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

#671
Affirmator.app - Given a list of affirmations, wisdom & goals (sourced from life-success programs like Earl Nightingale's Strangest Secret, and books like Think and Grow Rich), use text-to-speech to generate voice audio files, leave spaces for you to vocalize the phrases, and then automatically play 20-phrase playlists every morning & day. The phrases can range from high-level "I feel strong and confident" to specific to personal goals "I can confidently play and sing 3 songs on the piano.", "I do 25 push-ups every morning"

The idea is that mindset is important in the morning, and that we all want to do these healthy habits - meditation and yoga - and yet when life get's stressful, it's easy to fall out of a healthy rhythm.

I've been doing deep study about affirmations, our sub-conscious mind, and how to use repetition to change yourself - absolutely fascinating and effective. This Affirmatpr tool can help reduce the effects of depression & anxiety, help you set & internalize goals and habits for your dream life.

If anyone is interested in trying it out - I've got a prototype which can create customized affirmation sessions, and layer it on top of a calm music backing track)

Tech stack: Python / Django (soon) / Text to speech: ElevenLabs & Piper TTS. The automation currently runs with 'cron' on MacOS and Shortcuts.app/Music.app on iPhone.

Everything is open-source (Codeberg) and can run locally instead of cloud hosted, so maximum people can benefit (and so you can set private goals/affirmations that perhaps you don't want everyone to hear about).

I would love to meet others who would be interested in contributing / collaborating, as there is huge potential here. My contact is in my profile.

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

#672
Two things:

1. After the recent successful growth of Antithesis [1], I'm diving into the topic of deterministic simulation testing. There are some cases (and ready-to-use libraries) where people are doing this in Rust, C++, Go, I'm interesting in this in Java. So I'm up to some experiments. I've also started an "awesome list" of resources about this topic [2]

2. I've made a generated serialization/deserialization library for the Kafka wire protocol in Rust, tested against the original Java implementation. I'll add 3.9 support once it's released and don't see much upcoming changes to the library, apart from maybe working on the Go version.

[1] https://antithesis.com/

[2] https://github.com/ivanyu/awesome-deterministic-simulation-t...

[3] https://github.com/ivanyu/kafka_wire_protocol

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

#673

I’m scraping a list of every single UK company that has raised funding in the last 3 years - with details of how much and when - after finding out the info is available but hidden in certain filings on the Companies House website. Let me know if you’d like a copy for free - should be done in the next week or two!

Yes please!

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

#675
I'm working on https://www.americanfootballinsights.com

Its a hobby project, to play around with American Football statistics.

I'm trying to do a few innovative things with it. e.g. I generate an excitement-rating per-game. Here are the excitement ratings from yesterday's games:

https://www.americanfootballinsights.com/excitement/2024/4/

I've used that feature already today. It tells me the big Sunday Night Football game last night, between the Ravens and Bills, was not worth watching!

I'm planning to develop more as the season goes on. For updates:

https://americanfootballinsights.substack.com/

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

#676

My last job had an internal tool for deploying all, or a reduced set of, their platform into a kube namespace. We called them One Time Environments and used them for testing and development. They were fantastic, really fast to spin up, and pretty cheap to run as they were on our own hardware. I've never found anything similar that doesn't cost an absolute bomb of money. Now I've moved to an early startup and I'm real…

If you are going down the open source angle, why not use OSS zero trust auth, starting with OpenZiti - https://openziti.io/?

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

#677
Working on a home rolled IRCCloud alternative. No particular reason why. I started it maybe a year ago and never finished it, got it to a hacky POC and over the weekend I had a bit of a cold/flu so decided to spend some time practicing my refactoring abilities.

Still in progress but I did manage to find a bug in one of the open source libs I am using for the IRC protocol interface and it was approved. Overall a productive flu weekend.

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

#678

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…

awesome! i am also exploring “low effort language learning” space and making an app. would be interested in bouncing some ideas, got a social handle to share?

Yep, my Discord account is `alexc.j`

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

#679

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/toucan-by-babbel-la...

Toucan has a similar concept, but it works on individual words rather than sentences. Beyond a smaller scope, it's also quite difficult to accurately translate single words without context - Nuenki has it disabled by default.

The tradeoff is that Toucan is free, and translation is quite expensive.

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