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Making a fast, easy to use native work chat app @ noor.to

It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links, without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc bloat.

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I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of personal commentary ( https://dynomight.net/advice/ ) and deep data dives into e.g. homelessness and seed oils. My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking…

I find when I'm swamped it's because I lack decision making skills. It's a soft skill to keep your workload manageable. There's no substitute to constantly making decisions. And I suspect is the key to being a 10x developer (besides being smart)

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I'm working on an invite-only, personalized medical education platform called MedAngle, particularly for emerging economies. I started it in my third year of medical school, and we're now at 90,000 doctors/medical students, along with over 100 million questions solved and billions of minutes spent studying and excelling. I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I…

very cool!

Love seeing Pakistani builders make strides :)

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

#775
https://blr.today - Working on an open-source stack to curate events happening in Bangalore. It curates events from multiple sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging them nicely, and making all event data available as calendars you can subscribe to.

Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/license

My Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:

1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.

2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.

3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.

4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.

I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.

[0]: https://blr.today/about/

I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.

https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas

If any of these sounds like fun, take a look:

* A physical variable fuzzy clock

* A curl impersonation proxy

* A Whisper UX Design Pattern

* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform

* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute

* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites

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#776

A firewall for SMS. Scams usually start with messages. Predominantly SMS/email sent with links. ML models exist to determine this, but we are prototyping using Gemma2 2b to utilise its natural language understanding to see if a better firewall could be built, one which users can talk to. It has been surprisingly easy to get started on this project: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/genai/llm_inf... We wa…

sounds awesome - let's chat, i'm building a new b2b carrier

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#777
I've recently been working on SparkShell: https://sparkshell.dev

It's an online development platform similar to other things like Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours. I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch it pretty soon.

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post #757

I'm working on an invite-only, personalized medical education platform called MedAngle, particularly for emerging economies. I started it in my third year of medical school, and we're now at 90,000 doctors/medical students, along with over 100 million questions solved and billions of minutes spent studying and excelling. I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I…

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

#780
Still slacking before I decide to work on that character controller for my minimalist, low-poly counter strike clone, with Godot.

I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.

I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.

I modeled guns.

I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in gdscript.

Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very fast paced.

I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a module for it.

Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.

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