I am working on words, symbolic representations, sound. Nothing fancy.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#932Hi all! my name is Patrick and I'm a linux platform engineer out of Waterloo Can. This ( https://imgur.com/a/14YMyVN ) is a collection of Nesticles - lightweight isolated immutable desktop system containers using modern linux compositor technologies and shown on a debian stable host platform and targeting PC grade hardware. These are getting very useful and present opportunities to theme and deeply customize for your personal use or for an organization or company. On average they consume like 600mb of memory per running container, so you will see ~30 envs running there comforably in those screenies. Nesticles is also a platform for unifying desktop and app delivery, providing some building blocks for composing up useful containers. Currently these environments are specified as docker-compose projects, including all of the apps. Could anyone see these becoming useful to you? It kind of scratched a 20 yr itch I'd had since being a young lad configuring desktops painted on cubes and such. I'm shooting for initial support for the following host platforms (debian, ubuntu, steamos, windows, mac). I'd like to bring a launcher to Steam to fund dev and bring the core definitions to the community perhaps as open-source container definitions. Any suggestions or thoughts on Nesticles or lightweight desktop containers? I do view these as building blocks in some larger or more specialized system, but they have utility for desktop use cases now. Ps. I'm also currently on the job market if you are looking for a platform/backend developer - please see https://paddymahoney.github.io .
Thanks all, Patrick.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#933I want to work on a grid-based inventory system similar to those found in aRPGs and extraction games in the Godot engine.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#934https://www.lookoutwindow.com , read about the places you are flying over, and figure out which side of the plane to sit on. Map and wiki articles all work offline, in about a 10MB download for each route.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#935I'm working on my second self-published technical book related to Elixir. The first one has been a surprising success, but since it was about learning to use Ecto on the basis of an old pedagogical toy database (and tiny dataset), the new book is about the development of a production-grade REST API with Elixir and Phoenix. I find that many books out there are focused on documenting the "happy path" for rather small a…
I'd be interested in purchasing a copy when its done.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#936The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it. You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for. Entirely offline & no usage o…
Finish it, shut up, take my money! This looks really good - make a website just to make it possible to sign up for updates.
Thanks for the motivation to finish this as soon as possible :) I'm working on a basic landing page with screenshots/videos and a "get notified" button right now – shoot me an (empty, if you want) email (in profile) and I'll ping you as soon as it's ready
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#937A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…
I've been thinking for years about a safer alternative to chain saws. Something along the lines of a carbide coated wire driven by an electric motor and battery. Strap it to the tree, turn it on, walk away and some minutes later the tree falls down. The main difficulty is in how to drive the wire. Using friction would create fast wearing parts. Maybe a chain could be used instead of a wire. It could oscillate back an…
I hear you on the safety angle, but chainsaws work really well. They're also very versatile.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#938Working on specstory.com which today is an extension for Cursor & Github copilot that allows you to save, search, share your AI chat history.
Most AI first coding tools don't seem to respect how much critical context gets lost between sessions. Prompts, chats, refactors, decision paths all gone. Really believe that intent (prompts & responses from AI) is going to be the critical artifact upstream of code and there is a need to capture all of it: what the AI suggested, what you kept, what you rewrote, and why. We integrate directly with AI-powered IDEs so your intent becomes as searchable as your code.
We started with Cursor and just shipped support for GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode). The long-term goal is to build a canonical intent layer for codebases built with AI—something like git log/blame, but for why things changed, not just what.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#939A git forge
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#940I am working on Scharf, an open-source SAST tool to identify and auto-fix 3P GitHub actions those are prone to supply-chain attacks. It is blazing fast and written in Go.
Project link: https://github.com/cybrota/scharf
Quick demo: https://imgur.com/a/wEyk9AR
This tool can cutdown hours of grind for Security engineers.