LookOutWindow.com , mapping the routes between airports, and showing points of interest along the route. I wanted a way to read about what I was flying over, and which worked offline. We have amazing views up there, but no idea what we are looking at.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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#632Magnetic levitation
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#633Yesterday I created a simple Nubmer Factorization website. Basically to learn webasm. Will be spending few days implementing different algorithms and optimizing the hell out of it.
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#634https://electrobun.dev
A new batteries-included app framework for writing fast and tiny desktop apps in typescript.
Like electron but under the hood it uses bun and zig, and the system webview by default.
Like Tauri but you use typescript instead of rust.
batteries-included: a cli to build, code sign, bundle, create tiny 4KB diffs for updates, all you need is S3 or similar to host the artifacts.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#635In 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…
This is really awesome.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#636I'm working on a unique discovery app / recommender for books, tv, movies, video games, songs, youtube channels, newsletters and podcasts - and more categories soon! Since my last update here, I've added more detailed personalized descriptions of recommendations (hit Describe to request), including a rating out of 10 for how well the item meets your preferences. I've also added the ability to replace individual recom…
Thanks, found some new shows I didn't know about.
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#637For 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…
I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel busses for much of my journey, breathing in their pollution and slowed down. And obviously, cycling is completely impractical for many people, or if carrying luggage or passengers.
Living in a countryside town where I have the freedom and flexibility granted by my car has opened up a world of better possibilities - travelling to any part of the coast with my family. Doing bulk shops. Carrying heavy loads etc. Driving regularly to my parents, avoiding excruciatingly long journies on public transport.
Having a car has made family life possible in ways that public transport does not, and cannot achieve.
> We organize large meetings were we discuss architecture and city planning with politicians, architects and property developers on stage.
I would prefer that politicians, architects and property developers minded their own business and let me choose the mode of transport (an electric car) that works best for me, my family and the environment. I don't want to live in a dense, grey, impersonal urban cluster. I want to be surrounded by countryside and have the freedom to roam. I don't think I'm alone in that.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#638In general: technoetic software - tools for exploring consciousness through technology. I have this idea to try to revive the terms "technoetics" and "psionics". I feel like there's still so much ground to cover in this space, yet no one pays much attention to it, except for a small niche of weirdos like me.
If you're into tech and (non-materialist) ideas about consciousness, follow me on X (see profile or https://technoetics.org/ )
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#639I am working on a geography game where players take turn naming a city inside an area that get's smaller and smaller. It's called LOLA (longitude latitude) since you can choose to narrow the area down by either longitdude or latitude. https://lola-game.com/
Took me a few minutes to realize the area you could pick in was the red, and not the area outside of the red, but very fun!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#640Been interested in programming language implementations recently, so I'm working on an in-place WebAssembly interpreter
Currently passes all the WebAssembly 1.0 test suite minus the tests that require imports (around 9) - should have those ones fixed this week