Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

661–670 of 922 posts

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

#661

I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to securely share passwords between each other ( https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia ). At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their m…

Making this installable on Sandstorm would be great.

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

#662
For about year and a half I am working on fully dynamic, zero-downtime, reconfigurable API. Main target is me, hobbyists, self-host enthusiasts and small-to medium companies. Idea is to be able to configure API with JSON schema definition of an object that API should store and allow you to manipulate (with CRUD operations). In future I plan to add FE for building those schemas based on data and some LLM helper.

* There is possibility of adding relations between schemas (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1)

* API allows to filter and transform responses to your own arbitrary schema via custom query language

* support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens for easily configurable but strong security

* from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions

* flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events are planned

* flows are defined via Json files

* flows are also customisable and allows to define your own blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger pieces of logic.

* all json files are source for code generation so performance should be the same as using your own manually written code or at least very close.

* there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use to generate static files for FE.

* custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e. FullName from first and surname).

To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one out every time.

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

#663

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If two cars travelling the same direction contact each other such that the front axle of one car bumps the rear axle of the other (the car in front), it's usually the car in front that has the safety problem. This is the same principle behind the PIT maneuver.

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

#664

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds interesting, I might give it a try. Do you plan to allow plugins for domain-specific development ?

thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc.. in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with marginalia. im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i t…

Self-hosted notion replacement would be amazing, I hope you succeed !

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

#667
I'm building a freemium browser extension (https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.).

It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords.

The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it.

Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization.

https://trashpandaextension.com/

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

#668
post #564

I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in my free time now. For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1 or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically hurts , because I have to upload m…

ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use:

* wav -> mp3: lame

* anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if one bothers)

* resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not do mp3, so wav > wav

have fun!

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

#669
I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text, and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to and keep up to date.

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

#670
I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis, python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport.

The core components are on GitHub:

   * https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo
   * https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz
   * https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns
Not the first time I've referenced these on HN. I did just implement a Redis operator which Redis doesn't have, SHARDS:

   * https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/blob/main/SHARDS_Command.md
No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in Skype:

   * https://www.zipcon.net/~m3047/observability-dream.mp4
I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some) telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS. Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be federated, they don't need to be centralized.
Post reply on HN