A modern take on ESL (English as a Second Language) vocabulary building flashcards. It might also be fun for native speakers who like language games. It is in beta and feedback is very welcome - iterating to improve it... https://www.dictionarygames.io
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#142I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…
Very nice! I ejected from the nuclear industry almost a decade ago and have played around in Healthcare/IoT/Oil&Gas/Finance software tech, but I'd love to figure out how to apply these skills to nuclear energy somehow.
Also - love whatisnuclear.com! About 10 years ago, I tried my hand at creating a generalized JS-based viz system (see examples in https://github.com/ahd985/ssv), but could never figure out a market/path forward for it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#143Continuing my 2+ year project of building a texting-based productivity app. Started as a way to get a grip on Flutter and local-first sync for mobile, ended up being my by far longest running commitment. Still really enjoying it.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#144https://tritium.legal Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to…
Nice idea! Some possible really good reading here for you: https://substack.com/@jordanbryan - YC 2021 building out “git for lawyers”
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#145I'm just trying to get my ideal PKM collection system working the way I've always wished it would. It involves trying to coax an LLM into writing code for me when I'm not a developer myself, so that's been an adventure.
All I really want to do is be able to clip/save articles (and maybe generate transcripts from videos) from my phone or computer, read them in KOReader on a Boox tablet, and then export them and my eBook notes into Logseq, but every time I think I have it figured out, some project pulls a rug out from under me and I end up back at the drawing board.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#146I’m working on these in the wee hours
* prfrmHQ SaaS The modern way to manage performance reviews, set clear objectives, and ensure alignment across teams or individually — all in one place
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538744 [Show HN: My SaaS for performance reviews setting goals and driving success] https://youtu.be/ygvKdgiKRj4?si=Q9ael-oCLEGKMIgN - Shows I can use AI and I've integrated into AWS Bedrock
- Shows I can integrate with Stripe for payments
* Consulting (Architecture, Strategy, Technology leadership and advisory) - I'm working on getting my consultancy started. If anyone wants the kind of skills I offer here let’s talk https://architectfwd.com
* Next SaaS - Starting a SaaS for managing core strategy and technology concepts.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#147Link: https://infinitepod.app/
I'm building Infinite Pod, a web app that generates language learning podcasts tuned to your individual learning goals and level.
It's based on the principle of language acquisition through comprehensible input, as described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug
It's still a bit rough, but feels magical in my own testing so I wanted to make it available to others.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#148I am building a webserver using Luau[1] and Lune[2], which will be used to host my own website. I haven't been this excited in a long time, when it comes to trying out a new programming language. Luau seems to make Lua _perfect_ (except for the classic 1 based indexing). And with Lune it also includes a very simple way to serve requests, which has always been a headache to do with regular Lua in a cross-platform way.
I am hoping this will be the way in which I write most of my future scripts and projects.
[1]: https://luau.org/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#149Text to 3d simulation on a map. It does historical or fictitious events pretty well if it's interesting: https://mused.com/map/
I was working on world models / generative environments but without the training data available as an independent researcher, ended up focusing on building with existing geospatial data.
The same architecture of the '24 Genie paper's dynamics model is instead trained on historical data for risk analysis and creating a heatmap in the 2d map. I'll try to adapt this for a more generalizable urban mobility model as well.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#150Love these threads..
Decided to do an extended sabbatical after being part of one of the many tech layoffs the last years, and I'm thus working on things I like, instead of things that pay..
Collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world, at https://wheretodrink.beer Still a WIP, and it's not trying to be the most extensive list, but I want it to be a substantial list. Once I reach a certain maturity in the data I'll probably look to spawn minor projects off from the data set.. have a couple ideas already that I'll just keep to my self for now :D
I also had a set of left over domains relating to beer that I'm offering up for use with BlueSky handles, and beer related link pages at https://drnk.beer - a bit on the back burner.