I am working on https://hacktrack.info a SaaS that alerts you when a new CVE or exploit is published for the software you use. The idea came to me while working on an incident response team, where I noticed that many companies were hacked due to using software versions affected by recently published CVEs or exploits. Most of the similar solution I know of are really expensive or part of a larger product suite.
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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#82Writing an NIH SBIR grant to fund a software idea a friend and I had. The software we’ve developed seems to directly match what the solicitation is looking for, but it’s our first time applying for a grant of this type. My friend is a researcher and is familiar with NIH grants, so that definitely helps.
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#83I have been reading the Reinforcement Learning textbook for the past three years religiously- didn’t get the concepts clear until this week, made it past Chapter 3 finally. The excellent YT lectures by David Silver and Emma Brunskill have been helpful but it took me a long time to ‘get it’.
Next, I will try to build something using RL next but try not to use the Gym/Farama stuff to force myself to learn this from scratch.
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#84I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here: https://www.rarity7.com/ About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc. The other 50% I’m writing code a…
This is great, my brother is a history buff and a few years ago I bought him a Hadrian coin for his birthday. I'll look through this and see if I can find something else he'd be interested in, holidays are coming up and I'm always looking for nice gifts.
EDIT: is there any way I could set up an alert for when you add some non-US currency into stock?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#85https://www.audiomatic.app/
An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.
My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice quality and adding new features.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#86I'm working on https://currentkey.com/ - a way to assign names to your Mac's desktop Spaces. I've also been working on a couple of games in Godot, but they are pretty far off from being interesting-enough to share.
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#87I need to clean up this page but I'm working on a local(-ish) book collection tool (calling it Livtet for "book head" in Haitian Kreyol). https://www.jacky.wtf/projects/livtet/ has some notes but https://man.sr.ht/~jacky/livtet is much better. It's been fun using Lua to externalize a lot of logic (and I'm looking into using https://github.com/teal-language/tl because I love me some typing.
Outside of that, I've been blogging a lot more (https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/ - August looks so full, ha) and now I'm writing about things I'm reading too (https://www.jacky.wtf/links/). Been doing this to try to ween off social media and rely on places like this to share stuff.
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#88A text-yourself productivity app called tetr. I have always been messaging myself notes and thoughts on Signal and wanted something that would extend this habit to a funky productivity app and also do more advanced stuff like reminders, habits, mood tracking, etc.
Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it’s been cool seeing people use it daily, some definitely a lot more than I do. I still feel like it’s not even close to its full potential; infinite more things to add but most often a joy for me to work on.
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#89I recently created a custom 220gsm pre-washed cotton fabric by twisting thrice a 60s yarn (60/3 Ne) into 20s before knitting. It could never be commercially viable so released something similar. Essentially combining the softness of fine count cotton with the weight and durability of a heavier garment. https://www.marchtee.com/ Also a lot of ERP, warehouse, UI work and fun with Cursor.
I've bought a lot of different T-shirts and I'm always interested in trying to find a better (more durable; more fashionable; more comfortable) one. My current favorites are the Buck Mason Field Spec t-shirts https://www.buckmason.com/collections/mens-tees — could you explain how your shirts might compare? I'm willing to buy one just to try it out, but since you're the owner, figure I might as well ask you for more information — especially why you created a custom cotton fabric.
One thing I like a lot about Buck Mason is that their T-shirts are made in America from American-grown cotton, are any of your T-shirts made in America?
EDIT: just ordered a variety of your shirts, looking forward to trying them out. Very easy checkout experience!
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#90I made https://rascalhq.com, just to experiment with embeddings and because I wanted to see what kind of “advice” Shakespeare and Warren Buffet would give me for various queries.