by david927 on 8/24/24, 10:00 PM with 1424 comments
by ianthehenry on 8/25/24, 12:53 AM
So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitrary shaders -- even foregoing SDFs altogether -- in a high-level lisp language. The core "default" raymarcher is still there, but you can choose to ignore it and implement, say, volumetric rendering, while still using the provided SDF combinators if you want.
The new implementation is much more general and flexible, and it now supports things like 2D extrusions, mesh export for 3D printing, user-defined procedural noise functions... anything you can do in Shadertoy, you can now do in Bauble. One upcoming feature that I'm very excited about is custom uniforms and embedding in other webpages -- so you can write a blog post with interactive 3D visualizations, for example.
(Also as a fun coincidence: my first cast bronze Bauble arrived today! https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883)
by nlh on 8/24/24, 11:16 PM
About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.
The other 50% I’m writing code and building out the tech stack for this business. I’ve written the whole backend for the retail site myself, which includes my own inventory management system, sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.
I’ve also built out a research tool which includes an ML price prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a tabular regression model).
Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and there’s nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all Svelte and they’re glued together using a mini framework I wrote:
https://github.com/noahlh/celestite
I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it’s super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I’d never give that up.
Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who’s interested or vaguely interested in numismatics.
by mattkevan on 8/25/24, 12:17 AM
It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.
I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.
by anon012012 on 8/25/24, 10:14 AM
This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge.
It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree.
This is all generated on-the-fly with Claude 3.5. There is no limit to what knowledge you might explore.
The killer feature is that it is totally free and does not require to login. Just click the link and have fun. I'll keep it free like that, as long as I can.
I hope you like it guys because it is the best project that I have up my sleeve.
Enjoy!,
Pierre
by tunesmith on 8/25/24, 3:29 AM
by debo_ on 8/25/24, 1:23 AM
by _bramses on 8/25/24, 1:36 PM
As such, I’ve been working on the software to bring this vision to life, which is called Your Commonbase (a portmanteau of Commonplace Book and Vector Database).
In short, the purpose of the work is to create a data structure that works the way humans store, retrieve, and share information. By making these three elements as close to zero stress as possible, you catalyze creativity through remixing and augmentation of memories. My hypothesis is a lifetime building a Commonbase creates an idiosyncratic system, filled with the interpretations of an individual or a group. This individualized structure then creates demand that others want. I.e, a curation of all of the books you have read, organized by the marginalia you have added to them. This is a system people would pay for, and also a system that becomes more valuable over time.
I’ve been “working in public” by posting updates on my site [2], and am just beginning a small waitlist alpha testing phase (email me if you want in!)
by joegibbs on 8/25/24, 1:32 AM
It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement development, food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline, graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.
I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.
by mindcrime on 8/24/24, 10:53 PM
And I took my new quadcopter drone out and did some flying last night for the first time. As in, my first time flying a drone, ever. The results were... predictable. Let's just say, I bought a cheap (< $100) drone for a reason. This thing will wind up destroyed. In less than an hour I managed to crash it into fences, walls, bushes, cars, dumpsters, the ground, an armadillo, Elvis Presley, a 1974 AMC Gremlin, and Nickelback. Well, more or less.
It brought to mind this famous scene[3] from the movie Days of Thunder:
Harry: I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.
Cole: Hit the pace car?
Harry: Hit the pace car!
Cole: What for?
Harry: Because you hit every other god-damned thing out there and I want you to be perfect.
[1]: https://jacamo-lang.github.io/
by 65 on 8/25/24, 1:02 AM
It's a ton of fun, especially writing Fusion 360 scripts to do all the parametric modeling of decks and molds. Then 3D printing molds with different parameters, pressing decks with veneer, making art for the decks, packaging, etc. It's an incredibly niche hobby but I've always found fingerboarding and making fingerboards to be infinitely creative.
by kolleraa on 8/25/24, 1:33 AM
It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use!
by bbx on 8/25/24, 12:00 AM
It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.
I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.
Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.
by cdfuller on 8/25/24, 1:42 AM
I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals, museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a discovery interface.
by sukh on 8/24/24, 11:15 PM
Essentially combining the softness of fine count cotton with the weight and durability of a heavier garment.
Also a lot of ERP, warehouse, UI work and fun with Cursor.
by kaspermarstal on 8/25/24, 5:45 AM
I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs from anthropic, openai, and google.
by 8organicbits on 8/24/24, 11:55 PM
by dan_manges on 8/24/24, 11:00 PM
by taormina on 8/25/24, 1:40 AM
No microtransactions, no advertisements. No networking! The game is meant to function completely off line. The game will start with a mobile release in probably October and should be available on Steam shortly after.
I’ve been using Flame, Flutter’s game engine to develop my app. My artists are amazing and have been providing fully animated sprites using Spine. I’ve used Flutter before but this is my first time getting into Flame.
If you’re curious how it’s going, hop on the mailing list at https://danger.world to learn more. I’ll be looking for my initial playtesters here in the next few weeks.
by elric on 8/25/24, 7:24 AM
by txutxu on 8/25/24, 5:10 PM
Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.
After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.
I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.
I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.
Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.
In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes.
by alfredgg on 8/25/24, 11:51 AM
It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could access. It is an old base code that uses OpenFisca for the back, and React for the front. However, it's quite fun though. Currently I'm working on make it more stable as there are still some parts that could break the process.
by dewski on 8/25/24, 3:52 PM
Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations, etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.
I really needed a way to sync my calendars privately, without all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew I could provide a similar service.
Here’s what makes me excited about it as a user:
Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time for a pro-rated refund.
Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling unlimited calendar syncs.
Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls outside your specified working hours.
Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.
Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it? The time block on your other calendar is removed.
My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work calendars more efficiently.
Thanks for checking out my new project.
by SeanAnderson on 8/25/24, 6:03 AM
I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health, self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.
https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
I haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.
by tomcam on 8/25/24, 1:29 AM
by shiftyck on 8/25/24, 12:45 PM
by germinalphrase on 8/25/24, 1:20 AM
by stpn on 8/25/24, 12:28 AM
Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey
by cdchn on 8/24/24, 11:43 PM
by bambax on 8/25/24, 1:16 PM
I thought it would be absolutely terrifying to be in front of a bunch of strangers and try to make them laugh, but it turns out if you're prepared, it's not that hard. Open mic crowds are benevolent and don't expect you to be the next Richard Pryor or George Carlin anyway, and I don't "engage" the public at all; I just tell my jokes.
I try to come up with new material each time so there's some work to do, but it's fun.
by jascha_eng on 8/25/24, 8:21 AM
My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the process. Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete * form users, forgetting the where clause.
by marginalia_nu on 8/25/24, 7:08 AM
The way position used to be stored in the search engine was approximate, using something like a bloom filter. With this change, they'll be stored in an exact fashion using a gamma coded positions list instead.
In the phase of dotting t:s and dashing i:s at this point. Hope to have it in production in September.
by sentinel1909 on 8/25/24, 3:34 AM
I'll do it anyway, as I need to learn to own where I'm at and have a backbone. :)
I'm learning the Zola static site generator and using to to build my blog at https://jeff-mitchell.dev. The focus is my mis-adventures learning the Rust language.
I've found it a challenge to get off my feet with Zola, but I'm slowly figuring things out. Little victory this evening, finally figured out how to get images linked in posts to render properly.
by egypturnash on 8/25/24, 1:29 AM
by wluer on 8/25/24, 12:38 AM
I recently left a startup I had cofounded after a few years because we were a remote team and I came to the conclusion that we weren't going to be successful without working together in person. I wanted to make this site to help people like me use location as an early filter to find good companies and teams to work with. Let me know if you have any feedback!
by graphoarty on 8/25/24, 11:15 AM
Link: https://camprompter.app
The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.
Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.
I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical step.
Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.
Fire up PhotoBooth and try it out!
PS: Press F for fullscreen.
by oulipo on 8/25/24, 5:47 AM
It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike?
We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned obsolescence!
Here are a few videos about our founder on the battery itself, why we built it, and how to assemble it:
- What is the Gouach Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuW1NPkvNk
- Presentation of the pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoCihE0eIA
- Presentation of the fireproof and waterproof casing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJpt7RDbRM
Here are the juicy bits: https://docs.gouach.com
We'd love some feedback from the e-bike DIY builder community
Oh, and it's launching as a Kickstarter in September and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!
You can follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gouach.batteries to get the latest news!
by ahaapple on 8/25/24, 2:43 AM
The open source project: https://github.com/memfreeme/memfree
An Open Source Hybrid AI Search Engine: Instantly get accurate answers from the internet, bookmarks, notes, and documents. Obtain the most precise answers in the shortest time. With one click, AI indexes your personal knowledge base, eliminating the need to remember or manage it.
by spuds on 8/25/24, 3:42 AM
Worked as a software dev/manager for a decade, went through workaholism, burnout, then alcoholism, depression, all that. Doing a ton better now, and taking some time off to write about what I went through and hopefully help out others going through the same thing some: https://depthsofrepair.com/
by drusepth on 8/25/24, 1:20 AM
It started out as just a prototype asking what happens if you task an LLM with generating crafting recipes for every combination of items in a game (which was already super fun), but it's exploded into all kinds of crafting, harvesting, and item manipulation systems that literally weren't possible in games just 5-10 years ago.
Now we're working on NPC simulations based on last year's Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior [1] paper. Dialogue and persistent memory are obvious, but we're also using the ReAct pattern [2] to give NPCs an influenceable decision loop that dictates what actions they take throughout each game day. And there's some other fun stuff like quest generation and using LLMs as a decision engine to determine if certain player actions complete these dynamic quests.
There's still a lot of work to do to make it feel more like a polished game, but we've been focused on the underlying systems and getting them feeling great and I'm really excited to see the game come to life.
[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039840/Elixir_Emporium/
by maz1b on 8/25/24, 2:15 PM
I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I am the first doctor + full stack technologist in the country. It's super rewarding. No funding, just off our immensely low price point that things are still growing quickly. All software written in house.
by jmcgough on 8/25/24, 12:33 AM
I've been working on and off on building an app for learning chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish applications.
by ianmabie on 8/25/24, 2:00 AM
TestFlight for now - try it out here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8
by gnulinux996 on 8/24/24, 10:48 PM
First time writing C and the task has been both daunting and rewarding, I am mostly working hls enc/dec and learning about av has been a ton of fun!
by Rendello on 8/25/24, 4:35 PM
Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual writing.
Tom Scott has an awesome video about how syllabics work[1], but breifly, the shape of the character determined its inital consonant spund, and the rotation determines its vowel sound. So ᐱ = pi, ᐳ = pu, ᐸ = pa, ᑎ = ti, ᑐ = tu, ᑕ = ta, etc. The word "Inuktitut" becomes ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in syllabics.
Transliterating between the two is fairly simple, but there are edge-cases around dialects and whatnot. The more interesting problem from a technical perspective is having a web extension that can detect Inuktitut on a web page (in wither writing system), and transliterate that into whatever writing system the user desires, whilst never accidentally transliterating the other text on the page ("inhabitants" could be picked up and transliterated as "ᐃᓐᕼᐊᖯᐃᑕᓐᑦᔅ", for example, even though that makes no sense).
The project is mostly using Rust via WebAssembly, which has been a lot of fun to work with and has let me do some awesome things, like avoiding heap allocation and using compile-time hashmaps to do conversions on the text. The build system has to do a lot and I eventually settled on python. Right now I'm trying to wrangle JS and the DOM (there's a lot of edge cases to deal with), and that's been difficult as it's not my wheelhouse.
by zelo on 8/25/24, 9:39 PM
The idea is that phones have very nice cameras and lot of media processing power and such API could enable hackers to easily incorporate capable camera stack in to their projects without android development experience in any language they like.
There are millions of working phones in the drawers battery backed, with plenty of computing power, nice cameras, hardware acceleration, good connectivity (WiFi, ethernet over usb), that could get new purpose.
Previously I was working on automated photogrammetry rig and this is perfect use case for that.
If you see other use case for such API share your ideas.
If you think that's cool idea to develop and would like to help write me at hn@zelo.pl
by the__alchemist on 8/25/24, 12:00 AM
It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, features, and primers, and has some tools like automatic primer creation for cloning, primer QC, protein sequence viewing, and interop with common file formats.
by c0g on 8/25/24, 6:16 AM
Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a robot I can take on walks with me that will pick up trash.
by firefoxd on 8/25/24, 1:03 AM
Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a useful chat agent that resolved real-world problems. So I'm writing the guide that I wish I had when getting started.
I'll publish it on github and post here as more progress is made. I've created three parts. Part One is a non dev focused which explains how each of the moving parts work, what is Ai and what isn't. Part two gets technical and explains the tech stack. Part three is a bonus section that looks at how Ai assistants like google and Siri work and can be improved.
The working title is Automated Agents.
Edit: adding a link for those who want to follow along.
by blackbear_ on 8/25/24, 6:51 AM
Hashtags can be used to split the text into sheets and columns, if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expenses, workouts, mood, period, weight, diet, etc., with the added bonus of easy charting and summarization from within the spreadsheet. It also supports pictures and other attachments that are uploaded automatically to Google Drive and linked into the spreadsheet.
Feel free to check it out, all feedback is appreciated: https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
by frompdx on 8/25/24, 12:58 AM
by ignoramous on 8/24/24, 11:44 PM
Scams usually start with messages. Predominantly SMS/email sent with links.
ML models exist to determine this, but we are prototyping using Gemma2 2b to utilise its natural language understanding to see if a better firewall could be built, one which users can talk to.
It has been surprisingly easy to get started on this project: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/genai/llm_inf...
We want to subsequently build a firewall for Calls, too; but that's a more challenging problem given its dynamic and online / realtime nature.
Hope to integrate these two features in our existing network firewall open source app.
by rudasn on 8/25/24, 1:30 PM
A million ways to do this, of course, but I'm focused on using wireguard so that eg only my wireguard peers can get access to my local service, and for internal traffic (ie vpn).
At the moment I'm settling on having a simple script that I can run on a host alongside wireguard. The script will function like `wg-quick`, parsing a wireguard config file and handilng the routing stuff behind the scenes, and returning a cleaned up config to be passed to `wg`.
Ideally, the wireguard configs could be generated by some other tool or service, like https://wirehub.org, and automatically fetched and applied to the running wg interface.
So, a one liner on a server with a public IP and the services exposed by your wireguard peers can be accessed via a custom domain name while still respecting internal wireguard routing rules (based on AllowedIPs).
If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about it, I would love to! My contact info is in my profile.
by dtkav on 8/25/24, 12:31 AM
I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt) to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their devices.
by seky on 8/25/24, 9:22 AM
https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),
https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),
https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),
https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),
https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),
https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),
https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).
https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code) notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).
Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.
by bubblyworld on 8/25/24, 5:29 AM
by ubavic on 8/24/24, 11:13 PM
Just today, I finished first working version of the new compiler (https://github.com/ubavic/mint). It is written in Go, and there are lot of things on the TODO list, but it works :)
This is actually the second compiler for the atex. The first one was written in Haskell and compiled fixed document schema. I used it for writing a book on Haskell (https://github.com/ubavic/programming-in-haskell).
by ElegantBeef on 8/24/24, 11:53 PM
An example of it in action: https://streamable.com/2mxktc
Source code: https://github.com/beef331/potato
by tunn3l on 8/25/24, 7:43 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D2dOTHpzo
Watch my blog https://tunn3l.pro for the full project release!
Cheers!
by hopfog on 8/24/24, 11:01 PM
I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which you can try directly in your browser:
by she11c0de on 8/25/24, 11:53 AM
Some of the features:
* OpenID Connect based Identity Provider
* OpenLDAP synchronization - currently supporting users and groups synchronization
* MFA with TOTP, email, WebAuthn / FIDO2, crypto wallets
* wireguard client GUI integrated with OIDC, supporting multiple locations (https://defguard.net/client)
* secure enrollment & onboarding
* yubikey provisioning
Our github: https://github.com/DefGuard
(edit: formatting, github link)
by masto on 8/25/24, 4:17 AM
The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second is coming out tomorrow)
And it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee
I also recently left the Big Tech world after 11 years at Google, so I'm trying to figure out what comes next. (I don't think I can make professional YouTuber pay the bills). If it's not inappropriate to mention here, my resume is at https://hire.masto.me/
by thangalin on 8/24/24, 11:58 PM
Finished a feature to convert Markdown's fenced divs nested within blockquotes into the following XHTML:
<blockquote>
<div class="name"> ... </div>
</blockquote>
> ::: simul
> Simultaneous section 1.
> :::
>
> ::: simul
> Simultaneous section 2.
> :::
by zakokor on 8/25/24, 5:16 PM
65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in the language you're learning.
The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having the opportunity to think about how you'd express something without the pressure of the moment.
There's no hidden science behind choosing 65 words. I found it’s achievable even on a very busy day.
The goal is to help learners practice daily and build confidence through consistent effort.
by semireg on 8/25/24, 3:53 PM
by elihu on 8/25/24, 11:12 PM
Recently I got a DIY strobe tuner I've been working on up and running, which pairs nicely with the Mosaichord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkz-fZN54OI
The Mosaichord works pretty well these days, and I've assembled a bunch of them. Just got a new batch of PCBs yesterday to make more. There's a basic website up, but I haven't yet set up a proper web store.
by brazed_blotch on 8/25/24, 9:22 PM
I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.
That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.
by jcpst on 8/24/24, 11:46 PM
I’m using this precious expanded free time to compose music, my primary form of artistic expression.
Software-wise, I’m on a platform team for a large company. I’m making some performance enhancements to our http client, and a plug-n-play library for app devs to easily integrate LLMs in their products.
by joostdecock on 8/25/24, 8:09 AM
It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at traditional on-prem infra.
It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).
Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code: https://github.com/certeu/morio
Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).
by joshsharp on 8/25/24, 12:39 PM
by anonyonoor on 8/25/24, 3:00 AM
http://github.com/leftmove/facebook.js
I was working with the Facebook API for another project, but I was surprised that a website as popular as Facebook had exclusively old API wrappers for it, that all required too much setup, and were cumbersome to write code with.
I wanted a better approach using the standards I have come to appreciate with modern API wrappers, and so I decided to start work on a more intuitive, faster approach for the Facebook API.
My initial launch goal is to allow for programmatic authentication, posting, and commenting, all with one setup command through a CLI.
by dang on 8/24/24, 10:39 PM
by bob1029 on 8/25/24, 2:12 AM
I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there are so many hyper parameters to think about and how they behave over time is really hard to predict. I was also struggling deeply with how to manage topological concerns like network growth over time.
With interpreted evolutionary programs, the memory access patterns are so much more ideal with the program counter stepping through (mostly) contiguous bytes vs totally insane recurrent spiking neural access patterns. You get so many more generations & candidates evaluated per unit time that it can make previously apparent "dead ends" viable, simply because you don't need to have extreme patience to find out anymore. I am discovering that iteration speed is the most important thing in this arena. The faster you find out how bad a certain parameter adjustment is, the sooner you can get to the good ones.
I am also working on an unrelated contract to integrate some back office banking systems. Not much worth discussing there.
by aetherspawn on 8/25/24, 7:47 AM
There are some players in this space already, but we have repurposed some OEM grade hardware that we usually reserve for the big players and so we can offer differentiating features such as DC fast charging, bidirectional/V2X, and things like this to the retrofit market.
B2B to start with.
by erik101 on 8/25/24, 8:38 PM
The app's website is vid-note.com, if you would like to check it out. The value of the app is that one no longer has to watch endless videos but can find exactly what one needs about a certain topic within the notes that we offer. What is good to know is that most of the notes are centered around business and self-improvement for the reason that we, the founders, are interested in these topics. We understand that many would advise us to let an LLM write the notes, but for this project, we have decided to sway away from the flawed results that LLMs bring with them.
This is the first venture my business partner and I have decided to pursue, and we look forward to finding out if we must pivot or preserve. For those wondering, the app has been approved for external testing on the App Store, but we have decided not to make the jump yet, simply because we still have to handcraft a few notes ;). We predict that a release on the Play Store will soon follow. Cheers.
by mjac on 8/25/24, 1:47 PM
Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java. Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.
It's challenging as:
- Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync
- We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync
- Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a future version
[1] https://strengthlevel.com/
by venk12 on 8/25/24, 8:43 AM
My ultimate goal is to bring brain signals to the browser and develop neuro-apps, all in public. I share updates weekly on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-tether
by yusufaytas on 8/25/24, 7:09 AM
by textlapse on 8/24/24, 11:35 PM
Next, I will try to build something using RL next but try not to use the Gym/Farama stuff to force myself to learn this from scratch.
by daniel31x13 on 8/25/24, 12:33 AM
by scilaaverkie on 8/25/24, 7:39 AM
- Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc
- And here's WHY we do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...
Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.
- Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/
- And a video where we talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9s
So my days are now filled with talks with rare disease foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be willing to support us.
Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or the campaign itself!
by woile on 8/25/24, 6:42 AM
by maxoid on 8/25/24, 1:11 PM
Not sure if I caught the train but still. My name is Max, a software developer based in Central Europe, and I'm working on my course "Building Command-Line Interface App from Scratch in Go" (this is a working title).
In this course I want to teach how to write CLI application from scratch in Go without any external dependencies (exception: driver for DB).
This is not another one course about how to write CLI app using Cobra or any other command-line builder library. Instead, in my course you're gonna write your own Cobra-like command-line builder library (package) to build command-line interface application from scratch.
Thus, you will know how to build an API for building CLI like Cobra and you can use it later on for your future projects. I will also talk about Command-Line Interface Guidelines showing how to make powerful, useful and easy-to-use command-line application which you can use every day in your workflow.
The course is still work in progress and I don't even have a web page for it. But I do have my newsletter where I share best resources about Go. By subscribing to this newsletter you will be notified once course is ready to launch. Also, everyone who's subscribed to my newsletter and will be in first batch to buy a course gets a 50% discount.
So, if you are interested in this kind of stuff join the waitlist for course in my newsletter on https://kovalevsky.io
P.S. I also have daily base newsletter about Go - Daily Golang. If you subscribe to this newsletter you will also be notified once course is ready to launch you and will get 50% discount to buy the course - https://kovalevsky.io/daily-golang.
by vertnerd on 8/25/24, 12:39 PM
I am using the Godot engine: https://godotengine.org/
The playable demo is already available today on Github: https://github.com/Eccentric-Anomalies/Tungsten-Moon-Demo-Re...
We're releasing the demo on Steam for the first time in a few days, followed by an early access version probably in October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104900/Tungsten_Moon/
by tired_and_awake on 8/25/24, 12:06 AM
Keeping key bits of the idea to myself. If this admittedly vague idea excites you let's find some time to talk.
by CarpeQueso on 8/25/24, 12:00 PM
During university, I spent some time working on an AI agent to play Dominion, but a very large part of the work was building a way to simulate the game.
The goals are:
- Develop an engine that's efficient enough to use in simulations (for training AI agents or analyzing the game). - Still emit events that can be used to visualize the current state of the game when real people are playing. - Create primitives that are easy to distribute across a network for remote players/agents.
by stevepotter on 8/25/24, 1:47 AM
by fhd2 on 8/25/24, 6:02 PM
So far I just use it for my company billing, but it's quite delightful for me: My process is to save the services we provided in CSV files (exported from time tracking in org-mode, but you could use any tool that supports exporting), then I run this over it and it creates PDF invoices, and stores all the data (which I query occasionally, e.g. for quarterly VAT payments).
Technologically it's weird, the invoice templates are written in LaTEX, and the code is in Common Lisp.
I don't think about turning it into a business, but I think I'll open source it once it's a bit less messy. For now, I just focus on implementing the features I need (about 1-2 per quarter now).
I kinda doubt it, but if anyone is interested in command line billing tools, I'd be excited to talk about it. Contact info is in my profile.
by artiscode on 8/25/24, 10:07 AM
by bpsagar on 8/25/24, 4:02 AM
I'm currently working on an app that provides a step-by-step guide to drawing from a reference photo. My goal is to make the sketching process more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
by westcort on 8/25/24, 11:42 AM
javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) { alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var encodedSelection = document.createElement("div"); encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent = encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1; var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" + word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize, word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart + lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord + " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow = window.open("", "_blank"); newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1' max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content' style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"%20+%20formattedText%20+%20"</p></body></html>");%20var%20rateSlider%20=%20newWindow.document.getElementById("rate-slider");%20var%20utterance%20=%20new%20SpeechSynthesisUtterance(speechContent);%20rateSlider.addEventListener("input",%20function()%20{%20utterance.rate%20=%20rateSlider.value;%20window.speechSynthesis.cancel();%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20});%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20})();}();
by WillAdams on 8/25/24, 1:57 PM
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
big things are reading:
_Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason_ by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften
and
_A Philosophy of Software Design_ by John Ousterhout
and getting the code to an actually useful state and then creating CNC joinery which isn't possible with other tools.
by michaelsalim on 8/24/24, 11:08 PM
Very early stage right now but I hope to release alpha soon. I'm already using it privately right now but there's a lot to do to make it user friendly.
by aapoalas on 8/25/24, 8:42 AM
by fraboniface on 8/25/24, 7:50 PM
The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm planning to add more. I realized groups have similar needs to events, so I added them as well (think small private groups, not massive communities).
All of this is stil very early in development and it definitely needs some more work before a Show HN, but we've found it very useful for weekends and holidays already.
Consider it an open beta, so feel free to give it a try and give me your honest feedback :)
by aray07 on 8/24/24, 10:53 PM
Goal is to automate or reduce the grunt work oncall engineers have to do.
Code is here: https://github.com/opslane/opslane
by lemonwaterlime on 8/25/24, 2:01 AM
In short, if you want a person with Language A experience, but Language B is close enough, my software will provide the signal that the candidate is good enough for a closer look.
Example: PHP and Go devs are likely to have similar approaches to how software should be built. Ruby and Go, perhaps not so much.
There’s more nuance to it, but this is the idea.
by kentrf on 8/24/24, 11:11 PM
Working as a consultant, but no extra energy or will to create anything outside of work.
Kids are getting bigger, and I have time.... but no will, or maybe it's just fear, to start anything.
by ljhsiung on 8/25/24, 1:36 AM
My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking months to write an article, be it due to laziness or constant rabbitholes/google scholar searches about an idea.
Any clue on dedicated disciplined writing time or even considering "reducing" the rigor of writing?
by Instantnoodl on 8/25/24, 8:53 AM
And my long-time project. A Dungeons & Dragons utility to use Thermal Printer for handy Printouts: https://github.com/BigJk/snd
by shiroiushi on 8/26/24, 6:36 AM
I looked into pre-built systems like Synology and QNAP, but they seem too proprietary and limited, and somewhat expensive for the hardware they have, so I decided to build my own, but trying to decide on all the HW and SW is a real task: btrfs vs ZFS, Intel vs AMD, RAID levels, etc.
by ejs on 8/25/24, 8:46 AM
I've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one that uses the log stream instead of agents/daemons.
by drekipus on 8/25/24, 12:06 AM
I basically want that to be open and free. I'll have an app to easily create albums, and have the ability to connect to any storage or montage service you like. You could even make your own app connect to your own storage and montage service, so it can be completely diy. I have a few write-ups but I'm transferring it to notion at the moment so I won't link it just yet.
My other idea is a "bill hamper / consolidation" service, that I'm doing for my sister. She pays me a flat fee each week and I pay all of her bills for her. Gives her peace of mind and allows her to save some money without stressing on paying random bills
by ralphc on 8/25/24, 4:06 AM
My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps using current news and weather information. The most interesting part for me has been deciphering the 1980's era graphics format, NAPLPS, which Prodigy uses and making a library to write files in the format. I treat the file format as a data transformation, taking the NAPLPS file generated so far and appending more commands to the end of it. The commands naturally pipe into each other in an idiomatic way in Elixir.
by gabigrin on 8/25/24, 6:11 AM
I would love feedback on the new site's direction - https://www.getflowcode.io/ (still WIP) Here's the old one, for reference https://flyde.app/
by erikthiart on 8/24/24, 11:00 PM
I’d love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the website to feature prominantly for local search when people need rubble removal near them.
by mxstbr on 8/25/24, 12:46 AM
My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:
1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays, which hopefully leads to…
2. Getting more input from people on my ideas
3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically
So far, so good!
by armagon on 8/25/24, 1:43 AM
My app is called Project&Cut and can be found at https://projectandcut.com.
by aszantu on 8/25/24, 9:02 AM
by pknerd on 8/25/24, 2:38 PM
by michelangelodev on 8/25/24, 8:41 AM
This is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:
https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...
by techas on 8/25/24, 3:27 PM
I found it amazing the importance of the small details in old woodworking tools and how toolmakers solve problems and improve tools. Particularly in very simple tools.
by yevlasenko on 8/25/24, 2:30 PM
Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)
by dsalaj on 8/25/24, 8:31 AM
I am releasing everything for free and the first "instrument" and sample pack with previews/videos is already available here: https://neuromorph.gumroad.com/l/alien_vocalization_study_1
by itissid on 8/25/24, 12:14 AM
It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.
Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.
by jokoon on 8/25/24, 3:04 PM
I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.
I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.
I modeled guns.
I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in gdscript.
Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very fast paced.
I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a module for it.
Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.
by chilipepperhott on 8/25/24, 1:03 AM
by idrios on 8/25/24, 5:04 PM
So I spent some time trying to make an app that allows you to do that, but can't shake the thought that such an app would work better as a Blender addon/plugin rather a standalone app. And I also am trying to figure out how people work with 3D currently, to see if such a tool would even be an improvement over existing tools.
by mirekrusin on 8/25/24, 8:09 AM
They're driven by what problems I see at work and while playing with other weekend projects so coverage may be asymmetric (some parts are well covered, others that should be are absent <<ie. documentation>>).
I find definition of success as just "working on it" very pleasant.
by antony_pond on 8/25/24, 12:50 AM
It is an experiment for the exploration of the free aspect of blockchain storage, where the book library is now permanently hosted on the blockchain, and it's content voted upon by its members.
The licence is based on creative commons, and enforces that the data is decentralized and doesn't need any account, or wallet, to use.
There is also the creation of a new label, the D-Safe label, for a safe experience across generations.
A fun side project - which I have been working on for several years now - rewriting it fully already 10 times - and been restructuring my mental health around it.
by minajevs on 8/25/24, 9:13 AM
Evy is an app for collectors, both professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items and share it with the world. Currently there are either overly complex inventory management systems, which are overkill for casual collectors, or generic social platforms, which are "fine" for everything, but great for nothing. My goal with Evy is to fill this gap by offering an easy way for any collector to manage their items.
In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically for collectors.
by zer0tonin on 8/25/24, 11:25 AM
A demo should be available very soon, meanwhile you can wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/
by rossant on 8/25/24, 8:47 AM
by ok_dad on 8/24/24, 11:48 PM
by cperciva on 8/24/24, 11:07 PM
by darrelld on 8/25/24, 3:36 AM
It's turning into a full time side gig that's paid off in handful of batches (~$25K and running)
I'm trying to become a loyalty vendor API.
Would really like to work on my own interconnected systems of blogging tools and social media. Kinda a blend between having your own site and myspace? Not really targeting a market or anything like that, just think it would be cool to do for personal use and sharing with family and friends
by Syntaf on 8/25/24, 1:04 AM
We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.
It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.
by mpduda on 8/24/24, 11:56 PM
It's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a much older version of Pulselyre.
by xipix on 8/25/24, 10:59 AM
Bungee is unique in its quality, performance and controllability. Every media player, DAW, video editor should use something like Bungee for smooth scrubbing and audio slomo.
Try it with one click: https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo
So far we have several licensees of the Pro edition with more on the way.
by nikoslp on 8/26/24, 6:30 AM
This is a problem that every refiner solvea to select raw msterials. They traditionally solve with local optimization methods (LPs) that rely on initial guesses and return suboptimal solutions.
For the same refinery we can find raw material acquisition solutions with 2-5% higher profits.
We made a cloud platform for it and hoping to change the landscape.
by adulion on 8/25/24, 3:28 PM
I've been working on an exciting project called DataSignal, where I'm developing a sophisticated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and enrichment system. This system is designed to identify and extract key entities from blocks of text, such as names, locations, or organizations, and then provide rich contextual information about them. The goal is to transform raw text into meaningful data that users can easily understand and leverage in various applications.
The real magic of DataSignal lies in how it delivers this contextual information. It can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow through a browser plugin, which instantly highlights and explains entities as you browse the web. For developers, DataSignal can be embedded directly into a webpage via JavaScript, enhancing the content on the page with dynamic insights. Additionally, it offers a REST API, allowing for flexible and customizable integration into other software systems.
Whether you're a developer looking to enhance your application with smart text analysis or someone who wants to streamline research and data gathering, DataSignal is poised to bring a new level of insight and efficiency to text analysis. This project aims to make complex data more accessible and actionable, transforming how we interact with and interpret information.
by treyd on 8/25/24, 4:00 AM
Currently I've built a call/response RPC abstraction with it to use it for another project that I'm working on. Eventually I'd want to add a streaming message system beyond the basic call/response pattern. I also might like to ship some easy setup to bridge between these protocol abstractions and ZMQ, JSON-RPC, be able to behave like inetd, etc.
It's functional enough to use in non-production environments but not completely seriously yet. I'm working out the kinks and improving the DX by using it for that other project. There's still some easy improvements around the byte encoding that I still haven't gotten to yet.
by manuelmoreale on 8/25/24, 4:57 AM
— I’m working on a second newsletter that’s more discovery oriented but still focused on the personal web space
— I’m setting up a private, invite only discourse forum to create a space where people can hang out and connect in a more meaningful way
— I’m working on a new studio site in collaboration with a friend
by cabinguy on 8/25/24, 3:39 PM
by tslocum on 8/24/24, 11:14 PM
(Source code at https://bgammon.org/code)
by kredd on 8/24/24, 10:59 PM
by peterldowns on 8/24/24, 11:34 PM
Happy to talk more about this with anyone. If you're at all interested in "software to make your team run better" I'd really love to hear what you're having trouble with and how your team runs, maybe I can figure out a way to help you, even if it's not at all related to what I've built already.
by hyferg on 8/25/24, 2:24 AM
by wzyoi on 8/25/24, 7:09 AM
It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.
On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.
The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.
On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.
I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.
Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).
by _caw on 8/25/24, 12:18 AM
by sorobahn on 8/25/24, 12:18 AM
[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494
by nabilt on 8/25/24, 2:40 AM
by readyplayernull on 8/24/24, 11:23 PM
* Analyzes candidate information
* Examines job descriptions
* Generates unique CVs and cover letters for each job
* Answers specific questions that recruiters ask
* Automatically applies to jobs
by genericone on 8/25/24, 5:44 AM
by vinc on 8/25/24, 9:01 AM
There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.
The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.
It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!
Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.
The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.
I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!
by jfil on 8/25/24, 3:13 PM
- Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you interested? Please get in touch!
- Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is done, now working on a writeup.
- ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on making mobile-friendly imagemaps
by randomcatuser on 8/25/24, 3:47 AM
Basically a pretty+easy editor! I'm really enjoying building the small features https://owri.netlify.app/share/25a7d985-7cd5-4217-9766-f5296...
Feel free to tell me if there's anything you want!!
New idea: So currently I'm trying to learn leetcodes, but thinking of alternative/structured ways to do it. What if there's an AI-powered book that's basically like your personal Wikipedia into anything?
You start with a topic, it generates you outlines/courses -- and what'd be great is if this was social, like you can see what everyone else is learning about, what nodes they're expanding...
and make notes on topics and ask questions
by IvanAchlaqullah on 8/25/24, 12:45 AM
The only difference here is that the program will switch on the fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can compress file smaller.
It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.
I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it a lot.
by thiht on 8/25/24, 9:35 AM
I’m currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible, and then I’ll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats, etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and bring more value to the tests.
Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since I’ve never done this before.
by Twirrim on 8/25/24, 4:55 AM
The set of puzzles is really tickling my fancy at the moment, for some reason.
by tomaspollak on 8/25/24, 4:38 AM
It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to reliably determine the matching game for files like /pub/johnny/midi/games/sc2kmenu.mid, and also to show them in a way that fits nicely in the UI.
by ryukoposting on 8/25/24, 2:10 PM
by csjh on 8/25/24, 2:02 AM
by conradbez on 8/25/24, 1:39 PM
For $100 we ship a vending mechanism for you to put on your own custom vending box.
We then provide online marketplace and payment services (Shopify for vending machines) so your customers can use their phones to buy products from your vending machines.
Great alternative for products that don’t justify big $10k vending machines.
by RobotCaleb on 8/24/24, 11:01 PM
I'm still contemplating what I want the final form to look like, but currently it's a 5 kg load cell and a floating idler and an rp2040 reading values via hx711.
by some_furry on 8/25/24, 12:20 AM
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
Think: Encrypted DMs for Mastodon. I wrote several blog posts about the project and why it matters.
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/21/federated-key-transparency-pr...
https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transpa...
https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption...
Eventually I plan on doing a "Show HN" post when it's built and close to feature-complete.
by AudiomaticApp on 8/24/24, 11:36 PM
An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.
My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice quality and adding new features.
by chris_l on 8/25/24, 4:12 PM
It is implemented in Go, Python and JS, with support from Postgres, TimescaleDB and Kubernetes.
by allamaso on 8/25/24, 7:32 AM
This is an open-source alternative to paid services like:
AssemblyAI Deepgram Gladia Google Cloud Microsoft Azure RevAI
With trintAI you can build your own custom workflows & integration for speech-to-text transcription.
The main features are:
- Speech-to-Text Transcription: Converts audio files into accurate, readable text in real-time.
- Summarization: Provides concise summaries of long audio files or transcripts. This feature extracts the most important information and key points from the text, allowing you to quickly understand the main takeaways from meetings, calls, or any extended audio content.
- Sentiment Analysis: Detects emotions within the transcribed text.
- Language Identification: Detects the language spoken in the audio file and can transcribe in multiple languages.
- Diarization: Identify and distinguish between different speakers within an audio recording.
Give it a try! it is open-source. Your feedback is very appreciated!
Cheers
by udev4096 on 8/25/24, 6:11 AM
by plank on 8/25/24, 8:15 AM
Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)
Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).
by frabjoused on 8/25/24, 3:16 AM
We’ve been hand coding full-service integration workflows for 2+ years on a large B2B agency model, and in parallel have been building a platform using what we’ve learned to build better abstractions.
We’re at an interesting point where almost all new workflows are being built on the platform, and we’re serving over 100 clients.
We’re prepping for public release in the next few months.
by cryptography on 8/27/24, 5:13 PM
In 2022, I wondered what it would be like if my manager could leave comments directly on the live website for all the edits, rather than sending a bunch of screenshots and videos. That’s how I came up with the idea for a "simple" browser extension that lets you leave comments on any site, anywhere on the screen.
There were several challenges along the way:
Attaching Comments to the Correct HTML Element: I initially struggled with ensuring comments were attached to the right element, as relying on X/Y coordinates would not be responsive. Now, I use a combination of element IDs, classes, outer HTML, and attributes. This approach works correctly 95% of the time. Do you know of any other methods to find the correct element in the DOM?
No Third-Party Libraries: Extension development only allows pure HTML, CSS, and JS, with no external scripts from CDNs. Building a text editor from scratch was one of the most challenging parts.
Real-Time Functionality: Keeping the extension's background page active was tough because it deactivates when not in use, making it almost impossible to maintain a socket connection. I wrote code to wake up the background page and reconnect the socket whenever it goes to sleep.
I stopped all my freelance projects, and now three other people and I work on this tool full-time. We recently became #1 on Product Hunt: JustBeepIt.com
There are still many issues we're working on, such as using it with iFrames or inside scrollable objects, but we're tackling these challenges one by one.
by blackbrokkoli on 8/25/24, 11:51 AM
Currently experimenting with a game build around the old classroom method of Total Physical Response — you can see a very early prototype here: https://kolja-sam.itch.io/the-tpr-game-gala
by wkirby on 8/25/24, 2:23 AM
Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots of interesting work these days “in” AI, plenty of cool stuff going on in health tech.
Got something cool you need devs for? Always happy to talk shop — wyatt at apsis dot io.
by koliber on 8/25/24, 7:06 AM
There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send the weekly marketing campaign email.With
[I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll let you know.
If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love to know as well.
by skp1995 on 8/25/24, 12:09 PM
Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.
by mattrighetti on 8/25/24, 3:22 PM
by icdtea on 8/25/24, 3:34 AM
I've been spending a lot of time in México over the last year and have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape.
I realized I had a sort of hyper-niche problem where I was locating Vochos I'd like to shoot when I wasn't carrying my camera. I was getting annoyed with using Google Maps to list locations I'd like to return and shoot so I spent a weekend putting the app together and turning it into a game.
After using the app for a few weeks I've realized the spotting or hunting of the cars is the part I enjoy the most about my project and when I have the time I'd like to publicize it so others who find themselves in Vocho dense area can check it out if they'd like!
by Simorgh on 8/24/24, 11:13 PM
I’m using it personally as a transcribed voice-note system.
https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8...
by drhodes on 8/25/24, 1:42 AM
I need help finding a full time job in Boston so I can move there.. Facing a catch 22 with apartment applications. I have a tooth brush and will scrub makefiles for a living wage, I'm not picky! (resume in profile)
by Ono-Sendai on 8/25/24, 8:18 AM
Custom 3d engine, opengl / webgl, Lua scripting, voice chat. Mostly in C++.
by captn3m0 on 8/25/24, 2:54 PM
Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license
My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:
1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.
2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.
3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.
4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.
I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.
I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.
https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas
If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:
* A physical variable fuzzy clock
* A curl impersonation proxy
* A Whisper UX Design Pattern
* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform
* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute
* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites
by thisisauserid on 8/25/24, 12:27 AM
by taulien on 8/25/24, 8:23 AM
In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do not break existing functionality.
But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.
Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts, bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from the business perspective, it does not make sense to have developers create automatically executable tests to make sure, the website is configured as it should be.
And its often not the developers who change the configuration. Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.
These people often do not know if they configured something correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has a test coverage of 100%).
So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if everything is working fine.
by gr__or on 8/25/24, 3:45 PM
Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write about it on my blog (https://watwa.re) at some point
by kbrecordzz on 8/25/24, 3:09 PM
by pbnjay on 8/24/24, 11:50 PM
Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary!
Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next week or two)
by joakim0 on 8/25/24, 5:23 AM
- TheFile.Ninja, which is a file manager with the Everything indexer built-in for extremely fast information retrieval. This allows you to quickly run file queries, and these queries can then be saved or even added as folders in the file system. When you open the folder, it automatically fills with the contents from the query. I have also created a service with LLM/AI that translates plain text into Everything's query language. This enables you to build very complex queries directly from plain text. For example, you can ask if any directories contain a certain file, and if this file is found and contains specific text, it will be displayed. You can learn more about the project at: https://thefile.ninja or watch https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk. This summer, I also built three smaller games (not fully finished but almost):
- ThrustMe!, a space/underwater cave exploration game (https://youtu.be/M0d7CSpEJ1E). It works on Android, Web, Windows, and possibly soon on iOS.
- MergeQuanta, a Tetris-like game where you merge matching blocks (color + shape) to make them disappear, taking surrounding blocks with the same shape along with them. There are also cement blocks and bombs. The game works well with touch and stylus but also on regular computers (https://youtu.be/VXvpzhi8ySE).
- Flip the Maze, a simple multi-dimensional maze game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVRB0uAPIE).
What do you think about them?
by rznicolet on 8/25/24, 12:58 AM
You can see some of my world-noodling about aliens that don't need to breathe at: https://rznicolet.com
I've been plotting a series of hard sci-fi novels entirely from the point of view of very not-humanoid aliens. In this case, hard SF = all real physics except for FTL. First manuscript complete. Humans not included in the main series, except as passing footnotes. Let's just say that when I originally started, the pandemic had me feeling a touch misanthropic. We'll see when/how I actually publish these.
I write fantasy stuff, too, though since the blog is relatively new, I haven't started adding that in yet. I'm currently wrapping a sequel to a finished fantasy work (again, publication approach TBD) before switching back to relatively hard sci-fi.
by goldfeld on 8/25/24, 7:52 PM
Initially also on Emacs as a minor mode, the concept is to write in a shorthand of greek letters, mapped like to a Dvorak distribution, that stand there as a code, as variables or latent values, expanded upon a key combination to one of several languages: German, Hebrew or Yiddish. Text can stay code-mixed indefinitely. The greek letters are a preform, condensed by layers of translation and transliteration, a hybrid con, and the keyboard layout itself, dynamic and not static, is dual: for every greek letter in the layout correpsonds a hebrew letter or diphtong or diacritic mark etc. It is a merge and disambiguation of both Dvorak/Programmer Dvorak and Yiddish Klal.
I really don't know if it may seem useful to someone, but I've been itching writing a bit jargon in a system like this for some weeks.
by jppope on 8/25/24, 4:24 AM
by hiAndrewQuinn on 8/25/24, 3:27 PM
I'll come back to it once I'm farther along in my language learning journey and want to take my foot off the gas pedal a bit.
by meonkeys on 8/25/24, 1:04 AM
Also working on my homelab. Recently got DocuSeal, changedetection.io, and Actual Budget running.
by seanwilson on 8/25/24, 2:09 AM
https://x.com/seanw_org/status/1815442179361317022
There's lots of tools in this space, but the key features of this is it lets you easily check the contrast of any color pair (not just against white, so you can check e.g. your text colors will contrast on off-white shades), it's for creating a full palette of colors vs a handful of brand colors (you always end up needing lighter/darker variants for things like borders and backgrounds), and you can alter how the hue/saturation/lightness varies across a whole swatch of colors with a few clicks (being able to visualise these curves also makes picking new colors really easy).
Feel free to reach out if you think this might be useful to you!
by humdaanm on 8/25/24, 8:17 AM
All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you browse a hacker news post via arrow keys: https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.
(While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a fix!)
by jamesmcq on 8/25/24, 1:04 PM
Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.
by mysterydip on 8/25/24, 1:15 AM
by celltalk on 8/24/24, 10:45 PM
Made it with React, Vite, firebase via Typescript. It’s a really different world for sure.
by cddotdotslash on 8/26/24, 12:35 PM
Right now it's a collection of a few tools:
• AWS Resource Explorer - a lighter-weight version of the AWS console where everything is just a sortable/filterable/searchable table.
• Access Denied Debugger - paste an "AccessDenied" message and get back a stack-trace style UI showing all the resources involved, reason for the error (e.g., which policy is missing a permission), recent changes via CloudTrail, etc.
• AWS Organizations / SCP Viewer - generates a tree-diagram style UI showing all your AWS accounts, which policies apply to them, etc.
Still working on merging these into a cohesive application (mostly just been scratching my own itches so far). I'm trying to consider privacy/security carefully, so everything is client-side, using the AWS JavaScript SDK, and creds/data are only stored locally.
by shubhamjain on 8/25/24, 4:08 AM
Not a sexy idea, of course. However, I couldn't find any solution that fit my needs for my SSG blog. Services like Cloudinary, and Imagekit are too developer-focused, and popular image sharing websites like Imgur don't allow backlinking.
[1]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
[2]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...
by ahmedbaracat on 8/24/24, 10:52 PM
To help Londoners find their perfect home by filtering for proximity to parks, river, PoIs, commute time, etc.
The website is not optimized for mobile and customers have to pay to access the functional filters/properties.
by wj on 8/25/24, 3:42 PM
by brunosutic on 8/25/24, 7:48 AM
Stripe has a "developer friendly" and "easy to use" reputation. But, since 2019 the EU regulation has stepped in and made things more complex with 2nd factor authentication for payments (3DS/SCA). This made payment integrations way more complex. Integrating Stripe subscriptions now easily takes 6 man-months (I'm being very optimistic here).
Also, there are some basic scenarios that are hard to get right:
- Creating a paid subscription and ensure a customer always has a card on file (this one is almost impossible). - Upgrading a free ($0) plan to a paid one. - Upgrading paid plans, eg $10 to $100/month and ensuring immediate payment. - Guarantee customer Tax location, keep the flow simple.
I made a video analyzing Stripe integration of a successful SaaS company (+$100M valuation). I first paid $30, then upgraded to their highest $2000/month plan - for free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXp7V4nanU
The gem I'm working on is intended to be used with Ruby on Rails apps. It covers all the above mentioned hard cases, and irons out many more Stripe API kinks. And yes, it handles the basic-but-impossible "ensure customer always has card on file if they start paid subscription".
After buying the gem you can hand-off the task to the junior developer (it's that simple). They follow the integration tutorial: follow the steps for Stripe dashboard config, do the local env config, done.
The product (Ruby gem itself) is ready. I'm now working on the web app, tutorials etc. If anyone wants an early, guided access, please email me - contact is in the profile.
by mortenjorck on 8/25/24, 1:39 AM
Keeping myself marginally sane by building a custom browsing experience for my “graphic design reconstructed from dreams” project: https://dreambrief.presteign.com/
by esjeon on 8/25/24, 12:05 AM
Why not Nix? I just don’t like the Nix language. Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes, which made me even more convinced in using GUIX. The GUIX folks didn't disappoint me, as they utilized the full power of Scheme to design a (internal) DSL that is clean and almost reads like JSON/YAML. I feel quite confident that it’s a better language for building devenvs for most people. The only downside is that it can get really verbose, but, hey, at least you have full control.
by guzik on 8/25/24, 12:21 PM
If anyone’s looking to share their story, I’d recommend IndieHackers, but for hardware-focused startups/projects, check out howtoware.co. (I’m not affiliated with the site’s owner in any way, but I really like the concept and want to help spread the word to my fellow hardwarers).
by bluehatbrit on 8/25/24, 11:22 AM
I've recently taken a new job working closely with some data scientists so wanted to skill up a little. So far I've got an elixir library which can calculate Attainment 8 and Progress 8. They're formulas provided by the DfE to understand individual student progress, and the schools ability to progress students.
It's just a bit of fun, and is letting me experiment with some of the various elixir data libraries and livebook. At the end of it, his trust is going to plug in some anonymous data and see if they can get more insights than this mega spreadsheet.
It's also nice to be doing a side project which isn't aimed at being a business.
by skybrian on 8/24/24, 10:56 PM
I wanted a way to define new Arbitraries that's easier than working with .map(), .chain(), .oneOf(), and other combinators that require you to think in terms of sets. It has those combinators, but you can also write code to randomly generate one value at a time. It uses an approach to shrinking that's inspired by Hypothesis.
Along the way, I ended up adding a Domain subclass, which also does validation like Zod. Not sure where I'm going with that, but it's also useful for generating unique keys.
(The documentation isn't done and doesn't explain what's interesting about it. Caveat: it's Deno-only, and will probably stay that way unless someone wants to help.)
by zeta0134 on 8/25/24, 5:16 AM
The one zone that's in the game is looking more polished than ever, but it's not going to be much of a game if there are only 4 levels. Next month is all about stage art, enemy design, and items to flesh out the new economy systems. Hopefully it all comes together, we'll see. It's a ton of pixel art, and I'm still learning my way around that craft.
by nickgubbins on 8/25/24, 10:50 AM
One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain. After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.
by DarrenDev on 8/25/24, 10:13 AM
FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around the world by healthcare, health insurance and medtech companies as well as researchers working with healthcare data.
Vanya grew out of my own frustrations as a developer working with FHIR. I wanted an easier way to see the data behind the APIs. To say Postman is not ideal for working with this data is a major understatement.
We're a few months away from a commercial release, and have an MVP available for download right now. We're very much building in public and have a strong user base already all around the world.
Just finished a Sunday morning release of the latest version. Looking forward to the next 6 months!
by sebnun on 8/25/24, 2:46 PM
Currently focusing on building native apps using React Native. Finding limitations with the platform and considering dropping the whole thing and start building with Swift and Kotlin instead.
by stefanvdw1 on 8/25/24, 8:50 AM
It also helps you discover new recipes that other users have saved.
by deathmonger5000 on 8/25/24, 12:00 AM
Together Gift It solves the problem just the way you’d think: with AI.
Just kidding. It solves the problem by keeping everything in one place. No more group texts! You can have private or shared gift lists, and there are some AI features like gift idea collaboration and product search. But the AI stuff is still a work in progress.
I’m grateful for any constructive feedback.
by TriangleEdge on 8/25/24, 6:35 AM
by kaveet on 8/25/24, 11:33 AM
by kdickey on 8/25/24, 3:13 AM
I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.
The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.
Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords
My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.
LMK what you think!
by thip on 8/25/24, 9:46 AM
by 0xbadcafebee on 8/25/24, 4:28 AM
by abe94 on 8/25/24, 3:50 PM
by anbardoi on 8/26/24, 1:19 PM
by tyleo on 8/25/24, 12:25 PM
After years of having the New Year’s resolution, “make a personal site.” I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It’s live and I’m filling it out with things I’ve done over the years.
by shrubbery on 8/25/24, 3:30 PM
It is a layer on top of the qtile window manager that allows for more advanced window arrangements - especially subtabs. It was an itch to scratch and I use it myself.
I am now diddling about with Rust and thinking of trying my hand at a PDF parser library. It's sort of nice when there's an established specs document - like all the requirements are clearly laid out and you don't have to spend time thinking about the scope and product design.
I can implement as much as I want to, have tests, and come back another time when I feel like it.
by halftheopposite on 8/25/24, 12:14 AM
I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.
[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)
by dwrodri on 8/25/24, 8:30 PM
Pretty standard CRUD flows + plenty of opportunity to get comfy with iterating and deploying software on iOS.
This app will basically be the playground for me to work on: - Frontend / UX - Computer vision (scan in cards w/ Camera) - recommender systems (what cards are good suggestions to add to this deck?) - Clustering (what decks are similar to this deck?)
Websites like TappedOut and Archidekt are great products, but as someone who plays casually and doesn't do much to keep up with releases I find assembling fun Commander decks from singles to be quite a time investment, and I'd like to see if I can focus in on that UX specifically for myself.
by FretLabs on 8/24/24, 10:51 PM
by cl42 on 8/25/24, 1:43 AM
Most of my days are spent reading the news and working on LLMs, which has been a blast. As an example, here's a dashboard that tracks major supply and demand shocks to various commodities around the world: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/commodities
by zikani_03 on 8/25/24, 12:18 AM
Besides building the ideas I have in mind around how UAT could be improved for both devs and clients (users). My other goal is to encourage more Malawians to consider Go as a programming language for shipping solutions in, my Go evangelism has been working slowly but I think people need to see something they can appreciate to get more people onboard.
Also working on a personal finance app in Flutter for young Africans, but that's not public yet :)
by ridgeguy on 8/25/24, 2:49 AM
by fatliverfreddy on 8/25/24, 4:18 AM
It allows querying multiple resource kinds via their relationships (i.e. replicaset owns pod, service exposes deployment…) and easily crafting custom response payloads.
Lately I’ve introduced aggregation functions and the ability to visualize query results using ascii art.
This is a daily driver for me and I’m now mostly focused around features that will make it a complete kubectl alternative.
by coreyp_1 on 8/25/24, 4:31 AM
It's meant to be a scripting language to be embedded in another program, generating HTML. Eventually I hope to make a CMS and this be my solution for easy templating.
Technical details: Written in C, the language has an x86_64 JIT compiler, but falls back to a bytecode VM so it should work on any architecture. The language itself is dynamically typed and garbage collected. Currently at 20K LOC (not counting blank lines or comments), with good test coverage and checking for memory leaks. It's been quite enjoyable!
by mishu2 on 8/25/24, 3:12 AM
Personally, I'm building a website which lets you quickly setup personal online dashboards, because I wanted to have an overview of all the sites I refresh often on one page: https://frankendash.com/
by dparksports on 8/25/24, 5:55 PM
Basically it is an AI computer. It is nothing like we have seen before.
May open source it soon. With working zero hallucination (need additional evaluations).
Works with all devices. Created a MVP, air-gapped for military use, but it can be used for anyone including businesses/consumers who need an on-prem AI computer.
It has zero lag or zero second delay in responding your questions, and does not use any third party AI cloud platform. This is critical, because some of our customers have restrictive requirements for their data and they can't have anything of their customers to be placed on these cloud platforms. (eg. OpenAI, Google, Apple).
Adding additional features including Self-Teach, Cloned Personality, the holographic UI Wear, makes calls on behalf of the user, uses voice imprinting, edit videos, autonomously, for content creators and remembers 100 years of your life. And, more.
The UI Wear uses the exotic sensors I used in military to make it light and performant unlike Apple Vision Pro. Imagine interacting with something like "Jarvis" from Ironman. Quiet similiar but much more grounded in a sense that it's simpler and logical. Also, you can take it with you to play fast action sports or play games like Dragon-Ball-Z type game with your buddies. And it lasts a day, not two hours, on a full charge.
You can interact with the Personal AI Computer without the UI Wear, but it takes you to another level of experience.
Currently, doing it solo and looking for a cofounder who has experience in large distribution, logistics, creating polished commercial hardware, etc. Even if you don't these experiences, please contact me, if you want more info, interested, and/or want to work for this startup.
Some sample photo to help you on imagine. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwsdyvjkIcTk41JFXK...
by marvinblum on 8/25/24, 12:17 PM
There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite well with our existing product. I think it's always a good starting point to solve your own problems.
by ryanchants on 8/25/24, 1:06 AM
It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's just 1 results per award.
I'm currently road-tripping through New England and it helped find the amazing bakery Norimoto.
by IliaLitviak on 8/25/24, 12:03 PM
It’s a powered 55-seater auto gyro - an electric helicopter during take-off and landing and a conventional turboprop regional “plane” during flight. We are at a “works on paper, let’s start prototyping” phase: basic assumptions are verified by people from industry, a development plan is in place.
My co-founder is an experienced high-power electric propulsion engineer and he’s currently developing our power train. I am in charge of the business/operations/relationships side. We are currently looking for a third co-founder to lead aircraft design.
by JTrehan on 8/25/24, 9:41 AM
On the technical side, it's a desktop application coded entirely in java with a javaFX interface. No AI or online data uploads, just the Lucene search engine and PDFium for PDF rendering.
Here is a very short demo : https://youtu.be/CGo9JRUByGA
by tevlon on 8/25/24, 11:16 AM
Very excited.
by hexmiles on 8/24/24, 11:21 PM
The primary feature that I'm implementing p2p synchronization (similar to syncthing, although the prototype use tailscale); append-only storage for easy backup and an "api" for easy integration/synchronization with external sources like RSS feed for example, all working offline.
Right now I'm using various software to manage my digital life (Zotero, Keepass, Syncthing) but i want to consolidate since I'm having trouble keeping all properly synced and backed)
by willswire on 8/25/24, 1:08 AM
https://github.com/willswire/checkd
This project has been an exciting way to explore better securing my iOS apps. I'm looking forward to refining it further and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions from the community!
by kcsaba2 on 8/28/24, 6:18 PM
There are many out there, who are intimidated by trivial things, such as sending a text, or even scrolling or switching between apps (what is even an app?).
So this course is ready made just for our parents. Or just for the ones who have no patience or capacity to teach these things step by step to their loved ones.
8+ hours and 100 lessons: https://smartphonehowto.com
I hope it helps many of you!
by traviskuhl on 8/24/24, 11:10 PM
by xeo84 on 8/25/24, 1:36 AM
I started it a couple of months ago, I was tired of reading the same story posted across different news outlets.
Over time I added new features like summarization, the ability to hide articles that have specific words in titles, etc.
Currently working on adding custom themes and fonts for the reader mode and various customization options.
It's a fun little side project, still much to do to improve it, I'll be busy for a while!
by jaronilan on 8/25/24, 2:03 AM
Edit: Two from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
by wahnfrieden on 8/25/24, 2:39 PM
Currently working on adding manga and YouTube support, and figuring out how to expand it to all languages
by runnr_az on 8/25/24, 12:04 AM
https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.js
We're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin, length, popularity, etc..
by kenschu on 8/25/24, 12:43 AM
by jbaiter on 8/25/24, 3:47 PM
Uses the scenedetect Python library to locate scene breaks and then uses perceptual hashing to find points for alignment. Also will include a small webapp to debug and adjust things manually in difficult cases.
by ajayvk on 8/25/24, 1:34 AM
Clace already supports most python based apps (wsgi or asgi), any other language works with a custom Dockerfile. Plan to add support for automatically shutting down idle containers, allowing for scaling down to zero for each app.
by yeahsure on 8/25/24, 10:31 AM
It's a simple site for streaming local radios from my city, Mendoza (Argentina): https://www.radiosdemendoza.com.ar
It was built with WordPress, and the new theme is using Tailwind and AlpineJS. I hadn’t used AlpineJS before, so this project was a great way to experiment with it.
I don't have any monetization on it, and I'm not sure if I'll pursue that for this site.
Next up, I plan to build a Chrome extension. I have limited experience with that, so it should be a fun challenge.
by gagik_co on 8/24/24, 11:38 PM
Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it’s been cool seeing people use it daily, some definitely a lot more than I do. I still feel like it’s not even close to its full potential; infinite more things to add but most often a joy for me to work on.
by wkat4242 on 8/25/24, 1:12 AM
For work I'm working on AI implementation. Because the vendor does all the technical goodness I'm kinda bored. It's also quite a crap solution IMO and we're kinda forced to be all positive about it because the vendor is closely watching and they have a lot of buyin from the top.
I set up a local LLM server too just to feel like I'm actually doing something.
by sevensor on 8/24/24, 11:18 PM
by asicsp on 8/25/24, 3:07 AM
Then, I started working on an interactive TUI app for Python beginner exercises. I've previously written such apps for CLI tools (grep, sed, awk, coreutils, etc): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
by t_sashi on 8/25/24, 12:03 PM
AnyStack Pages is aimed at making it easier and simpler to host static websites with free SSL protection and CDN. Websites can be hosted by uploading a zip file of the site contents or a single html file. It's currently in closed-beta for limited users every week.
Next Steps: Full launch with support for adding custom domains and premium features.
Happy to chat about this if you are interested in getting early access or for any questions and suggestions.
by cadr on 8/25/24, 2:05 AM
by henlo on 8/25/24, 3:36 AM
I'm a designer, and this is my first Vue project. Super happy and proud of it. This is a way for me to learn coding. I'm working on improving the project by adding a simple website builder where people can edit the components and templates directly.
by radeeyate on 8/25/24, 2:58 PM
It's an online development platform similar to other things like Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours. I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch it pretty soon.
by smaps on 8/25/24, 2:20 AM
If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.
by 383toast on 8/25/24, 6:32 AM
by xenospn on 8/25/24, 8:04 AM
I noticed that sometimes, I book accommodations in a new city without realizing I'm very far from the nearest vegan restaurant, having to walk for a really long time to get food, and sometimes getting there after the kitchen is already closed.
The planner helps me find hotels/airbnbs that are within 15 minute walk of at least 3 different vegan restaurants - makes my life so much easier!
by Decabytes on 8/25/24, 8:37 AM
The setting is like retrofuturistic version of 1998 with survivalist elements.
I’ve been enjoying flutter, and Have found it easier than other cross platform GUI technologies I’ve used. Dart is pretty easy to learn too and I’m considering it for other non flutter based tools as well
by burner_yall on 8/24/24, 11:19 PM
by mikewarot on 8/25/24, 1:27 AM
I've spent a lot of time in analysis paralysis and this has given me the kick in the pants to get me going again.
As far as new ideas go, I've already spent time learning Verilog, and hope to get a chip design through the TinyTapeout[3] before too long.
Also, I found out that it only takes a few lines of Python and a lot of time to have an AI rate all my photos locally. That's a work in progress, should be less than 100 lines all told with niceties.[4]
[1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html
by lylo on 8/24/24, 11:11 PM
A delightfully simple blogging-by-email app, Pagecord (https://pagecord.com). $20/yr.
A delightfully simple, all-in-one RSS reader (web and PWA), Feedgrab (https://feedgrab.net). FREE!
Very early days (built quickly!) but both products are fully functional with customers.
I have a lot of ideas around content discovery for Feedgrab.
Give them a spin, I’d love to know what people think.
by myspeed on 8/25/24, 3:34 AM
by burger_moon on 8/28/24, 3:16 PM
I like to mix different materials into the designs I cook up. For the tops I use cut stone which is prohibitively expensive for most hobby stuff but works really well for commission work because of all the different types (marble, granite, composite) and styles/ colors you can get. It gives it a very high end look and feel when combined with a sturdy metal frame. I’m also really into 3D printing so I try to incorporate that into the work as well. Using different pattern schemes to make inserts and accent pieces.
I’ve also experimented with incorporating IKEA furniture pieces into metal frames because I love the idea of doing modular furniture that can be swapped out for different colors and textures. I use the same idea for my 3D printed work.
I love the creativity and flexibility this gives me and my welding skills have ramped up significantly. It’s been years since I welded seriously and I really lost the techniques so getting that confidence back is great. I’ve been approached to do some big 5-6 figure home design jobs through the connections I’ve made acquiring stone pieces but I’ve only consulted on advice. I still feel a bit insecure about putting myself out there in structural work. I see how successful different design firms locally are building this stuff for tech companies and I’d love to eventually have my work featured like that but taking it slow for now.
by corradio on 8/25/24, 6:45 AM
As a founder, I really needed a simple place to centralize all those business metrics. Couldn’t find anything that suited my needs (everything was way overkill) and so I ended up building Polynomial.
by dnoberon on 8/25/24, 12:36 PM
by 52-6F-62 on 8/25/24, 2:21 AM
Still tweaking it, and it could use some better instructions. But the thread's here now so why not.
If you see confetti, you answered correctly. Otherwise the points are added or subtracted in a "hot or cold" fashion based on your answer's distance from the actual pitch.
by arwhatever on 8/25/24, 5:40 PM
My motivation has been some recent jobs/roles in which no-pipeline-feature-gets-denied YAML scripts have grown unmanageably large.
I'd be interested to hear of any pitfalls that any of you might foresee. Other than this is a pretty hefty undertaking - that much I can already see on my own. :-)
by RantyDave on 8/25/24, 7:28 AM
My race yesterday: https://app.see-sailing.com/b/nmea/2024-8-24-11-34-21
by mliezun on 8/25/24, 3:16 PM
by jh_zab on 8/25/24, 6:24 AM
The open tooling is quite lacking in the sense that one has to create a lot of stuff manually. Especially for the evaluations, even though most of them are quite common in the actuarial realm.
Also I wanted to tinker with Jax. So I am basing all on Jax, polars, seaborn/matplotlib and scipy.
I already have lift plots and Poisson regression in Jax. I’ll keep adding to it over the next months as time allows.
by hammeiam on 8/28/24, 7:29 PM
Note: this is a WIP, so if you have any experience working with .fcpxml, I'd love to hear from you!
by morajabi on 8/25/24, 2:42 PM
It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links, without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc bloat.
by generalizations on 8/24/24, 10:51 PM
The most recent site is https://computerdisplayprices.com
When I’m done, I’m probably going to make a blog post or two just talking through the automation I figured out so far. LLMs are amazing force multipliers.
by desmat on 8/26/24, 7:06 PM
To learn more about SEO, digital marketing, and other areas I hadn't explored in much depth yet, I tried bringing it to market with modest success. It's been a fun journey so far, and I’ve documented the first legs here: https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-1-a... and https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-2-f....
I'm also experimenting with a similar format for limericks (https://limericks.ai) but I haven’t cracked that nut yet.
by rickydroll on 8/28/24, 4:11 PM
But in order to get there, I need to rework a couple of mirror grinding machines in the club according to specs by the professional optician teaching us.
This means building the right set of mechanical thingies to safely hold glass and tools from 6 to 16-inch diameter optics. According to our optician, we need an aluminum disc the same size as the mirror with a reverse threaded hole in the center of the aluminum disc. This disc will be screwed onto a coupling which is attached to the shaft of the turntable motor.
We are currently working on sourcing the parts, machining, and doing a trial run with a 6-inch mirror. Then I get some blanks, get the curve I need generated to save me hours upon hours with 80 grit hogging out the glass before he can settle down and let the combination of grit, water, moving glass and time work their magic on the surface, every minute bringing me closer to optical eh-its-good-enough".
We have enough members in the club building telescopes that the effort of making these mirror grinding and polishing machines work is well worth it. With any luck, you'll see me at Stellafane next year.
by Mathnerd314 on 8/25/24, 1:01 PM
But lately I took a break and worked on running (GPX run file analysis) and habit tracking. The eventual goal is to package it all together into one integrated PWA / mobile app.
by AHReccese on 9/2/24, 12:13 PM
Transparency and non-executable export format is a serious thing, take a look at https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2022/machine-learning-a....
After version 0.9 release, PyMilo became feature-completed with full support of scikit-learn models, now it's time to move on to PyTorch and then Tensorflow. But we decided to add the "ML Streaming" feature before getting into PyTorch, in order to provide an easy way to smoothly stream your ML model. By using the "ML Streaming" feature you can easily deploy your model into the remote server, connect to it from the client side, and choose the working mode, either delegation or local mode, through delegation mode your requests will be relayed to the remote server and you can easily work with your remote model from any devices without any further dependencies, and finally, you can download model for local use.
We will release the 1.0 (tenth) version of PyMilo around Sep 16th, this release will be the first release to have the "ML Streaming" feature with support of REST API, and we will next add other protocols such as Websocket.
Here is PyMilo: https://github.com/openscilab/pymilo Thank you for your time
by GauntletWizard on 8/25/24, 5:13 AM
I'm doing so by making it easier to mint certificates for your pods in k8s (https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls/-/tree/master), by writing documentation on how to create good root certs with cheap HSM backed keys, updating cfssl to work with name constraints (https://github.com/GauntletWizard/cfssl/tree/ted/constraints), and building tools to issue short-lived certificates to developers.
by pplonski86 on 8/25/24, 7:16 AM
by jalcine on 8/24/24, 11:37 PM
Outside of that, I've been blogging a lot more (https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/ - August looks so full, ha) and now I'm writing about things I'm reading too (https://www.jacky.wtf/links/). Been doing this to try to ween off social media and rely on places like this to share stuff.
by drrkrr on 8/25/24, 1:59 PM
by piotrkaminski on 8/25/24, 4:35 AM
by shikaan on 8/25/24, 5:27 AM
It comes with a set of tool for your IDE (currently only VSCode) where you can draw sprites, compose music, make SFX right next to your code.
It's still not in v1, it's also my first "serious" C++ project, and life got in the way lately -- I haven't made significant progress in the last month or so
by ecuaflo on 8/24/24, 11:42 PM
You can even buy the app itself on it. It’s going to be my starter for all other projects too, so I’m adding all the common CRUD app features. Also it aims to be lowest cost possible, which is free for now. I try not to tie it to specific technologies when possible to make it as easy as possible to switch providers in the future.
by ivicac on 8/25/24, 7:46 AM
by nkristoffersen on 8/25/24, 6:34 AM
I used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant information. This still appears to be the case for most players in the industry.
So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many juicy insights.
Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers, testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the product based on feedback.
by tdeck on 8/25/24, 1:01 AM
Since I'm just one guy with 100 ideas, I have to try to apply my skills where they can have the most impact. My current project is converting existing circuits from Fritzing format (which is usually displayed graphically) into a textual format. I wrote about it in these three blog posts:
1. Premise, ways to represent circuits: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-1/
2. Why Fritzing? https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-2/
3. Actual output examples: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-3/
I'm also working on a 3D printed single character Braille cell that can be added to any Arduino project, and has only 3 simple parts to assemble. Unfortunately I haven't posted about that yet.
by curiousmindset on 8/26/24, 12:51 PM
We were both tired of asking AI for the same code again and again, so we thought, why not build something where we can instantly save code from our AI chats
The idea is to create a public library of AI-generated code that anyone can search through, find what they need, and either use it directly or customize it further.
For example, if you find a function that almost fits your needs, you can add it to your AI chat with just a click and tweak it, instead of starting from scratch.
So far we have -
1. Chrome Extension - To save your code or find what you need from the library and add it to chat. Currently only works with claude, working on making it compatible with v0 and chatgpt
2. VS code extension to find whatever you need right in there and an AI that will understand your project's context and integrate these snippets in seconds ( AI part is in progress )
3. Website to do other stuff - build your profile, rate other snippets ( which helps us to maintain quality )
Tech Stack -
- Frontend: NextJS, Tailwind, Shadcn
- Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB
- Extensions: TypeScript (VS Code) & React, TypeScript, Tailwind (Chrome)
by zschuessler on 8/25/24, 2:22 PM
It has been a wild ride. Often frustrating but rewarding. Some days I may spend 10 hours solving an API for which app is frontmost at a given second. Sure, there's a system API for that, but it doesn't even remotely cover edge cases that exist. And many times with no answers out there on how to do something, it feels like I'm the first, so finally solving it is a great endorphin rush.
Part of the complexity is I wanted the app to be completely pluggable, kind of like Obsidian. The app communicates events to a local socket server in full duplex, which enables cross-plugin communication (but also cross-app!). Plugins access the app's JavaScript system bridge API for pubsub and system calls through a Webkit interface. Edits are hot reloaded and instant, no compile time necessary. The first time I could change my "Start" menu in real time through JavaScript/CSS was quite a feeling.
Sadly, I couldn't leverage existing tools like Tauri or Electron. They don't have adequate system bridge APIs available, and would be more work to leverage instead of less. They are too general, whereas this project only builds to macos. Therefore it can be much more complicated (and useful) by design.
I originally set out to be more productive in macos. But I've also spent time making prototypes for fun. A desktop widget system, real-time system color theme set from Spotify album art, live video desktop backgrounds from Twitch/YT, a Destiny 2 macos system theme, etc.
I plan to open source it and build a community around it one day.
by artkulak on 8/25/24, 7:08 AM
Some key features we're working on: - AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies - Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior - Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matches
Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.
We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.
Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!
by blondelegs on 8/25/24, 2:28 PM
by whynotmaybe on 8/24/24, 11:04 PM
I'm knee deep into coding 6 days per week as I'm building a startup and working right now on an "easy" solution for merging xls (yes xls) from some external company with our internal json, and I needed to let my keyboard rest for a day.
It's convincing me that our company should allocate a yearly budget to donate to OSS for stuff like the xlsx package.
by toisanji on 8/25/24, 2:12 PM
by tobinharris on 8/25/24, 3:54 PM
It doesn't save anything to the cloud. It supports markdown. It currently doesn't using an LLM but I'm sure that will sneak in at some point. One day, I'd like to have it generate wireframes using AI.
by achristmascarl on 8/25/24, 12:11 AM
the goal is to be a lightweight alternative to pgadmin/dbeaver. it has vim-like keybindings, shortcuts to preview tables, and session history.
it only supports postgres at the moment, but sqlite and mysql support are on the roadmap.
by creativeCak3 on 8/25/24, 4:02 AM
https://github.com/thebigG/Gunner
It's got long ways to go before being "complete", but I'm enjoying the heck out of working on this. I like working on things that aren't tied to money/serious job because they remind myself of the joy in programming :)
by Devraj4522 on 8/25/24, 11:38 AM
by purple-leafy on 8/25/24, 6:03 AM
So now I’m working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to build a backend with it
[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...
by enos_feedler on 8/24/24, 11:11 PM
by tristanMatthias on 8/25/24, 4:49 PM
You can talk to it over a e2e encrypted reverse proxy (using Signals double ratchet protocol) so you can access it on the go safely and privately.
by leps on 8/25/24, 7:18 AM
I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla paper.
I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.
It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!
by cd3000 on 8/25/24, 2:21 AM
I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to bundle them together into a SaaS app.
I’m just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.
The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to string together a series of nodes that do a different task through the strategy development process. For example, you can generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.
I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off creating the final output: https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3
by gnastygnorc on 8/25/24, 12:35 PM
Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.
by n1c on 8/25/24, 12:31 PM
Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!
It's slow going between a full time job and family life but really great to expand my mind into something that isn't "web dev".
by b_shulha on 8/25/24, 12:39 PM
Working on the open source alternative to Heroku - https://ptah.sh (https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server)
Already have some success: we use it for our other 3 projects, thus saving us some cash. :)
I have the 1-click apps marketplace, backups and, soon, monitoring.
by kukkeliskuu on 8/25/24, 9:11 AM
- a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow states. It is very helpful, because the amount of events and data was too much to handle mentally. I am using Django/HTMX/AlpineJS.
- a dance event calendar for dance events in Finland, where both artists and venues can add events. The data is stuctured, which allows me to make views for each performer, venue etc. Mostly Django, but some HTMX/AlpineJS as well for complex screens
- for the dance event calendar, I have created a support site that uses ChatGPT to handle two first steps for incoming support emails/questions. First it categorizes the question, and then tries to answer it based on FAQ. If it fails, it summarizes the issue (and possibly asks few basic questions related to it) and forwards it to me.
by benatkin on 8/25/24, 1:02 AM
by chegra on 8/25/24, 9:15 AM
by levmiseri on 8/25/24, 7:23 AM
The quality of the generated content is surprisingly good, but there are many stereotypes and mistakes that I'm fixing in the next mass generation pass.
by arjun_krishna1 on 8/25/24, 3:48 AM
I'm working on adding some more probes checking for package hallucination in ruby gems and npm packages
I'm also starting my final year of engineering at the University of Waterloo :)
by witslectric on 8/25/24, 2:13 PM
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar to ripgrep
https://github.com/madprops/goldie
Last game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react in different ways.
https://github.com/madprops/cromulant
Last big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown parser.
by mangoparrot on 8/29/24, 12:30 AM
This project is also open source : https://github.com/orthdron/subatic
https://readry.com is my latest venture ever since I got into e-readers/kindle. I want to read everything on my kindle and as it turns out, there are no good ways to get anything else apart from "books" on the kindle.
With this I can get my newsletters, top subreddit posts, news, and more, all on kindle. maybe this will help me curb my smartphone addiction.
by rikroots on 8/25/24, 9:05 AM
However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't think other canvas libraries have yet got around to considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little bit faster ...
(Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)
by rajuljain883 on 8/25/24, 12:26 PM
by franze on 8/25/24, 12:23 PM
AI over email.
Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable email forwarding (not yet possible)
Mailto:gpt@franzai.com
Hey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.
Will only implement minimal spam protection and a simple opt out and see what happens.
by cpburns2009 on 8/25/24, 4:03 AM
by frankmatranga on 8/25/24, 12:08 AM
[0] https://soapbox.host/ [1] https://wednesdayatninepm.com/
by anmolparashar on 8/26/24, 10:51 PM
We are doing this by providing 5-star amenities like massages, access to local experiences, events, and even essentials. Currently on the MVP stage, and only piloting in Dubai.
by else42 on 8/25/24, 7:56 AM
I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn’t change much (eg. no normalization) since it’s not really needed. It also turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few megabytes. I haven’t written much SQL in some time and duckdb is very powerful.
Most of the texts are AI generated as I’m usually very bad coming up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it’s less of a problem.
I guess it’s pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.
It’s a fun little project.
by billybob2a on 8/25/24, 1:44 PM
by mtkd on 8/25/24, 2:22 PM
by _jcrossley on 8/25/24, 7:45 PM
by SamEdosa on 8/24/24, 11:28 PM
I recently released version 1.0 in July, which allows you to voice chat (TTS and STT) with almost any chatbot site (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude).
Next, I'm thinking of building a 3D talking avatar to make it feel like a personal companion is chatting with you.
by dr_kretyn on 8/25/24, 12:52 AM
by philip1209 on 8/24/24, 11:33 PM
Posts in draft:
- "The next evolution of my product studio"
- "With AI, data isn't evil any more"
- "The AI mullet strategy"
- "COGS analysis on AI products"
- "Two-tier tech companies"
by iamwil on 8/25/24, 1:35 AM
Lots of AI engineerers are doing vibes-based engineering, just eyeballing the LLM output and saying "LGTM!". This is a good place to start, as we all should look at our data more. But it's best to move on from vibes to system evals.
The first issue is on how to design and build system evals for a systematic way to gauge how well your LLM app is doing. That way, no matter if there are new models, new users, or new queries, you can be sure you're continuously improving, rather than allowing regressions.
You can buy the first issue here:
https://issue1.forestfriends.tech/
And if you want to keep abreast of the next issue, you can subscribe here:
by lifeinthevoid on 8/25/24, 9:08 AM
by carlnewton on 8/25/24, 9:56 AM
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
by Nesco on 8/25/24, 1:03 AM
by kazcaptain on 8/24/24, 11:25 PM
https://teamsays.com — Team-Changing Anonymous Feedback where you can set up a private channel for understanding what’s going on in your teams.
https://usemanor.com — AI concierge for real estate brokers.
https://joinsymbol.com — Manipulate text with translations, JSONs, and other revisions with AI. Provides an API for using in your apps, etc. CMS on top AI basically.
https://fullmoonchat.com – AI esoterics.
My current strategy is to go inch deep, mile wide. I don’t want all of my eggs in one basket any more. Basically doing a VC model using my portfolio of products.
Holler at me if you want to chat about these products or if you have any ideas you want to build.
by aghhelmut on 8/25/24, 11:58 AM
An Image Tool for web developers.
With ImageTool, you can: - Search multiple stock photo sites with one tool - Generate 500 images with AI - Edit images - Compress and convert images to .webp
It also helps you bulk edit images.
The goal is to help web developers speeding up their workflow.
by crohr on 8/25/24, 9:19 AM
by hsnice16 on 8/25/24, 5:37 AM
I am documenting my learning here - https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning
My first task was to write a GitHub action to build and push the docker image on AWS ECR. While working on it, I went through a good number of blogs, and also used ChatGPT, and finally raised a PR. So I thought to write a blog on that, you can read it here - https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...
by LeFever on 8/25/24, 6:59 AM
We’re 100% bootstrapped by way of a previous acquisition and just very-soft launched after talking to a lot of folks at companies of all sizes. Seems like most people end up cobbling this stuff together with various levels of sophistication, which is basically what we did a few times over at previous companies with varying levels of success.
You can check out our solution at https://planship.io.
by mantegna on 8/25/24, 9:48 AM
by Joel_Mckay on 8/25/24, 8:43 AM
Mostly just bored waiting for my Tungsten sample shipment to try in a new metal 3D printing process (at $90/in^3 you figure people would just air mail it, but nope cause it is a fire hazard.) Container rail transport work stoppage means I may get time to entertain low priority vanity projects.
Also working on a physics inertia puzzle so embarrassingly stupid... I refuse to post it lest it wastes 1 minute of someones time.
Kind of like this ear worm... these kind of problems are annoying... lol =3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM
( don't click this link, seriously )
by makowskid on 8/30/24, 12:39 PM
What can it do for its users? - Product categorization for well-organized product catalogues. - Generating engaging product descriptions and tagging. - Filtering out spam content. - Allowing understanding and analysis of sentiment in product reviews, comments, and users' Feedback for data-driven decision-making. - Generating complex job descriptions and extracting information from resume files for easy processing - and more.
I've also created a set of SDK Clients for it like PHP, Laravel, .NET, Flutter to make it a plug-and-play solution for developers.
Would love to get your feedback about it.
by hvidal on 8/25/24, 2:22 PM
by ahmed_ds on 8/25/24, 5:35 AM
Trying to move into doing virtual assistance for micropreneurs and sideprojects from now on exclusively. Task by task basis or regular contracts. Essentially the pitch is assign everything that is not sales and product. I think it is a good pitch targetted to folks who enjoy building stuff and considers making money out of it as a bonus. The moment they start answering support emails, and posting product updates they start to get burnt out. Trying to specialize in "burn out prevention" tasks mainly.
I am trying to figure out a way to get clients. Virtual Assistance is cheap and the competition is huge. The services are identical which essentially says, I will do what you will need me to do.
by spenvo on 8/24/24, 11:36 PM
by berlinmonk on 8/25/24, 8:35 AM
Local-first task manager/bug tracker within git repository which can import issues from GitHub and sync task statuses.
Pretty much work in progress, made for fun and to help while programming on a plane.
by joseferben on 8/25/24, 6:05 AM
my bet is that most companies and solo devs only need a single process and sqlite to drive revenue.
i’m considering switching from tsx to bun, but i’m hesitating because of some missing node 20 api.
by winrid on 8/25/24, 7:04 AM
Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue to grow that.
by ghaff on 8/25/24, 12:38 AM
I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I wasn't really in the mood to try harder.
by taylorius on 8/25/24, 8:04 AM
I enjoy finding out the actual best-case performance of various technical analysis indicators, and popular "systems", by optimising the indicator's parameters to find the best long term performance. I also design my own indicators and systems in the same way.
To this end I have a C++ ImGUI desktop app with charting capabilities, and optimisation using differential evolution. The app has its operation driven by a c++ class that controls all aspects of its running, by means of various callbacks.
This enables me to test lots of strategies quickly, exploring the parameter space with the optimisation functions.
I've considered open sourcing the app, though I'm not sure there would be any interest. The codebase would need cleaning up first anyway! :-)
by rilek on 8/26/24, 7:11 AM
The idea is fairly simple: the client app requests content and passes the context (key-value pairs) along with it. In the trilly app, the content manager sets up different variants of the content for various context field combinations, and the one that matches is returned. Context can be anything, from user role or user location to more abstract things like A/B group or user behavior. It's just data.
I have a couple of ideas on how to extend this system - realtime LLM-generated variants, or more sophisticated context fields (date/number ranges, randomness, etc.).
For now, however, I'm exploring whether this idea would be useful for someone, so thanks for all the comments.
by arichard123 on 8/25/24, 9:36 AM
by nicksiscoe on 8/25/24, 12:15 AM
We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.
Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service
by dmilicic on 8/25/24, 1:07 PM
I decided it was time to have a personal website as a software contractor and brand myself online as the state of IT is still uncertain.
by whoami_nr on 8/27/24, 2:36 PM
Involves a bunch of reading research papers, figuring out which ones are relevant to enterprise customers and getting our ML team to build it out. The most interesting part of this is how you present the insights of a given test to a customer in a consumable and usable format. (Ex: Just dumping a bunch of RAG hallucination metrics isn't enough but you want to figure out what are the key insights and interpretations of these metrics which could be useful to a data scientist or ML engineer)
by Lordarminius on 8/25/24, 12:14 AM
2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.
Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans, AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and project based learning, covers different languages (we start with Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL, Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.
One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.
by rekoros on 8/25/24, 2:31 AM
This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!
by jccalhoun on 8/25/24, 1:15 AM
by enceladus06 on 8/25/24, 2:43 AM
I'm developing a tool using GPT-4o to help draft outlines for small-business and institutional grant applications.
I'm also working on a solution to fix prior authorizations in the insurance industry, fix scheduling surgeries due to insurance network database inconsistencies.
by anh690136 on 8/25/24, 1:47 AM
by christophilus on 8/24/24, 11:08 PM
by Flop7331 on 8/25/24, 1:58 AM
by storywatch on 8/26/24, 2:11 AM
by Ethan_Mick on 8/25/24, 4:15 PM
It's been a breath of fresh air to work on something that I have no plans to monetize. I just want to build something useful for the community to use and that has allowed me to be relaxed with building it.
Anyways, if you play Lorcana I encourage you to check it out! The game is lots of fun.
by socketcluster on 8/25/24, 12:49 AM
Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/
A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on Australian market.
It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is to help to find good companies which have high (or low) concentrations of people with certain skills/attributes.
Saasufy: https://saasufy.com/
A no-code/low-code platform for building apps without code. Insnare is built with and runs on Saasufy. This freed me up from having to write back end code for Insnare and made the front end code very small.
by mittermayr on 8/25/24, 9:44 AM
I built a domain hunter (with availability checks) for .com domains based on idea prompts and while I see people purchase domains all the time through it, they won’t even shell out $3 to get any extras or a list of more than three domain ideas or so. Zero willingness to pay anything, but high success rates on search and result conversion.
by tkubacki on 8/25/24, 1:58 AM
by sawaali on 8/24/24, 10:55 PM
It has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on what my users want.
by sdedovic on 8/25/24, 1:40 AM
It's basically like ShaderToy but for WebGPU instead of WebGL. I started it as I have been doing some Rust + wgpu development for art projects and I need a easy way to play around with shaders.
It's very early in development - you can go and just use it right now. But soon I want to support creating an account, saving / sharing shaders, and eventually go beyond the featureset of ShaderToy by allowing for custom input images / textures.
Code is on github: https://github.com/sdedovic/wgsltoy
by tommyzli on 8/25/24, 6:31 AM
by yqiang on 8/25/24, 3:44 AM
I have a small amount of experience building iOS apps but have never done anything with a backend before. This project is fairly backend heavy, so it's been quite a journey learning how to do everything from setting up a database to deciphering elasticsearch.
by bear_blaster on 8/25/24, 12:33 PM
And now, because I have a problem, I’ve completely pivoted and I’m rewriting it from scratch as a SPA because I wanted to try using Pocketbase for the backend and extend it so I could learn Go. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx-v2
by laktak on 8/25/24, 7:45 AM
by wczerniak on 8/25/24, 9:48 AM
On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one
by dartos on 8/25/24, 12:03 AM
Trying to learn both a bit better along the way.
by skittleson on 8/25/24, 6:38 AM
by spirodonfl on 8/25/24, 3:51 PM
-Uses WASM under the hood (blazingly fast) -Exportable into a simple format for desktop, mobile or web use - @htmx_org integration included -Pluggable into any existing front-end or back-end (React or Laravel, etc...)
For now, the work of re-creating the layout lies on programming but I will start building plugins so that it lessens or removes that need.
Website soon!
by b00bl1k on 8/25/24, 10:26 AM
by padraigf on 8/25/24, 10:13 AM
Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to gain by pulling them together?'.
by pierreyoda on 8/25/24, 8:23 AM
I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most notably a components-driven architecture [1].
There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many comments that I should be able to clear with some more multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and other distribution solutions.
[0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli [1]: https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture
by fernandohur on 8/25/24, 10:36 AM
Why SynthQL? My experience working for +10 years on enterprise SaaS is that a quite often you just want a database and a way to fetch data from it. Backends will quite often get in the way adding abstractions and layers upon layers of transformation between DB objects to domain objects to DTOs.
If you ever feel like you just want to talk to the database directly, give SynthQL a try :)
by vekker on 8/25/24, 1:11 PM
We built a radar-based device for (gamified & fun) agility testing and training with accurate measurements, for top athletes. Works without wearables or expensive and complex/location-restricted setups like you have with timegates or LPS sytems.
If anyone here is into sports science & tech, feel free to get in touch! (laurens@ the domain above) We're looking for a sports scientist / product manager to strengthen the team, a marketeer with affinity for sportstech, resellers & partnerships, and of course, more customers :-)
by yadav-saurabh on 8/25/24, 6:07 AM
Qr Grid: The Ultimate Customizable QR Code JavaScript Library
Making an OpenSource Library for developers to easily generate and customize QR codes across multiple platforms.
by gabriel_dev on 8/26/24, 4:51 AM
All this is based on previous work with real coffee shop business owners. So giving it a try as a SAAS service.
by pattle on 8/25/24, 7:12 AM
It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.
You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections
by sumeruchat on 8/24/24, 11:08 PM
by matheusmoreira on 8/25/24, 11:09 AM
I'm also studying electronics and trying to learn circuit and PCB design. I want to buy an uconsole and make boards for it. I contacted the uconsole's power management IC manufacturer and they actually sent me some GPLv2 Linux drivers! I intend to clean it up and port the features to the existing kernel driver so I can upstream it.
by ItsBob on 8/25/24, 12:15 PM
Should be ready for early adoption in a month or so.
It was one of those shower thoughts along the lines of "I wonder if it's possible to drag and drop host .net projects..." :)
by notamy on 8/25/24, 3:13 AM
by rashidujang on 8/25/24, 3:31 AM
Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-taking forms.
It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch soon!
by aszantu on 8/25/24, 8:50 AM
latest success seems to be probiotic for oxolate-digestion, which now helps me digest green salad. For a test I tried green onions, but got anxiety back. Being able to digest onions and garlic would enrich my food choices a lot.
I doubt there's money to be made from all this material, except I could offer some coaching, but pretty much everything I know is in this little repo
by jawerty on 8/25/24, 1:51 AM
by mertbio on 8/24/24, 10:47 PM
Right now making improvements based on the feedback.
by vladkens on 8/26/24, 11:50 AM
ghstats[1] - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)
macmon[2] - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)
ecloop[3] - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)
[1] https://github.com/vladkens/ghstats
by agentultra on 8/24/24, 10:49 PM
by henrycrutcher on 8/24/24, 10:55 PM
by conzept on 8/25/24, 9:40 AM
See: https://conze.pt - this is an encyclopedic showcase, but could be used for any other information system, eg. a cultural archive.
Development news: https://x.com/conzept__
Docs: https://conze.pt/guide/user_manual
Feedback welcome! I'm aware that the mobile experience needs work.
by jdgauchat on 8/25/24, 5:39 AM
Designers can push changes in Figma similar to a merge request, which can then be approved by product managers / developers and the apps UI updates on every device.
Devs don't have to touch UI anymore but can focus on pure logic.
Any app developed with this doesn't have to go through the usual release cycle for UI changes anymore.
This will decrease the time lag of mobile to web and makes it easier for us to implement and distribute campaigns.
We're in Alpha and two mobile apps with our technology are going to go live next months. A credit card app and a competitive player versus player mental arithmetic game.
by bittermandel on 8/25/24, 11:14 AM
Kind of struggling to wrap my mind around how we can avoid having EBS-style network disks as part of our product offering. We are convinced that it's a operational nightmare to maintain and it's better to provide other tools to achieve the same results. For example, instead of running Postgres on EBS or local disks, we use Neon to run it on top of S3!
by zulban on 8/25/24, 1:58 AM
I recently released a major update involving presigned s3 urls, and typically after a big update I pick my favorite issues (always fun) for the next big update while I go bug hunting. Sometimes I feel like this project is code therapy where, unlike at work, I get to do everything the right way and/or my way.
I've also just started strength training at a gym for the first time which is already helping enormously with my neck and back pain.
by rorylaitila on 8/25/24, 2:12 PM
The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The backend will be Lucee and MySQL.
I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start. There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take a lifetime.
I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database available to other collectors.
by strzibny on 8/25/24, 3:43 AM
Tube and Chill - https://tubeandchill.com
It's something like IMDB for YouTube with recommendations and browsability without algoritms.
Test Driving Rails - https://testdrivingrails.com
My new book on testing Rails with the default stack - Minitest and fixtures.
Business Class 2.0 - https://businessclasskit.com
A starter kit for Rails apps. I am now slowly working on 2.0.
If you have some comments, especially on Tube and Chill, I would appreciate them.
by donspio on 8/25/24, 10:18 AM
The last few months I've been trying to get the real-time upload speed to display nicely, which proved to be harder than anticipated. But I think I've got a good solution now and might roll a new release today.
My goal is to have a few thousands downloads by the end of the year. Marketing is hard, also because it's less rewarding than programming features, so I tend to pick a new feature instead of writing a blog post or polishing the website.
by mkrd on 8/26/24, 7:00 PM
It is a budgeting tool that allows you to create budgets and visualize them as interactive Sankey diagrams. You can configure smart "pockets", which can automatically send excess cash or take missing cash from other pockets. It also allows you to invite other users to shared budgets, so you can use it to plan budgets with roommates or your partner. Currently I am thinking about ways to make it into a viable business, but it is still not quite there yet where it needs to be for that.
by robalni on 8/27/24, 12:40 PM
https://www.robalni.org/server/
I try to keep it as small and simple as possible while still being flexible and containing everything in one package that you need to write server applications. It also has no dependencies except for very common stuff like a standard C library and a Unix-like operating system.
by aproductguy on 8/25/24, 1:36 PM
by fsniper on 8/25/24, 1:16 PM
Any ideas to implement?
by DDoSQc on 8/25/24, 4:00 AM
I'm trying to get my hands on a larger display, but man does the e-ink public documentation suck. Still looking for some actual complete documentation and sample driver schematics for the 13" and larger models.
by anty on 8/25/24, 9:21 AM
I estimate burned calories on the minute-to-minute level for all activities, which is a fun challenge.
For the steps to calories conversion, I require time and distance walked. Unfortunately it's surprisingly difficult to get some kind of distance information from Android. Google Fit API provides this data, but will be killed soon. The RecordingAPI will hopefully provide this in the future, but not yet...
by tromp on 8/25/24, 7:09 AM
Btw, I just noticed that Bignum Bakeoff has the same acronym as Busy Beaver. How appropriate!
[1] https://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt
[2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...
by patrulek on 8/25/24, 4:33 AM
by fullstackchris on 8/25/24, 7:14 AM
also see fframes https://fframes.studio/ - not mine but similar "declarative code to video" framework
by spikey_sanju on 8/28/24, 4:20 PM
It's Open Source!
Try → https://spotlight.thisux.com/ Repo → https://github.com/THISUXHQ/spotlight Tweet → https://x.com/spikeysanju/status/1827537680084955396
by ChuckMcM on 8/25/24, 5:48 AM
by user070223 on 8/25/24, 7:12 PM
Fabrice Bellard and other has done some work in this domain https://bellard.org/
by andeee23 on 8/25/24, 6:54 AM
Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I’m using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier for other people.
I know there’s loopback but it costs too much for what i need and has a lot of extra features i don’t care about, plus i’d still need to bring my own vst to it
by codr7 on 8/25/24, 7:13 PM
A custom Lisp and a web backend reference implementation/template in C#, as well as a frontend in React to dogfeed the backend.
https://github.com/codr7/sharpl https://github.com/codr7/hostr https://github.com/codr7/hostr-web
by Scotrix on 8/25/24, 9:25 AM
- Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ
- A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily challenges in groups and let’s you grind thousands of items, it's a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively and not polished at first, see more details here: https://yasl.at/XnoDtY
- And last but not least I started to build a not yet published simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB, Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.
The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead of defining it simply via a configuration and the available offerings are charging large.
I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming weeks...).
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Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an existing solution which does what I'd like to have).
by doompilot on 8/25/24, 12:59 PM
by Octabrain on 8/24/24, 11:13 PM
by david_2107 on 8/25/24, 1:13 PM
book-filter.com
by conradklnspl on 8/25/24, 12:41 PM
Some of our current users use it to find Wordpress websites with specific versions of Wordpress, others to find websites that use niche-market tools, ones that are not covered by incumbents such as Wappalyzer or BuiltWith. We're currently focused on the French market.
Curious to hear your thoughts, if you are looking for new ways to find prospects.
by SuperHeavy256 on 8/25/24, 12:06 PM
by lengfeld on 8/25/24, 9:41 PM
by nicity on 8/25/24, 12:26 PM
by CharlieDigital on 8/24/24, 11:28 PM
Just returned from a trip that I planned using the extension and can't imagine planning it as fast any other way!
by elijahbenizzy on 8/28/24, 9:16 PM
- Burr -- build AI applications/agents as state machines https://github.com/dagworks-inc/burr
- Hamilton -- build dataflows as DAGs: https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton
Looking for feedback -- we had some good initial traction on HN, and are looking for OS users/contributors/people who are building complimentary tooling!
by opendomain on 8/25/24, 4:21 AM
I found a way to add code to NFTs. The simplest way to understand it is that it is similar to Adobe flash.
I know that NFTs are down, but I have invented a way to add actual utility. I call them xNFTS - executable non fungible tokens. Imagine the famous Ape or Penguin NFTs - by adding my technology, the NFTs can change images, play music, or play games without installing anything.
I got a patent on the process and they work on any blockchain- or even off. the market is down, but I am very excited about tying web2 with web3.
If anyone wants to join or learn more, let me know
by wmedrano on 8/25/24, 12:47 AM
by nnurmanov on 8/25/24, 2:22 PM
by danielvaughn on 8/24/24, 11:56 PM
The editor itself isn't available yet, but I've got a Github readme that explains the concept a bit more: https://github.com/matry/editor
Eventually I'll do a ShowHN, once I get a stable version that I feel comfortable demoing.
by augustinemp on 8/25/24, 9:54 AM
Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will take your history and record your symptoms, then you can ask her to summarise it before your appointment.
Try out the prototype on WhatsApp: +1 (516) 734-6593
(It's not HIPAA compliant and shares data with LLM providers currently, so best to use a fake patient profile if you're interested)
by absurdcornbread on 8/27/24, 3:27 AM
I like to annotate (highlight and create notes) when I read on my Kindle, and then I take those annotations and throw them into Obsidian. The issue is that if you ever mess up a highlight or note and then delete it, it doesn't actually get removed from the Kindle clippings file. So this project will remove all of the "incorrect" clippings.
I have the de-duplication algorithm working extremely well and right now I'm working on creating the web app using python/django
by notpushkin on 8/25/24, 9:35 AM
Lunni essentially takes docker-compose.yml and deploys it on a server. Currently we're using Portainer as the backend, which in turn just runs `docker stack deploy`. I'm reimplementing the stack deployment code from scratch which will allow us to support latest Compose spec and extend it as we need (and perhaps support orchestrators other than Swarm in the future).
by 6Az4Mj4D on 8/25/24, 12:54 PM
by jononor on 8/24/24, 11:13 PM
by adityaathalye on 8/25/24, 1:33 AM
[1] In fact, I just published a blog post about it! Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...
by codetiger on 8/25/24, 3:50 AM
by itsharveenatwal on 8/26/24, 2:45 PM
A pledge is the price you’ll pay for breaking your pledge. It’s more than one second of reflection. You have to ask yourself “do i want to spend a $1 to use YouTube when i should be studying”?
I don’t have a website right now. I’m calling it FocusPledge. It’s near complete so if you’re curious you can shoot me a message or follow me on X at @harveenatwal_
by ckugblenu on 8/25/24, 5:21 AM
by icy on 8/25/24, 6:21 AM
I’ll eventually open source the single binary agent that’ll bootstrap a host into a K8s node. Just run it rootless with a join URL and voilà!
Also in the pipeline is a global load balancer service (for your clusters).
What do y’all reckon? Interesting? Yay/nay?
by wingerlang on 8/26/24, 5:12 PM
I've been building some macOS apps lately, and I kept duplicating and adding onto the license key backend. I figured I should build it more properly so I built a Saas for myself (and finally took the step into Laravel at the same time).
I have no costumers except myself. If anyone wants a free account in exchange for feedback I am happy to help set it up.
by briansm on 8/25/24, 5:07 AM
by moxel on 8/25/24, 8:58 AM
Somewhat ironically after giving up smoking I take too few breaks and get blurry/dry eyes after long days. The app is a bit overengineered and comes with an api in case you ever wanted to start controlling stuff with blinks. Currently Windows only.
by pdyc on 8/25/24, 5:33 AM
it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination in table view.
Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629
by atum47 on 8/25/24, 5:29 PM
by arthur_sav on 8/25/24, 8:11 AM
It's pretty good for List and Lead extraction. https://pandaextract.com/
by JoeOfTexas on 8/25/24, 3:52 AM
For redis this is two steps: `ZRANGE leaderb 1 100` + `GET x1 x2 x3 x4 ... x100`.
It's mostly a refresher for deep C++ doodling, but maybe I'll use it in production for kicks.
by tw0shay on 8/25/24, 2:53 AM
by jsemrau on 8/24/24, 11:06 PM
by sandruso on 8/25/24, 9:36 AM
I've cobbled together this tool which hides nextjs build system and allows to work with just single file.
It works great for fast prototyping or building an internal/local apps.
edit: repo: https://github.com/rybarix/snaptail
by cardz on 8/24/24, 11:35 PM
by jjpell on 8/25/24, 8:07 AM
The backend is a web socket server written in go and the frontend is solidjs. Two technologies I've been wanting to use properly in a project for a while. Would recommend this to anyone wanting to improve their understanding of go's concurrency model. I've really enjoyed working on it, if anyone can think of any improvements please let me know!
by drzzhan on 8/25/24, 3:31 AM
by indulona on 8/25/24, 6:27 AM
Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain. I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.
by agornostal on 8/27/24, 9:09 AM
This app can be useful for listeners who want to enjoy articles while driving, in a gym, etc., and for website owners who want to offer an audio version of their articles.
by kjksf on 8/24/24, 10:48 PM
by anshargal on 8/25/24, 8:10 AM
Test management tools are nothing new, but I’m focused on making this one fast and easy to use, without the bloat. The goal is to help smaller teams adopt solid QA practices without the hassle.
by warthog on 8/25/24, 12:47 AM
Our purpose is modeled to give sales and marketing skills to non-sales people. Just like how Canva gave design powers to non-design people.
We believe everyone has to have the skill to sell and market themselves or their product. Yet the only trend that does not change is understanding your customer/prospect.
AI agents help with this.
Check us out: godmodehq.com
by risyachka on 8/25/24, 8:14 AM
Trying to get some reps with Llms and image gen models.
by hermannj314 on 8/25/24, 1:38 PM
Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and some custom interactive software.
I just started this project about two weeks ago, but I've been tinkering with the hardware side of electronics lately and this is the culmination of about 18 months of various hobby projects.
by startages on 8/25/24, 1:10 PM
I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values: - The original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally and requested using an ID ) - The data that needs to be printed into the audio file.
The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that you can use later to extract the same data you sent before.
It's currently being tested on a production website, will wait for feedback, improve, and create an actual service out of the API.
by WalterBright on 8/25/24, 5:48 AM
by sanat on 8/25/24, 12:57 PM
Talent teams face the challenging task of handling high-volume inbound channels, while maintaining an excellent candidate experience, and dedicating time to high-value recruiting activities.
So I'm working on Hirevire(https://hirevire.com/) to help automate the screening rounds so that talent teams can spend time interviewing only the best candidates.
by throwaway_1more on 8/24/24, 11:46 PM
by durraniu on 8/25/24, 1:09 PM
The idea is that a user would handwrite or type the first sentence of a story they want to write. This sentence would be used by llama 3.1 as a prompt to make a short story. Then the story is fed to stable diffusion to create image illustrations. Finally, all of it is combined into a slide deck that users can see in the app and also download if they want.
I am using Shiny and Quarto for this project.
by eashish93 on 8/25/24, 9:37 AM
You can try here without signup: https://admin.minform.io/try
Site: https://minform.io
by koskeller on 8/25/24, 5:29 PM
by reducesuffering on 8/24/24, 11:41 PM
Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for you.
Enter your preferences, narrow down locations, and compare them:
by cdelsolar on 8/24/24, 11:30 PM
On the side (with very little spare time), a set of Scrabble-related apps: for studying, AI, and playing. (See https://github.com/domino14 for more info)
I just love code too much.
by Igor_Wiwi on 8/25/24, 9:12 AM
Simplistic thesaurus and synonym finder.
Built with Flask and bit of jQuery
by ruuda on 8/25/24, 7:15 AM
by JansjoFromIkea on 8/25/24, 1:03 PM
Will probably try to self-host because why not.
Also doing my first Java based project since school; surprised how okay it's been going so far.
by DoubleDecoded on 8/25/24, 6:07 AM
Working on verifiable correctness for programs written in LM or anything that generates annotated assembly. Basically low-level proofs that accessed memory is valid and live or that function pre/post-conditions are met.
The goal is that these proofs are compiler agnostic, so more people can use them.
by hrkucuk on 8/25/24, 12:25 PM
by aziis98 on 8/25/24, 11:32 AM
I've tried many things but still none fit exactly my needs (I deploy many static websites so I want that to be effortless but I still want to be able to do continuous deployment on git+docker based projects). I know about Dokku and is probably what I should have learned to use but this way I can also challenge myself on a medium Go project
by nullderef on 8/26/24, 9:01 AM
by 0xc0der on 8/25/24, 3:04 PM
by vander_elst on 8/25/24, 1:52 AM
https://github.com/mseravalli/grizol
The idea was to leverage the syncthing ecosystem while expanding some of the capabilities.
It's till quote rough around the edges and needs some polish, but the core functionality should be there.
by japagley on 8/27/24, 2:46 PM
A form builder and filler SDK for developers. We make it easy for developers to build form experiences into your SaaS infrastructure. From simple documents and PDFs to large complex dynamic forms. It gives you the tools to provide the very best form solutions that empower your users on every level.
by adangit on 8/26/24, 11:11 PM
by XCSme on 8/25/24, 7:05 PM
by brennerm on 8/25/24, 11:02 AM
It's a tool to scratch my own itch, which is converting all kinds of web content into ebooks and send them to my ereader.
Currently focusing on web pages/Atom/RSS feeds but I may extend it later e.g. into transcribing videos + extracting image highlights.
Feedback/ideas are already appreciated. :)
by zoltrix303 on 8/25/24, 10:20 AM
I have a background in marketing and HR in large company, this is my first venture into programming after learning to code on my own (VBA -> Automate the boring stuff -> coursera -> React & a lot of help debugging from a very generous friend.)
Releasing a full working product was a great milestone, but so far market fit is still quite unclear.
by yen223 on 8/24/24, 10:58 PM
Writing and editing SQL queries on the phone can get tedious. Rather than just giving users a tiny textfield, I am exploring if there are better ways to build SQL queries on a touchscreen
Here's the makeshift landing page: https://getselectable.com/
by FujiApple on 8/25/24, 1:18 AM
by sanj001 on 8/24/24, 11:02 PM
It's an incident management platform, similar to Pagerduty, Rootly or FireHydrant.
It's the first side project I've open sourced, and I've been hacking on it weekends and nights. Hoping to get a few companies to start using it to get some early feedback.
by markles on 8/25/24, 11:29 AM
by sarks_nz on 8/25/24, 2:21 AM
Lot of fun ideas, and hopefully will get used by a large variety of volunteers.
by pbsurf on 8/25/24, 1:00 AM
by BetterWhisper on 8/24/24, 11:01 PM
by langcss on 8/24/24, 11:55 PM
This is essentially an IDE with LLM support to help design CSS and HTML. Currently Tailwind only but I may add other frameworks and Vanilla support.
by azhenley on 8/24/24, 11:17 PM
by ziolko on 8/25/24, 6:09 AM
It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years of working on CRUD web apps.
My work is open source and available at https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.
by 255kb on 8/28/24, 8:21 AM
by Akcium on 8/25/24, 12:22 AM
The key idea is that I'll try explain UI/UX by redesigning a big application (with old UI and poor UX), combining theory with real-world practice.
by program on 8/26/24, 3:34 PM
by breckognize on 8/25/24, 3:49 AM
by gibsonf1 on 8/25/24, 7:15 PM
by csomar on 8/25/24, 3:18 AM
by rogutkuba on 8/24/24, 11:03 PM
by g4zj on 8/24/24, 11:48 PM
More specifically, my mental health. I'm a bit of a mess, and I'm not sure I'll be able to properly commit to any external endeavors until I'm feeling better inside.
by RobinL on 8/25/24, 8:03 AM
by worulz on 8/25/24, 1:19 AM
On other things, I've been playing with rustlang. Looking to build something with it.
by roberja90 on 8/24/24, 11:10 PM
Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about 20,000 shoppers a month currently.
Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/ Repo: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream
by s_brady on 8/24/24, 11:07 PM
by RomanPushkin on 8/25/24, 3:02 AM
If you think about games, there is handful of them for blind and visually impaired players. But things got more interesting when keyboard is your screen.
by orliesaurus on 8/24/24, 11:43 PM
It's fairly a simple implementation but I am looking forward to thinking about monetization.
Right now I have ALMOST 10k user installs. It's called Gemini Sidepanel [1] if you're interested in checking it out.
by abhishaike on 8/25/24, 3:15 AM
Rediscovering an old love for writing that I thought had left me after highschool, now applied in the field I work in! Recommend starting your own blog if you're on the fence + being consistent about posting, it's extremely worth it
by whb101 on 8/25/24, 12:59 AM
Think Omegle, but only text, and based around common interests.
by iwgtg on 8/26/24, 12:52 PM
by andersource on 8/25/24, 8:09 AM
After it's done I hope to add a demo to my blog.
Cheers for all the interesting work going on here!
by vax425 on 8/25/24, 2:08 PM
by mkoubaa on 8/25/24, 1:59 AM
by gigapotential on 8/25/24, 1:09 AM
Currently trying to get new apps for Apple platform published and going through App Store review process..
Existing apps are open source here: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app
by njjv on 8/25/24, 12:47 AM
by antfie on 8/30/24, 4:03 PM
by j_m_b on 8/25/24, 12:13 AM
by ben_fishbein on 8/25/24, 12:52 AM
A way to follow creators and not specific podcasts
by fahad19 on 8/25/24, 10:21 AM
It’s an open source tool for declaratively managing your feature flags, a/b tests, and remote configuration for your applications and services.
Has SDKs for JavaScript, Swift, and Kotlin already.
by vik08 on 8/25/24, 2:37 AM
You add a photo of your outfit and get some feedback along with ways to improve it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-ai-outfit-analysis/id647...
by luismedel on 8/26/24, 10:47 AM
It's a bit embarrassing right now (no README, no docs, no examples...) and maybe in the future, but it's being a fun experiment.
by mauerbac on 8/25/24, 4:24 AM
Try the demo and let me know what you think!
by lrvick on 8/27/24, 9:19 AM
100% deterministic, full-source-bootstrapped, container-native Linux distribution where no single maintainer is trusted.
Use it to build software that matters enough to avoid single points of failure in your supply chain.
by tducret on 8/25/24, 9:08 AM
Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.
No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).
- You just write plain markdown
- Add a script import at the top
- Upload
Check it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/
by bojj on 8/29/24, 3:18 AM
by valryon on 8/25/24, 7:39 AM
by rozenmd on 8/25/24, 8:57 AM
In particular, I've been building functionality for status pages to make it more useful for software teams.
by kevin_am on 8/25/24, 3:20 AM
Although some people say the SEO is dead and does not work anymore, I am still spending effort on it and building BMW VIN Decoder https://bmwvindecode.com/ to learn by doing.
by rajatkulk on 8/25/24, 2:39 AM
Currently re-writing a bunch of the bundler stuff and how UI takes data in for performance improvements, before shifting gears to building the Windows version!
by JesseTG on 8/25/24, 8:13 PM
by Max-Ganz-II on 8/25/24, 9:15 AM
Thinking a free and paid version.
Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so it's slow, and so a six day history only.
Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.
by hm8 on 8/25/24, 2:36 AM
by mathteddybear on 8/25/24, 8:27 AM
by adelowo on 8/25/24, 2:21 PM
Really really early days but progress can be followed at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak
by jackfhebert on 8/25/24, 2:05 AM
by jvanderbot on 8/25/24, 3:13 AM
by romesmoke on 8/27/24, 12:24 PM
August is a sanctuary. It's the only thing I can hold every day of the rest of the year against Tech's meaninglessness. It's when I can read and do what I want instead of what I must.
by ChrisMarshallNY on 8/24/24, 10:48 PM
I tried it a while back, and wasn’t too thrilled with the way Apple has structured their ML stuff (they basically only afford very specific applications, which didn’t match my workflow).
It was suggested that I revisit it, so I am.
by ronyfadel on 8/25/24, 1:56 PM
by umit-cakmak on 8/27/24, 3:27 PM
by d883kd8 on 8/25/24, 12:02 AM
by syndicatedjelly on 8/24/24, 11:35 PM
by CrispinPowers on 8/25/24, 5:54 AM
The goal is to streamline the design-to-code process.
Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who’s tackled similar challenges or has insights on optimizing cross-platform handoffs!
by ksylvestre on 8/25/24, 12:20 AM
I based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.
by bilsbie on 8/25/24, 12:29 PM
Playing with toy LLM models to see if there’s a way to identify gaps in knowledge and guide training.
Thinking to do a kaggle challenge soon. (Is there a way to join a team?)
Maybe do a chose-your-own-adventure style interactive story to teach python to beginners.
by zn44 on 8/25/24, 3:55 PM
Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.
At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.
by spankalee on 8/25/24, 2:06 AM
The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.
by rtcode_io on 8/24/24, 11:12 PM
We're continuing to develop and refine our core offerings at Elefunc:
RTCode.io is our real-time web development playground for HTML, CSS, and JS. It provides instant feedback - as you code, you see the results immediately. A key feature is our support for in-editor Workers, allowing developers to write and test backend code directly in the playground.
These Workers integrate seamlessly with RTEdge.net, our global, multi-cloud edge network. RTEdge.net offers distributed hosting with auto-scaling capabilities, giving developers a powerful platform to deploy and scale their applications worldwide.
We're also running rt.ht, which we tout as the world's shortest SaaS eTLD.
Our focus remains on providing developers with robust tools for real-time web development and edge computing. We're always looking to improve the integration between RTCode.io and RTEdge.net to streamline the development and deployment process.
If you're interested in real-time web technologies or edge computing, we'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions about our platform.
by iacguy on 8/26/24, 10:04 PM
Digger automates deployment of IaC like Terraform or OpenTofu. You push Terraform code to GitHub, and it gets planned and applied - like Vercel, but for infrastructure code. You can manage environments, secrets, policies and drift in the web UI.
by MaiaIva on 8/27/24, 7:11 AM
by lakrizz on 8/25/24, 8:10 AM
this is all in super early non-peer-tested alpha (if anything), so feel free to try it out and give feedback :)
by mrose11 on 8/25/24, 8:55 PM
Create one, the other comes with.
by henning on 8/25/24, 2:56 AM
by bqc on 8/25/24, 8:07 AM
by theendisney4 on 8/25/24, 1:34 AM
by heyarviind2 on 8/25/24, 1:03 AM
- https://formlick.com : A typeform alternative with lifetime deal
- https://aye.so : Create your link in bio in bento style using the widgets
by mooreds on 8/24/24, 11:58 PM
So this weekend, I'm building some processes and marketing materials and doing some outreach.
by patrick91 on 8/25/24, 9:47 AM
by bbkane on 8/25/24, 12:20 AM
by david1542 on 8/30/24, 10:13 AM
by ahstilde on 8/25/24, 3:23 AM
Been playing with RAG on my co-founder's medical expertise.
by raytopia on 8/25/24, 1:11 AM
I need to update my website at some point its been a while.
by nkhanh on 8/25/24, 1:20 AM
by xeonax on 8/25/24, 7:20 AM
https://stonks.aeonax.com Only for India tho
by nikhil_twf on 8/29/24, 8:27 AM
So far it's trusted by 3000+ businesses worldwide & got pretty good ratings on G2 & Trustpilot. So no new idea but to keep working on it.
by BigOCaml on 8/25/24, 1:15 PM
- velocity tracking with your camera
- automatic video trimming
- workout tracking
Currently working on an LLM for chatting with your lifting data :)
by shove on 8/25/24, 7:17 PM
still needs a name :/
by billylo on 8/24/24, 11:20 PM
by everlier on 8/25/24, 2:13 PM
by austin-cheney on 8/25/24, 7:55 AM
I am going to expand it to provide a health dashboard of connected sockets, supported domains, and traffic analytics as a web service.
by mark336 on 8/26/24, 10:33 PM
by edverma2 on 8/25/24, 3:30 PM
A huge sports LED ticker screen. It’s been an interesting experience. Hardware is hard. But people love it when they see it and seem to be really excited for it.
by alabhyajindal on 8/25/24, 1:44 AM
by voiceblue on 8/24/24, 11:40 PM
by anacrolix on 8/25/24, 11:25 AM
concurrent disk-backed cache supporting efficient direct file I/O, transactions, and snapshots using file cloning and sparse files
by rubicks on 8/24/24, 10:59 PM
by 4d4m on 8/25/24, 6:01 AM
by cowpin on 8/25/24, 3:24 AM
For the last decade or longer, I have been using pinboard.io, and I wanted to add a few more features. I just launched the landing page, and that's a start!
by henry2023 on 8/25/24, 2:56 AM
by foxhop on 8/25/24, 9:24 PM
just made an battleship game today, look at research for for more
by jasiek on 8/25/24, 6:30 AM
by njjv on 8/25/24, 12:40 AM
by folli on 8/25/24, 11:18 AM
by attilakun on 8/25/24, 12:37 AM
It uses QuickJS compiled to WASM in the backend to sandbox JavaScript execution.
by KTibow on 8/25/24, 3:34 AM
by thelastparadise on 8/25/24, 1:43 AM
(ha ha) no really, an app that aims to help out older, lonely, but good people. It's a desperately underserved market. These people are often overlooked and we're trying to empathize with them via software.
by petabyt on 8/25/24, 5:22 AM
by pbrum on 8/27/24, 12:43 AM
by taiters_ on 8/24/24, 10:52 PM
https://chip8.dotslashdan.com/
I added the ability to import/export ROMs and finally added some of documentation.
...Plenty bugs left to fix
by nayeem-rahman on 8/24/24, 11:41 PM
by tapanih on 8/25/24, 8:27 AM
by rhl314 on 8/25/24, 6:30 AM
Have spent the last few months working on the current release.
It uses rust and Tauri under the hood.
by Sjpratt on 8/25/24, 2:15 AM
by parmgrewal on 8/27/24, 1:16 PM
by DeskDingo on 8/25/24, 1:35 AM
by ambersahdev on 8/24/24, 11:31 PM
https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface
Working on testing local LLMs right now.
by ydnaclementine on 8/24/24, 11:10 PM
by ssernikk on 8/25/24, 11:56 AM
by kureikain on 8/25/24, 3:55 AM
Working on adding many small features such as webhook, email parser.
by ww520 on 8/25/24, 1:07 AM
by plg on 8/25/24, 12:10 PM
by Turboblack on 8/29/24, 10:01 AM
by graz on 8/25/24, 7:45 AM
I'm working on trying to make code reviews easier, faster, and more powerful. Adding rule based automation to check for common errors.
by longnguyen on 8/27/24, 8:41 AM
by boogieknite on 8/25/24, 12:35 AM
by danielbekele on 8/25/24, 3:51 PM
by avghaloplayer on 8/24/24, 11:55 PM
by cpursley on 8/24/24, 10:50 PM
by ViktorV on 8/25/24, 12:28 AM
I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we have to be able to launch our own stuff.
Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on the side for a while.
The main audience for now would be basketball players that want to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the progress.
by SupermindPT on 8/25/24, 1:15 AM
by mailtousman on 8/25/24, 7:29 PM
" Y Combinator Go Back! 500 Error That didn't work. Sorry about that. We've been alerted and will investigate.
"
I was working on application registration process.
by sepandhaghighi on 8/27/24, 12:38 AM
by geekymartian on 8/24/24, 11:33 PM
by shcheklein on 8/24/24, 11:06 PM
by tomatohs on 8/24/24, 11:05 PM
We’re selling it to developer teams to help with QA
by gpattle on 8/25/24, 7:33 AM
by myprotegeai on 8/24/24, 11:00 PM
by sercanov on 8/25/24, 8:13 AM
by myspeed on 8/25/24, 3:35 AM
by lormayna on 8/25/24, 5:34 AM
by gpattle on 8/25/24, 7:32 AM
by renegat0x0 on 8/25/24, 5:32 PM
by emrah on 8/25/24, 7:20 AM
by sim04ful on 8/25/24, 1:06 AM
by spirobelv2 on 8/25/24, 12:47 AM
(my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)
currently busy using it to build things. will document everything in detail soon.
by anthony88 on 8/25/24, 8:11 AM
by emresahin on 8/26/24, 11:34 AM
by origsofdev on 8/27/24, 1:51 AM
by elmigranto on 8/25/24, 9:33 AM
https://www.instagram.com/doggable.app/
We have over a 100 places now, and are getting ready for closed beta in September. You can sign up by emailing hello@doggable.app or DM-ing us on Instagram @doggable.app.
The app is developed live over at Twitch.
by wtf242 on 8/25/24, 3:40 PM
been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm. would love to collab with a data scientist on ways to improve my algorithm. https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank
by kshantanu94 on 8/25/24, 7:28 AM
by michaelleland on 8/25/24, 12:37 AM
by pbhowmic on 8/25/24, 3:01 PM
by kirubakaran on 8/24/24, 11:14 PM
by njx on 8/25/24, 5:58 PM
Better visualizations and improvements for internal link building
by ibizaman on 8/25/24, 7:46 AM
Self Host Blocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks is a modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices. The manual can be found here https://shb.skarabox.com/
Compared to others, its goal is to make best practices easy, be declarative, robust and fully featured.
I’m a self hosting and data sovereignty advocate and this project is my contribution to this space.
Best practices easy is made by adding a layer on top of the stock nixpkgs modules that make for example Vaultwarden easy to secure (/admin behind SSO with Authelia) and easy to backup. One doesn’t need to understand how to setup Authelia nor what folders to backup. That is taken care for you. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-vaultwarden.html
Declarative is taken care by NixOS but it goes further than the stock nixpkgs modules. For example it installs the needed Nextcloud apps for LDAP and SSO fully unattended. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-nextcloud.html#services-ne...
Robust thanks NixOS being a declarative OS, for example by adding a grub menu for every new deployment, making rollbacks easy. But also thanks to extensive tests that for example validates that the SSO integrations do not break on upgrades.
Fully featured because for every service it provides, it makes setting up the reverse proxy, backup, LDAP, SSO, etc. easy and importantly in a standardized way thanks to contracts I’m adding https://shb.skarabox.com/contracts.html
All of this is not meant to stay in this project though. I’m slowly working towards upstreaming everything into nixpkgs. I’m starting with upstreaming a feature that allows out of band secrets to be interpolated into config files easily https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328472 I make extensive use of this is Self Host Blocks already.
Finally, I’m using this project for my home server and one in my parent’s place. So I’m using it in “prod” already.
by d1sxeyes on 8/25/24, 7:59 AM
Our kid’s nursery school posts a lot of photos to Facebook, and we’ve asked them not to post photos of him. They’re (mostly) respecting our wishes, but we still have a bit of FOMO over the pictures of kids having fun, and wish we could see pictures of our son having fun too.
The goal is that the nursery would be able to upload photos and parents can see only their own child’s face, other children are pixelated.
Still early stages but got a working prototype, and I’m enjoying the building process.
by knckl on 8/28/24, 7:32 PM
by iamflimflam1 on 8/28/24, 7:54 PM
by gimliapp on 8/25/24, 7:37 AM
I'm working on my Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap DevTools browser extensions.
by moridin on 8/25/24, 2:43 AM
by arc_of_descent on 8/25/24, 10:23 AM
A stock screener. Plan to have lots more features soon.
by boogieknite on 8/25/24, 12:34 AM
by omginternets on 8/25/24, 5:18 PM
If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.
by KingOfCoders on 8/25/24, 4:16 AM
Go/Alpine/HTMX/Postgres, Modulith
by stefantheard on 8/25/24, 1:59 AM
by research_pie on 8/24/24, 11:15 PM
I read the abstract a while ago and I was fascinated by the methodology.
by scottmckenzie on 8/24/24, 11:44 PM
by jasondigitized on 8/25/24, 2:35 AM
by sidcool on 8/25/24, 3:51 AM
by dorianmariefr on 8/25/24, 12:05 PM
by klausjensen on 8/25/24, 9:38 AM
by absoul on 8/25/24, 12:13 PM
by edgarasben on 8/25/24, 1:57 PM
BigOnX.com
by sujayk_33 on 8/25/24, 2:11 PM
I didn't like web dev very much but now I'm enjoying Django a little so I intend to swallow Django and pull off some products maybe as I don't intend to have a regular job for the rest of my life and build what interests me.
So yeah, I've been pushing some Django projects and getting better at it.
If you wanna follow along or learn Django, here lies my journey
by burnt_toast on 8/25/24, 1:20 AM
by a1o on 8/24/24, 11:25 PM
by Who_99 on 8/25/24, 2:53 AM
by allabtai on 8/25/24, 7:32 AM
by Cereal on 8/25/24, 12:18 AM
by user3939382 on 8/25/24, 12:01 AM
by ChicagoDave on 8/25/24, 4:29 AM
V.01 close to ready.
by palk on 8/25/24, 6:42 AM
It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.
I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also makes GDPR way easier for you!
You can try it for free: https://palform.app
by wwilim on 8/25/24, 9:20 PM
by twoperkg on 8/25/24, 4:31 AM
by NicoJuicy on 8/25/24, 12:58 PM
by b2p on 8/25/24, 1:55 AM
We proposed and implemented the MVP for OP-Stack rollups (https://bit.ly/op-rfc). The work is based on the idea described in this blog post: https://bit.ly/forkless-rollup.
by SubiculumCode on 8/25/24, 3:20 AM
by willhackett on 8/25/24, 3:44 AM
It’s probably the most complicated product I've ever worked on. The team is incredible & I’m lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people. Our head of engineering is a fantastic person too, so it makes working here so easy!
In my spare time I’m working on an AI assistant. I thought I would try sell it first, but given the ramp uptake I’ll probably open source it.
by s3arch on 8/25/24, 4:28 AM
by posix_compliant on 8/25/24, 1:31 AM
by crbelaus on 8/25/24, 12:45 PM
I wrote a post explaining the reasons for building this when we already have multiple third-party SaaS providers: https://crbelaus.com/2024/07/31/built-in-elixir-error-report...
It boils down to simplicity. While error reporting is extremely valuable for most projects, it is absent from many. The most common reason is that this requires entering SaaS territory. Most solutions are provided by third-parties that require you to subscribe and pay for the privilege of tracking your errors. Cost is the main noticeable downside. Data protection (GDPR, HIPAA, etc) is another.
The Elixir community is providing great feedback and it was covered both in a YouTube video (https://youtu.be/TNmSVjGyZx0?si=yd6kOwa2ZpxUyFad) and a Podcast (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/215).
by markhalonen on 8/25/24, 2:17 AM
by atemerev on 8/25/24, 9:27 AM
by shgidi on 8/26/24, 10:16 AM
by gijoeyguerra on 8/25/24, 1:45 AM
by xiaodai on 8/25/24, 2:53 AM
by unreppedfounder on 8/25/24, 3:46 AM
by dominis on 8/25/24, 4:15 PM
by thiosphere on 8/25/24, 2:11 AM
by spacecadet on 8/24/24, 11:02 PM
by chrisfrantz on 8/25/24, 5:51 PM
by Listone13 on 8/25/24, 5:49 AM
by rprtr258 on 8/25/24, 5:01 PM
by SoftTalker on 8/25/24, 1:21 AM
by keshav55 on 8/26/24, 11:26 AM
Was just frustrated there weren't good youtube summarizer + chat apps. Had fun also interacting with content in different ways
Enjoy using it!
by r_singh on 8/25/24, 7:21 AM
It’s like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to use
Currently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.
The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API, Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and scrapers with AI.
There’s a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape any site that just works without the need for any config or complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR. Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I’m bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and conduct marketing experiments.
What I find interesting about it: I’m offering easy ways to scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I’m thinking of doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc. and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a synchronous API approach
by justEgan on 8/24/24, 11:50 PM
(supports desktop only for now)
by motohagiography on 8/25/24, 12:35 AM
by greenie_beans on 8/25/24, 12:33 AM
by cwood-sdf on 8/25/24, 1:49 AM
by lukeh on 8/25/24, 12:41 AM
by mo_42 on 8/25/24, 8:34 AM
by tachibana on 8/25/24, 4:39 AM
by sleno on 8/25/24, 12:46 PM
Made it to the front page of HN a few months ago with a less polished version. Still trying to build consistent traffic and engagement. Any feedback is much appreciated!
by novaleaf on 8/25/24, 8:09 PM
by codeadict on 8/26/24, 10:47 AM
by AndyNemmity on 8/25/24, 12:48 AM
by vinibrito on 8/25/24, 1:21 AM
by Xt-6 on 8/25/24, 2:09 AM
by apineda on 8/24/24, 11:58 PM
by nullindividual on 8/25/24, 1:20 AM
by bilater on 8/25/24, 5:22 PM
I have apps that pay my rent such as YOU-TLDR - Transcribe and Summarize YouTube videos you-tldr.com
Shorts Generator - Text to Automated Shorts In Minutes shortsgenerator.com
Snoop Hawk - Automated Web adn Reddit Marketing snoophawk.com
You can find all my projects here hackyexperiments.com
Currently I am exploring the idea of chatting with more than one AI. My assumption is it makes the interaction more life like and less lonely and I think in the future everyone will hav a group of AI friends. I made a quick loom about it here: https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/1826831221554643324
by tpae on 8/25/24, 2:55 AM
by 0xrandom on 8/25/24, 8:48 AM
by ICodeSometimes on 8/25/24, 3:23 PM
i like knives
by dumbashco on 8/25/24, 10:20 PM
by steve_adams_86 on 8/25/24, 5:27 PM
I’ve worked with several teams now who wanted to adopt Go for the backend, but the team’s only extensive type system experience is in TypeScript. They tended to hit very similar pitfalls and want to coerce the type system to behave like what they’re familiar with, and inevitably they wound up with inflexible and error-prone architecture.
They also failed to accomplish any kind of holistic, 30,000ft view architecture because implementations were too often sent off the rails by not understanding the language deeply enough. That was often in part due to type system confusion inherent to how Go implements certain data structures (particularly slices), which leads to the sprawling repetitive Go code people dislike so much.
I did all of this too, so I feel like my insight and experience would be valuable to share. I actually wrote 90% of it last year and felt like a goof, like, ahhh what am I doing obviously everyone else figured out Go faster than I did and this writing is just telling people how incompetent I am. Haha. But then I worked on another project and the situation was exactly the same. I actually used my draft content to help the team understand how I see the problem, and how to get past the mental traps that they were in.
Fundamentally it comes down to “learn the type system/language properly”, but it’s not quite so blatant or unhelpful. One of the problems with TypeScript methodologies is that they’re so ridiculously flexible, but go is not at all in the same ways, yet they have just enough superficially in common to trick you into thinking otherwise.
So, my series essentially elucidates the similarities, differences, and what’s totally absent in Go from the bottom to the top. It’s interesting because they really are remarkably similar in some ways, which is precisely why it can trip newcomers up. Knowing why that’s a trap makes you a far, far better Go developer. Along the way it also reveals details about TypeScript that some people might not be fully aware of (at least several in the team I shared the drafts with said so), which could be helpful.
I mostly need to muster the courage to hit publish now. My confidence has taken a beating in the last year or so!
by serial_dev on 8/24/24, 11:59 PM
I decided to build a multiplatform app with SwiftUI to test out the waters. So far, learning SwiftUI and building an app is somehow both easier and harder than expected, but I'm glad to see something new.
I'm planning to write a series of apps in the next 6 months, so that I build confidence shipping apps with SwiftUI and maybe find a smaller contract with it.
by Antoninus on 8/25/24, 7:16 AM
by bhickey on 8/25/24, 1:30 AM
by brainless on 8/24/24, 11:18 PM
Starting with emails, calendars and attachments. Integrations for Slack, LinkedIn, Stripe, databases, even web crawl are coming...
This branch has updated readme:
https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/feature/prepare_mvp_...
by julien040 on 8/25/24, 5:03 PM
It's mental gymnastics to transform different data sources (e.g. a spreadsheet) into a SQL database with write support, but I do enjoy the journey and learn a lot from it.
by fragmede on 8/24/24, 10:52 PM
by s16h on 8/25/24, 7:21 AM
The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So, on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT + Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12 hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)
Some random learnings, top of mind:
1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5), can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help from a technical person.
2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other products, I feel incomplete.
3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to twice a day. Anyway, feel free to give it a try: https://spruce.so/
P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.). Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.
by N3Xxus_6 on 8/25/24, 6:11 AM
by jspittman on 8/25/24, 4:37 PM
by jdougan on 8/25/24, 12:13 AM
by openplatypus on 8/26/24, 9:45 AM
The industry and the niche is cut throat with large number of disingenuous competitors. Beginnings were brutal but perseverance was worthy strategy.
by barrenko on 8/25/24, 1:18 PM
by slowhadoken on 8/25/24, 1:04 AM
by entropyie on 8/25/24, 11:59 AM
by bsenftner on 8/25/24, 10:09 AM
This has been in development for 3 years, and I've got an immigration law firm using it, with about 1/3rd of the LLM agents being immigration law specialist agents of some type.
I'm just wrapping up transforming the system from being immigration law specific to being generic, capable of operating in any industry. I previously made a "do it yourself: build your own home solar energy system" as a proof of concept that this framework could be modified in such a way, which I put online for a few months and then took down, having proved what I wanted.
I've got multiple creative writing 'bots: legal, technical documentation, creative writing, and code authoring. I've got multiple spreadsheet 'bots: create any standard spreadsheet form on demand, reverse engineer and explain complex spreadsheets, and co-author spreadsheets interactively with the human user, guiding them through the understanding of the spreadsheet being built. I've got foreign language translation agents that allow people without a common language to speak to one another through the voice transcription interfaces.
And the users are never copying and pasting LLM outputs from one place to another, that integration is built in to the business logic of the software: ask a chatbot to write a document, the output does directly to the word processor and the document is created, likewise for spreadsheets, likewise for talking to the "projectBot" and asking "what's the state of this project?" and a detailed report is generated.
I've also been making the app itself multi-lingual, and multi-skinned so it can be refaced for different cultures, demographics, and industries. I've been calling it "AI CMS" but that is meaningless to far too many. I'm considering calling it "Midom Office AI" because that sounds like "my dumb AI" and I'm generally sarcastic, considering an anti-gushing sarcastic marketing angle on the software. Rather than everyone's else's over praising, I'll have just some confident smuck referencing how he's got an entire team of AI experts helping him, enabling him to be calm and cool in the face of all the deadline pressures, he sips lemonade while his AI team works for him, and not him for it. We'll see what my "marketingBot" says...
by chaosharmonic on 8/25/24, 2:40 AM
It's a lot of experiments. On the frontend, I'm dispensing with any design systems or styling libraries, and have opted for vanilla CSS and hand-rolled animations. I'm using React for now, just to get it scaffolded faster with tools I know already, but I've been eyeing a few others, for reasons that range from a standing curiosity about Web Components to new ones about signals. The backend stack is all Deno-based: it includes Astral for any scraping needs you might have, uses Oak for routing, and leverages kvdex for storage. (I also contributed `model.getOne` and `model.updateOne` to the latter as part of initially getting duplicate detection working.) My goal is to keep the whole thing light on external dependencies, outside of a few pragmatic options, and generally work more directly with platform or runtime (or in Deno's case stdlib) functionality where feasible.
I otherwise rebuilt my website over the last few months, using Lume for static site generation with similar aims about shipping something generally lighter (the content there is all Markdown, and so far, everything but the syntax highlighting and the ToC generation are built by hand). Additionally, I've been using it as a home for writing[3][4][5] and not just code, so that I have some other things I can show off. (The last one made the front page a couple weeks ago!)
[1] https://github.com/chaosharmonic/escapeHatch
[2] https://bhmt.dev/blog/scraping
[3] https://bhmt.dev/blog/markdown
by therepo90hn on 8/25/24, 1:01 PM
by treve on 8/24/24, 11:24 PM
by sydneyboo on 8/26/24, 12:43 AM
by lkrubner on 8/25/24, 6:20 PM
There are some unusual things about the game. To win, you have to conquer all of the land. However, no player is ever knocked out of the game. If you lose all of your land, you can simply become a guerrilla leader and engage in guerrilla warfare, in the hopes of turning your situation around. Being a guerrilla leader is difficult, but if all of the guerrilla leaders form an alliance, they might have the strength to reduce the power of whoever is winning at that moment. Every player starts off as a Noble Lord but you can become a Priest or a Communist or an Anarchist. (The Anarchists have a unique way of winning, which does not involve conquest.)
I have been working, for months, on the economics, which are very complex and I think very interesting. All prices start off randomized (within certain bands) so there are no "good units" or "bad units" only those that are under priced or over priced. There is an economic cycle that runs once every 60 seconds. It takes all purchases and turns the money spent into inflation. Specifically, the percentage of total world GDP that was spent on a particular product is the inflation rate, so if all of the players collectively spent 2% of their income buying swords, so 2% of total world GDP was spent on swords, then the price of swords goes up 2% for that minute. In this way, with players buying what is under-priced and thus driving up prices, the prices are pushed to their rational levels. Also, the inflation rate tells you something important about what other players are doing. If you notice the price of horses is going up at an alarming rate, it means one (or more) of the players is spending heavily to build a large cavalry force. The economics are entirely deterministic, based on the activity of the players, there are no random events. There are no randomly generated earthquakes or floods or NPC invasions. Every change arises from the actions of the players.
I was originally going to give the game the historical setting of the Chinese Warring States period, but then I decided to go with more of a fantasy theme. But there is nothing overtly fantasy in the game, it's simply that there are many myths, which the peasants might genuinely believe, that explain how the Empire Of Abundance was transformed into the Ruined Lands. The peasants are looking for some leader who can restore the Lost Age Of Abundance. The peasants (NPCs) will switch their loyalty to whoever they think can win. Occasionally some peasant will become a True Believer, in which case their loyalty is fixed for the rest of the game. That means even if their chosen leader is defeated and becomes a guerrilla leader, the peasant will remain loyal to them, and secretly send them small amounts of money, to help them recover.
If your peasants think you are doing a terrible job with the economy, they will emigrate to the lands of one of your enemies. You can seal the border, to stop the emigration, but the peasants treat this as tantamount to putting them in prison, so their morale will plunge. If their morale gets low enough, they will switch their loyalty away from you and to any nearby guerrilla leader.
There are 3 games in this game:
1. the military game
2. the economics game
3. the spy game
The military game and the economics game are entirely deterministic. At no point does the software "roll the dice". Combat is as deterministic as in the game of chess.
The spy game does use probability. If you torture a peasant then there is an 80% chance they will tell you the true. If you are wondering if one of your peasants has become a True Believer for one of your opponents, you can torture the peasant to get them to confess. There is an 80% chance that whatever they tell you is the truth.
I have almost zero graphics for this game, so I think it will only appeal to a limited set of people who are interested in a game with a very dynamic economics system. The point of view is basically that of a ruler sitting on their throne in their capitol -- they only hear the reports brought to them by messengers. They cannot see the economy, they can only read the reports and graphs given to them by their court scribes. Likewise, with battles. In that sense, the whole game is a bit abstract, but I hope it will appeal to some niche that wants something complex.
by allenu on 8/25/24, 12:01 AM
It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.
Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.
1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203
by y_gy on 8/25/24, 9:08 AM
As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates, but making front-end updates requires a whole production deploy, and a backend notification service is a lot to set up. UpdateMaker makes it easy to manage updates without an engineering cycle.
UpdateMaker lets you copy-paste our widget into your website, and then you can push update notifications to your users. You can customize the look and feel, schedule updates, track user engagement, and make it conditional on pages the user might visit. We manage all the cookie-handling so the user only sees updates they haven't seen before. It's been super useful for us!
From there, UpdateMaker also automatically exports all your updates as a changelog that you can publish for your users or SEO :)
by lukaqq on 8/25/24, 12:42 AM
by lynx23 on 8/25/24, 8:04 AM
* No need to invent a new language, use Python! * Use JIT to compile a SynthDef to a proces function! * Eliminate block_size at runtime by compiling a version of each primitive for every 2^n block size. * Watch the compiler do unrolling, vectorisation and merging loops.
Besides, its fun! https://github.com/mlang/mc1 (Nothing to see yet)
by bagas31pro on 8/25/24, 9:09 AM
