Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by teleforce » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

sakopov wrote: post #296

Every time I talk acquaintances, friends and family members about finances I'm always shocked at how little people know about basic things like tax brackets, 401Ks, IRAs, ETFs, compounding interest, debt management and etc. So I decided to write a financial literacy/education book with a bit of humor and easily comprehensible language to distill some of these topics. I'm about 1 month into it and try to write a chapt…

Really good idea, perhaps you can include some simple guidelines for long term investment as well.

Looking forward for the publication of the book and buying it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by vazkus » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

vldszn wrote: post #566

I’m working on a free and open-source invoice generator: https://easyinvoicepdf.com/?template=stripe - No sign-up, works entirely in-browser - Live PDF preview + instant download - VAT EU support - Shareable invoice links - Multi-language (10+) & multi-currency - Multiple templates (incl. Stripe-style) - Mobile-friendly GitHub: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas f…

Ha! I built a similar service for quote generation a couple of month ago: https://quotemachine.cc

No signups, free for all, browser-only, live pdfs, etc

Built it for a friend and decided to share with all, it's just a react app (no backend) running on GCP and costs almost nothing to run.

Didn't think about opensourcing it and I will, why not.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by adam_patarino » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

We developed a novel optimization pipeline for LLMs so large models can run on a standard laptop.

Our first prototype optimized an 80B model to run at full 256k context at 40 tokens/s while only taking up 14gb of RAM.

We are currently leveraging this tech to build https://cortex.build a terminal AI coding assistant.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by Wo0T » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #178

A tool for creating custom Tailwind-style color palettes for web and UI design that pass WCAG contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ The interface is optimized to let you quickly explore and tweak multiple tints/shades at once so you can customize all colors exactly how you want e.g. try dragging vertically through the saturation curve in one motion to edit all the tints/shades at once, or shift whol…

bookmarked! Cool work!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by flarco » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

Working on https://slingdata.io Platform for moving data around. Also has a free CLI. You can use YAML or even Python.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by trackspike » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

I've been working on an open-source containerized agent framework called Capsule Agents. Its built around 3 key ideas I've dealt with inside the agent ecosystem

1. Agents become far more capable when they have access to a CLI and can create or reuse scripts, instead of relying solely on MCP.

2. Multi-agent setups are often overvalued as “expert personas” but they’re incredibly effective for managing context, A2A is the future.

3. Agents are useful for more than just writing code. They should be easy for non-engineers to create and capable of providing value in many domains beyond software development.

If that sounds interesting take a look! https://github.com/brycewcole/capsule-agents

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by giann » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

Been working on my programming language https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz for 4 years now (with some down periods). Currently mainly working on the tooling: LSP, DAP and formatter. Also managed to get fuzzing working with AFL++ and found a bunch of bugs with it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by yooo000 » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:14 PM UTC

https://forecast.monster

Got tired of every single weather app and website being littered with ads. Half the time my weather apps don't load the weather maps but the ads work fine, c'mon! So decided to start my own; here's what I have so far...once I iron out the site I'll start on the Android app.

Feedback welcome :)

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by jeanlucas » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:15 PM UTC

paulhebert wrote: post #198

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

That's awesome!! It took 15 min and I gave up on some words.

As a non native it feels awesome to finish a puzzle like this haha

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by rcarmo » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

I am spending my free time doing a few projects to relax and "fix" a few things that should improve my productivity:

- An AI RSS feed summarizer (https://feeds.carmo.io)

- A PyObjC replacement for the bloated StreamDeck app (https://mastodon.social/@rcarmo/115498602604176483)

- A new keyboard, mostly to get back into SMD soldering (https://mastodon.social/@taoofmac/115521815709828495)

- A bunch of small MCP servers for other projects (https://mastodon.social/@taoofmac/115315732816298110)

- A case for a little server (https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/11/09/1930) that will eventually run at family's out in the countryside and manage a few ESP32 boards scattered around