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Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

12 points by chirau 5y ago

It'd be nice to know

crate_barre 5y ago
Might try out some Unreal engine dev.
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mindcrime 5y ago
I've given myself an absolutely massive reading-list of books on AI and related topics to plow through, so mostly I expect to be doing a lot of reading. Some specific titles I'm actively working through right now: Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language by Roland Hausser[1] The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind by Ben Goertzel[2] Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning by Ron Sun[3] Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks by James A. Anderson (Editor), Edward Rosenfeld (Editor)[4] Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence by Alan Collins (Editor)[5] [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19538351-foundations-of-computational-linguistics https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19538351-foundations-of-... [2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052143.The_Hidden_Pattern https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052143.The_Hidden_Patte... [3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3826453-integrating-rules-and-connectionism-for-robust-commonsense-reasoning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3826453-integrating-rule... [4]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976091.Talking_Nets https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976091.Talking_Nets [5]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535749-readings-in-cognitive-science https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535749-readings-in-cogn...
kstenerud 5y ago
I'll be working on the reference implementation [1] of Concise Encoding [2], which is a secure data format for the modern world. My aim is to replace insecure and clunky formats like JSON and XML and the various binary formats that do similar things less conveniently. In a nutshell: - Existing ad-hoc formats are too loosely defined to be secure, and that's becoming a huge problem as the bad guys become more sophisticated. CE is tightly specified and designed to mitigate exploitation of codecs. - CE is a twin text and binary format. Humans view and edit in text, and machines send it in binary, so you get the convenience of text and the efficiency of binary for free. - CE supports the fundamental types natively. Stringifying is buggy, causes incompatibilities, and opens security holes. And it's completely unnecessary with a properly designed data format. [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding [2] https://concise-encoding.org/ https://concise-encoding.org/ [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding
- app17 5y ago
  Cool project! I couldn't find any benchmark. How does it compare to protobuf/json/... performance wise?
  - kstenerud 5y ago
    There's a benchmark test in the go implementation that gets 30-50% better performance than go's stdlib JSON. Mind you, this is a reference implementation and built for study, not speed. Ultimately, performance in go comes down to how many allocations you do.
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Started with my first pixel art project, Factorio game has piqued my interest in pixel art. I've been lurking on the Pixel Art subreddit[1] for a while now and I've finally indulged myself this weekend. Couple of tutorials on YT to start if anyone is interested: Getting started with Aesprite[2]. Choosing the canvas size[3]. Do's and Don't s with Pixel Art[4]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsETEP01k8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsETEP01k8 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8earctNBxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8earctNBxg [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k
html5web 5y ago
Cleaning the siding and deck of my house with a pressure washer )))
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muzani 5y ago
I've always been pretty good with complex systems, and in most places it's always been no problem to stay ahead of everything. Right now, I've hit a limit as things are becoming even more complex. CS techniques like DDD are helping, but I get enough of that on the weekdays. Weekends and nights I'm looking through game design videos, and maybe economics if I have time.
jstx1 5y ago
Using youtube programming tutorials as a way to procrastinate from starting some side projects.
drakonka 5y ago
I am trying to finish the first draft of my next fiction book so that I can finally move on to the editing phase. I'm so close, but the last few chapters are always the hardest for me, so I'm just forcing myself through it to get the words - any words - down with the full expectation of having to edit the crap out of it later.
app17 5y ago
I'll be working on a personal project I have been working for a few years now called Exomind[1]. It's a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have iOS and web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking. Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications. It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust, TypeScript and Swift skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before). [1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
motyar 5y ago
An API that generates images on the fly. Example https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN2222 https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN2222 check more info at https://bruzu.com https://bruzu.com
zenull 5y ago
Working on a new tool for Free:Tools (https://freetools.dev https://freetools.dev) While developing client sites we found a need to minify HTML files content. So the new tool will be called HTML Minifier (saving space and improving load speed) Will be similar to JS Minifier: https://freetools.dev/js-minifier https://freetools.dev/js-minifier

12 points by chirau 5y ago

It'd be nice to know

crate_barre 5y ago

Might try out some Unreal engine dev.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

mindcrime 5y ago

I've given myself an absolutely massive reading-list of books on AI and related topics to plow through, so mostly I expect to be doing a lot of reading. Some specific titles I'm actively working through right now: Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language by Roland Hausser[1] The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind by Ben Goertzel[2] Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning by Ron Sun[3] Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks by James A. Anderson (Editor), Edward Rosenfeld (Editor)[4] Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence by Alan Collins (Editor)[5] [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19538351-foundations-of-computational-linguistics https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19538351-foundations-of-... [2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052143.The_Hidden_Pattern https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052143.The_Hidden_Patte... [3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3826453-integrating-rules-and-connectionism-for-robust-commonsense-reasoning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3826453-integrating-rule... [4]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976091.Talking_Nets https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976091.Talking_Nets [5]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535749-readings-in-cognitive-science https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535749-readings-in-cogn...

kstenerud 5y ago

I'll be working on the reference implementation [1] of Concise Encoding [2], which is a secure data format for the modern world. My aim is to replace insecure and clunky formats like JSON and XML and the various binary formats that do similar things less conveniently. In a nutshell: - Existing ad-hoc formats are too loosely defined to be secure, and that's becoming a huge problem as the bad guys become more sophisticated. CE is tightly specified and designed to mitigate exploitation of codecs. - CE is a twin text and binary format. Humans view and edit in text, and machines send it in binary, so you get the convenience of text and the efficiency of binary for free. - CE supports the fundamental types natively. Stringifying is buggy, causes incompatibilities, and opens security holes. And it's completely unnecessary with a properly designed data format. [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding [2] https://concise-encoding.org/ https://concise-encoding.org/ [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding

app17 5y ago
Cool project! I couldn't find any benchmark. How does it compare to protobuf/json/... performance wise?
- kstenerud 5y ago
  There's a benchmark test in the go implementation that gets 30-50% better performance than go's stdlib JSON. Mind you, this is a reference implementation and built for study, not speed. Ultimately, performance in go comes down to how many allocations you do.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

Started with my first pixel art project, Factorio game has piqued my interest in pixel art. I've been lurking on the Pixel Art subreddit[1] for a while now and I've finally indulged myself this weekend. Couple of tutorials on YT to start if anyone is interested: Getting started with Aesprite[2]. Choosing the canvas size[3]. Do's and Don't s with Pixel Art[4]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsETEP01k8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsETEP01k8 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8earctNBxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8earctNBxg [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXg7rexa2k

html5web 5y ago

Cleaning the siding and deck of my house with a pressure washer )))

deleted 5y ago

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muzani 5y ago

I've always been pretty good with complex systems, and in most places it's always been no problem to stay ahead of everything. Right now, I've hit a limit as things are becoming even more complex. CS techniques like DDD are helping, but I get enough of that on the weekdays. Weekends and nights I'm looking through game design videos, and maybe economics if I have time.

jstx1 5y ago

Using youtube programming tutorials as a way to procrastinate from starting some side projects.

drakonka 5y ago

I am trying to finish the first draft of my next fiction book so that I can finally move on to the editing phase. I'm so close, but the last few chapters are always the hardest for me, so I'm just forcing myself through it to get the words - any words - down with the full expectation of having to edit the crap out of it later.

app17 5y ago

I'll be working on a personal project I have been working for a few years now called Exomind[1]. It's a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have iOS and web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking. Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications. It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust, TypeScript and Swift skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before). [1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore https://github.com/appaquet/exocore

motyar 5y ago

An API that generates images on the fly. Example https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN2222 https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN2222 check more info at https://bruzu.com https://bruzu.com

zenull 5y ago

Working on a new tool for Free:Tools (https://freetools.dev https://freetools.dev) While developing client sites we found a need to minify HTML files content. So the new tool will be called HTML Minifier (saving space and improving load speed) Will be similar to JS Minifier: https://freetools.dev/js-minifier https://freetools.dev/js-minifier