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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jacquesm »

xchaotic wrote: post #105
jacquesm wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds very interesting. Tea?

That sounds very generic too. How do you even define fake? How do you know it's not fake?

How do you tell spam from ham? How to tell a forgery from a real painting?

The answer is: classification is now for some problem domains a tractable problem where before it required human intervention. Telling fake news from real news requires a body of data (doable), a classification algorithm (mostly a solved problem) and the will, time and other resources to actually do it.

To me it sounds very much as something worth doing and possible, that Google with their vast resources appears to drop the ball here (see Google News, which gives equal billing to ham and spam alike) leaves room for an outsider to go and tackle that problem in a decisive way.

I can see all kinds of possibilities and this to me seems like a very worthwhile task.

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Post by drizzzler »

mherrmann wrote: post #26

A cross-platform dual-pane file manager [1]. It made the front page and top 10 on Product Hunt last month. I'm busy implementing feature requests and figuring out a way to grow it sustainably. [1]: https://fman.io

This seems cool! If you'd like some design/growth help, I may be the right guy for that. My email is in my profile.

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Post by shanecleveland »

feistypharit wrote: post #43

I'm working on an automatic chicken coop door. Using a linear actuator and ESP8266. A mix of Arduino c and HTML/JS for the interface. Playing with flexbox, svelte, webpack, and fontello.

Would love to see a future write-up on this. I've seen some similar things. So far too involved to replace having to go out and close up the chickens myself each night. For those that don't know ... chickens are very low maintenance, and they do put themselves to bed each night before dark (very instinctual). But they do need to have something between them and the other creatures of the night, which usually means trudging out and closing their door after they have decided to go to bed. And then letting them out again in the morning.

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Post by scottbez1 »

As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update.

https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/

Have a few working prototypes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make it easier for hobbyists to build (i.e. avoiding tight pitch surface mount components - https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap/issues/12), and I'd still like to figure out how to make them cheaper to build in small quantities.

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Post by silverlight »

I'm working on building an indie room-scale VR MMO.

https://orbusvr.com

It's pretty ambitious for a small team, but we did a successful Kickstarter campaign previously and we're keeping the scope reasonable. We've held a few successful stress tests already and Closed Alpha starts in a couple of weeks.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by aembleton »

searchhn wrote: post #119

Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features. Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type. http://searchhn.com

This is amazing. Are you also going to implement Soundex?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by clocksrightwice »

Project: Build an easy to use tool for backtesting ETF portfolio combinations that you see recommended all over investment blogs. Let users have a shareable link to send around so others can easily see and tweak the portfolio. Start a blog around critiquing recommendations I find around the web.

App: http://app.mytradelab.com Blog: http://mytradelab.com

Problem: Would like to include details about holdings inside ETFs and how they change through time, but havent found a good data source yet. Would be cool to build in functionality to compare ETFs based on their fees and what they hold, but current holdings is just a snapshot in time.

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