A recipe site that makes my favorite cooking youtuber videos easier to follow https://justshare.io/recipe/1Dd7GNm68hI
Great idea!
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#912I 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…
What are your thoughts on SMRs as a concept in general? I’ve seen startup hype in this space but also watched YouTube engineers say it’s basically a non feasible approach.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#913A webapp to improve how we discuss, model, and understand problems https://ameliorate.app/ (repo: https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate).
The core idea is to ground discussion in a causal diagram that ties together problems & solutions, then each node/edge can have structured details (importance score, arguments, unknowns, relevant facts, etc.) to help clarify & refine the information. It also has some features for working with this information, e.g. comparing perspectives, using a table to evaluate tradeoffs between solutions.
Right now, you basically need to be a power user to get benefit from it, but I've got a lot of ideas for making it smoother, and I'm slowly working through them.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#914I 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…
What are your thoughts on SMRs as a concept in general? I’ve seen startup hype in this space but also watched YouTube engineers say it’s basically a non feasible approach.
SMR is now a very general term, ranging a few megawatts to 450. We also have the term 'microreactors' now which are like 0.1-10 MWe or so. We have built dozens of microreactors and small reactors in these ranges in the past. Invariably, they were all too expensive to keep operating.
Major microreactor examples include PM-3A, which powered McMurdo station in antarctica for some years, SM-1A in Alaska, PM-2A in Greenland, PM-1 in Wyoming, truck-mounted ML-1 in Idaho, the ill-fated SL-1 microreactor in Idaho, the prototype SM-1 in DC, and the MH-1A floating power barge in Panama.
The smaller power reactors like the Peach Bottom HTGR ran fine, but were still too small to compete with their GW-scale neighbors. They all shut down. Larger advanced reactors like Ft. St. Vrain shut down due to operations and maintenance challenges.
Nuclear history is littered with failed advanced reactor projects. This doesn't mean they can't be done well, but it does mean that it's not easy. The guys out there right now hyping up that they're going to change the world but who have never handled radiation are in for a big reckoning. I hope they succeed, but they probably will not.
I do think small reactors are a good way to re-establish technical know-how. If you can make a few fringe small reactors and sell them in remote areas, then that's a great way to re-bootstrap people who do know how to build and run new types of reactors. For commodity power, e.g. powering data centers, this will help people be able to build larger more economical reactors.
Powering datacenters with microreactors is very likely an impossibly expensive proposition due to inherently poor chain reaction neutronics. Too many neutrons leak out.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#915A simple web app to manage appointment for my barber, here's the repo: https://github.com/Bogghi/cut-connect
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#917I'm experimenting with conversational AI, for example live video calls with Santa. Super fun.
If you want to try, send me an email.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#918A new YouTube app/player, for my kids. It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood. Visually it looks the same. The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love. E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities. Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with…
Is a TV app possible, or only mobile/tablet?
It's a web app. I'm developing it as a PWA for easy installation on mobile devices. No app or app store required. Installation is like adding a bookmark.
https://www.bitcot.com/how-to-install-a-pwa-to-your-device/
Since it's a web app, I don't see why it couldn't be installed on any TV with a built-in web browser.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#919I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way. One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-c…
"answers riddles" - what kind?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
#920A easy way for users to detect whether or not they are being scammed/spammed/phished.
Link:
https://isthisspam.org
Built the first product, which is email based where users email/forward suspicious messages to check@isthisspam.org and get a response back. Next up is a chrome extension, for now will have to use cloud providers but hoping to make it fully locally