Ask HN: What are you currently building? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by danielvf » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

simoncion wrote: post #11

I wonder if you and I are working on the same thing. ;) I'm building infrastructure that I'm hoping will be needed to complete the Stockfighter trading puzzles. ( Hoping , because it's entirely possible that I will be lied too far less than the documentation leads me to believe, and I won't need all of this sanity checking.)

Good visualization is super helpful. The current levels don't require that much infrastructure. The level descriptions do deceive a little - just figure your own ways to the winning conditions.

(I finished level 6. Now building a limit order book in golang for the heck of it)

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by wicker » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

It's been a really fun break!

I'm getting interested in super low frequency signals so I looked up the E202 Very Low Frequency (I think it would be awesome to go find a pipeline to use as an antenna...

Next project is to take my BlueROV[3] and build a hydrophone array[4] for it so a friend and I can see if a underwater acoustics engineer friend and I can use it to track other objects (like a remote-controlled toy boat) in the water. I've been doing some Kivy visualization of an accelerometer and gyro (MPU9255) and I think we could use matplotlib's interactive mode or something in Kivy (maybe) to visualize it all in realtime.

There's nothing cutting edge here but I've done a bunch of radio frequency (RF) stuff like GPS and WiFi and I'm really enjoying how tangible audio seems in comparison. Just having fun with low frequencies, basically.

[1] http://www.vlf.it/romero2/explorer-e202.html

[2] https://github.com/wicker/e202var-natural-radio-receiver

[3] https://www.bluerobotics.com/store/rov/bluerov-r1/

[4] http://www.dosits.org/files/dosits/hydrophone_instruc_w_imag...

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by mdip » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 8:59 PM UTC

I write software in C# so I took on building an extension to make my life a little easier by allowing different background colors to be applied to methods in classes (Visual Studio) based on the kind of method that they are: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/91cb9cc4-13a3...

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by Arguggi » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:00 PM UTC

A substitute for the conky part in my $ conky | dzen status bar. It's practically a learning exercise.

I was inspired by posts like this one [1] to give the free monad a spin and after ~300 lines i'm almost done. But then I found other posts that talk about free and cofree [2] that I still can't really understand so I guess there still is some room for improvement.

[1] http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-have-invented... [2] http://dlaing.org/cofun/posts/free_and_cofree.html

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by btdiehr » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

I'm building a Flexible Editor - A Flex-Box based layout creator: http://briandiehr.com/#/layout-editor

Source: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by wicker » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

jaisonjustus wrote: post #15

We're currently building a desktop based time tracking application for ourselves, later we will release to everyone. Our main goal is to bring us back on track on our personal projects. Also billing solution for our consulting work.

I'm really interested in this! I've basically strung together some text files but occasionally lose a couple of hours tinkering to see if there's a better way. What backend are you going for? If it's Linux-compatible I'd love to beta test for you when you're ready.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by kaugesaar » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

A Raspberry Pi/Toggl button-board - where each button represent a client. Press it and time starts tracking in Toggl.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by kjksf » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:10 PM UTC

http://dbheroapp.com - a GUI database app for PostgreSQL & MySQL, for Mac and Windows. Very early days (been actively working on for about a month).

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by dr_win » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:11 PM UTC

I started a fork of Chrome(Blink) DevTools to enhance developer experience with ClojureScript: https://github.com/binaryage/dirac

Now struggling to get REPL working properly.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Post by mhluongo » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 9:12 PM UTC

client4 wrote: post #9

We're working on an automated financial management system for our business. I co-founded an ISP and so far we've found quickbooks to be terrible, banking to not be fun, and small tedious processes multiplied are starting to take out chunks of our time. Thus we're working to combine plaid.com + subledger + Dwolla + lob + stripe to create an automated billing and accounting system for credit, ach, and paper billing.

I was just going to suggest Subledger, only to see you're already on it! We're working on a Subledger integration as well for https://foldapp.com. We need to account for USD, bitcoin, and multiple gift card brands, and they've been a huge help so far.

Context for everyone else- Subledger is a double-entry accounting API that gives you the tools to implement your own accounting system.