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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#762

Working on a physical and digital archive of all American vintage print advertising. I've built the archival and database software on Lucee & MySQL to store images and automate, and I use OpenAI to analyze images and extra meta data. All of the full page ads are pushed to https://adretro.com . I've gotten the process to fully catalog all of the advertisements in a magazine (about 150 on average) down from over a week…

A category for politically incorrect ads would be cool.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#763

I am implementing a single Rust process to which you can connect a zero-knowledge proof of identity, such as can be created with ZKPassword from a physical passport. Each user ends up with a keypair which is: 1) Highly Sybil resistant. Neither the keypair owner nor anyone else can re-use the same underlying ID to link to another keypair. 2) Very high anonymity. While the Sybil resistance requires a nullifier represen…

The rust binary is great, but the underlying zk technology itself desperately needs to be sold to those dealing with things like passports.

In fact, now that I think about it, zk-proof identity will be required in the near future since so many poorly run organizations are leaking ID documents.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#764

After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios. https://airdefense.de…

Is this an attempt to give the decision-makers on your projects a way to develop a clue? My work is logistics-related and a lower priority than missle defense, but I'm surprised the people pulling my strings manage to get their pants on the right end of their bodies most of the time. Just curious if you folks have the same problem.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#765
In May I posted about Clues by Sam, a logic puzzle inspired by Murdle. It's been growing nicely, new players coming in every week. It's starting to look possible that it'd grow big enough that I could one day become a serious side hustle. So I've put all my "free time" in this for the past two months.

The levels are procedurally generated with heavy curating and additional manual tweaks. I'm also adding a narrative later to each puzzle myself. It's a rare type of puzzle, since few puzzles have means to convey any kind of narrative.

My next big additions will likely be a tutorial, and profile page where you see your results and how they compare to other players. But this being just a side thing, it's progressing really slow...

https://cluesbysam.com

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#767
https://clares.ca

Recently relaunched Clares.ca, a free website for Canadian amateur radio training.

The new site has modern basics: Fast and mobile friendly and will soon incorporate the latest updates to the Canadian test bank.

Additionally, I’m adding progress tracking, logins and notifications to keep users engaged. The previous version of the site was just the course and nothing else. This one is more usable.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#768
I'm annoyed by LLM inference speed and latency. I want my disillusionment before dinner. I'm running some experiments of RAG-analogue approaches with post-attention cache encoding, and then thinking about how distributed caches could operate to reduce the computational latency, and how interesting it is that the key-value relationship mental narrative shifts into social dynamics. There's so many fun ways to approach the topic.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#769

After 10 years in defense tech, watching missile attacks in Ukraine and the Middle East made it clear how little most people really get about air defense. So I'm builiding this simulator which drops you into the operator’s seat. You can test out different scenarios and build an air defense network against various types of threats (stats from real world). Also have Ukraine, Israel-Iran scenarios. https://airdefense.de…

not sure you should use leaflet for this heavy map usage, it is not really usable now, maybe look at deck.gl

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#770
I'm writing some quick and dirty software to locate Hirshmann switches, read their SNMP to determine what's connected to each port, and build a map of how the switches are connected. Hirshmann sells software to do this, but my company doesn't buy it.

It gives me my once-every-five-years reminder of why I dislike .NET.

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