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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)

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Post by cruise_ravi »

I'm working on an internal office project: an AI assistant that connects with project management tools, Google Sheets, and shipment tracking apps. It helps teams manage orders, track production statuses, pull real-time updates, and summarize next steps — all without switching between different systems. Goal is to streamline operations and make project and logistics tracking a lot faster.

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

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Post by tellarin »

My team and I are working on embodied AI. More specifically, focusing on humanoid legged robots for long horizon tasks combining navigation and manipulation/interaction.

We've recently put a paper out in arXiv (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.12533) and the project page is: https://beingbeyond.github.io/being-0/

BAAI is also hiring! No fully remote positions though. :-/

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

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Post by shatnersbassoon »

scandox wrote: post #820
tetris11 wrote: post #280

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?

IANAL (L=lumberjack) but it's clearly going to be cheaper if you can just chop it down, right? Quicker and less equipment required, less danger to life from having to climb and wield a chainsaw in an elevated position. Also, if you are interested in getting long planks out of the trunk, you would not want to cut it down progressively.

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

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Post by antfarm »

kulahan wrote: post #730

I recently found out my wife wants a gecko, so I’ve begun planning for a mega-paradise. I want weather systems, every sensor I could possibly ram in there, cameras, and more. Planning to jury rig a toilet setup to run water from the reservoir to the rain system. The gecko comes from New Caledonia, so my goal will be to replicate that environment as closely as possible. This will be difficult, since most of the plants…

https://www.peta.org/blog/dont-buy-a-gecko/

https://www.peta.org/features/gecko-facts/

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

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Post by cristyansv »

mgz wrote: post #88

I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer: homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I’m working on turning it into a product.

I'm sure you're doing it with good intentions, but it's a bit sad that children will now grow up with so few rights over their privacy.

As someone who grew up on the internet, I feel that the freedom it gave me to explore the world at my own pace allowed me to develop my personality. The thought that every second of my online life will be logged in an app and accessible to my parents honestly sounds horrible.

I respect every parent's decision regarding how they raise their children, but I invite you to reflect on whether growing up under this level of surveillance is something you would have wanted for yourselves.

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