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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by SamWhited »

randomdata wrote: post #597
thomasfl wrote: post #458

For 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…

> It causes social isolation. What is it about suburbs in particular that causes social isolation?

At least in the U.S. (and likely elsewhere) the design of the suburbs encourages neighborhoods with individual houses and very little walk able space (occasionally there are sidewalks or parks in the richer areas, but developments may be large and they're not evenly spaced throughout). Exclusionary zoning in the U.S. has also reduced the number of "third spaces" (coffee shops, malls, grocery stores, barber shops, etc. where people congregate and meet) near or in neighborhoods. This means fewer chance encounters since you have to plan to both go out in a car to meet. You have to find a friend then say "let's go get drinks at 13:00 across town at this place" instead of just happening to walk into the small neighborhood grocery and seeing each other. It's even worse in the exurbs where large housing developments have been created with no amenities nearby, sometimes within upwards of an hour drive!

There are a number of good books on how the built environment affects our social life, if you're interested. It's not specifically about suburbs but "Palaces for the People" by Eric Klinenberg is one of my favorites that covers a lot of this sort of thing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by NonEUCitizen »

tyjkot wrote: post #516

In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing. I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle except a turn signal or two. I decided to create a mobile ser…

You just deliver the replacement bulb or install as well?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by linsomniac »

vldmrs wrote: post #223

I'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…

My wife has been using ChatGPT to generate coloring pages for our Little Free Library and they've been coming out amazing!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

hoofedear wrote: post #595

Pretty sure no one will see this so: I'm working on a little game where you collect those really old T206 baseball cards and even worked out a system where you can send cards to people offline using a code system like Animal Crossing on the GC used Still haven't come up with a fun way for the player to collect them though

It'd limit the audience and involve a lot of work but maybe by co-ordinates? Bundle a bit of a walking tour of the team's history into the collecting process

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by g4zj »

A few years ago, I made a silly little platforming game for my wife that was holiday-themed (Thanksgiving). Since then, I've tried to create at least one new sequel each year for a different holiday.

This year, I'm doing one for Halloween. They only take a few hours to make, but are a fun little thing for me to enjoy making and her to enjoy playing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by stereosteve »

As a side project I'm working on a multitrack audio play along website. If you are learning bass you can mute the bass track.

I used to play along to Jamey Aebersold CDs back in the day, and now on YouTube there are many Play Along videos... but I thought it would be fun to make one where you have more control.

Here's the demo, feel free to upload a track if you have one handy! https://jamz.stereosteve.com/

The source code is here: https://github.com/stereosteve/playalong

It uses this wave surfer multitrack example, which is a pretty nice vanilla JS project: https://wavesurfer.xyz/examples/?multitrack.js

Now that the basics are working... hopefully I'll actually spend some time actually making some practice tracks!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by this_is_not_you »

I built and am now maintaining a website [0] and open source repository [1] for the hardest sport climbing and bouldering ascents in the world.

Maintenance is mostly updating the underlying data when the strongest climbers in the world scale some random piece of rock.

[0] https://www.hardestclimbs.com/ [1] https://github.com/9cpluss/hardest-climbs

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by tyjkot »

NonEUCitizen wrote: post #612
tyjkot wrote: post #516

In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing. I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle except a turn signal or two. I decided to create a mobile ser…

You just deliver the replacement bulb or install as well?

I perform the install.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by sean_pedersen »

I am working on a visual search & exploration engine: https://digger.lol

The goal is to create beautiful and useful maps of interesting data, empowering the user to explore more intuitively guided by semantic similarity. No user data needs to be tracked for this to work, the data speaks for itself.

This roughly works by translating semantic (visual or textual) similarity into spatial proximity. Diggers major features are: semantic mapping, text search and image search. The text and image search works bidirectionally, allowing to search for images (e.g. product images) using text and for text (e.g. books) using images.

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