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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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I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories). GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde). I'…

OpenFoodFacts?

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

#752
post #217

I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories). GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde). I'…

theres some debate around the idea that gluten might be mildly toxic to everyone, so I could see this being really useful to everyone

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

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post #636

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

Our street is fairly bad, and I've brought it up to the city several times, so one of our neighbors went to the city and managed to get a vote for some speed "calmers" put in. It passed! A small example of government working for the people.

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

#754
https://rune.sh

a platform (not an engine) for building “native”, cross-platform games. exposes WebIDL inspired APIs, including audio, GPU, input, storage, etc. you can think of it like unity without the engine. eventually will support user libraries (read: engines) written in whatever language, usable in whatever language.

very rough, don’t expect everything (anything?) to work. might change the name due to the collision with the Rust library by the same name.

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

#755

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>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. I have never seen a system like that. What town? Or what system?

It's a basic trajectory control system (using ANPR cameras), combined with a red light camera. They read your license plate twice in different locations to determine how long you took to drive a section of road. They're very common here in Belgium, but it being coupled to a red light is not that common. They even have a sign that says "too fast = red light + fine".

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

#756

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…

I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this…

I think main problem is that half of adult men population is actually into those noisy/auto-moto sports. Even if they don't own one, they like and admire this silently and believe it's harmless nuisance. Add to it few friends that already do it ... and they're cool...

I live in EU city center. Stupid noisy speeders are bane of my existence. Both noise and safety (for biker and pedestrian) ... In some circles even raising this topic makes you whining leftist crybaby.

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

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I'm developing a deep-linking marketing tool for mobile apps that's significantly more affordable than competitors. I run a software development agency specializing in integrating deep-linking platforms like Branch and marketing attribution tools such as Adjust and AppsFlyer, but their costs are sky-high. That’s why we’re building https://grovs.io — offering the same functionality at just 40% of the price.

In summary, our tool lets you generate dynamic links, track attributions, and analyze referrals. You can easily see which links and marketing campaigns drive the most installs, reactivations, reinstalls, and views.

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

#758

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 tone…

Which tutorials and books?

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

#759
A music library organizer, as a replacement for my current workflow with Beets (https://beets.io/).

Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is:

- fetch album art if not present

- create folder structure readable by Subsonic server

- symlink relevant files

Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.

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

#760
currently im trying to write more! i have been a fan of several bloggers for years now, but have never had the courage to start myself. hoping to change that this year.

i figure writing online would be a fun way to try and start conversations with people who are interested in the same topics. also, hopefully any technical posts can go to show employers that im not just another junior engineer whos reliant on LLMs for coding, and have some deep knowledge.

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