Building a Nextdoor equivalent for India.
Check it out at https://neighar.com
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#562For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…
Interesting! As a fullstack developer, how did you even landed on such projects? Are you even using your SW Engineering skills in this? I really want to know more how are you able to lead an urbanism and architecture project with, supposedly, no formal backgrounds. Are you partnered with other people in this endeavour?
I am not alone. Our website is made by the man who created the CSS standard while at CERN, Håkon Wium Lie. https://arkitekturopproret.no
Most of the social media activities is done by a couple of fellows who is really into digital marketing. We are a team of 5 people working mostly for free now.
I have no formal training in architecture or urban design. I am just a nerd who used to love playing SimCity and read Astérix comic books. Paul Graham have always focused on finding real problems and making people happy. Car dependent housing projects and bad architecture is making peoples lives miserable. It needs to be fixed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#563I'm making read-it-later app that truly works offline and does not require any servers.
https://github.com/jonocodes/savr-android/
Currently dogfooding the mobile PoC, and working on some of the desktop parts.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#564Currently, other than my day job, I am obsessed with making sense of the "shape of stories". Mapping embeddings and see how they move through a sequence. Started of with [1] which showed that there might be some strength to the idea. Applied it for chunking [2] and web site analysis[3] and got pretty good results. Just started trying out experiments on video [4] and surprised that the structure seems to hold for imag…
I'm obsessed with visual space representations of word as well. My application has a test mode where I render an entire dictionary (like, Webster) and then "plays" a book word by word, highlighting the word, then it's definition, and those words definitions and so on and so on, and it creates a trippy and distinct visualization kinda like an audio visualizer.. but with words. We should chat if you're interested in th…
This is really cool.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#565I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an https://openinverter.org motor controller Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube channel to help others: What's a battery management system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA What is battery balancing? https://…
Very nice. Any video of the cars? I
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#566Working on an essay as to why coding interviews are harmful:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#567I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…
Beautiful work and presentation! Keep it up!
How about a digital-coloring version too, that kids and adults can use on say a tablet, or even a phone?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#568Saving my career. I'm building a blog first (with more than I need) to host small projects I've already built, will contribute to open-source, and if all that fails pivot to infosec or something.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#569I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…
This is incredible! Nice work.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#570I'm not doing anything world changing really, at least not yet.
I am working on my MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governor's University and studying for the CompTIA CySA+ exam.
In what little free time I do have, I'm also puttering around with SwiftUI and my app CountDownula, which I recently updated to Swift 6. I made it to scratch my own itch after looking for a nice clean, simple, free countdown to a specific date app that doesn't have any ads, subscriptions, or in app purchases and not finding anything suitable. It supports iOS and macOS with iCloud sync between all your account's devices using SwiftData. The link is below if you're looking for something similar...