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

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

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Post by mr-karan »

I've been working on LogChef (https://logchef.app) - a specialized log analytics UI for ClickHouse that focuses on powerful querying and exploration without the complexity of full observability platforms.

The core idea is to leverage ClickHouse's incredible columnar performance for log analytics while providing a schema-agnostic interface that works with any log table structure. It supports both simple search syntax for quick queries and full ClickHouse SQL for complex analytics. Also it has proper RBAC: Team-based access controls for multi-tenant environments.

Off late I have also added some AI features:

  - AI-powered SQL generation - write queries in natural language

  - MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration for AI assistants to query your logs
It's open source (AGPLv3) and deliberately doesn't handle log collection - instead it integrates with existing tools like Vector, Fluentd, or OpenTelemetry Collector. The roadmap includes REST APIs, client libraries, visualizations, and alerting.

Built with Go + Vue.js + TypeScript. Currently handles millions of log entries daily in production environments at my org. The deployment is just a single binary deployment with a SQLite DB.

Would love feedback from the community! GitHub: https://github.com/mr-karan/logchef

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

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Post by coreylane »

dbish wrote: post #59

On the side, custom coloring books for kids using nano banana, started with a project for my son, and its a little janky for some photos but have had some interest already: https://bespokebooks.io . I think it needs to be a phone app to really work for most people though, so that's next on my to do list besides some prompt tweaking. Notebook to do it yourself here: https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example I…

I've had similar ideas involving bespoke print on-demand books, could you share how you actually get these printed/published?

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

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Post by legostormtroopr »

I've see so many HN posts and cmments about CSVs sucking and Unicode control characters as delimiters, that I set about creating a spec and some tools for use with it.

Nothing good enough to share as its own post, but its something I'm working on that people may be interested in.

https://github.com/LegoStormtroopr/unit-separated-values

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

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Post by nsoonhui »

A Civil 3D plugin (Genabler) that will include all the network catalogs and collate the Civil 3D styles for civil engineers to use.

There are some out-of-the-box catalogs and styles shipped with the default installation, but they are quite limited and fairly well hidden—which is not surprising, given that Civil 3D is a huge beast. As a result, they are not commonly used.

When people think about Civil 3D, they often assume it requires BIM modelers (in a sense, just glorified drafters) to create all the necessary catalogs and styles, and to assist with their use.

My Civil 3D plugin will:

1. Make standard, market-compliant catalogs and polished styles available to engineers at large. Think of it as the WordPress theme provider equivalent.

2. Make the entire process easy and painless through the plugin, with prominent buttons for quick access.

If the plugin is done well, there will be less need for BIM modelers, since for a fee, engineers could simply purchase catalogs and styles that are so easy to use they require no technical training.

As a side benefit, I also get to explore how LLMs can help me write code. It has been a while since I last updated my AI usage policy [0], and I look forward to revisiting it.

[0]: https://civilwhiz.com/my-ai-usage-policy/

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

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Post by benhnews »

invisibleink wrote: post #235

Building https://multi.dev , an AI coding agent with bunch of FOSS contributors We took a great amount of learning from tools like Cline, Roo.. After spending some time on their tech as active users/devs, we decided to build multi from scratch with drastically different take on core features, tech stack, ux/devex.. If you are an active user of similar tools, and/or want to try multi.. We want to hear from you. -- edi…

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

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Post by kidnoodle »

I’ve been working more on the unit economics of my data union/trust idea (https://wherelabs.info/).

What I’m trying to understand is whether it is viable to pay people ~$5 per week for sharing their location data and demographics based on a 90% share of revenue from sales of data products built on that data. (But without ever selling or exposing individual level data).

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