
| I'm working on Orbiter, simple static web hosting that allows
| anyone to upload a directory of files, use a CLI tool, or use a
| GitHub action to host their sites and apps in seconds.
|
| My co-worker and I started this as a side project because we were
| building so many sample apps, proofs of concept, and engineering
| as marketing apps and we were feeling more and more locked into
| Vercel every day. So we wanted to go back to client and server
| separation and when we did that, we realized most hosting
| providers have moved toward server-side rendering as the default.
|
| Client-side rendering isn't for everyone, but plenty of people
| still make simple websites or even complex CSR web apps and don't
| want to deal with fully integrated solutions like Vercel (and
| Netlify now to a lesser extent). Plus they want the flexibility
| of choosing different tools for their frontend and backend.
|
| This remains a fully bootstrapped side project for us, but it's
| gotten the most traction of any side project either of us has
| worked on.
|
| https://orbiter.host
| jpc0 wrote:
| Only in the conceptual stage right now. So far my thoughts are.
|
| An app framework targeting modern C++ (>C++20) based on
| Boost.Fiber and stdexec( sender/receivers when C++26 releases)
|
| I got inspired by a recent Java talk[1] from a Netflix employee
| about how they are building. I have the pretty strong opinion
| that async/await are implementation details and shouldn't be
| exposed in APIs. They effectively have the compiler/runtime
| generate a state machine for you and you wouldn't put a state
| machine in an api. Using C++ though we do have low level access
| to the CPU and there is no reason we cannot just use stackfull
| coroutines. This allows you to write literally synchronous code
| but it will defer blocking operations to an even loop and allow
| concurrency.
|
| For GUI at least in the beginning Im thinking that I just spawn a
| native window and it's up to you how you draw to that. I'm
| targeting something basic on linux myself which means it will
| probably just be direct calls to the wayland compositor to create
| a window. Getting a context etc will be up to the user since my
| idea would be in windows we use C# and on macos we use swift for
| UI. Documenting and building tooling around getting those
| languages integrated feels like it would provide more benefits
| than actually trying to reinvent the wheel in C++.
|
| Likewise HTTP client will just wrap libcurl, for server side Im
| actually thinking of just calling into golang. HTTP servers
| aren't the hard part, it's all the infrastructure around it that
| is the hard part and well golang handles that better...
|
| 1. https://youtu.be/XpunFFS-n8I?si=olBE3W0AMicUZM5c
| Jean-Philipe wrote:
| I'm working on a free meetup platform:
| https://github.com/strathausen/laundryroom.social
|
| because I got frustrated with meetup.com
| pseudocomposer wrote:
| I'm in the midst of reviving https://beatscratch.io
| (https://github.com/falrm/BeatScratch-Flutter). I've let it sit
| unmaintained (because it's been "good enough" at its job) for a
| couple of years, through the addition of null safety to Dart and
| numerous Flutter changes (though I have to say, its API stability
| over this time is pretty impressive!). I've also GPLed the code
| in that time and the new version will also be under that license.
|
| Once I've got at least the iOS and web release pipelines working
| again, I plan to replace its Reddit integration/sharing features
| with an implementation based on https://jonline.io
| (https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline), the AGPL, Rust/gRPC-based
| social network I've built in the intervening time.
|
| I'm also planning on adding more detailed (left to right audio)
| panning and other output controls, oriented towards using
| BeatScratch live with other musicians. My hope for this is to use
| it to complement my own musical practice I've been working on,
| outside of all this 1s-and-0s programming time.
| hexmiles wrote:
| the link for https://github.com/falrm/BeatScratch-Flutter
| return a 404 for me. (maybe it's private?)
| oofoe wrote:
| For the past several years, I've been tinkering on and off with
| something that might be called a "game engine", except there's
| not enough of it. More of a "conceptual framework", or maybe
| "organizing principle". Basically, I cut the idea of the Entity-
| Component-System down to the bare minimum and provide some
| structure and queries.
|
| Here's a presentation, includes examples:
| https://hg.sr.ht/~oofoe/candheat/raw/dox/intro.pdf?rev=tip
|
| It's fairly free form, so you can do almost anything you want,
| but still structured and "legible" for computers and the person
| debugging it. I wrote it in a Lisp that compiles to JavaScript,
| but there's no reason you couldn't implement it in any language
| that supports associative arrays -- idea is that the language has
| most of what we want, just need to organize it a little. I think
| the idea is useful enough, that it's potentially useful for more
| than "just" games.
|
| Repo with several more-or-less worked examples:
| https://hg.sr.ht/~oofoe/candheat
|
| Recently used it for a Lisp Game Jam entry, which someone
| described as "Helltaker meets the Magic School Bus":
| https://oofoe.itch.io/class6
|
| About 800 SLOC, compiles down to just under a hundred lines of
| JavaScript. This includes the utilities, the "engine" (keyboard
| handling, overlays, text and art composition, animation, sound
| effects, etc.) and the game logic itself (which includes a level
| editor).
| user432678 wrote:
| I caught myself on being so overwhelmed on possibilities current
| state of tools and technologies can one easily utilise, so ended
| up working on exactly nothing at all.
| Yabood wrote:
| An employee advocacy platform that helps companies amplify their
| brand reach and thought leadership through their employees'
| social networks. It integrates with tools like Slack and
| Microsoft Teams, allowing marketing teams to easily share curated
| content that employees can like, comment on, or reshare without
| needing to leave their workspace or log into LinkedIn.
|
| https://www.socialweaver.com
| flippyhead wrote:
| A deep research system to discover if your dumb saas idea is
| already out there.
|
| I got sick of starting a project only to later discover
| significant competitors or features of the marketplace I missed,
| despite looking. I can now do in minutes what used to take me
| days.
|
| https://already.dev
| juanfgarcia wrote:
| Already out there: https://websets.exa.ai/
| Hasnep wrote:
| How ironic
| flippyhead wrote:
| I know. My son joked about using already.dev to find out if
| I never should have built it the first place!
| flippyhead wrote:
| That's only how it seems. General purpose deep research just
| doesn't work as well.
|
| Thanks for taking the time! I love these guys. They are
| definitely way more useful in that they are general-purpose.
| What we're doing is much more specific, and the results are
| very different. Try both and compare!
|
| I have no doubt we'll soon get taken over by general-purpose
| systems. But for now, all we do is deep research to find
| competitors, and the results are for sure much better with us
| for that narrow use case.
| upmostly wrote:
| We've been working on a vibe-coding platform called Hypership.
|
| https://hypership.dev
|
| What's different with Hypership is that your apps get user auth,
| page view analytics, event tracking, logging, and an admin
| dashboard all set up and ready to go out of the box.
|
| It's also a much nicer platform for devs because we host VS Code
| in the cloud for you as you're vibe coding. That means you can
| manually edit the code as you go.
|
| It's basically what web development should be in 2025.
| badestrand wrote:
| Interesting! How does it compare with Supabase?
| upmostly wrote:
| Not only do we give you auth out of the box (like Supabase)
| but we give you app hosting, analytics, event tracking, logs
| and we have plans to expand our services to cover forms, a
| help widget, and even Cookie consent!
|
| Also we let you build an app using AI, which is a pretty huge
| difference between us and Supabase.
| MarceColl wrote:
| Yet another Japanese learning app[0], but something that is very
| useful to me, so I hope it will be useful for others as well. I
| struggle to deal with comprehensible input that interests me at
| this time. The best way to immerse yourself is with content that
| interests you but sometimes that content is a bit advanced. I'm
| building this to bridge the gap, you can upload or select content
| that interests you (or we can recommend you content that would be
| comprehensible input), and we'll generate short stories, set in
| the universe of the content you want to learn that will introduce
| new words you need to understand the original content every week.
| The words and sentences of these stories will then be reviewed
| using spaced repetition (using the Ebisu SRS algo as underlying
| model with some modifications).
|
| [0] https://katarineko.com/
| solresol wrote:
| A beautiful implementation of the most exotic sorting algorithm
| I'm going to teach this semester:
|
| https://bead-sort.arithmetic.guru/
|
| Oh, and also a PhD on p-adic machine learning, but no one will
| remember that.
| dhavaln wrote:
| I am working on a simple tool to help founders:
|
| StackAdvisor (A tech-stack advisor for MVPs and beyond)
|
| - Understand the idea, team, budget, skillset, preferences (cloud
| services, language, frameworks), time to market, etc
|
| - Generate smart questions and iterate based on answers
|
| - Suggest rationale optimal architecture to begin with and
| implementation detail
|
| - Include In Scope / Out Scope tasks, Week-1 to Week-12 plan
|
| - Suggest low-code/no-code/AI-assisted tools for implementation
| Daenks wrote:
| Hobby: I'm trying to write a simulator for Brandon Sanderson's
| cosmere magic system using a vector database to represent the in-
| universe spiritual realm and all it's connections, and small AI
| models to represent intents.
| thedangler wrote:
| Feel like I've been saying this way too long. Connect Payment
| Systems to various unsupported web builders.
|
| Fantasy Apps
| gnuser wrote:
| Oh you know, just the most advanced mmometarpg in history.
| bwb wrote:
| Working to make a really sweet app to manage your to-be-read book
| pile, and bring it to life:
| https://building.shepherd.com/roadmap/launch-our-tbr-app-to-...
|
| Excited about it, as I've been wanting something like this for a
| while :)
| hluska wrote:
| Last December, I started building a desktop app so that I could
| keep all my running, eating and assorted physical misadventures
| in one place. I decided to build it with Electron so started
| profiling right away but wasn't write home about it happy with
| any profilers so now I'm building a profiling tool and the
| fitness thingamajigger in tandem. And of course, it's a personal
| project so scope creep is an issue. Now I have structured logs,
| full replay and so much data that this wacky little profiler
| makes me feel bad about all the decisions I made on the wacky
| fitness app six months ago.
|
| Which just goes to prove, if you're slightly demoralized it's a
| side project. :)
| nsarrazin wrote:
| On my free time I've been making a small "game" where you control
| a spacecraft using a 6502 computer. You can control things like
| thrusters, antennas and read data from star sensors, gyros, etc.
| using memory mapped I/O directly and you can't control anything
| directly.
|
| The whole thing works pretty well, it's built using Godot & a
| custom Rust extension with the 6502 emulator & assembler. It can
| even be exported to the web so you can write your code using a
| CodeMirror editor and send it to the game in the browser.
|
| Now, as expected, the hard part is making it fun. Just giving
| players an empty code editor and a manual for the
| sensors/actuators doesn't seem great, and there's also no goal
| for now. I'd like to take inspiration from Shenzhen I/O to build
| a sense of progression by tackling more and more difficult
| control challenges maybe?
|
| It also supports running multiple computers at once so I think
| there's some fun potential for a "multiplayer" mode where you try
| to achieve some objective (scanning X, mining Y) against other
| players by sending spacecrafts with your code on them and all the
| crafts would run on one server. Anyway I'm curious if people
| would be interested in such a game!
| bckr wrote:
| Very curious, email me?
| wagslane wrote:
| I've published a lot of interactive programming courses on
| Boot.dev over the last few years, but the issue that's been
| plaguing the platform is how quickly it moves through material.
|
| Like we give people challenges for each new concept, but we don't
| give them 4 or 5 challenges for each new concept. It's hard to
| get right because
|
| 1. It's a lot of work to make challenges/review material 2. Every
| student wants a different amount of practice/review
|
| So anyways I think we've got a really good solution in the works,
| been cooking on it this week and we're hoping to be ready to go
| live in August
| clpmsf wrote:
| You've built a great product IMO. I'm a happy customer.
| kimjune01 wrote:
| I just published MCP Ghost, an MCP client you can call from
| Python. It's the one orchestration layer that deals away with the
| boxes-and-arrows of graph-based workflows of today.
|
| https://github.com/kimjune01/mcp-ghost
|
| it's on pip!
| fratimo66 wrote:
| I originally built https://prontopic.com/ to help my girlfriend
| take better photos of her clothes for Vinted.
|
| Turns out people really like it, especially for food photography
| :)
| Aditya198 wrote:
| I'm curious as I have not idea how you do this, but do you
| prompt a GenAI model with an image to generate an output image?
| What happens if the image is not 1:1 accurate?
| fratimo66 wrote:
| I guess they'll text me or stop using the service. With food
| is much better.
| mdrzn wrote:
| Even in the demo image in the hero section you can notice that
| the "AI generated" costume is not the same as the "real image"
| one.
| fratimo66 wrote:
| Yes, it derails a bit when it has to reproduce creative
| patterns
| jpcerrone wrote:
| I'm working on an ear training app that listens to what you play
| on guitar. https://gapsguitar.com/
| encom wrote:
| Robot technician/builder and I'm working on finding another job,
| because I just got laid off. Shame. I liked this job (mostly),
| because I could combine craftsmanship (I'm an electrician) with
| nerdy electrical and hardware/software/mechanical debugging and
| occasionally development. And I learned so much. Onwards to new
| things I guess, but I loathe the job application process.
| getgalaxy wrote:
| The Cursor for SQL - getgalaxy.io
|
| We think theres a huge gap in tooling for devs associated with
| writing SQL. We've reimagined the SQL editor to make it modern,
| fast, beautiful, and have a AI copilot that actually works.
| Importantly, we've also added sharing and collaboration in a
| Postman / GDrive nature so you never have to share queries with
| your team via slack or notion again.
|
| Check us out and ping me on LI. getgalaxy.io
| linkedin.com/in/garrettawolfe
| jrslv wrote:
| I'm working on https://rejobs.org - a job board dedicated to
| careers in the renewable energy industry.
|
| It aggregates job ads from various sources and lets employers
| post directly. The goal is to help more people find meaningful
| work in wind, solar, BESS, etc.
|
| Built with PHP, PostGIS, and a swarm of GPT-assisted cron jobs.
| I'd love your feedback.
| CommenterPerson wrote:
| Would like to suggest a possible need to the dev wizards on HN,
| and also request pointers to something good that may already be
| out there:
|
| I would like a phone app that would disable anything that a user
| doesn't actually need (not something like the existing google
| android feature that identifies apps that haven't been used in x
| months). It may ask a user what they actually need (for example,
| calling, SMS, a browser, etc.). The app would identify all the
| software/apps on the phone that are not required for the above
| needs and identify / disable them (say for example Location
| services). When you get a new phone one could start off with an
| absolute minimum.
|
| It would need ongoing updates, as the app universe and
| surveillance technologies continuously evolve.
| alexpadula wrote:
| Atomic non blocking writes for storage
| https://github.com/guycipher/wildcat
| yboris wrote:
| Adding a Portuguese translation for
| https://www.utilitarianism.net/ and a French one is on the way
| too!
|
| https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net
|
| Built this website with _Hugo_ and it 's been one of my favorite
| (and best) projects of my life. Has PDF generation of articles
| and a static low-bandwidth instant search of the whole website.
| Very happy with the build system too (using _just_ )
| Jotalea wrote:
| Client-side Whatsapp chat analyzer, extremely easy to use,
| privacy friendly. I already made a Python implementation and am
| currently porting it to JavaScript, and will be available at:
| https://jotalea.com.ar/misc/wanalyzer
| vicarrion wrote:
| Browser extension to let you categorize and rank your search
| results in a collaborative way https://catsearch.net/
| krlx wrote:
| A web app for my wife and my friends so they can order hot drinks
| when they are coming to my home.
|
| Still quite early in the development but if you want to make my
| phone ring you can place an order on this page : https://micro-
| cafe.nuxt.dev/alix
|
| You won't see your placed order nor get served however.
| Igor_Wiwi wrote:
| Started as a handy tool for personal use, now paid application.
| From launch to first paying customer in just 1 month:
| https://jar.tools
| antoferra wrote:
| An iOS app that removes reels from Instagram, shorts from
| YouTube, and any other distracting features from social media.
| Also has a time budget feature to prevent you from doom
| scrolling.
|
| Download link: https://apps.apple.com/it/app/timecap-limit-
| screen-time/id67...
| jlivin wrote:
| I'm building Codus -- a privacy-focused, offline-first toolkit
| for developers with AI enhancements where they make sense. It
| includes tools like offline chat, a Markdown editor, UUID
| generator and a JWT decoder. LLMs are pulled and run locally via
| Ollama, keeping everything private and fast. I'm currently adding
| a database client, regex tester, text diff tool, and more.
| https://github.com/JamieLivingstone/codus
| rasulkireev wrote:
| I'm still working on Marketing Agents (marketingagents.net) in my
| free time. Trying to make an open source, self hostable app that
| will allow founders scale their marketing efforts.
|
| Thinking about future monetization efforts and found myself
| liking Posthog approach for that.
|
| Host for large companies looking to automate marketing, yet
| leaving it free (self hostable) for smaller companies that can't
| pay.
| brainwipe wrote:
| Two things! - Videogame, you live inside a mechanical ladybird
| called a Clomper, which you control by making pipes to power
| machines with steam.
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/2349380/Clomper/
|
| - Building plastic self organising maps (Lang 2002) using Python
| CUDA build to parallelise the more expensive bits. Also fancy
| building the directed graph half in Unity 3D.
|
| - Also doing some data engineering pre-training and AIIA at work
| but no deets, sadly.
| jesse__ wrote:
| I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10
| years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port
| the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty
| cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload
| the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen,
| like a voxel version of shadertoy.
|
| https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai
|
| I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of
| the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that
| supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user
| through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your
| source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and
| in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.
|
| https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
| axelthegerman wrote:
| It's ridiculous that we live in 2025 and most people in North
| America have apartment buzzer systems that don't work with "long
| distance" calls or forward to multiple phone numbers.
|
| [freshbuzzer.com](freshbuzzer.com) does that and much more!
| terrib1e wrote:
| I'm working on Valuate! An AI powered hotel acquisition
| underwriting platform. I'm currently iterating based off of
| feedback I've been collecting from brokers and hotel investors.
|
| I'm also available for other work/projects. I'm a full stack
| developer with a decade of experience working in government tech
| and real estate. Feel free to reach out!
| KerryJones wrote:
| I'd be interested in this for different REI -- multi-family,
| storage, single family, co-living, sober living, etc.
| iddan wrote:
| A sales copilot for startup founders. You can think of it like
| Cursor but for sales (in the sense it integrates into existing
| systems and giving an ai native workflow on top of it).
| https://closer.so
| harundu wrote:
| A toolkit for SaaS startups, especially solo founders and small
| teams, that combines web & product analytics, session replays,
| error reporting, chat support and knowledge base in one place.
|
| Instead of integrating, maintaining and paying for multiple
| tools, everything is available in one simple to use dashboard.
|
| For those familiar with PostHog, you can think of it a simple
| version of that.
|
| I've been developing it and testing with few startups and plan to
| start promoting it more soon once the MVP is bit more polished.
| Also more tools are on the roadmap.
|
| https://overcentric.com/
| cmontella wrote:
| I'm working on a programming language called Mech:
| https://github.com/mech-lang
|
| It's for building robots, scientific computations, user
| interfaces, reactive systems, and so forth. Currently working on
| docs for this new version that I'm about to release. I'll post a
| Show HN when I do. Here's the spec so far it's a very WIP, maybe
| 20% done: https://docs.mech-
| lang.org/v0.2/II.reference/specification.h...
|
| The cool part about the spec is it's a valid Mech program which
| is formatted into html by the formatter! https://gitlab.com/mech-
| lang/docs/-/raw/main/II.reference/sp...
| hxii wrote:
| I finally got my yaml task runner to a workable state.
|
| Getting the parts that I absolutely HAD to implement while not
| descending into feature-creep hell (driven by my own curiosity)
| was challenging.
|
| Then again so were the self-debates about the syntax and
| documentation.
|
| Maybe one day I'll learn Go or something, but until then - Boku
| is my yaml-based task runner written in Python.
|
| https://git.sr.ht/~hxii/boku/tree/main/item/README.md
| jmhmd wrote:
| litevna.app - a DICOMweb compatible medical imaging archive,
| built on cloudflare workers, to optimize fast image delivery
| globally. Images are all encoded as HTJ2K for progressive image
| loading, and the popular OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer is
| built in.
|
| Building mainly to power the next generation of pacsbin.com, but
| may offer as a standalone service as well.
| csjh wrote:
| Been working on a single-pass WebAssembly JIT compiler (atm only
| guaranteed to work on M1 air), been super interesting learning
| and thinking through strategies to balance fast compilation &
| fast generated code. It's the fastest single-pass JIT output-wise
| that I'm aware of, but the compilation speed could use some work.
|
| Also: the README is pretty outdated, the real interesting stuff
| happens in https://github.com/csjh/mitey-
| jit/blob/main/backend/arm64/ba...
|
| https://github.com/csjh/mitey-jit
| syrusakbary wrote:
| That's an interesting project!
|
| We have an opening in Wasmer to work on the compiler side of
| things, I think you could be a great fit:
| https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15822
| csjh wrote:
| Appreciated, but not sure I'm ready for that yet - still need
| to finish uni :p
| dmitrysergeyev wrote:
| Building (https://estan.ai), an AI that reverse-engineers real
| estate listings by pulling not just from public records, but also
| social media, neighborhood forums, historical sales, and user
| reviews. It flags red flags--like crime trends, sketchy
| development patterns, neighborhood trends, and so on--then
| presents them in plain, opinionated language.
|
| Goal: replace the vague boilerplate of listings with something
| closer to a paranoid friend who's done way too much research.
| Curious if this kind of subjective, context-heavy analysis adds
| real value--or just noise.
| mh- wrote:
| Think this is a great idea, I would have paid for this when we
| were buying our house. Especially for one feature: let me give
| you a list of properties (perhaps forwarded from my agent, or
| e.g. a Zillow search) and get back the "enriched" listings with
| your added insights. It'd be great if I could then weight
| different factors (local schools, walkability, etc.) to stack
| rank them.
|
| With a once-in-a-century shakeup in commission structure for
| Realtors, you're building this at a very interesting time.
|
| Happy to chat more if you'd like to bounce ideas around.
|
| edit: Also, I think you could easily monetize this by charging
| agents (or their brokers) for it.
| matty22 wrote:
| Working on a site to help people find stained glass windows to
| visit in their towns/cities. No exciting tech (vanilla
| HTML/CSS/JS) and lots of data entry, but making some decent
| progress!
|
| https://www.stainedglassatlas.com
| timf34 wrote:
| Believe it or not, so am I!
|
| https://stainedglassmap.com
|
| Focusing on Ireland for now, my home country. And admittedly I
| haven't had a chance to work on this/ update it since
| September.
| justacoder12 wrote:
| I have been working on https://carzenie.com to improve online car
| buying experience. Buying a car is complicated because it has
| more dimension to consider than other items (i.e. body, engine,
| fuel, etc.) LLM is a great fit to help translating car buyer's
| requirements into car's spec and returns the results.
| nirkalimi wrote:
| Currently working on https://ireact.to/ - A public inbox for
| content creators.
|
| Its a super simple way for your community to submit and vote on
| the content that they'd like you to check out/react to next.
| rodolphoarruda wrote:
| 1. Consumer demand/trend identification: a tag based survey
| system that allows companies to identify trends in the market at
| early stage.
|
| 2. Productivity tools for independent sales reps that simulate a
| Sales supervisor/manager. Fights procrastination and lack of
| focus on daily activities.
| sandeepkd wrote:
| Working on building a platform that allows the hosting for the
| front end of the website, and use the dynamic backend similar to
| Firebase. Only difference may be the drop in authentication
| functionality without any hassle going all way up to support
| enterprise level IDP.
|
| The authentication space becomes too complex above a certain
| company size, the concepts like admin user, service user, are not
| always supported as first class concepts. In a nut shell, just
| trying to solve the problems that I have personally come across
| the last decade and more in the industry in authentication space
| breadchris wrote:
| A recipe site that makes my favorite cooking youtuber videos
| easier to follow https://justshare.io/recipe/1Dd7GNm68hI
| martinrue wrote:
| I'm working on a language learning tool. An early version, that
| I'm quickly improving is live here: https://langsesh.com
| guywithahat wrote:
| I (was) working on a highly parallelized game using go and
| ebiten, but upon realizing I wasn't going to achieve the CPU
| utilization I wanted, I wrote an article about it instead.
| https://thomashansen.xyz/blog/ebiten-and-go.html
| dwoobat2467 wrote:
| Im working on a setup converter for the F1 Game. I hate searching
| for setups and things, and I already have dry setups for every
| circuit, so I'm making a GUI app in PyQT (not gonna lie - maybe
| not the best choice but im comfortable in python, and its not
| critical to be fast so i guess for now its fine), where you input
| the setup values, and it converts them to a (pretty good - for
| me) wet setup for the track, by changing some values here and
| there.
|
| I'm going to add track guides to it, in the hope that,
| eventually, I don't have to google for track guides or anything,
| I can just have them all in one place for me.
|
| I also want to make my own overlay by analyzing UDP data that the
| F1 games export, because I play on xbox, and my shitty laptop
| probably doesnt have space for simhub - but mainly because its
| cool. If i can figure out how, I might also integrate some AI
| thing to comment on improvements you can make to your driving
| based on the values too!
|
| I'm a student still so the code organization at the moment is
| literal trash but im working on it - when it's at a point where
| even I don't cringe looking at it I'll post it here!
| mdolah wrote:
| Recently, I upgraded some parts on my PC and started tinkering
| around with building a tool to show hardware metrics
|
| https://github.com/MahmoudDolah/linux_hwinfo64
| https://pypi.org/project/linux-hwinfo64/#description
|
| I started out by copying features of HWINFO64 (which does not run
| on Linux). I'll probably keep hacking on this for a bit. It's
| been interesting to dig deeper into how hardware and software
| interface
| bananatron wrote:
| An text-based online RPG (inspired by muds of yesteryear)
| inhabited by LLM-driven NPCs which takes place in the zombie-
| infested wild west (side project for about 2 years now, should be
| live soon ) https://www.blightwood.online
| kazinator wrote:
| FOSS-side-project-wise, working on next release of the TXR
| Language.
|
| It is just now a matter of, cut it now, or include yet one more
| thing?
|
| I started writing the RELNOTES two weekends ago, yet more stuff
| started going in.
|
| In the semantic versioning scheme selected for this project, 300
| means that it is literally the 300th public release.
|
| There are over 140 new commits and 299 was all the way back in
| February.
|
| It's going to be very exciting (for the small number of people
| that know about this project, now nearing its 16th anniversary).
|
| https://nongnu.org/txr
| c0nstantine wrote:
| Working on trre - extension of regex for text editing. I'm
| redesigning the underlying engine to operate on deterministic
| automata (transducers) for most expressions. Theoretically, it
| should outperform AWK in complex text-processing tasks.
|
| https://github.com/c0stya/trre
| agcat wrote:
| Nowadays, I am working on learning robotics from a software
| engineer's lens on weekends. I got a yahboom one hand robot with
| Nvidia jetson nano orin gpu. So far i have setup the robot and
| next i am going to run basic apps on it. I am also going to
| document video and blog the journey. If someone else is also
| playing with robots would love to learn
| quinto_quarto wrote:
| been building a free, simple save-later and notes app:
| https://eyeball.wtf/
|
| you can do all the usual stuff (save any link with one click, tag
| your stuff, add notes to each link). i'm not sure what to do next
| with it, open to suggestions.
|
| i also made a IMDB of the creator economy, a free database of
| indies making cool things: https://indieworld.io/
| alfonmga wrote:
| I just finished shipping a weekend project that I really needed:
|
| yt2brave[0], a MacOS app that automatically opens YouTube links
| in Brave Browser for a better browsing experience on YouTube (no
| ads). It's compatible for Safari, Google Chrome and Edge. It is
| magic.
|
| [0] https://www.yt2brave.com
| ravivooda wrote:
| https://preview--tool-millions-accessed.lovable.app/launchpa...
|
| For the tinkerers of the world: drop your tool, we handle auth,
| payments, usage. You get paid per run.
|
| For the consumers: don't like selling your data just to convert a
| file? You've found your home. No tracking. No ads. No dopamine
| hacks (only regular dosage).
| SpecialistK wrote:
| I bought a cheap doorbell camera. It uses an app called Aiwit
| which I frankly don't trust. So I'm going to spend a few hours
| seeing if I can get a raw feed which I can host on my own server
| and block this thing from any external access. Or I'll just
| return it.
| sameg14 wrote:
| https://preppear.com Magically remove ads from any recipe
| website, save to your collection and automatically generate meal
| plans
| aproductguy wrote:
| I've been working on a platform for car collectors to manage
| their car collections. https://capsured.com
| DeonRob wrote:
| *Sashi: AI-Powered Workflows from Your Own Codebase*
| https://www.usesashi.com/
|
| Sashi is an open-source workflow automation system that lets you
| turn real backend functions into reusable, shareable workflows--
| created with AI, validated by code, and executed from a secure
| dashboard.
|
| *What makes Sashi different?*
|
| - *Real Code, Not Just Integrations:* Register your actual
| backend functions (Node/TypeScript) with a lightweight library.
| Sashi uses Zod for type-safe validation and auto-generates UIs
| based on your return types.
|
| - *AI-Generated Workflows:* Describe what you want in plain
| English--Sashi's AI chat interface builds and validates multi-
| step workflows, connecting your registered functions in powerful
| sequences.
|
| - *No Admin Panels to Build:* Sashi provides a secure, auto-
| generated dashboard for your team to run, manage, and visualize
| workflows. No more custom admin UIs or glue code.
|
| - *Secure by Design:* All execution happens server-side, with
| scoped API tokens and session management. You control your stack
| and infra--no vendor lock-in.
|
| - *For All Teams:* Support, product, DevOps, and engineering can
| automate internal tasks, trigger backend logic, and collaborate--
| without waiting on developer cycles.
|
| *How it works:*
|
| 1. *Register Functions:* Use the Sashi library to expose backend
| functions with type-safe schemas.
|
| 2. *Create Workflows:* Use the chat or flow builder to compose
| workflows--AI helps connect steps and validate data flow.
|
| 3. *Execute & Visualize:* Run workflows from a central dashboard,
| see results in real time, and auto-generate UIs (tables, cards,
| graphs, etc.) based on your data.
|
| *Example Use Cases:*
|
| - Support: "Refund a user" or "Reset password" via dashboard, no
| SQL or custom tools.
|
| - Product: "Send weekly usage report to Slack" or "Find users who
| abandoned signup."
|
| - DevOps: "Spin up preview envs" or "Rotate API keys" as
| repeatable, auditable workflows.
|
| *Try it or learn more:* https://www.usesashi.com/
| motohagiography wrote:
| - work all day at cool job for smart people
|
| - applying ML/AI to some security research with some defence or
| product possibilities
|
| - impementing a test for a quant'ish trading idea that just won't
| leave me alone
|
| - preludio en mi menor by augustin barrios mangore
|
| - piaffe to canter transitions on a horse
|
| - still figuring out what I actually want to do, but mostly who I
| want to make something for
| cddotdotslash wrote:
| Wut.Dev - a "better" AWS console (https://app.wut.dev)
|
| I got tired of using the AWS console (the UI is inconsistent
| across services, resource-heavy, and loaded with things I don't
| need)
|
| I've built a handful of features, mostly to scratch my own itch,
| including:
|
| * Multi-region mode (select 2+ regions and see all your resources
| on the same page)
|
| * Automated diagrams (tree-style resource relationships)
|
| * Easy export to CSV
|
| * Reference matrix of AWS service/region availability
|
| The best way to explain it is with a demo, so I built a demo
| version:
| https://app.wut.dev/?service=acm&type=certificates&demo=true
| bobowzki wrote:
| Rust based software defined radio application
| mindentropy wrote:
| Can you elaborate further on this? What is this application
| about? I am interested in SDRs.
| nickandbro wrote:
| Working on:
|
| https://vimgolf.ai
|
| It's a site where I hope to make learning vim more fun by
| competing with a AI bot (powered by reasoning models) when
| solving challenges. Looking to hopefully complete the project
| very soon.
| Kuyawa wrote:
| Adminix is an administrative app for small businesses featuring
| invoices, purchases, accounts payables, receivables and
| inventory.
|
| You can take a look at https://my.adminix.app/demo
| czottmann wrote:
| I work my contextual macOS Shortcuts launcher a bit back: BarCuts
| (https://actions.work/barcuts).
|
| Now I struggle with a marketing strategy, quite a bit. But hey, I
| was told it's part of the job ;)
| scottishbee wrote:
| Build user-facing prototypes with your real data.
|
| Every startup/company I work for I've had to jury rig ways to get
| new product ideas in front of users. Google sheets, Grafana
| boards, Chartio (RIP), etc all to go "SQL query" -> "user-
| accessible website". For some reason Retool doesn't have a "make
| externally available to these people".
|
| So I'm playing around with how to build a generic interface
| between db and user access panel.
| amterp wrote:
| I'm working on a programming language aiming to replace Bash. It
| specifically targets CLI scripts where Python or Rust are
| overkill, but it contains a bunch of constructs that make it
| particularly well suited for CLI scripts, including arg parsing,
| table formatting, HTTP querying, Bash command invocation, etc.
|
| Keen to hear people's thoughts and feedback! GitHub here:
| https://github.com/amterp/rad
|
| The docs site also contains a guide for getting started,
| including some of the unique features:
| https://amterp.github.io/rad/guide/getting-started/
| bennydog224 wrote:
| We're looking to improve signal and reduce noise for energy
| traders. Currently, power is a niche market that relies heavily
| on day-ahead forecasts to set prices for energy contracts. When
| they're actually exercised, it can be problematic for the buyer
| and/or seller if energy demand is significantly lower or higher
| than anticipated.
|
| We currently are focused on hydroelectric power in the PNW region
| - converting river flow to tradable metrics.
|
| Check us out -> https://askcrystal.info/dashboard
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