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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by marginalia_nu »

nichol4s wrote: post #593
marginalia_nu wrote: post #166

I'm working on a chrome extension for use in a headless browser in marginalia search to capture information about network traffic, ads, and popovers when visiting a website, to better identify nuisance websites. A bit of a janky setup, but I've mostly gotten it to do what I want it to do after some head scratching.

Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch. Do you crawl yourself? What is your infrastructure? What is your goal for search.marginalia ?

> Holy shit, so you are uh building a search engine from scratch.

Yup

> Do you crawl yourself?

Yup

> What is your infrastructure?

All custom built in Java, sitting on a rack server in a basement in Sweden.

> What is your goal for search.marginalia ?

I'm basically building what I feel is lacking in internet search and discovery, which is tools for finding stuff based on something other than a popularity metric, as those tend to feed into themselves to make the web seem so small.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by brylie »

Finntegrate: AI-powered multilingual assistant for immigrants to Finland

https://finntegrate.org

My co-founders and I are building an AI assistant that helps immigrants navigate Finnish bureaucracy. As immigrants, we've experienced firsthand how fragmented and inaccessible essential information can be, scattered across Migri, Kela, the tax office, and municipal websites, often only in Finnish and Swedish.

We're using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to create a multilingual chat interface that connects people to official resources rather than replacing them. The system reduces "failure demand" - support requests that arise because people can't achieve their goals through existing resources.

The technical approach is a multi-agent system in which specialized AI agents handle different domains (immigration law, employment, housing, healthcare, etc.). We've named the agents after Finnish mythological figures (such as Tapio, Ilmarinen, and Sampo) to create a cultural connection while providing practical assistance.

Interestingly, this addresses a systematic problem - government agencies spend significant resources on repetitive support that could be automated. At the same time, immigrants get frustrated trying to piece together information from multiple sources.

We're exploring B2B opportunities (companies relocating employees, municipalities, healthcare systems recruiting internationally) and EU funding for integration technology.

Happy to share more details or get feedback from anyone who's worked on similar multilingual AI systems or government-facing tools.

GitHub: https://github.com/finntegrate/tapio

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by NiloCK »

I'm working on a modular OSS stack for creation of interactive tutoring systems. Think anki + wikipedia + mathacademy + duolingo, but with very generic interfaces that allow for all sorts of interactive content (eg, one working prototype is an ear training / site reading course with midi keyboard hookup).

I want to sand away the roughest edges of the SRS user experience, and to enable individuals and organizations to easily spin up courseware that's aligned with best pedagogical practices and fits naturally into the hands of educators.

And, in the current wave, also think bolt.new or lovable.dev, with 'agentic' workflows for both content (scouring source material for ) and for user-authored bespoke interactive, via LLM authored artifacts.

Optimistic for some ShowHNs or more general shilling this week.

- https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder - https://patched.network

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by ctbellmar »

WhatSignal, WhatsApp Signal relay, written in Go

https://github.com/bikemazzell/whatsignal

I'm working on a WhatsApp to Signal relay. I.e.: whenever someone sends a WA message to you, it appears in your Signal. You can reply and it will go back to the original sender.

Why? I'm privacy conscious and don't fancy using a Meta product. But some of my friends/associates/family still insist on WhatsApp only. Running this WhatBridge service on my micro server behind a VPN allows me to communicate without having WhatsApp on my mobile.

Behind the scenes, it connects WAHA (https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha ) and Signal CLI (https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli). Still early stages, but getting closer to a workable state.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by tim-kt »

admiralrohan wrote: post #697

Working on a mathematical model to quantify what is theoretically possible for humans to bridge all fragmented theories across psychology, mental health, productivity, economics, and more (similar to what Shannon did for Information theory). It stems from my struggle to keep up with the feeling of overwhelm with so many things to learn. Currently working on organizing all of my thoughts into a coherent theory. You ca…

What exactly is the mathematical model? What are the mathematics involved? I couldn't find it on your blog.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

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Post by maz1b »

Working on MedAngle - the world's first Super App for premed/medical/dental school. tens of billions of seconds spent in our family of Super Apps, 100m+ questions solved, ~100k users (invite only, doctors+med studnts). We personalize to the curriculum of any school we launch at.

https://medangle.com

We're looking on scaling further internationally. I myself am a US-Pakistani, the first medical doctor + full stack engineer and technologist in Pakistan's history (~250m people). Would love to chat with anyone interested!

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