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

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OpenCLI - https://github.com/bcdxn/opencli A document specification for defining command line interfaces. It's really just a fun side project to get more familiar with Go. The goal is to be able to generate boilerplate code in a few languages/frameworks and to generate documentation in a couple formats.

I would also like to help if you need a hand with docs :)

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

#882
Building a tool chest of software for my own needs. IT for Sovereigns.

Mostly not open source, contrary to how I have historically operated. I think I'll drop them open source as time goes on and money matters less. Kinda feels like I might make more money just open sourcing it all because of good karma tho.

It's all in Python because that's what I could get on the $200 Windows laptop I built it with, I kept it in S Mode as a challenge because I want it to run as constrained as my customer personas might experience.

Present stage is finding those personas and slicing the wares up into offers/products.

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

#883

As far as what I'm focusing on this weekend: 1. Right now, working on standing up an MCP server in Java. Not using the Spring Boot support at the moment, but rather setting up embedded Tomcat and doing it the more "low level" way just for didactic purposes. I'm sure I'll use Spring Boot once I get deeper into all of this. 2. Plowing through the "AI Agents in Action" book. I'm just wrapping up the section on AutoGen a…

This inspired me to buy the Agents in Action book! Gonna start working through it as well.

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

#884
3 personal projects i uave been working on:

Queue management AI agent where clients interact using Whatsapp/sms for appointment and reservation;

School management system that integrates AI for reporting and teacher/student/staff task s assistance;

A cloud based remote execution platform to run python(and other languages) scripts in a isolated virtual machine.

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

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post #425

https://sublevelgames.github.io/blogs/2025-05-24-armor-games... I analyzed 7 years of Armorgames.com data (999 games) to understand web gaming market trends. Key findings that might interest fellow developers: User standards are rising: Average ratings dropped from 7.02 (2018) to 6.45 (2025), but the percentage of high-quality games (8.5+ rating) actually increased from 12.3% to 14.7%. This suggests quality polarizat…

I'm not sure the take away for the first point that user standards are rising is correct. Could that also be the number of people making games is increasing? I say this because more highly rated games and a trending down of the average (more slop) could explain that as well. I think the idea that standards are rising would hold constant the number of games.

Fair point, but here's the thing - Armorgames is actually way pickier now about which games they accept. They're letting fewer games through their gates. So if the average rating is still dropping even with higher curation standards, that pretty much confirms users have gotten more critical over time.

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

#886

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

Do you have any general advice for countries considering pursuing nuclear energy programs? Ex. Estonia is actively working on legislation to enable nuclear energy production (likely through a small modular reactor) and it'd be great to hear an experts advice on how to best pursue developing a domestic nuclear energy industry.

Also curious if there are any parts of the industry you think are particularly exciting and/or neglected (ex. there was just a startup that raised gobs of money to enrich HALEU since most of it used to come from Russia)

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

#887
I’m working on Proflect — a platform that combines goal-setting, journaling, and feedback to support intentional personal and professional growth. You can link daily reflections and feedback directly to the goals you’re working on, and track your progress over time.

The idea is to bring more structure and insight to self-improvement without making it feel like a chore.

I’d really appreciate any thoughts on the concept or the site itself: https://proflect.io — does it make sense? Anything unclear or missing?

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

#889
I built a workflow to auto-generate highlight clips from long videos.

I've been experimenting with a custom workflow to turn long-form videos into short, engaging highlight clips. I know a bunch of startups are in this space, but I wanted to build something lightweight and flexible just for fun — and ended up integrating it into one of my products.

Here’s the general flow:

Transcribe the video Use tools like Whisper, AssemblyAI, or Deepgram to get an accurate transcript.

Extract interesting clips Feed the transcript into an LLM (I recommend Gemini because of its long context and quality) and prompt it to segment the video based on criteria like "viral", "engaging", "funny", etc. Make sure it returns timestamps.

Generate the clips Use ffmpeg to slice the original video using those timestamps.

(Optional) Auto-crop for vertical If the user selects a mobile/short-form format, use something like Sieve to auto-crop and center the subject for vertical (9:16) output.

(Bonus) Enhance captions Run the extracted clip transcripts back through the LLM to pick out keywords or phrases to emphasize in the captions.

Add captions with styling Use Remotion or similar to render the clips with styled, animated captions. The component handles logic for timing and highlighting.

Render and download Batch render your clips and you’re done.

I used this exact pipeline to build a feature in one of my tools: https://www.shortsgenerator.com/highlights-generator

Appreciate any feedback!

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

#890

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

I wonder if you could share some advice as to how to translate a marginal exposure to nuclear manufacturing and nde of nuclear grade components over the years(as a mechanical engineer) into a full-time position? What certs/specific experience/domain knowledge are the upcoming startups looking for in a hire? I'm a third-worlder btw. I love the field and champion its prospects to unwitting listeners :), but not much potential out where I am.
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