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

#202

I started a newsletter that tries to recreate the original magic of stumble upon. It features cool random stuff from across the internet. I believe the old internet is still alive and well. Just harder to find now. https://randomdailyurls.com

Jm2c post the latest randomdaily on the homepage, or the top of the archive. Should be the first thing I see. People won't read and skim all of those CTA, instead trie to give them an "aha, interesting" asap.

Good idea, actually. I'll do that.

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

#203
This is going in fits and starts, but I'm working on a Win16 decompiler. The problems with existing decompiler tools for 16-bit code are a) support the NE file format is far less widespread; b) 16-bit code means geating to deal with segment registers, which are largely unmodelled for most binary tools; and c) turns out that you also have to get really good at recognizing "this is a 32-bit value being accessed entirely in 16-bit word chunks," which tends to be under-supported for most optimization toolchains.

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

#204
I’m currently working on a set of fitness tools and guides aimed at helping people navigate common fitness challenges.

Fitness Tools https://aretecodex.pages.dev/tools/

Fitness Guides https://aretecodex.pages.dev/

A lot of people often ask questions like: - How do I lose body fat and build muscle? - How can I track progress over time? - How much exercise do I actually need? - What should my calorie and macro targets be?

One of the most frequently asked questions in fitness forums is about cutting, bulking, or recomposition. This tool helps you navigate those decisions: https://aretecodex.pages.dev/tools/bulk-cut-recomposition-we...

We’ve also got a Meal Planner that generates meal ideas based on your calorie intake and macro split: https://aretecodex.pages.dev/tools/meal-plan-planner

Additionally, I created a TDEE Calculator designed specifically to prevent overshooting TDEE in overweight individuals: https://aretecodex.pages.dev/tools/tdee-calculator

For a deeper dive into the concept of TDEE overshoot in overweight individuals, check out this detailed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFitnessIndia/comments/1mdppx5/in...

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

#205

We are building a private text-only no-clout social network with chronological feed for close friends. (It was supposed to be completed months ago but got stuck in other issues) Here's the waitlist and proposal: https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev

Private comments and no likes looks great, something I’ve been wishing more social media had (but won’t for obvious reasons). Best of luck!

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

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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

I think this concept has legs to be much bigger than just foods. There are lots of influencer types who focus on testing.

For example, there are two individuals who own the same $100k machine for testing the performance of loudspeakers.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php

https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/

Both of them do measurements and YouTube videos. Neither one has a particularly good index of their completed reviews, let alone tools to compare the data.

I wish I could subscribe to support a domain like “loud speaker spin tests” and then have my donation paid out to these reviewers based on them publishing new high quality reviews with good data that is published to a common store.

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

#209

I found a neat way to do high-quality "semantic soft joins" using embedding vectors[1] and the Hungarian algorithm[2] and I'm turning it into an open source Python package: https://github.com/olooney/jellyjoin It hits a sweet spot by being easier to use than record linkage[3][4] while still giving really good matches, so I think there's something there that might gain traction. [1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/g…

Very neat. As a heavy user of recordlinkage, this is definitely on my radar.
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