Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by provability » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:52 PM UTC

O__________O wrote: post #206

waylandsmithers wrote: post #189

Maybe not exactly what you were asking for, but getting to 20 or 30 users for my latest project. It's not meant to be a start up or anything, it was more just "I wish this thing existed and think it would be fun" So this time around I'm slowly asking people I know to try it out. Honestly it takes a little courage and has given me a newfound respect for people who do sales (though it's a little different, as the whole…

Might be worth providing way for people to know what the project is and how to use it.

I know, right?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by pkoperek » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:58 PM UTC

Evolving neural networks with use of the fitness predictors (co-evolution). The project has stalled a bit due to lack of time (family etc) but overall I want to get back hacking around it.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by sandruso » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:59 PM UTC

I'm currently building a tool for generating website just from a text content as an input. It tries to figure out what layouts would match the content.

Why?

Because creating these websites quickly is always content problem. We should start from content and create a design according to content not other way around.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:02 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:06 PM UTC

Recreating already existing legacy apps / plumping other apps to talk to other apps. /s

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by zepolen » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

I have been developing a teleportation device. I've managed to move 20 micrograms of matter over a distance of ~30mm and now it is simply about scaling up.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

provability wrote: post #360

O__________O wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me, being able to trace the province of content is much more dangerous than deep fakes, since such systems have the potential to become wide spread, unavoidable, and constrain free exchange of information.

I agree! I've put some thought into how to keep the power decentralized -- and ideally to make it more so than the status quo. I think the techniques are compatible with that. I don't like the emphasis of Truepic et all on identifying which individual or which device recorded the evidence. I mean, yes, many in the West would like to know that a video clip is just as a specific, named, respected photojournalist filmed…

People generally speaking are too lazy to manage an independent system and governments have to much incentives to abuse systems like this if given the chance. If anything, if I was spending time on the topic it would be to drive public interest in systems that happen to also make sourcing province of media harder, not easier.

Fakes are not the issue, they’re an excuse for people to do something they would have done anyway, nothing more. No amount of reasoning or facts will ever will ever change a biased person’s beliefs. Fake news is just a symptom of the real issue, it’s not the problem.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by allyourbasepair » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

A couple of years ago I realized that there weren't any good open source software packages for designing DNA so I wrote one.

https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly

Goal is to have a suite of packages and databases that can be used to design entirely novel proteins, metabolic pathways, and DNA constructs at scale because right now that software ecosystem just doesn't exist.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by danielvaughn » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

Ancapistani wrote: post #399

danielvaughn wrote: post #307

I've been working on a programming language for UI designers. To put it simply, I think the trend towards no-code/low-code is misguided. The assumption behind these products is that code is slow, difficult, and expensive. I disagree - I think that "code" is merely a formalized written expression of what you want. It's actually the most efficient, easiest, and cheapest means to solving digital problems. I believe anyo…

My first impression is that this looks a lot like Kivy's "Kv Design Language": https://kivy.org/doc/stable/gettingstarted/rules.html

Ah interesting, wow it does look very similar. I’d heard of Kivy but never looked into it.

The language syntax is in fact inspired by Python; mostly because I tried to remove as many extraneous characters as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by wan_ala » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 10:16 PM UTC

Currently I am working on a minimalist and hackable shell with a pretty enviroment. The code is kind of a mess right now and i am working on a bunch of other stuff, but hopefully i finish it soon.