I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#252In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in each transaction, so apps that require that won’t work for me. Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track my past spending. I’m about halfway…
Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails
For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my next direction too.
That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for personal B2C use first. I do think there’s some potential here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and there aren’t any good existing solutions for B2C.
There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on B2B (that’s where the money is), so they’re quite expensive and overkill for what I need.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#253Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently). It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.
What do you mean when you say "a reading website"? Something like Goodreads? Or a website for actually reading specific content?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#254I have been screwing around with the idea of converting a video to a line scan camera. I wrote a small blog host about it. [1]
After seeing an example image on wikipedia someone took of a tram [2] I want to try do it to the trains that run near my house.
[1]: https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-scan_camera#/media/File...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#255Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow. Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back). Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/ (I c…
I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#256A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in. Want to see how much of a difference that would make.
``` @Synth def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2): return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0) * amp ```
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#257While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with different teaching methods.
It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates: https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#258I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant search using different search engines, private history, sharing links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io
ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E browser sync for subscribers.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#259I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory. https://canirunthisllm.com/
Cool. What about giving the models for a given GPU? Also it could compare using vLLM, local_llama.c, etc. Links to docs maybe. Community build articles and rating. Along the lines of https://pcpartpicker.com/
And you can definitely add some ref links for a bit of revenue.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#260Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently. I’m building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I’m talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds — literally. The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not even th…
So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?