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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#82i'm developing a mobile web interface & a SaaS architecture for my buddy's greenhouse & hydroponics controller business [1]. the backend comm is MODBUS/TCP (ethernet) or MODBUS/RTU (serial).
he's currently in Long Beach at the Maximum Yield expo showing off the early alpha I ummm, "polished off" at 4am last night :) [2]
it's cool because his customers and oems have been hounding him for some time for an Android and iOS app and for his software to work on OSX, Linux. (currently it's Windows only, C#/.NET).
a web app + SaaS was the most natural choice. also, i don't think anything like this exists yet.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#83A web-based IDE for automated testing [1] with real-time collaboration features. Pretty cool for a few reasons: First, it's actually making creating automated testing suites enjoyable. This is usually a pretty unenviable task. The IDE is something I actually like using though, and have found myself wanting to use it on just about every consulting gig or website I've touched since we started on it - even ones without an explicit automated testing requirement.
Second, the technology to pull this off requires a lot of different pieces, in different environments and languages. It's been a really satisfying technical challenge to make everything work together seamlessly and automatically.
[1] http://f14n.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#84I'm working on a next generation programming environment for front-end browser development that combines version control and dependency management. It is called lit and the current alpha iteration is at http://www.corslit.com
I just introduced static semantically versioned builds and started the process of self-hosting.
The interesting thing about lit is that it allows for modern professional development without any UNIX command line or file system dependencies.
I'll have more literature and a very exciting screencast demo very soon.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#85A Raspberry Pi-based multimedia display solution for SMEs, large corporates and municipalities. It displays nearly all video and image formats and real time news feeds at 50fps in almost any layout combination while using less than 20% CPU at full tilt. It's cool because most people are blown away at how fast and smooth it is when they first see it. A lot of the code is in C, the video decoder is in a thread (and it…
Any idea how you're going to release it? (productise/monetize or open source)
I hacked up in the past a temporary solution using PowerPoint running on stripped down older laptops in the foyer and outside meeting rooms in my old company which worked well but I always thought it was a bit overkill and would like to see something like R-Pi in those kind of uses. I imagine yours is a lot more powerful but still think it would be a good use.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#86Http://ineedthatmug.com Fun side project to scratch an admittedly very small itch I've had for a while. I've collaborated with a local company who is handling all order fulfillment. Working on adding font chooser, image upload, and a more elegant customization form.
Great idea, just doesn't work great with my black coffee and no sugar :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#87A book that explains the core ideas of neural networks and deep learning. Cool because:
* The book incorporates lots of running code for readers to explore and extend.
* The book's philosophy is to go deep into the core concepts of deep learning, not to superficially cover a long laundry list of ideas. This gives readers a solid foundation to build on, and makes understanding other material much easier.
* Deep learning is the most powerful approach known to many problems in image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language. The book will help lots more people get quickly up to speed.
The book will be freely available online, and a beta site is coming soon. Pre-beta mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/BYr9L
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#88I'm working on a POSIX-ish OS in Brainfuck. I'm working on it because brainfuck is awesome and writing a kernel in it is even moar awesome. I'm currently trying to figure out how to port several basic GNU coreutils to the system. The kernel boots and hangs in QEMU. That's good for now; at least it boots. Now, the important thing is actually getting it to run bash, and a few basic coreutils, specifically cat, mkdir, e…
I had a fun little project with brainfuck, wrote a rather slow interpreter in it. Was implementing BF natively in ruby before I was caught up with other projects.. Would love to have your project implemented!!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#89I'm working on an OpenFlow controller in my spare time. There's nothing too cool about it other than, it's written in Go and GPLv3 licensed. It's useable but I have a big update in the pipes. Once that update is done I should be able to port some existing OpenFlow applications to Go. https://github.com/jonstout/ogo
How are you testing the code/network?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#90A high performance, affordable personal airplane: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com
It's extremely fuel efficient, can fly 575 miles on a tank, cruises at 118 mph, and comes standard with really nice instrumentation including GPS, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, and an auxiliary input for your iPod. They sell for $55k.
Here's the HN post I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826062