I have small solo project that I am slowly expanding on. It started as an old-fashioned text sentiment analysis more for my amusement more than anything else ( no real insights were gleamed so original version was used as a foundation for what came next ). I don't think I will ever put it out there publicly, but it keeps me occupied when I need a distraction.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#502A open-source Looker/Data Studio alternative, supporting Bigquery/Snowflake/DuckDB. Has a custom SQL dialect with embedded semantic layer to make reusable and interactive visuals easier. Can be self-hosted, but a public version is available. Still very WIP!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#503A tree cutting tool. Take photos of the tree from 6 different angles, feed into a 3D model generator, erode the model and generate a 3D graph representation of the tree. The tool suggests which cuts to make and where, given a restricted fall path (e.g. constrained by a neighbors yard on one side). I create the fallen branches in their final state along the fall plane, and create individual correction vectors mapping…
How does the graph representation help you solve the problem?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#504quit my senior eng manager job to vibe code on youtube www.youtube.com/@travis-vibes
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#505quit my senior eng manager job to vibe code on youtube www.youtube.com/@travis-vibes
I'm actually really interested to see how other people are coding with LLMs. I guess this sort of thing is already happening on youtube and I could have searched it out but I did not. Will checkout your channel.
I am particularly interested in seeing how you handle the transition from LLMs doing great at one-shot prompts but then struggling as the scope of everything expands and you have to get smarter about breaking down problems.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#506A multitenancy library for .NET https://www.finbuckle.com
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#507I'm working on a human-like AI opponent for VR table tennis. It's something I really want myself, love playing table tennis in VR, but with online play you get the latency issues, people that have adopted a playing style which basically hacks the game physics or other aspects, or people who are just plain rude. Playing against the AI is much nicer, but it's not varied or realistic enough such that when you actually play against real people you are ill prepared.
At a very early prototyping phase, but having a ton of fun. https://x.com/artofpongfu
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#508I 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
That's cool. Reminds me of the Windows phone launcher.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#509I'm working on running sequences of heap operations (insert and delete-min) in linear time instead of O(n log n) total time. It's a silly little project in theoretical computer science I have.
Crucially, to make this bound work, you only learn the final state of the heap, not which element got deleted when.
I'm also building a simpler soft heap.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
#510Working on a browser extension to make it easier to find content on YouTube that fits your interests.
I watch a lot of YouTube videos and have found it very annoying that YouTube latches onto one or two topics that you've watched and only recommends that type of content over and over again. Even if you use their "Not Interested" tool, not a whole lot changes in your recommendations.
At the end of last year I launched Relevant - a crowdsourcing website where users can categorize the channels they watch into a defined hierarchy of categories ranging from broad topics like "Science" and "Gaming" to more specific ones like "Phone Reviews" or "Speedrunning".
Although I've had good feedback on the website, engagement has been relatively low and I think that's because it's a big ask to have someone navigate to the website to find the content. This year I decided that I'd bring the content to them by making a Chrome extension that lets users interact with Relevant directly from within YouTube.
It's still a work in progress but I'd love to get a first version out within a month or so to start spreading the idea and gathering feedback. If this is of any interest to the people here on HN then please let me know what you'd like to see most on your feeds.