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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 kfarr »

thomasfl wrote: post #458

For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…

I love this! There is similar inspiration in the US with non-profits such as KidSafeSF [1] in San Francisco or Families for Safe Streets [2].

I also have a fullstack background and have taken an approach to work on the street design software itself. Although AutoCAD is used by professionals, it's overkill for most street design projects and difficult for laypeople to use. I've been hacking away at a project called 3DStreet [3] to make street design easier for anyone -- like a figma for street design. Still in its early days. Happy to collaborate with your org, we do group sessions to help folks learn street design to influence local government to make positive changes.

[1] https://kidsafesf.com/

[2] https://www.familiesforsafestreets.org/

[3] https://3dstreet.com/

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

A few years back I developed a system of 3 sided cards

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365055855971750

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111168528593969946

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111052075781351382

which didn't really connect with people. I did a collaboration with some people where I'd barcoded work prints and found that the system was not so reliable and I'd gotten out of the house without publishing the "web side" of the prints. Also I had a few boxes of glossy paper which wouldn't let me print on the back so I developed a new generation of card

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365041910591036

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113385742853987268

The new system reliably associates the QR code and "web side" with a print because it prints the front. I am planning a better "web side" than I had before, particularly to view stereograms with a VR headset, also to publish with the Looking Glass Go.

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

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Post by anloan »

OmegaMetor wrote: post #639
anloan wrote: post #414

I am working on a geography game where players take turn naming a city inside an area that get's smaller and smaller. It's called LOLA (longitude latitude) since you can choose to narrow the area down by either longitdude or latitude. https://lola-game.com/

Took me a few minutes to realize the area you could pick in was the red, and not the area outside of the red, but very fun!

Thank you, and feedback noted! :)

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

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Post by mmclar »

I'm working on a self-hostable replacement for Google Timeline, which is being discontinued. It includes a web app to view my timeline and an Android app to send tracking pings to the server. It also includes an import function for exports of your Google Timeline data so that your historical data from that can be integrated as well. I'm planning on open-sourcing both the web app and the POC Android app early next month.

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

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Post by vinnyglennon »

telesilla wrote: post #641
vinnyglennon wrote: post #631

LookOutWindow.com , mapping the routes between airports, and showing points of interest along the route. I wanted a way to read about what I was flying over, and which worked offline. We have amazing views up there, but no idea what we are looking at.

I'd love an offline version of this, though not sure how useful it is without GPS.

All maps,data is offline, once route is selected. Have a few ideas for tracking without GPS offline, ping me, on the Feedback button

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

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Post by SuperV1234 »

I've been working on an experimental modern C++20 fork of the popular SFML library, that introduces the following new major features/changes:

- *Modern OpenGL and first-class support for Emscripten* - *Batching system to render 500k+ objects in one draw call* - *New audio API supporting multiple simultaneous devices* - *Enhanced API safety at compile-time* - *Flexible design approach over strict OOP principles* - *Built-in SFML::ImGui module* - *Lightning fast compilation time* - *Minimal run-time debug mode overhead*

It is temporarily named [*VRSFML*](https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML) until I figure out a nice name.

You can read about the library and its design principles [*in this article*](https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml.html), and you can read about the batching system [*in this other article*](https://www.vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/vrsfml2.html).

You can find the source code [*here*](https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML) and try out the interactive demos [*online in your browser here*](https://vittorioromeo.github.io/VRSFML_HTML5_Examples/).

The target audience is mostly developers familiar with SFML that are looking for a library very similar in style but that gives more power and flexibility to the users. Upstream SFML is more suitable for complete beginners.

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

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Post by mnky9800n »

randomdata wrote: post #597
thomasfl wrote: post #458

For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…

> It causes social isolation. What is it about suburbs in particular that causes social isolation?

There is no pub to walk to, grocery store to walk to, no shared public space for walking and cycling to places, there’s no concept of being in a space shared with others. It’s that you simply don’t see people unless you choose it. If you live in the city you learn quickly to be around others. At least that’s my experience.

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

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Post by austin_y »

A sqlite extension that provides a virtual table backed by an Automerge document (https://automerge.org/).

I believe that there are plenty of applications that could benefit from the collaboration or sync-ability that CRDTs* provide, but that don't need to manage the CRDTs directly. Moving the CRDT management into the database seems like a natural fit.

It's very early, and not public anywhere, but I'd be happy to chat about it if anyone has any thoughts or questions.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...

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