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

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

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Post by ashwinsundar »

motohagiography wrote: post #847
ashwinsundar wrote: post #782

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the perspective, but I think that tech solutions like this have plenty of opportunities to bootstrap and apply for various grants and funds (which we are doing). I'd rather see more money go towards non-tech solutions and direct care for animals. Shelters are notoriously underfunded and understaffed, and the number of pets people have adopted and given up has boomed since the pandemic. Not to mention the…

indeed, though i was thinking more in terms of actual investment with an expected return on growth rather than just patronage. it sounded valuable and worth investing in.

Happy to chat more if you or someone you know thinks there is an investment opportunity here. My email is in my profile.

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

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Post by natebenson32 »

I just launched Ditto, a copy-to-clipboard Chrome extension for your favorite links!

I've been applying to a bunch of job listings lately and it's always a bit of an inconvenience to go out and grab URLs for my LinkedIn profile, personal website, GitHub profile, social media, and other websites. I decided to build a solution that copies these links to your clipboard in just one click!

I want to help others optimize their job search workflow. This extension has helped me and it is now free-to-use for anyone who wants it. Feel free to check it out!

Links:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ditto-%E2%80%94-lin...

https://use-ditto.com/

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

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Post by danfunk »

vb-8448 wrote: post #556

A workflow engine, but not an "airflow like" (even if I hope it will become an airflow killer) but more similar to old job scheduling systems from mainframe era(OPC/TWS/CA7 ecc). In my opinion, those mainframe-era dinosaurs are conceptually far more superior to what we have today on servers and cloud systems.

We are working on a workflow engine as well - picking up concepts from the past - not quite as far back as mainframes, but I respect looking back to the past for things that work well, and re-applying them to a new world. I'd be up for sharing notes. Our work is here https://github.com/sartography/spiff-arena -- live demo is here https://spiff.works/agent-demo

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

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Post by ctas »

em-bee wrote: post #744
ctas wrote: post #71

A desktop environment for Linux, visually inspired by OSX Snow Leopard with a touch of contemporary. Coming with compositor, apps like dock, finder, status bar, and a UI framework like AppKit. Scratching my own itch and would love to see if it can gain traction. Still in the early innings though.

what framework/techstack are you using? i'd love to see something built on top of GNUstep which is close to what OSX is originally based on. (don't know how much of that is still found in Snow Leopard)

The goal is not to use a similar tech stack e.g. GNUstep. Instead I'm focusing more on outcome - a desktop environment with a similar degree of polish and functionality without the need for third party tools.

To stay competitive and iterate fast I'm adding a high-level JS/CSS API on top of Wayland, think AppKit + SwiftUI. If you look over my shoulder it might look like I'm making a webapp, but on a custom browser.

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

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Post by davidpolberger »

junto wrote: post #839
davidpolberger wrote: post #202

I'm working on an engine for Excel-like formulas, which will be available both as a library and as a service (which I've mentioned on HN a few times before). I originally started work on the engine back in 2008, when our app builder needed it. This is a wheel I see people reinventing all the time, often for use in SaaS applications. The implementations are often underwhelming: function support is limited, documentati…

Is this like gorules?

No, not really. GoRules appears to be a decision engine that allows non-technical users to define rules visually through a graphical interface. Engineers can then interpret and evaluate these rules using provided libraries.

What I'm building is a formula engine that validates, compiles, and evaluates Excel-like formulas. Compared to GoRules, it’s more akin to the ZEN expression language component than to the broader GoRules system.

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

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Post by davidpolberger »

junto wrote: post #839
davidpolberger wrote: post #202

I'm working on an engine for Excel-like formulas, which will be available both as a library and as a service (which I've mentioned on HN a few times before). I originally started work on the engine back in 2008, when our app builder needed it. This is a wheel I see people reinventing all the time, often for use in SaaS applications. The implementations are often underwhelming: function support is limited, documentati…

Is this like gorules?

Other apt comparisons to what I'm building include HyperFormula and Microsoft Power Fx.

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

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Post by fivestones »

juxtaposicion wrote: post #770
xk3 wrote: post #746

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I see paper towels but no toilet paper? I think toilet paper is the most confusing one edit: also this doesn't seem correct: Everything above will save you $57.65 on 33 fl oz https://popgot.com/shampoo?attributes=scalp_concern%3Adandru...

I had to look at that carefully, but I think that "save you $57.65 on 33 fl oz" is both technically and meaningfully correct. It compares our best choice to the most popular choice -- we use the product with the most ratings as a proxy for that. Nizoral 2-in-1 has a crazy 100k reviews, but it is in fact almost 20x more expensive per fluid ounce! And it is the most popular product@ If you hover the text it explains th…

I always kind of felt like it would be great to compare all kinds of toilet paper (soft, not soft, 1- 2- 3-ply etc) together based on weight. I feel like I use a lot fewer sheets of thicker toilet paper. So if I could see which was cheapest per gram or something I’d be pretty interested.

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

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Post by nateb2022 »

Saigonautica wrote: post #413

A while back I saw an RF lightning detector on HN ( https://techlib.com/electronics/lightningnew.htm ) I redesigned it to be much smaller and cheaper (surface-mount), made it an IoT device, and various other changes. Will order PCBs in a bit, hopefully it works well. We don't have anything like Blitzortung in SE Asia as far as I know, and it would be pretty useful to me to detect lightning storms before they hit. The…

This sounds exciting! I would be very interested if you were to open-source your efforts

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

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Post by protocolture »

kdinn wrote: post #815
protocolture wrote: post #442

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We leave it to the AI. We have gone to a lot of trouble to try to engineer the prompt to make it clear to Gemini that it should take a "non-partisan and unbiased" view in all the analysis. This is an attempt to get away from any person's opinion, including ours. Obviously, whether you think it achieving that ideal is in the eye of the beholder :-) But it is certainly less biased than most mainstream media, and social…

So the bias is left to the AI's training set?

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

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Post by PaulRobinson »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #655
PaulRobinson wrote: post #222

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Is the story about the Scottish football fans I once heard about them staying true, and partly to blame for some of the entrepreneurial mindset?

I'm not sure the story! Would love to hear about it

It's a brilliant story, that I can't do justice to here. Enjoy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/20/worlddispatch....
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