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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 HaZeust »

redbackthomson wrote: post #510

Working 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…

I strongly, strongly recommend adding video essays as a category as well - they're very big now.

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

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Post by mawise »

(open source) Self-hostable, private social media alternative (like Facebook circa 2012). Functionally it is a private blog that speaks RSS with a built-in RSS aggregator. Self-hosting being the only way to actually have privacy in a social-media-type space.

https://github.com/havenweb/haven

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

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Post by Towaway69 »

Erlang-RED[2] a combination of Node-RED[1] and Erlang to create a visual low code programming environment for Erlang based on the principles of flow based programming.

Reached a milestone today by being able to create a http endpoint and route the traffic (based to path variables) between various pathways. Thus it is possible to create a blog using Erlang-RED - what all good frameworks should be able to do ;)

[2] = https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red

[1] = https://nodered.org/

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

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Post by kakoni »

_Chief wrote: post #249

https://mysukari.com - A Diabetes management platform I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Feb (technically LADA as it's late onset). I'm the first in my family with it so I had zero info on it. I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't work in Kenya as they are geo-locked, and even apps for measuring carbs like CalorieKing are not available in my region. I was really frustrated with the tech ecosystem, and…

Great stuff!

> I tried getting some CGMs to use but most don't work in Kenya as they are geo-locked

Are you familir with xdrip? (https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip) It works directly with various cgm sensors (dexcom etc.)

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

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Post by xxmarkuski »

Just a small hardware project: I am building a cocktail mixer in an old PC case. I saw something similar at a con over Easter and had to build one myself, it had a tap coming out of the 3.5" bay and the ingredients were inside the pc case. It uses peristaltic pumps to move the different ingredients to the cup. It is very simple, but still took a couple of days to complete. In detail it consists of 6 x peristaltic pumps, 3 x L298N motor driver, 3 x PCF8574 io expander and an esp32. The software for the esp32 is very dumb and I actually coded it correctly before I had all the parts, it just enables and sets the speed for the motors and is attached via USB to a laptop. There a webapp is used to manage ingredients and recipes.
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