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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)?

#361
I'm trying to learn Rust and thought going through a Chip8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8) implementation would be fun.

For anyone who's wondering the specification I'm following along with is "Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference v1.0" (http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM)

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

#363

About to start work on a side project. A map-driven web database of films, TV series, books, thatre and computer games based on where and when they are set. So if you want to watch something set in 1880s Paris, you can. Or you want to see something set in China in the 17th century. Cute names welcome :)

ChronoCine? Maybe ChronoCine map? Or GeoChronoCine abbreviated to GCC?

Probably looking for a name that is much more approachable for a wide audience. Along the lines of "take me back" or playing with where/when or time/place or something like that.

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

#364
Current near-term projects:

- Major house renovation. Air sourced heat pumps are in, but the kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom are WIP. Subfloor, insulation, and drywall are the current focus. Also replumbing domestic cold and hot water in the entire house. Adding a brand new backup condensing gas hydronic system for when it's too cold for the heat pumps.

- Building a rear bumper for my 80 series Land Cruiser (4x4 Labs DIY kit).

- Building a press brake for my 20 ton shop press to bend some brackets to mount a backhoe to my tractor.

- Rustproofing both cars (80 series and diesel W210 Benz) before winter. Rust reformer primer, POR-15, and various Noxudol waxes and some Blaster Shield. New front and rear bumpers for the W210, painting front and (new) rear bumper on the 80.

- Working on something I'm tentatively calling "Swage" which is all about compact (think: nearly the information-theoretic minimum number of bits) representation for o11y data (metrics, traces, logs).

- Refactoring a PID controller crate I wrote a while back to be less bad and more good (in particular, trying to use funty to make it generic over fixed and floating point numbers).

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

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I'm working on a production version that allows for the cloning of identification cards with or without RFID using a 7 color epaper display I call psychic paper. Raw BOM is ~$100 I presented it at skywalks and defcon 32. The hardware and software is really all built out the real thing is to find the right epaper display (4.01 inch 7 color display) and an easy way to display the badge. I moved to a pimoroni instead of…

That github link gives a 404 - is the repo private?

fixed thanks.

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

#367

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…

Tell us more about the implementation. Are you using Flux to train a halloween theme?

No, I actually found it does a pretty good job with costumes out of the box, so just training on the subjects and then using an LLM to make specific prompts.

My daughter has gotten a kick out of being able to have pictures of her in any costume but has started to notice the dimpled chin that Flux applies to just about every face it generates.

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

#368
I'm almost finished my modular MIDI Controller software for iOS/iPadOS. I am hoping to offer a good compromise between ease of setup and power. Hopefully I get this is on testflight in about a week or two. Best I can share is some screenshots right now: https://imgur.com/a/s80g0Iv

Really hoping to do this right as an indie dev with a good website, video promotion, marketing, etc. Probably free but with a one-time IAP for unlocking features. Worst case scenario this helps me land new jobs :p

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

#369
Professionally: I'm continuing with Wyndly [1], my YC startup. I believe more and more in a future without any allergies.

Socially: I'm trying to connect people more, so I'm starting a social club [2]. If it just ends up with people meeting up in meatspace regularly, then it's a win.

Personally: well, my wife just purchased 6 pieces of flatpak furniture, so I'm building it!

[1] https://www.wyndly.com [2] https://www.nycfounders.club/

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

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I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural language processing". Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3 M€ GPU cluster. Also looking for Ph.D. candidates and contract developers. (The hard part is spending the money wisely but in 8 weeks - it is a time-limited government budget that "expires" - whi…

What’s the best way to contact you to refer potential PhD candidates?
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