Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

I founded a YIMBY group where I live, because I did not want to be part of tech workers pricing other people out. Now we're a chapter of YIMBY Action: https://yimbyaction.org/

It's interesting in that it's very different from tech, but also rewarding to make a difference in people's lives.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by geoduck14 » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #31

prakhar897 wrote: post #22

I'm trying to create a ML model which can detect if my dog is in pain just by looking at its face. Maybe, I'll create an app for it too if it works well.

That's pretty cruel, how to you get your test set? :)

You feed him peanut butter and jalapeños

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by nijave » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

Very slowly working on implementing AWS/cloud-like APIs on my homelab (EC2, EBS, S3, DNS) running Hyper-V, TrueNAS, and opnsense written in Python and some go

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by westcort » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

A robo-therapist (https://locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html) that might be a little better than Eliza, especially when used as an aid by a human therapist using Rogerian techniques.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by giraffe_lady » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

I'm playing to see just how much of a stack I can cram into postgres. Using postgrest functions that set custom headers to return html. And then...

I'm using plv8 to set up a deno-type runtime in postgres lol. It's silly but so fun and weird-feeling to me.

It's very finicky right now and most build tools are not ever going to work like this obviously but I have a little tiny "server" running out of postgres just using js tag functions for templating.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by Areading314 » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

A secure, encrypted, containerized microservice to store personally identifying (pii) data (contact info, names, govt id info etc). The idea is for it to be a drop in microservice that can keep all PII in one place for compliance, security, and convenience.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by marginalia_nu » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

I'm working on alternative discovery methods for discovering websites. I've built a sort of semi-stumbleupon, but I'm trying to add more of a sense of control.

This is where I'm at now: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random

I'm leaning toward some sort of categorization or tagging system, but trying to figure out ways of designing it that are inherently resilient to sabotage and manipulation.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by rglover » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Working on a full-stack JavaScript framework: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick.

Currently splitting my time between framework improvements in prep for a 1.0 (wrapping up a PostgreSQL integration today) and working on a deployment automation tool.

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by q_andrew » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:05 PM UTC

I'm making a PC game about that weird and ethereal (and scary) feeling you get from empty public buildings. I've already sold over 2000 copies and it hasn't even left beta yet.

https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis

Re: Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?

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Post by electric_muse » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

A spreadsheet that syncs two-ways with other SaaS apps (like Jira). Been working on something in this space for about 6 years, and it's really just started taking off.

https://www.visor.us