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

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I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

At one pre-funding startup (in the days when 14400 was an excellent remote connection) we had a LAN set up in the basement of the founder with the largest house. Their daughter liked to "work" alongside us, so (partly to protect our unattended keyboards!) I bought a colouring-book program for her to use.

One evening, when her mother called down that it was her bedtime, she replied:

— Can't mom, busy working! click click click

— What are you working on?

click I have to turn it all orange! click

Upon hearing that, we knew she was one of us.

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

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A simple site that counts and displays requests to each path: https://requests.at/, for instance https://requests.at/robots.txt . The site isn't intended to characterise crawler traffic or serve any other purpose but a slight sense of meta.

My current challenge is deciding in which way to generate a favicon.ico that displays the number of requests to the favicon.

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

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post #399

Every application that I've worked on has had blind spots, or forgotten lands of code. Things like “how often do people actually use this feature?” …or… “does this code still run every night?”. I made something to track those things easily. https://flexlogs.com And since it's Monday… I've been working on a little project to be less overwhelmed and get more done each week. It's a super simple productivity idea that st…

Carpeweekem looks like a really cool idea! I suppose you exclusively use it for goal tracking and not for ongoing/open To Dos, right? At least if you don't carry over stuff from last week?

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

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post #286

Working on an AI to generate SVG vector images. SVGs are awesome and currently unrepresented in the diffusion-based model landscape. We have something that produces pretty great results and we're working on the next version which should be even better. https://vectorart.ai

Something like this is desperately needed, keep up the work. One thing that I immediately noticed is that all downloads are named "download.svg". A more descriptive name would be helpful.

Edit: Also, copying the SVGs to the clipboard would be nice. Download from the browser still sucks, and with web based SVG editors (like my own one, www.hyvector.com ) people can quickly edit the generated SVGs without having to go through the downloading and uploading process.

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

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Optillm - https://github.com/codelion/optillm optillm is an OpenAI API compatible optimizing inference proxy which implements several state-of-the-art techniques that can improve the accuracy and performance of LLMs. The current focus is on implementing techniques that improve reasoning over coding, logical and mathematical queries. It is possible to beat the frontier models using these techniques across diverse task…

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. I'm implementing some of these techniques myself right now, but being able to try out different algorithms and having plugins etc available immediately is really cool! Can't wait to try it out.

How are you dealing with structured outputs?

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

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I am working on Shepherd.com and trying to reimagine book discovery online.

I just launched the "best books of 2024," where I ask readers and authors to share their 3 favorite reads of the year and make it fun to navigate them by different factors (genres, topics, book club reads, audiobooks, and more coming) -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024

Slowly getting more in place as we grow :)

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