Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by andrethegiant » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

WillAdams wrote: post #692

andrethegiant wrote: post #97

I'm working on pure.md[1], which lets your scripts, APIs, apps, agents, etc reliably access web content in markdown format. Simply prefix any URL with `pure.md/` and you get the unblocked markdown content of that webpage. It avoids bot detection and renders JavaScript-heavy websites, and can convert HTML, PDFs, images, and more into pure markdown. pure.md acts as a global caching layer between LLMs and web content. I…

It seems to miss URLs? At: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing the links for: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/bookI.... https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/defI1.... are rendered as: _Elements_ _:_ _Book I_ _:_ _Definition 1_ Maybe detect when a page is on gitbook or some other site where there i…

By default, href values of tags are removed, because they add significant token length without adding more context. Coming soon, you can specify a request header to set whether or not you want links removed from the response. Those underscores you mentioned are from the italics.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by alstonite » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

Working on an FPS aim trainer that has a heavy focus on tracking performance data over time.

I love how MonkeyType lets you see exactly how much you’ve improved over time at typing and it’s inspired me to take a similar approach to this hobby of mine as well

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by anon025 » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

Working on sourcing IP geolocation data for my little site https://www.ipparrot.net and adding more sections like Networking Glossary and some networking tools.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by wvlia5 » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

A new programming language inspired by XY, Forth, APL.

This is a Fibonacci example. This code evaluates to 8:

[1 1 (x-1$ + x-2$)] 5

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by itwenty » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

stefandesu wrote: post #720

itwenty wrote: post #445

I released an iOS app last October for users who use Apple Watch to record their workouts - https://mergefit.itwenty.me It lets users merge two or more workouts into a single one. There have been times when I have been out riding, hiking or whatever and accidentally end the activity on my apple watch instead of pausing it. Starting a new workout means having your stats split across the two workouts. The "usual" way t…

Great idea! One other thing that annoys me is the inability to trim workouts, mostly walking workouts which I forgot to stop. Even when the Apple Watch asks you if you want to end the workout, it doesn’t cut off the end where nothing happened anymore. It should be possible to do this (semi-)automatically using the heart rate and movement data.

That's a good problem to solve. Another pet peeve of mine is the inability to modify different streams of fitness data in a single workout. If I record workout on the watch, but use a different device just for heart rate, there's no good way to replace the watch recorded HR data with this other device's HR data.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by rikroots » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

Still writing a Dev Runbook for my canvas library. I forgot how much of a monster it's become over the years ... https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/119

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by wvlia5 » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

totemandtoken wrote: post #797

I'm vibe coding a "social media engine." Basically, I've noticed a bunch of social media protocols like ATProtocol, ActivityPub and Nostr are coming out and I think while having these protocols is a good idea, one thing limiting adoption is lack of differentiated social media sites on these protocols. Basically everyone keeps building twitter on a new protocol without offering anything novel. One bottleneck, I though…

Sounds good

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by samstave » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

Nevermark wrote: post #386

I am finishing up a 32 year old stretch project (as of this month). 99.9% sure I nailed it. Technically a 42 year old project, but it took me 10 years to find the right way to think about it and craft a formal definition. The theory seems to check, but I can't/won't be convinced until the tools based on it are complete and working without friction or exception. Many times it has felt like I was tilting at windmills,…

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by ncrovatti » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

I’m vibe coding https://vespera.guide, a travel-planning tool that blends AI-driven suggestions with real-time re-planning—aimed especially at people who want to get inspiration and stay organised in their trip planning. Think of it like a curated jumpstart for itineraries, but still flexible enough to keep spontaneity.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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Post by gengstrand » Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 4:18 PM UTC

I am currently testing the hypothesis that RAG can reduce the likelihood of LLM hallucination when it comes to software architecture (existing or proposed enhancements or tech debt reduction) of complex systems. To that end, I recently launched a web spa https://www.exploravention.com/AskArchitect/ where you can ask the software architect questions about various popular open source projects. I hope that you participate in this experiment.