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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by nunez »

finfun234 wrote: post #97

I launched two projects. 1) http://instant10-k.com/ An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.…

Insta10K is amazing. Using EDGAR was a huge pain in the ass; this is so much easier. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by vemv »

spiralganglion wrote: post #256
vemv wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! Will have an in-depth look at it as I also love both Rails and Clojure (which can get you strange looks from both camps). TBH I have pretty clear that my next Clojure project will use https://github.com/arachne-framework given its robust architecture / baked-in best-practices. But yeah always valuable to know how are people writing their backends.

I have mixed feelings about Arachne. I like the stated purpose, and agree that there's many reasons for a Rails-like framework to exist in Clojure. But Luke seemingly hasn't worked on it in months. It seems like the project is in limbo — it's not finished enough to be usable, and it's not finished enough for other folks with time and willingness to lend a hand. Bummer.

Yeah just realised that... Last time I checked it seemed alive, now not so much.

Fingers crossed

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by liampronan »

finfun234 wrote: post #97

I launched two projects. 1) http://instant10-k.com/ An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.…

1) is so great -- thanks for making/sharing. I run into the clunky search process for 10k's once in a while and think your site does a great job improving that experience.

In case you're taking feature requests, these are some things I'd love to see in a 10k site (order in relevancy):

  autocomplete in search
  see recently released 10k's
  browse functionality
  10k specific discussions (e.g., annotating similar to RapGenius as well as longform analysis)
Some/all those may not be relevant for your site, just things I've always thought would be cool to see. And again, nice job with the site!

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by crunchdata »

Battling mid life crisis this year i suppose, something stirring inside of me lately. Feeling uneasy.. Been in the data analytics industry within corporate America for 20 years.. Never seen such a bifurcation between the statistical analytics practitioners and the compsci crowd with deep nets.

Thinking about the next chapter. A few buddies and I created an outlet for our math and computation hobby. Starting to help traders with stat arb. So we just released a side business site that helps traders who are unfamiliar with all the math - a way to visualize the markets as well as trade pairs or factors in real time. https://raveanalytics.com/

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by alien_ »

At work I've got more familiar with Terraform, got started with Kubernetes, and contributed significantly to the infrastructure of a few awesome projects.

In my spare time I've been maintaining my Autospotting pet project, which is maturing nicely, growing a lot and already generated savings in the six-seven digits for its users: https://github.com/cristim/autospotting

I also spent time learning to play guitar, made a habit of practicing and working out on a daily basis and towards the end of the year I became a father.

All in all it was likely my best year so far.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by zerr »

sscarduzio wrote: post #243

I left a very good SW Engineering job in London, travelled for 3 months, pimped up my 2013's side project for 3 months and started selling it. Now I have created a company around it, been profitable for months. Now I carry my boss-less/office-less job around the world as a Digital Nomad. Happy new year from Mexico! My side project that became my job: https://readonlyrest.com

I wish such boss-less/self-employed/self-sufficient traveling was more available for developing country citizens as well (with a relatively lower rank passports).

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by anotherevan »

alin23 wrote: post #74

Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…

I would consider offering Instapaper as well as Pocket. I generally find Instapaper does a better job overall.

The number of times Pocket just either redirects to the original article, or drops salient bits of text (in particular, unordered list items) is really annoying.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by egypturnash »

Dealt with fulfilling my last Kickstarter. Which was initially going to be "ship books to Amazon, have them send them out, and then leave them on Amazon's store" until it turned out that Amazon is bureaucratically incapable of doing anything to an oversized paperback book than slipping it into a bubble envelope. I finally got the high-tier books drawn in and shipped out this month. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egypturnash/decrypting-...

Intermittently poked at the TV show proposal I made a couple years back that's turned into a comics project: http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/

Drew a couple eight-page comics for anthologies - one book on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1855150928/were-still-h...), one is in a four-issue series Image is putting out this February (https://imagecomics.com/content/view/what-the-world-needs-no...).

Started running a Mastodon instance: https://dragon.style/

Started getting back to work on my next graphic novel, after a two-year hiatus due to a death in the family and that Kickstarter mentioned at the top of this comment.

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