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I've been working on an open source project on/off for the past couple of years called ssh-sync, written in Go. The goal is to securely share SSH keys across multiple machines (avoid copy-pasting) and auto-generate new SSH configs based off of the user's current operating system (so your key paths are never wrong again).

There is still work I have to do before a v1 release but definitely interested in feedback. https://github.com/therealpaulgg/ssh-sync

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I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them. Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me! After almost a year of work…

I once met a freelance bespoke industrial adhesive maker. He takes orders from various factories for adhesives with specific properties, then uses his knowledge of chemistry + trial & error to make one that fits the specs provided. Bespoke synthetic DNA is much cooler though.

Is he a vendor in my Fallout 4 gameplay?

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No, I know pretty much everything I synthesize. Once I don't, I'll just connect some screening software.

what if the software misses something?

can you give a specific instance of a sequence that would be dangerous in a cloning strain and not screenable?

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A todo app for recurring personal projects. I found that breaking projects down into simple tasks really helps with my procrastination, but existing apps don't make that process too easy and quickly get cluttered. My prototype lets me create project templates (that can contain other projects) and I can instantiate an arbitrary amount of them. Triggers can be a time ("every quarter") or some logical threshold (e.g. fa…

This sounds like it would be useful to me at work. The types of projects I have to manage are often dependent on other tasks and shifting timelines, so a lot of the existing project management software I have tried feels "close but not quite." Will you be releasing this for public consumption?

I hope to and I'll probably ask on HN for volunteers once I have a stable-ish alpha ready. Might take a while, though; grad school owns my life for now.

I'm a bit doubtful that it'll handle professional-scale project mgmt from the go - the early vision is to help other ADHD folks like me build tiered todo lists - but it'd certainly be a nice target to aim for.

If you'd like to field a few questions or get an early invite, feel free to ping me at gnfxf@rap0.pbz (rot13).

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I've been working on ReadShape [0] where users can save their highlights & notes from e-books, such as Kindle, Apple Books, and Libby.

Primarily it focuses on being a centralized look-up & revisit kind of app to help with retention, but it also allows you to sync your highlights to Notion.

[0] https://readshape.com

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I am productionizing a golang project which I have working ... it parses an input image at the pixel level to synthesize its audio equivalent ... inspired by a 3Blue1Brown video on Hilbert Curves ... as it traverses the entire image pixel by pixel it assigns to each pixel an audio frequency which it increments for next pixel ... in doing so it collapses the 2D image into a 1D line of pixels ... then it engages audio…

That sounds fascinating! I'd love to see the results when it's ready.

Agreed! Please post a demo, when you're able!

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A new terminal emulator [0] from scratch. It's native and cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a product with a history of overpromising on the release date, but I'm being more realistic with the roadmap and streaming progress on Twitch. If it helps think of it as the indie, non-AI version of Warp [1]. [0] https://terminal.click [1] https://warp.dev

Great landing page for warp, also the tool looks really cool (I'm on Windows, so I have to wait). How is the privacy aspect? Does it use ChatGPT? Do you support any local LLMs?

Warp is “free” and VC-funded. They require an account and login. I would be wary on the privacy front, but I don’t speak for them.

Terminal Click is made by a indie hacker (me) and will be selling copies on release. You’ll own the binary and that’s that.

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So people with allergies shouldn't tell the people who will be preparing food for them about their allergies before the food is served?

Exactly. Because being invited for dinner is not about stuffing your belly for free, it is a social meeting with more important matters. So if you have an allergy or a diet, you can mention that when you're seated. The host can make something that suits you, and if they aren't able, you can just have the drinks. That's why you eat before going out to dinner, so you don't have to worry about your belly. And it is also…

> So if you have an allergy or a diet, you can mention that when you're seated. The host can make something that suits you, and if they aren't able, you can just have the drinks.

If I invited someone over for dinner and went through the effort to prepare a nice meal for them, and they waited until they were seated at the table to tell me that the food I've just put on their plate is something they can't eat or they will go into anaphylaxis, I would be pretty ticked off. "Oh, don't worry, I ate ahead of time" would make me feel even more ticked off, because I wouldn't have gone through the effort and expense of preparing a nice meal just to have a bunch of uneaten food sitting on the table while we have a social meeting.

The purpose of giving the host a heads up about food allergies is to avoid the host putting effort into preparing a meal that the guest can't eat. How is it a better outcome for the guest to remain unfed, food to go to waste, and the host to have this information sprung on them at the last moment?

You're saying that this kind of gentle heads up is an indication of narcissism, but I think it's exactly the opposite. It's a way of helping to ensure that things go according to plan.

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Real test is when you have a down market. Everyone one looks like a genius in a bull market

The parent comment says they launched in Jan 2022. Jan 2022 to Jan 2023 was a down market.

It will not last , my bet is on that, who knows if it’s attributed to luck or if the algorithm has solved entropy.
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