Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by lnsru » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30 or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything afterwards. On one hand it’s interesting, because it’s very different from the dayjob. But doing it by myself pays my newish car in cash immediately. However I wouldn’t do it for money somewhere else, it’s really really hard work.

Instead of masonry I would like to work on time of flight cameras. But the day has only 24 hours :-(

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

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Post by aorloff » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

dom96 wrote: post #37

A social network where each participant is guaranteed to be a human. It's a tricky problem but I think I've got a pretty good first prototype[1]. 1 - https://onlyhumanhub.com

Mastodon solves this

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

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Post by reassess_blind » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

nickandbro wrote: post #107

I’m working on https://vimgolf.ai , to help me learn new vim commands and in doing so hopefully help others. Right now, still working on adding the ai assisted level creation for each motion, but more to come on that.

Is it possible to add an interactive challenge or two on the homepage prior to sign up? I think that would hook people in and make them want to sign up.

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

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Post by jasfi » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:00 AM UTC

I'm building a no-code AI agents builder.

https://aiconstrux.com

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

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Post by olalonde » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:01 AM UTC

I recently got into embedded development and built a small 12V Bluetooth relay that lets me start my ATV without a physical key. I shared it with some friends, but mostly got blank stares and a few "but why?"s. ¯\(ツ)/¯ I just don't like carrying keys.

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

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Post by lnsru » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:01 AM UTC

mgz wrote: post #88

I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer: homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I’m working on turning it into a product.

I really like this idea of silent monitoring. Monitoring and talking about bad things seen weeks/months later. Because while I can block everything I want at home… there are other kids with free Internet access where everything is available and then I have no idea what’s happening.

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

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Post by shikaan » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:06 AM UTC

As a follow up to my relatively successful series in x86 Assembly of last year[1], I started making an OS that fits in a bootloader.

I am purposefully not doing chain loading or multi-stage to see how much I can squeeze out of 510bytes.

It comes with a file system, a shell, and a simple process management. Enough to write non-trivial guest applications, like a text editor. It's a lot of fun!

Not quite done with it yet, but you can see the progress here https://github.com/shikaan/OSle and even test it out in the browser https://shikaan.github.io/OSle/

[1] https://shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86/guide/2024/09/08/x86-...

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

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Post by debarshri » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:08 AM UTC

I have working on a pluggable secret and key scanner from scratch [1]

The idea is to build scanning databases, file systems, buckets, etc. for static keys and credentials while allowing users to add new file types and parsers.

[1] https://github.com/adaptive-scale/blacklight

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

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Post by tasoeur » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:09 AM UTC

I was recently looking for a simple minimalist app launcher for iPhone that would respect my privacy and didn’t come with a stupid subscription plan, so instead I made my own! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/applist/id6743515756

I also published the list of url schemes / universal links on GitHub: http://github.com/sxp-studio/app-list-catalog

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

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Post by muzani » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 6:09 AM UTC

mgz wrote: post #88

I wanted to know what my kids were doing on the computer: homework or watching youtube shorts, so I built https://screenspy.app to monitor them. Now I’m working on turning it into a product.

I've been using something like Google Family Link, which works fine, except that it ties in to Google Family, along with YouTube, Play Store, Google One. I'd have to kick my sister out of the group to monitor another daughter and it means there's a limit on the number of children you have; such terrible design.

I do want to give them a little privacy and it gets to the appropriate level. Like restricting some apps at certain times, access to chrome but not xhamster. Locking it for certain periods of time and having them request more screen time past 4 hrs/day. Locking the phone whenever they've barricaded themselves in the room the whole morning.

I don't necessarily mind that they're watching YT or TikTok and such. I just want to kick them out of the doom scrolling cycle every now and then.