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

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Post by jsd1982 »

I'm working on a multiplayer Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past (Zelda 3) ROM hack plus a fork of bsnes that allows for scripting enhancement, specifically the netplay aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPs_fR1TyQ

Right now I have two players able to see one another when they're in the same world/dungeon/room but they do not interact at all yet.

Next step is to synchronize some basic game state like pendants and crystals collected to allow some basic shared game progression. Maybe even sync up open/closed/bombed doors state per room.

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

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Post by Jyaif »

mmmuhd wrote: post #230

I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and…

Plenty of website already run this scam, e.g. https://starregistration.net

I heard from someone running one of those sites that it's very profitable though.

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

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Post by Shrugs »

we're (re-)building a platform for virtual art fairs in the wake of coronavirus — most fairs and galleries are cancelling or postponing events that will work super well online. We're building a novel experience from the ground up, not relying on VR or skeuomorphic interactions

here's a tour of the initial exhibition last year: https://lds.wistia.com/medias/4ucxldnz9n

if you or your friend is the operator of an art fair that'd like to move online, please do hit us up at hello at dot.gallery

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Post by saadatq »

I’m working on a platform (Distill) to learn people learn more effectively (one place to gather blog posts, articles, podcasts, webinars etc), and share learnings with your team. If Reddit, Genius and Pocket had a baby, this would be it.

https://distillforteams.com

Pricing model ala Github - open learning plans are free, per user pricing for private/team knowledge repos.

Let me know if you want to take it for a spin.

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

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Post by grafolean »

I am making Grafolean, easy to use monitoring system: https://github.com/grafolean/grafolean (generic, but network monitoring is first niche being served).

Currently there is support for protocol-agnostic agents (just send whatever values you have via REST API and observe the dashboards in UI), or you can use existing agents for SNMP, ICMP, NetFlow.

If you give it a spin, I would be happy to hear from you, good or bad (via GitHub issues or info@grafolean.com).

It is not FOSS, license is Commons Clause + Apache. Not 100% sure about it, but it seems fair - the goal is to allow anyone to use fully featured version for free, with source available and sharing allowed (basically "Right to Repair"), but with a restriction on selling to 3rd parties, which allows me (or potential other future maintainers) to sell convenience - hosted service, support and similar. This is not set in stone though, so I would appreciate (constructive) feedback.

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Post by geerlingguy »

Current project is "how to entertain the kids after days at home without leaving the house or playing with the neighbors' kids.

Other than that, I've been trying to shore up some long standing bugs with a side project (hostedapachesolr.com) that I've been meaning to get around to for 3+ years.

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

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Post by fodmap »

mmmuhd wrote: post #230

I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and…

Do you know https://www.starregistry.com/about? They started in 1979 but there are many more companies like that.

Your post has made me remember that someone gave me one of their kits as a gift in the late 90's but I have no clue where it could be now.

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

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Post by davehcker »

I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical i.e. graduate school so I'm able to do quick context switching between the following things (no specific orders):

1. FINALLY, reading, chewing and digesting LISP. I can see the 'magical' prowess in it- but still not fully there.

2. Formalizing and standardizing an algorithm for one-shot learning using 'old-school' machine learning techniques that is freaking light-weight. Performs well on my problem set i.e. recognizing users from their mouse patterns (with as little as 10 secs of activity). But standardizing it to test it and benchmarking and then hopefully releasing it. Publication implementing the algorithm got rejected though :(

3. Growing highest quality and fresh produce indoors. Covid-19 has impacted some of my personal financial capacity but still doing my best. hexafarms.com

4. Writing essays.

5. A DSL for API testing (with things like API chaining, replay attacks, etc.)- the idea is to stack features slowly and then put a UI on top of it. Something like BurpSuite for those in the cysec space, but for programmers and pointy-haired bosses alike.

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