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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)?

#41
I'm currently trying to implement an in-editor sandboxing/modding solution for the Godot game engine. It's hard work trying to make everything work the way people are used to having it, and even competing with GDScript.

https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox

I originally started on it just to get into Godot.

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

#42

CV pipeline to get some additional realtime stats for an annual Mario Kart 8 LAN tournament my friends and I run, hoping to be able to get real time race position tracking and other stats like boost/drift %, per-player item distributions, average time to 10 coins, and whatever else we can think of (and make work)

Neat. I’d love something that could watch my wife and I play and confirm I really do get hit by more blue shells than her

You're going into first place too early. You kinda have to cruse in 2nd until the very end to avoid blue shells. Better yet, stay in 9th as long as possible - that's the highest position you can get the good drops like Blue Shells, Bullets, etc. But I think you can get red shells in 2nd, so just save those till the end.

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

#44
On Mac, pbcopy and pbpaste don't work with images. I've written one that does in python, so I can right click on an image in Chrome, hit copy, then do pbipaste > foo.png and have it work. And then also do pbicopy , and then be able to paste in Preview or whatever.

it's incomplete but https://github.com/fragmede/pasteboard-image

I'm in the middle of rewriting it in rust so it's easier to install.

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

#46
I spent a week building a website that is a repository of timeless content. It generally consists of old magazine articles (though not exclusively) that you can pick up at any time and will bring value to your life. I notice most of what we consume on daily basis is ephemeral and not all that valuable outside of the moment, whereas ever-present content is always valuable.

The unique angle here is that each article includes a hand-written summary explaining why the article was meaningful to the curator. This gives you a quick window into the piece without being overwhelming.

Since this is a free website mostly to be shared with friends and family, I implemented user login via "phone number" to save and submit articles, but without a one-time token. So it's "password-less" for now; a trust-based system.

It's basically 'done' - but I'm not sure that I want to share it publicly for the aforementioned reasons. I've been using it on my subway rides to read more interesting stuff. So far so good.

screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/8kIrgBt.png

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

#47
Working on https://aliveai.app/. It is a simple wrapper frontend around a complex ComfyUI workflow. There is a lot of different things you can generate with StableDiffusion but I wanted to make it as easy as possible to create photo-realistic images of people.

The App is mostly being used for generating NSFW images though (which is ok).

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

#49
post #8

I'm getting LLMs to modify your source code by writing code that modifies the Abstract Syntax Tree of your code rather than the code itself. I wrote a simple blog post to explain it: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m... My initial goal is to let users make webapp prototypes and iterate on them by writing tickets for the AI to complete. I for some reason call it Code+=AI: https://codeplusequ…

I've just played with local models mostly, but I've found it difficult to get them to follow every part of the instruction.

For example they're oh-so keen on doing math themselves, even though they're shit at it and I instructed them not to do any math.

It's also hit and miss if they implement the right method or not, even with low temperature.

In my case I was experimenting with translating simple word problems into matlab scripts, so a resultcould be computed.

Do you find the AST approach helps? Or is it mostly just throwing compute at it, ie larger more better?

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

#50
Adding optional user sign-in to my word replacer browser extension: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/word-replacer-max. This is a precursor to adding generative replacement suggestions based on search terms. Even further, I'd like it to eventually analyze and de-trigger/disarm the copy on websites more broadly without having to define specific words or phrases.
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