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Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#32This seems a little bit of a duplicate of [1], but I can repeat my answer here as any views help! My wife and I continue to work on Uruky, a EU-based Kagi alternative [2]. Since last month we finally got our production API Key for EUSP/STAAN (it was certainly the slowest and most complicated search provider to adopt, so far), and that brought us to 5 search providers you can choose from and sort as you prefer. We alr…
> Names are hard, and we’re aware it can remind people of Uruk and Uruk-hai. That’s OK.
What I would worry about is if it reminds whoever holds Tolkien's copyrights of Uruk and Uruk-hai.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#33I’m building ATProto Alternatives ( https://atprotoalternatives.com ). I started looking into AT Protocol recently and find it very interesting, so I started collecting a list of decentralized products built on top of AT that are alternatives to mainstream (popular) products.
This is very cool! I too have been very curious about ATProto after reading Dan Abramov's blog posts on it: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
One question, I tried sharing your site with a friend and the share URL is coming up as http://localhost/ which is strange and I've never seen before. Is this something that's possible to customise via meta tag, or is this a bug in my browser (Vanadium 147 on GrapheneOS)?
Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#34still working on https://stringscales.com - fun sideproject to visualize guitar scales on a configurable fretboard, with interactive note highlighting to a backingtrack. The backingtrack is what I'm actively improving right now. It's just a pad running now, but it will turn into a full track with bass/drums/piano/... and will feature a comprehensive chords based editor so you can add and save your own progressions wi…
Does it let you visualise quarter tone fretting? (Or is it just me who's obsessed with Angine de Poitrine right now?)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#36LEGO. I build LEGO, because I like it and it puts a smile on my face :)
Question, do you "build LEGO" as in "make what's on the box it came in", or do you use LEGO to build things yourself and not following instructions? (I am old, but as a kid, I remember building what the kit was supposed to build once or _maybe_ twice, but using the parts from the kit and various other kits I had to make things purely out of my head pretty mush all the time. I _think_ that's not how people "play with…
Both, I enjoy the process of building, so following instructions. But then it's done and boring. I.e. LEGO supercars sets are nice, they're so nice until you marriage chassis with drivetrain - you can play with all the gears and see them, after the marriage it's just boring. So now I'm working more towards reusing parts and building things of my own.
Edit: LEGO Architecture Set (not sure if they still make it) is super nice for building random stuff - it's a set of pure white bricks, super fun.
Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#37“Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679021 18 points | 1 day ago | 37 comments
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Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#38A programming language to hack music, and anything else really
https://github.com/audion-lang/audion
The idea came after I finished a permanent piece for a museum using MaxMsp and python. I always had this thought in the back of my mind that "I could express this so much easier in a few lines of code.."
here's the language spec: https://github.com/audion-lang/audion/blob/main/docs/LANGUAG...
I really liked how objects came out, I don't think it needs any more since I can do object composition.
There are some nice functions to generate rhythms and melodies with combinatorics, see src/sequences.rs and melodies.rs
Its a WIP but you can use it now to create music with whatever you want: hardware/daws/supercollider
supercollider is tightly integrated but not required. I havent had time to develop userland libraries yet but I'm working on it
Re: Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
#39I'm building my own cloud (I actually typed claude instead of cloud there... wow). There's no IaaS or PaaS; it's much simpler. I wanted my own way of connecting to machines and the TCP services on those machines without having to install Tailscale (not allowed on a locked-down corporate PC) or pay for Azure or AWS or GCP or even Hetzner or Linode. I've got 10gbps fibre and a huge workstation at home, and I've got lots of laptops and VMs and other outboard stuff that I want to work in concert with that workstation, so I started building something I call Tela (Filipino for fabric; I was sitting in Ninoy Aquino International Airport waiting for a flight when I had the idea, and it's implemented as a network fabric).
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