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

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

#732
I am a radio listener (not only shortwave, but also ham, utilities, etc.) and I am working to create a social network for radio listeners, that help to identify unknown radio stations and also to send QSLs.

I am keeping very simple to learn principles of web development, as I am very struggling in frontend.

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

#733

I've just published https://nohypeai.dev to share what I've learned about the state of LLM agents for software development and help people who are just catching up orient themselves. It was also important to me to provide a non-hyped, balanced view (hence the name), including pointing people to realistic assessments of the effectiveness of these tools and highlighting the risks and concerns.

I will use this to keep track of all these emerging abstractions. it's a smart play to establish this position between the rapid cutting edge and people who need to be able to reason about it but not implement it.

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

#734

I’m working on https://tempmaildetector.com and more specifically a Wordpress plugin to support it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/temp-mail-detector-block-tempo... The plugin offers users a way to input their own block lists, a pre-existing one, or make use of the API which is constantly getting updated. As a first time Wordpress plugin developer, the approval process was a bit slow but it’s like that for a good reas…

As a frequent temp mail user (for privacy reasons) I wish these things didn't exist..

I appreciate your sentiment, and agree to a point. There’s a time and a place for both disposable email addresses as well as blocking apis.

Assume you offer a free trial with LLM capabilities. There’s a very real cost associated with multiple signup abuse. You can card capture or KYC, but now there’s more friction and greater loss of privacy.

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

#735

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No to discourage you ,but how do you handle a real world cluttered room where mosquito's will be able to shelter in the clutter, under table, drawers etc.

Not OP, but they have to come out to be a problem. If they're out of sight and not bothering me, I don't really care. If they're out and possibly annoying and biting me, that's a problem.

Exactly! Plus we’ll get a nice beautiful sonar echo when they’re on walls/ceiling

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

#736

An app to help you split individual receipts with a bunch of people: https://demo.snapreceipts.fyi/ Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner. You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what. Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.

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

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I guess you already researched this topic: would laser turret work for killing mosquitos? And if no, why not? Seems more reliable.

there is a crowdfunding effort for one going on right now for such a device. I think the price is around $500. the videos are equally awesome and hilarious as they vaporize into a little puff of smoke

That will end up either dangerous or unreleased. Their system sends a 40W laser, which is what you use to cut plastics. There’s no way to make this safe as even a diffuse secondary reflection out of the field of view could blind someone.

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

#738

An app to help you split individual receipts with a bunch of people: https://demo.snapreceipts.fyi/ Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner. You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what. Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.

I just tried it and I really like it! Do you think it’s gonna stay free?

I just use free API keys and limit my hosting costs right now. I could keep it free for several months but if my users run into usage limits, I'd request financial help to keep the service up. I really dont want an app like this to be expensive.

Please DM me at my email: archit72gmail if you run into rate limits or want more usage! I'd be happy to help you.

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

#739

I’m building Popgot ( https://popgot.com ): compare unit prices (per oz/sheet/lb) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. We normalize fuzzy sizes (“family,” “mega,” multipacks) so you see the actually cheapest option for staples. New: a deep research mode that, on demand, crawls thousands of product pages and uses visual LLMs to read label photos (ingredients, counts, square footage) when the text is messy. Firs…

with AR and glasses camera platforms, this will actually be a big deal. pricing and real consumer interest and inventory levels are competitive.

If people are wearing AR glasses into big box stores that are comparing prices in real time, I could see there being a real time auction for CPG pricing the way there are for website ads now.

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

#740
I've been working on a functional language and a specializing translator (a specialator) based on graph-reduction beneath lambdas.

The intention is to specialize away interpretive and meta-programming-like overhead, and then translate the result into usable source code in whichever language is desired. If the code, after specialization, has a suitable form, then you should get conventional imperative code out. If there are still functional-idioms present that haven't been specialized away, the generated code will have a more functional-style. The specialator currently targets JS and C.

The language has an expressive type-system based on self-dependent sub-typing. The type-system is too expressive for everyday use, it is intended to be used with a decidability checker.

This is an experimental work-in-progress.

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