I'm rewriting a suite of network applications from C++ to Rust as a learning exercise. It's a long obsolete and obscure protocol, so the results aren't particularly useful, but it's been a good introduction to the language.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#722Earlier quoted context omitted.
The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast. The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the spe…
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?
Irrelevant. They're going 45+ in a 20mph zone.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#723Earlier quoted context omitted.
The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast. The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the spe…
Agree, but also disagree. Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green. It's beautiful. People actually drive slowly and safely there. And good, becau…
Sounds great! Now if I could just get that installed in 100% of California
ATM we basically have lawless highways in California. Every time I go out I see outrageous traffic violations. People driving 15-20 mph over the speed limit on the freeway, weaving in and out of the carpool lane. People pulling into the left turn lane at a signal, then just crossing on a red light as soon as they think it's safe. People passing in the gutter (no lane). People cutting across 3-4 lanes of the freeway at ~70mph, across the painted barrier to exit a freeway.
I'd say the average of these incidences I see is 3 per drive and that doesn't include just you average weaver or tailgater. In other words, I take my car out for a 10-15 minute drive, (so 20-30 mins round trip) and see someone do something outrageous endangering other people's lives 3 times per drive on average.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#724Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#725For the past few weeks, I've been annotating all the references I could find in the legendary Unix magic poster: https://unixmagic.net.
I'm happy to reach this first milestone, but I'm already envisioning future iterations. My goal is to transform this into a proper celebration of Unix – a system whose elegant simplicity and powerful design principles continue to inspire me. There's something deeply satisfying about connecting with this foundational piece of computing history.
Contributions are always welcome.
Special shout-out to @abetusk for all the support and enthusiasm with the project.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#726I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs. When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected. But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have…
Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#727I have a website that is like a HN where news is about tech, mostly AI. I haven't posted anything to it in a few months. https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#728Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Very Cool! Which use cases are you targeting? I'm surprised at the relatively sparse state of streaming. I feel like there are: - Flink - Spark - ~Benthos - Arroyo - Then mostly custom / bespoke frameworks Maybe there just isn't that much money in it? But I think there's still lots of opportunity to improve the Dev/UX over the JVM and the enterprise solutions. ----- I would say recovery is achieved through kafka cons…
This may be outside your use case for sql flow, but in my professional work we have a lot of problems with malformed messages or weird data in the target DB. So only 95% of message succeed in effecting their updatupdated. Leads to a lot of troubleshooting what happened, what was the message, what was the data at the time we processed the message, what did we expect to happen, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#729A chatbot that plays Call of Cthulhu, the tabletop RPG game, with you.
https://github.com/StarsRail/Cocai
Better than a human, it can draw an illustration of the scene in meme seconds.
It can also roll dices in 3D: Demo: https://youtu.be/8wagQoMPOKY?si=oCa2erHvheEyEKM_&t=55
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#730I’m working on In Other Words, a daily word puzzle where players connect seemingly unrelated words through conceptual stepping stones. The game showcases how any two words can be connected through surprisingly few steps — we’ve crafted each puzzle to need at least 3 hops, with around 50 elegant 3-hop solutions hidden among thousands of possibilities. When players explore longer paths (up to 9 hops), they can discover millions of valid solutions among billions of potential routes. It’s fascinating to see how words like “ground” can bridge entirely different concepts, or how homographs create unexpected connections between semantic domains. The game advances the “idea-linking” category of word puzzles — focusing on meaning rather than spelling or anagrams — and turns our linguistic network into a daily brain teaser where finding your own creative path is as rewarding as discovering the most elegant solution.
It’s for iPhone only (yes, sorry!), and you can play for free once. Apologies in advance for the large download. Get it from here: https://www.inotherwords.app/