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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

decuran wrote: post #341

An app called EtymologyExplorer that allows exploration of word origins. It shows word family trees in a visual layout. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relate to one another. For example "magnanimous" can be understood through its relatives "magnificent" and "unanimous" Working on it has been both a blast and a slog (~6 years on & off). I used DL NLP (thanks fast.ai!) to convert written etymolo…

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Are there any plans for an Android app? Regardless, I have a lot of friends interested in linguistics while also being English speakers, and this looks super nifty.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nicbou »

A thing that collects files, posts, comments, geolocation and other data about me, and displays it day by day. A sort of "on this day" for my life, with room for a daily journal entry.

It's already running in production, and collecting my backups, social media posts etc. I add new sources on occasion.

Unfortunately, it's really hard to access my own data on other services without relying on manual imports. The biggest hurdle is getting my photos, which Google Photos is holding hostage. There isn't an easy way to export text messages from various apps. I'm not too sure about Google Calendar either.

It shows how little control you have over your own data.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

speg wrote: post #537

Cutting my first dovetails. After years of trying to find time I’ve committed to getting into the shop for at least a few minutes every day. I’m starting with a simple single dovetail box. No lid. Bought some quarter inch thins that are ready to go so I didn’t have to worry about surfacing the stock beforehand. I spent 25 minutes in the shop tonight cutting the second pin. So far both are a bit loose, and I went past…

This gets better with time for sure. I started woodworking mostly by hand (due to space constraints really), and while I do a lot more power tool stuff these days, I still try to spend time practicing my dovetails and other precision joints. I still do most of my mortises and tenons by hand, unless they're large, in which case I route the initial hole in the mortise and finish it by chisel. Good luck, dovetails are fantastic!

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Post by robbiejs »

zserge wrote: post #732

I work on these three projects to launch them soon: * https://onthesamepage.online/ - a minimalist private whiteboard with no registration; already used in German schools, but working on scaling it and prepare for a more general market. * https://lalatabs.com - a tiny tabulature website for amateur musicians who can't read notes; need to add a few hundred songs and open it to the public. This won't be monitized, and…

Very nice projects, all three of them. Good job!

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Post by robbiejs »

Gaessaki wrote: post #359

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…

Great idea, best of luck! We need more community based thinking in our modern lives.

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Post by robbiejs »

I'm working on Abletable: a Javascript lib that converts your HTML table into an interactive table, with sorting, filters, frozen rows and columns as well as Excel-like edit abilities.

Think DataTables and Handsontable in one. And with eye for performance and reliability.

It's the successor of my product DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com).

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Post by zaptidizap »

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 build agregators for my personal use. Try this: gather references cited and look for key keywords in those references like those in the citing articles title.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by shcheklein »

kevlar1818 wrote: post #219

A tool for storing, versioning, and reproducing large files alongside source code. It's called Dud[1]. Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django Open-sourced last October, targeting a more polished release in Q1. [1]: https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/tour/

Nice! Do you already have benchmarks for this? In our experience we are way more limited by IO, or OS calls to traverse the FS than by Python. Curios to see some test results. And overall, great to see this in Go, would love to chat with you guys sometime.
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