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

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

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Post by wrboyce »

rcy wrote: post #191

I am working on a site that allows kids to chat and play online with other kids. To connect, kids must have their parents sign up and connect with the parents of their friends. Kids can chat with their parents and family as well as other kids in their network. Messages can be monitored by parents. There are also other activities like a bot workshop where simple llm bots can be "programmed" by creating system prompts…

Interesting goals, and quite different from the norm. I assume you must have somewhat strong feelings about privacy and/or children having access to technology/internet/etc that has driven you to build this platform? As a happily childless late 30s married man, this is quite foreign to me; but I definitely recognise that there is passion driving this project… Could you talk some more about your inspiration and long term goals? I find both the concept and the end goal quite fascinating!

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

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Post by ciroduran »

I've been making songbooks for my favourite songs. I am currently working on a songbook for some friends. I've found https://www.chordpro.org/ an amazing CLI tool, under active development. I am using the ukulele, but the program also easily can do guitar or piano. The program reads a bunch of text files and produces a really nice PDF. I've also used pandoc + LaTeX for the front matter.

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

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Post by ankit219 »

In my day job, working with biotech and life science research companies to automate FDA compliance. That is automatically generate sections of their submissions based on their results/protocols and FDA rules[1]. Here is a short demo: https://www.loom.com/share/3a5a7f4c1cbe4abe825339c18c7397bf?...

[1]: We work at clioapp.ai w a paragraph more detail under products

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

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Post by fancyswimtime »

alextousss wrote: post #24

My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers. Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes! The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous…

please make something for miggie's - there are currently no specialised products for this baddie

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

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Post by zachrip »

Vermeulen wrote: post #169

A multiplayer survival game based around voxel physics. Can be described as Astroneer-like setting, Teardown voxel physics, in a Valheim-like online multiplayer survival game. Game isn't really announced yet but I've shown some videos of the tech: https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1909316208563732866 (On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWISaUmvit4 ) https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1918024969939808654

Are there any open source games like this? I would love to see how these types of games are built.

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

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Post by ridgeguy »

I'm building a CVD system to make arbitrarily large single crystal optical quality diamonds. Not a coder, so I'm using ChatGPT and Claude to show me how to integrate microwave power sources, vacuum & gas supply systems, and other subsystems with LabView. As Gust said in Charlie Wilson's War, "We'll see.".

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

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Post by hiccuphippo »

alextousss wrote: post #24

My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers. Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes! The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous…

Sounds cool but doesn't that send mosquito bits flying in all directions?
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