Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

921–930 of 1001 posts

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

#921

Post by mindcrime »

nbbaier wrote: post #883
mindcrime wrote: post #11

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.

Before starting this book I'd worked with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Ollama, the OpenAI API, etc. to varying degrees. What's been good about this book (so far) is that it has covered a number of technologies I had not previously explored: AutoGen, Crew.ai, SemanticKernel, etc.

The downside though, is that it doesn't go super deep into any of those things. So for me, it's been good to at least get a taste of what each is useful for and to serve as a starting point for further explorations. But just be aware that you won't become, say, a Crew.ai expert or whatever, from working through this. Still, I think it's valuable and I'm going to keep grinding through it. In Chapter 5 now, I think.

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

#922

Post by willlma »

carpo wrote: post #259

Ive almost finished the first version of a desktop video library app I've been writing for myself. I had the idea last year, but the cost of sending images to an LLM made it too expensive (to run over about 1500 videos), but now it's fairly reasonable. In the app you pick a folder with videos in it and it stores the path, metadata, extracts frames as images, uses a local whisper model to transcribe the audio into sub…

This isn't entirely on-topic but I've been trying to understand why AI video editing isn't more common, and thought you might know. I've had an idea for a while to make tennis match highlight videos that show every single point of the match. Tennis has a lot of downtime between points (and even more between games and sets). I just want to tell an LLM: here's a two-hour long video of a tennis match. Strip out all the gaps between points. I'm guessing this would a very expensive frame by frame analysis of the video right now and that's why it's not done. Is that right or are there other reasons?

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

#924

Post by tipofthehat »

Alex-Programs wrote: post #184

I'm working on https://nuenki.app . It's a browser extension that translates sentences at your knowledge level into the language you're learning, so you learn through immersion as you go about your day. I've been doing a lot of experiments evaluating LLM translation performance, and I used what I learnt (that LLMs make mistakes, but different LLMs make different mistakes, and they're better at critiquing translations…

Hi Alex, lovely work. I have just started working on a similar idea, to have level-aware language support in a podcast player (extending Anytime Player) to help the listener recognise words, phrases and meaning in native content.

I'm a non-techy person learning from scratch so it's slow going but as a language learner who selfishly wants more tools to support immersion learning if you want to support audio I think something podcast based would be super interesting.

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

#925

Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

T0Bi wrote: post #249

Planning a hobby alpaca farm (3-4 alpacas), very early stage. Everything from farm related stuff (water, food, shelter, etc.) to self-sufficiency (solar, etc.) to real time monitoring (which cameras, affecting power supply). Who knows if it'll ever happen, but just planning everything in detail is a lot of fun. Especially with weird regulatory constraints where I'm living, there's a lot to watch out for. Example: Sol…

LOL

The "best" plan is probably to observe someone who already has alpacas and go there frequently at all times of the year, in all kinds of weather conditions to see if you still want to deal with it. Also, ask yourself if you ever want a vacation again.

I've lived next to horses for 19+ years now and I don't remember what kind of a plan there was. Suffice to say that it would have gone out the window by day 2.

> Snow in winter means panels should be set up at a specific angle

Not sure what this means, but I can assure you that Mother Nature will subvert whatever plan you have, probably by sending enough wind to pack the snow so hard to the panel, that it will stick there even if vertical.

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

#928

Post by bitbasher »

My current side project is a game development market analysis and research platform with built in marketing channels (youtubers, streamers complete with contact data, etc).

For example, you can research the best genres for indies by copies sold, numbers of released games/saturation, etc. You can also find youtubers that have streamed similar games/genres and get their contact info.

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

#929

Post by mindwork »

I've been working more on my homelab.

In short: installed immich(instead of Synology Photos), Beszel, Paperless-ngx(configuration pending), moved a bunch of tools out of my HTPC VM in to separate VM, did a proper backup of my proxmox cluster and set up cloud-init template with new ubuntu.

Due: gitops style deployment and terraformation of infrastructure(provision proxmox VMs via terraform) and auto redeployment of docker containers across 5 machines. Probably would need github runner in my network. Also Authelia is still missing in my lab, I need to get to that soon

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

#930

Post by lzy »

ctbellmar wrote: post #717

WhatSignal, WhatsApp Signal relay, written in Go https://github.com/bikemazzell/whatsignal I'm working on a WhatsApp to Signal relay. I.e.: whenever someone sends a WA message to you, it appears in your Signal. You can reply and it will go back to the original sender. Why? I'm privacy conscious and don't fancy using a Meta product. But some of my friends/associates/family still insist on WhatsApp only. Running this W…

Very cool project. I've wanted something like this for ages but never had the patience to glue it all together. Do you plan to support group chats too? That was a huge headache in my case. Excited to see how this evolves, even if setup's a bit fiddly.
Post reply on HN