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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by adamhp »

nullderef wrote: post #330

November is my last working month! I'm giving entrepreneurship a try to solve a huge problem: phone overuse. It's been busy: - Reading books, currently "The Mom Test" - Looking for a startup community and being disappointed with what my city has to offer - Deciding between VC vs. bootstrapping, and taking a firmer stance to try the latter first. This includes rejecting ODF. - Talking with like-minded people. I now ha…

Opal is quite popular in this space, just as a point of reference/competition :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by Timwi »

slightwinder wrote: post #736
Timwi wrote: post #309

I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing characters to draw a structure of boxes and lines: ╓───╖ ║ ! ║ ╙─┬─╜ ┌───╖ ╔═══╗ ┌─────┴─────┤ > ╟──╢ 2 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╚═══╝ ╔════╗ ┌───╖ │ │ ║ −1 ╟──┤ + ╟─┴─┐ │ ╚════╝ ╘═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ │ ╔═══╗ │ │ ! ║ │ ║ 1 ║ │ ╘═╤═╝ │ ╚═╤═╝ │ │ ┌─┴─╖ ┌─┴─╖ │ │ │ × ╟──┤ ? ╟──┘ │ ╘═╤═╝ ╘═╤═╝ └─────┘ │ The language is called Funciton (pronounced: /ˈfʌŋkɪtɒn/) and the above…

This seems like something which would be annoying to create digital without supporting tools, but awesome in analog. I could see value in a specialized camera-app which transforms hand drawn box-structures to digital boxes, or a kind of play board where children could arrange cards to create a program and learning programming.

I doubt that Funciton, in its current form, could be useful in education. It doesn’t embody the most widely used programming paradigm (procedural) but instead is a declarative functional language, which makes any skills obtained by studying it pretty much untransferable. Secondly, its syntax does not allow for naming of variables and parameters (except perhaps through comments) which is an anti-pattern. If these could be addressed in a derivative concept that is actually designed for education, it could work. As it stands, however, it’s just a quirky esolang.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by antononcube »

I for few years now I actively work on Raku tooling for Data Science (DS) and Large Language Models (LLM).

For more details see here: https://tinyurl.com/ycyntmh6 .

Here is an example of using a Raku made Command Line Interface (CLI) app/script for translating natural language commands into DS computational workflows (via LLMs):

> concretize --l=Python make a quantile regression pipeline over dfTemperature using 24 knots an interpolation order two

# qrObj = (Regressionizer(dfTemperature)

# .echo_data_summary()

# .quantile_regression(knots = 24, probs = [{0.25, 0.5, 0.75}], order = 2)

# .plot(date_plot = False)

# .errors_plot(relative_errors = False, date_plot = False))

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by richardgill88 »

I'm building a fork of firefox for android that blocks sites that I find addictive e.g. youtube.com, but allows wildcards: youtube.com/watch?v=* so I can watch an individual video. Then I block all other browsers at that operating system level using mdm in Android.

I'm running a hacky version on my phone and it's been surprisingly effective at stopping me from doom scrolling.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by wczerniak »

I was working on a new website for https://flatcal.com. With Flatcal I'm trying[1] to scratch my own itch when sharing busy status with .ics calendars. My life is organized between corporate (Outlook), private (GCal) and freelance (various) calendars. Finding a freebusy slot or sharing my accessibility is not easy, and sending someone multiple links makes a little sense. So I figured that I will build calendar processing pipeline that will merge, filter, anonymize, inject, rewrite (etc) calendar events can solve this problem for me. And having all of them merged into a single .ics file is way easier to share, and safer too.

[1] Being solopreneur/micro-SaaS/do it all yourself dev is way more work than I thought

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by joshjm9915 »

I've been wanting to provide some type of service for a while now. Unique endurance races and endurance challenges recently caught my eye as an area that doesn't have a ton of coverage.

My first idea was to jump right into building a website that made these types of races easily searchable. But I decided to slow down and just figure out the market first by creating a weekly substack newsletter. Each week I'll send out important upcoming dates for various unique endurance events and challenges. If I can grow this substack, I'll put effort into building this into a full fledged website!

The newsletter is call Feat of Strength and here is the latest newsletter: https://featofstrength.substack.com/p/feat-of-strength-newsl...

I would love constructive criticism on this. What would make this newsletter more valuable to you!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Post by KateSterling »

TBH working too much and i may call it’s a tackling phone addiction.

Using Roots to reduce it tho, adds stuff like app limits, downtime, and a “balance score” to help ppl keep their screen time in check. Just tryna make it easier to unplug and stay present without feeling too forced.

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