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

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

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Post by prmejc » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:27 AM UTC

TPS takt scheduling and execution system. It is a system to support any kind of production or logistics process in Toyota Production System way of working.

You define resources needed for activity, time per activity, dependencies between activities to complete a process.

After you input the process you want to complete, you get a schedule similar to a gantt chart.

System displays which activities should be ongoing at any moment, you click gui or call API to complete the activities.

After process is complete you get a report of delays and deviations by Takts, activities and resources.

Based on that report you can decide what improvements to make to your process.

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

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Post by fencer » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:29 AM UTC

Currently building out an application to help me allocate project funding in an academic setting to contracts and scientific staff. It'll be for internal use first, depending on my motivation I might release it at one point. The main features will be the management of split contracts (30% project A, 70% project B), pay grade progressions (German system), handling of unique spending and budget requirements from funding agencies (also for now only Germany + EU Funding), and reporting features for internal planning. I am not a computer scientist, so we will see how this goes and if it can replace the currently used disgusting excel sheet.

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

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Post by sema4hacker » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:29 AM UTC

adrianbooth17 wrote: post #424

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I do not find this giant block of text helpful at all.

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

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Post by ibizaman » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:30 AM UTC

I help privacy and data sovereignty enthusiasts take back control of their data without needing to change their habits.

I’ve been working for the past 3 years on SelfHostBlocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks, making self-hosting a viable and convenient alternative to the cloud for non technical people.

It is based on NixOS and provides a hand-picked groupware stack: user-facing there is Vaultwarden and Nextcloud (and a bunch more but those 2 are the most important IMO for non technical people as it covers most of one’s important data) and on the backend Authelia, LLDAP, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana and some more. My know-how is in how to configure all this so they play nice together and to have backups, SSO, LDAP, reverse proxy, etc. integration. I’m using it daily as the house server, I’m my first customer after all. And beginning of 2025 it passed my own internal checkpoint to be shared with others and there’s a handful of technical users using it.

My goal is to work on this full time. I started a company to provide a white glove installation, configuration and maintenance of a server with SelfHostBlocks. Everything I’ll be doing will always be open source, same as the whole stack and the server is DIY and repair friendly. The continuous maintenance is provided with a subscription which includes customer support and training on the software stack as needed.

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

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Post by ahmetcadirci25 » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:31 AM UTC

I am working to bring different projects together in a single system, and I am also creating a large knowledge base. https://ahmetcadirci.com/

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

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Post by compleix » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:32 AM UTC

I recently completed https://hashatar.io

It’s a simple NPM package that produces colorful avatars from input data to aid with quick visual verification. I’d like to see it adopted as a standard.

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

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Post by netcoyote » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:33 AM UTC

LaFolle wrote: post #363

netcoyote wrote: post #302

I'm playing around with sandboxing techniques on Mac so I can isolate AI tools and prevent them from interacting with files they shouldn't have access to -- like all my dotfiles, AWS credentials, and such. I've created two open-source solutions, one which uses a VM ( https://github.com/webcoyote/clodpod ) and another which creates a limited-user account with access to a shared directory ( https://github.com/webcoyote…

Have you seen tart https://tart.run/ ?

Yes; the ClodPod project uses tart to build & run the VM. My project is a lot of scripts to make the whole thing turnkey.

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

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Post by compleix » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:34 AM UTC

I recently completed https://hashatar.io

It is a simple NPM package that generates colorful avatars from input data to aid in quick visual verification.

I would like to see it adopted as a standard.

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

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Post by aosmith » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:34 AM UTC

https://thingg.co

Very very beta. No stated mission just working with smart people on interesting ideas.

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

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Post by emrekutlu » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 6:36 AM UTC

https://cafe.io

It is a DNS service for AWS EC2 to keep the ever changing IPs when you cannot use the Elastic IP like ASG or when you don't want to install any third party clients to your instances.

It fetches the IPs regularly via AWS API and assign them to fixed subdomains.

It is pretty new :) still developing actively.