Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by ChuckMcM » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

tezzer wrote: post #119

Wave Gliders: http://www.liquid-robotics.com It's a wave-powered, autonomous sensor platform built for longevity at sea. We do things like monitor salinity in the arctic, circle oil platforms looking for leaks, track tagged mammals on migration, and do coordinated fleet maneuvers for ocean floor mapping and exploration.

Those are pretty cool. I suggested an idea to James Gosling that about 25,000 of them could be used to greatly remediate the Pacific Gyre[1] of its plastic. Sure the initial cost would be high but they would work autonomously day in and day out gathering and compacting plastic and dropping it off at a central collection unit where it could be decomposed into carbon with a solar powered incinerator.

Sadly not something you could kickstart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by egypturnash » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

I recently finished a graphic novel about a robot lady dragged out of reality by her ex-boyfriend and am procrastinating on the Kickstarter for the printed version. http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

"Seriously folks, if you haven't looked at "Decrypting Rita" yet you really ought to. Innovative, fresh, interesting, and it does my head in." - Charlie Stross (Accelerando)

"Deliriously confusing and addictive... It’s kind of wonderful." - Peter Watts (Blindsight)

I'm also getting started on two new graphic novels; one is a fantasy story about smart people making very bad relationship decisions, and the other is about a girl slowly turning into a monster while elves invade New Orleans.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by eps » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #92

I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago. W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and…

Any plans for a self-hosted version?

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Post by metasean » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

GUN, an awesome Graph Database Engine! http://gun.js.org / https://github.com/amark/gun

Things that make it so awesome: it is open-source, real-time, fully distributed, and offline-first. It's also highly modular and easy to use, so our community is growing, which of course makes it even more awesome!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by darrenkopp » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:20 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #92

I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago. W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and…

Very cool man. I don't want to hijack this and just say that back in the day I used w3counter on my blog before google analytics was a thing and it was awesome and I just want to say thanks for that. Now I have nothing on my blog and work uses google analytics, but it's very cool to see w3counter still in use!

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Post by ninjazee124 » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:22 PM UTC

http://vetr.com/ - crowdsourced stock ratings.

Think of it as the yelp of the stock market, we get people to add projections on where a stock is headed and calculate a five-point star rating and a consensus target price.

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Post by troncheadle » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

Holy crap this is so cool. So cool! I'm a JR full stack dev, mainly proficient in JS technologies, and I have a cheap drone with a wifi camera. What would you recommend that I study to start getting involved with autonomous drone programming for fun?

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Post by hotcool » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

Working on the Wheatbin project management software and book: http://www.wheatbin.com

Early access to the software is available through my "Rule of Nine" deal (and helps me keep the lights on while I finish this): https://gumroad.com/l/ruleofnine/ruleofnine

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Post by jraedisch » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

I work on https://markmyday.net (no account needed).

It is awesome because it is rapidly becoming almost usable for simply tracking daily activities (think "Don't Break the Chain!") and will probably add a dash of microblogging soon. Since it is a one man spare-time project I am really glad about all the advice/feedback I can get.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

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Post by doki_pen » Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

Tubing is a Python I/O library.

I've been using it for batch data transformation tasks at Embedly. It's still early and things can still change, but it's starting to stabilize. Tell me what you think about the gross abuse of the __or__ operator. I love it, but if I'm alone, I can remove it, or at least remove it from example code.

https://tubing.readthedocs.org/en/latest/