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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 boogieknite »

kylecazar wrote: post #482
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…

On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar displays to let people know they are speeding. I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one. It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying

the side effect is bikers like me will pedal as hard as possible in hopes we can get that light to flash

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

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Post by matty22 »

I'm working on a project to document all publicly accessible stained glass in North America. The tech itself isn't anything exciting (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and using Bootstrap for UI).

All the work is in collecting and entereing data and hopefully recruiting folks around the country to go to their local church/synagogue/mosque, government building, or glass shop/studio and taking photos and collecting information on glass pieces.

Site is still a work in progress, but if anyone out there is interested you can find it here: https://www.stainedglassatlas.com

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

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Post by elzbardico »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #388
elzbardico wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?

I don’t know about this person’s experience, but there are an overwhelming number of drivers here that don’t notice signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they’ll still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go around.

It gets worse, some drivers seem to adopt an adversarial attitude towards the usage of turn signals and will deliberately accelerate or do something else to make things more difficult to you.

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

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Post by ejs »

I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com

... also continuing to not add features to my (not-much-of-a) system for getting more done each week. https://carpeweekem.com

I've also been cautiously adding AI-powered features to my Heroku autoscaling tool (https://flightformation.com/) and a simple free-text time/date input has been the most popular (demo: https://x.com/ejschmitt/status/1893268742760448497)

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

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Post by bdavisx »

kylecazar wrote: post #482
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…

On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar displays to let people know they are speeding. I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one. It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying

That's because a lot of those people think it's a "speeding ticket" camera flashing at them.

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

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Post by hyperknot »

sim04ful wrote: post #481

I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line height, size, letter spacing). My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can uncover valua…

Nice project! Related question, how would you recommend detecting which font is being used for names like ui-sans-serif, system-ui on a given device/browser?
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