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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sq_ »

gerash wrote: post #315
jsomau wrote: post #264

A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying. Here's what I'm planning next: - Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across w…

Your extension sounds cool but what I'd love is a system to suggest if I should go premium or cheap on an expense. For example I'd go super cheap on wired earbuds but premium on a set of knives. Or super cheap on knives but premium on an electric knife sharpener

My (highly imperfect) solution to that problem is usually to go find the niche internet forum/subreddit for whatever thing I'm looking to buy and try to see what people there are interested in in my price range.

I'm sure I end up with results biased towards whatever's in vogue for that community and likely something a bit more expensive, but it seems to have been a reasonably successful strategy in terms of getting things that fit my needs.

Wonder if there's a good way to facilitate finding such resources and avoiding the endless SEOed spam that one gets when googling any item for reviews/recommendations.

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Post by bravogamma »

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.

Website looks really great. I’m curious, did you build this from scratch, or did you use some established boilerplate to make it?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jamespwilliams »

nemo1618 wrote: post #300

I'm working on a language optimized for solving programming challenges as quickly as possible. That is, I'm not optimizing for execution time , I'm optimizing for time between reading the problem statement and having a working solution . As far as I'm aware, there aren't any existing languages in this space. There are plenty of "code golf" languages, which optimize for shortest finished program , but that's slightly…

Is the code for this available somewhere to look at?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tadfisher »

I'm packaging the Android SDK with Nix to enable reproducible builds: https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs

I've actually been using this for years, but now that I'm using Nix Flakes I've been learning how to best provide a flake for this project. I think I landed on a decent solution.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by ov_ov »

Hi, A transparent nano-tech box, that can applied over almost any surface *generate, stock, release energy and Light.

{After some time (a few years, 12 of maybe...and 6 of part-time) of unsleept night's}

A "nano-tech lighting paint” that can be dimmed by an phone or smart-keyholder with on/off or increase/lower intensity and is self-sustainable even if there is no sun shinning and no cables needed.

We choose to do in-house production because we did not find any available on the market, we needed to re-invent the machines that can.

https://infiniteseconds.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by panopticon »

nickysielicki wrote: post #211
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…

I've had a recurring thought where you supplant upvotes with something like an ELO system. Basically, my thought is that I know I can follow something like the reddiquette, or the HN rules. I'm certainly not perfect, but I don't downvote when I disagree, and I don't upvote when I agree, and I try to not make unsubstantive comments. Reddit and HN maybe used to follow this when they were very small, but as sites grow t…

Sounds kind of like Google's PageRank algorithm[0] except using votes as the signal instead of links.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Gaessaki »

I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop. It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is owned by its users (so restaurants, employees and consumers) which vote on its direction and partake in its proceeds. I’m a restaurant owner/programmer who felt that things could be done more equitably and feared that the continued dominance of the current crop of platforms would lead to a quasi-monopolistic/monopsonic situation like for Uber and the taxi industry and Amazon in e-commerce.

Late 2019, some colleagues and I quit our jobs to move onto other endeavours with this as a side-project and since then it’s become a full time gig.

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