> For example, if you love football, and you're good enough at it, you can get paid a lot to play it.
good enough doesn't get you paid enough to cover your injuries.
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#852I'm working on https://nuenki.app/ , a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc. Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far fr…
Some feedback: I was about to try now (paying) but currently I can only install it in my desktop (no iOS support), and I am very worried about the idea of giving full access to a close-source unpopular extension with not-very-clear ownership. I think it would go a long way to create some trust to show who are you in the webpage and maybe open source the extension too (the backend is not as importa nt).
There was/is an extension for FF to do a simple dictionary replace.
Not good for anything serious, but fun.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#853I’m doing a deep dive into the video games of the year 2000. The plan is to make a threejs site where I can display all my favorite games with models of their original packaging and instruction manuals. An interesting aspect of the research is that almost all published games are bad or mediocre. Wikipedia knows about ~800 video games published in the year 2000. Of those, only ~300 either piqued my interest based on d…
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#854I'm (still) working on my surf forecasting website / PWA [0].
I spent the past few months refactoring most of the site:
* Find a smarter logic to recommend when to go surfing, based on how the combination of swell and wind indicators are.
* Add support for other locations (currently: only Fuerteventura, Canary Islands is there) - this means refactoring the way how forecast data is managed.
* UX & UI: enhance the information hierarchy, menus, create a new visual identity.
[0]: https://gonna.surf
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#855I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam. I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp to that (so it could be painte…
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#856Still working on Kviklet:
https://github.com/kviklet/kviklet
Trying to make production database access easy while avoiding dropping a table in production.
Experimenting with websockets right now so you don't have to create formal requests like a pull request anymore but instead can have more fluent database access sessions while another engineer watches over your virtual shoulder.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#857I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on. I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and r…
This is wonderful, though I wouldnt want to move to Berlin I find this really useful to learn about Germany. I also find it funny because it epitomises how broken the EU is. It should not be this hard to move within the EU, alas, here we are. Thank you for putting this together for the folks that need it!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#858Building a web app that lets me do math and chemistry problems on an infinite canvas with a drawing tablet. After finishing the problem, I can open up an integrated text editor (with vim bindings) that lets me create Anki flashcards about the problem, letting me copy different portions of the handwritten/hand-drawn stuff onto the flashcard. I developed a very simple compiler to specify flashcard content. Anything ins…
Can confirm this is wicked cool! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#859Just uploaded the most complete and fine-grained dataset of Parliamentary election results for my country, Namibia. ( https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi... ) Official data sharing practices are poor - results are are often in the wrong format or not available at all. I had to be quite resourceful to put this all together. As I transition out of academia I hope this sort of data helps others…
I would like to add what on the p. 3 you probably want to add a percent of the vote difference, it can help for 'at a glance' 'analysis'.
Great work anyway, and it's interesting how the errors (and not the errors) in the vote coubt manifest. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#860Working on a v1 firmware for USBSID-Pico now that I have ordered the first v1 pcbs.
https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico USBSID-Pico is a RasberryPi Pico based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or hardware SID emulators with a computer/phone over USB.