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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 Albrekt »

juxtaposicion wrote: post #411

I’m working on Popgot ( https://popgot.com ), a tool that tracks unit prices (cost per ounce, sheet, pound) across Costco, Walmart, Target, and Amazon. It normalizes confusing listings (“family size”, “mega pack”, etc.) to surface the actual cheapest option for daily essentials. On top of that, it uses a lightweight AI model to read product descriptions and filter based on things like ingredients (e.g., flagging pean…

There is a project linked to the Open Food Facts nonprofit of collecting prices of any products (food or other) with bar codes https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/about. They have a system for automatic price detection from labels and working on one from receipts.

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

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Post by csbartus »

Avicebron wrote: post #56

I'm teaching myself category theory, I'll kick back off a local trail, keep notes on the birds I see and read and do the problems in my notebooks. I've got Basic Category Theory by Leinster, and How to Read and Do Proofs by Solow as my references, notebook, pen and a pair of Nikon binoculars.

Just learnt Applied Category Theory, it's a very big fun, hope you're enjoying it too :)

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

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Post by addoo »

A CLI argument specification and a parser that implements it. Mostly because I’m annoyed with Python’s argparse, so I’m adding blackjack and removing hookers. Also because I’m annoyed with the arguments used for programs at work and how the same author might use args a different way for each tool (To pull up a usage string, you might need to use `help`, `-h`, `--help`, `-help`, `+help`, or `+.help`… not all scripts display a usage string when no args are given).

It’s not much, but it’s all I can cram into the free time I have, there’s a possibility I might actually finish it for once, and it’s something I could actually use once it’s done.

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

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Post by wesz »

Around a month ago i posted on HN my side project for sharing Drum Patterns, got great feedback and i've implemented most of the suggestions - https://drumpatterns.onether.com/about/#changelog

Still happy to make little tweaks here and there, since there are some folks enjoying the site.

https://drumpatterns.onether.com

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

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Post by q1w2 »

mgl wrote: post #135

https://github.com/openkoda/openkoda I am working on an open-source insurance application platform. The main goal is to accelarate time-to-market for insurance and insurtech innovations, providing all these "boring" enterprise features (like multitenancy, role-based security, audit trails, etc.) out of the box, so that you can focus on building the actual product.

Any plans to integrate with Download providers like IVANS?
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