A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write my own virtual machine and create a functional programming language on top of it.
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#132For the past few weeks I have been working on Enhance [0], a SaaS to help game developers easily add leaderboards, friendlists, store players' data, in-app currency store and purchases, and marketing tools such as email list and website builder and hosting.
I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.
[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)
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#1331. I'm writing a book on Git. I did my research and was shocked to discover many otherwise tech savvy individuals still cannot manipulate Git from the command line, and resort to the use of desktop applications (yikes!)
2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.
Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans, AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and project based learning, covers different languages (we start with Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL, Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.
One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#134I am working on a zero trust proposal for location permission on mobile platforms: https://github.com/itissid/privyloci
It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.
Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.
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#135After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing
We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.
Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service
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#136The recent relicensing of Redis to a non-open-source license bothered many in the community. But the groundwork for the relicensing was laid much earlier. I've been working on relicensing monitor to track various projects attributes that can affect the ease of relicensing a project. https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/
Is there a specific reason that Firefox is considered low-risk for a rug pull? In my view, Mozilla doesn't seem the same as it once was but maybe there are specific reasons the open-sourceness isn't in jeopardy.
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#137I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress.
It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.
I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.
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#138Experimenting applying Meta's V-JEPA [0] architecture for representation learning to chess. One of the challenges is that validating if the model is learning useful dynamics of the game, so I'm using it as an excuse to learn some reinforcement learning by using the representations generated by the JEPA model to approximate useful Q-values [1]. This method currently has no search so I'm planning on comparing with this paper [2] which achieves GM level chess without any search. Honestly, Im unsure if the full pipeline is stable enough to even converge, but it's fun experimenting. I'm bad at chess so I really want to make a bot that challenges the best bots on lichess.
[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494
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#139I'm working on a TUI application which allows you to make SQL query on CSV files.
I'm working on a web base version too.
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#140I'm working on hat knitting software focusing on colorwork[1]. It has some bugs, but so far has been a great way to learn React and Typescript.