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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by frankieg33 »

carimura wrote: post #710

this thread is crazy.. hackers are clearly hacking, myself included. A lot of what I've built I've already seen here: 1. home automation, access point management, solar/battery health monitors 2. family week management with schedules, todo's, scripture of the week 3. page-to-pod (browse, click one button, TTS to podcast episode on my phone) 4. daily summary of AI news to a new pod episode on my phone 5. easy theme sw…

how did you do the family week management stuff? i am building out a knowledge base/communication layer first to be able to access more info through claude voice mode, but debating architecture still.

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Post by hdaz0017 »

linsomniac wrote: post #695

The Ubuntu DDoS drove me to build a new apt-cacher with two goals: be able to supply typical packages when the upstream is unavailable and be more reliable than the existing apt-cacher/apt-cacher-ng. It's looking like I'll be doing a 1.0 release next week (it's been in beta for ~3 weeks). https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra We do ground-up respins of half of our dev+stg cluster every morning, to test our a…

spacewalk for 2026 :)

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Post by Rantenki »

efortis wrote: post #234
Rantenki wrote: post #152

I wrote a pen-plotter GUI and gcode sender in Rust. By hand. Like an animal. I am the only user. Sometimes it's the process that matters, and exercising your brain is important too. I get that there is a lot of existential dread around AI taking our jerbs, and excluding humans from the process of creative work, but... you can still just write code, just for the personal satisfaction. https://github.com/armyofevilrobo…

This is going to be one my next projects for experimenting with the Web Serial API. I got an old Ioline plotter that refuses to die. Any advise or tips for where to start with the SVG to Gcode conversion?

I used svg2polylines to load the SVG into line segments, interpolating any splines into something easier to use for a plotter. Feel free to take a look at the core/project/import.rs in the project I linked. You might also want to look at the core/post.rs which does the gcode generation.

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Post by Noumenon72 »

alphaBetaGamma wrote: post #112

Built a tool to help design cs/science inspired jewelry in CAD. I wrote a DSL to describe the jewelry, and had an LLM write the interpreter to generate a CAD file using cadquery (note to self: LLM suck at 3d reasoning). I would not have had the time to do this without AI. Also used AI to design an online store (I'm not a front end dev). It's amazing to see my wife (non-technical background) tweak the web-site using c…

Surprised there is no self-similarity in the Recursion Earrings.

Re: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

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Post by zoratu »

1. I improved my calendar management app, which while simple had some edge cases. AI helped me test them all. https://block-it-out.com/

2. Ported my own personal disassembler to Rust, and added a ton of functionality with AI. https://github.com/zoratu/hexray

3. Ported a TLA+ model checker to Rust, improving performance for most models over Java by a huge margin. https://github.com/zoratu/tlaplusplus

4. Created a scheduler in Erlang called FLURM, which is a fault-tolerant version of SLURM and compatible with its wire protocol. https://github.com/zoratu/flurm

5. Not in a public repo, but trading things and a private parallel filesystem.

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Post by netcoyote »

bdickason wrote: post #463
netcoyote wrote: post #360

Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

I just found your blog yesterday reading up on the stories of how Warcraft and Starcraft were made!! Have been hacking on small games and a tool to build 3d environments for a while and get very inspired by hearing stories from back in the day. Thanks for making everything public. I really enjoy your writing.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the articles. I wish I had the motivation to write more!

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Post by netcoyote »

somberi wrote: post #612
netcoyote wrote: post #360

Tools I’ve built for myself: - sandvault https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/sandvault/ runs agents in a separate macOS user account, hardened with sandbox-exec. It also supports headless browsing and iOS Simulator from inside the sandbox for testing web and iOS apps. - clodpod https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/clodpod/ agents run inside a macOS VM. - git-multi-hook https://www.codeofhonor.com/projects/git-multi-…

Thanks to Push10K now I am on my 160th day of streak and 13,135 pushups (or my own version of equivalents) so far. It is the best thing I did after feeling like Glutton after dinner last Christmas.

That is awesome! Congratulations on completing so many — and such a big streak! Good luck on your journey to the 20k, and let me know if you need any features to make it work for you.
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