I'm working on synthesizing a genome at home! Here is a video with more details, as well as a picture of my home lab. I've always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally have a chance to do it. Video on what I'm doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiuS1oHnKw Picture of my home lab - https://x.com/koeng101/status/1844150979484319842 I'm trying to build a DNA assembly company right now (been lots of ups a…
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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#82I am learning react-native now. Just finished building a themed components library.
These are for building a simple intelligence platform. Intelligence meaning a way to model entities, events, documents, and the link between them.
I want to use this instead of having thousands of documents on dropbox organized by a random folder hierarchy.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#83- Hand rolled recursive descent in TypeScript
- PLY, Python Lex Yacc
- FParsec, parser combinator library for F#
The goal is to compare each approach while tackling some common use cases for parsing strings of text.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#84First iteration may be box is rpi based and local LLM runs in another room on beefier machine (or even before that just get it working with a cloud Llama).
What would make this cool is to use MemGPT for memory so you can talk to it Monday and then it remembers what you said Friday.
Being all local it could be always listening.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#85I am working on: 1. https://typezebra.com : Adding type editor/designer so you can design type-heavy articles and share with others (codepen but for typography) 2. https://boxento.com : Finishing support for server side rendering so users can take the benefit of SEO - also working on adding new blocks like menu (useful for restaurants) so you can have a block that changes based on the day of the week. Suggestions and…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#86I started the development of the game engine. This was one of the most interesting goal on my list.
I will use vulkan. And my demo goal for this is a super realistic scene with human, hill, grass, tree and sunrise/sunset. But it is needed just to know how/where to develop engine.
since I'm in no hurry + my career is going down the drain, I will try to do my best and power up my software engineer skills.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#87I'm working on not working! Isn't this what everyone is working on?
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#89Updating some of my negative core beliefs. Years of Buddhist meditation only got me so far. But two months of this new technique, and I finally see a path to being able to program my emotional self like I program a computer. Here's how it works. Step one. Identify the negative belief you want to change. This is the core belief. It is something you feel is true. For example, “I am a bad manager.” Step two. Create a st…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#90https://pastmaps.com I'm building Pastmaps - striving to eventually be the world's largest online collection of old maps, aerials, and photos all packaged into a public historical research platform that's as easy to use as Google Maps. This has been a labor of love now for about a year, but I still have a huge mountain to climb to realize the full vision. Give it a try and give me your harsh criticisms - that's the g…