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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#902I vibe coded a chrome extension that highlights new links on HN frontpage since your last visit, so that you dont have to waste time looking for which links are new. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-new-links-highli...
I've been using a js bookmarklet every single day for over a decade. It sorts the entries by most voted and dims the ones already shown last visit. I won't post it here as it may mess up with formatting, so here is a link to pastebin: https://pastebin.com/dzT7PckU
you should turn it into an extension as well
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#903A small tool I'm building for myself because I often forget what I actually did during the week, especially when it's time to summarize it, do my weekly review, or prepare for 1:1s or evaluations.
The idea is simple:
1. On the days I work, I get an email one hour before the end of the day (as I usually use emails as todo lists).
2. I reply to that email with what I did just like I would in a personal journal.
3. My reply gets saved and shows up on a calendar. It's nothing fancy, just the content of the email on the day it was written.
4. When I need to prepare for a performance review or a manager check-in, I can generate a clean report based on my past entries with summaries written by AI
That’s it. No login every day, no new tool to open. Just a little trace of my work, saved quietly, and summarized when needed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#904I 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/…
It's a huge topic. The UAE is probably the biggest most recent example of what has to be done to set up the legal and regulatory pathway and then move into good technical execution. I think they did it really well; bringing in experts to help, choosing a well-understood tried-and-true design rather than a cutting edge Gen IV never-before-tried technology, building 4 in a row rather than just one. Of course that all takes an absurd amount of capital.
I think the most neglected thing in the nuclear industry is the ABWR design. It's a good-enough boiling water reactor that Hitachi was able to construct with record-breaking speed.
The IAEA is the best place to start. They have workshops and publications on getting going, e.g. https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/developing-nuclear-power-infra...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#905I'm working on a cycling app that analyzes your Strava data and matches your activities to the OSM street grid. You get cool statistics which paths in your city you've already taken. The goal is to make your commute more fun :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#906I'm just finishing up a book called Rebooting a Nation on how the country of Estonia modernized so quickly after independence from the Soviet Union and became a leader in tech and e-government. It should start shipping on Amazon in the U.S. later this week! Happy to chat with folks who have questions about the publishing industry from an authors perspective (I ended up signing with Hurst in the UK which distributes t…
Very cool. Fun username too. I know Estonia has been an amazing leader in this space. Any thoughts on how their gov digitization compares/contrasts with Ukraines DIIA efforts?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#907OpenCLI - 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 :)
Yeah I'd love to get some help. You can DM me on the Twitter/X that's in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#908OpenCLI - 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 like this, would you like some help?
Yeah I'd love to get some help. You can DM me on the Twitter/X that's in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#909A compound word splitter in JS that splits up words of different (esp. Germanic) languages down to simplexes reliably based on a dictionary, including Segmenter API and SQLite FTS connector. Works very reliably by internally using statistics for known compound words, too, and a stemmer.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#910I'm building a personal CRM tool that I use to store my network. I have a bad habit of not checking up on people. Even close friends. That's why I'm building this. The goal is to have a software where I can input people and then set reminders to catch up with them. It's kind of like a relationship management tool.
Existing alternatives: Clay, Dex.