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

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

#61
https://tritium.legal

Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to share mine!

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

#63
I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them (https://adretro.com).

I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've been using AI to extract and catalog the meta data. I can get through about 100 ads/day this way.

One of my favorite ads, a computer from 1968 that "answers riddles": https://adretro.com/ads/1968-digi-comp-digi-comp-1-table-top...

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

#65

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

Sounds very interesting! How did you get into this industry initially?

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

#66
I've been working on a drawing/animation library/language based on patterns and abstractions.

On one hand the idea seems so simple and intuitive (Define patterns (like 3 red blocks to the right), combine patterns ( 5 up * 3 red right), use patterns inside patterns (each block is a square), but implentation wise I keep running into so many intracies and I want it to be perfect so it's been kind of tough and slow.

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

#67

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

Is there a repo for the starter kit yet that I can bookmark?

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

#68

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

Sounds very interesting! How did you get into this industry initially?

I wanted to do energy stuff and happened to be at a college that had a nuclear engineering dept. The peer advisor told me to take a class in the dept and I loved it.

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

#69

I recently quit my salary job after 16 years and am consulting in nuclear engineering now. I have a few passion projects that I'm working on (between the somewhat substantial consulting work that came out of the woodwork): - Nuclear Reactor Starter Kit --- an open source set of procedures, processes, templates, and maybe even some IT advice that should help newcomers start companies with nuclear quality assurance pro…

Is there a repo for the starter kit yet that I can bookmark?

Not yet! Will probably show up in this org https://github.com/whatisnuclear

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

#70

On https://github.com/anttiharju/vmatch as a hobby. It's starting to get to a workable state, I'm using it to manage Go and golangci-lint for the project itself. It even works with the Go vs code plugin. I think many version managers make things unnecessarily difficult, especially if one hops from one repo to another. vmatch automatically uses and installs the right versions.

The toolchain management added in Go 1.21 sounds related to this. Hopefully you’re already aware of it, but if not, see https://go.dev/blog/toolchain.
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