Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by douge1 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:00 AM UTC

Quant finance alpha forecasting with alt data and LLMs

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

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Post by chewxy » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:01 AM UTC

I'm working on my scifi novel. I had started writing it when LLMs started taking off - I had been doing AI for two decades and I was well-placed to be in a good position to profit with the rise of LLMs, but I ended up gaining nothing much and I was depressed about it - so I started writing instead. Been picking at it for about a year before befriending an editor who encouraged me to keep writing. He's helped me developmentally edit it to a point I am now ready to work on my second draft.

It's a hard scifi novel with mild existential horror tones that is borne mostly of maths jokes. At one point the main character tries to escape the matrix (reality). But the matrix is defective, so the best way out was to orthogonalize the subspace and reduce the matrix to its eigenbasis instead. Most of the scenes are based on similar maths jokes.

Tentative name is Diagonalization of the Meta (I had previously called it The Metaverse).

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

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Post by asteroidburger » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:04 AM UTC

I have an experimental aircraft, a Vans RV-14, that I've been working on for far too long. I have all the expensive parts on hand, I just need to finally finish putting them together.

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

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Post by taleodor » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:05 AM UTC

A system to manage software metadata and SBOMs in particularly. This is based on our existing relizahub.com and will implement upcoming Transparency Exchange API - https://github.com/CycloneDX/transparency-exchange-api/

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

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Post by brk » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:08 AM UTC

asciimike wrote: post #336

loufe wrote: post #139

I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam. I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp to that (so it could be painte…

Where/how did you learn welding? Have been considering doing a community college welding course (as they have all the equipment, instruction, etc.).

MIG is really just a glue gun for metal. For things where structural integrity isn’t critical you MIG stuff together by watching a couple YouTube videos and then going at it.

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

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Post by cornfieldlabs » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

cornfieldlabs wrote: post #237

I am working an Instagram reel downloader savreel(.) app to learn SEO. I have gotten 37 clicks so for in the last month organically. I am on Twitter as @cornfieldlabs

it's https://savereel.app

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

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Post by 147 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

I'm working on https://chivesbot.com/, a GitHub Slack app.

I was frustrated by GitHub's official Slack integration and the lack of certain customization and filtering capabilities. For example, I wanted to be able to send all production deployments to a specific Slack channel, but I couldn't.

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

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Post by weddingbell » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC

I'm waiting for my company's layoff...

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

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Post by apexkid » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:16 AM UTC

I am working on Zipshot. http://zipshot.co -- The goal is to make the best free screenshot & OCR app for mac.

This is my side project because I needed an app like this for my daily use and I hate the fact that every other good app is paid even though maintaining such an app really doesn't cost anything.

Zipshot solves several problems:

  - Easy to use shortcuts like cmd+shift+1
  - No desktop clutter as images are uploaded to Zipshot cloud.
  - Share via links.
  - Powerful editor and figma style comments for annotations.
  - OCR that works without the internet on 11 languages.
  - Slack & Gmail integration.
  - Context aware naming.
  - Serious privacy measures.
  - One click data download.

Who is it for:

  - Users who take 5+ screenshots a week with mostly the purpose of sharing it with their team or friends.

I am improving it every week. Here are the things I am working on:

  - Make the on-boarding and permission seeking workflow simpler.
  - Speed up the app for apple silicon devices.
  - Support OCR for rotated text and include more languages.

Here is an example demo: https://app.zipshot.co/bp4jr1

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

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Post by pbnjay » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 1:17 AM UTC

API tool to automate all the stuff Postman makes painful: https://callosum.dev Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary!

Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next few days)