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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

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I'm working on a UI kit for life science research! https://docs.nitro.bio/ A lot of bioinformatics tools have been recompiled to wasm, and I'm working on integrating them these vizualizations. https://storybook.nitro.bio/?path=/story/ariadne-ariadne--ki...

These are really beautiful components!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#32

Prototyping : - Financial credit building for children via parent - a better Siri (but many companies in this space is demotivating) - a Capitol Hill Club, kind of like a country club for people, parents, kids to relax after work and which is not a restaurant

> - a better Siri (but many companies in this space is demotivating)

Don't be discouraged, there is so much room for improvement, and we had a better system than Siri (regarding general ability to answer open domain questions) back in 2004 (SMS-based, with a view to eventually incorporate speech recognition).

I have not seen a player that does this really well, and the need is unquestionable (despite the VCs that told me in 2004 that the mobile Internet won't be a thing because "if it will be possible, it will be so expensive that no-one uses it").

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#33
I’m building a platform that helps elementary and middle schools raise money. Students answer as many math problems as they can over a week or two and ask friends and family to support them by making a donation to their school. The math problems are dynamite created and generally follow the math curriculum that most schools follow. https://www.forourschool.org

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#35
post #30

I think I might have posted this before, but: I'm open to having a regular "What are you working on?" thread. I even reserved https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoisworking for that. But it shouldn't be on the first of the month, colliding with Who Is Hiring threads. How about, hmm, the third Saturday of each month? or maybe Friday?

It's a great idea and I would like it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#36
I’m working on battery included backend framework + transpiler that emits both maintainable and extendable Node.js and Go code.

It’s more or less an API development platform focusing on implementing and automating business logic.

Playground: https://app.january.ah

Website: https://january.sh

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#37
post #25

Trust models. Big rabbit hole. Critique and analysis of zero trust, contracts, motives etc. Very enlightening and fun in a way.

Good topic. Trust isn't properly understood yet. Look at Sir Berners-Lee: smart guy, but he put "trust" as a component box in his vision of the so-called Semantic Web as if it was an API that you could just call. Trust is of course an emergent property of a well-designed, reliable, transparent, safe and secure system, and as such it is a relation between a system and its human users. Please write up what you find out…

Will do. Origin story; planned to write a short series of very tiny booklets on cybersecurity for some students. Question arose; what is the most atomic concept in cybersec from which to build? Networks? Crytptography? Identity? Risk? Quality? After about two months I decided it was Trust. Totally sucked me in to reading everything from tribal anthropology to cold-war game theory. It feels like a great invisible dark mass holding a galaxy of other things together.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#38
post #30

I think I might have posted this before, but: I'm open to having a regular "What are you working on?" thread. I even reserved https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoisworking for that. But it shouldn't be on the first of the month, colliding with Who Is Hiring threads. How about, hmm, the third Saturday of each month? or maybe Friday?

I think weekday may be better!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)

#39
I just made Little Riddle, a word game for my mom. I took a list of popular nouns, verbs, and adjectives and found words that rhyme with each word. Cleaned up that list, removing obscure words and words that didn't really rhyme together. I then asked ChatGPT to come up with a clue for each rhyming pair. I just gave it to my mom for her birthday and she loves it. It's based on a analog word game people refer to as "Road Toad".

https://little-riddle.com/

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