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

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

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Post by vintagedave »

jonyt wrote: post #75

Getting my historical fiction novel published. I finished writing it a couple of months back. Extremely short plot summary: guy deserts from the Roman XI legion, goes back home only to find that his entire province is about to revolt against the Roman Empire at the height of its power. It's one of the most spectacular feats of collective self-immolation in human history and it had a large effect on human history. I t…

That sounds really worth reading! Please post it on HN when it’s published (or do you have any links / info now?)

I know it’s fiction but the way you phrase it makes it sound like this might be inspired by a true revolution, is that the case?

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

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Post by vinc »

nolan879 wrote: post #4

Working on a HomeAssistant plugin to control my home from my Macintosh SE/30. Compiling with retro68 and using my bluescsi for wifi.

Sounds really cool! Do you have a page describing your project with some pictures? It's funny I checked your post history before asking and found that you made the same comment I'm doing today to someone doing something similar one year ago! Is it what got you started?

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

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Post by bhl »

Prompting GPT to do rich text editing.

Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha).

So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier position/coordinate system to work with: just line-col or row-col.

Rich text is usually stored as trees with json or html. Have seen a paper (https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/) that represents it as a flat array.

Difference in approach would then be: is it easier for gpt to work with diffs or with operations/tool calls?

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

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Post by vintagedave »

devgoth wrote: post #55

Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi being slow and I just want to build something around an API. I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux

That sounds potentially really neat for mocking API calls.

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

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Post by Daniel_Van_Zant »

jamifsud wrote: post #10

Working on https://www.brief.news - a completely personalized daily newsletter on the topics you're interested in. We've just launched the ability to add custom topics, so you can create a newsletter on anything now!

This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a RSS option.

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

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Post by yusufaytas »

I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/

We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people.

And marketing is really hard!

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