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

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post #810

Still working on my game, Astral Divide. I finished writing most of the story and am now working on implementing the main enemy's AI. I'm having quite some fun with studying and making a schooling algorithm that fits my needs. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597060/Astral_Divide/

Nice job! Out of curiosity, how have you been using gen AI in your work?

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

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post #216

Been working on https://handy.computer . It's similar to SuperWhisper and others, but is open source and cross platform It uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend

thanks for making this! I'd love to use the microphone key (fn + mic) to trigger Handy but even after turning off dictation it doesn't seem like the system allows that key to be used (I get a dialog prompting me to turn on dictation).

hey! these kinds of keyboard related things are well solved by Karabiner elements:

https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

There you can map (whatever key) to (whatever other key). E.g. I have right command mapped to F20, available to all other apps .

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

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post #435

Quick, clear, non-partisan analysis of government actions https://sivic.life When I read social spaces like Reddit or X, if the government has done anything contentious you get nothing more than strident left takes, or strident right takes on the topic. Neither of which is informative or helpful. So I am setting up a site which uses AI which is specifically guided to be neutral and non-partisan, to analyse the govern…

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We leave it to the AI.

We have gone to a lot of trouble to try to engineer the prompt to make it clear to Gemini that it should take a "non-partisan and unbiased" view in all the analysis. This is an attempt to get away from any person's opinion, including ours.

Obviously, whether you think it achieving that ideal is in the eye of the beholder :-) But it is certainly less biased than most mainstream media, and social network echo chambers.

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

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post #810

Still working on my game, Astral Divide. I finished writing most of the story and am now working on implementing the main enemy's AI. I'm having quite some fun with studying and making a schooling algorithm that fits my needs. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597060/Astral_Divide/

Nice job! Out of curiosity, how have you been using gen AI in your work?

I'm not using any kind of AI.

I considered leveraging LLMs to help write some parts the scenario, but in the end I prefer doing it myself.

When I said "enemy's AI", I didn't mean machine learning, just how it behaves.

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

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post #32

Still working on https://phrasing.app - an app for polyglots to learn over 120 languages in the most effective manner and a beautiful UI. Just finished a onboarding flow, now updating the search and create experience to fall more in line with actual usage from users, then hopefully prepping for a more public launch :) Had a fun week fixing up the application so it’s 100x faster on 5 different axes, and it’s starting…

I was a linguist in a former life, so these apps always intrigue me. I've made a few attempts myself over the years. Yours looks slick and would've been an interesting one to check out if I were learning a language. I signed-in and took a look around getting a few "Error rendering home" errors occasionally, fyi. I was a little surprised at the CC#/subscribe page, since the prices didn't seem to be matching up with th…

Thanks for the kind words! Sorry about the errors, I’ll get these sorted out.

The CC page will be updated next week sometime - for now I’m letting people register at the old prices (50%) while I’m plugging all the holes.

And the sandbox is coming! It’ll be on the marketing page, just under the video. It’ll probably take a month to get around to though. That, plus a trial week ($3.99) should hopefully give the user a taste

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

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Jarvis: A native voice command layer for your desktop

I’ve been hacking away at Jarvis on nights and weekends for the past few months. I found myself increasingly frustrated with the constant context-switching involved in using ChatGPT through a browser for quick AI tasks. So, I decided to build a native voice-command layer that works seamlessly within any app you’re currently using.

It’s still pretty early, but I set up a frictionless web demo at jarvis.ceo/demo, where you can test it instantly without installation or sign-up. I’d love your feedback!

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

#819
I am building Overcentric - a simple and affordable toolkit that combines web & product analytics, chat support, help center, session replays and frontend error reporting, all in one place.

Building, testing and improving based on feedback of several startups that integrated it. Also using Overcentric for Overcentric itself, so I always get ideas for improvement.

What's next: more tools that are useful for startups are on the roadmap and I am exploring how LLMs can be further utilised (apart from support, session replay summaries, aiding in writing help center articles, integration) and refining pricing.

Also working on an improved landing page, but you can check out the current one at: https://overcentric.com/

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

#820

Been working on https://www.stainedglassatlas.com . Trying to document and map as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. The goal being the next time you visit a new city or town, you'll know where all the beautiful stained glass is to go see. Just recently added support for countries outside of North America. No exciting tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). But excited for folks to check it out!

How does that clustering in Leaflet work? I have a similar use case
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