Gemini 2.5 TTS client integration for the Unity game engine so indie games can generate dialogue directly in the editor (and perhaps live games, eventually)
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#202I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there. I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far: https://www.heyravitej…
Depending on what your goals are just adding a Bluetooth keyboard to an Android E Reader gets you 90% of the way there.
https://shop.boox.com/products/go103
I dabbled in hardware and I quickly found you need millions to do anything.
However, this definitely is a market waiting for a product. I’d lean towards looking if you can add a custom screen to the framework laptop.
That’ll be much cheaper to build and easier. I reckon you’d only need a custom Linux driver for the screen.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#203Making it easy to create good charts. Put your CSV data, write a prompt, and get a professional chart in any style - e.g. matching your company's website, slide deck style or blog post.
Now it is early alpha, but you can already give it a try.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#204Tailor your resume and cover letter in minutes: https://resumebuildai.com
I had an idea at one point that I'd record every cover letter I wrote, so that eventually I could fine tune a model to write in my style.
I didn't end up sending many, but I've noticed that it's really difficult to get AI to write in a decent style. I've tried giving it a list of AI-isms to avoid, and it just doesn't work.
I has the most success with deepseek V3, giving a list of AI-isms, then ending with "You have been randomly assigned the following writing style/personality: [codeblock]" then a stereotype. Eg "Write in the style of a to-the-point, concise HN commenter" works alright, while "Write naturally and without AI-isms" is hopeless.
(Don't worry, I'm not using it for HN botting or whatever, it just tends to write in a nice style when you give it that)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#205RankPic (https://www.rankpic.info) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years & it's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.
I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on.
I recently completed a leaderboard function that cross compares photos from different tests using Claude, which was really impressive and scared me for my day job..
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#206https://livedocs.com
An AI data scientist for serious data work. Think of it like an AI native Jupyter notebook.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#207HN is probably not the target audience for this, but hey, here we are: https://www.youtarot.app/pages/about
A web app for people to get tarot readings, and create their own tarot cards using AI. I'm enjoying working on this because I'm using as an opportunity to learn parts of the stack that I didn't usually do at my day job - frontend, design and marketing (my career has focused more on the backend).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#208I built an RSS to Bluesky poster an hour ago.
In the long run, writing a gui for https://github.com/iesahin/xvc and Git.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#209CopDB (https://app.copdb.org/)
A community powered, wikipedia-like, database for tracking police and their activities.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#210https://www.saintbeluga.org/
I was a YC founder in 2006 and still do software engineering and data science 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:
- 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 the Chief Scientist at NASA JPL: https://www.saintbeluga.org/veritas-part-iii-bellows-of-aqui...