Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jpwagner » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 3:27 AM UTC

tsiki wrote: post #150

tectonic wrote: post #80

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Can you tell me any more about this?

I guess my explanation sounded more awesome than it actually is - general game playing has been around for a while now (see for example games.stanford.edu and the wikipedia article on general game playing), mine's a stab at it with some homegrown techniques, largely out of personal interest. As I said, I have no idea if my techniques are feasible or actually work yet, but if they do (and I have the time), the general…

Is that happening this year?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by williamallthing » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 3:52 AM UTC

I'm working on Sup, the email client for nerds. http://sup.rubyforge.org.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by khandelwal » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 3:59 AM UTC

jaxn wrote: post #74

khandelwal wrote: post #61

I'm working on a travel website: "Planning a vacation is hard. You know where you want to go. But what should you see once you're there? Which monuments, parks, cathedrals and museums should you visit when you're there? How do you get around? My website helps you plan your vacation by providing high quality itinerary suggestions, contributed by travelers like you." I hope to do a private release at the end of this mo…

I assume you have seen http://offbeatguides.com . If not, might want to check it out.

What I'm trying to do is slightly different. A guide will tell about everything that there is to do. So does wading through the forums at Trip Advisor.

I'm trying to present itineraries that have already selected interesting things to do. Essentially future travelers are going to benefit from past travelers.

What's often important is: How much can I fit in a day? How do I get around? What was my personal experience, and how can other travelers benefit from it?

In a near future, you'll be able to search on itinerary based on your travel profile (age group, kids/no kids, fast, lazy etc.)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tectonic » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 4:23 AM UTC

SeanOC wrote: post #111

I'm working on http://wtales.com/ . Think collaboratively authored choose your own adventure books. So far wtales is just a side project and is just getting off the ground. To kick things off, I am running a kick start program where people can earn amazon gift cards for posting stories (more info on that at http://wtales.com/kick-start-landing/ ).

Hey Sean, I've been musing about automatic story generation / dynamic choose-your-own-adventure games recently. I'd love to chat with you about this stuff if you're interested. You can contact me from my webpage from my profile if you'd like to chat.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Kaizen » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 4:36 AM UTC

I'm working on my browser-based game (kind of like Kingdom of Loathing, but with cavemen) at http://www.shinyrockhunter.com and a more business-focused product that needs a bit more work before it's a minimally-viable product.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nudist » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 5:01 AM UTC

fuelfive wrote: post #162

http://frogmetrics.com/ - YC summer 2008. In my spare time, researching how to catalyze mass behavior change to improve society.

How does one catalyze mass behavior change to improve society?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jdrock » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 5:29 AM UTC

robryan wrote: post #202

jdrock wrote: post #191

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They're not infected with spyware. Some of the computing power comes from the users of freeware applications, who are asked _during install_ if they want to enable the grid system that powers us.

Have you thought about the economics of having a program where people earn money from allowing use of there processing power vs paying for it regularly/ having your own processing power. Even if it was barely worth it for the user after factoring in electricity costs the novelty factor might attract people.

We have thought about it.. there is a downloadable app an individual can use, but it's not too likely they'll earn any significant money.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by DTrejo » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 5:54 AM UTC

teej wrote: post #116

jellisjapan wrote: post #38

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Wow looks great! I really need to checkout Cappuccino...

You can get a lot of the good looks on any platform by using 280North's open source UI pack, Aristo. http://github.com/280north/aristo

Is there a way to use the UI pack and nothing more?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dnsworks » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 6:26 AM UTC

Vindexus wrote: post #129

http://www.snapproofing.com Proof reading service for college students. Also working on my BreezyFAQ app for plugging in searchable Frequently Asked Questions to your site. Site is not live but it works fairly well at http://www.snapproofing.com/faq

Hah! I was just saying the other day that there needed to be a Mechanical Turk like site for Proofreading!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by SAHChandler » Wed, Jan 06, 2010, 7:05 AM UTC

I'm currently working on a build system. I'm effectively scratching an itch. It's my first serious project, where I actually plan to use it on a regular basis. You can find the repo at http://github.com/sahchandler/buildit :)