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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 barrell »

bogdansolga wrote: post #500
barrell wrote: post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

I have just created an account and tried to use the app; either I am dumb (at this hour), or the app has a very not intuitive UI :-) I (think I) managed to create an expression, but: 1. it takes forever, I don't know what it's doing and it's still not done 2. I have no idea how to use it, onward 3. does not seem that I will be actually able to use it, as the app requires to be subscribed to use it... Looking forward…

I am the first to admit that the UI does not make sense to people who have not seen it in use. I have done some user onboarding sessions where you just “let them ask questions and click” and it goes terribly if it’s any consolation, I have never gotten that feedback after showing people how to use it (quite the opposite actually!)

Wrt to the expression, all expressions created today succeeded, so if you’re still seeing a progress bar let me know as that’s a bug. It’s possible something failed with the live updates, or it does take several minutes to create an expression (depending on servers, it can take up to 10 minutes at times, although the typical timing is 2-4 minutes depending on the expression)

If you click on any of the review methodologies, it will start reviewing any of your successful expression. From there, the experience should be a lot more explorer-friendly :)

What it’s doing is: analyzing the sentence, splitting it into phrases, aligning it across all languages, tagging all of the gender/case/tense/etc, researching pronunciation, generating audio, aligning the audio, prioritizing the words (across several axes), and generation explanations/dictionary for each individual word

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

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Post by iNate2000 »

MAGiE: Your MAGnetic Interactive Explorer

A simple puzzle game: a cassette-futuristic story, heavily inspired by Nell’s adventures at Castle Turing in Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age”.

I could go on and on...

I’d love your feedback:

Rewind to the start of the story: https://magiegame.com/test/2025/04/04

Or skip to today’s puzzle: https://magiegame.com

Right now I’m focused on story development and integrating it with the daily-puzzle system I built last time I was between jobs.

This is a years-long slow-burn side project. My career moved away from the frontend long ago—this is my first React app, with a Django backend running on AWS Lightsail.

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

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Post by axelMI »

I'm working on a pure js webgl image editor with effects, filters, crop & perspective correction, ... oh and it's opensource as unfortunately most comparable solutions are closed sources

https://mini2-photo-editor.netlify.app to try it out (https://github.com/xdadda/mini-photo-editor)

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

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Post by nathan_douglas »

rubb3rDucc wrote: post #519

so I'm working on side project to make managing and exploring your music library easier. The idea is you can set a few filters (like bpm, key, decade, genre) and then swipe through random songs, accept or reject them for inspiration or playlists. Kinda like Tinder but for digging through your own tracks. It also tracks what's trending on TikTok/YouTube/SoundCloud weekly, so you can find stuff that’s blowing up, filte…

Will it work with Beets? :)

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

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Post by swatcoder »

tikotus wrote: post #407

I just put live a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. I've been working on it for a while now, mainly on the level generator. It was tricky to generate levels that are solvable using logic (no guessing needed), and also fun to solve (no crazy long deduction chains, but also not just obvious things). I'm sure the implementation still has some quirks on some devices, so would love to hear if you encounter issues! https:/…

This is great, but the need for a long glossary of terms is a sign that you might want to keep tuning language/word-choice.

As you've seen in replies here already, many term choices you've made have enough variety in how they're conventionally used that people incorrectly assume they know what it means only to see the "nope!" popup when they try to apply it. That frustration is going to spoil first impressions of what actually seems to be a really great puzzle system, which is a shame. The more you can reduce that experience, the less likely you'll be to prematurely burn off players.

A good measure for getting it right would be that you don't even need a glossary at all, or that you can get it so condensed that you can make it more prominent without becoming distracting.

Alternately, you could maybe use symbols instead of words to represent your rules, as more players would intuit that they should learn the symbols before making (wrong) assumptions.

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

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Post by keepamovin »

TUI browser for the Modern Web. Runs JavaScript, works everywhere, but only shows text. Quietude, noise cancellation for content. Sneak peak: https://youtu.be/rmykR_OLYhg

I also just today made a fun way to fully host a front end and SQLite back-end on GitHub for free using Pages + Actions, you can try it right now: https://do-say-go.github.io/fully-hosted/

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

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Post by quichenp »

siruva07 wrote: post #338

PodSnacks ( https://podsnacks.org ) — Personalized AI summaries of top podcasts, delivered to your inbox. I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science. PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best, and more. You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short…

any way to expose api access for the keyword search feature? would be cool to build this into some topic summaries delivered via email I'm building for my team

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

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Post by LeonM »

Working on designing and building an interface to properly integrate a modern phone with Toyota/Lexus infotainment systems from before 2010 (which are using the proprietary AVC-LAN protocol).

I've explored all existing commercially available solutions and none match my requirements/standards (high-quality audio codec/DAC, USB-PD, steering wheel controls, no splicing or cutting into the loom, no cutting up the dash, etc.).

After researching how the Toyota/Lexus infotainment systems work I found they are highly modular, and actually quite easy to produce custom modules for. The proprietary AVC-LAN protocol is well-understood, and actually makes it really easy to integrate with. The display are just NTSC composite, and touch events (in fact, all button presses, including steering wheel media controls) are emitted on the AVC-LAN bus.

An simple board with some interfacing logic, a DAC and an RPi nano should be all I need to allow good Bluetooth audio integration, and lossless audio via wired USB, both controllable from the steering wheel. You could do all sorts of fun things with the display (such as displaying vehicle status from ODB, lap timer, G-force meter etc.). If I use a RPi compute module then running Android Auto should be quite feasible.

It's just a hobby project though, I'll probably open-source everything. Not planning on commercializing it.

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