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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by memset »

wluer wrote: post #515

I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com After working on a remote startup for a few years I felt very isolated and that the best startups are going to have a strong in-person presence. Now many larger companies have started implementing return to office policies that unfortunately don't make sense for a lot of employees. I wanted a si…

Neat! The neighborhood on this post doesn’t match the map though https://www.walkablework.com/map?company=hatchet&title=found...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by deutz_allis »

I am working to deploy some remote sensors on my farm to help keep an eye on important infrastructure. Things like voltages, bin fill, water levels and other resource management. I may just add a weather station for fun.

Meshtastic is helping out but if anyone knows where to find stronger documentation that would help.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by skerit »

I've been working on a new LLM prompt format and accompanying dataset for finetuning.

The idea is that the "main character" being prompted always has to perform an action/function. So even "saying" something to the other participants of the chat is a deliberate action.

Actions can be something like:

    ### actions:
    1 recollect(query) -> {memory_id: id[]}
    2 think(thought)
    3 say(message)
    4 memorize(category, subject, memory, replace?: id)
The LLM then has to respond, like so:

    {"action":2,"thought":"Some internal thought","queue_action":3}
The JSON overhead is pretty negligible.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by DanielHB »

nicbou wrote: post #370

The Berlin immigration office is notoriously slow and unresponsive. The processing time for a residence permit varies from a few weeks to a few months. During that time, people are left unable to work or unable to leave the country. They never know how long it will take, and it causes some people to give up and leave Germany. I am writing a tool to collect and aggregate data about the processing times. This will help…

Sweden has the same problems, maybe I could build a similar tool for this market.

I was wondering how you collect and present data? Just self-reported or do you have some API to gather this information?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by papacostas »

swizzle36 wrote: post #517
papacostas wrote: post #489

Im working on a platform for people to run their social hobbies and activities. Organize meetups, find when to meet, run ticketed events. for free! I use it myself to organize my weekly cycling group of friends and friends of friends. Paid stuff coming very soon, just onboarding some groups and get some feel https://embers.club/en

Love the landing page and the Swedish city references :) I'm working on something similar, actually, but in the lunch/dinner niche. It's a nice feeling to build something that you actually use yourself to meet other people, but I find it's hard to scale beyond that. What are the major features you're missing before making it an open sign up? Btw for ticketed events, I've seen that https://posh.vip has been growing pr…

Thanks! We are Swedish so it comes naturally :)

oh thats interesting! thanks for that. been working in Music Tech, but havent seen that one. seen that https://shotgun.live/ , https://dice.fm/ and also https://partiful.com/ are being popular in the states.

nothing really, we're just fixing most of the kinks and legal / tax things. you're free to try it https://embers.club/en/login

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by _mlbt »

tikimcfee wrote: post #507

I'm working on a 3D infinite canvas of text, focusing on code. Runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS so they can all act as separate viewports into a space. You can point the app at a repository, download a copy locally, instantly render the entire repository into space in less than a second in most cases, and then fly around and search for text. I just got an optimization working for larger files and it's kinda fun how much e…

That looks incredible!

How did you learn Metal? The documentation on it from Apple leaves a lot to be desired for learning it from scratch and all the books I’ve encountered look woefully out of date.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by papacostas »

breue wrote: post #492
papacostas wrote: post #489

Im working on a platform for people to run their social hobbies and activities. Organize meetups, find when to meet, run ticketed events. for free! I use it myself to organize my weekly cycling group of friends and friends of friends. Paid stuff coming very soon, just onboarding some groups and get some feel https://embers.club/en

I love your landing page :)

Thank you! I got some pushback on sparkling Karl Marx but I will never remove it
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