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Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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I'm building an open-source[1] alternative to qr-code-generator (Bitly), called RoQR[2]. The goal is to provide advertisers with analytics for the scans of their QR codes while still being as privacy-respecting as possible to the scanners of the codes - sort of like a Plausible.io for QR codes.

[1]: https://github.com/roqr/roqr [2]: https://roqr.app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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I’m working on Nimbus Web Services[0], a managed service provider (think redis, object storage, etc) for Hetzner and later OVH and LeaseWeb. I’ve been chipping away at it for quite a while, but I’m finally in the position of standing up the production coasters and letting people on. The last 10% seems to always take 90% of the time! [0]: https://nimbusws.com

How do you differ from extending BIG3 cloud providers ?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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I'm planning on transforming allergy care. There's no reason for you to be allergic to things. The way we treat allergies today, with antihistamines and nasal spray doesn't solve the underlying problem; it just tries to cover it up. Accessible allergy immunotherapy is the future. And in the future, taking antihistamines for allergies is going to seem like taking a painkiller for an ear infection. Why would you treat…

Feedback on your website: you could make it more clear that you are not targeting food allergies. The info is there, but it's hard to find. Related: if you can ever figure out a way to eliminate food allergies, I, and many others, would send you a nontrivial percentage of my monthly income for life.

Have you tried OIT? It's not without risk and it's a big commitment but it can successfully treat food allergies in many people.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

Don't have any pitches or anything. I just wanted to say that your team does awesome work. I hope you folks all know how much it's appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

#156
I'm trying to figure out how to get a raspberry pi cluster up and running. It's my dream to get something like stable diffusion and chatGPT to run on it. https://clusterhat.com/ Will 20 1GHz CPU cores have enough omph do you think? Could I maybe get the VideoCore GPUs on the boards hooked in somehow?

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Open-source blockchain analytics tool [1]. Lots of use-cases, but a straightforward one is compliance. Many alternatives in the space, but most are SaaS-only. Still early in the journey, but feel free to star or follow along: [1] https://github.com/barreleye/barreleye

Hmm, this might be useful for my project to use reinforcement learning on-chain! I'm toward the end of learning most of what I need, so it's data time.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

#160

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…

+1 to this.

I really share your thought and sentiment on this matter.

I think an example of successful local-first is email and I'm still using email as my main messaging software. The fact that you can receive and send email seamlessly between different companies and organizations is just amazing. Sadly, however, now most of the people do not have their own domain and their emails are mostly managed by big corporations.

All the best for your Replica application, will keep track on the progress.

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