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

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I'm building MemFree, https://www.memfree.me/

The open source project: https://github.com/memfreeme/memfree

An Open Source Hybrid AI Search Engine: Instantly get accurate answers from the internet, bookmarks, notes, and documents. Obtain the most precise answers in the shortest time. With one click, AI indexes your personal knowledge base, eliminating the need to remember or manage it.

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

#312
My primary focus is my PhD research.

I'm developing a tool using GPT-4o to help draft outlines for small-business and institutional grant applications.

I'm also working on a solution to fix prior authorizations in the insurance industry, fix scheduling surgeries due to insurance network database inconsistencies.

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

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I started working on my opensource water meter again ( https://y-drip.com/ ). Hardware is basically done so I'm working on the backend website for those that don't want to setup their own server. More technical details here: https://hackaday.io/project/191398-ydrip

Very cool!

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

#314

https://bauble.studio/ is a lisp-based procedural 3D art playground that I hacked together a while ago. It's fun to play with, but it's a very limiting tool: you can do a lot to compose signed distance functions, but there's no way to control the rendering or do anything "custom" that the tool doesn't explicitly allow. So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitr…

This is completely nuts. Well done.

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

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I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire ( https://fallofanempiregame.com ), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing. It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement de…

Very attractive!

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

#317

Working on a SaaS that associates a person/company and their tech stack with psychology profiles. The intent is to better connect job seekers with companies. In short, if you want a person with Language A experience, but Language B is close enough, my software will provide the signal that the candidate is good enough for a closer look. Example: PHP and Go devs are likely to have similar approaches to how software sho…

Awesome idea. Like a stackshare combined with a job board?

There was a girl in the valley who make a recruiting service based on preferences like environmental/social factors. blanking on the name.

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

#318

I and a friend are working on Elixir Emporium [0], a single-player crafting RPG that uses layers of generative AI to create and inject new game data as you play. It started out as just a prototype asking what happens if you task an LLM with generating crafting recipes for every combination of items in a game (which was already super fun), but it's exploded into all kinds of crafting, harvesting, and item manipulation…

I'm working on something similar but instead of basing my efforts on the generator agents paper I'm basing it on a technique I call narrative generation. It requires far less context and fewer prompts, and focuses on generating narrative aspects and letting the traditional game engine things simulate the remainder of the world.

As an example, with the system I am building you only need to input what action the player has taken, and all the NPC's actions and dialogues will be generated.

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

#319
Work in regulated manufacturing industry, deploying off-the-shelf operational technology systems (think Siemens, Emerson, Rockwell, Honeywell, Aveva, etc.). Been building a software stack to automate building the custom documentation / validation the businesses who buy and deploy that software. Excited about its potential to cut down and the least favorite part of the job that engineers and those businesses have, when trying to improve things by deploying software or making changes
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