I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just arrived!
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#642I'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…
On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure. It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.
Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be to make a new programming environment that structures code in ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based. However, that will have to come later. First this :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#643I'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…
mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view.
some suggestions:
* have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs whatever-else. Then think about animating those in time
* heat-map over the views, as e.g. churn(changes)-in-time, or usage(number of dependents), etc
* requirements engineering kind-of-view ~ may overlap with dependency (both directions!) but with explicit requirements/assumptions tied to respective stakeholders. Though this may need links to/from JIRA and similar issue-trackers etc
* check Wardley maps - yet another view, starting from customer/stakeholder/vendor-points. Also may move in time. It may need user decision on which things are big/separate-enough to surface on that view - sometimes a single script is on-par with whole subsystem
* future maybe - growing above into zoomable per-project thing (more proj.mngmnt than just code, incl. related e-mails etc) - described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060108
* probably more.. will add if something else dawns on me
have fun!
p.s. fractional CTO? i am looking that way too..
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#644Agreement Risk Analysis and visualisation.
The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.
Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now.
Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer”
Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback.
Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction.
Samples of ToS and financing agreements
Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.
DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn.
Video: showing drills downs etc
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#645Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I really like that idea! Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a standard Readme. Further, at one level it could show endpoints and function signatures with parameters and how the argument usually looks as a value. Which brings up another point, why doesn't Cursor or others allow me to say, "I'm in debug mode, show me if a value is dissi…
I took inspiration from GitDiagram.com but pass a "richer" description of the codebase into the LLMs based on info from tree-sitter. It generates explanatory diagrams quite OK, but this is only a first step.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#646Earlier quoted context omitted.
For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?
You are not allowed to put up unlicensed surveillance cameras in public places, no.
What is a licensed security camera?
By this logic, are you saying cameras on private property, that happen to capture public space in their frame are also illegal?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#647I'm trying to eliminate all allergies in the world without customers having to ever leave their home.
We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies.
We're close to peanut allergies.
The science is known as allergy immunotherapy. https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#648Earlier quoted context omitted.
For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?
GDPR says no. Also, when you are using a cloud service it is no longer private use, you are sharing the surveillance video with Amazon (and almost certainly with the USA three-letter agencies) too.
GDPR just gives you the right to have it removed right? Curious to try that out, and request Amazon remove you from every ring recording .
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#649I'm building a daily trivia game using Bolt.new.
What do you think? https://brainblitz.app
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#650I'm building a stream processing framework using DuckDB. https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming primitives. We are taking a slightly different approach from other co…
Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally different from yours.
I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for sqlflow?