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

#421
A model to predict medical equipment failure and predictive maintenance calendar based of a whole lot of data recompile from our own and clients cmms. Its fun, extremely time consuming, frustrating, but fun. It also provides to our clients with some interesting and useful information

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…

Great stuff! I tend to generate some colouring pages on the fly but these look great. Can you add dinosaurs?

Thank you, dinosaurs are in my TODO list

p.s. - my son is an expert at dinos, not sure why I haven’t added them

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

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post #223

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…

Interesting, what AI are you using to generate these? Are these straight from the net or is there a post processing pipeline? If so, what are you doing?

Not the GP, but inspired by your question I tried asking ChatGPT to create similar coloring sheets. The results seem suitable for coloring. Here's one prompt: "A simplified line-drawing coloring sheet of a dog flying an airplane. The drawing is in clean black lines on a white background, with minimal details and clear, bold outlines."

Later: The prompt worked with Imagen 3 on Gemini Advanced, too:

https://g.co/gemini/share/fd023da84cb2

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

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post #223

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…

Amazing!

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

#425
nuqs: A type-safe URL state management library for React [1].

I shipped v2 last week and it got mentioned at Next.js conf (as part of Vercel's giveaway of ticket sales back to the OSS community). That was quite the rollercoaster week.

[1] https://nuqs.47ng.com?hello=Hacker+news

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

#426
I've been working on a cloud gaming service (like Stadia). Wanted to see how far I can get it done using open source, without ready-to-use solutions like Parsec/Moonlight/Sunshine.

It works by running a game in Linux (I use NixOS btw) under Wayland (sway), capturing the frames via Pipewire in form of DMAbufs and passing them to ffmpeg's VA-API encoder (so frames don't leave GPU memory and are encoded on GPU right away), and finally sending encoded packets through WebRTC media stream to a web client. Inputs from a client are sent back to the server via WebRTC data channel and injected into Wayland.

Running the prototype over local network displays zero perceivable latency. (Of course when playing on a remote AWS server the latency is visible as expected). Pleased with the result so far, although it's my first experience with Pipewire, VA-API, and WebRTC, so my implementation is probably far from optimal.

Overall, very impressed by WebRTC - such a powerful thing right in every browser. Continued to be amazed by NixOS - my AWS AMI is NixOS-based and can be built and rebuilt with granular caching, with a single `nix build` command. Also Terraform/OpenTofu - just makes it all possible deploy-wise. So much good stuff exists!

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

#427
I'm working on Starlake.ai, an open-source data engineering platform that simplifies data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. It's designed to make data engineers' lives easier while maintaining powerful control over data pipelines.

Key features:

- Declarative YAML-based configuration for data pipelines

- Intuitive web UI for those who prefer visual interfaces (see video section in https://starlake.ai)

- Native integration with both Airflow and Dagster

- No-code/low-code approach to data transformation

- Support for multiple data sources and formats

- Built-in data quality validation

- Automated schema inference and evolution

Data Processing Capabilities:

- LOAD: Ingest data from various sources (CSV, JSON, XML, Parquet, etc.)

- TRANSFORM: Write SQL transformations and test them in DUCKDB.

- Support for major data warehouses:Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, DuckDB for local development and small data

What sets it apart:

- Full Git Integration: All changes (whether made through UI or YAML) are automatically versioned in Git

- CI/CD Ready: YAML configurations can be directly integrated into your CI/CD pipelines

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) friendly: Perfect for GitOps workflows

- Dual Interface: Everything possible in YAML can be done through the UI, and vice versa

- DuckDB Support: Perfect for local development and smaller datasets, allowing you to test your pipelines without cloud costs

The project is open source and we'd love to get feedback from the HN community. You can check it out at:

- Website: https://starlake.ai

- GitHub: https://github.com/starlake-ai/starlake

If you're dealing with data pipeline challenges or interested in modern data engineering tools, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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

#428

I’m excited to introduce Trendly, an app I think you’ll find really useful. Here’s what we’re solving: * Social media is full of fake news and lacks depth, yet many still rely on it for updates. * There’s too much content online, making it hard to find what really interests you. * Switching between platforms to get full details on a topic is tiring. Trendly ( https://trendly.global/ ) is a mobile app that curates a p…

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

#430

I created a Weird Clock that shows the local sunrise and sunset within a conventional 12-hour clock face. This normally would only work on a 24-hour clock face, which is kind of unfamiliar to most people, so I developed a way to show a 24-hour day within a 12-hour clock face; essentially it shows a 2-turn spiral so both night and day will fit. This needs to know your location in order to compute your local sunrise an…

Your backslashes should be forward slashes in the url: https://www.coolweird.net/
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