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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 tm11zz »

jansan wrote: post #407
tm11zz wrote: post #286

Working on an AI to generate SVG vector images. SVGs are awesome and currently unrepresented in the diffusion-based model landscape. We have something that produces pretty great results and we're working on the next version which should be even better. https://vectorart.ai

Something like this is desperately needed, keep up the work. One thing that I immediately noticed is that all downloads are named "download.svg". A more descriptive name would be helpful. Edit: Also, copying the SVGs to the clipboard would be nice. Download from the browser still sucks, and with web based SVG editors (like my own one, www.hyvector.com ) people can quickly edit the generated SVGs without having to go…

Re Edit: great job on hyvector! are you open for some sort of collaboration? any way I can contact you to discuss?

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

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Post by com2kid »

seidleroni wrote: post #560
com2kid wrote: post #127

Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator. Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town every 2 hours in reality. It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a dragon in front of the town and no one says anything about it." All the NPCs realistically react and talk about the Hero's exploits. Visitors to the site can vote on what quest the hero undertakes next. I'm r…

It would be great to give each of the NPC's their own character. For example, some of the NPC's could have a grudge against the hero for reasons of their own. They could be cheering against him for causing such a ruckus in their village, or maybe some "Monday morning quarterback" happening, thinking they could have handled the problem much better than he did. I think an LLM may be pretty good at coming up with some i…

I'm thinking of going full on soap opera complete with a love triangle.

Visitors need some sort of vested interest in what is going on.

When properly prompted, even GPT3.5 can write compelling short stories[1], but I'm using such tiny models for this that I'll have to do a lot of guidance to keep things interesting.

[1] IMHO it was better at this when GPT3.5 first released, it was able to do some awesome stuff!

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

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Post by jedberg »

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://…

Do you do contract work? My dream is to use a classic car kit and turn it into an electric car. Basically the kit in this article. :)

https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/first-drive-gto-engineeri...

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

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Post by fandorin »

I’m developing a simple iOS app to detect Ultra Processed Food (UPF). The ones that are in Apple Store now are either too complex or paid-only without a chance to test it for free. I believe people should be able to detect UPF and learn how to detect it even without the app (in a long term). I will launch it in 2 weeks max.

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

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Post by tootie »

cbeach wrote: post #637
thomasfl wrote: post #458

For me the most important issue that needs to be solved right now is the increasing urban sprawl and the car dependent neighborhoods. It causes social isolation. Maintaining infrastructure like roads and electricity, is causing a strain on the economy for local municipalities. Not to mention the disastrous effect car based transportation has on the environment. I am a fullstack developer living in Norway. Last year I…

I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel busses for much of my journey, breathing in their…

You have to be joking. Having blown my nose on many subways, tissue turning black is absolutely baloney. Either you have a truly horrible disease or you're lying. I've raised two kids very successfully in a city with no car.

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

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Post by pizzamiheart »

i'm working on a website to report trail conditions after Hurricane Helene in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and the Smokys of Eastern Tennessee.

there's a lot of unknowns as trails are still closed and there's not a conditions report feature in strava to use to figure out conditions as they do start opening up.

goals are to have:

- map search for a trail in the region - click the trail, see a popup summary of open/closed, and number of reports on that trail - page for each trail with most recent reports and ~maybe~ pictures - recent reports on any trail on the home page

currently, i'm stuck on full functionality with mapbox directions api and getting the search-for-trail working.

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

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Post by rozap »

raj7desai wrote: post #499

Building https://proofofskill.org Hiring today is completely broken. We spend too much time evaluating candidates through inefficient systems that fail to verify job-specific skills. Both organizations and candidates are stuck in an endless loop of repetitive assignments and interviews. That’s why we built the Proof-of-Skill Protocol. The protocol allows candidates to prove their skills directly to industry experts,…

heads up, none of the buttons on your site work

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

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Post by gcheong »

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…

I live in San Francisco and a few blocks down the street from me is a street that always has a bunch of Saabs parked out on it. I don't know if it's one person that owns them or fixes them for others but I thought it was pretty random and interesting.

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

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Post by jackthetab »

ValentinA23 wrote: post #602

I'm experimenting with a "new" kind of lisp macros. Macros in lisp are just normal functions that receive the code they wrap as argument and return some modified code. Typically they will just wrap the passed code into some more code. But then there are code walking macro: macros that will traverse passed code to modify it in depth. What I'm working on is "code diving" macros. Not only will they traverse the passed c…

THANK YOU! I've been trying to understand wtf lisp macros are for so long I'm embarrassed to say. I've heard that their "extremely powerful" and kept thinking "Macros? like in C? In Excel? WTF is the big deal about macros?"

Now I understand why I should learn lisp other than to play with its weird-but-kinda-cool-looking prefix notation.

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