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

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

#811
I was inspired by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745615 and built a simple workflow to process all my photos: for each photo it generates a text description, a list of keywords, and the mood.

My plan for the next step is to detect faces, ask the user to label the most occurring faces, and then label all images accordingly. This step seems a bit harder than just feeding the image through Gemini and asking it to create labels.

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

#812

The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…

Possibly look at https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/parser_to... Even if not for DuckDB, you can use this to validate/ parse queries possibly.

Thanks for the suggestion! I am using https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot, which magically supports most SQL dialects. And yes, support for DuckDB is also in future plans

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

#814
I'm working on a global roaming[0] AI device for my friend's widow[1]. This is the first week of testing in Mabel's hands (lots of feedback already), and Mabel's first trip abroad with it is next week. Between working on improvements, based on this week's feedback, I'll be writing it up in a blog entry (also to-do: setup blog for [0]).

[0] https://walledgarden.ai/r/wgd [1] https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/twice-wed-fyl...

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

#815

A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…

Trees cost a lot of money to bring down. I've ideas for an automated cutter but it's a surprisingly difficult problem.

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

#816
post #753

I'm working on getting a wife. I actively work on it a few hours every day.

What’s your method?

Having had some former coworkers that ended up at various dating platforms, dating is fascinating, I still think dating is something that needs a better modern solution than what “the apps” offer. Every dating app has a few fundamental flaws. There’s the human element too.

What worked for me was hacking Tinder circa 2014 by faking my geolocation and hypertargeting certain places and neighborhoods I knew would be up my dating alley and spamming posts on social media sites like Reddit and Craigslist.

It’s tough because some people don’t even know what they’re looking for in a partner.

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

#817
post #459

Creating a modern development environment for win98. Currently I’m working on a git client. I have no patience for learning C. So backporting git is not an option. I also don’t want to use cygwin. So I’m using a server to expose git as http endpoints and coding a git client in php to use in msdos. I have Vim 7.3 and and gnu coreutils working in msdos already. So soon I will have a very nice dev environment. I want to…

That is a ... heroic quest!

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

#819
post #810

It's niche and boring, but I help immigrants pick German health insurance. The existing information is mostly blogspam from non-experts who try to make a quick buck. They only recommend the two brands with an affiliate program. I wrote a better guide with help from competing insurance experts. The information is clear and succinct without oversimplifying things. It addresses the specific needs of immigrants. Then I t…

when you have some draft or first versions, please share. I would be super glad to read it. I have been in TK since I came to Germany, but would be glad to entertain other options.

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

#820

A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…

Forgive my ignorance but all the tree cutting I've observed has been based on climbing and cutting in segments from the top rather than letting the tree fall. Under what circumstances is it better or necessary to actually let the tree fall?
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