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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 arnab_optimatik »

AudioDiary wrote: post #479

I'm working on AudioDiary which is next-gen journalling app https://audiodiary.ai Recently it got a surge of users (1k+ reviews on Google Play and 500+ reviews on Apple, really sucks that Apple don't show all reviews, but you can check the Google reviews here on desktop https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary.... ) and people are writing in every day to say how much they love it and that it's chan…

Hey AudioDiary, I have a lot of experience in AI. Would love to chat. You can connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabgho/.

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

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Post by jagged-chisel »

elzbardico wrote: post #575
jagged-chisel wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If they’re behind me, they’re risking their own liability.

Otherwise (changing lanes, left turn across traffic), I think it’s more “not ahead of ME!” than about the signal itself.

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

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Post by rikroots »

I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library. Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to innocent developers on how to use my library in their code.

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initi...

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

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Post by msoloviev »

I'm working on a text editor (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications - for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on the spot or even insert your own.

Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).

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

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Post by 93po »

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…

you could install some vigilante speed bumps maybe

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

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Post by nico »

posobin wrote: post #601

I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live interview you are also getting tested for your communication, debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that turned out more helpful than I expected.…

Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile

Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service

I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies, because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing for interviews will only briefly use the product

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

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Post by procflora »

ave_b_2011 wrote: post #554
fiftyacorn wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name

If you remember the name that would be something I would be interested in!

Gris and Spiritfarer are two recent-ish ones I'm aware of, both were well thought of by my partner who works in grief care. :)

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

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Post by fasteddie31003 »

scoot wrote: post #551
fasteddie31003 wrote: post #541

I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.

Nice idea. Just some nitpicks: "Visit QR code to:" – You don't "visit" a QR code. Perhaps "Scan the QR code to:"? (Optional grammar fix included.) "Comment on the QR code" – "Leave a comment"? (Unless you really want a comment about the QR code! ;-) ) I just get a busy spinner when I scan the QR code in the screenshot. A working live example would be nice.

Great feedback. Fixed that QR code too.
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