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

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

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Post by lakrizz »

i've been working on a webhook to instant messaging service called https://hooks.im after reading about a similar project here on hacker news (i think it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144227). you can create webhooks, get a receiver-url that you can send your webhook invocations to and receive webhooks via im (currently only telegram). i've also added a jq-like template engine to reformat the request bodies (if wanted) to extract specific information. (only works for json bodies, obviously)

this is all in super early non-peer-tested alpha (if anything), so feel free to try it out and give feedback :)

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

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Post by anshargal »

I'm working on QA Sphere https://qasphere.com/ - a lightweight tool for managing software testing. It’s built for QA engineers to document functional test cases and track execution, manually or via automation.

Test management tools are nothing new, but I’m focused on making this one fast and easy to use, without the bloat. The goal is to help smaller teams adopt solid QA practices without the hassle.

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

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Post by struanr »

joegibbs wrote: post #236

I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire ( https://fallofanempiregame.com ), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing. It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement de…

This looks great! It seems to solve the issue I always had with civilisation where the game becomes progressively easier as you advance ahead of the AI, leading to a late game which involves lots of management but little risk.

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

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Post by plank »

Navigation using photos. Did not like existing apps, so made an app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org) background map, and shows your position on that photo during your trip.

Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)

Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).

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

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Post by aflukasz »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #440

I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as well reiterate :) I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play…

Interesting idea.

Tip for those looking for some more details on the mechanics of the self-care aspects of the game: Some details are present in the google doc linked in the repo README.

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

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Post by humdaanm »

I was working on reading the comments on this post, and got tired of scrolling with the mousepad. I had not used any of the LLMs in a few weeks now and wanted to see how they fared for writing a web extension to let me browse hacker news via arrow keys and the "prev" and "next" comment buttons. My goal was to write 0 lines of code myself and rely solely on copy-pasting(successful in my eyes). ChatGPT 4o disappointed me on getting a final product, but Claude Sonnet blew me away enough to push me to pull out my credit card to subscribe to a pro plan.

All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you browse a hacker news post via arrow keys: https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.

(While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a fix!)

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