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Ask HN: What are you working on?

• cckkoonnee 7y ago
  Freelancing and preparing for vacation!
  • frequentnapper 7y ago
    Me too! I'm freelancing out of Tokyo right now and will be in Vancouver next month.
    • argo_ 7y ago
      What you guys are freelancing on?
      • frequentnapper 7y ago
        My career is based on the microsoft .net/azure stack, and that's what I am doing for my current client. A lot of it is just crud/batch import stuff for collecting/validating data on various models which includes a lot of business logic built around complex relationships in their data structures. On the side, I am working on a sports web app with a friend as I find time using the same stack. Also, lately I have been trying to learn reinforcement learning. What about yourself?
      • cckkoonnee 7y ago
        Mostly in JS world (React & Node), but some RoR here and there.
• chmielewski 7y ago
  Automated deployment systems where solar powered mesh network repeaters with two camera channels each (SBCs) come online and handshake/pair then push auto-configurations, SSH, lighttpd for IP camera images, etc. Then go to secure mode to lock it all down and configure it for operating mode. Edit: think in trees, weatherproofed with solar panels
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Incredibly interesting. How can I get more details on this project?
  • zxcmx 7y ago
    What hardware do you use? I’ve looked into this and found power management really challenging.
    • chmielewski 7y ago
      https://www.solar-electric.com/me-sbc.html https://www.solar-electric.com/me-sbc.html These are nice and I like weatherproofing them rather than buying a pricier marine-grade solution Power HARVESTING and having a downtime/idle hours is key in my experience. I like the Banana Pi Pro because it has onboard wireless and two camera channels built in. People often get third party bolt-ons that further complicate power consumption issues.
      • zxcmx 7y ago
        Hey this is great, thank you!
• guzik 7y ago
  aidlab.com - a wearable assistant to replace your Thermometer, ECG Holter and Alexa!
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Super cool.
• krapp 7y ago
  Adding stuff to Anarki, random wheel-spinning gamedev BS in C and C++, and Godot tutorials.
• eswat 7y ago
  Working on my macOS image viewer app, VoidView. I hadn’t been serious about polishing it but now I’m adding some simple quality of life improvements, especially for making artists that use apps like Bridge or PureRef for displaying references happier. https://github.com/ESWAT/voidview https://github.com/ESWAT/voidview
• devtanna 7y ago
  Trying out a hardware side project this time. Figuring out a way to track your surf board or kite board once it's lost at sea during a session. It's a pretty interesting challenge.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I've got a number of things I would like to work on that are more into the realm of hardware. One thing I'm really wanting to work on is a way for me to manage and interact with my cars ECU through a web interface. Would be useful for a number of things, such as keeping a better maintenance schedule, useful statistics, maybe even tuning...Seems pretty fun. As far as tracking goes, I can't think of a need for it with my idea, but I know it's used a lot commercially already.
    • icebraining 7y ago
      For cars is pretty easy, you just plug into the OBD port. There are quite a few Bluetooth, Wifi and even 4G dongles out there.
• anthony_doan 7y ago
  Thesis. It's a proposed classifier algorithm that is suppose to be better than Random Forest and XGBoost for classifying high dimensional data. The data sets are cancer data (prostate and myeloma). Unfortunately it's not going to be publish because I'd like to graduate sooner and that the software does not meet certain criteria for the journal we were aiming for. The proposed algorithm uses two technique: 1. My forest consist of GUIDE decision trees by Dr. Loh. It is better than CART and M4.5 and such because it does not have the selection bias problem. CART and M4.5 are bias to selecting categorical predictor for node splitting. They're also bias on variables that enable more splitting so decision trees usually contain more levels. GUIDE is also aim at finding interactions candidate to split if it is statistically significant. 2. CERP by Dr. Moon. It makes the trees within the forest less correlated among each other. Much more so than Random Forest. Accuracy takes a hit as your correlation gets higher (obviously zero is the best). It also enabled ensemble of ensembles (ensemble of forests). Of course some of you may state that you can do ensemble of random forests but it is naive and won't help you. I should be defending in this month or next month.
  • splittingTimes 7y ago
    Is there a public link to your thesis? Can your approach be used to do feature segmentation of 3D (triangle mesh) data?
    • anthony_doan 7y ago
      > Is there a public link to your thesis? Not until my advisor okay my paper. He wants to see it first. > Can your approach be used to do feature segmentation of 3D (triangle mesh) data? Sorry, I have no clue what this mean so I don't think this is my area of expertise nor can I answer this properly. I'm an master student for applied statistic, this seems to be a computer science machine learning question? I can point toward papers regarding either GUIDE or CERP if you like.
      • dewy 7y ago
        I'd love to read those papers if you wouldn't mind recommending them.
• thrifter 7y ago
  Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about
  • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
    Cool, it takes time. I picked up the electric guitar, again, I am aiming to be a decent guitarist in ten years. I currently play bass in a hobby metall band which is fun.
    • person_of_color 7y ago
      How did you stop your fingers hurting?
      • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
        Practise. Short sessions often. Better 15 minutes every day than 2 hours on the weekend.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I bought a guitar the day I found Justin Johnson on youtube playing some killer blues on a 3 string shovel-guitar.
• superasn 7y ago
  https://www.snapnews.win https://www.snapnews.win - a new way to binge on latest Hacker news stories. This was my weekend project but I'm still working on it in my spare time. The concept is simple: All news stories have a ticking timer. After it expires the news story is gone forever. There is also a clear now button at the bottom that destroys all the stories on the screen if you want to binge even faster. Once the story goes away, it's gone forever. You will never see it again! So it's like the HN homepage that never shows you the same story twice. Made with Vuejs and hosted on Aws lambda (serverless) There aren't many options because I just uploaded the first version and everything is still pretty rough. It's just a concept site I made for my own amusement :)
• fakefoobar 7y ago
  Practicing on leetcode for AC solution to work on FANG
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    This is my first time seeing FANG used, anywhere.
• buboard 7y ago
  I just posted about it. a community/social network for remote workers. I 'm looking to add a chat feature next. https://reworkin.com https://reworkin.com
• glacials 7y ago
  I left my silicon valley job and am building a speedrunning analytics startup out of a side project I started 6 years ago. https://splits.io https://splits.io
  • mtlynch 7y ago
    This is really cool! I quit my big tech job a year ago, too, so I can definitely relate to the joy of focusing on software centered around something you're passionate about.
• siddboots 7y ago
  I'm teaching myself graduate mathematical analysis using Rudin and whatever I can find online. It's a really beautiful subject, and I'm finding myself look forward to the little time I have in the day for it.
  • xelxebar 7y ago
    Nooooice! I went to grad school in math, and remember how much Rudin changed my life. Keep it up!
• mamcx 7y ago
  My side project is create a relational language (not a RDBMS!): http://tablam.org http://tablam.org I wish to resurrect the "spirit" of the fox/dbase family where operate on data was much more natural. This lang also mix some ideas of array langs like kdb+. If my bet is correct, this will erase the need of ORMs yet make it work as easy. Is build on rust, a lang I also learning along the way (making it even MORE slow to progress!!!) but I start to get the gist of it.
  • nudpiedo 7y ago
    sounds interesting. Considering posting updates when you design or evaluate concepts or ideas about the internals, designs, and philosophy behind its abstractions (I guess there is more than tables related to tables and some syntactic sugar on top)
• decentralizer 7y ago
  Just writing code for open-source projects.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Got any screenshots or a demo?
• WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
  I'm currently attempting to bootstrap taxammend.com (a service to send your 1040X IRS tax form easily) and gearing up for amiaccessible.com (a service to run automated accessibility checks against your website, enabling good-faith efforts are improving internet accessibility). I am also currently working on my Master's in Cybersecurity and Info Assurance.
• fallingfrog 7y ago
  Adding hdr rendering to my fluid simulation flames https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLz3yAqqyI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLz3yAqqyI And my volumetric lightning effect too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUve22wlvg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUve22wlvg (Both on the unity asset store as “physics based flames” and “physics based lightning”)
• ltr_ 7y ago
  working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.
  • imafish 7y ago
    Sorry to hear that but good that you are working on it. Life will look better to you in the future if you keep at it. Psychotherapy worked for me in the long run (1+ years) - suffered from severe depression for more than two years.
  • gjm11 7y ago
    If you learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and C++ then your productivity was not zero.
    • rorykoehler 7y ago
      That's what I thought too. I yearn for more time to learn
  • peteforde 7y ago
    Hang in there. You're definitely not alone, and it does get better. I'm happy to listen if you ever need someone to talk to who has been there, and in important ways is still there. As others have said, don't be so hard on yourself: that you're teaching yourself useful stuff is the opposite of zero productivity. In fact, you're probably learning faster than if you were doing it while employed. My best suggestion is that your local library will likely allow you to download an app such as Libby that will allow you to listen to audiobooks for free. During my downtime, nothing has brought me more respite from my depression than listening to - no joke - about 200 books. I alternate between sci-fi and non-fiction. I never would have imagined myself a listener, but I was very wrong.
  • yopo 7y ago
    I was just like you. This free self guided video series changed my life. Please, please, PLEASE take a look and give it a chance. https://www.coursera.org/learn/happiness https://www.coursera.org/learn/happiness
• blensor 7y ago
  I am working with the people at cleverpet and the small hackerpet community on making this pet training device acessible for DIY additions and new ways to train your dog/cat http://hackerpet.com http://hackerpet.com http://clever.pet http://clever.pet
• acpm 7y ago
  Grid engine - https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/ https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/ I'm working on Grid engine 9, which should release some big improvements to out-of-the-box multiplayer support. It's the only source code-based Lua game engine that I know of with first-class multiplayer support that has a dogfood project. Everything else out there is roll-your-own w/ LuaSockets. I've been writing it for the last few years due to not being able to find a solution that fit my needs.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I used to use Lua all the time. It's the language I learned after QBASIC and what I spent most of my teenage years writing. I'm definitely going to stay up to date on Grid. This looks neat!
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    And for the record, LÖVE rocks.
• datdatdat 7y ago
  After 10 years of development, My AI is "commercial ready";offering Alternative data for hedge funds.
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• yitchelle 7y ago
  https://mailchi.mp/8e0622427dd5/prjmgrwkly https://mailchi.mp/8e0622427dd5/prjmgrwkly - Newsletters around Project Management topics. I feel most of the newsletters that aggregate stories and articles have too links. The reader gets overwhelm with what to read and what to skip. I am taking a different strategy and aggregating only four links per week. The reader could quickly scan the four links. If any of them is interesting, click and read. Otherwise, hit the delete and move on for the day. I don't want to reader to be captive if he finds the links do no add value for them. Their time is to valuable and I respect that. Also I am using this side project as motivation to consume the various articles for my day job.
• mtlynch 7y ago
  What Got Done, a minimalist tool for teammates to share weekly status updates with each other. https://whatgotdone.com/ https://whatgotdone.com/ I'm a solo developer and find it gratifying to set aside a half hour at the end of each week to write down what I did. Otherwise all the work just becomes a blur. I wrote a longer blog post about the motivation behind it here: https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/ https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I have had a pretty incredible urge lately to work on some similar software. I'd love an app, for example, like Committed (linked below) that had SIMPLE live-collaboration functionality. Figured I would demo that pretty soon, make a site, and see if it could gain some traction. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. (forgot to add the link!) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-todo-and/mffcogdacgpjnckjepacaicfliaocneb?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-t...
    • mtlynch 7y ago
      Thanks for checking it out! >like Committed (linked below) I can't find the link you're referring to. Did you mean to add a link to the bottom of your post?
      • jessehorne 7y ago
        Sorry about that! I fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.
  • splittingTimes 7y ago
    I have a "lab book", but I stopped writing into it. It mostly contains information i gathered about a particular section of the code base or how a solution might work or what I learned about our business domain. But over time the constant context switching of topics I had to work on made me stop it. I would like to revive it. However, i want the information in there (the lessons learned this week) to be less project/issue specific, but more transcending and transferable to new problems/environments. Do you have a set of questions you pose yourself whose answers guide the write-up and make it a worthwhile knowledge vault? === Not sure if I expressed myself in a coherent way.
• bobowzki 7y ago
  A software defined radio app optimized for raspberry pi 4.
  • walkingolof 7y ago
    What language do you use ?
    • bobowzki 7y ago
      C++ on the Pi side. VHDL on the FPGA.
• neckardt 7y ago
  Nothing too crazy, just got done setting up OpenWRT this week, but am having a few issues getting ipv6 working properly. Also setting up a mediawiki server for the family, mainly so I can get all of my mom's great recipies and share them with the rest of the family :)
  • kingo55 7y ago
    Perhaps this isn't what you're looking for to share with family, but there's an open source project I help with a little, called grocy. It allows you to define recipes and track the stock you have in your fridge/pantry so you know what recipes you can cook at any point in time.
• atlasunshrugged 7y ago
  I'm spending the summer researching the implications of raising taxes on tobacco in low and middle income countries (basically to see how big of an opportunity it is for saving lives/earning additional govt revenue that can be funneled to useful areas)
• noir_lord 7y ago
  Continuing my deep dive into TypeScript and particularly its type expressions. I keep running head first into terms I’ve only loosely heard before and having to wander off to find out what they mean before coming back, it’s been absolutely fascinating though.
• JeremyReimer 7y ago
  I'm working on a 2.0 release for newLISP on Rockets: http://newlisponrockets.com http://newlisponrockets.com It's a rapid development web framework written in newLISP, with inspiration (and many many ideas) taken from Dragonfly. I had stopped working on it for a few years while I worked on other projects, but I wanted to make a new and updated personal website, so I've updated the framework to also include a basic blog with comments and a discussion forum, and some simple customization options for administrators. Eating my own dogfood (as it were) has been an interesting and fun experience. I now have three sites running on the latest version of Rockets 2.0. I really missed working with LISP and it's a lot of fun to get back to it!
• rozenmd 7y ago
  I'm building a service to effectively "integration test" GraphQL services each time a deployment occurs (via Webhook). https://onlineornot.com https://onlineornot.com At the moment it tests GraphQL queries at given intervals, but I've been struggling to find people (other than me) who need the service.
  • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
    We may be interested in that. thomas@johannas.org
• bjelkeman-again 7y ago
  Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae, closing the circle. Sweden has recently adopted a food strategy which puts a lot of emphasis on local, circular food production, and there is a lot of interesting stuff happinging right now.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Incredibly interesting. How can we get more information on this?
    • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
      I am planning on doing a proper write up in English as we progress. Part of the deal with the government is that we are openly publishing our work and software. It will be published here (currently Swedish only): http://cirkularodling.se http://cirkularodling.se
      • jessehorne 7y ago
        Can't wait! What got you into this sort of work?
        • bjelkeman-again 7y ago
          The realisation that we all have to chip in to bring positive change to the world, and I had skills that could make a difference. I used to sell software to companies, like web traffic analysis etc. before Google Analytics. Then I took a break and (nearly) got a degree in environmental science. That lead to starting https://Akvo.org https://Akvo.org but before that I had spent quite a lot of time trying to build the business case for Seawater Greenhouse [1]. Recently we saw an opportunity to work on sustainable local food production, which is the aquaponics and associated work. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658321
• kaishiro 7y ago
  I've been building out a product with two other developers for over a year now - and we're finally just a couple of weeks from launching. It's a drop in e-commerce system that allows people to start selling products on an existing site very quickly (a similar space as Snipcart). Now just building out the marketing and wondering if anyone will want to use it.
  • lacampbell 7y ago
    I'm curious, this space is one that interests me and I'd like to see a new spin on it. Do you have a mailing list?
  • peteforde 7y ago
    That sounds interesting. How would you compare it to something like ShopLocket? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtsDPgOkQ-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtsDPgOkQ-0
    • kaishiro 7y ago
      Good question. The biggest difference is that we're not relying on specific embeds, particularly iframes, to display products. We've tried to go a step above generating one off "Buy now" buttons, and instead you get a fully baked e-commerce system - a shopping cart, user account system, configurable taxes, live shipping quotes, etc.
      • peteforde 7y ago
        I'm excited to see how this gets manifested - it's a tall order. Best of luck with your launch!
• mrieck 7y ago
  Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcmapfbngbodpppofgagiclicf?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma... The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance correctly, so I'm waiting until I fix those things before promoting it. Actually this comment is the first time I've told anyone about it.
  • peteforde 7y ago
    I've wanted this badly enough to have it on my list of potential things to build in a medium-term future. Please do this. Is there a waitlist? If not, please make it so. :)
  • acutesoftware 7y ago
    What made you decide to go with a desktop version of your software?
    • mrieck 7y ago
      I'm hoping to make SnipCSS part of my workflow so a desktop version means I could have it more closely tied to an IDE. For example I could import code snippets, manage extracted Fonts/Images, or even analyze the existing project so it doesn't duplicate existing css rules. Eventually it would be cool to automatically create React/Vue templates but that's getting ahead of myself. For now I'd be happy if it just extracts the correct styles 99% of the time. Currently it's 80% there, but the last 20% is always the hardest.
  • vinitagr 7y ago
    This looks like a really useful tool. I would use it. How are you planning to market it?
    • mrieck 7y ago
• Kloppie5 7y ago
  Writing a process analyzer to find multilevel pointers to game data in order to show additional information on an overlay.
• codefined 7y ago
  A simple file uploader - https://femto.pw/ https://femto.pw/ We're upto 460TB of data being transferred, :)
  • the_pwner224 7y ago
    How do you make / not lose money?
    • codefined 7y ago
      We don't make any money, but all the hardware is just making use of unspent resources. E.g. The storage is a GlusterFS cluster across all of my machines, encrypted and replicated three times in case anything goes wrong. The cpu usage and memory usage is negligible and bandwidth is free from my provider. Until it gets to about 32TB of used storage it won't cost me anything, and at the current rate of growth that is going to take decades.
• victorbojica 7y ago
  Working on a enterprise training planning solution and we are celebrating our first two customers. Yay!! https://niftylearning.io https://niftylearning.io
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Congrats!
  • asdfzalsd 7y ago
    How did you get those enterprise customers if you don't mind me asking? :)
• lanrh1836 7y ago
  Leetcode tears
• joshvm 7y ago
  I'm currently participating in Frontier Development Lab Europe ( https://fdleurope.org/ https://fdleurope.org/), an 8 week research accelerator with the European Space Agency, Oxford University and a number of tech organisations. The idea is to bring together space scientists (domain experts) and machine learning researchers to try and make a meaningful contribution to the field in a very short period of time. It's a lot of fun, and a really interesting mix of people taking part. We've just finished week two, which means we're narrowing down our ideas and are about to start the "real work". We're split into teams working on different challenge areas (you can read more on the site). While I can't say much about what we're doing specifically, the outputs from the teams are usually published after the event at conferences/in journals. There is an analogous program in the USA (NASA FDL) which is running in parallel. (and who knows, I'm pretty sure there are some other FDL'rs who read HN ;))
  • nl 7y ago
    This is really interesting. A bunch of people I know are involved in the Australian space industry and a separate bunch are involved in machine learning research. Here in Adelaide we have the new Space Agency and the SmartSat CRC and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the new Australian MIT Lab and the new startup hub in the same compound (a former hospital) so I'm really hoping we see similar programs.
• mcthrowaway123z 7y ago
  Well I've been working on a general-purpose way to see one week into the future for the past 3 years, but everyone thinks I'm joking.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I don't think you're joking. I'd be super happy if you gave us more information.
• yamalight 7y ago
  New version of Exoframe - https://github.com/exoframejs/exoframe https://github.com/exoframejs/exoframe It's a self-hosted one command deployment tool that makes running CD to your own VPS quite trivial. Current version allows to deploy any dockerized apps quite easily, but I really wanted to have a simple way to deploy Node.js functions (be it HTTP, background process, or trigger/reaction). So Exoframe v5 includes is exactly that (and nearly ready!). Create index.js, run `exoframe init -f` and then `exoframe` is all it'll take to deploy a function once I'm done. I'm quite happy with the result :)
• iNate2000 7y ago
  A puzzle game about binary encoding. https://youtu.be/pUkgeqV80m8 https://youtu.be/pUkgeqV80m8
  • iNate2000 7y ago
    Updated gameplay video: https://youtu.be/JD-QZZwSPqE https://youtu.be/JD-QZZwSPqE
• maxencecornet 7y ago
  I'm working on the v2 of the UX/UI for my side-project https://batgrowth.com https://batgrowth.com Basically, the site is just a listing of content creators that accept tips in the form of Basic Attention Token sent through the Brave browser I'm pretty happy with the project and the site is getting some decent traffic (https://simpleanalytics.com/batgrowth.com https://simpleanalytics.com/batgrowth.com), but I think the current UI/UX is not good enough
  • iNate2000 7y ago
    Looks good!
    • maxencecornet 7y ago
      Thank you! This is the draft for the next version (The texts are placeholders, it's just a UI/UX draft) : https://twitter.com/MaxenceCornet/status/1144929703058399232 https://twitter.com/MaxenceCornet/status/1144929703058399232 EDIT: Direct links to the draft: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-OberFXYAA3dMR.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-OberFXYAA3dMR.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ObfgRWwAA9m0O.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ObfgRWwAA9m0O.jpg
• matkoniecz 7y ago
  Easy to use way for improving OpenStreetMap. It is an Android application called StreetComplete. Minimal user requirements are following: Person who can - read and write - use smartphone - use maps Obviously, there are still many things to improve.
• CarrotCodes 7y ago
  I'm working on a charitable project around animal adoption in the UK: https://www.adoptanimals.io/ https://www.adoptanimals.io/ Other aggregators exist, but often have commercial ties, paid listings, and such. We're building something to give shelters a really nice website, and native apps, to list their animals, as a free public service :)
• jessehorne 7y ago
  I've been working on the site for Overpowered Mats, day in and day out. It's been a challenge but I'm very happy that I was able to work on such a cool idea. The "Custom Mat Designer" for it is going to be soooo cool. We're super close! There will be room for improvement when the project is launched, for sure, so hang tight! Feel free to check it out and let me know if there's any improvement that could be made or bugs to fix! You can pre-order now, by the way. https://overpoweredmats.com/ https://overpoweredmats.com/
• notamy 7y ago
  Maintaining some marginally-novel open-source projects, and looking for a new side-project idea. I burned out and ended up shutting down my previous side-project the other day; just taking a break before starting up a new one.
• quelsolaar 7y ago
  Working on a fully automated UV unwrapper for 3D meshes. Its basically the process of flattening a 3D object down to a square. used mainly for texturing. http://www.ministryofflat.com http://www.ministryofflat.com
  • icebraining 7y ago
    Pretty cool, and great video, very clear and understandable.
  • peteforde 7y ago
    This looks really cool, but I don't understand when this process is required in an artistic pipeline. Do people who work in Maya/ZBrush have to export a texture map in order to paint in tools like Substance? Surely it's easier to work directly on a 3D object that can be rotated in space than an unwrapped map of cutout segments. Otherwise, how could you ever line anything up? Don't get me wrong: I understand that the ultimate output of a 3D mesh reshaping and painting process is an obj + jpg + mapping file, as I've worked extensively with systems that output files like this: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pete-swagger-walk-a55d807de14a4ba7bdb9977600e7c412 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pete-swagger-walk-a55d807de1... We did all of the image packing ourselves, but every tool I've used will output a map based on its own algorithm. So, given that my process is admittedly very different than a character artist, where does the UV unwrapping stage come in for most artists? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
    • quelsolaar 7y ago
      Polygons are 3D and textures are stored in images (2D). So you need to have each polygon in 3D space correspond to a polygon in 2D image space. One way to think of this is to take a 3D model and unwrapping it on to a 2D sheet. Very much like you would do if you would design paper-craft. A 3D artist usually starts by doing the 3D shape, then they create the UV unwrap, and then finally they paint the 3D model in a 3D paint program. Yes its sort of a invisible part of 3D graphics, but its very tedious, and therefor costly and doesn't contribute anything to the artistic to the asset. A big part of automating the process, is also using it ins situations where no artist is even involved in the process, like when you do 3D scanning, and want to produce good 3D models with textures.
• tluyben2 7y ago
  Working on a new version of hardware, firmware and app[0] for new payment features for AU client. Together with a local friend; garden & home automation/security with Pi’s and Arduino’s. [0] https://scramcard.com/ https://scramcard.com/
• logicalshift 7y ago
  Been working on a piece of 2D animation/vector editing software called FlowBetween for a while now: https://flowbetween.app https://flowbetween.app Seemed like a good way to combine my interest in building software with my other interest in creating art. I've been spinning off the various components needed to build it as separate rust crates: interesting ones are flo_curves, desync and flo_binding.
  • chris_st 7y ago
    Cool! It'd be great to have some videos of what it looks like... yeah, I can download it, but it'd be nice to see first.
• phyalow 7y ago
  Writing my dissertation over summer on Asian Equity Risk Arbitrage. Nice long summer days in Cambridge spent in front of a Computer ;)
• tyleo 7y ago
  I’m working on Devev, a visual programming language which integrates with TypeScript and JavaScript: https://m.imgur.com/a/zLS1g0t https://m.imgur.com/a/zLS1g0t I’ve been working on this on the side for awhile and hope to launch an MVP by the end of the month. I transitioned to full time on the product 2 months ago and I’ hoping to make money by providing domain specific visual programming products. I’m currently thinking about a visual build system for example.
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• chris_st 7y ago
  On exercism.io, learning rust and mentoring people learning JavaScript. Both sides are a lot of fun! Please join in if you can on mentoring... there's a pretty big back-log.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    That's awesome! Is there any open source parts of the project we could contribute to, as well?
    • chris_st 7y ago
      Thanks! Their contribute[1] page has a list of things, including opening issues on their github[2] page. [1] https://exercism.io/contribute https://exercism.io/contribute [2] https://github.com/exercism/exercism https://github.com/exercism/exercism
• ScottFree 7y ago
  I'm learning C and x86 ASM from scratch all over again. I want to get away from the dumpster fire that web development has become and do something meaningful with my life. Now, if I can only figure out what that is. Embedded development for medical devices, maybe?
  • lacampbell 7y ago
    I feel like getting into embedded programming would be trading one dumpster fire for another. I try and limit my exposure to too much web dev crazy ness, usually by avoiding any 'framework' that requires its own command line tool.
    • tluyben2 7y ago
      Personally I find embedded (actual embedded as in having 20-100kb to work with, not 4gb Pi’s) far less dumpster fire than web dev; it is constrained and there are only so many options once you studied the specsheets and assembled your circuit. It is often like codegolf but for a lot of money and you cannot have bugs because you cannot (easily) send updates. At least I like that kind of thing. I hope to find time and tech to advance for me to help the dumpster fire: if you see projects like GuiLite it definitely is possible to make things efficient and solid. So that is me hoping for enough advances in webassembly. For now, embedded I find a lot more fun.
      • opticfluorine 7y ago
        Embedded development is fascinating. I work in embedded professionally and what I've always enjoyed about it is working closely with the hardware engineers (this for a project where the hardware is designed and built in-house). It's a different perspective and I've learned a lot from working with them.
  • nihil75 7y ago
    Maybe link to WebAssembly?
• lacampbell 7y ago
  A declarative, minimalist testing library for javascript. There's one method, 'run', that takes a simple data structure that is the test suite. No need for special setup, teardown etc methods when you have objects and closures already. It can automatically run on the browser after webpack is done rebuilding, so it's good for running tests on phones. I'm refactoring it now so it works on the console for server side stuff as well. I think I will release, but I will keep using it myself regardless of if anyone else cares because it works so well for me.
  • MH15 7y ago
    I'm interested in using this.
• c-smile 7y ago
  I am working "sharing note books" in Sciter.Notes. This feature will allow 1. to share notes using cloud of your choice 2. and so to access notes on mobiles and in browser. More on this: https://notes.sciter.com/2019/06/28/note-sharing-is-coming/ https://notes.sciter.com/2019/06/28/note-sharing-is-coming/
• ronnier 7y ago
  I’m working on Snapchat.
  • jeanlucas 7y ago
    Nice :D
• bdibs 7y ago
  Thanks for asking! I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect. It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out/give me feedback: https://www.podalong.com/ https://www.podalong.com/
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Hey that's looking pretty spiffy!
  • sinsterizme 7y ago
    Great name!
  • raghavtoshniwal 7y ago
    Hey, looks pretty good. I made https://www.podwhat.com https://www.podwhat.com , it allows you to make podcast lists of the shows you like. Are you using the iTunes API for search?
• opticfluorine 7y ago
  In my free time I've been working on a 2D MMORPG engine in C#. I'm working on the networking code right now, working toward being able to connect and move around the game world. I'm enjoying the network code, but I'm really looking forward to getting back to shader code and implementing dynamic lighting at some point down the road. Wanting to build an MMORPG was the main thing that got me interested in software development over a decade ago, so it's been nice to be able to work on this hobby project again.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Building a MMO was my dream for a long time and it's what kept me learning for several years. I haven't accomplished the goal but I will, one day.
    • opticfluorine 7y ago
      I've been telling myself that I'll finish one day too, and now on my eighth attempt, I think I can pull it off. Learning to manage long-term projects has definitely helped me with that.
  • pvinis 7y ago
    That must be so fulfilling and a huge thing to be proud of. Good luck :)
    • opticfluorine 7y ago
      Thanks! It's very fulfilling. Part of me always feels like I should be working on something else that I could eventually monetize. But this has been my passion project for a long time, and I've learned so much - both now and back when I was just starting out - that I think it's worth it personally.
  • bladedtoys 7y ago
    This sounds like great fun, especially having a nice front end. I built something similar on google app engine way back when it was new and cheap. It was browser based so more text than cool graphics. And I didn't get to play with shaders. It may sound dry but I was thrilled with the challenges of coding for NoSQL BigTable and its promises of cheap scalability. It was a fun project.
• nadermx 7y ago
  https://pdf.to https://pdf.to
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    How's that working for you? Are you profiting from it yet?
• refset 7y ago
  Since stepping into a new role in the world of full-time Clojure earlier this year I have been almost entirely focussed on launching an ambitious new open source graph database that uses Kafka as the "unbundled" transaction log and provides bitemporal Datalog queries: https://github.com/juxt/crux https://github.com/juxt/crux Before I made this move, tinkering with Clojure and thinking about databases was just a hobby. I wasn't around when Crux was initially designed and built, but my primary job so far as the product manager for Crux has been to figure out how we make the most of all the ingenuity and effort that's already gone into it. I also wear many additional hats at the moment: leading the development team, managing community interactions, speaking at events/conferences, creating the marketing, and working on sales & strategic partnerships. This all keeps me incredibly busy but it is fun and it feels like the right thing for me to be working on and thinking about at this point in my life. I think of it like the perfect side-project that I am very fortunate to be able to work on all day long (and surrounded by excellent & talented people!).
• lettergram 7y ago
  Building the enterprise version of: https://hnprofile.com/ https://hnprofile.com/ The goal is to help employees try to find an expert (or content) in a company when you need to solve something. For HR we provide insights about employees (satisfaction, influence levels, etc) in an attempt to reduce turnover (#1 cost to businesses).
• caseysoftware 7y ago
  I've built a thing called the Tech Events Network: https://techeventsnetwork.com/cities/ https://techeventsnetwork.com/cities/ which aggregates and publishes tech events - meetups, conferences, workshops, hackathons, etc - across 50+ cities in the US. After being an evangelist at Twilio and running a number of my own meetups, I realized that that the biggest problem most groups had was getting the word out. This pulls data from Meetup, Eventbrite, and other places, uses some light ML to choose hashtags, company names, etc, and then tweets the day before and about a week before a given event. There's also a weekly pre-cap email that goes out. If you're running a tech event in a major city in the US, we help you get the word out. If you're near a major city in the US - or even just visiting - you can find out what's going on. * We explicitly exclude job fairs, etc to make it SFW.
• PedroCandeias 7y ago
  As a solution architect visiting clients in Europe and North America, I struggled to capture names and roles of people in meetings and workshops. That led to lots of awkwardness and missed opportunities. All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case. So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshops to introduce themselves, using their phones, on the spot and in a way that persists: https://quickintro.app https://quickintro.app I thought I’d be laughed out of the room first time I asked a room full of people to “check in” by scanning a qr code and filling out a form, but no. It worked. So now I’m releasing it for others who might need it.
  • keyncoffee 7y ago
    This is very cool. As a sales person, the ability to set an upfront agenda and make things interactive for prospects (within a first meeting especially) is important. I have ways of doing this today but I'm always open to testing new strategies and technologies. I'm in the process of creating a few meetings in QuickIntro and keep hitting the error of "[object Object]" when trying to save or "Create meeting." Any guidance on a fix?
    • PedroCandeias 7y ago
      Thanks for checking it out and sorry about that bug! Do you mind shooting me a quick email at pedro@quickintro.app so I can troubleshoot it with you?
      • keyncoffee 7y ago
        Awesome, I just shot you an email now. Thank you for the help.
  • bozleh 7y ago
    Nice idea! Just tested it - so the guests have to auth with Google or Linkedin, correct?
• Ingon 7y ago
  Since most of my side projects don’t end up seeing light, so somebody could do it before me: A photo app that lets me view (and make galleries to share) of my photos uploaded to s3, that is self/locally hosted.
  • halfjoking 7y ago
    If you didn't mind Wordpress you might be able to find a plugin that pulls all objects from an S3 bucket and then allows you to make posts from that data in your media library. Not sure if that exists, but it sounds like someone should have made that.
• tmamic 7y ago
  https://denther.com https://denther.com Using game theory to extract the correct dental diagnosis from multiple dentists.
• nsainsbury 7y ago
  I'm working on a new chapter for my course Mastery with SQL (https://www.masterywithsql.com https://www.masterywithsql.com) covering query performance and indexing with PostgreSQL. I want to really allow everyone to see first-hand the impact of re-writing queries to be more performant and adding the right indexes so I've been spending a lot of time to create great exercises where you get to optimise poorly performing queries over some very large and interesting data sets. I launched the course on HN a bit over a week ago and had a really great response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260292) so has been great motivation to continue working hard! Really enjoying myself at the moment.
  • aldoushuxley001 7y ago
    Sounds awesome, good work!
• soneca 7y ago
  A 1:1 meeting software: https://www.oneononemeeting.com https://www.oneononemeeting.com It was a for-profit side-project, but since I moved to another country (following my wife's Masters) it became full-time. If you lead a team and have 1:1s, take a look :)
  • ticmasta 7y ago
    I'm in your target market and will take a look. What I really need is covered partially by 1:1's but I need some sort of CRM for my direct reports. I want dossiers that include the action plans out of our meetings plus more general stuff like work anniversaries, other dates and information all tied into a calendar with ideally alerts that give me a heads-up. Right now I use PerformYard, Outlook, random documents and part of an in-house app. Yuck. let me know if you have any questions.
    • soneca 7y ago
      I would love to exchange ideas in order to build the roadmap based on what you need because that's exactly the path I want to go with my product. My idea is to create a tool that the manager uses, but also the team members use - and is actually more useful and actionable for the team members, helping them achieve their professional goals. Currently, you can create "Long Term Goals" and "Short Term Commitments" for your team members. And they have their own account to check and edit their own Goals and Commitments. What I am working on now is to create some sort of "Steps" to achieve a Goal and frequent "Status Updates" on how is it going. With it, email notifications - sent to the Team Members - so they report their status updates. Future integration with Slack for those notifications is in the plan too. EDIT: You (or anyone reading this) can contact me through the email on my profile "Important dates" added to your calendar of choice would be neat.
• Qworg 7y ago
  Running a fintech startup - real time, 24/7 B2B settlement, and we're never in the money. I only wish I had time for side projects! https://www.transparentsystems.com/ https://www.transparentsystems.com/
• timothycrosley 7y ago
  https://github.com/hugapi/HOPE/ https://github.com/hugapi/HOPE/ Working on hug 3.0
• kingo55 7y ago
  I'm building a lightweight framework for A/B testing on sites. It's like Optimizely except it weighs just 5kb, is self hosted and allows you to build and launch split tests from inside your IDE or via CD.
  • rolfvandekrol 7y ago
    That sounds fun. Do you have your work in progress already published somewhere?
    • kingo55 7y ago
      We are looking to open source in a month or two's time. I'll most definitely submit it to Hackernews at some point. But for now, I want to refine it so it's easy for others to pick up and use.
  • vinitagr 7y ago
    How do you build that. I mean, what goes into building an A/B Testing system. Does it involve a bunch of statistics and maths?
    • kingo55 7y ago
      It's surprisingly simple. Split testing tools are really just feature toggles with RNG and a little tracking. The stats and maths are mostly on the reporting side. We just rely on a bunch of Chi-squared hypothesis tests - that's about the hardest part to an A/B testing system.
• vinitagr 7y ago
  Working on my company TARS. We have built a non-AI non-NLP Chatbot Builder product for last 3.5 Years. https://hellotars.com/ https://hellotars.com/ I also wish I had time for some Side Projects.
• acutesoftware 7y ago
  I am working on moving the interface of my notes app to Javascript (so it can be a PWA). To do this, I need to learn Javascript, so I am learning javascript by writing little games. I present to you, the worst game in the entire world - https://www.lifepim.com/apps/LifeSIM/battle https://www.lifepim.com/apps/LifeSIM/battle
  • vinitagr 7y ago
    This is really cool. Not bad for your first game :)
    • acutesoftware 7y ago
      Thank you! The mechanics sort of work ok, but it needs graphics and animation now. It is definitely good Javascript practice - I look at the early code when starting it, and think Ugh
• cedricium 7y ago
  Working on (and have been for far too long) a side project I call "unearth". It is a web app that lets users easily navigate and rediscover their Reddit saved things. There are a couple other projects that scrape the surface of saved things management (Reddit Manager and Savvit to name a couple), but being a developer I wanted to make my own version that was a bit more elegant, both in terms of engineering and UI/UX.
• neilvictorgrey 7y ago
  Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half. It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges". Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can. Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I've had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here's the link if that's something that floats your boat: https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/ https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/
  • dorchadas 7y ago
    Come join us on Reddit r/languagelearning and on 'A Language Learners' Forum' [1] [1]https://forum.language-learners.org https://forum.language-learners.org
    • neilvictorgrey 7y ago
      I spend a solid chunk of time on r/languagelearning haha :p... it's that curse of spending as much time talking about language learning as doing the actual studying :|. can find me under u/ninjarobotdino Thanks for the reminder re: language learners forum ... I was on there a year or two ago. I'll make sure to check it out again and try to stay active! :D The polyglot community is such a cool group of eclectic people.
  • person_of_color 7y ago
    4 hours a day? How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?
    • neilvictorgrey 7y ago
      I get up early and go to bed early. I have no energy after work, so I study in the morning from 4a-8a'ish. It took a little life-hacking to get used to, but I feel a lot more accomplished each day, before I even get into the nitty-gritty meetings and pushing code.
• dmcswain 7y ago
  I'm working on Photo Recall an Amazon Alexa skill and Google Assistant app that let's you play photo slideshows by voice: https://bit.ly/photo-recall https://bit.ly/photo-recall I've also been working on Custom Voice Commands an Android app and web app that let's you load web content like YouTube video playlists, Google Drive or OneDrive documents, manage lists and reminders by voice plus ask Alexa questions: https://bit.ly/custom-voice-commands https://bit.ly/custom-voice-commands
• x1ph0z 7y ago
  Building a budgeting app for Android. Pretty basic in terms of functionality, but I'd like to at least bring a project to completion before moving on to something more complicated. Been at it for 6+ months, and the end isn't in sight yet...
• um304 7y ago
  Reading these books: - The Effective Engineer - Crime & Punishment
• samcrawford 7y ago
  As a side project, I'm working on a route planning app for running. I'm a long distance runner and travel for work a lot, so I frequently find myself planning a run on one of the many existing apps at 5am in a new city whilst jetlagged. My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say "give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possible, with few road crossing and is as safe as possible". Maybe I can even pick from the top 3 options. Existing apps can't do any of this. This data is readily available (or can be derived) for many countries using the wonderful openstreetmap and other public sources (e.g. national hiking trail routes). I've adapted the brilliant Graphhopper routing engine to handle the routing algorithm and alternative routes selection. PostGIS (with OSM + other data loaded) is used under the hood to generate weights for each of the "ways" (edges in OSM-speak) for each of my variables (e.g. greenery). I'm using Leaflet and leaflet-routing-engine on the frontend currently, but would like to make it into a native Android/iOS app in the future.
  • ultrarunner 7y ago
    I've had this thought. I'm intrigued! Strava has a "Strava Local" but it appears to be automated and is, frankly, bad. Would love to see what you come up with!
    • samcrawford 7y ago
      I think Strava Local is curated, but I agree with the 'frankly, bad' part of your comment. For my home city of London it has a few of the major landmark routes, but doesn't have anything near my house, nor does it have any of the less obvious but more fun local routes. My frustration with Strava is that they have SO much good data, yet they do so little with it.
      • zimpenfish 7y ago
        > My frustration with Strava is that they have SO much good data, yet they do so little with it. Whereas my frustration is that they have mountains of bad data (and we're sometimes talking egregiously bad here - segment times for runs that are >10,000mph etc.) which they do nothing about. It's a trivial data hygiene problem to note that, e.g., if an activity is marked as "running" and the average speed is 20mph+ over an hour, that's bullshit.
• treyfitty 7y ago
  Skincare line for men. I just turned 30 and I wanted an easier way to take care of my skin. One of the things I noticed was that there weren't a lot of skincare geared towards men that I "trusted." So, I threw myself all-in to see if I can bootstrap a brand focused on using natural ingredients myself. It was supposed to launch June 1, but early impressions suggested the "brand" sucked. Yes, I rebranded before I sold a single product, which was an expensive lesson, but it taught me a valuable lesson: Feature creep will always exist if you don't reign it in. Anyway, I'm welcome to advice- if you want to check out the basic site, it's https://www.mendskin.co https://www.mendskin.co password: mendskin. If you subscribe at the bottom (I'm a one man shop... I don't have the capacity to set up effective MailChimp campaigns, so you can trust me when I say I can't spam your inbox), I'll follow up with a personal hackernews offer once I launch.
  • imnotreallynew 7y ago
    Where/how are you sourcing product? Do you have any experience in cosmetics? A brand called “War Paint”, which I’m sure you’ve heard of, recently created some buzz and quickly attracted a lot of negative media. Did you learn anything from the negative feedback they received?
    • treyfitty 7y ago
      I source the ingredients from a private labeler. They work with all the major cosmetic brands and sell what brands like L’Oreal don’t buy. Sure, we get leftovers, but it’s still top quality.
  • adnjoo 7y ago
    COOL!
• pruthvishetty 7y ago
  An experimental model to predict the price of an individual stock (AMZN or AAPL) for the next minute, based on the price of an index (SPY or NDAQ) during the current minute.
• robhawkes 7y ago
  A few weeks ago I started Spatial Awareness, a curated newsletter for the maps and spatial community. The idea was to scratch a personal itch – to do something with all the interesting links and maps I collect – though it's gone down amazingly well with the community. It's less than a month old – with 3 issues so far – and it's already surpassed 1,000 subscribers. Check it out if you're interested in maps! https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps
  • shanecleveland 7y ago
    This begs the question about audience ... how did you get to 1,000 subscribers in a month? Were you part of an existing community you launched to? Marketing it in some way? Sounds like a cool passion project! Thanks.
• smartplaya2001 7y ago
  im working on a way to automatically check gift card balances for various brands.
• nikivi 7y ago
  Trying to build the next version of Learn Anything. A platform for learning anything via curated study guides as well as a knowledge tree of topics and a platform for ideas. All open source. https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
• paganel 7y ago
  Up until a year ago I worked on a personal project that involved putting online photos of old cars from my country as found on GoogleStreetView + some photos of the same old cars personally taken by me [1], the reason being that most of those cars will be totally gone in the next 10 to 15 years (many of them are already gone since Google took most of the photos back in 2012 and 2014) and so I wanted to sort of preserve and make these images easily searchable/browsable for existing and future car nerds. I've also started a small project [2] where I'm posting photos of local flour mills built before WW2. I find them very interesting from an industrial-architectural point of view and by image-documenting as many of them as I can I hope that somehow these buildings will stir the interest of people with some more influence than me when it comes to architectural preservation so that maybe not that many of them will be teared down. I suspect this will be an "on-going project" for quite some time, as until now I've only taken photos of about 30 of these mills, while I counted 500+ still existing in the whole country (mostly using Google Maps/StreetView + Google Image searches + some old topographic maps). [1] http://cars.maglina.ro/ http://cars.maglina.ro/ [2] https://mori-din-romania.blogspot.com/ https://mori-din-romania.blogspot.com/
  • bravura 7y ago
    I'm just curious, are any of these old cars known to be very reliable?
    • costcopizza 7y ago
      Lots of Eastern European brands that I’m not familiar with, but I venture yes: relatively simple power trains that can be serviced and don’t rely on much complicated technology.
      • markdown 7y ago
        > relatively simple power trains that can be serviced and don’t rely on much complicated technology. In my part of the world people pay a higher price for 2nd-hand Toyota Hilux 4x4's from the 90's then they do for the more modern versions for just this reason.
• carapace 7y ago
  Stalled a bit recently but I've been working on/with a programming language called Joy[1]. It's stack-based, "concatinative" and Categorical. It's a little like Forth+LISP. I had just implemented some type inference[2] when Warren's "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" went by here on HN[4] and I got into a very rewarding Prolog rabbithole. So now I'm writing a compiler in Prolog for Joy. [1] http://joypy.osdn.io/ http://joypy.osdn.io/ [2] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html [3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220280364_Logic_Programming_and_Compiler_Writing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220280364_Logic_Pro... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859
• almostdigital 7y ago
  A decentralized Medium alternative https://decentium.org https://decentium.org
• aarreedd 7y ago
  I'm building a database + API with Trading Hours and Market Holidays for the world's financial markets. https://www.stockmarketclock.com https://www.stockmarketclock.com
  • richk449 7y ago
    Awesome. My algo got confused yesterday (early close) and today, so I have to clean things up manually. Was thinking of hard coding dates in. Will look into this.
    • aarreedd 7y ago
      I'd love any feedback!
• dbremner 7y ago
  My side project is a fork[0] of an old Java Swing app. I have been updating the code to use newer Java features and rewriting portions of it in Scala. [0] https://github.com/dbremner/JavaPH https://github.com/dbremner/JavaPH
• tixocloud 7y ago
  Trying to grow my company Orchestra, which is effectively DevOps for ML. Hoping to complete a few proof of concepts and am building a founding team.
• mareko 7y ago
  You've probably heard of Libra. I've been working on a permissionless version of Libra for the last two years. We are called Celo (https://celo.org https://celo.org), and we are committed to advancing financial inclusion using an open decentralized protocol.
• leth_dev 7y ago
  As a side project, I am creating a general purpose model-based testing solution (https://www.leth.dev/ao https://www.leth.dev/ao).
• flipcoder 7y ago
  I'm working on a project that maps the steam controller as a synthesizer and midi controller, called couchsynth. I'm also working on a textfile-based music sequencer called textbeat (https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat).
  • bravura 7y ago
    I want a couchsynth, how can I get one?
• arbuge 7y ago
  I'm working on ReferDigital, an affiliate partner network with no monthly or startup fees, subscription tracking (monthly commissions for the life of the customer), and some other features currently in beta. https://ReferDigital.com https://ReferDigital.com My side-project is Classient.com, a class booking system / marketplace. My wife has been using it for several months now to teach a weekly class to kids in the neighborhood. A class could be simply watching kids and keeping them entertained (group baby-sitting) so no formal teaching experience is required: https://Classient.com https://Classient.com
• pcmaffey 7y ago
  Just starting on cannabis cultivation software. Partnering with one of the top growers in the country.
• postgrescompare 7y ago
  My side project is PostgresCompare (https://www.postgrescompare.com https://www.postgrescompare.com), a PostgreSQL schema comparison and deployment app. Evenings and weekends for a couple years now!
• westoncb 7y ago
  Whenever I get free time I work on my 'abstract visual debugger' project. I've been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I'm trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I've been building a little desktop utility with three.js + Electron + Rust, that I'm going to sell in the Microsoft store (eventually elsewhere too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM I'll start beta testing in about a week--definitely excited :D I'll probably do a write-up of the project and post it here as well. Edit: just fyi, 'Lucid Disk' is a placeholder name (my bigger debugger project I mentioned is called 'Lucidity').
  • dh-g 7y ago
    This looks nice, I use GrandPerspective for this task currently but your UI looks beautiful and useful.
    • westoncb 7y ago
      Thanks! I came across this kind of app for the first time in January (GrandPerspective, WinDirStat, DiasyDisk, TreeSize, etc.), and I've spent a lot of time thinking about/working on making interactive/visual trees in the past, so I really wanted to take a crack at making the best one I could. Here we are many months later and I'm finally starting to be pretty happy with the results. It's taken many iterations, but it is quite effective from a usability perspective now. I'm starting to put a little thought into what other kinds of hierarchical data it might be useful for exploring...
  • halfjoking 7y ago
    Nice demo. Now do it in VR so I can be Jonny Mneumonic! The dolphin could be included in the Premium Version.
    • westoncb 7y ago
      Ha! Hadn't considered that... I could see a VR version being pretty cool though actually. Maybe if it was set up sort of like a standing chalkboard where you can move freely in the room but walk up to it and manipulate things... Plus dolphins of course.
• vikramkr 7y ago
  A cell therapy manufacturing device that uses micro injection to genetically modify cells.
• corprew 7y ago
  I have a side project that I've been working on which is re-implementing a couple of old rails4 projects that old customers still use in Phoenix/Elixir. It's been going pretty well. I'm also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.
• dkthehuman 7y ago
  I'm teaching myself music (guitar and singing)! After casually dabbling for many years and not really getting better, I decided to devote at least 30 minute a day to practice to see how far I can get in a year. I'm making videos to track my progress (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE) and creating tools to accelerate the learning process. Some examples: - Chord Bunny (to learn chord transitions): https://dkthehuman.com/chord-bunny/ https://dkthehuman.com/chord-bunny/ - Interval Trainer (to learn intervals by ear): https://dkthehuman.com/interval-trainer https://dkthehuman.com/interval-trainer
  • person_of_color 7y ago
    Why guitar and not synths?
    • dkthehuman 7y ago
      Because John Mayer. :) I do intend to learn synths but not now since I don't want to spread myself too thin (the trap I usually fall into).
• spxdcz 7y ago
  Still a long way to go, but trying to make it easier (and cheaper!) to research public companies / stocks - with both quantitative and qualitative data. https://docoh.com/ https://docoh.com/
  • zzzmarcus 7y ago
    This is seriously impressive!
  • FailMore 7y ago
    Ohhh myyyy goddddd!!!! What a FANTASTIC site you are building. Beautiful design and usefulness. Have you posted to r/investing? Quite an active community. Congratulations.
  • FailMore 7y ago
    One further thing, not sure how easy it would be to do, but it would be very interesting to see (graph and/or table) a history of different financial ratios - e.g. what is the historical P/E of the business etc...
  • benji_is_me 7y ago
    Are you scraping the XBRL files for this?
  • chandureddyvari 7y ago
    Wow! Very interesting. Would love to know how you're building it! Any write up on this would be very helpful. Thanks!
  • spsx 7y ago
    This is seriously cool. Are you working on it alone?
• abledon 7y ago
  100 pushups in a row
  • carlosr2 7y ago
    I just recently got it, I set it to be a challenge and it's been much easier than expected. I started doing pushups everyday before shower, started with 10 and less than a month after i'm up to 110. And to be honest, even in something that simple as pushups are, you develop a sense of the nuances in the mechanics. Amazing.
• yjhoney 7y ago
  I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to stay through the entire program. 17 of them stayed. As of today, 14 of them have gotten full time jobs (which was a high win for them, going from minimum wage to 130k+ per year). The remaining 3 of them are starting interview prep right now. I'm going for a 100% success rate. Everybody learns at a different pace. The slowest student took 2 years and the fastest around 6 months (I actively made them stay around to help out the slower students for as long as I could). I'm putting together a curriculum of all the pain points people face when learning how to code and come up with a comprehensive book. It will be free to all. The current rough draft is here: https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f81560429faca3821a9af8a5e2 https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f... To test the effectiveness of the book, I've just recruited a new student (my dad), who spent the last 30 years doing manual labor and barely knows any English. So far, so good.
  • atm0sphere 7y ago
    That's actually really cool. Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person?
    • yjhoney 7y ago
      > Where are you located and was everyone learning from you/others in person? San Jose (Bay Area). Yes, everyone is learning in person. I plan to release a (free) book capturing what I learned and wrap up this project (or let someone else take over)
  • fhbdukfrh 7y ago
    Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...
• peteforde 7y ago
  I have two excellent passion projects right now. The first is working with my friend on remote pair programming in service of levelling her up faster than would otherwise be possible for the average graduate of a coding bootcamp program. She got a job as a junior dev almost immediately out of the program, and I spend sometimes many hours a day screen sharing and talking through problems. It demands patience and good communication, but the results have been one of the most incredible investments I've ever made. It's also one of the most intimate connections I've ever experienced. We both have a ton of gratitude, and I've learned an amazing amount in the process. I've also been working on my own Rails project, which I've been converting from ad hoc jQuery to Stimulus and Turbolinks. One of the things I've learned from working with my friend is that when it comes to the whole React/JS-for-everything ecosystem, the inmates are running the asylum. In this case, inmates are a critical mass of relatively new devs in an echo chamber that thinks React is the default choice for every project and have little practical experience to base this on. Sadly, Stimulus/Turbolinks is not the hipster choice and part of the problem is a lack of visible examples of how amazing these libraries actually are. I'm excited to publish a series of posts about how warm the water is on our side of the debate.
• adamnemecek 7y ago
  I'm working on an IDE for music composition http://ngrid.io http://ngrid.io. Ive mentioned this many time but I'm close to being done. Fall of this year.
• ElFitz 7y ago
  Currently building some serverless automation platform, as a SaaS, with an associate. Something similar to Zapier, but appropriate for heavy workloads, with separate dev & production environments, which handles throttling (you don't want to accidentally DDOS a third-party API) and doesn't structure an array of objects into arrays of their properties, etc The goal is to be handle to handle all non-crud backend workflows. It's quite challenging really.
• tuckerpo 7y ago
  A bootloader that makes you win a game of pong before you get to your OS.
• mysterydip 7y ago
  Game development, most recently getting a collection of 80s arcade-inspired games polished up and on steam. In the past several months also worked on a few boardgame ideas, and learned a ton about the industry and best practices, which I've carried with me back to videogame development as well.
• mcarrano 7y ago
  When I have down time, I am working on updating a passion project that I have not touched in 3+ years. The idea is to be able to scan Android apps installed on your device and see which libraries/SDKs were used to develop them. https://github.com/michaelcarrano/detective-droid https://github.com/michaelcarrano/detective-droid
• philipkiely 7y ago
  I finally finished writing the CMS that I was using as an excuse to delay the start of writing online, I just started publishing to https://philipkiely.com/essays https://philipkiely.com/essays and I have dozens more that I want to write.
• Moggie100 7y ago
  Whenever I have any breathing room after my thesis work, I'm working on an electric motorcycle build based on an the chassis of an old Honda H100-S2 as a challenge in hardware, software, fabrication, and well, everything really. Shooting for actual road certification, so doing everything by the book.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    That's something I've wanted to do as well. Keep us up to date on how it goes!
    • Moggie100 7y ago
      Will try! It's slow going because everything tends to start with some variation of 1. Get/buy new tool. 2. Learn entirely new skill. 3. Make mistakes. 4. Goto 3. The documentation lags quite far behind the actual build (really need to update these pages...) but can be found at https://johnvidler.co.uk/mechanical-engineering/electric-motorcycle https://johnvidler.co.uk/mechanical-engineering/electric-mot... if you're interested.
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• blparker 7y ago
  Working on a book/guide for developers about the mathematics behind machine learning with an aim towards intuition. All of the concepts are implemented in Python.
• amerf1 7y ago
  Working on a link aggregator for website while learning to code. Any rails mentors out there feel free to reach out to me! I could use some help
• maddy1512 7y ago
  I am quite frustrated and fed up of the traffic congestion problems in my city (Pune, India) and so I have decided that I will try and solve this problem.
  • justusthane 7y ago
    Maybe you could say a little bit more about what you plan to do?
• danShumway 7y ago
  Loop Thesis (https://loop-thesis.com https://loop-thesis.com), a multiplayer time traveling puzzle/arena shooter that allows players to simultaneously travel to different points on the timeline. In co-op/multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past. There's a big focus on experimentation and discovery. To that end, I never fake or script any of the gameplay systems -- so there's a completely internally consistent time-travel simulation running all of the time, even during menus and in lobbies. The goal with that is to make a world that is always predictable; Loop Thesis is about figuring out how the world works and figuring out the subtle implications of its rules. It's supposed to capture that feeling you had the first time you were programming and a concept like pointers actually clicked for you. It's about these tiny cool moments where you suddenly realize all of the things you can do with a mechanic, or you suddenly understand why this obscure interaction you were dismissing three levels ago actually matters. For that to work, there can't ever be a point in the game where you ask why something happened, and the answer is, "oh, that's just a glitch, or a hard-coded interaction." Literally everything, from menus, to how save files work, to even how maps load in and out of memory, is consistent with the internal mechanics of the time-travel simulation.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    This is brilliant! If the game is anything like the picture you've painted in this comment, it's going to be remembered for a long time.
    • danShumway 7y ago
      Thanks! If you're interested in this design philosophy of having almost radical consistency within a game's systems, I wrote a blog post early on in development about how that influences the way the game is coded. It's a little out of date; since writing it some of the mechanics have changed, but it still provides a good overview of what I mean when I say that nothing in the game is faked. https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/ https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/ Ironically, in this article I mention: > It's possible to take this philosophy too far. When I first started building an update system for entities within the world, I experimented with using events and special methods to pass around information... I still use events, but only when it makes sense to do so. The current rewrite I'm working on is going in the opposite direction here, relying much more heavily on events and only using direct object references when its absolutely necessary. This is, again, to make gameplay more consistent; but also just because events make the architecture cleaner and make the modding API more robust. So in a way, I've almost become more dogmatic about this as I've worked on the game.
• codr7 7y ago
  After writing a number of Forth/Lisp-like interpreters [0] in different languages, I felt like it was time to attempt an extraction of lessons learned into a flexible C++ framework [1] to use as foundation for future projects. [0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu https://github.com/codr7/g-fu [1] https://github.com/codr7/cidk https://github.com/codr7/cidk
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• seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  I’ve been working on a visual programming language to explore red black trees (actually just using RB trees to explore a new way of programming, but...). RB tree insert: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4 RB tree rebalance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso I previously did the same thing for quicksort (see my YouTube channel for lots of videos), and am currently thinking of way to generalize this approach.
• mromanuk 7y ago
  Erudito Keyboard for iPhone (https://erudito.io https://erudito.io) It's a mini game in an iPhone keyboard, you play from any App, just by writing. Common words give you little or no points, infrequent words give you points. You get bonus points when you write a sequence of words with points. There is a leaderboard where you can compare your "skills" against other users and friends. Still need to implement a feature to segregate each leaderboard: general and friends. The keyboard has realtime notifications and bidirectional communication with websockets, so you can know what other users are doing, this will be useful to have "death matches". As you can see It's an experimental App. Currently is available on the Appstore (since last week) but I didn't promote it yet, I'm looking for users to iterate it more :) and crush few bugs along the way.
  • tomcatfish 7y ago
    That's kind of cool, but I immediately ask myself what kind of security measures are in place. What happens so that every word I type isn't automatically uploaded somewhere where I do not know how it is handled?
    • mromanuk 7y ago
      Thank you @tomcatfish! Regarding security, yes that's an issue. At the end of the day as a user, all you can do is trust. So the company is incorporated in UK, your data is protected under the GDPR, we use the minimum amount of data necessary to make the game work, we use SSL, authentication is done by Apple or Facebook (whichever user prefers). We don't sell information, nor we plan to use Ads, because of that there is a pay subscription. Anyhow every time you need to type something sensitive you can disable or switch to iPhone's native keyboard and go back whenever you are ready to play again :). (by Apple's design 3rd party keyboard get disabled when typing on a sensitive/password/etc input)
• adamcharnock 7y ago
  I’m working on Lightbus, a Python framework for RPCs and eventing. I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now, and I’ve been trying to get the API as clean as possible. It’s currently running in production with a couple of companies. The project came about because I was using Celery to communicate between Django projects, but it felt like a kludge. I’m getting close to an official release soon, but there are already extensive docs at https://lightbus.org https://lightbus.org Code is in GitHub, linked to at the above address.
• louisstow 7y ago
  Been working on a weekly security newsletter customized to the subscribers software stack. It includes vulnerabilities and security news and it's 100% free: https://secalerts.co https://secalerts.co
  • wale 7y ago
    Interesting stuff. Just subscribed.
    • louisstow 7y ago
      Thanks! If you have any suggestions feel free to get in touch (info@secalerts.co)
• CosmicShadow 7y ago
  For concert ticket stub collectors, I'm working on https://Stubforge.com https://Stubforge.com, a site where you can design and print custom memorabilia tickets that look and feel just like real TicketMaster style tickets. The site is ready for people to start designing tickets with live preview and helpers (although still need to fill in a lot of info bubbles), and you can order as well. Still a few things I'd like to fix up/improve before I really launch it. The site won't really make much money, it's made to be cheap and affordable and to help out fellow stub collectors who hate having missing tickets in their collections due to loss, having bought at the door, or only having the option of digital or print-at-home tickets. Would love feedback!
• sneilan1 7y ago
  I'm learning how to draw. Here's my latest drawing. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZSo_bFtL6/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZSo_bFtL6/ I really enjoy the challenge of learning to do something that isn't one of my natural talents. As a programmer, obviously, I would be better suited to learning music but I've always wanted to draw. Becoming an artist as a part time job outside of writing code has been a journey into time management, budgeting and discipline. It's taken me a lot of work to get to a place where I create art on a regular basis. Learning how to be creative is utterly different than building software. Even though building software is an intensly creative job, making art requires turning off a massive portion of your brain. You have to just let things flow. I do not use any generative software in the creation of art. It's just me. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_gqSQAdcu/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_gqSQAdcu/
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• ardit33 7y ago
  A native hacker news iOS app and more.... work in progress... https://ibb.co/KLCSsTy https://ibb.co/KLCSsTy https://ibb.co/RcHDwvN https://ibb.co/RcHDwvN https://ibb.co/25vX0hT https://ibb.co/25vX0hT https://ibb.co/gD89CG6 https://ibb.co/gD89CG6
• drankula3 7y ago
  I'm making a website aggregator currently on https://feldot.com https://feldot.com. Most people are increasingly siloed into small portions of the internet. The idea of this site is to provide tools to a small portion of content creators that make discovery of new websites easier, then have them post on a reddit-like main page to introduce those sites to the masses. Only the reddit-like portion of the site is ready right now, but there will be new tools released soon that will make the discovery of new sites trivial. It has been really fun to make, and I really look forward to making a Show HN post when it's ready for a growth phase.
• jeanlucas 7y ago
  I'm a bit idle lately, so I'm doing a webapp for Mario Maker stages, where you can create your profile and share with others easier (today you have to send a string to share a stage or your profile on Mario Maker)
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• twodave 7y ago
  1. API to extract and store metadata about an uploaded PDF (images, relevant field locations, signature boxes, etc.) 2. Tool that shows an image of each field to the user and allows them to enter human readable prompts (title, description, input style). 3. A PWA that uses the prompts to help an end user complete the form, collects signatures, etc. 4. Add the ability to link/upload some tabular data and tie fields from the data source to fields on a PDF. 5. Communications—email a unique short link to somebody to request they complete a form, pre-filled with data. 6. Build an example web site that consumes 1-4 and shows off e.g. completing a legal contract. Notifications when a form is completed. 7. Multi-party forms 8. Start figuring out how to charge people and who to sell to, build more niche wrappers around the product, stand up an auth/billing service, etc.
  • richajak 7y ago
    That's cool. I was working on something similar, extracting tabular data from PDF for the last 2 weeks. Curious about your method, as the process (e.g. to detect the coordinate of the header/footer fields, etc) is very manual and specific for each PDF template. Do you happen to encounter the same challenge? If yes, how do solve it, use machine learning? heuristics? etc?
    • twodave 7y ago
      Well for now it is only attempting to read FDF or XFA forms, for which the metadata is pretty readily accessible. The tool will probably include a way to manually add/remove fields as well, but detecting form fields from basically an image is a level of awesomeness I have not yet set as a goal haha.
• ericb 7y ago
  I'm working on a way to re-use your Selenium page objects for load testing. Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in "correlation" was because hardware was really expensive. Around Y2K, A single server might cost 500 a month in hardware and rack costs. Now a 72 core machine can be rented for an hour for under a dollar. So I'm making a real-browser load testing service that lets you use the same integration test code you already maintain. Fewer tools, fewer specialties, CI/CD ready. https://browserup.com https://browserup.com
• miccah 7y ago
  An Android client to control mpv (media player) remotely. It is actually both the server (written in python) and client. I started it because I didn't want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security. https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app
  • screaminghawk 7y ago
    I did a similar thing to control VLC remotely but using Node and React. Not as comprehensive as yours but does everything the kids need to watch a show without touching the PC. https://github.com/screaminghawk/web-vlc https://github.com/screaminghawk/web-vlc
    • miccah 7y ago
      That's awesome! I love the images and synopsis. One thing I have in the works is a seekbar that stays in sync with the server, but it's actually a lot more challenging than it sounds. I like how you include the episode and season info. Do you search for that online or have it locally? Really cool project, thanks for sharing.
• agscala 7y ago
  I've been spending time working on my board game accessories business https://burgertokens.com/ https://burgertokens.com/ It's been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business. I'm working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we're about to run. Super excited :)
  • truebosko 7y ago
    Love this! Dreamt of this idea once but never ran with it, and look at you. Awesome work!
• namibj 7y ago
  Combining open-source photogrammetry software into a system that scales reasonably to >100k images (with accelerometer/gyroscope data from the video camera) and >1G vertices in a single, consistent, high-quality mesh. It later computes a texture map based on the images, not smoothing them, but just minimizing seams and using some seam carving and color interpolation to make most seams invisible. I want VR reconstructions that don't lack details to be feasible for <1k$/acre flat area, not counting someone steering the camera. - Places need to be archived like the rest of our culture. [Current sub-part:] I'm figuring out how https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp can be combined with https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/ https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/ to get better meshes (with less wasted vertices) and also how this can be made to scale Out-of-Core or on a HPC cluster (the kind with lots of RDMA interconnect bandwidth and low latency). AMA (I won't respond for a few hours)
  • jcims 7y ago
    I am planning a new building on my property and really would love to have something like this to visualize it from different angles on the driveway, back porch, etc.
    • namibj 7y ago
      I understand you want to visualize the current state? And have a free camera you can move around the scene? If so, this should be able to do it. If you can get your hands on a camera with electronic global shutter and more than 1080p, I'd offer you processing in exchange for being able to later use the data for testing / tuning some of the more recent multi-view stereo algorithms (well, their implementations). Contact jcims-hn-reconstruction on d10.pw (beware of the digits in the domain) and I'll get you a sample result, if you're interested. Email should work ;)
      • jcims 7y ago
        Whoa this is an awesome offer, thank you! I'm arranging for some oblique and overhead shots around the property, will hit you up once they are available to see if it makes sense to give it a go. Thanks!
• Aeolun 7y ago
  I’m not actively working on anything any more after my son was born, but I’ve spent some time trying to build https://resumedrone.com https://resumedrone.com to more easily update my resume whenever I need to do that. I’m playing with the idea of making it export into several agencies formats and then sell that to them so they don’t keep formatting stuff by hand, but it’s not quite there yet.
• spacial 7y ago
  I'm working on a authorization protocol for IoT (ABAC+ReBAC and a little of RADAC). The main idea is to make it easier for non-tech people and secure (yes, everybody wants that), made the threat model and stuff - was my master's thesis, want to do a PoC to see if it sees sunlights ;) Also working on a DataScience crash course with basic statistics, R, Python (Basics), Dataviz and webscraping (for journalists, biologists - for everybody). Last, but not least, we have a music's group that is doing some visual + electroacoustic music (using supercollider and instruments). Our next step is to use Arduino and some other stuff. resumes pretty much it. (help wanted `:D )
• grardb 7y ago
  I've been doing work with the Vegan Hacktivists. https://veganhacktivists.org/ https://veganhacktivists.org/ Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need something built (e.g. Meat The Victims, Rancher Advocacy, etc.). Currently, I'm working on the website for Meat the Victims as well as a platform for education on the "why" and "how" of becoming vegan. If anyone is interested, please reach out (my email is on the website under Gerard O'Neill). We're currently recruiting for experienced developers, ideally with PHP experience.
• mathnmusic 7y ago
  I'm building https://learnawesome.org https://learnawesome.org - essentially, a stumbleupon-equivalent for learners with richer data. The idea is to make it easy to answer queries like: "Show me podcasts about architecture that are less than an hour long." "Show me books about abstract algebra that are visual." "Show me MOOCs on machine-learning that are challenging." Just last week, I released browser add-ons for Chrome/Brave/Firefox to make it super easy to use. Eventually, we'll implement unidirectional relationships so you see recommendations only from people you trust/admire.
• t34543 7y ago
  I feel overwhelmed by the ambition here - I’m burnt out. I’m working on mental health.
  • jeanlucas 7y ago
    Feel for you, not everyone here is over ambitious (even looking at this thread), and I hope you get better. It's not the same, but when I get overwhelmed by HN or too much online exposure to entrepreneurship, I go do offline things like taking care of plants.
• dbetteridge 7y ago
  Commemini [1], It's a bookmarking/view this later site with tag based search, mostly a side project to better learn Postgres. Still to come - Full text search - Capturing a snapshot of the site to allow Full text search, offline view, 'saving' pages incase they go offline. - Learning tags based on page contents Pricing on the main page is a template at this point and signup is still free/unlimited as i'm not 'releasing' it yet. [1] https://commemini.xyz https://commemini.xyz
• ian0 7y ago
  Started a startup in early 2018. We help schools in Indonesia to manage their money. Collect payments digitally, manage their finances, digitalise their financial records. Took us a long time to work through the practicalities (think driving motorbikes over rickety bamboo bridges to get to a school who has a shipping container of paper records). Very traditional industry. But doing quite good now, well over 100 schools. And we really help them, which is pretty cool. Maybe the first time ive worked on something that is genuinely productive. Also, its given me a newfound respect for people who work in education, what we in other industries do daily really does pale in comparison: - We find it hard to manage teams of actual professionals getting paid to be there. They have to manage thousands of kids who would rather be doing something else. And their parents, who arent easy "users" to deal with (to put it mildly) - We measure most of our KPIs live. For them, it can take 15 years to measure the impact (graduate employment rates, salaries). Such a ridiculously long timeframe. And of course theres the compensation. How you can stay motivated given all of that is insane. But they do. Met some genuinely great people.
• hjkl 7y ago
  Been working on a web service to convert JS apps to PWAs and host them: https://www.superweb.app https://www.superweb.app Hoping that it makes it easier for folks to create native-like apps, especially games.
• kareemm 7y ago
  Am working on https://www.savio.io https://www.savio.io We help product teams centralize their customer feedback from tools like Intercom, Help Scout, and Slack, and then use it to make data-driven decisions about what features to build. My business partner and I have sold two SaaS businesses (we started one and bought the other). Savio is our third. It was born from the frustrations we had at the first two. We'd get lots of customer feedback from support, sales, customer calls, surveys, chat, etc. But we never had a good process or tool to keep track of it and use it in a way that gave us confidence we were building the right features. We soft launched a few months ago and are very much figuring out positioning, feature set, acquisition, activation... the whole shooting match. Customer funding as we did with the previous two businesses. We like optionality!
  • ultrasounder 7y ago
    Hi, Embarking on my own sass journey. Would love to connect with you to hear about your thought process I sass pricing strategies. Thanks Ananth
    • tomashertus 7y ago
      Hey guys, working on https://openroll.io https://openroll.io Would like to connect and discuss my idea!
• Waterluvian 7y ago
  My family. Got a two year old and 7 month old. Bought our first and hopefully only house a month ago. Work remotely doing some really interesting programming. I reflected early this week during Canada Day fireworks that I have literally everything I wanted out of life. Now I just have to learn how to live in the moment and enjoy it all. That's proving to be a small struggle.
  • truebosko 7y ago
    Good on you. I have a family as well and prior to it spent much of my free time coding side projects. Now, it's been tough to find the energy to do that in my limited time. Of course, one can prioritize the projects, but find joy in other aspects of life once the little ones asleep. Trying to get back into a side project though, mainly because I'm feeling the itch.
    • tmaly 7y ago
      Back when I only had 1 child, I use to say you can have exactly one hobby. With two children, you can have a hobby once in a blue moon.
  • hanumanthan 7y ago
    This is a great struggle for me. I too have solved my basic needs for me and my family. But always in a conflict of enjoying the moment vs worrying about future (read career here). Dont want to quit on either but learning to separate both.
• jdsully 7y ago
  KeyDB: a multi-threaded fork of Redis. https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB It seemed crazy to me Redis was still single threaded in 2019. Sometimes the rationale was one thread was enough to saturate a machine (it is not). Other times it was justified by the fact that you could create a local cluster - but I thought that was needlessly complex. Eventually I went ahead and just did it. The project has since expanded to include Active Replication and a bunch of other new features.
• nrmn 7y ago
  Working on research for my thesis, which will be wrapped up by years end. The current project focuses on improving sample efficiency in deep reinforcement learning. I am researching how best to merge the options framework with the adaptability of meta-reinforcement learning. In my spare time I write and research algorithmic trading strategies. I’ve been sticking to the traditional techniques, with a small toe into statistics for modeling. With whatever time is left, I’ve been learning rust and have enjoyed it quite a bit so far.
• SamWhited 7y ago
  I've been working on starting a DIY garage that's operated as a consumer-owned co-op. The goal is to have a place where you can go take a class in car care or maintenance, or just rent a lift and have a place to wrench on your car and recycle fluids. I'm hoping that eventually we'll be able to open it in Austin or Atlanta: https://cornergarage.coop/ https://cornergarage.coop/
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Bring it to Des Moines, Iowa! I'd be there every day.
• ryeguy_24 7y ago
  https://www.deltatrail.io https://www.deltatrail.io Working on a infrastructure change tracking service called Deltatrail.io. It tracks changes both automatically (via API, Jenkins, AWS Cloudtrail, etc) and also manually (via Slack, etc). It really helps us when trying to debug outages or issues that arise. Most come from changes that have been made/deployed.
• ChrisRackauckas 7y ago
  We have optimized neural ODEs, neural SDEs, neural DDEs, and neural DAEs quite a bit in Julia, and have some experimental results with neural jump SDEs and neural PDEs. But we can really do more with the neural PDEs, especially neural PDEs with constraints (i.e. partial differential-algebraic equations) and neural stochastic PDEs (SPDEs). It's all working with DiffEqFlux.jl (you can see a blog post of experiments here: http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/neural-jump-sdes-jump-diffusions-and-neural-pdes/ http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/neural-jump-sdes-jump-dif...), and it works with GPUs, but we really need to make a few of the overloads like mapslices have better GPU kernels to really capture the neural SPDE applications well. I'm also spending quite a bit of time looking into the ability for these neural differential equations to understand phase space. What exactly do they learn, and why? Can you predict beforehand how well you can learn the equations directly from data? Of course, this is intertwined with the previous part, because to understand how well you can auto-learn neural SPDEs you need the ability to quickly solve neural SPDEs, along with all of the implicit solvers and GPU support.
  • wespiser_2018 7y ago
    This stuff is really awesome! Three cheers for Julia + Autodifferentiation + DL
• awfulaxolotl 7y ago
  I’m spending much of my free time experimenting with tech which augments the creative process. - Creating variants on the fly [1] - WebGL shader composition [2] - Plug n’ play wireless mesh devices for sensing and control My goal is to properly test them with absurd interactive art projects :D [1]: https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/tastes https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/tastes [2]: https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/lucida https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/lucida
• tmaly 7y ago
  I took a break from straight coding in my side projects. I had this domain since 2003, and I always wanted to make an educational project. I decided to try to make a course on how to teach kids how to program using Scratch. Its been an interesting challenge making this. I had to learn about how to structure lessons, how to setup lighting, and a whole host of other things. My 5 year old daughter is helping me make it. She does some of the video and she helps me iron out the lessons. Its slow going, but its a lot of fun. https://nextlesson.com https://nextlesson.com
• knowingathing 7y ago
  I'm building an animated SVG icon library: https://motionicons.com/ https://motionicons.com/ There are many icon packs out there but they are almost all static. You can help users by communicating additional meaning using an animated icon. I think this is a gap in the icon market landscape. It is still early days so any feedback would be appreciated!
• brailsafe 7y ago
  I'm just trying to have a productive day. It's hard most of the time. Less dreadful answer: Professionally I'm working on an Open data portal based on the python library CKAN for the University of Manitoba. Money isn't brilliant, but it's satisfying and has some odd challenges. In the upcoming month I'm taking an academic trip to Norway to explore undergrad thesis opportunities in the areas of Neural Networks and Remote Sensing, to which I'll hopefully be playing around with before-hand.
• nemo1618 7y ago
  I'm writing a GitHub CI bot specifically for Go. There are so many ways you can improve on existing CI if you integrate deeply with a specific language. You can cache test results for packages whose source code hasn't changed; you can run a specific test n times; you can run a benchmark and block a merge if the geomean regressed; you can run a linter and suggest it's fixes in GitHub comments; etc. It's a little bizarre to me that existing CIs don't even bother to parse the test output and display it nicely. Go has a -json flag that makes the test output dead-simple to consume, but it's certainly not infeasible for other languages. Wouldn't it be cool to see individual histories for each test, showing how many times they've failed, or how much total time has been spent executing them? So my goal is to make a Go-specific CI that's 10x better than existing language-agnostic CIs, and then shop it around to high-profile Go projects. Those developers would also make for ideal contributors, so hopefully I can source some external contributions that way too.
  • epage 7y ago
    Some thoughts I've had along these lines (but for Rust) - Open issues in the review for compiler / lint / format errors - Gather coverage per test and use that to determine which tests are needed for a given change
• rorykoehler 7y ago
  Bibimapp We're a personal recommendation social network. We're the antidote to crowdsourced averaged algorithmic recommendations. We started with map based personal recommendations of places and will expand once we have traction. We'll be doing a ShowHN shortly. We're on iOS and Android. https://bibimapp.com/ https://bibimapp.com/ *we've soft launched on both appstores so if you want to check us out just type "Bibimapp" into the appstore search. Also we're fully bootstrapped
• AdenFlorian 7y ago
  I’m working on my side project which is building a broswer based multiplayer DAW. It’s been about a tyear since I started working on it. Started with a keyboard that had a simple built in synth. It’s been a lot of fun to make, learning stuff from building sequencers, polyphonic synths, and web socket stuff :D. I hope to use it as my main DAW eventually, and will still finish up tracks in Ableton probably. I hope it will be a useful tool for people to get songs started and do it with other people.
• crorella 7y ago
  I'm working on implementing a few optimizations for our DWH, in particular I want to automatically find the best partition and bucketing schema for tables based on their access patterns. This is actually part of a much bigger project that I want to do to further increase the performance and efficiency of our data analytics systems.
• MuffinFlavored 7y ago
  Reverse engineering a handheld device that is used to flash the Bosch ECU memory region related to engine tuning It features: * master/slave paradigm * public + private key encryption * XOR ciphers * hardware tokens * server-side validation * .NET obfuscation * Themida/WinLicense DLL packing/obfuscation * Debugger detection Car tuning is an industry where if your car costs $60k, tuners can charge you $999. If your car costs $120k, they know you are a wealthier client, so they blatantly charge you $3k for the same amount of effort on their end. Gross.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    Hell yeah!
• gkrishna 7y ago
  I am working on my side project to monitor and alert SSH login and breach attempts. Hopefully will be launching next month!
• karterk 7y ago
  5 years ago, I had a crazy idea that there must be an open source engine that had a really simple learning curve and worked out of the box. The result: https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/typesense/typesense It took me over 3 years to get the nuts and bolts right. It's now production ready and being used in quite a few production environments. Of course, there is more work to do and so it's still actively being worked upon.
  • taneq 7y ago
    Note, search engine. That looks very cool!
  • _frkl 7y ago
    Neat, this looks really useful. Was on the lookout for a search engine for my auto-generated documentation pages, this looks like it could fit the bill.
• AlchemistCamp 7y ago
  I'm working on Alchemist Camp, a site with screencasts and tutorials for web devs learning Elixir and the Phoenix framework. I believe that in terms of free content in this niche, nobody on the web has put out more. I've also been sporadically recording podcasts on topics near and dear to my heart—learning, mental models, code and bootstrapping. https://alchemist.camp https://alchemist.camp https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-and-bootstrapping/id1448157275 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-and-bootstrapping... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-machine/id1448157446 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-machine/id144...
• dustyreagan 7y ago
  A math practice website called https://studycounts.com https://studycounts.com. I’m trying to combine randomly generated math practice problems with addictive Skinner box-ish gaming elements. Skinner box for self improvement is the idea.
• soundMinded 7y ago
  I'm working on a travel agency website that integrates with global booking systems, something like expedia but less complex. So far along the process I've learned a lot specially about a wide range of Azure services. I just learned Azure Search and wow, it works great!
  • truebosko 7y ago
    I work in this space. Curious of you to elaborate!
    • soundMinded 7y ago
      I'm adding the hotel booking engine to the website. The first hurdle I came across was how to offer fast suggestions to the user when typing a location / hotel name. That's when I found Azure Search ( which is extremely easy to set up), and now I just have to complete the whole process. This whole thing is extremely gratifying because I'm learning new stuff pretty much everyday.
      • richajak 7y ago
        Recently I read a similar example on CS50 course, to do fast search. It is simply a json request everytime a keyboard event is activated. For storage, either store it in memory for instant lookup table or use redis. https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2018/fall/weeks/7/notes/ https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2018/fall/weeks/7/notes/ look for the example on WORDS
        • soundMinded 7y ago
          I ended up using Azure Table Storage and Azure Search on top of it as the index. The azure auto suggester works great. it allows you to mark different fields as Retrievable, searchable, filterable etc. pretty cool thing
• gxx 7y ago
  Developing the first completely new class of wind instrument mouthpiece introduced in recorded history. For wind instruments there are reed mouthpieces, double reed, jet reed, lip reed, etc. These have all existed in various forms for millenia. My design, based on over 15 years of research uses optical sensing to very precisely measure multiple dimensions of the embouchure. It will be available in the form of a hands-free music controller supported on what we call the "neck unit" or on a variety of hand-held units of different fingering styles that we call "finger units".
  • ScottFree 7y ago
    Very interesting. It sounds like you'll be able to get more variety of expression out of the instrument. I'm assuming it's entirely digital? Are there any videos of it in action?
• cbm-vic-20 7y ago
  * Writing a Lisp interpreter for a homebrew 6502 single board computer. * Learning DEC PDP-11 assembly language, may "port" the above Lisp interpreter to it... The -11's instruction set is so nice.
• dotnwat 7y ago
  Been happily hacking away on zlog [0] a distributed shared-log that runs on top of software-defined storage like Ceph. I've been working on it for a couple years, steadily getting closer to something stable. It's a lot of fun working through all the many supporting aspects of a project like this: ci/jenkins/cloud-hosting, marketing/promotion, packaging for distributions, learning about tools for communities, etc... [0]: https://github.com/cruzdb/zlog https://github.com/cruzdb/zlog
• ernsheong 7y ago
  I'm building a kanban workflow tool. Think of it as Trello + Google Forms + Process Street. Check it out at https://kanrails.com/ https://kanrails.com/ Would appreciate your feedback!
  • halfjoking 7y ago
    Some screenshots or muted video of using the product on the homepage might demonstrate why using this workflow tool is superior. There are a lot of kanban tools out there and I'm not sure people will sign up if there isn't some screenshot that looks compelling. (and not just generic images)
• abathur 7y ago
  Shaving the entire yak army, as usual. Scatching my own itch on a shell history thing that isn't annoying. Baby steps towards a releasable version.
• emeth 7y ago
  I've been working on a project called "HackTheCompany" (http://hackthe.company/ http://hackthe.company/) which lists historical hacks that have occurred, with a brief description. It then offers a live CTF for every single historical hack where you can do the same thing the attackers did. Walkthroughs are offered for each as well, if you have no experience. It's part of a larger project I'm working on, but even standalone I think it's pretty neat. It's not complete yet, but is functional - would love any thoughts and feedback.
  • aerovistae 7y ago
    That sounds fucking awesome.
  • dietervds 7y ago
    That’s amazing! Can I subscribe somewhere to stay informed on the project?
  • reeves23423 7y ago
    very cool
• timothylevi 7y ago
  Working on making knowledge sharing, onboarding, and development easier for organizations. The focus is on enabling team members to capture small chunks of knowledge (checklists, definitions, explanations, short updates). Each chunk can be tagged and searchable (so that they’re easy to find), versioned (so there aren’t duplicates of the same information), and composable (so that they can be reused in different pieces/versions of training materials).
• adyer07 7y ago
  I make paintings about programming/code. Right now I'm developing a screen print, and I wanted to build on the same abstract style I used with one-off watercolor paintings. I decided to make my first print about rubber duck debugging. I had a lot of fun rendering a crazy hatch-mark pixelated rubber duck, but I keep going back and forth on the final layout and composition. I spent an alarming amount of time this week doodling thumbnails of ducks with different abstract backgrounds. You can see some of my stuff here :) http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/portfolio/technology/ http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/portfolio/technology/
  • jeanlucas 7y ago
    I LOVE IT <3
• spondyl 7y ago
  I took the week off work to plow through Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers so that's been most of my time, haha I'm going to see how viable it is to host a Matrix/Riot server from my house. Looks like there's going to be a hard time with SSL given that my router has its hook into Port 80 regardless of DMZ. Perhaps I can just use a self signed cert. I would host it in a VPS but I'm looking to use the bridges for Whatsapp/FB Messenger/Telegram
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• imnotreallynew 7y ago
  I (we) are building a challenger bank in the U.S., focusing on checking and savings accounts that expose a full API. On a personal level, I have been doing a deep dive into the Napoleonic Wars, and spend most of my free time reading. I had an idea the other day to attempt to build some sort of battlefield/timeline visualizer using the newly realized Google Earth Studio. Has anybody used it for anything other than simple flyover animations?
• ashiban 7y ago
  http://www.QuickCut.io http://www.QuickCut.io - I built it because of the frustration I have editing courses I make for fun ( https://www.udemy.com/beginner-programming-intro-python-self-driving-car/ https://www.udemy.com/beginner-programming-intro-python-self... ). It blew my mind that we're still editing video the same way we have in the 90's - so quickcut was born
• chantelles 7y ago
  modeling/growing cellulose for wound healing
• geocrasher 7y ago
  Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I'd been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch. I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to play bass (already play guitar) and am trying to stay busy helping others too. In addition to all that I do breakfix computer work on the side and a freelance gig writin technical tutorials for a site that specializes in selling small to medium sized, low budget VPSs. That has me learning things like Nginx and Redis, which I've never really spent any time on. It's great fun and my first professional writing job. I also have a blog where I document my ham radio, automotive, and other misc projects, although I'm woefully behind on it. I built a 20 meter CW transceiver last week (from a kit) and have yet to post about that. I also had to repair a cracked body on the bass I am learning to play, but didn't even take pictures. Writing about things while you do them takes twice as long, at least. I'm lazy. Lastly I took a recent promotion. I work remotely, training new employees at the web hosting company that I work at. I also develop training materials and am revamping how we approach that stuff. I've never done that before. It's the first time I've been off the front lines, and I like it. A lot. Thankfully I have a lot to keep me busy so that my mind can focus on what I'm doing rather than on the troubles that plague my wife. She'll either survive or she won't, and my worrying won't affect it. All I can do is support her. Our adult daughter is her full time caregiver (I am not cut out for that, and we're all okay with it, I promise) and is with her, and that has to be good enough. I've been blessed with an amazing support network and a few extra bucks to let me stay busy on projects. If I didn't have those to keep me going... eesh. Lastly, I'm glad somebody asked this question. I had a lot to get off my chest. And if this didn't make a lot of sense, I apologize. It's a bit of a brain dump.
  • jessehorne 7y ago
    I ask a lot of questions here sometimes. None of them have been nearly as rewarding at this. If you ever need a remote-buddy to discuss/hack on things, let me know. I can't imagine what you're going through but it's good to remain positive and productive. My email is j.horne2796@gmail.com
• nevster 7y ago
  I've recently set up this blog : http://www.dndchronologically.com/ http://www.dndchronologically.com/ I'm reading through all of TSR's D&D products in chronological order. Part of this project is to compile the most accurate chronological list on the net.
• emckay 7y ago
  I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies. I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: https://voting.greengovernance.org https://voting.greengovernance.org . Later this year, I'm planning to launch a "governance-first" ETF that gives investors the same exposure as other funds but is much more aggressive in fighting climate change. I'd love any feedback! Feel free to email me at <hn-username>@greengovernance.org
  • richajak 7y ago
    Some ideas -Which consumer product companies still use a lot of plastic packaging vs those already use bio-degradable packaging? -Which heavy-industry manufacturing companies use coal or diesel as the main source of energy in their factories vs those use renewable energy source? -Any company forbid their executives to fly excessively whether in private jet or business/first class? How many miles per year they travel ? It's simply not environmentally friendly when video conferencing should be effective in 90% of the cases?
    • emckay 7y ago
      Thanks! Those are all interesting questions -- and also quite hard to answer without a lot of research into each individual company. One thing my fund will push for is more consistent and granular emissions disclosures across firms so that shareholders have a better idea of where firms are "spending" their emissions and identify inefficiencies.
  • JasonSage 7y ago
    Is there somewhere one could follow your work for updates?
    • emckay 7y ago
      You can sign up for our email newsletter at https://tinyletter.com/GreenGovernance https://tinyletter.com/GreenGovernance or follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/GreenGovernance https://twitter.com/GreenGovernance
• zacssite 7y ago
  I work ~12 hours a day, but in my free time, I like to work on a lightweight, full-featured blog engine. It’s fast, easy to use, platform-agnostic, and I’m pretty proud of it. I ported it to Python 3 last month, and I have some big plans soon. https://zacs.site/blog/first-crack-release-notes-0619.html https://zacs.site/blog/first-crack-release-notes-0619.html
• anteater_alex 7y ago
  We're drowning in emails and Instant Messages and need AI to help make sense of it all. As a former CTO for a fast growing startup I was struck by how often everybody was asking the same questions about connections and skills, and how much time and efforts were wasted in mid-size organizations because of lack of transparency and visibility. I'm building AntEater (www.anteateranalytics.com) with my team to bridge this gap and empower everyone who uses Gmail and Slack to be more knowledgeable - and as smart as the entire team, using AI. This is a radical shift in terms of information flow in organizations but I truly believe a more transparent workflow will lead to less work and less frustrations. You can check out the project here - it's free for small teams https://try.anteateranalytics.com/ https://try.anteateranalytics.com/
  • nihonde 7y ago
    Mercari has an internal tool that does something similar.[1] I think it’s a brilliant product. Your marketing site turns me off, though. It lacks the polish I want from something that I’m granting permission to spy on my internal corporate comms. I want to feel very certain that the trade off of privacy vs convenience will pay off. [1] https://twitter.com/girlie_mac/status/1143693961069916161 https://twitter.com/girlie_mac/status/1143693961069916161
• freeradical13 7y ago
  I've become bored with software. I just started a masters degree in Biology and have a vague and naive plan of becoming a cardiologist and running a lab with the primary goal of reducing human suffering, rather than money (been there, done that).
  • bigmit37 7y ago
    I’m actually interested in biology as well. I wish research equipment was cheaper for independent experiments.
    • freeradical13 7y ago
      There are some periodic auctions of equipment (usually from busted companies): http://www.biosurplus.com/ http://www.biosurplus.com/
      • bigmit37 7y ago
        Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
• anteater_alex 7y ago
  We are drowning in emails and Instant messaging, esp. in our workplaces. As a former CTO of a fast growing startup I was struck by how much frustration and wasted time there was due to inefficient communication and lack of sharing knowledge about who we know and who knows what. I'm building AntEater to make every on teams as smart as the team - using AI. It's free to try (for Gmail and Slack - https://www.anteateranalytics.com/ https://www.anteateranalytics.com/) for small teams and helps share knowledge and activity for truly transparent teams to help individuals work less and work better.
• XERQ 7y ago
  SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance. We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors. https://www.ssdnodes.com https://www.ssdnodes.com
• msadowski 7y ago
  I'm working on Robotics Newsletter : https://weeklyrobotics.com/ https://weeklyrobotics.com/ That has been going quite ok for the past few months. Another side thing I'm working on is a set of tutorials for Robot Operating System but that one I started just couple of weeks ago.
• lunixbochs 7y ago
  I developed chronic hand pain a couple of years ago (probably from overworking), so I quit my job and I've been making Talon [1] since, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to efficiently do anything/everything on their computer (general use, programming, games, niche apps) without their hands. Most recently I've been training acoustic models and writing a user frontend for the wav2letter++ [2] speech recognition engine, and porting Talon from Mac to cross-platform. [1] https://talonvoice.com https://talonvoice.com [2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter
  • bigmit37 7y ago
    This is pretty cool. I was actually thinking about doing something like this as I don’t like typing. I will follow along.
• jandrewrogers 7y ago
  After a decade of R&D, I am (finally) building the first, true multi-model database kernel. All traversable data relationships (relational, polygon intersection, graph data models, time series, etc) are directly represented in a singular data structure that is nearly optimal and extremely parallel. No secondary indexing required whatsoever to access these relationships, so ideal for mixed workloads. Built on top of a new high-performance storage engine that has some neat computer science in it and brilliant performance specs compared to my prior designs (which were pretty damn fast). This is likely my last database kernel design. I can’t think of many ways to materially improve the algorithms and design, and there are some other computer science research domains I previously went deep on that I want to get back to once I am finished with this.
  • _bohm 7y ago
    Fascinating. Have you written at all about this elsewhere? Is it open source? Would love to learn more!
    • jandrewrogers 7y ago
      I have not written about it publicly at any length. Much narrower versions targeting specific data models have been used in production and I've licensed bits and pieces to big tech companies. The data structures and algorithms are non-obvious, and the join mechanics that enable arbitrary relationship type traversals on the representation hurts the brain (it really isn't visualizable). It is just an elegant instantiation of adaptive information theoretic embeddings in very high dimensionality spaces, reduced to fast database algorithms. My previous startup was based on related but very early and incomplete computer science, which was written about. The storage engine is extremely fast but the only unusual capabilities it has are architectural: the ability to continuously, in the background, reshard data (many tens of thousands of times per second per inexpensive server) and shift shards between storage engines. If you think about it, all this really requires from a storage engine is the ability to concurrently create and destroy logical files at an extremely high rate, much higher than a typical file/operating system allows. Some of the internal algorithms are novel but it is still just a storage engine. It is tuned for petabyte storage densities per server -- it was originally designed for exabyte-scale sensor data models. None of my database work has ever been open sourced AFAIK, though many companies have older designs. The biggest practical hurdle to open sourcing is that it would require many man-months of tedious unpaid work and I have zero desire to do that. It is also a production-grade research project; I currently have no obligation, explicit or implied, to maintain any kind of compatibility if I feel like redesigning some aspect of it. That said, I also want to get away from the current reality that every company wants someone to build their own slight variation of these designs.
• mcjiggerlog 7y ago
  I've been working on a web app for discovering backpacking (as in hostels, not trails) destinations and planning trips - https://waystops.com https://waystops.com. I'm a very visual person and for a long time wished there was a browseable map of interesting places to visit and things to see and do when planning backpacking trips. I couldn't find anything that quite did what I wanted so thought I'd have a go myself. The data itself is sourced from a combination of Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. The biggest features I'm looking to develop next are search and a way to leave reviews/comments on places and listings. Still very early days but would love to hear any feedback.
• dmichulke 7y ago
  An automatic time series model finder. The idea is to find a good model for predicting a time series given a set of other time series. Input is basically an excel file and output is a CSV file, expected to be delivered within a minute. I mostly test it on power load and supply data but it should work on anything. Also, it's free. http://ausblick.cryptoport.net/en/index http://ausblick.cryptoport.net/en/index
• lkrubner 7y ago
  I'm trying to clean up the app I wrote, that pulls data out of a PostGres database and denormalizes the data based on a simple config file and then pushes the denormalized data into ElasticSearch, so that the frontend code can query the data. I'd like to eventually release the app as Open Source, as I think it is a more practical way of doing some of the things that GraphQL is supposed to do. I wrote a little bit about it here: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/caches-are-cheap-build-a-lot-of-them-for-the-frontend http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/caches-are-cheap-buil...
• codingbbq 7y ago
  Howdy! Happy Friday. I started putting up my own personal space @ http://codingbbq.github.io http://codingbbq.github.io I worked on setting up jekyll and made the site as per my like. I have plans to continue writing and maintaining an online journey. Brings a smile everytime I make some commits in the repository. :)
• bkmeneguello 7y ago
  For work: porting some infrastructure from the company I work to code (ansible) and creating new ones. For fun: developing an ansible intellij plugin for code completion and documentation lookup.
• KloudTrader 7y ago
  A better trading platform. We are currently building a system where you can upload a model designed in a spreadsheet and it will turn it into a live, real-time trading algorithm for you in the cloud (yes, there's a VBA-compatible interpreter too). https://Kloudtrader.com https://Kloudtrader.com
• bszupnick 7y ago
  I've been working on a web app to help political campaigns scale and manage an exploding volunteer network. Helping the campaign delegate tasks, helping the volunteers connecting to constituents, and see statistics along the way. I've seen too many campaigns attempt to run hundreds of volunteers, do crazy tricks with Google Sheets (just to have volunteers accidentally delete critical information), and I've been a volunteer waiting to be told what to do.
  • atlasunshrugged 7y ago
    Really cool, I've also been kicking around ideas in this area - anywhere I can see something and what type of campaigns are you targeting (local/state/other)? I know it's not the same, but have you seen https://www.victoryguide.us/ https://www.victoryguide.us/?
    • bszupnick 7y ago
      I haven't seen Victory Guide! Thanks for sharing! I'm not currently living in the United States so I'm building a software with my mind on Israeli left-wing politics. It had a pilot run and it was great, and now I'm working on getting another customer!
      • atlasunshrugged 7y ago
        Ah sorry, ironically I'm not even living in the U.S. anymore but I just assume everyone is building things for there. Very cool, good luck, feel free to drop me a line if you ever want to get feedback. I'm joelburke2014 at gmail
• grwthckrmstr 7y ago
  Oh jeez, I'm reading everyone's posts and I'm feeling shy to post mine since I'm not doing anything cool. Here goes nothing... I quit my job in January this year with no business but the thought that I must start, I can't work jobs anymore. I built and marketed a simple micro-saas for Shopify ecosystem together with my co-founder. He handles tech, I do design and marketing. We both do customer support. App was launched on April 24. June was my first month of revenue and we hit ~$450 MRR which I'm very happy about. Expecting large churn figures though. This is the app -- https://apps.shopify.com/whatsapp-chat-button https://apps.shopify.com/whatsapp-chat-button Here's a post I wrote a month back chronicling the journey thus far -- https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/shopify-micro-saas-growth https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/shopify-micro-saas-growth Currently I'm learning how to code (Frontend, React) so that I can contribute to the app development, as currently our biggest bottleneck is development speed of new features.
  • flarco 7y ago
    Really cool. Can you share on what lib/3rd party tool you use on the backend to send WhatsApp messages (such as the automated cart abandoned message)?
• mukeshsoni 7y ago
  I wrote a workflowy clone in draftjs, to see if it's possible to do it - https://dumpster.netlify.com/ https://dumpster.netlify.com/ It keeps data in local storage and has an option to back it up to your dropbox account. Nowhere as smooth and bug free as workflowy, but it was a fun experiment. Warning - Has a lot of bugs in mobile. Leads of loss of data.
• petethepig 7y ago
  I'm making a robot that makes string art. I have an instagram if you want to check it out https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/ https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/
• osi1647 7y ago
  I am working on a whisky app called Drammer https://drammer.com https://drammer.com Where users can manage their collection, search by taste and use a barcode scanner to find a whisky quickly.
• masiulis 7y ago
  Creating a visual tool to replace CSS https://github.com/masiulis/Ugnis https://github.com/masiulis/Ugnis So that anyone could create a nice UI by drag’n’drop, without writting a single line of CSS. It also works as a design system, so companies can create their own component library quickly. After 3 years of trial and error, finally getting really close to beta version.
  • halfjoking 7y ago
    I couldn't find how to drag and drop components. I was expecting a "grid view" and then just to drag components from the left to the gridview and put them in cells. I've actually had this same idea since grid is so flexible and the order of components don't matter for the container grid, so the structure of the HTML doesn't have to change by moving things around in a grid, just the CSS rules generated. Anyway good luck on launching the Beta version.
• before98today89 7y ago
  Ten Ask HN posts in the last four days? Is there not a limit on this sort of thing?
  • grzm 7y ago
    If you see something like this that concerns you, rather than create a new account to post, just email the mods using the Contact link in the footer.
• mceachen 7y ago
  I'm building (what I hope to be) your new home for all your photos and videos. It's called PhotoStructure. TL:DR; see https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services. Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile. Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in). And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous. So I'm making it. I've currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I've got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon. I'm looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you'd be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.
  • wheresvic1 7y ago
    This sounds pretty cool but tbh, if I'm willing to try out a beta product with all my images (and the risk of losing them due to some bug or any other risk) and provide feedback, I'd like to have a bigger carrot than just using the product for free in beta only :)
    • mceachen 7y ago
      Fair enough. I've suffered from so many bugs in commercial software that I made some design decisions at the beginning of the project, in an effort to avoid more egregious faults. Primarily, PhotoStructure doesn't touch, move, or delete any file that it hasn't generated. It only copies into your library (if you pick that option). See https://support.photostructure.com/why-doesnt-photostructure-move-original-files/ https://support.photostructure.com/why-doesnt-photostructure...
• sharmi 7y ago
  We have reached alpha on https://sitefitnesshq.com https://sitefitnesshq.com , an early warning service for website failures. We have just started reaching out to customers. Wish us luck.
  • bbbobbb 7y ago
    Your certificate is expired. That's not exactly ideal for "early warning".
    • sharmi 7y ago
      Thanks for visiting our website. We have been using our service to check some other websites and have been successful in providing early warnings. Now we have added itself to the list of websites it should check. So it is self secured. Your feedback and validation certainly helps. Thank you again.
• samirsd 7y ago
  soundcloud but more retro (alpha) https://mixtape.ai https://mixtape.ai
• samirsd 7y ago
  i'm working on a music streaming service for indie artists called .mixtape https://mixtape.ai https://mixtape.ai (in alpha and only works on chrome)
• dietervds 7y ago
  Im a bit late to the party, but outside of work I spend most of my professional time on a curated newsletter for infosec news: https://securitynewsletter.co/ https://securitynewsletter.co/. Two years running, just crossed 5700 subscribers. MRR between $600 and $1000. Most successful thing I ever started and still love doing it. Kinda scary to have an “audience” of that size :)
  • abrichr 7y ago
    Cool! How do you monetize?
    • dietervds 7y ago
      Thanks! Through sponsorships, there's two slots per issue.
• FrankZappa42 7y ago
  I am working on a company that curates trial week at their potential job and also help them find a job. I am really passionate about this. Doing this alongside a full-time consultant agreement with a start-up, I am a bit stretched but overall excited about this.
• wheresvic1 7y ago
  Professionally, I'm really lucky as I am working in R&D at a university hospital and I have a couple of cool projects going: - The current medical application used in our hospital does not have a way to track if a case is a re-admission or not. This information is very important in surgery and urology. The doctors are using an excel file to track this information at the moment and we are building an app so that this information gets put into a database and will also later be integrated into the main medical system. - Currently, students in radiology do not get very many chances to actually look at images to practice so we are building a crowdsourcing platform for radiology images. This will also be useful for interviewing or general practice for professionals. On the side, I've been working on https://ewolo.fitness https://ewolo.fitness - a workout tracking app that also has running and weight tracking built-in. I found all existing solutions too gimmicky and annoying - a workout tracker should be as flexible as possible and let you add your data and get out of your way...
• wiseleo 7y ago
  When not procrastinating... * Doing some IT work through field service platforms like Fieldnation. About to start writing some software to auto-bid on some preferred assignments while I sleep. ;) This is a more involved task than you might think because it involves parsing free-form text and data mining email notifications. These sites have an annoying habit of not notifying when an offer is declined. Many projects post a ton of boilerplate with some relevant text in the middle. It also has to figure out if the city is close enough to other assignments so I don't wind up driving 30+ miles. * Working on my main software project, but really not. * Working on a new project related to helping people work on their cars. It feels like I am level capped at an RPG. I need to raise my programming skill, which I want to do right, so I want to raise my math skill.
• majewsky 7y ago
  I'm working as the chairman of my hackerspace, https://www.c3d2.de/whois.html https://www.c3d2.de/whois.html, to balance order and chaos in the literal Chaos Computer Club.
• melenaos 7y ago
  I am refactoring the report designer from one of my projects, https://apps.shopify.com/export-orders https://apps.shopify.com/export-orders. The report designer is iimplemented using Datatables.Net library (demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ-viTQARTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ-viTQARTk) and I am implementing the same functionality and some more features (column renaming, custom column expressions) using VueJS.
• kartikdoraha 7y ago
  Amazing question i really liked that, Actually i m working on some ads and that is my job to performe that. And I love to complete that.
• secfirstmd 7y ago
  Umbrella App. It's a free, open source app with best practice advice on how activists/journalists/aid workers/travellers can learn about and manage their own digital and physical security. It covers stuff like travel safety, staying safe at protests, dealing with arrest, surveillance, sending a secure mail or communication etc. Our background is working with activists and journalists to keep them safe, so we wanted an all-in-one guide for anyone who needs help. You can read more about it at https://www.secfirst.org https://www.secfirst.org or try it iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
• _frkl 7y ago
  Currently I'm working on documentation, trying to explain (and sort of figure out for myself) why I spent the last 2 years developing a declarative scripting framework called 'freckles' ( https://freckles.io https://freckles.io ). The code is at a state now that I'm happy enough with (at least to prove the concept), but I realized that it is not as obvious to other people why a thing like it should exist than it has been to me. I was working as programmer as well as a sys-admin-type years before DevOps became a thing, and I always thought there was something missing. We are automating a lot of stuff, but not up to the 'last mile', there is always some manual requirement install or preparation necessary. And I always thought that once we can wrap every single one of the tasks 'around' a software project into a re-usable, formalized structure, it would make a lot of things easier, and open up lots of possibilities that are hidden from our views for now. Basically, I think we should be able to create any desired state in a specific computational environment (physical machine, VM, container, filesystem, infrastructure, ...) using a single instruction, and one (optional) dictionary-type structure for arguments. Be it trivial (like make sure a folder exists) or fairly involved (setup a complete Wordpress instance incl. reverse proxy, Letsencrypt cert, firewall, ...). There are technologies that help with some of the issues I have (Docker, K8s, Terraform, config-management ...), but it feels like they all have a slightly off-target focus and priority for what I have in mind. I'm still struggling to find the right words (as you can probably see) to explain the what and why, but it's an interesting experience working on basically reverse-engineering something I think is important but can't express (it's like trying to explain a color). Gaining a lot of understanding about the problem too. And the funny thing is, I don't think I could have done all that before I went ahead and actually implemented the/my solution to the problem itself.
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• gremlinsinc 7y ago
  A saas boilerplate with the fastest build out I can possibly muster and least code. Stack is hasura, graphql, stripe for the API, quasar framework for initial frontend to get easy mobile, native, electron, pwa, ssr, etc. API has teams, users, roles, permissions, subscriptions and plans, following the paradigm that a user can belong to or own multiple teams and easily switch without logging out, users can be invited or request access to teams, admins can set and change features per plan... Etc... The idea being minimal changes needed to go to market with an idea. Add a few services or features the 'what's it do' and everything else is ready to go.
• chandureddyvari 7y ago
  I am planning to build a business card scanner like https://dev.camcard.com https://dev.camcard.com. Not that nothing like it exists. I am currently working on finishing deep learning courses from fast.ai and wanted to build a cool open source project to apply my learnings. Also wanted to release iOS app which does this on the device without server intervention using MLKit for iOS (I have worked with React native but not on swift - so personally challenging on many fronts).
• leozhi 7y ago
  Connecting a heart rate monitor to a linux system and attempting to study the impact of different activities on my heart rate. Context: I train for endurance events, and that's seen my resting heart rate fall by about 13 beats per minute. On some days this goes lower during training, and some days it doesn't. The idea is that certain kinds of foods, and certain activities might help me make my training more effective. Also, a part of the inspiration comes from here - https://a16z.com/2019/06/13/ai-doctor-deep-medicine-topol/ https://a16z.com/2019/06/13/ai-doctor-deep-medicine-topol/
• frading 7y ago
  Since I couldn't find a good tool to make 3D experiences for the web, I created one that so far it made my clients very happy. It's node-based, which allows you to try different ideas very quickly within the same scene. You can process models and geometries, or even create your own glsl shader with just nodes. And if you're not a coder, it can also be a good way to learn. https://polygonjs.com/ https://polygonjs.com/ and some tutorials: https://vimeo.com/polygonjs https://vimeo.com/polygonjs
• critnal 7y ago
  I've recently put this up: https://iamwfh.com/ https://iamwfh.com/ A lot of the people in our office work from home on any given day. A joke emerged where we come up with funny alternative words for 'WFH', like 'Worshipping Foreign Horizons'. Anyway I quickly ran out of original combinations, so I made something to generate some. I figure there are probably others out there who would get a kick out of it.
• carmenbr 7y ago
  https://noageismintech.com https://noageismintech.com - Job board focused on over 35s in tech Launched last week on HN and generated a massive discussion around the subject. We're now working to get more companies onboard and make their profile sharable. I hope that will bring consistent users to the website
• pgt 7y ago
  I spent the last year bootstrapping Wallfly: Smart Volume Control. Ever been to a bar where the music was too loud? Wallfly is cruise control for sound. The sonic control system measures the ambient audio levels in every room using your device's microphone or Wallfly Sonic Sensor (coming Q4 2019) and modulates amplifier gain to keep the levels just right...because you can't tell someone you love them when they can't hear you. https://wallfly.app https://wallfly.app
• planert41 7y ago
  The food photos on your phone are an untapped treasure trove of verified legit food recommendations. I'm building an IOS app that uses your food photos to create a social food diary, which when aggregated with posts from your friends, also creates this communal food brain of legit food. I call it friend-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing. An example use case is going to Tokyo and trying a bunch of ramen places. You take photos and upload the ones you like onto a geotagged list (called Tokyo Trip). Your friends are going to Tokyo soon and ask you for ramen recommendations. Instead of creating a google map with pins or a long email lists with no pictures or geo-capabilities, you show/send them the list with the app and it will show them all your ramen photos on a map. We want to help answer "What is the closest legit food my friends have tried around me?" wherever you are. We are looking for beta test users and will be launching this year. You just have to love food and like telling your friends where they should go eat (like me). Feel free to reach out at weizou@legitlist.me Here is the beta test link if anyone is interested: https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Ho5creV https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Ho5creV
• yboris 7y ago
  Working to release version 2 of Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com https://videohubapp.com (browse and manage videos on PC, Win, Linux) Original discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992
• dinoso92 7y ago
  I'm trying to validate an idea/app for modularising and streamlining internal and external business communication (mainly email). At the moment it's just an application to create some reusable templates and snippets, and extend and share them with colleagues. My next step would be to create a browser extension that allows to easily injected the content from the application into other websites directly while typing (for example into any web email client, google docs, any website form, etc.). The main benefits of the application would be to save time, reduce errors, and potentially to standardize a company's business communication thought a collective effort (document, template and snippet creation) where also employees that generally don't like to write emails can benefit (as a developer I find myself in this category). Still in alpha, feedback is greatly appreciated: https://getlimpid.com https://getlimpid.com
• gradschool 7y ago
  I recently finished writing a book about asynchronous circuit design and set up the landing page for it [1]. It's my first crack at modern-ish web technologies, using bootstrap for the front end and making it serverless on AWS S3 with a couple of lambda functions written in go for the back end [2] [3]. I'm getting to grips payment processing and book printing but giving the ebook away free. [1] http://www.delayinsensitive.com http://www.delayinsensitive.com [2] https://github.com/gueststar/s3quota https://github.com/gueststar/s3quota [3] https://github.com/gueststar/lumberjack https://github.com/gueststar/lumberjack
  • jeffreyrogers 7y ago
    Just wanted to say that I took a look at your book and it is really fascinating. I'm glad you took the time to write it and thanks for giving the ebook away. I'm a self taught FPGA designer (started out in software and switched to hardware because I like it more), so a lot of what you cover is totally new to me. I'll definitely be working my way through the material as my schedule permits.
• zaiste 7y ago
  I'm teaching programming for beginners & non-programmers on YouTube with Flutter and JavaScript. I'm trying to expose my pupils to slightly lesser known concepts, paradigms with the focus on functional programming, Reactive extensions etc. I have plans to do Clojure or Common Lisp next. I'm also doing some Emacs related videos, presenting a single concept each time. I'm a big fan of Doom Emacs. https://www.youtube.com/zaiste https://www.youtube.com/zaiste
• adreamingsoul 7y ago
  I moved to Norway with my wife and son from the USA. As part of the move, I ended my employment at a FAANG company and joined a small Norwegian software company. On the side, I'm working on a feature documentary and I'm also exploring some ideas with a friend of mine who is a talented film director. Most of my spare time is spent with my son and wife. I'm recovering from burnout and as part of the Scandinavian mindset I'm relearning how to have a healthy work life balance.
• spajus 7y ago
  For past 1.5 years I've been developing a game part time. The game is a 2D top down racing with procedurally generated race tracks. It is the biggest and most fulfilling pet project I have ever done. You can find it on Steam or Reddit, search for "Bloody Rally Show".
• Tommah 7y ago
  My most recent project is a chess training tool: https://www.checkmatechamp.net/ https://www.checkmatechamp.net/
• cdaringe 7y ago
  https://informedcitizen.me/ https://informedcitizen.me/ Automatically analyze online content for credibility. Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :) Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles' contents, and submit an automated reports into threads. Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of services you can see in the docker compose configurations. https://github.com/dino-dna/informed-citizen https://github.com/dino-dna/informed-citizen I'd love for others to get involved and help out!
  • cdaringe 7y ago
    Looks like my analysis-card's min-width a tad too big on mobile :). Will patch soon!
• Arun2009 7y ago
  My list keeps changing, but I have three main "projects" these days. - I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their original. - I am teaching a few neighborhood kids Mathematics, Physics, and occasionally, Computer Science. This is immense fun! - I am trying to learn at a deeper level some of the topics that I learned during my undergraduate studies. On this front, right now I am working on understanding operating systems and compilers a bit better.
  • neuralk 7y ago
    Besides the course you are taking (is it an in-person class, or online perhaps?), are there any resources for learning Sanskrit that you'd recommend? I have the same long term goal as you! I'm looking to self-study the language since there aren't local courses where I live.
    • Arun2009 7y ago
      My course is the famous one by Samskritabharati (https://www.samskritabharati.in/ https://www.samskritabharati.in/). It's a correspondence program, but they do conduct introductory contact classes as well. They also deliver materials overseas. Samskritabharati also has online video lectures (http://www.samskritashikshanam.in/ http://www.samskritashikshanam.in/), but they are in Hindi. I have audited a few introductory courses from vyoma samskrita pathashala (https://sanskritfromhome.in https://sanskritfromhome.in). There's also the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in India (http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/ http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/) who have a two year introductory correspondence course. I believe they deliver overseas as well. I did the first year of their course with the help of a tutor I hired from urbanpro.com, but (as with all things GoI) I found the experience to be far less satisfactory than Samskritabharati's. If you can read Hindi, you can also look at the school textbooks by NCERT as well, which are available for free (http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm) Two "Western"-style books that I would recommend are: * Devavanipravesika (An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language) by Robert Goldman * Samskrita-SubodhinI (A Sanskrit Primer) by Madhav Deshpande. One thing I want to do is to work through these books once I am done with Samskritabharati just to cement the things I have learnt. The nice thing about Samskritabharati's course is that it doesn't just teach the language, but it also introduces you in a gentle (but unapologetic!) way to the whole tradition that flourished through it's medium. They also publish books in Sanskrit, which may also help you in your education. Good luck!
• jamesponddotco 7y ago
  Working on a few projects right now as I recently left my job, but the one I am working today is "Allons-ip!", a free and open source IP address API that uses pure NGINX to work. Right now there is one dedicated server in Germany (AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 2950X with Hetzner) and all it does is display your IPv4 address, but once I am done it should work with both IPv4 and IPv6, and have servers around the globe to decrease latency as much as possible. The API returns all data in plain text — or JSON/JSONP —, without any advertisements or extra data. Server has full disk encryption enabled and a no logging policy. Usage is quite simple. There are no secrets here, just call the URL for the API and it should return the IP address of the machine you used to make the call. Clear Text: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/ https://api.allonsip.sh/ JSON: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/json/ https://api.allonsip.sh/json/ JSONP: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/jsonp/ https://api.allonsip.sh/jsonp/ There are a few reasons for this, but it boils down to the need to improve my resume, as most of the work I done in previous companies are their propriety now. I also needed to get the public IP address of servers I deploy programmatically, and wanted to have control over how that was done, so I decided to turn it into a public project. Since I did not want to reinvent the wheel and NGINX is so damn powerful, there was no need for anything other than pure NGINX.
• cjblomqvist 7y ago
  Fixing sourcing of footwear - i.e. helping brands find new footwear factories in a modern way. Check out www.findsourcing.com to learn more. We believe we can be a magnitude better on all metrics (time, cost, effort, quality) and believe in transparency and opening up this industry which still work by handshakes (if you don't know the right people you are screwed).
• ivelostn 7y ago
  A fun thing I’ve been putting together is growing Oyster mushrooms on wood. There’s actually a lot that goes into getting it to work. The mycelium has to fully inhabit the log before it can produce fruit. That can take 6-12 months. That, and the log has to stay very moist so you have to soak it for awhile before you can put the plugs of mycelium into the wood. Then you seal it with a wax and water it every couple of days. Apparently, a single piece of wood can fruit multiple times.
• gao8a 7y ago
  I am learning video editing (Da Vinci Resolve) and I just made this [1] [1] https://vimeo.com/346285447 https://vimeo.com/346285447
• arooni 7y ago
  Marketing for my buy a press pass service (gets you in for free to all kinds of events, concerts, museums, clubs, etc): https://www.magicpresspass.com https://www.magicpresspass.com Marketing and recruitment for people who want to get paid consulting who have done amazing adventures (like travelled around the world on a bicycle, climbed Everest etc, please reach out if you have). Essentially I want to have a consultancy for people who have done amazing things and want to get paid to consult to people who have done those things before. https://www.adventurecopilot.com https://www.adventurecopilot.com Also seeking suggestions on how to learn marketing, it's a skill I'm keenly interested in acquiring. And considering a Trump related merchandise business (not because I like Trump, but I think it would sort of market itself). I love businesses where people have strong opinions. Strong opinions travel, positive or otherwise. Also writing about entrepreneurship and personal excellence at https://www.davidparkinson.com https://www.davidparkinson.com and polishing up my 'find your phone, escape a boring meeting/date service' https://www.phonemyphone.com https://www.phonemyphone.com (fun fact, launched this on Hacker News 10+ years ago :P). Feel free to rip any of those ideas/concepts apart :P.
• leekh 7y ago
  I'm on working on my masters with gaTech's OMSCS. Taking a summer class atm, and will finish in the fall. Going to start on a new job search and maybe TA a class too.
• bichiliad 7y ago
  I'm trying to get back into writing. I wrote a lot as an intern cuz that's what you do when you're an intern in SF, but recently I'm realizing that a lot of stuff I have a lot of first-hand experience is stuff that other engineers even within my own company don't have a ton of knowledge about (for context, I do a lot of frontend performance work).
• Shorn 7y ago
  https://kopi.cloud https://kopi.cloud It's an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies/sites don't have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversations without giving out your real address. Not just useful for website signups etc. - it can also be part of a strategy for de-googling yourself. You can re-direct specific mail forwarders to publish mail as an RSS feed (useful for Github, StackOverflow, etc.) Just finished implementing "bring your own domain" functionality, so you don't have to be locked in to the Kopi domains.
• eivarv 7y ago
  I'm currently working on a macOS application that allows users to save and load their working context, by which I mean sets of open applications and their internal states. It has helped me reduce information overload, and allowed me to switch between tasks more efficiently - and I hope other people will find value in this as well. It's an idea I've been toying with and prototyping in different forms on and off for about four years now. I'm finally releasing an open Beta this summer/fall, as soon as I implement delta updates and the license validator.
  • ScottFree 7y ago
    I look forward to using this! Have you given any thought to being able to sync a working context between computers?
    • eivarv 7y ago
      I've thought a little about it, but as it won't exactly be trivial to implement (internal app states will depend on specific files with specific contents existing at specific paths, and so on) it's not on top of my TODO-list, at the moment.
• drannex 7y ago
  I'm building a new way to grow plants using electromagnetic water-vapor distribution systems. Had some successes, mostly failure, but getting there. Should be more accessible, use less water, less expensive, and produce better/more food than traditional hydroponic systems (and far more than traditional farming). LPA grow system without needing any pumps.
• LBarret 7y ago
  I am finishing a procedural generation pixel-art editor, aka you connect nodes to get a rectangles of colour. The cool part is the nodes you use are often other graphs also built with the tool. It is a bit like Houdini but for pixel-art. It is close to be a niche but solid product. I can reproduce with it a reasonable amount of the pixel-art I see daily. I am currently writing the tutorials for it. https://lbarret.itch.io/rectitude https://lbarret.itch.io/rectitude The underlying engine is a restricted functional language and the architecture is based on streams of values. I am quite proud of the architecture because so far, I had very little accidental complexity to manage and that's key for me to stay motivated/productive on the project.
• zzo38computer 7y ago
  I have a few things I work on, including writing Free Hero Mesh (which is a puzzle game engine).
• Tharkun 7y ago
  I'm going through the formalities of shutting down my failed startup. We're finishing up the few contracts we have, telling customers we're not extending their service, and trying to figure out how to split what little assets we have left. This wasn't anyone's sole income, so it's not a disaster. It's certainly been a learning experience, so there's that.
• jekyllontime 7y ago
  I am working on https://jekyllontime.top/ https://jekyllontime.top/ these days. It is a service to publish jekyll+GitHub Pages blog posts at a given time. This is a pain point I am having myself and that's why I decided to create this service. So far it is in a MVP stage.
• toymachine 7y ago
  Been geeking out about ZIP code data at https://incomedata.org https://incomedata.org . I never realized how cool ZIP code data is, just how important the census is, or how much fun working with geo data is.
• coderyu 7y ago
  beacause I am in debt.
• coderyu 7y ago
  Because I am in debt.
• chauhankiran 7y ago
  I'm writing a book on Crystal programming language in fun, dialogues way - https://chauhankiran.github.io/crystalie/ https://chauhankiran.github.io/crystalie/