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

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I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai I also wrote a metaprogramming…

wow, this is so cool Jesse :)

<3

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

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Training ML models for PDF forms. You can try out what I’ve got so far with this service that automatically detects where fields should go and makes PDFs fillable: https://detect.semanticdocs.org/ Code and models are at: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms That’s built on a dataset and paper I wrote called CommonForms, where I scraped CommonCrawl for hundreds of thousands of fillable form pages and used that as a…

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

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I’ve been working on https://redditdeep.com to solve a problem I’ve had for a while. I regularly browse Reddit (and Hacker News) to keep up with new trends and research topics, but it's really time-consuming. - It’s hard to find the right communities. Search and recommendation features aren’t quite there, and I don’t want to just passively scroll a feed. - Going through all the comments takes too long. I just want to…

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

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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

If I were a billionaire, one of my many pet projects would basically be a 100% privately-funded-by-me organization that does nothing but test consumer products - either directly or by third party

It would be so boring - no funding accepted, everything would be freely available, no political initiatives, no recommendations, nothing. Just a treasure trove of data

A man can dream - kudos to you for actually making it a reality - great inspiration

Question for you: in general, how much does this stuff cost? what if you wanted to expand to testing beyond plastic, e.g., verifying the potency of ingredients in supplements, verifying cleaning product ingredients, etc., is that possible?

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

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When someone dies, you don't get even one extra second to access the documents and information they meant to share it with you. Trying to fix this problem with Eternal Vault. Link: https://eternalvault.app

Looks interesting, I have one question about the pricing and a main button on the home screen, it says "Protect your family (free forever)" and yet there is a monthly fee (which makes sense of course). What does the free forever bit mean?

So we do provide a free forever plan, with free plan there are usage limits plus some advance features are not there, but all the core security features are fully available on all plans (I strongly feel security is not a good to have but a must have feature)

With that being said, with the paid plans unlock higher limits, advance features (all mentioned on the pricing page).

Let me know if you have any specific questions, also feel free to DM me on my socials or via emails (all available on the contact page).

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. An example result is " https://laboratory.love/product/117 ", which is a list of chemicals and measurements. Is there a visualization of how these levels relate to regulations and expert recommendations? What about a visualization of how different products in the same category compare, so that consumers know which brand is supposedly "best"? Maybe a summary rating, as stars or color-coded threat level? 2. If you f…

What a wonderful idea! I sincerely hopes this moves the market. And I backed a study.

you rock!

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

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Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

FYI your website seems to trigger a filter/search every time I type a character. However, this causes the keyboard on iOS to collapse, which makes typing a tough task!

oh dear I'll look into this, I thought this bug was fixed. if you see this please lmk your mobile browser in case that matters.

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

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This one's going to be out of left field, but last Thursday I launched Countdown Treasure ( https://countdowntreasure.com ) It's a real life treasure hunt in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a current total prize of $31,200+ in gold coins and a growing side pot. I modeled it off of last year's Project Skydrop ( https://projectskydrop.com ) which was in the Boston area. * Shrinking search area (today, Day 5, it will be 1…

How did you fund the initial $25k?
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