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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 esalman »

01jonny01 wrote: post #169
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…

I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.

Do you think the government does not track your car already?

Much easier to lecture private citizens about privacy than the government ha.

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

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Post by abcd_f »

gamedever wrote: post #247
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…

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…

Sounds like it's an issue with the speed limit.

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

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Post by formerly_proven »

HenryBemis wrote: post #237
onethought wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?

It is the "systemic/constant/permanent" recording, record-keeping. etc. a.k.a. "processing" (GDPR "processing" means "if it exists and you touch it, your are processing it"). Back in 2005 I remember working with some physical sec company that were setting up cameras in a factory, and they wanted the cameras to 'not record traffic, be activated on if THIS part of the screen has motion')(sidewalk vs sidewalk-right-on-o…

Video surveillance limited to your own private property is not actually subject to GDPR. See GDPR article 2 para 2 lit c. It's not my asswipe opinion, either, see this whitepaper from a state privacy commissioner: https://www.datenschutz.sachsen.de/download/Hinweisblatt_Vid...

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

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Post by hmhhashem »

theconjon wrote: post #657

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…

Sounds similar to https://github.com/jhaals/yopass.

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

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Post by BrandiATMuhkuh »

I'm working on a simple voice AI tool that "interviews" people. Similar to a questionnaire.

Why: - because stable voice AI is still extremely hard. I built multiple such platforms (inbound, outbound, support, phone based) last year. And learned, it is very hard to build something complex with current tool - the interview paradigm is common enough to be useful. E.g: off boarding, business insights, pre/post lab experiment interview, market research

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

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Post by pauletienney »

Working on the french national building registry. We record every single building in the country, attach a unique number and distribute this number in many databases (public and private) as a pivot key. The goal is to create new analysis using data spread in different databases. Since nobody has a perfect database and no algo can detect everything, we are opening the database so any public structure, private company and citizen can participate to the content (think OpenStreetMap for an official state database). The url : https://rnb.beta.gouv.fr (in french)

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

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Post by vincnetas »

jtwaleson wrote: post #642
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

You should check Unison language. Each Unison definition is identified by a hash of its syntax tree. So if two unrelated functions have identical AST this means they that from language perspective it's the same function.

https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/

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

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Post by vincnetas »

boogieknite wrote: post #571
kylecazar wrote: post #482

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar displays to let people know they are speeding. I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one. It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying

the side effect is bikers like me will pedal as hard as possible in hopes we can get that light to flash

I assume you are talking about cyclists. So in this case i guess it's not a biggie as they are moving the mass of no more than 20kg compared to 2000kg when driving a car. (from safety perspective)

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

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Post by coopykins »

Working on https://resumeflows.com

A tool that builds job-specific tailored resumes. It's not a novel idea, but the ones I've seen use a subscription based model, and as a user I feel more inclined to purchase some tokens for usage based approach. Also my wife has been looking for a job for a time and I thought it would be handy for her.

Pretty close to getting ready for launch.

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