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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 someothherguyy »

Galaco wrote: post #269

I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and thro…

How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?

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

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Post by eamag »

I'm trying to figure out how people do solo research, that means:

- Reading advice like https://eamag.me/2025/Good-Research

- Figuring out problems like https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/

- Doing analysis like https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-Classification

- Figuring out where scientists are located like https://eamag.me/2024/ICML-2024-on-a-map

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

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Post by elric »

muxneo wrote: post #90

My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. T…

I would be much more interested in a unified inbox on top of all those communication apps. An *actual* inbox, which lets me flag things, mark as (un)read, move to folders etc.

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

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Post by someothherguyy »

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…

Has anyone been hit by a car there ever?

I think people used to use science to set speed limits.

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

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Post by mycl »

vector_spaces wrote: post #233

I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for a long time, but I'm interested in this pr…

You say the math is more moonlighting, but you have a supervisor. Are you enrolled for a part-time degree while you work as a SWE?

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

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Post by someothherguyy »

maltris wrote: post #105
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…

Man, please share a tutorial

There are plenty of tutorials on how to derive speed of an object using opencv. You could ask an LLM to write it for you.

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

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Post by carnewal »

Building Duty, a TypeScript workflow orchestration tool for durable async execution.

Unlike queues (SQS) needing state hacks or pricey orchestration tools, Duty uses your existing Postgres to ensure tasks survive (retry) failures, retain state between runs, and eventually finish.

Pre-release, star if interested

https://github.com/webslash/duty

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

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Post by gom_jabbar »

csomar wrote: post #15
gom_jabbar wrote: post #5

Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical. https://retrochronic.com/

Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?

It's custom-made. I also use a custom build of Iosevka [0] for the font.

[0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/

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