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

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

#821
I’m wrapping up the final audio plug-in in my “Loudness Series” which was designed to bring compressors and limiters into modernity by upgrading their circuitry to using LUFS and True Peak in place of RMS/Peak.

The final plugin is an equalizer which will be focused on loudness but expand the filtering to include more advanced equal loudness contours.

https://apu.software

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

#822
I'm working on building my first custom mechanical keyboard, switches (Gateron KS-33 browns), hotswap sockets, and stabilizers should be coming in any day now, just have to do some measurements on the physical stabilizers since the CAD just didn't make sense, then it's time to send off the PCB and print a bunch of keycaps

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

#823

I have been curating a gaming newsletter for a little over 5 years now called The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/ This year, I started my first original content, Unmuted, which is a series of interviews with regular gamers about how gaming is part of their lives and their gaming habits. It's going pretty good so far with 2 interviews done. This is the latest one: https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-0…

Unmuted is a great name. I like the concept of interviewing regular people, kinda like Manuel's People and Blogs series.

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

#824

I'm working on MailTrigger — a customizable SMTP server that turns any email notification into a message on platforms like LINE, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, SMS, or pretty much anything else. The idea is simple: if your app can send an email, it can trigger notifications across multiple channels with no extra coding. Think of it as "SMTP Server to Anything." One of the cool parts is MailTrigger supports WebAsse…

How are you handling validation of inbound emails to prevent spoofing? Depending on your pricing model it could work expensive for someone?

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

#825
I’m working on SocialWeaver, an employee advocacy platform that helps businesses scale their marketing and reach by getting employees engaged with social content directly from Slack and Microsoft Teams.

I’m sure many of you were asked to engage with some product announcement, hiring post, or whatever on LinkedIn. With SocialWeaver, we remove all friction from that process by letting employees like, share, and comment directly within Slack and Teams. On top of the core use case, marketing teams also get analytics, employee leaderboards, content scheduling, etc.

https://www.socialweaver.com

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

#826
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i've been working on a database management tui called rainfrog ( https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog ). it supports postgres, mysql, and sqlite, and we recently added several new features such as: - favorites tab for frequently used queries - exporting query results to csv - configuring database connections in the config feature requests and bug reports are appreciated!

How is rainfrog different from harlequin[0] [0] https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin

i haven't used harlequin extensively, but from what i know:

- rainfrog is more keyboard centric, and it's built around vim-like keybindings

- rainfrog has minimal requirements to run (harlequin requires python)

- harlequin supports a lot more DBs and has a lot more drivers right now

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

#827
A 3D printable HP Voyager style clone shell, based on my 12c Platinum, Internet photos and lots of eyeballing. It was on the back burner for a while, but I'm moving on to something else. STEP file available publicly, no electrical work had been done.

https://numpad0.com/calculatorshell/

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

#828

Finishing up my PhD thesis on low-resource audio classification for ecoacoustics. Our partners deployed 98 recorders in remote Arctic/sub-Arctic regions, collecting a massive (~19.5 years) dataset to monitor wildlife and human noise. Labeled data is the bottleneck, so my work focuses on getting good results with less data. Key parts: - Created EDANSA [1], the first public dataset of its kind from these areas, using a…

You should train a GPT on the raw data, and then figure out how to reuse the DNN for various other tasks you're interested in (e.g. one-shot learning, fine-tuning, etc). This data setting is exactly the situation that people faced in the NLP world before GPT. I would guess that some people from the frontier labs would be willing to help you, I doubt even your large dataset would cost very much for their massive GPU fleets to handle.

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

#829
ever feel buried in applicants and wasting time on interviews that lead nowhere?i’m building an AI tool to help you instantly screen candidates so you only spend time on the best ones (and don’t miss out on great hires while stuck interviewing the wrong ones).

if that hits home, i’d love 30 mins to share what i’m building and get your thoughts. reply here or DM me if you’re up for a quick chat! Calendly link (feel free to lmk if any other times work better for you) - https://calendly.com/vibrane/30min

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