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

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

#152
I'm beta testing a SaaS called ChimeraHR that helps bridge the divide between developers and HR when it comes to assessing programmer's skill. The main idea is that the programming languages we use reveal a lot about how we think and problem solve.

When devs put their top languages on their resumes, they are also saying a bit about how they prefer to work and what they value. This signal is largely lost on HR since a lot of it is insight you get from actually coding over time. I strongly believe that we can get more people hired and into the right organizations and cultures if people could see beyond the surface level of the keywords on a resume.

I'm looking for first customers now and people to give feedback on the idea and the upcoming offerings. There's a proof of concept now that hints at how it all works.

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

#153
Working on Runno (https://runno.dev/) as a side project. It's a tool for running code in the browser for educational use.

[Edit]: I wrote a re-introduction to Runno: The WebComponent for Code over the weekend (https://runno.dev/articles/web-component/)

I've been playing around with turning it into a sandbox for running code in Python (https://runno.dev/articles/sandbox-python/). This would allow you to safely execute AI generated code.

Generally thinking about more ways to run code in sandbox environments, as I think this will become more important as we are generating a lot of "untrusted" code using Gen AI.

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

#154
I'm working on a webpage to share my notes from science/engineering classes. It includes a node graph of all the topics in a particular course, and you can click on a node to find what I've written about that topic.

Here's a demo (click on "Limiting Reactant"):

https://owenpalmer.com/webnotes/

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

#155

https://aponlink.com/ I built a no-AI, human-only social network focused on ONLY one thing - keeping people connected. I'd stepped away from mainstream social media last year due to the overwhelming negativity, privacy violation, etc. Then around early this year, I started to feel I was missing updates from people who actually matter in my life. Instead of going back to traditional platforms, I decided to create a si…

You need an about page with screenshots, ect. I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I invest my extremely valuable time and attention into your site. --- The links on the bottom of the page (about, privacy policy, ect) don't work. In general: Non-functioning links / buttons are a huge no-no. When I encounter non-functioning links / buttons in software, I just assume I'm going to waste my time and move on. I k…

Thanks for the feedback!

1. The bottom nav links are fixed now, really appreciate you pointing that out.

2. > ...an About page with screenshots great suggestion! We’ll work on adding that soon to better showcase what Aponlink is about.

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

#156
A website that provides transparency into the new/used car market in Australia: https://carvalue.app/

The goal is to allow anyone to know how much any car is worth at a given age/mileage, and eventually help people make better purchasing decisions.

Be warned: It's still a very buggy prototype at this stage and the data confidence for all but the most popular models is low!

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

#158
I’ve been dissecting stock market data with code to see how dark pool and automated trading behaviors are evolving and impacting the market. The market is the most adverse possible brain battle where actors constantly try to outsmart and make money off of each-other. Greed and fear playing out and conditions changing constantly. AI is also used but it gets funny when the market adapts and plays against past behavior to take advantage of AI traders as well.
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