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

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by aglionby » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #62

Using the barometers inside phones to improve weather forecasting All Clear Weather: https://www.allclearweather.com/ I'm also hoping to use raw photos of the sky as weather data: after building a large training dataset of labelled photos, I think an ML classifier could begin to identify weather features in outdoor photos

I once took a look at traffic coming from my (Android) phone and IIRC the pressure was being sent to some Google server at a regular interval. I wonder if they use it for weather forecasting.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by flipp » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

Pathi (https://www.pathiapp.org/), which is a free app that connects people who really need someone to talk to with volunteer listeners who want to help.

We are recruiting listeners, and looking for someone to help build an Android version!

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Post by jerrysievert » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

DSP, lots of DSP.

specifically, writing audio plugins for VCV Rack and VST3.

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Post by DaveSapien » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

I'm finishing up a game I've been working on solo for the last few years.

It's a mindfulness game that aims to bring its players to a meditative state of flow. (through casual gameplay)

Its looking good so far :D

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Post by daxfohl » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

Investigating what an assembly language would look like for a CPU with unlimited cores. Basically if there was a way to provide a "Cloud Assembly" that would be like an assembly language running on Lambda. Not quite the same thing that fastly is doing with WASM, where WASM runs in the function, but rather something that defines the function. Doubt it goes anywhere.

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Post by Avi-D-coder » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

A visual debugger for Haskell, that will graph data structures, sharing, and laziness as data is updated and then GCed.

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Post by flicken » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

Working on a better way to edit calendar events: finding conflicts, grouping series of events together, etc.

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Post by block_dagger » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

Im working on a micro gratitude system (“karma bot”) for Slack with other chat platforms on the way. See karmachest.com.

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Post by narrationbox » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

An easy to use and cost effective speech synthesis platform for voiceovers, audiobooks, and podcasts:

https://narrationbox.com

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Post by davidmckenna » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

chdaniel wrote: post #130

I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers" The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing: Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest v…

Sounds really cool and reminds me of Jason Fried's writing class idea[1]. I think many people still view Twitter's brevity as stifling nuance instead of forcing users to really refine their ideas.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-writing-class-id-like-to-teac...