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

#741

I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an https://openinverter.org motor controller Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube channel to help others: What's a battery management system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA What is battery balancing? https://…

Great, do you have a video and/or images of your cars?

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

#742

I kind of got back to looking at my newsbetting app called Rashomon. I posted about it on here a few weeks ago to no attention. Basically you get untitled articles and have to bet whether they are from far left, left, center, right or far right sources. The idea was to maek readers aware of their biases. I wrote my findings here: https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/projects/Rashomon.htm... You can demo the site he…

I get this error when I try signing up.

ValueError at /accounts/signup The given username must be set Request Method: POST Request URL: http://www.rashomonnews.com/accounts/signup Django Version: 2.2.10 Exception Type: ValueError Exception Value: The given username must be set Exception Location: /home/deployer/newsbetenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py in _create_user, line 140 Python Executable: /home/deployer/newsbetenv/bin/python Python Version: 3.5.2 Python Path: ['/home/deployer/rashomon', '/home/deployer/rashomon', '/home/deployer/newsbetenv/bin', '/usr/lib/python35.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.5', '/usr/lib/python3.5/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload', '/home/deployer/newsbetenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages'] Server time: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:36:54 +0000

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

#743
I trying to create a management software for Integral Coops in Portugal. In a gross oversimplification Integral coops tend to be location based and allow freelancers and small groups to come together and have a infrastructure as if they were a big business while keeping their independence on the work they want to do

I'm trying to make it: a collective project shared between multiple coops, open source, sustainable in the long term.

I've already did some micro projects to the coop I'm a part of, like changing the workflow of expense invoice management from a totally manual process to an 80% automated process so I'm pretty sure I can provide significant benefits to the coops. Right now There's already a prototype andI'm in the process of talking with cooperatives finding financing and making it real.

website is at https://coops.pt (very early stages, in portuguese)

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

#744
After a LONG time out of the tech world (burnout destroyed me right before the pandemic) I'm building something new and it feels great.

It's an online service that helps immigrants prepare their citizenship application and get affordable feedback from an attorney.

https://www.clearboxlegal.com

(Met my co-founder on the YC founder matching platform, Thanks YC!)

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

#746
I am working on a presentation about meals in space that I'll be giving just before Thanksgiving to some writers. I am also working on cataloging my books. This will be my third try and I'm just using a spreadsheet this time. One time it corrupted all my date and the backup got mangled when I tried to bring it in. Then the online space went under. So I'm doing it the simplest possible way.

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

#747
post #340

I'm making a VSCode extension that can record & replay interactions with the IDE: all scrolls, selections, and modifications synced to guiding video, audio, and visual aid tracks. The result is a much more interactive way to present code than screencasts or blogs. Because at any point we can pause a session and freely explore and experiment with the codebase. I put together a demo recently [1] and written much more a…

Really cool! I'm building something with a little bit of overlap.

A personal data collection/archival platform with the goal of focusing on timestamping everything possible.

Basically, I realized that when I have multiple pieces of data (e.g. a note, some commands, a screenshot), almost always this data is naturally connected by time and that's also how I want to query it. So: it's nice to be able to e.g. create wiki links in note taking tools like obsidian but it would be nicer if one didn't even have to do the linking manually (most of the time).

I am building on postgres with a time series extension. On the client side I want there to be able to be multiple "collectors" that can collect data which is then sent to the server. So far I only have a keylogger collector but I have many more ideas such as a screenshot collector à la copilot etc.

I think the data you are recording would also be a candidate for a collector for this system.

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

#750
post #741

I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an https://openinverter.org motor controller Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube channel to help others: What's a battery management system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA What is battery balancing? https://…

Great, do you have a video and/or images of your cars?

Sure, Tom Scott drives it in this (he doesn't talk about it being electric): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWREtcDVBE

Here is a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2xWbfSz8Ug

Here is all the media: https://openinverter.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49051

My video tutorials are linked above.

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