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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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I'm working on the next update of Omiword[1], an ongoing daily word game previously discussed on HN[2]. I'm building an alternate stand-alone app version with access to all of the archived puzzles. It's slow going since it's just one of many side-projects I like to work on, but that's the tinkerer's dilemma. Yes, I know that [insert LLM here] could do a lot of that conversion for me in mere minutes. No thank you. I'm…

My wife loves these types of games and is currently deep in. The way her brain works she wants a reset button to load initial state to try a different approach. I saw on the announcement thread that you were planning to add one, but I can’t find it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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I was attempting at building web-site templates with pretty design for certain sports - chess, for example. I was also building a new image card game - entertainment value. I have not completed those projects, and may finish latter. However, random numbers generator in JS - is this Ai or not?

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Yes, Tela already does UDP hole-punching. I made Tela because I wasn't allowed to install Tailscale on my new corporate laptop, and no other available solution seemed to tick the right boxes. It started as a simple way to RDP to my home workstation, but then I realised that if I could do that, I could finally pull my ad-hoc home cloud into one tool. The hub model is very much by design, for organisational pur…

Does tela create an L3 network? if that's the case, what do you do to avoid IP addressing clashes? In Wormhole I decided by default to use CGNAT addressing (100.64.0.0/10) I did not go too far unfortunately, so I did not face problems such as discoverability (do you have to know/remember all the IP addresses from the devices connected? DNS? etc).

No, it doesn't create an L3 like Tailscale. A client (a machine running the tela CLI) connects to an agent (a machine running telad) via a hub (a machine running telahubd), but once they connect they negotiate a P2P route if they can. That's all managed by Wireguard an gVisor. The remote service is forwarded to a port on localhost, so SSH to a VM somewhere else would just be ssh to, say, localhost:10022. I'm investigating a local DNS so that users can instead type `ssh paul@dev-vm` instead of `ssh -p 10022 paul@localhost`.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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post #162

iCloud-photos-downloader is unmaintained and starting to crack due to Apple API changes so I’m working on my own fork/rewrite/take on iCloud sync, with ambitions to add Google Takeout, Immich, and other services too. https://github.com/rhoopr/kei Named after my ‘96 Subaru Sambar kei truck, small and mighty. The other thing I’m constantly tinkering with :)

This is a precious tool that unlocks freedom of choice by reducing the barrier to leave an ecosystem. Thank you for that!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does tela create an L3 network? if that's the case, what do you do to avoid IP addressing clashes? In Wormhole I decided by default to use CGNAT addressing (100.64.0.0/10) I did not go too far unfortunately, so I did not face problems such as discoverability (do you have to know/remember all the IP addresses from the devices connected? DNS? etc).

No, it doesn't create an L3 like Tailscale. A client (a machine running the tela CLI) connects to an agent (a machine running telad) via a hub (a machine running telahubd), but once they connect they negotiate a P2P route if they can. That's all managed by Wireguard an gVisor. The remote service is forwarded to a port on localhost, so SSH to a VM somewhere else would just be ssh to, say, localhost:10022. I'm investig…

Very nice!

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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i'm building my own orm framework. https://datrix.dev/ in fact, i supervise and claude wrote most of it. but still it took 3 months.

it has the all superpowers from strapi, payload and prisma. but no-ui dashboard (i ll add a cli command but it ll be optional) and almost no dependecy in core. its lightweight. well tested. tell me more.

https://github.com/myniqx/datrix

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

#228

I'm working on the next update of Omiword[1], an ongoing daily word game previously discussed on HN[2]. I'm building an alternate stand-alone app version with access to all of the archived puzzles. It's slow going since it's just one of many side-projects I like to work on, but that's the tinkerer's dilemma. Yes, I know that [insert LLM here] could do a lot of that conversion for me in mere minutes. No thank you. I'm…

My wife loves these types of games and is currently deep in. The way her brain works she wants a reset button to load initial state to try a different approach. I saw on the announcement thread that you were planning to add one, but I can’t find it.

I'm happy she's enjoying the game! If you hit the Menu button on the top right, you should see a "reset puzzle" button in the lower right quadrant of the menu.

Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

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I'm building a good intermittent fasting app for iOS using SwiftUI and native Apple APIs for the most "Apple" experience possible. The app is 100% free and without ads. https://apps.apple.com/si/app/fast-slow-fasting-tracker/id67...

Maybe knife and fork could be the hands in the app icon.
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