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

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

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Post by mikewarot »

apsears wrote: post #262
mikewarot wrote: post #252

I'm plugging away on my BitGrid project.... a Turing complete stripped down version of an FPGA without routing fabric and with added delays (for reasons). I'm learning KiCad 8.0, so I can do schematics and build a prototype cell out of TTL.[1] I'm also re-acquainting myself with Verilog so I can do an ASIC prototype through TinyTapeout. The main question that I hope to answer is just how much power a bitgrid cell act…

How is ChatGPT with verilog? Analysis, debugging and/or generation?

I hadn't even considered trying to use ChatGPT with Verilog. I strongly suspect it will get in the way. My design is pretty darned small, just a grid of uniform cells, with not much else in the way of I/O, etc.

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

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Post by asciimike »

Two things:

- Practicing CAD and 3D printing: building a go pro mount on my bike computer mount for a light (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1836892842716750221), an oil filter wrench (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1840051449625018870), etc. I like the idea of needing a specialty car/bike/etc. tool and being able to quickly model and build it in hours vs having to order an often fairly expensive tool that takes days to show up.

- Import/export (specifically from Japan to the US): In particular, importing kei vehicles >25 years old as well as specialty roasted coffee. Both of which have a lot of specific regulations and intricacy, and while I've done a lot of reading on how to do them (e.g. this doc on importing a kei truck: https://wittymelon.wordpress.com/portfolio/diy-how-to-import...). If anyone has connections to people who have imported kei vehicles to the US, I'd love to chat!

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

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Post by 7thpower »

An app to let people generate images of them and their children in Halloween costumes.

Similar to PhotoAI but much more limited in scope. Wanted to get more experience implementing auth and payments, creating LoRAs, and some different regulations.

Also wanted something that was timeboxed where I could step away when the project is over.

Should be ready to start accepting users next week, then will have to figure out distribution. If I make any money it will be a cherry on top.

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

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Post by joseph »

I've been working on https://github.com/cloudboss/easyto, a tool that converts docker images to EC2 AMIs.

I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines from images created with easyto.

One is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for managing Concourse CI.

Another is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su..., to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.

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

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Post by bhl »

bhl wrote: post #93

Prompting GPT to do rich text editing. Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha). So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier positi…

One insight I’ve gleaned from working on this project is that I’m convinced web dev will trend towards well-designed and modular components with accessible state and mutators.

LLMs will then have a set of these components to dynamically route and build interfaces with.

Component libraries are already popular and more time will be spent inside of them than managing the glue that is outside.

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

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Post by abhgh »

Working on a library that helps benchmark Active Learning (AL) techniques [1]. This is a form of Machine Learning, where you want to learn a supervised predictor but you don't have labels to start with, and labeling comes at a cost that you need to account for (the term AL can have broader connotations but this is the popular one). We feel the area suffers quite a bit from poor benchmarks, which my colleague and I wrote up about in a paper [2]. To run the many experiments in the paper we had to write a fairly comprehensive codebase that makes it convenient to swap out different bits and pieces of an AL pipeline, which we'll be polishing up now.

PS: If the work is of interest and you want to avoid reading the paper, I have a blogpost too [3].

[1] https://github.com/ThuongTNguyen/active_learning_comparisons

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15744 (this was accepted in EMNLP'24)

[3] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/inactive_learning

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

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Post by asciimike »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #132

A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a pain in the butt, especially with no garage and in the cold. Ideal would be no wood and minimal framing, but i'm not a mechanical engineer, so it's hard to calculate the forces involved, so over-building feels necessary. If anyone is a mechnical engineer, and bored, and would like to contrib…

Mind sharing the resource material? I've looked into this briefly, seems like a common-ish path for flat bed trucks is using a surplus S-280 (e.g. https://www.ramims.com/products/S-280C-G).

I really like both:

- https://www.dirttrailswanted.com/overland-peanut (S-280 route)

- https://wabisabioverland.com/ (custom build, both in house and contracted through: https://totalcomposites.com/)

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

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Post by firefoxd »

I'm writing a book publicly: Automated Agents [1]. When I first joined a startup building a chatbot for customer service, there was a lot of noise and hype. We built a decent product and our company went from 3 people to 30 in 2 years. We resolved millions of customer service issues. The book I'm writing is the guide I wish existed when I was getting started.

It's still a draft, but the main goal is to serve as a guide for both technical and non technical folks.

[1]: https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book

Ps: I shared it in the previous thread last month as well

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

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Post by kristopolous »

ecuaflo wrote: post #48

Anyone know of a community where you genuinely try each other’s stuff and give feedback? Sometimes lose motivation aimlessly guessing what people want without having users to give actual feedback.

This would be nice. I gave up on trying to do things externally a long time ago. I get wildly demotivated and deeply believe all I ever do is waste people's time and irritate them.
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