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

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

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Post by curiousigor »

Working out some smaller bugs of my meta tags checker / builder HeyMeta, which I've rebuilt in Svelte (prevously used Node.js for both FE and BE and it was buggy as hell)

https://heymeta.com

Also revisited and updated Let's see, an eye trainer, which is basically a PWA you can "install" on your tablet/mobile/e-reader. I'm not a scientist, but have had some success training my eyes with this technique and wanted to make a simple app that I can share with my friends to try.

https://letssee.publicspace.co/

Any feedback welcome :)

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

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Post by Foreignborn »

perihelions wrote: post #168

Reverse typesetting: reflowing page layouts where you don't have knowledge of the typesetting structure, i.e. a scanned physical book or PDF paper. Naive rules-based heuristics based on the dimensions of bounding boxes and gaps. Point is to reflow things for resizing to eink readers. (Specifically the size that fits in my pocket which I carry around. User #1 is me). Building in Common Lisp and targeting an Emacs mode…

i don’t quite understand, what makes it reverse typesetting?

my understanding is your typesetting books for responsive eink readers.

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

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Post by dilliwal »

curiousigor wrote: post #201

Working out some smaller bugs of my meta tags checker / builder HeyMeta, which I've rebuilt in Svelte (prevously used Node.js for both FE and BE and it was buggy as hell) https://heymeta.com Also revisited and updated Let's see, an eye trainer, which is basically a PWA you can "install" on your tablet/mobile/e-reader. I'm not a scientist, but have had some success training my eyes with this technique and wanted to ma…

nice work

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

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

tha00 wrote: post #79

I'm currently working through Frank Sikora's "Jazz Harmony" book [1] to learn to play Jazz piano. In parallel, I'm building an exercise generator "Jazzln" [2] to help me practice. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54391815-jazz-harmony [2]: https://jazzln.vercel.app

Here is a weird album you might find fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJHPWlaCrc

Cheers =3

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

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Post by pranav7 »

FlyingSnake wrote: post #133

I hacked my old kindle and turned it into a eink dashboard for my daughter’s school! Now planning to enahace it a bit further and make it easy to customise. Here’s a a detailed write up of the process: https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/

Love it! Nice work

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

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Post by mattrighetti »

I’ve been working on https://ulry.app - a simple link archiver that lets you tag and attach notes on each URL. Right now I’m working on a feature that uses LLMs to summarize an article.

Plus, implementing encryption for https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope

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

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Post by winwang »

I'm working on GPU-accelerated SQL+Spark in a zero-hassle package: https://paraquery.com

Been prod for a few months, recently ripping through 900TB with ~5x efficiency (customer was on BigQuery).

If anyone has any data/infra challenges, or just wanna talk about this kind of tech, lemme know :D

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