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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 wordpad25 »

angrypie wrote: post #821

I’ve been working on a free language learning app that uses a local AI model to translate words and sentences. You can read sentences, short stories, or watch YouTube videos with translatable captions. It mostly follows the principles of the comprehensible input theory. Think of it like LingQ, but free and with any language combination. The main goal is for the app to run entirely on the client side and stay complete…

I love the concept of translating at user level for learning.

I'm building a directory of language learning tools, let's connect, please.

wordpad@gmail.com

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

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Post by awbvious »

Samsamelo https://g8way.io/WazWieKElugDkoQhDrpUfqK4P-hEFoxTmPVqSnU49Nc

Inspired by three people, so I tried to find three fitting ways to let people know this story exists. 1: On a website currently showing deep-fake propaganda to support a fascist (felt a bit icky posting there). 2: On a dapp/chain that is the premiere place to lose money on sh*coins (as a sh*coin itself, but at least I'm not going to call it collateral as a pretense for fraud). 3: Here, where they actually managed to get rid of someone (who later proved himself un-rid-able elsewhere).

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

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Post by hinkley »

Timwi wrote: post #309

I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines: ╓───╖ ║ ! ║ ╙─┬─╜ ┌───╖ ╔═══╗ ┌─────┴─────┤ > ╟──╢ 2 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╚═══╝ ╔════╗ ┌───╖ │ │ ║ −1 ╟──┤ + ╟─┴─┐ │ ╚════╝ ╘═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ │ ╔═══╗ │ │ ! ║ │ ║ 1 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ │ ╚═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ ┌─┴─╖ │ │ │ × ╟──┤ ? ╟──┘ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╘═╤═╝ └─────┘ │ The language is called Funciton (pronounced: /ˈfʌŋkɪtɒn/) and the above…

The “better mousetrap” of visual programming is inventing a diff tool that works decently. If you can do that, the world will beat that path to your doorstep.

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

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

koeng wrote: post #13

I'm working on synthesizing a genome at home! Here is a video with more details, as well as a picture of my home lab. I've always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally have a chance to do it. Video on what I'm doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiuS1oHnKw Picture of my home lab - https://x.com/koeng101/status/1844150979484319842 I'm trying to build a DNA assembly company right now (been lots of ups a…

Very cool, I wish you the best of luck. Fuck Trilobio

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

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Post by jameslmilner »

I'm working on a JavaScript library for drawing on web maps called Terra Draw - it uses an adapter pattern so aims to work with a bunch of different mapping libraries such as Leaflet, Google Maps, MapBox and MapLibre. You can see it at: https://github.com/JamesLMilner/terra-draw

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

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Post by dleink »

082349872349872 wrote: post #403
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…

At one pre-funding startup (in the days when 14400 was an excellent remote connection) we had a LAN set up in the basement of the founder with the largest house. Their daughter liked to "work" alongside us, so (partly to protect our unattended keyboards!) I bought a colouring-book program for her to use. One evening, when her mother called down that it was her bedtime, she replied: — Can't mom, busy working! click cl…

What's she up to?

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

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Post by nicbou »

curtisblaine wrote: post #813
nicbou wrote: post #370

The Berlin immigration office is notoriously slow and unresponsive. The processing time for a residence permit varies from a few weeks to a few months. During that time, people are left unable to work or unable to leave the country. They never know how long it will take, and it causes some people to give up and leave Germany. I am writing a tool to collect and aggregate data about the processing times. This will help…

Might it be on purpose, to low-key making immigration more difficult / discouraged? Europe seems to be under huge migratory pression.

I hear this a lot but I don't believe it. Every other office people - immigrants and natives - interact with is falling apart from lack of personnel, outdated processes, lack of digitalisation and excessive bureaucracy. This is just part of life in Berlin. Immigrants just have to do it all at once and feel it more.

If you look at the numbers, the Berlin office has double the workload it had five years ago, and a rather modest increase in headcount during the same time period. They can be fairly criticised for a lot of things, but malice is not one of them.

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