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

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

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Post by pravj »

I'm working on restoring my website/blog.

I stopped writing right after college when I moved to full-time work, but I want to change that now.

Just as I started, I realized the website was hosted on Forestry CMS, which has been discontinued, so I will have to figure out how to maintain the URL structure, etc. (this is important since there are a few popular/top-10 pages for certain queries/searches [1]).

[1]: https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv-word2vec... (for "Google Semantris")

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

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Post by ema »

y-curious wrote: post #513
benhoyt wrote: post #50

A program that will play chess (written in Go). My 18yo daughter can now beat me at chess (not that I'm any good). I figured if I can't beat her, I'll see if I can write a program to beat her instead. My idea for v1 is that I'd write the algorithm myself, without looking up anything about how to write a chess program (I'm sure such literature abounds). I've just about finished v1; still a few bugs to iron out. To be…

I'm a big chess buff, and will say that the hard part is not making an engine (which is hard!), but making an engine that plays poorly, well. What I mean is: engines are very smart and better than the best human. When you make a "dumb" engine, you are telling a chess god to intentionally make mistakes. The mistakes they make, however, are not the same mistakes a beginner chess player would make. Today, beginners are…

I always assumed that chess engines are dumbed down by occasionally inserting random moves but now it occurred to me that a way to get more realistic mistakes might be feed them a distorted version of the game state.

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

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Post by max_on_hn »

I've been building a coding agent SaaS (https://cheepcode.com) for the past several months. I waited too long to release it and ended up launching after Jules/Codex/CCSDK instead of before, but I'm glad I got it out there.

It works by connecting directly to Linear and dispatching assigned tasks to agents that submit PRs in GitHub when finished. My agents work in a fully-integrated Linux development environment, including internet access. This means that they can browse the web, install dependencies, and creatively work around environment issues to make sure they run and test the code they ship.

It's really gratifying to see people asking all over the internet, "Where can I just create tickets and get pull requests?" because that's exactly the workflow I built CheepCode to support. As an engineer for almost 15 years, I knew what I personally wanted, and it really makes me happy to see that what I built will work for so many others too.

As a bootstrapped solo founder, it's challenging to juggle product/growth/development/strategy all at once, but also incredibly rewarding. I wouldn't necessarily say no to funding ;) but in the meantime, it's quite a thrill!

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

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Post by tomhavoc »

rorylaitila wrote: post #63

I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…

Super cool project! The website looks great too. Some analytics would be amazing. Not sure why but I think it would be really interesting to see the data in aggregate from various perspectives, e.g. what were the most popular add types by year or by publication.

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

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Post by scroogey »

rorylaitila wrote: post #63

I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…

What a neat idea! I'd second the person requesting a timeline view.

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

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Post by reifcode »

I hacked together a way for my Kindle PW running KOReader to connect to my self-hosted Calibre catalogue (OPDS) via Tailscale (PW5 is tricky) with a simple Go program.

My brother and his wife would like to have the same setup, but it’s definitely not user-friendly, so I’m trying to figure out a one-click way to set everything up so you can have your own private ebook catalogue on the go on the device of your choosing.

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

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Post by maxrimue »

taroth wrote: post #518

I get background anxiety while waiting for long-running terminal commands. Nowadays that nagging feeling extends to LLM calls too. Seems like as AI spreads, the pain will only get worse So I’m working on a universal progress bar HUD - inspired by World of Warcraft raid mods - fun sound effects for job start, end, error, and milestones - can quick jump back to relevant app/tab - starting with terminal commands and Cla…

Very cool idea! Never thought of making use of the notch for anything.

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

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Post by manuel2258 »

A small web Podcast player that simly does its core job properly. Meaning working autoplay, state syncing and good flaging of finished episodes. There are so many players who don't get that right, especially when listening to 'drama' Podcast, which have a kind of different usage pattern then tradition Podcasts. Once that is working I'm also keen on exploring automatic blocking of advetisment segments, but that is certainly a harder Problem.
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