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I have been building learnawesome.org for past few months as an open-source, hobby project. The idea is to organize high-quality, multi-media learning resources across topics and formats, so that searches like this become possible:

Show me videos about machine learning which are no more than 30 minutes long, are entertaining and are recommended by academics.

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

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I am working on a Firefox extension for search aggregation. It currently works with DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others. The idea is that for 80% of my searches I can find the answer on Wikipedia or Stack Overflow, removing the need for a general search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Google, and thus hopefully avoiding blogspam and tracking to some extent. Extraction works through XPath, and I am trying to make it easier to add new engines without looking at the HTML.

Unfortunately, it currently looks terrible, and so far has received one 1-star review, which is not doing much to help my motivation.

It's on the Firefox add-on store (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/metasearch). I plan to add the code on Github once I refactor it some more and add support for Chrome.

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

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It gave me quite some room to work on a new website I've been working on: https://space-search.io

I call it a search engine for space objects. It's a personal initiative with the aim to do something meaningful around space situational awareness and space debris.

The tool aggregates datasets around objects tracked in space and then makes it searchable and visualised with webgl / react overlays.

It's a good learning experience to work on (relatively) high performance web apps with high fps requirements for the webgl interactions while using webworkers for all the heavy lifting around filtering data and interpolating orbit trajectories.

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

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https://www.coronawhatnow.com - a website focused on helping people and businesses impacted by coronavirus. Examples: -Food banks (individual sites or directories) -Financial aid -Elderly grocery shopping hours and delivery -Healthcare (shelter in place info, testing like Verily Baseline, etc) This info is currently scattered across the Internet and we're aggregating it in one place. It's hosted on Github using markd…

This is a great idea.

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

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I seem to have Coronavirus (UK are not really testing) so can't do too much before getting tired.

Project one: Our company has moved as many people as possible to work from home. I have spent most of the week on MS Teams and Teamviewer getting people ready, installing softphones, showing them how to use VPNs etc.

For myself we have had some OK weather, so I have been playing with my bonsai trees. Mostly I have been taking trees that were supposed to be growing on, and instead losing patience and cutting bits off them. I'm finding it a very peaceful diversion.

If the weather turns bad I think I might make some model planes (plastic kits). Somehow I don't have the patience for computers in my free time atm.

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

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Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap with Show HN, but I personally wouldn't mind if it's just once a month.

So... Maybe Ask HN next month, would you?...
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