I'm building a music file manager using Electron. I'm deferring the actual music playing to VLC, but I need a way to sort through my many audio files to quickly select and launch what I want to hear.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#62Playing around with LLMs to generate fictional stories and I'm working on a journal of sorts based on a traveler that goes to various parallel worlds not unlike our own except for one or two minor but key differences. He reports on his findings there and how it affects social, political, and economics for that timeline. A new timeline drops every day and I have a lot more planned to take it beyond the simple blog format it's in now but it has been a fun challenge to learn how to do some deep prompting with AI to generate random entries without veering off into crazyiness or getting locked onto the same thing over and over again.
Here is the site: https://twistedtimeline.com/ - Feedback is always welcome!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#63I am building a digital replacement of all universities in the world with full courses across any subject, in any language, tailored to your individual learning style all.
Sal Khan, is that you?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#65I'm working on synthesizing a genome at home! Here is a video with more details, as well as a picture of my home lab. I've always wanted to build life from scratch, and I finally have a chance to do it. Video on what I'm doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCiuS1oHnKw Picture of my home lab - https://x.com/koeng101/status/1844150979484319842 I'm trying to build a DNA assembly company right now (been lots of ups a…
This is incredible. I have a biochemistry and bioinformatics background, and I've always been curious about how easy and cheap it could be to do various experiments at home. Godspeed!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#66I'm trying to start an educational YouTube channel in the vein of CGP Grey or 3b1b with a focus on CS. The first video is taking me a long time. It seemed like a natural leap from blogging, but the effort is exponentially higher.
This is such a great idea! I’d love 3b1b style explanations of different algorithms and how big oh notation works!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#67I'm trying to start an educational YouTube channel in the vein of CGP Grey or 3b1b with a focus on CS. The first video is taking me a long time. It seemed like a natural leap from blogging, but the effort is exponentially higher.
Oh wow! this is _exactly_ I was looking for (and still am) a couple of days ago. Please let us know once its ready.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#68I am working on:
1. https://typezebra.com : Adding type editor/designer so you can design type-heavy articles and share with others (codepen but for typography)
2. https://boxento.com: Finishing support for server side rendering so users can take the benefit of SEO - also working on adding new blocks like menu (useful for restaurants) so you can have a block that changes based on the day of the week.
Suggestions and feedback welcome :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#69I'm working on a serverless VPN that works without relay even for those behind symmetric NAT (most of the time).
I'm not aware that it exists at the moment and would love to be proven wrong.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
#70I wrote (some) of a Lua interpreter in Rust, which runs PUC Lua 5.1 dumped bytecodes. Now I'm rewrite it all because I want to do type specialization: I'm implementing "Simple and Effective Type Check Removal through Lazy Basic Block Versioning", which is used as the basis of Shopify's YJIT for Ruby. I have a decent idea of how it needs to be implemented and have a prototype kinda working, although some of the jump targets are still wrong right now. Once I get it all sketched out then I'll have to scale it back up to a full Lua implementation again, and then I'll add table shape specialization afterwards (which is a bit trickier, and outlined in a sequel paper).