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

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

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Post by brainless »

fraboniface wrote: post #324
brainless wrote: post #307

I am building a graph based semantic search engine. We can use low cost LLMs, like Haiku, or local models to extract semantics (named entity recognition). Then the nodes in the graph maintain types (things like people, date, currency) as extracted and allow queries. https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI Currently building a demo where we crawl startup investment data to build a knowledge graph that can be filtered for p…

Very interesting, I've been thinking about this kind of approach but haven't had the time to really work on it. So what kind of business model do you have? Is it a kind of drop-in replacement for vector dbs? Out of curiosity, if it's not a trade secret, how do you plan to handle conflicting data (two sources saying different things on the same topic/data)?

It will perhaps not be a drop in replacement for vector dbs in every situation but yes it will be so when you want accurate results that follow the semantic chains (entities and relations).

At this moment, we have not entered the territory of conflict resolution but I know what you mean. Interestingly I just came across this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.18415 (released on Oct 24, 2024).

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

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Post by martinrue »

LilBytes wrote: post #301
martinrue wrote: post #297

I'm building a language learning app: https://yakk.app . Way to go, but made a good start and even a little bit of money so far. I quit my job and moved to Asia on savings to keep building. LMK if any of you guys are in Bangkok, let's hang out.

Great idea, are you in Bangkok on holiday or using this idea to get a business visa?

I've been living in SE Asia for the past 9 months (mostly Vietnam) in order to make my runway last longer. In terms of Thailand, I have the 5-year DTV visa, which is probably SEA's best nomad visa option right now.

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

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Post by martinrue »

not_a_dane wrote: post #528
martinrue wrote: post #297

I'm building a language learning app: https://yakk.app . Way to go, but made a good start and even a little bit of money so far. I quit my job and moved to Asia on savings to keep building. LMK if any of you guys are in Bangkok, let's hang out.

Dude, I did the same...Will be in bangkok in december. Let's hang out.

Awesome! Drop me a message when you're here, let's get coffee! All my info is at https://martinrue.com. Safe travels!

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

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Post by btbuildem »

tyjkot wrote: post #516

In 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…

Please please please strongly discourage people from using those super-blinding lights so many cars seem to have these days!

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

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Post by gooseus »

I spent the weekend working on a simple Typescript app router for the NATS messages similar to what Express/Koa does for http server apps:

https://github.com/Gooseus/natsrun

Gotta shout out to the author of HemeraJS who shared their project here 8 years ago and provided a starting point for me:

- https://github.com/hemerajs/hemera

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13704694

Really just started and very much a work in progress, but figured I'd share while we're sharing. If anyone has any feedback I'm all ears.

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

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Post by Boxxed »

I'm working on software for use by home hospital practitioners (scheduling, routing, and so on). Ever since the pandemic home hospital (where the doctors come to you, at home, rather than you taking a hospital bed) has been on the rise both to save the hospital bed and because being at home is a huge win for many patients. If you're in this space too I'd love to talk!

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

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Post by Syntaf »

I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].

We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.

It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations. [1] https://embolt.app

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

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Post by xyzsparetimexyz »

quyse wrote: post #426

I've been working on a cloud gaming service (like Stadia). Wanted to see how far I can get it done using open source, without ready-to-use solutions like Parsec/Moonlight/Sunshine. It works by running a game in Linux (I use NixOS btw) under Wayland (sway), capturing the frames via Pipewire in form of DMAbufs and passing them to ffmpeg's VA-API encoder (so frames don't leave GPU memory and are encoded on GPU right awa…

Wow that's dope! Is this on GitHub anywhere?

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

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

I'm working on my own game, but I'm trying to generalize some of my code to be reused in future projects. I don't wanna say I'm making an engine as much as a framework for writing graphics code in DirectX. I'm also working on various tools for creating configuration files
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