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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 jagged-chisel »

gosub100 wrote: post #663
jagged-chisel wrote: post #632

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn’t mention safety issues

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

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Post by asim »

asim wrote: post #174

In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro ( https://github.com/micro ), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west. https://reminder.dev

To anyone still discovering the project, you can find it on github -> https://github.com/asim/reminder

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

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Post by Quiark »

lukevp wrote: post #25

I’m working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP downloader that will download much more quickly than other clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser and allows local/remote/cloud control. It’s early (started last week) so there’s not much done yet, but if you’re inte…

Back on dial up we used browser plugin (or even separate windows app) download managers which did a lot of that

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

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Post by app134 »

Steganography tool called ez-steg. It supports least significant bit steganography as well as emoji/unicode encoding via variation selectors. It grew from a set of scripts I had written to test out data loss prevention systems.

Includes some nice-to-haves like payload encryption, carrier image creation

https://github.com/a-bissell/ez-steg

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

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Post by jfil »

I've created a proof-of-concept walkable 3D environment based on John Tallis' 1830s engravings of London streets. Polishing it, and working on the accompanying blog post. I'm also writing a basic introduction to the SQLite EXPLAIN statement (will build an accompanying "helper" tool that you can use to read the output of that command).

I am thinking of starting a venture that will increase the amount of nonesense in the world. The intention is to get people playing, writing and exploring more. I would keep track of "wins" by recording the work that participants/readers create in the world. Very grindset. Much hustle. If you need a push - or a cheerleader - on a creative project that you're working on, then reach out to me.

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

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Post by robby1066 »

wand3r wrote: post #623
robby1066 wrote: post #621

I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com , a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications. Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...). I'm learning a lot, but it's slow goin…

This is primarily for US citizenship right? Do you offer US citizens help with emigrating as well?

Yeah, U.S. citizenship for existing Green Card holders, specifically.

Leaving the U.S. is a whole different thing that I wouldn't even be sure where to start with, unfortunately!

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

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Post by nullderef »

I built an app that no one wanted to use, unfortunately. It helps people reduce phone usage by displaying things like cats in your screen, the screen time police, annoying cookie banners, and more.

Users complained the app was too annoying, so I've revamped it after asking for feedback properly [1]. Learning more about user research, UX, marketing (even making TikToks!) and so on has been pretty neat. Learnings are:

1. People want to avoid losing track of time on social media

2. Instagram is great to connect with friends, but Reels are dangerous!

3. Complete focus is only necessary in cases like work or study.

This has been one of the most creative projects I've done. It's the closest thing I've done to art as a programmer :)

Also, Kotlin Multiplatform has been a joy! Only faced minor issues because it's too new, but it's been easy to create animations and reuse components. XML on Android was a huuuge pain. I'm happy with myself for prototyping without wasting too much time overall.

[1] https://speedbumpapp.com/blog/v1/

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

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Post by childintime »

continuational wrote: post #27

Firefly is a typed full stack programming language: - object capabilities - implicit async/await - immutable collections https://www.firefly-lang.org/ It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!

Looks fascinating! RPC looks interesting. Tasteful website!

Slight typo: search for "NodeSytem" on your home page.

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

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Post by onethought »

xorcist wrote: post #714
onethought wrote: post #646

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is a licensed security camera? By this logic, are you saying cameras on private property, that happen to capture public space in their frame are also illegal?

Of course it is. Is this controversial anywhere? I would expect surveillance cameras to be regulated in most parts of the world, certainly around Europe. In the Netherlands I believe you need to register such cameras with the local police and you are responsible for following the relevant regulations and data protection laws.

What you are suggesting is basically unenforceable. How would you know what’s in a cameras frame?

What do the police do with that register? That sounds like it’s just helpful for them. If it’s only a registration and not an approval process?

I don’t think you are responsible for data protection laws… like if it’s a ring, that’s amazons problem.

I think this is controversial, because how’s it different from me taking a happy snap on my phone and accidently capturing you in the background.

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