Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by denys_potapov » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:06 AM UTC

I'm working on a block-based visual programming environment for kids — a sort of Scratch alternative — but instead of inventing a new language, it's a subset of Elixir. I'm using Google’s Blockly to generate real Elixir code from the blocks.

Right now, I'm building a Space Invaders clone in Elixir with LiveView, and integrating Blockly so the game's core logic can be edited visually. Hoping it becomes a fun way to learn both functional programming and web dev.

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

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Post by duttish » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

I merged the last major big thing for the android version of Tricktrapper over the weekend, it's kind of 2FA for normal phone calls, verification that you're talking to who you think you're talking to in this age of deepfake voice. There's no LLM in this, because I think that way only lies model vs model competition and nobody can win. Better to try and cut the whole vector if it's possible.

Been chasing pilot customer but it's few companies that only have android, so I'm picking up a mac mini after work to start working on the ios version, see what's possible with the various restrictions.

https://www.tricktrapper.com/ if anyone is curious, it's sparse of the details though. I'm working on a doc with all the technical info. The plan is to release it for free to private people, charge companies.

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

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Post by Cyphase » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:08 AM UTC

Myself.

Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) very shortly.

Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things.

I'm excited.

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I posted about this on last month's thread, and mentioned in a descendant comment that I was going to PyCon US in May. Someone well-meaning asked if tech conferences are in tune with working on myself. I just got back from PyCon. Yes! It was an incredible experience. Not for learning technical things from talks – the talks are mostly online already – but for the social and community aspects.

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

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Post by ludee0 » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:12 AM UTC

I’m hacking on a tiny open-source/self hostable “prompt vault” so you can stash prompts and personas once and use them with whatever AI model you’re playing with today (or tomorrow). Right now it’s just a single-binary server with a SQLite file next to it—add / edit / tag in a simple UI, then copy or share. Next on the list: a lightweight browser extension that pops your saved snippets anywhere there’s a text box. Maybe it could grow to a more serious prompt testing/comparison pipeline, prompt templating etc

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

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Post by huksley » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:12 AM UTC

I am implementing native support for deploying Python apps in DollarDeploy.

DollarDeploy is like Coolify and dokploy but with better UI, no docker containers and fast deploys for full stack apps, NextJS, react

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

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Post by hummusisdata » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:17 AM UTC

I am now working on forming a new data strategy framework. I think that one of the biggest issues we are seeing out there is the rush to GenAI and create automation. However, in reality, people tend to ignore the data that is supposed to be used.

So I started my blog Cooking Data, and slowly, using Vibe Coding, I am building tools to translate the philosophical conversation into actionable tools. I am always happy to learn and discover how the team handles the data strategy and answers the business goals with it

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

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Post by ciccionamente » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:21 AM UTC

https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death or if you are seriously injured.

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

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Post by psyklic » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:22 AM UTC

Alex-Programs wrote: post #184

I'm working on https://nuenki.app . It's a browser extension that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about your day. I've been doing a lot of experiments evaluating LLM translation performance, and I used what I learnt (that LLMs make mistakes, but different LLMs make different mistakes, and they're better at critiquing translations…

Nice work and blog! You might consider crossposting some blog entries to LessWrong for more visibility of your research. People are very interested in new ideas on benchmarking.

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

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Post by yuvadam » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:23 AM UTC

Been building Namekit [1] — a simple tool that uses AI + a small proprietary model to generate domain name ideas and surface only the ones that are immediately available. I got tired of bloated name generators with useless suggestions, so I built something fast, clean, and actually useful — mostly for myself, but now for others too.

[1] https://namekit.app

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

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Post by puapuapuq » Mon, May 26, 2025, 8:24 AM UTC

I spent hours on prompt engineering recently and I hate it. This is for a startup and requirements change daily so the prompt has to be revamped all the time.

I decided to develop a system that take requirements and some sample inputs as an input, then automatically evalute the outputs and fine tune the prompt.