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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#371
Currently working on a code formatter and parser for Supercollider's sclang. Supercollider is an amazing language, but the development tooling is severely lacking - we need good tooling, and now with LLMs in play and my coding ability leveled up from doing GATech's OMSCS, I'm finally able to tackle this.

I'm learning rust while I'm doing this too, so it's been an experience. Fun, though.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#372
I wrote a Telegram bot for video/image translation, and also Firefox/Chrome addons to help translate web content with smart content extraction and non-breaking layouts.

Check it out at: https://addons.subly.xyz & https://subly.xyz

The Firefox addon/Chrome extension is free, but you need your own OpenRouter/Gemini API key. The cost of web translation is really low, you can translate an article for ~$0.01 with really good quality. (You can try at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/subly-xyz/)

I built it because I use Firefox the most and it seemed like no translate addon was good or simple enough. Chrome translate kinda works, but the quality is so low; it usually doesn't understand the article context.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#373
I'm working on a tool in golang to handle requesting access to private and sensitive databases in Postgres. The goal is to help orgs reduce handing out long-lived postgres creds with broad permissions.

The flow is you declare the databases and tables you want to access and the specific permissions you want, an operator reviews it, if accepted it generates a temporary postgres user with those permissions you need. Also, all the connections to the database are proxied through the app, so the domain name and port are random and short-lived, so you don't expose internal database hosts. As an extra, all SQL statements during the user sessions are logged if you want to see that.

It's available at https://github.com/yungwarlock/pam_postgres

My primary goal of this is to drill myself as a product engineer working on a technical product.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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post #174

https://mytinycafe.com/ An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available bev…

The testimonials section is adorable

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#376

I shared this last month, but I’m still having a lot of fun working on it. I made a daily word puzzle called Tiled Words. https://tiledwords.com Currently about 2,000 people play every day and I’ve released 59 puzzles! One feature I’m excited about is crowdsourcing puzzles. Today’s puzzle is a “community puzzle” made entirely from clues that players submitted! I plan to do this every week or two. I wrote about launch…

My wife and I play this every day. It's the only fault word games that has ever caught my interest.

The UI is fantastic too.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#378
I built a website (https://hpyhn.xyz) for hacker news users for reasons: 1. hn comments are valuable, I've spent a lot of time going through hn comments. I think there are valuable comments buried in the threads with fewer points, so it's not enough to just read top3 threads.

2. Sometimes a good post is ignored due to a bad title, sometimes I still have no idea what the post's theme even after I read a few paragraphs.

3. I want to filter out some posts I'm not interested in, but I realized I need read some other posts it's not a simple yes/no problem, so I gave every post a interesting score based on my own preference

so I built this tool to save my time while not missing out too much on hn

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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post #174

https://mytinycafe.com/ An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available bev…

LOVE this. Are there any plans to open-source? I'd love to run my own instance.

Also some feedback: the ordering buttons are inexplicably in french despite everything else being in English. Choice of language or defaulting to English would be expected...

Also - multi-select and nullable options. So that I can create options like Taco / Steak / Pasta, and add side options that are relevant only when one of those is selected.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

#380
I'm working on an open source swift app that sends anything you circle in a pdf or epub to AI for an explanation. Currently it works with Gemini but I'm going to allow users to add their own OpenAI compatible endpoint soon.

I think it works best on Mac and iPad. Available on TestFlight and GitHub.

https://github.com/syousif94/EasyReader https://testflight.apple.com/join/1KvY5cwC

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