Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by sgt » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:04 AM UTC

sethops1 wrote: post #25

I'm working on https://tickerfeed.net - a new kind of forum for stock market discussion. After HashiCorp was acquired by IBM I decided to take time off from corporate life and build something for myself. For years I've also been a casual retail investor on the side. Forums like /r/stocks and /r/wsb in the past have been useful resources for finding leads and interesting information. But meme-ification (among other fa…

Wonderful stack that. Site loads really quick too (except for some ads that took 3-4 seconds to load)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by camjw » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:05 AM UTC

I'm working on Hispi (https://www.hispi.app) which is an AI powered tool to help people design custom jewellery (starting with rings). We use some image models and some text models to build the ring, estimate materials etc and then work with real jewellers in London to actually make and ship them!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by westpfelia » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:07 AM UTC

casid wrote: post #384

I'm working on a video game called Astroloot[1], a mix of bullet-heaven and scifi-space ARPG. After two years, I've finally completed the main-campaign and now start with the endgame. Ever since playing Diablo 2, I've wanted to create an ARPG. Have to say, this project brought back the joy of programming for me. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3498390/Astroloot/

How is it on SteamDeck? I see on Proton there is one review so far that the linux experience is good (and they call it Path of Exile in space which is about the best compliment).

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by tuananh » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:08 AM UTC

I'm working on a secure MCP server using WASM vm sandboxing.

- Each plugins run in its own WASM vm.

- Explicit network/fs access. No network or file access by default

- Can limit cpu/resources

The reo: https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by rikroots » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:12 AM UTC

I fixed my poetry website[1] - mainly by ripping out TailwindCSS and replacing it with a few lines of vanilla CSS, and adding a canvas library so I could include some of my graphic poems[2] on the site. I also wrote some new poems to complete the spruce-up.

[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/

[2] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/poem/economic-migration/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by sushidev » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:14 AM UTC

I built an internal monitoring tool that tracks new blockchain software releases and made it publicly available as a website. It's particularly useful for people who run and maintain blockchain nodes: http://chainrelease.info

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by tiniuclx » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:14 AM UTC

I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], a hacking roguelike set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3627290/Botnet_of_Ares/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by duckerduck » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:18 AM UTC

I've made a utility that uses LLMs to compare specifications against implementations, called "semcheck" (semantic checker). I’ve often found that even though I set up Cursor rules or CLAUDE.md files, the implementation tends to drift away from these documents. I built this utility to be run as a pre-commit or CI step to check that they are still the same.

Repo: https://github.com/rejot-dev/semcheck/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by DmitryOlshansky » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:19 AM UTC

A drop-in memcached replacement written in D. The end goal is Redis but memcached is simpler protocol (and less data structures;)) to test the waters.

https://github.com/DmitryOlshansky/hedgehog

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Post by wtf242 » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 7:22 AM UTC

Still working on my books site https://thegreatestbooks.org that I started in 2008. It's been a 1 man team the entire time. I recently made some major algorithm changes that I think greatly improves the rankings. My algorithm code is open source https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank

I do plan on open sourcing more of the code over time. I also have started working on other sites using the same algorithm implementation (music, movies, video games)

This has just been a side project over the year generating passive income. I get around 250,000 page views a day, and with ads, memberships, and affiliate links I make around $2,500~ a month.

Tech stack is ruby on rails 8, postgresql 17, opensearch, redis, bootstrap 5.3 hosting on 3 servers on linode.