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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)

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Post by szszrk »

carlnewton wrote: post #479

I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I finally cracked ansible/docker-compose provisioning on Ubuntu and plan to expand that out to support Debian also. The groundwork is there. I can finally see an official release in the distant horizon, I just need to put those quality of life fe…

Would you recommend your tool to use with a single instance for a local community that won't be interested in federating? I mean self hosting by one person, likely via docker, exposing to a few hundred people, not federating at all, all data should be kept within the community, not public.

If yes, do you think it's already mature enough to give it a spin?

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

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Post by k4runa »

Nevermark wrote: post #386

I am finishing up a 32 year old stretch project (as of this month). 99.9% sure I nailed it. Technically a 42 year old project, but it took me 10 years to find the right way to think about it and craft a formal definition. The theory seems to check, but I can't/won't be convinced until the tools based on it are complete and working without friction or exception. Many times it has felt like I was tilting at windmills,…

You got this

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

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Post by jvink »

I am continuing work on https://reliquary.se - a VPN for the hackers - based on my fully privilege separated and sandboxed VPN sanctum (https://sanctum.se).

It is shaping up nicely towards an actual 1.0 release in the near future, with a little less keccak based AEADs this time around. It was a fun experiment but in the end I have yet to do any cryptanalysis on it or provide security proofs for it - neither which I have time for at this point - so the swap to AES was expected on my end.

For fun I also added a fully e2e p2p voice chat client on top of this as the sanctum protocol is now available as a library (https://github.com/jorisvink/libkyrka) - this voice chat works with one or multiple peers and can is available at https://github.com/jorisvink/confessions.

Either way, I guess you can say I'm having a little bit too much fun with this.

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

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Post by monokai_nl »

Working on the Monokai Pro website for my color theme for code editors, and the Monokai Pro plugin for JetBrains, which has just been released. Working out some optimizations, which will be pushed in the next update.

Monokai Pro has been running for more than 5 years now for VSCode and Sublime Text, and the original Monokai almost 20 years.

https://monokai.pro

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

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Post by rozenmd »

I'm working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com), a tool for getting an alert when your team vibe-codes your product offline. Just hit 4 years of running the business.

Currently adding the ability to pause checks on a schedule (for when you have scheduled maintenance on your DB and don't want alerts during that time).

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

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Post by liu3hao »

Working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics/circuits: https://circuitscript.net/

The motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs. I have used different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) in the past and wanted to spend more time thinking about the schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs.

The main language goals are to be easy to write and reason, generated graphical schematics should be displayed according to how the designer wishes so and to encourage code reuse.

Currently trying to improve the docs and also release an online IDE. Please check it out and I look forward to feedback!

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

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Post by AdamN »

I'm working on nothing of importance (well actually it's a notable product from Big Tech). I'm looking to start something new but want to stay in Berlin and want to work on core technology or critical government/public/financial systems. I can either help fund this work and help at an arms length or join up.
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