Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by carl_dr » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:36 AM UTC

pbnjay wrote: post #103

API tool to automate all the stuff Postman makes painful: https://callosum.dev Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary! Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next week or two)

Sounds excellent, joined the wait list.

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

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Post by tomaspollak » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:38 AM UTC

Figuring out how to add game boxart and screenshots to my recently-relaunched MIDI and chiptune player: https://pixeltune.org/

It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to reliably determine the matching game for files like /pub/johnny/midi/games/sc2kmenu.mid, and also to show them in a way that fits nicely in the UI.

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

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Post by tachibana » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:39 AM UTC

A no-code tool to create/maintain visual end-to-end UI tests.

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

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Post by john-tells-all » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:47 AM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #289

I am currently working on developing a procedural, interpreted language that is amenable to genetic (evolutionary) programming. I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there are so many hyper parameters to think about and how they behave over time is really hard to predict. I…

I agree visualizing neural networks is challenging. The flexibility and consequences of network connections is also confusing. If you decide to go down that route again, the best work I've seen by far is the recent one by Stephen Wolfram: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-goi...

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

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Post by Twirrim » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:55 AM UTC

Nothing new, I've found myself diving in to Project Euler again. https://projecteuler.net/

The set of puzzles is really tickling my fancy at the moment, for some reason.

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

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Post by manuelmoreale » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:57 AM UTC

— I’m still curating my newsletter / post series focused on humans and their blogs to help people rediscover that part of the web (https://peopleandblogs.com)

— I’m working on a second newsletter that’s more discovery oriented but still focused on the personal web space

— I’m setting up a private, invite only discourse forum to create a space where people can hang out and connect in a more meaningful way

— I’m working on a new studio site in collaboration with a friend

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

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Post by rufi » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 4:58 AM UTC

kolleraa wrote: post #239

I'm working on a web app that helps you discover books, movies, TV shows, video games, and songs that you'll like. The app makes it super easy to describe what you're looking for and then gives you a unique set of 10 suggestions on each run. It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use! ht…

well done.. i was thinking of same from long time.. great to find this.. will be using this.

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

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Post by briansm » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 5:07 AM UTC

Experiments with speech compression/processing. The modern approach to this (and pretty much everything else) is to transform the input data into a high-dimensional space, throw it into a neural net and cross your fingers. (the 'Whisper' STT runs in 512-dimensional space!). It works, but it's hardly elegant or compute-efficient. There's a certain art in doing things the 'old way', even if a million years of evolution decided neural-nets were the one true path.

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

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Post by svieira » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 5:12 AM UTC

jppope wrote: post #393

We just had a kid... trying to make his entrance into the world pleasant.

Congratulations!

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

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Post by GauntletWizard » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 5:13 AM UTC

I'm trying to bring the encryption benefits of MTLS, the security of X509 Name Constraints, and the improvements that have been made in the various clients libraries and operating systems to TLS behavior into a nice group, so that any small company, or even individual, can run their own CA infrastructure that puts the bug enterprises to shame (specifically, https://enroll.visaca.com/ already deserves a lot of shame).

I'm doing so by making it easier to mint certificates for your pods in k8s (https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls/-/tree/master), by writing documentation on how to create good root certs with cheap HSM backed keys, updating cfssl to work with name constraints (https://github.com/GauntletWizard/cfssl/tree/ted/constraints), and building tools to issue short-lived certificates to developers.