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 jcgrillo » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:13 AM UTC

solomonb wrote: post #59

I just picked up an old Sheldon Lathe. I got it for $200 and hauled it myself with a drop trailer. Its going to need a lot of work but its a beautiful old machine.

Awesome! I have a South Bend model 420 toolmaker restoration in progress, I hope to finish this winter. Old lathes are great.

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

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Post by bob1029 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

I am working a contract job to integrate some banking back office concerns (pays bills), a Unity RTS game and a machine learning project.

The ML project is probably the most interesting. It is seeking to use evolutionary/genetic algorithms with novel computational substrates such as spiking networks and Turing machines. Things that would (by intent) run poorly on someone's GPU farm. I figure I might get lucky looking under rocks no one seems to care about anymore.

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

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Post by eli_gottlieb » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

I got notified my NeurIPS paper was accepted this past week, so I've been doing the brush-ups that'll have the manuscript set for camera-ready. Preprint on arxiv with the title "Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding" at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834

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

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Post by shwetank » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

I'm working on Voohy (https://voohy.com), a platform for leadership development.

It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who want to do it right. I'm solo bootstrapping it.

It has a combination of learning resources (courses, research paper insights etc) and tools.

While the learning resources are for helping you with knowledge, the tooling aspect is for developing the right habits for staying a good leader.

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

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Post by neveroddoreven » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

douge1 wrote: post #341

Quant finance alpha forecasting with alt data and LLMs

What kind of alt data?

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

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

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Post by swaptr » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:22 AM UTC

kurttheviking wrote: post #380

my wife and I have a new side project: we're opening a bookshop! the last local store is closing due to retirement and we figure the community demand is still there. we're negotiating the lease, sorting out how to order a lot of bookshelves, and source the initial inventory. i'm currently figuring out how to connect our point of sale system to our accounting software. good times. :)

Awesome! Are you planning to build a bookshop or something more like a library?

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

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Post by magicbuzz » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:24 AM UTC

I'm working on a solar forecast for my off-grid PV installation. It's a small install of 1kWp (2 bifacial panels) with a 4kWh battery. I chew through about 25% of my battery each day and so a forecast of the next few days or so is very useful to help me decide whether I can dip heavily into the battery or whether I should be a bit more conservative about power use.

https://tim-burgess.observablehq.cloud/pvoutput/solar

SolCast (solcast.com.au) has a free API for home users and also some historical data. So it's essentially just some D3 code running on Observable.

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

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Post by cebert » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:24 AM UTC

I was excited about the Cloudflare announcements this past week. I primarily use AWS in my day job, but I wanted to broaden my knowledge. This weekend, I started building a simple to-do application using Durable Objects and the newly announced zero-latency SQLite storage. In just a few hours, I familiarized myself with Cloudflare and got the basic CRUD operations working. Next weekend, I plan to add WebSocket publications and a few other features, and then write a blog post about it. It was a great learning experience, and I’m impressed with what Cloudflare is doing.

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

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Post by venky180 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 2:25 AM UTC

I am working on creating a framework for statistically identifying and measuring racial disparity in the criminal justice pipeline. This involves collecting, cleaning, and merging data from various government sources such as the FBI, DOJ, prisons, police stations, Sheriff's offices, county jails, etc.