Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by abhimanyue1998 » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:16 AM UTC

creakingstairs wrote: post #329

An open-source, self-hostable app for sending out newsletter to your friends and families. I'm mostly making it for myself because I want to share what I've been up to and family photos, without uploading it to Facebook or whatnot. At the moment, the flow goes like this: 1. During the week, write posts for things that have happened. 2. Posts can be assigned to groups. (family, friends etc). 3. At the end of the week…

this is quite interesting, could actually be an out of the box take towards fixing social media. good luck!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by maurodelazeri » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

OpenSource Dex agregator for Solana - easy to anyone to integrate on their apps, setting their own fees and ui

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by stonecharioteer » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

Trying to get out of burnout. I joined a company after being laid off, but the previous company has left me so burnt out that I feel... Slower. I finally fixed my neovim config, and I've set up `aerospace` on my work Mac so I can try to use a tiling window manager on this device. I've also set up my workspace tools after forever, and I'm starting to feel a little productive. Company hustle culture does not help.

I want to build a learning platform powered by deliberate practice and AI. To teach how to program from a practical perspective.

I am also trying to kick off a podcast for folks in tech at Bangalore. I hope to start it in June.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by lancekey » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

I’ve been researching cloud GPU providers and collecting per hour prices at https://computeprices.com.

My thesis is that the next few decades will be driven by the prices of compute and kWh. This is my way of getting a better understanding of the ecosystem.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by rriley » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

Alex-Programs wrote: post #184

I'm working on https://nuenki.app . It's a browser extension that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about your day. I've been doing a lot of experiments evaluating LLM translation performance, and I used what I learnt (that LLMs make mistakes, but different LLMs make different mistakes, and they're better at critiquing translations…

This is incredibly impressive work, especially at 19! The insight about LLMs being better at critiquing than producing translations is brilliant, and using that to build a hybrid system that outperforms individual models is exactly the kind of innovative thinking the field needs. Congrats on the company talk, well deserved recognition for solid research and execution!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by jingntonic » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

A marketing asset generator that allows users to input campaign details (eg. feature launch PRDs) to then automatically create launch assets (eg. blog, social post, etc)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by jingntonic123 » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

A marketing asset generator that allows users to input campaign details (eg. feature launch PRDs) to then automatically create launch assets (eg. blog, social post, etc)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by artichaud1 » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:25 AM UTC

BSTRhino wrote: post #191

https://easel.games A game engine that lets you code multiplayer games without coding the multiplayer! My idea was to put multiplayer into the fabric of the programming language itself. This allows the engine to automatically turn your game into a multiplayer game, without you needing to learn anything about networking or synchronization. I imagine there are lots of people who have the talent and creativity to create…

Well this is pretty cool!!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by curo » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

Building a Duolingo-like app to "learn from the greats, daily." (https://www.scrivium.com)

Until recently, it was cost-prohibitive to gamify topics with indefinite answers and progressions. As a result, "left-brained" topics have been gamified for years, but "right-brained" topics have resisted gamification. LLMs and generative AI unlock game economics for unstructured text.

Casual gaming is only category outpacing passive, social media. The most direct way to elevate humanity's media appetite is to turn human greatness into casual games.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by leeoniya » Mon, May 26, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

czhu12 wrote: post #331

I've been able to have the privilege of working at a company that is cool with me open sourcing everything we build along the way -- its a nice perk and it also makes me motivated to work on stuff outside of work :) The two things I've open sourced that I've been moonlighting after hours for: https://canine.sh/ - An open source Heroku alternative, 10x cheaper. Got sick of paying those prices https://hellocsv.github.i…

i saw that the hellocsv link was "visited" for me, looked again and remember checking it out when evaluating other csv parsers :)

i see you use papaparse. you can try something else, if you want :p

https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV