Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by snazz » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

rococode wrote: post #152

Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap with Show HN, but I personally wouldn't mind if it's just once a month.

lobste.rs does “What are you doing this week[end]?” posts every week or weekend, which are nice for that smaller community. I think once a month would be perfect for a community the size of HN.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by stfwn » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

abhgh wrote: post #433

Very research-y, but I am working on a pet idea of mine called "compact models" in Machine Learning. Essentially you take a model - say a decision tree of depth 20 - and "compact" it to a decision tree of size 10, without losing accuracy. The motivation is "interpretability": models are interpretable by humans if they are small. Another application would be low memory footprint models - but frankly, I haven't thought…

You might be interested in pruning neural networks. Some networks can be reduced in size by over 90% without performance loss. The lottery ticket hypothesis paper is good place to start, if you don’t already know about it of course.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

Some pruning methods have recently been added in the latest feature release of PyTorch.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by maxrmk » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

I've been building a web api fuzzer for the last couple of months, and this weekend has been a good opportunity to make some progress.

I built it because I'd been participating in a couple of bug bounty program and felt like I was just trying random mutations to see what broke things.

There are other web fuzzers out there, but they're super limited. They test each piece of API functionality in isolation, whereas my fuzzer can test sequences of calls that depend on each other.

I'm also trying to improve my drawing skills. It's a bit of a struggle, as it takes a lot more patience than most things I do on a daily basis.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by erjiang » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

I'm working on a tool to make web apps without writing any code, so basically a WYSIWYG that's like Airtable + Squarespace in one. If you have a need for any internal apps for your company I'd love to hear about it! https://www.fabrica.dev/

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by eruci » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

Quarantine or not, I'm working exactly the same as before on [3geonames.org](https://3geonames.org) a 3d location encoding scheme and [geocode.xyz](https://geocode.xyz) a geoparser / geocoder.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by herve76 » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:47 PM UTC

I am developing an algorithm to trade cryptocurrencies and the platform to test in real time the performance of potential strategies. I am using Node.js/AutoML for the algo and Vue for the platform. You can check it out at https://bitcoinvsaltcoins.com This platform is open and free to everybody to add their strategies for real time PnL tracking. The goal of this project is to provide an easier way to trade cryptocurrencies by simply allowing you to follow the trades from the best auto trading bots/strategies.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by novusteck » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

I am working on a Coronavirus Survival Calculator see: https://corona-virus-chart.co/calculator It uses the statistics from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-c..., https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 and https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus to give a percentage of survival to the people that test the application. Feel free to comment

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Post by protoduction » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

I'm building Chimera, which is project that brings sandboxed cell-by-cell (scientific) notebooks to the browser.

It's a blend of Jupyter Notebook, Project Iodide, JSFiddle, CodeSandbox, Glitch, and Observable.

Here are two screenshots:

- Notebook: https://i.imgur.com/nDUC817.png

- View Source: https://i.imgur.com/KhaiCfz.png

This is a tool that I wish existed after having worked with Jupyter notebooks a lot.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by akavel » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

wishinghand wrote: post #275

Working on a rules light alternative to the Lancer RPG. I love the art and lore, but in between hearing about it and its release, I got more into OSR sorts of games and now Lancer feels almost overwhelming with its rules. I'm merely hacking Into the Odd for now, but adding mech combat and some other tables to help along gameplay. No idea what I'm going to do about art though. I don't have enough money set aside right…

Did you consider Fate RPG ruleset? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_(role-playing_game_syst...

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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Post by mncharity » Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

anne_biene wrote: post #422

Germany is running the biggest hackathon ever to fight corona. Challenges span everything, from tracking, organising material, designing tools for home office, mental health, reaching out to elderly, kids, parents, teachers ... https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/?lang=en Make an impact and give back!

Given the challenges list https://airtable.com/shrs71ccUVKyvLlUA/tbl6Br4W3IyPGk1jt/viw... , google translate regrettably doesn't (only the frame). Bing translate just dies. :/ The CSV request has a short and signed expiration, so that wasn't a workaround.