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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jacques_chester » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

Current main side project is a website, "Theory of Predictable Software". I want to try and pull together a lot of threads of thought I've had piling up over the past few years: engineering psychology, microeconomics with specific focus on public goods, collective action problems and institutional economics generally, statistical process and quality control, systems dynamics and bunch of other buzzwords worthy of tweet-bragging.

So expect that to land any century now.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by thotsBgone » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

Just make sure "selling" of shares can be automatic, because nobody wants to go back to a post they already read just to sell their shares or whatever.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tjkrusinski » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

A file receiving service. I edit videos and more often than not, people don't have space in their dropbox or google drive to send me large files.

Madry let's me send people a web page that they can upload files to. I pay for the storage, they don't need an account.

https://madry.app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by myartsev » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

twiclo wrote: post #56

Me and a friend have been working on a game that I describe as "Factorio but for programming". Essentially you're an AI who's mission is to mine every resource from a planet. To keep things efficient you start out small and have limited processing power. You're only able to run an assembly like language that we've developed. As you get more resources you can research new things like functions, variables, type argumen…

This is intriguing! Do you have a website / mailinglist / etc for those wanting to follow along?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nexuist » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

bvlaar wrote: post #93

https://www.carboninterface.com ----- Carbon Interface is an API to generate carbon emissions estimates. Right now my API can calculate emissions for flights, driving, shipping and electricity generation. In addition to making the estimates more robust, I am working on having the algorithms behind the estimates certified by international bodies to increase the trust of my API.

WTF. This is unironically exactly what I need for work right now. Definitely looking into this!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dmingod666 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

enjeyw wrote: post #51

An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery. One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that: - how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting. - However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content - This means…

Haven't used it in a while, but I think pinterest is one of the better ones in this context.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by RubenvanE » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

I’m building some projects to slow the internet down.

1. A less addictive Hacker News (https://hackerdaily.io)

2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events (https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jsherer » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

I'm working on the next version of JS8Call[1], a digital mode for amateur radio, that enhances the mode by using some of the latest RF research (LTE/5GNR/Turbo Codes/Polar Coding) for sending reliable messages over weak signals/links.

[1]: http://js8call.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by blue-dragonfly » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:58 PM UTC

rurban wrote: post #50

Yet another glib, a STL for C, which is header-only, complete, tiny and sucks much less. https://github.com/rurban/ctl

I've been looking for a map like C++ STL written in C. I need to lookup symbols to get function pointers, among other uses. Part of a general process of replacing C++ with C. Maybe I have found it? Interesting project, thanks for posting.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by marktolson » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:59 PM UTC

A minimalistic web app host that supports serverless functions. Just create an account and you have an entire sub domain to work freely in. No projects, no deployments, no git, no cli, just create files, folders / routes and functions and away you go, all from the browser.