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Nuclear reactor startup ( http://transatomicpower.com ) designing a molten salt reactor to turn nuclear waste into clean energy at prices competitive with natural gas.

This sounds very interesting, I'd love to know more. Specifically: have you made a plant yet? If not, how far off are you?

There seem to me to be a lot more designs for revolutionary new nuclear plants than ever get built. Can you share any thoughts on why that is, and why yours will be different?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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I'm working on a news reader that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news based on how much they are shared in real-time, and lays them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.

It allows you to find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and put you in a whole different point of view. I belive it's extremely interesting, and I'm trying to make the reading experience as enjoyable as possible.

The first raw version is available for iOS: http://newspo.st

I'm in the process of adding categorization and custom topic search as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Maybe too late to the party ...

I work on http://opendylan.org/ and have been working to revive it for the last couple of years. We've done new releases, improved usability of the compiler and some of the libraries, new website, updated all of the documentation to modern formats, including a couple of books.

We've also been creating a new IDE via a plugin to IntelliJ that is rapidly changing how I go about writing Dylan.

I think it is cool because it is a great substrate for experimenting with some features in programming languages and runtimes, like coroutines and numerics. It is great to start from a working and industrial strength system.

I think it is great to prevent things from being lost to history (and to hopefully have them be useful again). Dylan is a great combination of ideas from Common Lisp, Smalltalk but with a focus on creating native executables and libraries.

I've also got something that I'm building in Dylan that takes advantage of Dylan's strengths, but it is in very early days.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Modern JPEG encoder (https://github.com/pornel/jpeg-compressor) and lossy PNG compressor (http://pngmini.com/lossypng.html)

Everybody uses encoders for these formats that are as old as the formats themselves, but today's hardware is about 2000 faster than it was back then, so a modern encoder can use expensive techniques that were previously unthinkable.

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we're working on a live party visualizer using raspberry pi's deployed as iBeacons. We're writing an iPhone app that detects the user's location (based on the ibeacon) and updates a server. We're writing a d3 visualization that renders the user's location graphically in real-time based on the aggregated server data.

doesn't exactly cure cancer, but it's pretty cool. Obvious uses for retail, etc (but all that stuff is lame.. it's more fun to use at a party)

..and that's what we're working on.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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I'm going to be rewriting my image booru engine ( https://github.com/asiekierka/boorushy2 - all demos are down ). It's not cool. Nothing I make is cool. It never was. All I seem to make are boring, niche ideas... and not even I care about them. Since half a year, I haven't found anything that would interest me. I'm a man with low standards, I guess.

Wow, REALLY?

Everything great has once been a niche idea. As a matter of fact, everything highly disruptive was niche at first. Some examples:

  - photography
  - the light bulb
  - combustion engine
  - air plane
  - radio
  - tv
  - Internet
Do you think that any of the above was anything except niche when they were invented?

Doing something great means trying hard, spending a lot of time on it, not giving up and believing that it can succeed. This involves both research & development, and a lot of sales. And if one idea fails, the other might work, but only if you're passionate about it.

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This sounds good, there should be more shirts like this around. I'm curious if you are aware of Silverescent fabric, which is much the same idea, and if your have made additional unique improvements?

Hey Robert. I definitely know Silverescent as that's made using the same technology. I really admire Lulu because they make some great products. The improvements we have made are in the feel, finish, and performance areas. You'll find a slightly higher percentage of silver in our fabric, it is lighter in weight, and the feel of the fabric is improved. If you like Silverescent, you'll love what we're making.

Cool, sounds like your pricing is good too. I wish you luck with it in any case; it sounds like you're doing the right things.

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So a developer who uses your JavaScript is no longer a business associate?

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I'm not confused about what a business associate is. I'm confused as to how you can say:

"[TrueVault] gives developers the freedom to create applications that require regulatory compliance without worrying about regulatory compliance."

I'm just asking for one example where that is true, and where a sophisticated covered entity agrees.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Toy project: an HTTP(S) brute forcing tool using Python as a templating language. Why is it cool: high performance using async IO, powerful templating for Python programmers, very easy to take HTTP requests and turn them into a fuzzing template that mutates request in a combinatoric fashion. Similar to features built into Burp proxy for those that are familiar with it. Real project: A system that will help organizati…

I'd really like to take a look at your fuzzing project. Is it opensource?

I'm coding something quite simular at the moment and would like to leech from / contribute to / test your project.

If you're interested - tkmop / lenta.ru

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