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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 chandureddyvari »

AJRF wrote: post #127

I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory. https://canirunthisllm.com/

Neat idea! It would be helpful to have LLMs ranked from best to worst for a given GPU. Few other improvements I can think of:

- Use natural language for telling offloading requirements.

- Just year of the LLM launch of HF url can help if it’s an outdated LLM or a cutting edge LLM.

- VLMs/Embedding models are missing?

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

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Post by someothherguyy »

azthecx wrote: post #288
someothherguyy wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Like the entirety of the fashion industry one may assume

Sure, but its a leap in magnitude from being concerned with wearing something to tracking everything you wear.

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

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Post by koliber »

jtwaleson wrote: post #165

I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the…

This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley.

How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal with notifications, or because they’re available only in the enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same way.

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

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Post by bluejellybean »

I've been sharpening my axe by working on a few different projects in the shape of of an online shop[0][1]. Products are a bit of a mishmash as a result of the different projects - To date, I've been farming succulents, 3d modeling/printing (flower pots/hobby crafts/etc), and learning Rust/Next.js for the back/front ends!

Time investment has been _massive_ so far, but I just hit the first $100+ profit month, and despite the distance from my normal dev salary, the positive reviews/feedback have been an incredible reward that drives the motivation to continue. I will also say that it is quite the humbling experience to ship physical products and the experience has given me a whole new appreciation for the things we have in this world.

Early days, but check it out :)

[0] - https://freedomfrenchie.com [1] - https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomFrenchie

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

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Post by SpaceL10n »

jtwaleson wrote: post #199
muzani wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely want this kind of thing.

Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!

Is it demoable and downloadable?

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

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Post by vector_spaces »

mycl wrote: post #277
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?

Formally I'm an undergraduate. Not in a hurry to graduate -- I take courses when they are interesting to me / relevant to my research / I happen to have the bandwidth.

I am already several years into my career and I have a spouse to support, so I'm ambivalent about formally attending graduate school -- at least anytime soon -- since that would introduce lots of time pressure and administrivia for little apparent benefit. My relationship with my supervisor is mostly informal

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

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Post by fersarr »

I'm improving my webapp that helps you learn lanaguages through short stories: https://webbu.app/. I recently added the ability to play the sounds of words and sentences to improve listening and pronunciation. You can also practice different verb tenses, answer questions, track your vocab, etc.

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

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Post by wsgeorge »

asim wrote: post #174

In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro ( https://github.com/micro ), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west. https://reminder.dev

The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites.

I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.

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