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

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I am working on creating a framework for statistically identifying and measuring racial disparity in the criminal justice pipeline. This involves collecting, cleaning, and merging data from various government sources such as the FBI, DOJ, prisons, police stations, Sheriff's offices, county jails, etc.

sounds great. is this data easy to come by?

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

#433
I'm learning QOL hacks to live without a city water supply for 10 days! Should be interesting. Our town just lost its water supply after Hurricane Helene destroyed the water supply pumping station.

And working on a member-owned social network that runs from users countertops to foster dynamics that make for a better social user experience.

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

#434
A chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using LLMS! helps avoid a bunch of copy-pasting into ChatGpt. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rocky-ai/fdjoklehji...

1. Summarize Articles – Get concise overviews of content from sources like HackerNews, Reddit, and more. 2. Quick Information Lookup – Effortlessly locate key details on pages such as developer documentation, car forums, and beyond. 3. Personalized LinkedIn Outreach – Craft customized outreach messages for your LinkedIn connections with ease. 4. Review Analysis – Analyze feedback and reviews from platforms like Airbnb, Amazon, and others for quick insights.

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

#435
I'm currently finalising a Security Operations app that centralises triage for security alerts (North / https://north.sh) into an intuitive interface that better helps Security Operations teams, MSSPs & SOCs.

It tries to deal with alert fatigue via some nice de-duplication techniques (via customisable aggregation and correlation rules), manages and runs detection rules against different logging platforms (Elastic, Splunk and ALA/Azure) with Validation and Simulation testing, and will lower the time that it takes to determine malicious activity by presenting as much relevant information per security alert as possible.

Hopefully to launch sometime before end-of-year. If you're interested, I'm always free to talk via alex@sinn.io, or sign up to the newsletter.

https://north.sh/

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

#436

I've started writing a technical book about "how to develop a game boy emulator from scratch". :fingers_crossed: I'm using typst[1] for my writing journey. [1] https://typst.app/

wow this sounds like a really fun project. These are the kind of projects that excite me honestly. I find it really difficult to get excited about working on projects that are perceived as popular lucrative business ideas.

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

#437
I just relaunched PostalAgent which lets you send postcards online by circling neighborhoods on a google map and then refining using demographic filters

My free plan offers an all in price which includes design, print and mail to your customers door for less than any competitor

https://PostalAgent.com

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

#438
In general, an automated system to catalog, store and retrieve trading cards (magic for now, Pokémon next.) Right now, working on computer vision recognition of magic cards, but I’m trying to tackle the hard edge cases that many other projects and products don’t (revised vs unlimited, multiple reprints in The List, automatic language detection, etc etc.)

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

#439
I've been hacking on a LLM-based text adventure this weekend: https://github.com/ianb/intra-game

It's like the fourth or fifth time I've made an attempt at this, each time learning something along the way. This might not be a success either... but I can tell I've made progress.

Right now I'm struggling with how to manage different events and different agents. Actually making a "winnable" game with "a point" is also hard!

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

#440

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/toucan-by-babbel-la...
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