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

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

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Post by simquat »

I'm working on a tool[0] to address how hard it is for non-technical people to understand the text-based code from vibe coding tools.

Our approach is to make the complexity more readable by using three simple block types to represent logic, data, and UI, which are connected by cables – a bit like wiring up components on an electronics breadboard –.

Instead of spitting out a wall of code, the AI generates these visual blocks and makes the right connections between them. The ultimate goal is to make the output from LLM more accessible and actionable for everyone, not just developers.

[0] https://breadboards.io/

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

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Post by Gedalge »

A personal webradio.

It’s fast, free, keyboard-only, cross-platform, and add-free. It’s been my only source of music for the past 6 months or so.

I’m not sharing the link because of music copyright issues. But I think more people should do that, to break free of the yoke of greedy music platforms.

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

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Post by vinhnx »

OldOneEye wrote: post #476
vinhnx wrote: post #454

I'm currently building my own coding agent, VT Code. VT Code is a Rust-based terminal coding agent with semantic code intelligence via Tree-sitter (parsers for Rust, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java) and ast-grep (structural pattern matching and refactoring). It supports multiple LLM providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter, Z.AI, Moonshot AI, all with automatic failover, prompt caching,…

This looks very exciting! I'm following it and I'll give it a go. Not that I'm unsatisfied with Claude Code for my amateur level, but it's clear incentives are not exactly aligned when using a tool from the token provider xD I love that you've made it open source and that it's in Rust, thanks a lot for the work!

Thank you for your kind words. This is my own research into how coding agent works in practice, I love to explore the underlying technologies of how Claude Code, and Codex and coding agent works in general.

I choose Rust since I have some familiarity and experience with it, VT Code is of course, AI-assisted, I mainly use Codex to help me build it. Thank you again for checking it out, have a great day! : )

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

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Post by tlb »

glouwbug wrote: post #87

I’m writing my own internal combustion engine simulator with some applied CFD. Nothing public yet but the sound is nice in my opinion: https://glouw.com/2025/10/12/Ensim4.html

The demo with an inline 8 at 16000 RPM is hard to judge, because I've never heard such an engine IRL. Might I suggest adding demos of engines people know the sound of?

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

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Post by hxorr »

cjflog wrote: post #31

Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…

This is actually a topic I'm interested in

What bugs me is that plastics manufacturers advertise "BPA-free", which is technically correct, but then add a very similar chemical from the same family that has the same effect on the plastic - which is good - but also has the same effect on your endocrine system

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

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Post by nugzbunny »

Gedalge wrote: post #492

A personal webradio. It’s fast, free, keyboard-only, cross-platform, and add-free. It’s been my only source of music for the past 6 months or so. I’m not sharing the link because of music copyright issues. But I think more people should do that, to break free of the yoke of greedy music platforms.

Does this play music you’ve downloaded in random order? How do you learn of new tracks? That’s where I like radio/Spotify - I get to hear new music.

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

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Post by christoph123 »

An app to track my work automatically by feeding screenshots to LLMs and analyzing those. https://donethat.ai

Obviously this is quite sensitive data so architected it to never store raw data, allow for bring-your-own-key, and even in team settings be fully private by default, everybody keeps control of all their results.

Started about six months ago, have some first users, and always looking for feedback!

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

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Post by loafdev »

https://pond.sh

I have been working on a one week side-project that ended up taking over a year… Working on it periodically with friends to add new features and patch bugs, at the moment I'm trying to expand the file sharing capabilities. It's been a journey and I have learnt quite a lot.

The aim of this is to be a simple platform to share content with others. Appreciate any feedback, this is my first time building a user facing platform. If the free tier is limiting, I've made a coupon "HELLOWORLD" if you want to stress test or try the bigger plans, it gives you 100% off for 3 months.

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

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Post by GalaxyNova »

loafdev wrote: post #498

https://pond.sh I have been working on a one week side-project that ended up taking over a year… Working on it periodically with friends to add new features and patch bugs, at the moment I'm trying to expand the file sharing capabilities. It's been a journey and I have learnt quite a lot. The aim of this is to be a simple platform to share content with others. Appreciate any feedback, this is my first time building a…

Is this supposed to be a sort of user-friendly vercel / gh pages alternative?

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

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Post by Gedalge »

nugzbunny wrote: post #496
Gedalge wrote: post #492

A personal webradio. It’s fast, free, keyboard-only, cross-platform, and add-free. It’s been my only source of music for the past 6 months or so. I’m not sharing the link because of music copyright issues. But I think more people should do that, to break free of the yoke of greedy music platforms.

Does this play music you’ve downloaded in random order? How do you learn of new tracks? That’s where I like radio/Spotify - I get to hear new music.

- I create channels that play tracks in a defined order, on repeat, but with a duration of at least 80 hours (and ever-growing). Old-school album-based listening.

- I think learning of new stuff is twisted in the current environment. "New stuff" in the sense of radio/Spotify is mostly "same stuff as I know and like, but slightly different so it feels new". You don’t discover truly new stuff unless by actively searching for it. No radio or service is going to passively do that for you.

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