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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by owenpalmer »

koeng wrote: post #13

I'm working on synthesizing a genome at home! Here is a video with more details, as well as a picture of my home lab. I've always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally have a chance to do it. Video on what I'm doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiuS1oHnKw Picture of my home lab - https://x.com/koeng101/status/1844150979484319842 I'm trying to build a DNA assembly company right now (been lots of ups a…

Wow this is very exciting! Always makes me happy when I see your comments on HN, you're always up to something interesting! Are you hiring developers or aspiring bioengineers? (I'm a developer and an aspiring bioengineer)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by geoka9 »

tmshapland wrote: post #27

Updating some of my negative core beliefs. Years of Buddhist meditation only got me so far. But two months of this new technique, and I finally see a path to being able to program my emotional self like I program a computer. Here's how it works. Step one. Identify the negative belief you want to change. This is the core belief. It is something you feel is true. For example, “I am a bad manager.” Step two. Create a st…

Does that mean you actually know that you're a good manager but can't shake off the feeling that you're not? And this technique is a way to achieve that?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by oefrha »

waprin wrote: post #100
dang wrote: post #3

This is an ongoing experiment that david927 has been helping with (thanks!). The two previous in the sequence were: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690087 - Sept 2024 (1041 comments) Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342017 - Aug 2024 (1424 comments) One thing I'd like to hone in on is that these threads a…

Why isn't it intended for promotion? I find this "anti-promotion" attitude to be doing a disservice to this HN community for a few reasons. Clearly, this whole website is funded and exists in part to promote YC's portfolio companies, as evidenced by "Launch HN" threads getting auto-front paged whereas "Show HN" plebians have to earn the upvotes from /new (which most agree required an exceptionally good post and a lot…

There’s simply no “HN is not for self promotion” policy. You’re asked to not use your account primarily for self-promotion, and repeats are allowed, so you can roll your dice multiple times on your Show HN already as long as you’re otherwise a good contributor to the community and only do it sparingly. Flooding another topic with commercial promos simply turns it into another https://news.ycombinator.com/show, what’s the point then?

As for YC companies getting Launch placements, well too bad, it’s their site, you’re free to leave and start your competing one. I assume most users aren’t bothered — I seldom notice them and hardly ever click on them. I notice job ads more.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by dngit »

I'm working on Pictera [1], an AI product where users can upload their photos (like selfies) to create high-quality, hyper-realistic images of themselves in just about any style they want.

Originally, I built Pictera for myself to use because I couldn’t find any service that produced decent photos. Besides, I was very concerned that popular products in this space included broad terms allowing them to keep and use users' photos indefinitely for any purposes, including marketing [2]. But I've been enjoying working on the product so much that I've put way more time into polishing it and thought others would find it useful too.

Would love any feedback from folks!

[1] https://pictera.ai [2] https://pictera.ai/about

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by seangransee »

Two completely unrelated things:

1. An infinite realtime canvas for people all over the world to collaborate on pixel art: https://everyonedraw.com/6/4298/8439

2. An LLM-powered translator specifically optimized for English speakers living in Spanish-speaking countries: https://translate-spanish.com

The first one is purely for fun to scratch my own itch, and the second is solving some frustrations I've had with existing translator apps while living in Mexico City.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by jsemrau »

I am playing around with LLMs and Game Theory. Currently, I let them play 5x5 board games in a tournament against Reinforcement Learning Agents and a Random Player. I am capturing the "thoughts" of the agent for behavioral data analysis. My background is Risk Management, I am trying to gather an understanding how such LLMs report their "decision" for applications in human/ai interactions for identifying and reporting governance flaws.

Since I am working on autonomous agents that are given the agency to take an action on their own, I believe having a good understanding of the "psyche" is important (at least to me).

[1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by SmellTheGlove »

I've been just screwing around and building little apps, mostly seeing how quickly I can get something going using ChatGPT or Claude. Seems like Claude in particular is great with code. The most recent thing I did was a little app [0] to help one of my parents log their blood pressure readings easily, since they had to do it a few times a day in different positions and such. I've used that as an excuse to learn how to make something really basic, single task, easy to use for folks that aren't so great with technology. I'm also trying to learn a bit more about accessibility in web development, which this is helping me do.

[0]: https://www.logmybp.com/

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