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

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

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Post by tatubola »

nutanc wrote: post #418

Currently, other than my day job, I am obsessed with making sense of the "shape of stories". Mapping embeddings and see how they move through a sequence. Started of with [1] which showed that there might be some strength to the idea. Applied it for chunking [2] and web site analysis[3] and got pretty good results. Just started trying out experiments on video [4] and surprised that the structure seems to hold for imag…

Using this for semantic chunking feels like a great idea. Did you continue investigating that (after the second newsletter)?

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

johnea wrote: post #4

I'm working on not working! Isn't this what everyone is working on?

Working on finding a job. Maybe in 2025 I can use these threads as a small devlog on the game I want to work on. But until then my progress has been "did questions on trees and backtracking". woohoo.

Though games for sale seem to be treading the line of the "no self-promotion" guideline. It's not coming out anytime soon and I have a very unconventional pipeline for developing it, so I think it'll be worth sharing the tech and process of that along the way.

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

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Post by tatubola »

cacozen wrote: post #820

A keyboard that is ergonomic without looking or feeling intimidating ( https://github.com/cassiozen/fatbee ). The term "ergonomic" isn't regulated in the US, so the market is full of supposedly "ergonomic" keyboards that offer little real benefits—and in some cases, may actually cause harm. My main gripe is with split keyboards. The traditional keyboard layout is wrong in so many ways (from the perspective of physiol…

As someone who tried (and failed) to adapt to other ergonomic keyboards (like a Microsoft Sculpt a few years ago), this really speaks to me.

The interesting thing is I did manage to fix most of my right wrist pain, but not through an ergo keyboard – switching to an Apple magic trackpad did the trick.

But I'm still intrigued by your design - if it was something I could buy (instead of building) I would give it a go.

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

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Post by tyjkot »

btbuildem wrote: post #674
tyjkot wrote: post #516

In my 50k population town in Minnesota, I notice a lot of headlights, taillights, and turn signals are out. Our roads (outside of the Twin Cities) are often bumpy which causes vibration in the vehicles, leading to many bulbs failing. I drive a 21 year old Saab, and in my 2 years of owning it, I have replaced every single bulb in the exterior of the vehicle except a turn signal or two. I decided to create a mobile ser…

Please please please strongly discourage people from using those super-blinding lights so many cars seem to have these days!

Lol I will only be replacing bulbs with OEM parts. Some vehicles come with xenon, LED, or HIDs and that will have to be replaced with proper bulbs.

As blinding as they are, if that's what the vehicle has I gotta put them back in.

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

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Post by bilsbie »

robby1066 wrote: post #744

After a LONG time out of the tech world (burnout destroyed me right before the pandemic) I'm building something new and it feels great. It's an online service that helps immigrants prepare their citizenship application and get affordable feedback from an attorney. https://www.clearboxlegal.com (Met my co-founder on the YC founder matching platform, Thanks YC!)

Was it hard to find a cofounder on there? Everyone seems really opinionated and focused on their own ideas.

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

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Post by dexteeer »

in my work, inventory of raw material (computer system, scanner, printer, computer screen) is still done using paper so i'm building this android studio app that uses OCR and sends text to the server that will write it on excel sheet.

the data I want: model, serie, inventory id, type

so I have limited the text output extracted from the image to 4 lines and started each line by the necessary property e.g model: HP prodesk 3000 MT serie: XCQOUNF24 inventory id: to be added manually type: to be choose manually (printer, screen, computer ... )

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

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Post by xz36h »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #245

Designing lenses with numerical optimization. It's surprising how much layers of an optical systems are akin to layers of a neural network during training. If you use rays as inputs and refractive surfaces as layers, you can pretty much use standard pytorch! I should write a blog post about it.

I would have no idea where to even begin with such a projet.

Please do write about it.

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

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

linsomniac wrote: post #613
vldmrs wrote: post #223

I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much f…

My wife has been using ChatGPT to generate coloring pages for our Little Free Library and they've been coming out amazing!

One of my 1000 unfinished projects was a e-reader app for android that generates coloring book pages, or illustrations for young kids who are in that weird age group where there are no more pictures in their books, but they still enjoy illustrations. I have a gifted niece who is way ahead for her age at reading but still enjoys pictures/coloring so I planned on making it for year. Don't know if I'll have the chance to finish, but I'm sure Kindle will integrate this into their new color kindles (and probably every other e-reader) at some point.

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

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Post by hinkley »

janosch_123 wrote: post #471

I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an https://openinverter.org motor controller Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube channel to help others: What's a battery management system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA What is battery balancing? https://…

I still have my fingers crossed that one day someone will build an electric drivetrain for a very common engine design (akin to how people put bigger engines from bolt compatible vehicles into smaller ones so they go faster), and for iconic vehicles so that we can keep them on the road. There are plenty of collectible cars out there that already lack matching serial numbers. Swapping the engine on those is no great sin against history.
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