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

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

#451
I’ve been working on robotics for a few months now. I have built an arm, started receiving parts for my quadruped, and have learned enough RL to at least hold opinions on it (my background is ML/LLM training, so a bit different).

Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a robot I can take on walks with me that will pick up trash.

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

#453
I’ve been thinking/slowly building a service that hosts Kubernetes control planes. Bring your own worker nodes. Users can get a fully managed control plane (upgrades, HA, etc.) in their region of choice and can use whatever workers they want—be it cloud VMs, bare metal or your laptop too.

I’ll eventually open source the single binary agent that’ll bootstrap a host into a K8s node. Just run it rootless with a join URL and voilà!

Also in the pipeline is a global load balancer service (for your clusters).

What do y’all reckon? Interesting? Yay/nay?

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

#454
I have started working on some open source actuarial tooling. Mostly relevant for non-life pricing.

The open tooling is quite lacking in the sense that one has to create a lot of stuff manually. Especially for the evaluations, even though most of them are quite common in the actuarial realm.

Also I wanted to tinker with Jax. So I am basing all on Jax, polars, seaborn/matplotlib and scipy.

I already have lift plots and Poisson regression in Jax. I’ll keep adding to it over the next months as time allows.

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

#455
I have been working on a platform for digital content creators where they can sell their work or build online communities. In a few weeks it will be exactly two years since I started. I had a 6 month break but beside that it was daily grind from morning to evening. I'll be going online later this year.

Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain. I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.

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

#459
I made a Chrome extension that *assists* you in doing Leetcode problems. It's like having a buddy give you small hints and ask questions to guide you to the best solution yourself instead of giving you the answer immediately! I've had many people tell me it's helped them a lot. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/leetcode-buddy/bled...

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

#460
I'm working on a podcast and audio media monitoring and research platform. Easily the most complex thing I've built. But still so much more to do to make it truly useful. Testing PR and public affairs use cases at the moment.

https://listenalert.com

I used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant information. This still appears to be the case for most players in the industry.

So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many juicy insights.

Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers, testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the product based on feedback.

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