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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#271

I'm trying to make a search engine that gives you the opposite of what you search for: this is what I've got so far http://sample-env.wk77znpmqm.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/

I registered the domain "duckduckno.com" a while ago for reasons that have now passed. How about I point it at your search engine?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#272
Project: I'm building an 'abstract visual debugger,' which aims at clarifying the behavior of algorithms under execution by letting you watch the data they're manipulating.

Screen: http://symbolflux.com/images/avdscreen.png

Quite outdated video: https://youtu.be/sdEo4v2yivM

It works by monitoring data structures (and soon general objects!) in your code, and sending operation data (e.g. element added/removed) to the server app which does all the actual visualization. Different clients can be written for different languages, though I've only written one for monitoring Java code so far (but the clients are semi-trivial to build).

Problem: a lot of what's difficult in programming is that you can't watch the 'state' of your program as its running; we approximate it with print statements etc.—but there is no easy way to view trees, graphs, tables, lists, hashmaps, etc. especially when they are being actively modified by a program.

I'm hoping to have an alpha ready in a week or two. Back to work!

Edit: split into Project/Problem format.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#273

I've been working on a bookmarking app with a feature that reminds you to revisit bookmarks (either algorithmically or manually via a schedule.) It also has built-in wishlisting and a bunch of other stuff I always wanted out of a bookmark app. Bookmark apps are a really crowded space and I have no idea how to advertise something with so many alternatives, I built this app because I always wanted these features I coul…

I can appreciate the reminder feature. I always thought that something like that would be useful if combined with an archiving tool for short notes, quotes or text snippets: Here's the quote you saved last year on this day ...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#274
Project: an app that reads pdf table data from blood panels to better display trends in values.

Problem: it sucks to have to flip around various labs to compare results.

Also, trying to make a better search engine for fine-art that is for sale.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#275
I'm working on JQBX, an app that lets you listen to music in sync with friends or strangers on real time.

The app hooks into your Spotify account so you get access to a huge library of high quality music. You can also save things directly to your playlists so you keep all the cool stuff you discover in one place. If you're more hands on you can be a DJ, play your favorite stuff and get real time feedback from the crowd. If you're more of a hand's off kind of person it's great for getting high quality hand picked music for long stretches at a time (eg the 8 hour work day).

https://www.jqbx.fm

It's totally free, I wanted the product so I built it- has been a great learning experience!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#276

I've had a project on my mind for a long time now. Just for my own entertainment value. I wrote a Python script a while back that would take two people's Google Location data (from Google Takeouts), and find out where they've crossed paths. I found out that my girlfriend and I were only a mile apart, within 5 minutes of each other, two years before we met (she was gracious enough to download her location data and sha…

I actually wrote a rough version of this for my fiance and I.

I never finished the analyzation but I had saved all the texts we had sent in our 6 year relationship.

I would totally be on board with this. I was freaked when I saw what Google was saving on me without asking them to (Everywhere I ever went with my phone. Imagine what they don't show me)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#277
Code Corps is intended to be a place to find and volunteer for open source projects you think are worth whatever free time you have. For maintainers, we'd like to make scaling your community trivial: acquire and retain volunteers, onboard newcomers, recommend the right tasks to the right people, and fund your operations.

https://www.codecorps.org

As an aside, I'm kind of curious how others feel they fare on building new projects. Do you feel slow? I worry constantly about how quickly I'm moving relative to peers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#278
Learning Haskell via implementing a type system and type inference on a simple functional language.

https://github.com/jin/hindley-milner

Typeclasses were surprisingly easy to grasp. Got tripped up for a couple of days trying to implement a way to generate fresh variables ("a", "b", ...) and ultimately grokked the State monad to implement it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#279

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

Interesting idea. I used to watch Berkeley webcast videos at 1.5x to shave off ~30 minutes from a 90 minute lecture. Any faster wouldn't be intelligible.

It is the case that you can teach yourself to understand faster and faster speech. The blind often have human interface devices which speak at absurdly high vocal acceleration.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#280

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

Interesting idea. I used to watch Berkeley webcast videos at 1.5x to shave off ~30 minutes from a 90 minute lecture. Any faster wouldn't be intelligible.

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