I track the installation and use of ALPR systems: https://alprwatch.org/
Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#602I'm working on a new memory-safe systems programming language that is supposted to be (almost) as fast as C, Rust etc, but as simple and concise as Python: https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang There is a playground which is using a C compiler and WASM, and so is quite fast, while running fully in the browser. Theres also a (online) conversion tool to convert and compare source code. There are some benchmarks as…
The "Comparison" section feels unfair. Add some things that some languages have but Bau is missing. I have no idea what trade-offs I'd be doing when choosing Bau. You have the "Non-Features" section of course, but I'm looking more into what I'd be losing by going from C to Bau. Bau's price for safety.
Thanks! Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I will improve this section!
> what I'd be losing by going from C to Bau
Well, you can add native C code, so in theory you do not miss much. But in practise, yes of course many features are missing still.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#603Working on Tritium, the legal IDE in Rust ( https://tritium.legal/ ) This month I'm improving CI/CD for e2e testing across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Also adding support for unlocking password-protected PDFs and Word docs and improving OCR. OCR runs in the background and leverages native OS OCR where available and a pure LSTM Rust implementation elsewhere. Generally improving the word processor and looking fo…
Have you ever thought about a kind of a diff format for legal texts / documents / cases? And what are transactional lawyers btw?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#605I'm building a cursor for document editing.
I'm tired of copy pasting text between ChatGPT and Google Docs/notion. There's too much formatting work after and the edits are a pain. The plugins those platforms offer aren't as good.
Not sure how many people struggle with this. Would love to know if there are alternatives already too.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#606I'm just done writing the report for my nlp exam, I tried to fine tune some gemma models and wow, I have to say that there's still a lot to do in terms of documentation, examples, whatever. It still feels a very fresh field, sometimes not knowing where to bash my head
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#607I published 2 (two!) new chapbooks of poetry, both priced at $0.00: > Sonnets of dark-held love - A sequence of poems after the 'Sonetos del amor oscuro' by Federico García Lorca - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/book/sonnets-of-dark-held... > End Time - A collection of noir-themed poems for the last days of the world - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/book/end-time/
Effort well spent.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#608My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers. Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes! The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous…
Arm it with salt or sand munitions.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#609I've been building a desktop app on the side that addresses the problem of screenshots getting accumulated on disk over a period of time. It provides an alternate workflow for capturing screenshots, where the app let's the user select tags before taking the screenshot. Tags can be associated with actions such as "move to trash after 1 day", "delete after 7 days" or "store in /specific/location". I have got the main f…
I would go further with this, essentially matching patterns of files in certain directories. Another use case for example is removing old log files from a directory.
In any case, I would have it as a user option to carry through the action, i.e. "the following is scheduled for deletion saving X disk space, do you wish to continue?".
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
#610I'm still working on Kavita, an open source, self hosted book/comic media server with a strong focus on metadata. Been in deep developing a custom annotation/highlight system for epubs.
Annotation ideas: https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/issues/3890 (since from research, seems there is a strong need for this)