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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by DamnInteresting »

rorylaitila wrote: post #63

I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…

Ads are like graffiti. When they first appear, they are a nuisance, a menace. But in the fullness of time they become interesting relics.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by z3ugma »

Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be supported by Google starting in October. I'm working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by jamesdhutton »

An app for parents to motivate their kids by awarding them points for good deeds. There are existing apps out there, but I tried them and didn't like them, so I'm building my own. This is a side project for me and I only get to spend a few hours a week on it. Currently in beta testing and I hope to launch around July.

https://whirl.digital

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by martyz »

ccvannorman wrote: post #285

Mathbreakers 2 ( https://mathbreakers.com ) A 3D game to help students in grades 5-8 learn Arithmentic, Fractions, Geometry, and Algebra. 50% or more of middle school students experience math anxiety, and it's no wonder that so many people grow up believing, "I'm not a math person." Math can be incredibly fun and beautiful if approached and experienced the right way. Mathbreakers is a vibrant, interactive world where…

I just had a flashback to Math Blaster - interested in checking this out.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by l72 »

mfalcon wrote: post #341
l72 wrote: post #106

I am working on a music recommendation algorithm for your self hosted music. Think of it like your personal pandora. Backend is already working: Boldaric https://github.com/line72/boldaric And a simple iOS native front end (which I haven’t submitted to the App Store yet). Tor Jolan https://github.com/line72/torjolan It has been interesting tweaking the algorithms and models for various similarity searches. I really l…

Wow! I was thinking about doing something similar (extracting audio features to find really similar songs) some weeks ago. I love the idea, it'd be great to have something like this to discover music too, but it'll be difficult to discover new music because it won't be present in the collection.

I buy a lot of music on Bandcamp and often a label will have their whole catalog on sale, so I’ll just buy that. But I haven’t been good exploring the new 50+ albums I just bought, so this is helping.

I also finally took my wife’s collection, properly tagged it, and added it to my collection. That has been fun to explore.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by rriley »

Zamaamiro wrote: post #104

I’m working on a research cybersecurity tool that attempts to combine the natural language understanding and information synthesis strengths of LLM-driven agents with symbolic logic and knowledge bases expressed as Datalog programs for determinism and declarative semantics. The approach is to perform system scanning using a combination of LLMs and traditional algorithms to dynamically populate a Datalog knowledge bas…

Very promising concept! Any link/video/website you can share to learn more about this idea?
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