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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 lnsru »

kleiba wrote: post #797
lnsru wrote: post #780

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The window part ist not that hard as long the windows don’t weight too much. Of course, the wall opening should be somehow suitable and the wall stable enough to accommodate new thick and long screws (sadly not my case). I am buying all the tools. AliExpress price and quality level if I don’t need them much. Good quality ones for the bigger tasks. I tried renting at the beginning, but it’s very expensive at the end.…

Yes, I have also bought a lot of tools which I never needed before in my life. And like you, I'm also usually going for the lower end price-wise because chances are that I will not ever need them again after our reno. And frankly, most of the time the tools are completely fine for me. Interestingly, there already were a number of times where a tool came in handy that I had bought as some point in the past not when I…

The thing is Germany, that the quality work is nowadays rare. There is good chance, that the windows will be installed the way you described, the edges plastered and no way to control what's done. German procedure is called "RAL Montage" for it, looks nice in theory, but it takes too long for average "professional". I would say, that picking any window with tripple glas is okay anywhere in Europe. And then comes next problem - the insulation becomes too good and ventilation system must be installed to avoid moisture and mould.

The tools... I think, this is not my last construction site. I must buy some smaller property for my retirement, a house for old people is too much.

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

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Post by 01jonny01 »

necovek wrote: post #410
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #399

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No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either. I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.

I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a…

Yes it requires collective empathy. There was a time when we never required the nanny state to constantly watch over us. A sign of a high functioning, free and unified society is that you shouldn't need be forced by the hand of the law to conform to the lowest common denominator.

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

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Post by MisterSandman »

mavamaarten wrote: post #626
gamedever wrote: post #247

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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…

Is it really a beautiful system if it involves adding and maintaining a completely unnecessary traffic light? That isn’t free and costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars over its lifetime.

I’m not saying it’s not worth it, even 1 life saved would make it worth it, but it’s not beautiful.

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

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Post by cmdtab »

p0deje wrote: post #819
cmdtab wrote: post #682

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For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check points so next run is automated unless something changes in the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping playwright library so I can take over every method. Users use playwright like they always have but with one extra method called act. Omini parser lets you split section of the UI to hash and watch for changes that are relevant. For 2, can you…

> For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check points so next run is automated unless something changes in the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping playwright library so I can take over every method. Users use playwright like they always have but with one extra method called act. How would you determine that something changed in UI by just looking at a screenshot? Would you additionally…

Compare parts of screenshot and see if they changed. I didn't want to use DOM at all. My hypothesis was multi model AI agents will get cheaper over time (Gemini flash is crazy cheap) and people would start putting in attacks in the DOM to confuse AI.

Additionally, existing tools that I used struggled interacting with sites like reddit. So I set out to skip DOM and focus on a generalized approach.

I tried to go cheaper by using ui-tars, open source model by bytedance to run test locally without needing anthropic but it wasn't reliable enough.

That short test link is interesting. I didn't know they existed. Wow, the field is moving fast.

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

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Post by piloto_ciego »

My wife and I are building a sort of solar punk diy hydroponic farming growing start up here in our garage in Alaska!

We found a nice design someone had released online under creative commons BY, modified it to fit our needs (though we’re thinking mark2 might need a complete redesign), then have been printing the towers out and growing veggies under grow lights!

We have a long way to go but I’m building the online store presently to sell towers (that should be up and running in a few weeks - I’m kind of exhausted after my day job - and we’re hoping to have enough towers to sell veggies at the farmers market by the summer.

Long term I’ll likely buy some land and build a less ad hoc setup, for now, we are still experimenting. The idea is to slowly build this up as self-reliantly and simply as we can so that anyone can grow their own food and so we can use dirt simple tools to run the business. We plan on doing as much as is practical with open source tooling and Linux. No subscriptions, no spyware (once we get to tower design mark4 or 5 and we have some raspberry pis running the tooling), and we want this to be a model so other people can do the same thing we’re doing!

Basically, as we approach this AI inflection point, I really strongly feel like the best results for the future will be to leverage this technology for good. Also, I think there’s a niche in using tech for extremely practical and non-SaaS purposes. Everyone and their brother wants to create this crazy billion dollar startup idea where everyone pays them a subscription to their AI bot or whatever, we’re just hoping we can make people a little more resilient in our community and maybe feed my neighbors. We think we can leverage these new tools for good.

I’m not a very experienced web dev (my day job is in automation), but I’m learning and actually it looks like I might have some side business where I throw together some small websites for local companies too. The goal is modest, practical, and ideally something that makes my community better.

Come check out my terrible flask website here:

www.pragman.io

In a couple weeks I should have my garage cleaned out and the online store ready, but for now enjoy!

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

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Post by arkokoley »

Working on a resume editing tool for rapidly applying to a large number of jobs. The basic idea being that resumes should be tailored to the job being applied to. In this tool, you put in your resume, add in other details regarding your background, projects and other things that you might not put in the resume. You do this once.

Now you paste in the job description, we use an llm to generate a new resume grounded in the details you added earlier. You get a pdf that you can submit to the job application.

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

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Post by hboon »

I have been building https://theblue.social which provides analytics and post scheduling for Bluesky along with a little side-tools for following-back followers and cleaning your followings.

Been on this the last few months. Have worked on a few other ideas before that but those didn't fly.

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

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Post by Attummm »

I'm working on a small project for managing settings in Golang.

I found that boilerplate code needed for handling defaults, environment variables, and CLI variables could become unreasonably large and error prone. I just wanted to have a struct hold the settings needed for the project, with sane defaults, helpful messages, and handling of environment and CLI variables at the same time.

So I created Settingo.

Settingo is a unified solution to handle defaults, environment variables, and CLI arguments. Settings are a boring aspect of a project, and Settingo will allow a dev to focus on the project. https://github.com/Attumm/settingo

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