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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dhess » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:01 PM UTC

Reading Bruner's "Toward a Theory of Instruction" and Piaget's "The Child's Conception of Number." Sawyer's "Vision in Elementary Mathematics" is next.

Trying to get over my distaste for Objective-C so I can translate some of these ideas to the iPad.

Teaching Scratch in Oakland.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Muchi » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:02 PM UTC

I'm trying to learn more about RoR and it's ecosystem by modifying the twitter example to be a neighborhood social network using GMaps, etc. It's a WIP with no effort put into the front-end yet ( http://neckowoods.heroku.com )

It seems that a lot of folks have attempted to capture this space without anyone being dominant. If you'd like to help out with whatever, let me know :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by markkat » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:05 PM UTC

Hubski, a thoughtful content forum built on the HN code. Much more to do, but you can follow people and topics, and a bunch of other things. http://hubski.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by abyssknight » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:16 PM UTC

Working with FAMiLab on creating a low cost sensor battery for classrooms as part of the Element-14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge.

Otherwise, trying desperately to get out of a recent spout of burnout, loss of motivation, and chronic perfectionism. I have, arguably, one of the best job situations in the world right now but I'm not enjoying it. The work I do is just not profoundly satisfying, despite being able to do weeks of it in a couple hours with minimal error and rework. Taking suggestions on that if anyone has any.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by horofox » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:23 PM UTC

A real-time chan/anonymous community. We want to explore the potential in the privacy aspect that it does have. Chans are known to be hard to break-even(server cost wise) and they look... bad/ugly.

So using node/socket.io and with a nice execution, in that "adventure" we want to create one that can scale cost-wise and basically own the market. We are developing a lot of cool features(and useful) and it's looking good now. Beta in july/august.

We want to change that narcissist/egocentric facebook culture that the web is built upon. Contributing to something and not getting credit for it is good. Altruism is awesome. We want to change the "crazy/sick" reputation that chans do have today.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by k4st » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:25 PM UTC

I'm working on an open-source framework, and a series of command line tools built on top of the framework, for symbolically manipulating context-free grammars, non-deterministic pushdown automata, and non-deterministic finite automata. All of it is implemented in C++. I have done some neat things like implement CFG production pattern matching using an EDSL that lets me express foreach loops in C++. I'm currently looking for people interested in contributing / using the code.

The project page is http://www.grailplus.org.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kertap » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

kariatx wrote: post #30

kertap wrote: post #24

Recently I've found twitter to be a drag because I'm following way too many people. I want to start following less people so I'm writing a web app that will tell you who tweets the most out of the people you follow. I'd have it finished but I was going around in circles trying to solve a problem that I just realized I don't really need to solve yet. I keep thinking of other features I could add, such as who retweets…

I would totally use this app. I would especially like to be able to check potential new people to follow against my current list of followers to see what I'm getting into. Sorry, not helping :-)

Dammit you're not. This is a great idea. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kertap » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:39 PM UTC

devspade wrote: post #43

kertap wrote: post #24

Recently I've found twitter to be a drag because I'm following way too many people. I want to start following less people so I'm writing a web app that will tell you who tweets the most out of the people you follow. I'd have it finished but I was going around in circles trying to solve a problem that I just realized I don't really need to solve yet. I keep thinking of other features I could add, such as who retweets…

Are you aware of http://proxlet.com/ - similar but not the same - trying to cut down "twitter noise"

I wasn't. Finding twitter apps is really difficult, I never know what to search for.

This looks interesting. I'm going to try this out. It may replace the need for my app but I'll be finishing it anyway.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nicksergeant » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

I'm working on a new-car research site that's intended to make researching new-model-year vehicles suck less. Right now, it sucks. Sifting through MFR sites looking for info / styles / colors that set vehicles apart is time consuming and boring.

The site is http://autoswatch.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kovar » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 7:56 PM UTC

I'm building a SaaS offering to develop test data and validation tools for the ediscovery market. There are no mechanisms in place at present to show that an ediscovery process worked as expected. Courts require testing of all sorts of other processes that produce evidence, but not so ediscovery. We think we've got this solved.