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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#123
A new ping pong paddle design.

My backhand is OK but my forehand sucks. Grip styles for standard handles usually end up favoring one side or the other. I'm making a handle shape that's easier to get the blade angle right on both sides. Hopefully a couple more iterations on the 3D printer and then I can have a functional prototype made.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#124
I'm working on Flavia, an ultra-low latency voice AI data analyst that can join your meetings. You can throw in data(csv's, postgres db's, bigquery, posthog analytics for now) and you just talk and ask questions. Using cerebras(2000 tokens per second) and very low latency sandboxes on the fly, you can get back charts/tables/analysis in under 1 second. (excluding time of the actual SQL query if you are doing bigquery).

She can also join your google meet or teams meetings, share her screen and then everyone in the meeting can ask questions and see live results. Currently being used by product managers and executives for mainly analytics and data science use cases.

We plan to open-source it soon if there is demand. Very fast voice+actions is the future imo

https://www.tryflavia.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#125
I'm working on _prompt injection_, the problem where LLMs can't reliably distinguish between the user's instructions and untrusted content like web search results.

Just published a blog post a few minutes ago: https://alexcbecker.net/blog/prompt-injection-benchmark.html

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#127
https://recipin.com Recipe extraction and archiving to avoid link rot and blog spam. No tracking, no JavaScript, no AI[0], and just a dusting of CSS. Source available to run your own server if you’d like (https://github.com/bradly/recipin).

I’d like to add importing from a Pinterest account and continue adding support for all the creative implementations of the schema.org recipe format that different sites use.

[0] My partner has a bunch of handwritten family recipes, so I’m trying out an optional extract from a photo of a hand written or magazine recipe that uses AI. Not required and I may pull it out into its own service that spits out schema.org recipes. We’ll see.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#128
https://linog.ph

LINOG.ph is a live earthquake tracker for the Philippines.

The Philippines deals with thousands of earthquakes a year. Whenever the government volcanology and seismology department detects earthquakes, they post it on their official website.

When a major earthquake happens, a huge number of people try to visit the site, causing downtime for up to an hour.

LINOG.ph caches earthquake data from the official government website and the U.S. Geological Survey site, and makes them highly available to the public.

I built this after seeing friends and family donating and providing support for affected families after a major earthquake in Cebu. This was my way of helping out.

Two super typhoons have hit the Philippines in the past two weeks, so I'm also considering adding in typhoon tracking.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#129
Working on https://www.vantage.sh/

Specifically working on our FinOps agent which can identify and remediate cloud infa cost related issues across AWS, Azure, Datadog, etc. The agent lives in Slack and surfaces cost savings initiatives for teams to inspect and approve for the agent to fix.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#130
New (open source) PostgreSQL index type for analytics workloads, which is a read-only drop-in replacement for B-trees. Smol is multiplicatively faster than B-Trees and radically smaller.

https://github.com/asah/smol

Help, alpha testers, etc all welcome. Sorry RDS/Aurora users: smol is for embedded and self-hosted pg instances only for the foreseeable future.

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