Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by tikotus » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

I posted in this monthly thread first time in May when I launched a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. Since then it's grown significantly, and I couldn't be happier!

The game has a farily simple frontend, but there is a fairly complex constraint solving algorithm as part of the puzzle making process. What makes the puzzle quite unique is that you can't "guess". You can only make guesses that are provable by logic. The algorithm ensuring this has worked flawlessly for months now (though I've manually inserted some silly mistakes once or twice).

Today's puzzle is one of the hardest to date. The difficulty resets on Mondays, and then gets harder again towards Sunday.

https://cluesbysam.com

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by bobnarizes » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

Building https://floxtop.com/, a Mac app that organizes your files and images.

It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then moves it to the right folder with a single click. Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers.

It already works with images, Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) PDFs, ePubs, text, Markdown, and many other file types (30+) in English. Next I’m adding multi-language support.

If you have messy folders anywhere on your Mac, Floxtop can help.

Try it for free - requires macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/download/1....

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by jmpavlec » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

Working on https://gametje.com (a Jackbox games competitor). Been working on the Android TV app lately. Will probably start creating a new game next week with acronyms similar to the old game Acrophobia from the late 90s/early 2000s.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by daturkel » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

I've been building a little toy computer and assembly language that's interpreted in python. Pretty close to the first release (and introductory blog post) and a lot of fun to build (and learn a bit more about real assembly as I go).

https://github.com/daturkel/dt31

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by stevage » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

https://whenever.world/

It's an explorable database of films, TV shows, books and board games based around their historical setting: where and when the thing is set. It's been incredibly complex and interesting getting the (messy) data, making sense of it and trying to design a UI to explore it.

https://stevebennett.me/2025/08/26/whenever-exploring-times-...

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by delduca » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

Carimbo, my 2D game engine

https://github.com/willtobyte/carimbo

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by skittleson » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:36 PM UTC

Moved from nodered only to a hybrid of nodered and home assistant. Added some new sensors, nfc tags, modes and automations for multiple tenants / cost savings. Its been fun to automate some boring tasks.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by devrundown » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:37 PM UTC

https://RadioPuppy.com - Listen to 1000s of online live radio streams.

This is a pet project for myself. I love listening to online radio while at work, helps me focus. But I didn't really click with any of the current selection of web apps out there so decided to build one myself.

It uses the great API available at radio-browser.info for all the radio information.

Been using it as a way to learn how to market a website as well. Learning a lot.

I welcome any constructive feedback.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by samrus » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:39 PM UTC

Helping my recent MBA grad sister make a simple python script to fit here resume to a JD using openAI's api. Shes applting to product and marketing roles in AI and this helps her understand the tech (and its limitations) better as well as apply to more jobs easier

Market is brutal though man. She hasnt gotten an offer after so much trying

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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Post by mac_ » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 9:40 PM UTC

A database populated with audio metadata (including a link back to YouTube or Spotify or whatever) that includes vector embeddings for the audio. That way I can grab clips of music I like from YouTube, generate vectors for them, then find similar things in the database.

It's off to a rocky start though, as I've initially populated it with YouTube-8M and AudioSet, neither of which are music-specific. The search results can be... Weird.