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

#181
I am currently working on a fork of Alt+Tab replacement Switcheroo to show all available windows in a tabular format. Current windows in the center. Apps with many windows on the left sorted by process name (e.g. Excel or PDF windows). Pinned windows such as open emails on the right. https://github.com/coezbek/switcheroo

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

#182
I'm adding an overly elaborate item and levelling up system to the adventure mode of my chess variant AI sandbox: www.chesscraft.ca

Items have a prefix and suffix system similar to Diablo 2 so I'm having nostalgic fun building it. None of this gives any advantage to the chess games you play. It's just a pointless cycle of gems, items, and experience to get more gems, items and experience. Seems fun so far.

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

#184
Raptor - a new (Free software) way to build things like:

* Disk images

* Liveboot isos

* Container images (docker/podman)

Many build products are supported, with more on the way:

https://chrivers.github.io/raptor/builders/index.html#compat...

It uses a syntax that is inspired by Docker, but significantly enhanced.

Take a look at:

* The project: https://github.com/chrivers/raptor/

* The book: https://chrivers.github.io/raptor/

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

#185
I'm working on some writing on my blog [1], trying to improve my writing and explore style.

My current series of post follows the surge of interest in UUIDs with the uptake of UUIDv7. I've seen some subtle misunderstandings spreading, so I dive into nuance. This has spun off some mini projects, like an RFC compliant UUIDv8 implementation based on XKCD 221 [2] (humor intended). I think I have two more in the blog series.

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/uuid-oops/

[2] https://github.com/robalexdev/uuidv8-xkcd-221

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

#186

I’m working on https://regularly.co/ - A website made for inquisitive minds to get their daily puzzle fix. Still very much a WIP (mainly working on tuning the difficulty of puzzles to make it enjoyable for most). That being said I really do enjoy the unique combination of puzzles when I do them each day. I’m looking for feedback so if you do take a look please do let me know your thoughts!

I don't understand why I can't place two kings in "adjacent diagonal" position when they're in two different regions. Something like:

..k..

.k...

Rules state they must be in different regions, row and column. No mention of diagonal or adjacency.

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

#187
https://www.saintbeluga.org/

I was a YC founder in 2006 and now work as a data scientist full-time, but on the side I also do Christian apologetics, helping fellow engineers/scientists/mathematicians seek answers to life's deepest questions.

Some cool articles for the HN crowd:

- [published several days ago] Medical miracles in Lourdes, France recognized by the Catholic Church 2018-2025: https://www.saintbeluga.org/our-lady-of-lourdes-immaculate-c...

- My interview of Evan O'Dorney, a three-time Putnam Fellow and two-time IMO gold medalist, who converted to Catholic Christianity: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-i-conversion-of-a-p...

- In-depth scientific overview of Eucharistic miracles: https://www.saintbeluga.org/eucharistic-miracles-god-under-t...

- Conversion testimony by Harvard astronomy professor Karin Oberg: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-ii-conversions-at-h...

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

#189
Curated LinkedIn topics + AI drafting: validating before building

I'm exploring building a weekly curation service for professionals who want to write on LinkedIn but struggle with "what's worth writing about."

The thesis: In the AI era, execution (writing) is commoditized. The real bottleneck is editorial judgment... knowing what topics matter before they're obvious.

The concept: Weekly email with 5-7 curated topics (tech trends, policy shifts, market movements). Each topic comes with sources, multiple angles, and context Choose your perspective, AI drafts a polished article

Why I think this could work: I've been manually doing this for myself for years. Pattern recognition at scale is hard to automate, but pairing human curation with AI execution might work.

Target market: ~30M professionals who should be building thought leadership but don't have time to spend on research.

Current status: Validating demand before building. The hard part isn't the AI, it's systematizing the trend-spotting and curation process without losing signal quality.

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