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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#182
A web UI that enables collecting of the dollar amount of the local major utility providers monthly bills (Before engineering I worked in marketing research). I am concerned about the data collecting part, not because the local consumers don't seem okay too provide it (there's outrage) but because I'm not working and don't feel confident in publishing anything live. State government only publishes the annual yearly rates. There's no transparency on the rest.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#183
i lead our ai products team at io.net, come get some free credits (1m tokens per model per day). contact us if you like the service, our api is openai compatible and we have deepseek, qwen3, and llama 4 maverick along with lots of other neat models. hope to have more cool stuff out by the end of the quarter, thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#184
I'm working on https://nuenki.app. It's a browser extension that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about your day.

I've been doing a lot of experiments evaluating LLM translation performance, and I used what I learnt (that LLMs make mistakes, but different LLMs make different mistakes, and they're better at critiquing translations than producing them) to make a hybrid translator (https://nuenki.app/translator) that beats everything else.

And I was invited to do a talk about that to a company, which was really cool! I'm 19, doing this in my gap year before uni.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#186
Making rent this month so I can unslack.. help appreciated. :-)

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

But seriously, I'm looking for "no-strings" sponsors, if any companies (or individuals) would like to help support me so that I can focus on open source full time. Feel free to email me: https://brynet.ca/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#189
2 hours in and this thread is already stacked, but I'll bite since I am stuck on this problem and need help. I am working on a language learning solution that involves llms. The way I am branding it is "Anki meets Ai" because it combines a flashcard-esque method of generating complete exercises such as multiple choice, cloze, etc. with the tried-and-true SRS methodology.

I think it works great! The problem is, I think it works great. The issue is that it is doubly-lossy in that llms aren't perfect and translating from one language to another isn't perfect either. So the struggle here is in trusting the llm (because it's the only tool good enough for the job other than humans) while trying to look for solid ground so that users feel like they are moving forward and not astray.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

#190
I'm still working on https://gridwhale.com

It's basically a full-stack web platform written entirely from scratch. One of these days I'll write about it and get yelled at for reinventing the wheel.

But I'm using it internally and for my biotech clients and I'm still excited about it.

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