Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

Long, long ago, Ward Christensen mentioned that someone at work (IBM) told him "You can't write OS/2 programs in Assembler". Discussions followed, and eventually he gifted me the entire C programming suite for OS/2. It was quite a hefty package. I used the Macro Assembler included therein to write Forth/2, a direct threaded Forth for OS/2 written in assembler.[1]

Later, Brian Mathewson from Case Western wrote up a really good manual for it, and I actually got paid a few times for it. (Shareware, back in the day)

At one point, I had a self contained boot floppy with OS/2 minus it's GUI, Forth/2, and a bit of room left. You could load up Forth/2 and do a directory and play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor simultaneously. I thought that was pretty cool.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/forth2/code/HEAD/tree/

ghidra-delinker-extension [1]. It's a Ghidra extension for exporting relocatable object files from programs, which enables all kinds of heresy I've dubbed "Mad Max-driven development".

Somehow, it landed me an academic poster presentation [2] at the 2025 SURE Workshop, part of ACM CCS 2025 held in Taiwan. As a hobbyist playing Doctor Frankenstein with bits instead of gibs in my spare time, that is "received an invitation from Hogwarts"-levels of impossible, given that ACM CCS is the biggest academic cybersecurity conference in the world.

It also somehow grew a small community online around it, mostly within the Windows decompilation scene. It's not finished (as it is the kind of project that is practically endless), but I don't see how I could top that.

[1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

[2] https://boricj.net/2025/10/25/ghidra-delinker-extension-and-...

I do a lot of professional recordings with a Zoom H5 field recorder, sampling everyday sounds (mowing the lawn, a plane taxiing, an engine rumbling, a fire crackling, rain, wind, etc) for use in video and game dev.

The issue is that the sounds can't be used in a loop without it being very obvious where the start and end points are of the wave file. So I put together Loopweave which automatically detects and extracts “cinemagraph-style” audio loops. You drag an audio file in, and it automatically generates a seamless, repeatable loop you can use in ASMR projects or video games.

There's a demonstration video in the GitHub repository.

Free and open source (runs 100% clientside in your browser)

• https://github.com/scpedicini/loopweave

• https://loopweave.specr.net

This one: https://agenticworldcup.ai/

We just launched it too. ;-)

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