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

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

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

tetris11 wrote: post #280

A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…

Do consider the value of the wood in relation to your cuts. A well-placed cut not only guarantees safety but will also take the maximum board feet from the tree.

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

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Post by collingreen »

iamthepieman wrote: post #396

Creating stealth group in a huge Fortune 500 company with the blessing of my immediate boss but no other higher-ups. Trying to productize critical consulting tool sets in the utility industry so we can stop repeating ourselves for the 100th consulting engagement. Yes, customer is a special snowflake but they still need 90% or whatever every other client in this industry needs. Feeling increasingly like this is a fool…

Oof. This post started so good and then got progressively more sad until the edit nailed it home. I hope your story continues and works out as a huge win, either as a new, good boss, you getting to openly lead this kind of thing, someone reading this and poaching/sponsoring you, or maybe even you working on this under your own name.

Good luck and we're rooting for you!

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

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Post by mindcrime »

I spent the weekend working on the Ansible automation needed to deploy Tomcat and Roller Weblogger for my new personal website/blog[1]. Once the loose ends are tied up with this, I plan to deactivate my Facebook account and mainly focus on the personal site + Fediverse sites for sharing stuff. This is both to be consistent with my principles, which say to disfavor closed-source / walled-garden sites like Facebook, and because it should free up some time I waste when I allow myself to get pulled into political discussions on FB. It'll probably be better for my mental health as well.

[1]: https://www.philliprhodes.name

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

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Post by nake89 »

Creating a modern development environment for win98. Currently I’m working on a git client. I have no patience for learning C. So backporting git is not an option. I also don’t want to use cygwin. So I’m using a server to expose git as http endpoints and coding a git client in php to use in msdos. I have Vim 7.3 and and gnu coreutils working in msdos already. So soon I will have a very nice dev environment. I want to create a one click installer which gives you xampp, vim and then all the tooling I’ve created. I’m also interested in creating SPA that works in IE5.5. But I’ll do that when my tooling is ready.
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