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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 pizlonator »

Making Fil-C more complete. Fil-C is a memory safe C implementation that can run a lot of stuff. I want to make it run even more stuff.

Recently I landed C exceptions support (I didn’t know that was a thing but it is, look for attribute cleanup if you want to know more) and ifunc support.

More info about the project here: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge

And a Linux/X86_64 binary release if you want to play with it: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases/t...

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

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Post by jay-barronville »

jatins wrote: post #208
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/

can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?

> can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?

Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting and certain heuristics).

For GPU’s, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL’s `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU’s `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I wouldn’t trust either of those API’s for general usage.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUAdapter/...

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

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Post by bayindirh »

Refactoring my pushover.net tool Nudge [0] to have a more cleaner code since it's feature complete for my needs, now.

Writing the specifications of a file format which I'll be using for the second iteration of an high-performance material simulation code I have written in my Ph.D.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge

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

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Post by quechimba »

I'm working on my web framework Mayu. Currently attempting to make something like Vite/Rollup for Ruby, basically a new module system where you can import all sorts of file types with plugins, and hot module replacement.

https://github.com/mayu-live/framework

https://mayu.live/

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

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Post by rootnod3 »

sswezey wrote: post #494
rootnod3 wrote: post #487

Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out standard library. Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience. The b…

Do you have a website or link for this?

Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to release it some point this year though. I am still figuring out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from various CL implementations.

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

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Post by overiit »

Currently working on a tool that allows you to get data insights/aggregations via natural language. currently only sql based databases/warehouses (Postgres, Bigquery and soon Clickhouse, Snowflake, sqlite, etc.). I will be working on document Databases at some point as well.

I started this for a bunch of reasons but mainly to allow non technical team members get any data insight they might need, without wasting dev resources on creating dashboards, queries etc.

I personally dislike this "everything in LLM/AI has to be a chat room" approach.

working on making it generally available but for now its early access only https://askquery.ai/

If you have any ideas, thoughts or concerns please let me know.

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

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Post by dvaun »

xerox13ster wrote: post #458
apsurd wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"being a grand dad" is his answer. and he colored it. it's not that deep so as to upset you. darklake just practicing his creative writing.

Colored it a corporate beige. Who the heck is so brain broken as to talk about their grandchild as a startup project and their family as a frigging team. I have to almost need to see this as AI in order to maintain sanity because there’s no way an actual human being talked about a child—their human grandchild like he was a product.

You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.

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

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Post by goshx »

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…

That’s awesome! I’ve always wanted something similar like a Prezi presentation where you could navigate through different layers of the architecture down to the code.
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