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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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Post by socketcluster »

I've been working on 2 projects:

Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/

A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on Australian market.

It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is to help to find good companies which have high (or low) concentrations of people with certain skills/attributes.

Saasufy: https://saasufy.com/

A no-code/low-code platform for building apps without code. Insnare is built with and runs on Saasufy. This freed me up from having to write back end code for Insnare and made the front end code very small.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by antony_pond »

I am working on an open book Library and a "new" D-Licence.

It is an experiment for the exploration of the free aspect of blockchain storage, where the book library is now permanently hosted on the blockchain, and it's content voted upon by its members.

The licence is based on creative commons, and enforces that the data is decentralized and doesn't need any account, or wallet, to use.

There is also the creation of a new label, the D-Safe label, for a safe experience across generations.

A fun side project - which I have been working on for several years now - rewriting it fully already 10 times - and been restructuring my mental health around it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by spirobelv2 »

nlh wrote: post #60

I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here: https://www.rarity7.com/ About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc. The other 50% I’m writing code a…

wow this is super cool stuff. I see the similarities between currencies and trading cards.

seems like you guys also have grading services

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by ianthehenry »

https://bauble.studio/ is a lisp-based procedural 3D art playground that I hacked together a while ago. It's fun to play with, but it's a very limiting tool: you can do a lot to compose signed distance functions, but there's no way to control the rendering or do anything "custom" that the tool doesn't explicitly allow.

So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitrary shaders -- even foregoing SDFs altogether -- in a high-level lisp language. The core "default" raymarcher is still there, but you can choose to ignore it and implement, say, volumetric rendering, while still using the provided SDF combinators if you want.

The new implementation is much more general and flexible, and it now supports things like 2D extrusions, mesh export for 3D printing, user-defined procedural noise functions... anything you can do in Shadertoy, you can now do in Bauble. One upcoming feature that I'm very excited about is custom uniforms and embedding in other webpages -- so you can write a blog post with interactive 3D visualizations, for example.

(Also as a fun coincidence: my first cast bronze Bauble arrived today! https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by rznicolet »

Aside from bog-standard machine learning for work purposes -- novels! (Because I apparently can't restrict myself to just one.)

You can see some of my world-noodling about aliens that don't need to breathe at: https://rznicolet.com

I've been plotting a series of hard sci-fi novels entirely from the point of view of very not-humanoid aliens. In this case, hard SF = all real physics except for FTL. First manuscript complete. Humans not included in the main series, except as passing footnotes. Let's just say that when I originally started, the pandemic had me feeling a touch misanthropic. We'll see when/how I actually publish these.

I write fantasy stuff, too, though since the blog is relatively new, I haven't started adding that in yet. I'm currently wrapping a sequel to a finished fantasy work (again, publication approach TBD) before switching back to relatively hard sci-fi.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

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Post by frompdx »

My truck. It has sentimental value as my first car. I just gone done with the water pump and I just solved my steering "pop" issue. Next up is a new steering wheel as the old one is gross and sticky. While I'm at it I'm going to install a new turn signal/wiper control lever and fix the turn signal auto-off spring.
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