Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

news.ycombinator.com

101–110 of 113 posts

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#101

I'm working on a voice-driven rapid prototyping tool for web development. The goal is to be able to say things like "give me a header element at the top - height 250, width 100%", and it'll inject it immediately. Combined with mouseover inspection and positional guidance (e.g. moving the mouse to a particular spot and saying "put a folder icon here").

Seems a few years early to me.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#102
post #39

I'm working on a mobile app to run social experiments. I want to know if you can take a small group of strangers, make them use an app together, and then 5 minutes later have them be best friends. It's cool because despite how complex people are, our relationships, behaviors, and thoughts follow well-defined patterns.

How are you planning to achieve this? Connect them by their most relevant interests?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#103
post #93

No link, as this is a scratch my own itch thing for now, but I'm working on a personal 'hub' web app that is part UX/UI experiment, and part a way to integrate various tools I've created over the years to ease various pain points in my life. Some of this has to do with solving the problem of the deluge of information I consume, through psychological 'intervention' as well as some way to store all this stuff and make…

This sounds interesting! I think I’m jealous, sounds like you have some real space to explore and craft and that’s where happiness can be found!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#104
post #2

I spent 3 months scraping 6 million pages from an extremely old political web forum (I think their backend was written in perl and hasn't been updated since 2001 and the response times for these pages were extremely high) in an effort to learn NLP stuff with a working database. Its cool because you get to see how old Boomers digested huge events during 9/11 up until now and the slow decline of web forums as a medium.…

Have you hosted it anywhere, that might be an interesting read.

1. no i haven't since it will most likely result in the site owner coercing me since its his content

2. i can def. make a blog about it which is the point of this

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#105
https://www.venturecoffee.xyz/ - A platform to support indie makers in building successful businesses. After reading Andrey Azimov's post ( https://www.medium.com/AndreyAzimov ) on medium, I was really impressed and thought of building something to help him and other makers like him.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#106
Just finished a rough draft of a long article on CRDTs, together with demo code of real-time collaboration on iOS (over CloudKit) and macOS (over a simulated P2P network): http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/

I think this new operational take on CRDTs (which is not my original idea) has the potential to be quite revolutionary, combining all the benefits of CvRDTs and CmRDTs and allowing brand new replicated data types to be created rather intuitively—all while maintaining near-optimal time and space complexity and providing a common interface for things like past revision viewing and garbage collection.

Hope to publish the article for real in the next few days.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#108
https://BitBank.nz a cryptocurrency prediction dashboard with live updating charts, API access, bulk data.

Its cool because i get deep into data engineering/analytics, machine learning/AI. Its using latest Google Cloud tech and my customers are always pushing me to better the product, myself and have done lots of work in open source.

Its interesting seeing what the customer perceptions of data science/prediction systems are and dispelling some of the rumors and snake oil e.g. forecasts get less accurate with time so people shouldn't trust out of date forecasts that are forecasting a long way into the future.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

#109
post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you hosted it anywhere, that might be an interesting read.

1. no i haven't since it will most likely result in the site owner coercing me since its his content 2. i can def. make a blog about it which is the point of this

If you have any interesting observations from it I think a lot of people would be interested in that.
Post reply on HN