Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

#221

Post by erdaniels » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

ruieduardolopes wrote: post #220

I am a PhD student and for a while now I'm designing and developing a distributed network protocol that enables dynamic resource allocation across heterogeneous nodes, to which I called Rank. It's designed to handle computational, network, and temporal resources in fully distributed environments without central controllers, but that could also handle a centralized environment. Rank implements four core functions: dis…

This sounds promising. Keep us posted! If there's anywhere we can track progress, please link :)

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

#222

Post by noisy_boy » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

Writing a go binary to act as a wrapper around ripgrep and fzf. Can be done in many ways but I wanted a simple binary that I can invoke from lf or the command line to search, so that I'm using the same keystrokes to search, inside or outside of editor.

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

#223

Post by deedubaya » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:54 AM UTC

A multi-node, multi-processes, queue based rspec test runner with a dx that doesn’t suck. Open source.

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

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Post by zzo38computer » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:57 AM UTC

I am mostly continuing to work on Super ZZ Zero, which is a game engine, like ZZT and MegaZeux in many ways. The program is FOSS and is written in C.

I also have some ideas of a programming language designed mainly to process files in DER format (as well as data from stdin and to stdout), but have not actually implemented anything so far.

I also have ideas about an operating system design and computer design, and should have help to write the specification properly, and then it can be implemented afterward.

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

#225

Post by EnnEmmEss » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:00 AM UTC

ttd wrote: post #132

I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com . It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet. From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interes…

It looks like a pretty interesting product so I really hate to be that guy but the FAQ page at https://vexlio.com/faq/ straight up doesn't work (whenever I click any of the questions, it does nothing). Also, wanted to know if there was anything in the pipeline to get a Desktop application which would work offline. In several places in the enterprise world especially, I do feel there would be scope for that. I would definitely pay for a desktop version which worked offline for example.

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

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Post by bix6 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #118

I went Yak shaving. For my 3D audio project I need an affordable way to make plastic cases. I felt like injection molding services are way overpriced, so I decided to make the molds in-house. Turns out, CNC milling is overpriced, too. As are 5 axis CNC mills. So in the end, we built our own CNC machine. And like these things always go, I found an EMI issue with my power supply and a USB compliance bug in the off-the-…

Would love to see your machine! Any pics or write up?

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

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Post by RobRivera » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:02 AM UTC

Still working on my video game.

I didnt realize how much overhead an sfml window draw call has, granted I have yet to target optimizing that yet.

Seems like my first candidate for multithreading; also I think the scheme I implemented for how to manage texture/sprite switching is advised against and may need to slightly refactor how I store and swap based on object state.

Yeet

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

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Post by bix6 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:02 AM UTC

peterm4 wrote: post #146

Not as exciting or big as some of the projects on here, but just a small personal one I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I recently impulse bought an Epson receipt printer, and I’ve started putting together a server in Go to print a morning update every day. Getting it to print the weather, my calendar and todos, news headlines, HN front page. Basically everything I pick up my phone for in the morning, to be on pap…

Very cool. I’ve thought about a digital dashboard for something similar (wave / weather report mostly) but I love the printer aspect.

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

#229

Post by dm03514 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:02 AM UTC

Built a stream processing engine using duckdb

https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow

It has some interest, unfortunately building tools as a business strategy is rough.

Beginning to work on first actual product! More soon :)

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

#230

Post by cornfieldlabs » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 1:03 AM UTC

We are building a private, "healthy" social network for close friends with chronological feed and no doomscrolling or clout-chasing.

https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev