Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? • Hacker News Board

Zak wrote: post #34

I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.

You are probably aware of it already, but a lot of universities (mine included) use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect plagiarism in CS classes. Link: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

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

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Post by zck » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:46 PM UTC

Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.

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

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Post by herrherr » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:48 PM UTC

duck wrote: post #36

herrherr wrote: post #21

http://www.getmetricmail.com In one sentence: Get your Google Analytics data straight to your inbox. Build as part of my dissertation. Build on Google App Engine.

Great looking site and very easy to use. Obviously the report is a lot nicer than that Google one that you can get emailed in PDF format, but what other advantages are there? To me the "best" setup would be to avoid the PDF and get the report directly in my mailbox. I know that would require unique graphics for each email, but is that the only barrier from going with that approach?

Thanks for the feedback. The email-only option is definitely on our list, it will be a bit tricky due to the different mail clients but still doable.

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Post by swah » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:52 PM UTC

zck wrote: post #54

Minesweeper for Emacs. It's a pain, 'cause I'm new to programming elisp, which has some rough edges, and I haven't found great references for it.

The other games are good references.

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Post by swah » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:55 PM UTC

davidsantoro wrote: post #49

I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(

IMHO you could try doing something for the "hacker" public, to contrast with something like Linkedln, where (I guess) people take it very seriously.

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Post by nhnifong » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:59 PM UTC

What a goldmine of cool projects!

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Post by nhnifong » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:59 PM UTC

tialys wrote: post #41

Working on an iPhone/iPad application that uses data from NASA's SDO/SOHO satellites to display hi-res images/movies of the sun based on 'solar events.' Sadly, no preview available yet, but the app should be out in a few weeks.

What will it be called?

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Post by nhnifong » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 2:02 PM UTC

maushu wrote: post #10

Currently coding http://www.graphnode.com/ a cloud based hosting/prototyping web service powered with JavaScript.

This looks promising