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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I've been toying with three ideas recently and it's time to take development of one a bit more seriously - What does HN like best?

1) A better Mac App Store

2) Letterboxd, but for reviewing Music, Your interpretations of songs and human-powered recommendations

3) A UK-staffed Charge-Per-Task Virtual Assistant service (Ala Fncy Hands)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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What exactly is the problem? Finding the prime factors of numbers? Or doing it fast?

basically doing it fast for large integers. Here is the challenge I am working toward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

Ok cool. I'm a big fan of taking on fundamental problems like this. Even if you're unlikely to get anywhere, you always learn a lot :)

Nice that there's a cash price for incentive as well.

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http://bsnip.com - A screenshot and annotation utility. I wasn't happy with any of the available options, either the price was too high, or the feature set was lacking so I decided to make my own. I believe BetterSnipper stands out in its ability to dock to the side of the screen, making it especially good at taking/editing/uploading multiple screenshots. I've been working on this side project for a few years now and…

Nice. I've enjoyed putting animated GIFs into presentations lately as a not-quite-video lightweight animation tool (I use ShareX). I didn't see whether or not your program supports capturing/creating these or not.

Thanks for the feedback! Gif recording isn't supported yet, but definitely on my ToDo list.

(ShareX seems good, but I've always been confused about some of the random stuff they include in the 'tools'. (DNS Changer, Hash Check, Directory indexer). It never felt like a good tool for an 'everyday user', more for power users.)

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Made this web app to help you figure out how your favorite language is doing in the job market / what to learn next. Every month I scan the previous months’ Hacker News 'Who Is Hiring' thread and build these stats. Hope others find this useful. Constructive feedback welcome. This is only the first version. Next I'm planning to add more data for previous months/years as well and show the evolution of individual langua…

Neat app!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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It's going to take more then a couple of weeks, been working on it for more then 1 year :) https://subzero.cloud/

How do either of you plan to handle authentication and authorization? How will you handle CORS? Just curious as I've worked in this realm as well.

Authentication and especially authorization can be completely handled by PostgreSQL. In front of it all sits OpenResty (nginx) so that is where you would add whatever headers you would need

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3d-printing new battery cases and replacing old batteries with new (Li-ion) for my old electronics for which it is no longer possible, or at least not cost effective, to buy new batteries.

I wonder if there might be a way to do this in a long-tail way, like maybe people send you their old batteries and you 3D-scan and print them new ones.

Good luck with the project!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to take more then a couple of weeks, been working on it for more then 1 year :) https://subzero.cloud/

How do either of you plan to handle authentication and authorization? How will you handle CORS? Just curious as I've worked in this realm as well.

jwt's are a touchy subject but was the well-trodden route I was planning to follow for authentication.

Integration with auth0 and other third-party services would be a roadmap thing for me.

Authorization can be handled by PostgreSQL: it has built-in facilities for role-based access control and row-level security. You can develop the authorization scheme that fits your application.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #371

I've been toying with three ideas recently and it's time to take development of one a bit more seriously - What does HN like best? 1) A better Mac App Store 2) Letterboxd, but for reviewing Music, Your interpretations of songs and human-powered recommendations 3) A UK-staffed Charge-Per-Task Virtual Assistant service (Ala Fncy Hands)

> 1) A better Mac App Store

Depends on in what way, because there's already https://www.macupdate.com ,but I've been thinking about a similar service for Linux, one that makes it easy to discover new apps and find out how to get them easily for your particular distro.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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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…

I'd find that really compelling.

Consider hand-producing a sample via manual audio editing, to demonstrate the limits of what ought to be possible. Find some audio you think could be listened to at that rate, see how fast you can listen to it via standard sound stretching techniques (e.g. libsoundtouch and similar), and then demonstrate how much better you can do with hand-editing. Worry about how to automate that after you successfully demonstrate that possibility and make it compelling.

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