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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by atlasunshrugged » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC

bszupnick wrote: post #484

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #444

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Really cool, I've also been kicking around ideas in this area - anywhere I can see something and what type of campaigns are you targeting (local/state/other)? I know it's not the same, but have you seen https://www.victoryguide.us/ ?

I haven't seen Victory Guide! Thanks for sharing! I'm not currently living in the United States so I'm building a software with my mind on Israeli left-wing politics. It had a pilot run and it was great, and now I'm working on getting another customer!

Ah sorry, ironically I'm not even living in the U.S. anymore but I just assume everyone is building things for there. Very cool, good luck, feel free to drop me a line if you ever want to get feedback. I'm joelburke2014 at gmail

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bichiliad » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 8:35 PM UTC

I'm trying to get back into writing. I wrote a lot as an intern cuz that's what you do when you're an intern in SF, but recently I'm realizing that a lot of stuff I have a lot of first-hand experience is stuff that other engineers even within my own company don't have a ton of knowledge about (for context, I do a lot of frontend performance work).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by carlosr2 » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #179

100 pushups in a row

I just recently got it, I set it to be a challenge and it's been much easier than expected.

I started doing pushups everyday before shower, started with 10 and less than a month after i'm up to 110. And to be honest, even in something that simple as pushups are, you develop a sense of the nuances in the mechanics. Amazing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by westoncb » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:49 PM UTC

halfjoking wrote: post #508

westoncb wrote: post #172

Whenever I get free time I work on my 'abstract visual debugger' project. I've been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I'm trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I've been building a little desktop utility with three.js + Electron + Rust, that I'm going to sell in the Microsoft store (eventually elsewhere too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM I'll start beta testing in about a week…

Nice demo. Now do it in VR so I can be Jonny Mneumonic! The dolphin could be included in the Premium Version.

Ha! Hadn't considered that... I could see a VR version being pretty cool though actually. Maybe if it was set up sort of like a standing chalkboard where you can move freely in the room but walk up to it and manipulate things... Plus dolphins of course.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by numtel » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

emckay wrote: post #336

I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies. I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: https://voting.greengovernance.org . Later…

It seems the search is only by name. Is it possible to add a view that shows the funds sorted by which ones are most friendly to climate change proposals?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Shorn » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 12:31 AM UTC

https://kopi.cloud

It's an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies/sites don't have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversations without giving out your real address.

Not just useful for website signups etc. - it can also be part of a strategy for de-googling yourself.

You can re-direct specific mail forwarders to publish mail as an RSS feed (useful for Github, StackOverflow, etc.)

Just finished implementing "bring your own domain" functionality, so you don't have to be locked in to the Kopi domains.

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Post by zxcmx » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 4:40 AM UTC

chmielewski wrote: post #517

zxcmx wrote: post #81

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What hardware do you use? I’ve looked into this and found power management really challenging.

https://www.solar-electric.com/me-sbc.html These are nice and I like weatherproofing them rather than buying a pricier marine-grade solution Power HARVESTING and having a downtime/idle hours is key in my experience. I like the Banana Pi Pro because it has onboard wireless and two camera channels built in. People often get third party bolt-ons that further complicate power consumption issues.

Hey this is great, thank you!

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Post by mceachen » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 6:08 AM UTC

wheresvic1 wrote: post #431

mceachen wrote: post #407

I'm building (what I hope to be) your new home for all your photos and videos. It's called PhotoStructure. TL:DR; see https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services. Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.…

This sounds pretty cool but tbh, if I'm willing to try out a beta product with all my images (and the risk of losing them due to some bug or any other risk) and provide feedback, I'd like to have a bigger carrot than just using the product for free in beta only :)

Fair enough. I've suffered from so many bugs in commercial software that I made some design decisions at the beginning of the project, in an effort to avoid more egregious faults.

Primarily, PhotoStructure doesn't touch, move, or delete any file that it hasn't generated. It only copies into your library (if you pick that option). See https://support.photostructure.com/why-doesnt-photostructure...

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Post by hotgeart » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 8:28 AM UTC

yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

There's a form somewhere where we can put our email to be notified when we can buy the final book ? Nice project btw

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Post by aarreedd » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 10:08 AM UTC

richk449 wrote: post #257

aarreedd wrote: post #154

I'm building a database + API with Trading Hours and Market Holidays for the world's financial markets. https://www.stockmarketclock.com

Awesome. My algo got confused yesterday (early close) and today, so I have to clean things up manually. Was thinking of hard coding dates in. Will look into this.

I'd love any feedback!