I'm working on a new approach to assess engineering candidates. Lot's of good HN discussion around this, it's been fun to read. https://ropes.ai
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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#172I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress. It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basic…
Hey man, it is an amazing idea. I have been thinking to build something similar.
I am building reading clubs for my custom library - on top of crypto tech, and in the process, I have experimented with several book reader tech. pdf.js, muPDF and some other tools, which one did you settle on?
My lib: https://datapond.earth
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#173Currently I'm working on file compression program in Rust. Nothing too fancy, it just use common algorithms (LZ77, LZ78, etc.)
The only difference here is that the program will switch on the fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can compress file smaller.
It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.
I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it a lot.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#174I've been having a lot of fun building a digital garden for my WIP notes into my personal website: https://mxstbr.com/notes/digital-garden
My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:
1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays, which hopefully leads to…
2. Getting more input from people on my ideas
3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically
So far, so good!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#175I've been working on a Lisp interpreter in Zig. This my first attempt at a garbage collector.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#176my webframework: https://github.com/spirobel/mininext
(my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)
currently busy using it to build things. will document everything in detail soon.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#177We have been working on AI agents for sales and marketing. Our focus is in deep customer research instead of at scale marketing or spray and pray motion of outbound emails.
Our purpose is modeled to give sales and marketing skills to non-sales people. Just like how Canva gave design powers to non-design people.
We believe everyone has to have the skill to sell and market themselves or their product. Yet the only trend that does not change is understanding your customer/prospect.
AI agents help with this.
Check us out: godmodehq.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#178I'm working on updating the https://yavaca.com site including the backend written in golang. It is for users to publish out-of-office (OOO) plans so they can unplug while on vacation. Great for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Having fun with the golang part.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#179A firewall for SMS. Scams usually start with messages. Predominantly SMS/email sent with links. ML models exist to determine this, but we are prototyping using Gemma2 2b to utilise its natural language understanding to see if a better firewall could be built, one which users can talk to. It has been surprisingly easy to get started on this project: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/genai/llm_inf... We wa…
How can I configure my phone to use it? I thought SMSes come straight from a carrier and there is not much you can do outside of your messenger app.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#180Playing with cursor, trying to get used to using it better.