Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by rp1 » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:27 AM UTC

stickyricky wrote: post #118

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course). First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of peo…

I think the first idea is cool. I especially want something truly ephemeral. I don't want all of my messages existing forever. That's my main gripe with both Reddit and Discord right now.

One note about Discord though: why do you find it exclusionary? We use Discord for our customer ops, and we bring on a lot of not very tech savy people. It's really easy: they click a link and it opens in their browser. Not sure how you could make something more accessible in this regard.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by earlyriser » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:28 AM UTC

neilpanchal wrote: post #119

A typeface: https://neil.computer/notes/introducing-berkeley-mono/

This is a lovely typeface!

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by mxwsn » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:28 AM UTC

tppiotrowski wrote: post #23

A 2D slippy map that shows sun and shadow around the world. Today’s sunset around Puget Sound: https://shademap.app/#47.89056,-122.66785,7z,1635813675213t

That's so cool! It's inaccurate for Manhattan though ;)

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by ktpecot » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:32 AM UTC

Building quadcopter from scratch (ish?) using an arduino as the flight controller.

Pretty interesting/challenging if you haven't done anything too complicated with hardware.

http://www.brokking.net/ymfc-al_main.html

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by elihu » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:32 AM UTC

Been working sporadically on a project to convert a Mazda RX-8 to electric. Gradually expanding my modular synthesizer. (I'd recommend AI Synthesis to anyone looking for some well-designed modules to assemble.) Building a cigar-box style 8-string nylon Kite Guitar [1] (It's a 41-EDO guitar with only half the notes available on each string, so physically it's basically a 20.5-EDO guitar.)

[1] https://kiteguitar.com/

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by heavyset_go » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:35 AM UTC

agf wrote: post #55

I posted on a thread about burnout back in May about quitting my job[1] after nine years, this seems like an invitation to post an update. I used the time off to travel around in a van, hiking, eating, camping, and visiting friends. I'm now back in the city and catching up all of the life stuff that I put on hold for the pandemic and / or travel -- minor remodeling, maintenance, friends I didn't really get to see dur…

Looking back, were there any warning signs about burnout that you noticed, and is there anything you would have done differently in hindsight?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by MonaroVXR » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:35 AM UTC

Doing MongoDB ExpressJS React and Node projects (MERNN).

Kinda new too it.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by stickyricky » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:35 AM UTC

d3nj4l wrote: post #120

stickyricky wrote: post #118

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course). First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of peo…

Your first idea sounds great and very close o some ideas I've been thinking a lot about. If you ever get somewhere with it, please post a Show HN! On your second, I immediately thought of Fabulous, a package that uses the Elm Architecture to build Xamarin cross platform apps in F#. [1] Have you seen it before? 1: https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous

Thank you for the kinds words!

I had not seen fabulous before. It looks really cool! Gives me a sense of validation that others have thought of this.

I tried writing an iOS app in the past (hence the inspiration for the project). If I ever try again, fabulous will be my first choice.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by MrDunham » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:35 AM UTC

Love the thread!

Been building a bio and neuro feedback controlled "Temple Run" like game that runs entirely in the browser (Web Bluetooth to hook into a Muse EEG and a heart rate monitor, 4 channels running FFTs, WebGL, etc).

I really wanted a fun way to get me to use EEG training for focus and managing anxiety/stress. So... here we are.

Pretty close to Show HN ready. Thinking I might post one if anyone thinks it sounds interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by heavyset_go » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 1:37 AM UTC

jonhermansen wrote: post #77

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #66

Continuing to add Ableton Live "clip launching" features to Ardour, and along the way fix bugs with our new time representation implementation (which features such things as an int62_t). But also, over the weekend, helped construct a new 2m diameter horno (outdoor oven) from adobe bricks and mud mortar for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden as part of Santa Fe Community College's ADOB-112 (Wall Construction) course.

Thank you Paul for your excellent work on Ardour!

Seconding this. Thanks!