Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by tialys » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:09 PM UTC

Working on an iPhone/iPad application that uses data from NASA's SDO/SOHO satellites to display hi-res images/movies of the sun based on 'solar events.'

Sadly, no preview available yet, but the app should be out in a few weeks.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#42

Post by matt1 » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:09 PM UTC

I'm working on a web-based pixel perfect mockup tool called jMockups, which is built on top of HTML5's canvas element. Most web designers use Photoshop to do this right now, but Photoshop makes it much harder than it should be (the UX, lack of common HTML elements, difficult to share, etc).

An early alpha version will be available in a week or two. If you're interested in helping test it, shoot me an email: matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#43

Post by SteveC » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:12 PM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #13

In my spare time, working on a game for the 8-bit ZX Spectrum.

How do you do your development? Do you work on the actual hardware or use an emulator?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by foxtrot » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:18 PM UTC

Simple online selling platform, Hosting Provider www.fusionservers.co.uk - coding the backend stuff, trying to create an app for the iPhone (dont own an iphone) and finding it very tricky.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by captaink » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:29 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #22

user24 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking of trying to write a machine learning app to do just that. Any hints?

I didn't implement the machine learning algorithms for myself, because there are some really good packages out there and I know I don't have the smarts to better them. Keep in mind that I didn't really have any success: There seem to be two main ML packages, Weka and Orange. I personally preferred Orange, it has a nice graph-based UI for linking various components together; when you've figured that out it can script…

Thank you so much for pointing me into the direction of orange.

One of my long-standing projects is predicting soccer bets.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#46

Post by vyrotek » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:29 PM UTC

Working on the Rule Engine and API for our Achievements Service - http://www.IActionable.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#47

Post by hnote » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:30 PM UTC

devonrt wrote: post #16

Harvesting as much sheet music as possible from free sources (Icking, Petrucci, etc) converting it to MusicXML and LilyPad and then doing... something with it. I have a few ideas, but harvesting it all is a start. I'd like to put it online wiki style since it will most likely need editing after being run through OMR.

Sounds very interesting! How do you want to do the OMRing? It will probably take a lot of resources...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

#48

Post by shin_lao » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:31 PM UTC

I'm working on a high-performance persistent cache engine.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by davidsantoro » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:32 PM UTC

I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by user24 » Tue, Aug 03, 2010, 1:32 PM UTC

shin_lao wrote: post #48

I'm working on a high-performance persistent cache engine.

what language? Sounds useful.