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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by diarmuid_glynn »

I'm soon to beta my first macOS app: AlgoMommy. AlgoMommy helps you organize your video clips prior to editing them in Final Cut Pro / DaVinci Resolve / etc. It replaces the manual and time-consuming process of "filing" your newly-recorded video clips (CLIP_5213.mp4, CLIP_5214.mp4, ...) into a sensible folder hierarchy (Wedding/B-Rolls/, Wedding/Reception/, ...), so that you can focus on creating and your content.

This has been a fun project so far for me:

* First time using Claude Code. CC has made writing code fun again (I'm an experienced software developer, with - gasp - over 20 years of professional experience).

* On macOS, WhisperKit + Apple Intelligence (SpeechAnalyzer) is a powerful combination for offline transcription.

If you're interested in joining the beta, feel free to send me an email: diarmuid.glynn@gmail.com. The software is working now, but the documentation and website ( https://www.algomommy.com/ ) are unfinished, so I'd like to provide direct support to any interested beta users.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by radus »

I'm working on adding features to the snakemake aws batch executor plugin. The existing plugin supports execution on AWS Batch by dynamically creating job definitions based on rule resource configuration, but was missing support for features like using different containers for different rules, consumable resources, secrets, etc. Two approaches:

1) https://github.com/radusuciu/snakemake-executor-plugin-aws-b... (my fork). Just add the features to the batch job building code 2) https://github.com/radusuciu/snakemake-executor-plugin-aws-b.... This is more experimental and not yet fully working. I wanted to try a few things. a) can we rely on existing job definitions (managed through IaC instead). b) can we implement a fire-and-forget model where the main snakemake process runs on Batch as well? c) Can we slim down the snakemake container by stripping off unnecessary features.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by goncharom »

A multi-purpose scrapper to turn any webpage into structured data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870231

It uses LLMs to generate python code to scrap a webpage to fit any Pydantic model provided:

  from hikugen import HikuExtractor
  from pydantic import BaseModel
  from typing import List
  
  class Article(BaseModel):
      title: str
      author: str
      published_date: str
      content: str
  
  class ArticlePage(BaseModel):
      articles: List[Article]
  
  extractor = HikuExtractor(api_key="your-openrouter-api-key")
  
  result = extractor.extract(
      url="https://example.com/articles",
      schema=ArticlePage
  )
  
  for a in result.articles:
      print(a.title, a.author)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by krlx »

https://mytinycafe.com/

An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available beverages and everything is ready when they're here.

It was also a good playground for me to implement Web Push notifications (to never miss new orders).

It's a basic Nuxt 3 app with Appwrite as the backend with rough edges, but much enough for our household use !

If you want to spam my phone with notifications, please visit my café : https://mytinycafe.com/alix

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by drbojingle »

I recently built a simple JSON schema form builder for my own purposes. I'm going to expand on it with the ability to send forms via email, handle bigger and more complex forms and then tackle document parsing. https://data-atlas.net for anyone into that kind of thing.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by haolez »

dboon wrote: post #89

I'm working on "Cargo but for C". It started out as something marginally more useful than vendoring your dependencies as submodules + baking in the knowledge of how to build a bunch of common projects. I realized, though, that there was somehow a huge gap in the insane world of C build tools. There's nothing that: - Lets you pin really precisely and builds everything from source (i.e. no binary repository) - Does not…

I've used Conan briefly in the past for C++ and I quite liked it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by Dachande663 »

krlx wrote: post #174

https://mytinycafe.com/ An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available bev…

I love this concept and the execution.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Post by dima_devgru »

Web: The Good Parts, as seen by someone into dataviz

- scenes composed of SVG shapes, text, etc.

- web-worker rendering everything on the offscreen canvas;

- elements positioned via yoga-layout;

- optional JSX layer to define layouts, no support for React components inside the layout (yet);

- using Skia now, maybe Rive Renderer / Vello later? — I'd love to migrate to WebGPU eventually,

- first-class view transitions: no white screen, no jumps after the initial load, no things appearing/disappearing without a proper transition);

- fontkit to calculate everything re fonts and shape text — no more DOM-provided measurements;

- integration with Remotion to render videos.

Short-term goal is to reach MVP for slides/dataviz tool, and I'm getting close.

Trying to stay at maximum FPS while sacrificing loading time and, sometimes, the battery life.

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