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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by mpulztracker »

aantix wrote: post #72

A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…

This is a great idea! Recommendation algos are weaponized against kids and would be great to have some way of managing it. There is a similar problem with movies as well. It is hard to know whether a movie is appropriate for a child e.g. some kind of violence may be acceptable but not adult themes. So marking a movie PG-13 for example doesn't help much. There are some crowd-sourced solutions to this right now such as https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews But LLMs could really help automate this

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by maxbond »

nbbaier wrote: post #195
maxbond wrote: post #79

I'm writing a build tool for SQL. I like to write SQL directly and to use it's more powerful features (like stored procedures and Postgres' ltee extension). But this is gets difficult to manage in a linear, "migrations" based workflow. I want to edit a file tree organized by topic, not a series of scripts run in order. Which is to say, I want to edit it like I would any other codebase. I've written code allowing me t…

This sounds very cool - I'm really interested in this angle. Got a sharable repo?

Not presently! I'm on vacation and intentionally left my laptop at home. But if you send me an email I could send you a link when I push it to GitHub; my email is in my profile. Otherwise, I'm planning to do a Show HN around mid November. If you check my submissions on December 1st it'll be there.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by VectorLock »

chr15m wrote: post #216

I've been getting my indie game Asterogue ready for web release (previously it was Android & Windows only). Last night I pushed the final build live yay! You can play it at: https://asterogue.com

Super cute game!

BTW I think you misspelt "Weilding."

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by ThalesX »

I built a little news summarizer for myself [0].

It takes trending news from whatever country (currently Romania + Denmark due to personal reasons) and gives me a summary. It's based on what people actually search for. It works with all countries, but I unceremoniously commented out all of them except those two because of rate limits. Currently spending $0 on it.

It also posts a summary of the summaries on my Matrix instance every evening at 22:00 local time.

[0] https://www.cafelutza.ro

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

Refining 3D printed parts for a hobby grade 3D metal printer. The complex internal geometry of the design still takes 4 hours of machine time to produce, but at least home users will be able to replace high-wear items themselves.

Boring RF stuff related to Metrology.

Adding some features to a fork of DerFetzer/spectro-cam-rs to validate some narrow band-pass laser filters.

Other boring stuff people really won't want to hear about. =3

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by nujabe »

vldmrs wrote: post #223

I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

Very nice! I’ve been thinking of some activities for my 3yo and will try coloring and see how he likes it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by matthiasb »

I am working on eliminating waste in cloud resources.

Cloud providers made too easy to start resources. But unless there is a stringent upfront process (that usually defeats the purpose of using the cloud), it is hard to keep track of who owns what, and what is still needed. Decrypting long cloud bills quickly impossible, and users do not have a clear understanding of the per-resource cost they generated.

I believe the solution is rooted in transparency and accountability for both users and cloud providers.

I am creating a tool what generates a cost and security cloud report which is sent weekly for each cloud user or team.

I intend to release it as a open-source tool as well a SaaS service as part of www.li10.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by Keshini_shopynw »

I’m excited to introduce Trendly, an app I think you’ll find really useful.

Here’s what we’re solving:

* Social media is full of fake news and lacks depth, yet many still rely on it for updates.

* There’s too much content online, making it hard to find what really interests you.

* Switching between platforms to get full details on a topic is tiring.

Trendly (https://trendly.global/) is a mobile app that curates a personalized feed with trending updates based on your interests. It lets you dive deeper by asking follow-up questions as a chat—all in one app. We’re in the early stages, so while the chat function isn’t live yet, the other features are ready:

* The feed acts as a recommendation engine, curating content based on past interactions.

* Delivers concise, bullet-point summaries instead of lengthy articles

* Pre-generated Q&A for easy understanding

Check it out and share your honest feedback!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by j4yav »

I’ve been noticing a trend of companies avoiding hiring non-technical PMs for as long as possible, in order to keep small technical startups (particularly dev tools, it seems) focused on building and not hiring too many people too early who can’t contribute code. I’m looking to set up a fractional service for product management consulting to support this way of working: https://www.metaluna.io. We will see if the demand is really there or not.
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