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

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 12:51 PM UTC

yu3zhou4 wrote: post #591

tombert wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a few prospects lined up. I'm actually planning on doing a second masters from a slightly more prestigious university with a more theory-heavy degree [1], but it's nice to at least have an official graduate degree now. Hopefully it helps me find work a bit quicker, and if nothing else it's just kind of fun to pile up degrees. [1] https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f04

I was recently looking for a master's degree in math that is: - 100% remote - 100% self-paced - fairly cheap and it looks like Open University is the best option right now? Did you find any better option?

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

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Post by tombert » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 12:55 PM UTC

yu3zhou4 wrote: post #591

tombert wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a few prospects lined up. I'm actually planning on doing a second masters from a slightly more prestigious university with a more theory-heavy degree [1], but it's nice to at least have an official graduate degree now. Hopefully it helps me find work a bit quicker, and if nothing else it's just kind of fun to pile up degrees. [1] https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f04

I was recently looking for a master's degree in math that is: - 100% remote - 100% self-paced - fairly cheap and it looks like Open University is the best option right now? Did you find any better option?

I couldn’t find anything that ticks all those outside of OU.

University of Texas has one that looked pretty ok, but it was kind of expensive for a non-Texas resident.

University of Western Florida has one for “Mathematical Sciences”, which more or less fits, and it’s not even that expensive, but I think that one is synchronous.

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

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Post by piker » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

barrenko wrote: post #603

piker wrote: post #280

Working 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?

Thanks for checking it out, and yes!

If you type some text into one of the documents in the web preview, click the triangle and click the name of that document, you'll get a redline. That's the current industry-standard diff format. Redlines don't standardize around any kind of metadata format, though, so parsing them (unlike a diff) is non-trivial. There's an opportunity for improvement.

As mentioned elsewhere, transactional lawyers are corporate lawyers who work on deals (think drafting corporate documents, M&A or IPOs) as opposed to litigators who go to court and argue cases.

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

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Post by naiquevin » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

bArray wrote: post #609

naiquevin wrote: post #572

I'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?".

Yeah, a generic tool could be useful. Thanks for replying. It gave me some ideas!

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

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Post by woadwarrior01 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

I'm currently polishing up an on-device app that I wrote for myself a few months ago to safely expand shortened links and to get rid of tracking parameters from URLs and QR codes for release as a free app (https://cleanlinks.app).

My other app (https://slopornot.app , an on-device AI generated text and image detector) has been stuck in App Store review limbo for almost a month now. Probably because it's an on-device ML app and not another OpenAI API wrapper, which seem to get approved by Apple, really fast. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

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Post by vulkoingim » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC

I got tired of Spotify recommending me, or creating playlists with the same songs over and over again, so I built something to make varied, targeted playlists from my library.

I've been using it for months now, and the playlists generated are my top listened to playlists - I'm literally listening to them every day. Personally I'm super happy with it, and a few friends have also been using it quite successfully.

https://riffradar.org/

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

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Post by azath92 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

Continuing to work on https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank the HN frontpage based on my interests, not just what's trending.

It does this by building a profile out of a small number of selected past articles, and we make the profile and how it produces recs from the profile transparent and editable. Especially after feedback on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454305), Im trying to get to grips with why people seem to care as much about seeing how their recommendations work as they do about the actual quality of recommendations themselves.

I'm increasingly convinced its due to how many opaque LLM-powered everything and black-box recommendation algorithms there are. People want personal content systems (they are useful for sure!), but theres a lack of ones where they stay in control of what 'personal' actually looks like.

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

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Post by deruta » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

woadwarrior01 wrote: post #635

I'm currently polishing up an on-device app that I wrote for myself a few months ago to safely expand shortened links and to get rid of tracking parameters from URLs and QR codes for release as a free app ( https://cleanlinks.app ). My other app ( https://slopornot.app , an on-device AI generated text and image detector) has been stuck in App Store review limbo for almost a month now. Probably because it's an on-devi…

Scunthorpe problem seems to be showing in the latter case.

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

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Post by virajk_31 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

matty22 wrote: post #628

Been working on https://www.stainedglassatlas.com . Trying to document and map as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. The goal being the next time you visit a new city or town, you'll know where all the beautiful stained glass is to go see. Just recently added support for countries outside of North America. No exciting tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). But excited for folks to check it out!

Cool! You could even consider abstracting it into a tiny lib that could be used to map and showcase any kind of location-based visual data and not just stained glass.

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

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Post by azath92 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

aleksituk wrote: post #616

We're working on brief.audio, looking at taking the concept of personal podcasts (sort of introduced by NotebookLM) into its natural conclusion by thinking more about what content should be included and how to tailor the outputs into something that is really nice to listen to. Make it a truly slick mobile experience. https://www.brief.audio -> Have a go, we're primarily testing internally atm, will look to make it mo…

see my separate comment for more on hackernews.coffee in particular, we (same team, different experiment) are thinking a lot about personal content, and how you have maximum visibility and control.

Keeping these projects separate allows us to test ideas that orbit around a theme (not 100 % sure what the theme is yet, but it features personal, anti-slop content, while still using llms.)