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

Appreciate you sharing that requirement!

The need for batch processing to pull out targeted data points from PDFs (rather than converting the whole document) is a valuable insight.

While the current tool focuses on full conversion to Markdown, enhancing https://pdftomarkdown.pro/ to handle specific data extraction tasks like yours is definitely something I'll consider carefully for the future roadmap. Thanks for highlighting it!

I've been working on an open source game backend for Unity and Godot: https://trytalo.com. GitHub: https://github.com/talodev.

I'm aiming to solve the problem of wanting to build a game but having to build all these extra "other" systems around it (leaderboards, stats/analytics, saving and loading game state).

Right now you can drop Talo into your game for player management, authentication, leaderboards, analytics, game saves and player segmentation. There's a dashboard too so you can visualise all of your game's data.

I've been working on a library for Node (using TypeScript) that encrypts environment variables and generates typings for accessing said environment variables.

e.g. you init a project (`obelisq init`) and use `obelisq set -k -v ` (e.g. `obelisq set -k SERVICE_KEY -v ABCDEF`) to set your environment variables:

  OBELISQ_PUBLIC_KEY=0344ecbf96c3e01262402247b97231a22c0197d17121dd9c7d1b999faed1d54ac4
  SERVICE_KEY=047ca044c1a59114246d5c5122ad1bdecfafa3c999fae5629181df54[...]
  MY_SECRET=049072d4ffc233ed77f8d682d9fe3a75114987d496b06d44269600e8be[...]

When you run `obelisq generate`, code will be generated that allows you to do this:

  // `get` is type-safe, `mySecret` is number
  // decryption of the value occurs when `get` is called
  const mySecret= obelisq.get('MY_SECRET')

Partially inspired by my own article: https://www.carlos-menezes.com/post/type-first-config

i play a lot of destiny 2, and I find a lot of the sites for showcasing destiny builds are absurdly information dense and waste so much time on explaining basic gameplay, and theyre also laid out badly where its hard to put it onto a 2nd monitor to quickly copy, so im working on a site to remedy this for myself

Most important is for it to have the right number consistently without room for error. You may also use multiple sequences like if you sell cars and crates of bananas you wouldn't want to mix those but you would want to use a single tool.

Anything else can be corrected. It is important to easily make corrections and/or credit nota as those seem to happen at the worse time. Usually the same as the invoice but with amounts in the -

It is also nice to tie the products into it so that you don't have to type it every time and get consistent naming. Same for an address book.