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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by eamag »

flavio87 wrote: post #234

Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers on your behalf, with your goals in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why

Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by Aeolun »

Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently).

It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by 4ndrewl »

sschueller wrote: post #77

I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work. The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details…

That looks awesome!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by parimm »

mavamaarten wrote: post #81

I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

Can you post this code if possible please?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by gamedever »

mavamaarten wrote: post #81

I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.

The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the speed limit in the center lane because I'm going to turn left people will get angry and speed around at 60mph pissed off

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by clan »

fiftyacorn wrote: post #235
mavamaarten wrote: post #81

I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast - and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster

Or consider the width of the road...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by alskdj21 »

Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is about to end.

I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper.

If there is an implementation to read presences without using Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord altogether.

[0]: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

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