I am working on dealing with burnout for the first time. I’ve read about it here and thought I understood it, but experiencing it first hand has been difficult. It destroys everything good about life: relationships, hobbies, sleep, and health. I know I am not the only one here going through this and knowing that helps a little.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#462I'm working on a Rust library that offers a higher-level API for generating PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#463I've just started experimenting on an AI wrapper that blends companion and assistant into one (think Replika meets Claude), but with an anime-style avatar for the main interface.
As I'm still very early (still in the ideation and prototyping phase), I'd love to hear about experiences that have stuck with you, or any works that got you excited about the possibilities.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#464Working on my Mill build tool, a new JVM build tool that aims to provide a faster, easier alternative than the status quo tools of Gradle and Maven. I just gave my first conference talk about it, and response was positive. Hope others find it interesting as well! https://mill-build.org/mill/index.html
Have you look at BLD? Sits in the same space and has similar criticisms regarding Gradle and Maven.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#465I've been obsessed with developing ways to make it easier to handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of active "tab management". I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search and select which tab to switch to, including search over bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow for creating and r…
This is crazy and very useful for organising the tabs. You need to do some work on the ui/ux part.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#466MLJAR Studio - IDE for Machine Learning. It is a Python notebook based editor with set of interactive code recipes and AI assistant. We would like to create an editor that would be suitable for Data Scientists on any skill level. It is a mix of no-code mixed with Python :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#467After years of lying dormant, I'm reactivating a hacky PHP script to test 'technical SEO' knowledge in the way of a challenge - more aligned to a technical web challenge, with a "SEO" bent more than anything spammy.
I've used this previously as a recruiting test in lieu of any other method to evaluate knowledge.
It's currently brittle and hosted on a RPi in my garage. It also requires a name + email to prevent spamming (and certification if successful), but once I've built some way of moderating access it will be more open.
Happy for HN users to have a go as long as load allows: https://cryptex.site/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#468I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…
damn I wish u did it 10 years ago! I really struggled with it, was so hard to find coloring images for my daughter. now shes 14 so I don't think she will care much :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#469I'm working on a wearable device with a camera+ultrasonic sensor which is capable of accurate hand pose estimation, which will then result in sign language recognition mainly (extending to gesture recognition and HCI applications). The device should be able to integrate into a smartwatch. I'm only at the 'will it work?' stage, working on the algorithms for recognising ASL words through synthetic data. Would appreciat…
Hey there, I've been working passively on something somewhat on the same page. A wristband that has both input and output modalities: haptics and gestures.
Here's a notion of some of my bookmarks, ideas, you might find a few things useful:
https://bronze-brush-9b0.notion.site/AI-Prosthetic-Whisp-804...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#470Of all things, I downloaded RPG Maker MZ from steam and started building small mini games using the plugin system.
I don’t care for making RPGs but I use it as an IDE for tile sets, maps, sounds, and events.
I was never capable of making anything in it as a kid when I first downloaded Miguel’s translation of that early RPG Maker decades ago.
The constraints of the engine make it easier to think of how to implement something than, say, Godot where it’s all completely open ended.