Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by thomastjeffery » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 1:34 AM UTC

Problem:

Text editors like Emacs, Vim, Atom, etc. all have designs that are too tightly coupled.

Project:

A text editor (similar to Emacs) where every aspect of the editor is defined via user configuration. One or more sane default configurations can be provided, but the user can always redefine any behavior.

Main features:

Decoupled UI: The editor runs as a daemon in the background. Any frontend uses IPC to interface with the editor. When a frontend process starts, it sends a table of compatible features (mouse support, colors, fonts, etc) for the editor to use as an API. Input events are sent directly to the editor daemon.

Modular runtime:

Every piece of functionality exists in a distinct module. Every module defines its API in a global table (associative array) of attributes. Any configuration is accomplished by changing the attributes in the global table.

The user can pick from a predefined runtime that emulates his/her favorite editor, a unique runtime, or even an empty runtime, and make whatever changes he/she wants.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ngzhian » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 1:58 AM UTC

westoncb wrote: post #272

Project: I'm building an 'abstract visual debugger,' which aims at clarifying the behavior of algorithms under execution by letting you watch the data they're manipulating. Screen: http://symbolflux.com/images/avdscreen.png Quite outdated video: https://youtu.be/sdEo4v2yivM It works by monitoring data structures (and soon general objects!) in your code, and sending operation data (e.g. element added/removed) to the s…

You might be interested in this: https://visualgo.net

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by kevinwang » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 2:05 AM UTC

benji-york wrote: post #271

kevinwang wrote: post #33

I'm trying to make a search engine that gives you the opposite of what you search for: this is what I've got so far http://sample-env.wk77znpmqm.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/

I registered the domain "duckduckno.com" a while ago for reasons that have now passed. How about I point it at your search engine?

That would be really cool! Let me know if you do it!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by graystevens » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 5:52 AM UTC

Problem: most businesses find out they've have a data breach at the same time as everyone else, which reflects very poorly on their brand.

Project: Putting together a SaaS which will scrape a large number of sources for evidence of a unique canary which we supply them with. Each businesses canary can be triggered in a number of ways; being found on the internet, receiving any type of email, or even receiving a phone call. Currently it's in development but I've put together the classic landing page to try and get a list of potential early adopters to help shape the project once it's in closed beta. You can see it here https://breachcanary.com

Any feedback would of course be greatly appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by abuzafor » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 7:43 AM UTC

I'am working on building a interactive Website with lots of JS and CSS3 animation and The platform built with Drupal 7.

Problem: I'am quite new in Drupal platform.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 10:25 AM UTC

garagemc2 wrote: post #298

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #92

Problem: Finding newly-registered companies (to market services to them) in the UK is hard. The government releases an updated registry of all four million UK companies once every month, but they come in a huge five-part spreadsheet. It's difficult and painful to sort and filter through this data. Project: I constantly poll the UK government's databases for newly-registered companies. I also geocode each company's re…

nice. Have you had much traction? b2b sales can be hard.

I haven't opened it up for people to use yet, but that should happen within the next couple of weeks. I have about 30 people on a waiting list to start using it. Of course, I'll know more when people start paying.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by demonshalo » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 10:55 AM UTC

gavanwoolery wrote: post #703

demonshalo wrote: post #37

Prime Factorization - Just as a fun side project. I do not expect that I will ever be able to solve it but at least once a week I learn something new about math! I've Been working on it for 3 years now and It's getting more and more fun every day. In fact, I have rediscovered so many things on my own that I thought never existed. My biggest "Eureka" moment was when I discovered factorization via the difference of squ…

I used to spend a good deal of my time looking for patterns in prime numbers - and similarly re-discovered many older theorems. It is an addictive activity for certain :)

Indeed it is :D

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by DrNuke » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

I act as an advisor for DronesBench from Italy, http://www.dronesbench.com , we are currently at the pre-commercialisation stage and in the Drone Community contest from Commercial UAV Expo, Brussels, 20-22 June. We would be very happy to have your vote! Video here (the one with the "Light Training" screenshot) http://www.dronecommunity.eu/vote.html . Thanks in advance.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

jessriedel wrote: post #190

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

Nobody else has mentioned anything along these lines so I'll do so.

If you haven't talked to the blind community about this sort of thing already I would strongly recommend doing so as they'll be able to rapidly point you at the bleeding edge of what currently exists - they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds.

(I also heard of one guy who would listen to TTS from his computer with one ear, while using his other ear to hold a phone conversation. I believe I read this in Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust (978-1400204724 / 1400204720).)

The second reason I suggest this is that the blind community is a dense populus of users who use systems like this as part of their everyday lives, so if you aimed such a system at them the feedback quality would be extremely high and allow for ridiculously fast iteration times and a great product. High-speed speech (TTS in particular) is a genuine technology hole/need.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by loxias » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

dheera wrote: post #636

bergberg wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know pianoteq? https://www.pianoteq.com/

Thanks! This is interesting.

Pianoteq is without a doubt the best sounding piano synth on the market today. Uses all sorts of interesting physical modeling algorithms (including string-to-string resonances, with a more-than-first order model...), unfortunately, unpublished. ;)

If you're interested in chatting about sound generating software and algorithms, feel free to shoot me a line. "Also, do I remember you from ec-discuss?"