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

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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…

a literal home lab!

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

#82
Finished a project that serves as a launching pad for GoLang HTTP APIs. It does decoding of request parameters into structs using instructions found in tags amongst a bunch of other utilities.

I 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
A series of articles on writing parsers using:

- 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)

#84
Not working on it yet but can a small box sitting on your counter do LLM, TTS all local with maybe outbound queries to the internet.

First 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)

#85
post #68

I 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…

Suggestion - you can slow down the hero animation of Boxento. In general I like the project. It reminded me to Bento.me. I'd guess you are direct competitors? (I'd also suggest adding Boxento as an alternative to Bento.me on SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com/bento-me)

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

#86
This is not about new ideas for humanity, but for me.

I 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)

#89

Updating 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…

did you come up with this technique?

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

#90
post #37

https://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…

This is badass. love it. Wish you could make an account with a regular email address, though, and not just with Google.
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