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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by scoot »

fasteddie31003 wrote: post #541

I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.

Nice idea. Just some nitpicks:

"Visit QR code to:" – You don't "visit" a QR code. Perhaps "Scan the QR code to:"? (Optional grammar fix included.)

"Comment on the QR code" – "Leave a comment"? (Unless you really want a comment about the QR code! ;-) )

I just get a busy spinner when I scan the QR code in the screenshot. A working live example would be nice.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by ks2048 »

Getting (back) into development for Apple TV.

Released an updated version of free app [0] for watching the news show Democracy Now [1]. Let's you browse 29 years of back episodes. Learning SwiftUI - mostly great, but when there's problems, it can be pretty frustrating.

[0] https://kenschutte.com/democracy-now/ [1] https://www.democracynow.org/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by Bnjoroge »

heltale wrote: post #337

I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros. Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where…

Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese or how much oil.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by ave_b_2011 »

fiftyacorn wrote: post #255
azriel91 wrote: post #114

Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow. Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back). Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/ (I c…

I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name

If you remember the name that would be something I would be interested in!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by AJRF »

jay-barronville wrote: post #512
jatins wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?

> can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown? Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting and certain heuristics). For GPU’s, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL’s `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU’s `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I woul…

Jay you seem knowledgeable on this - thanks for answering - I have a question

I did look at auto-detecting before, but it seems like you can only really tell the features of a GPU, not so much the good info (VRAM amount and bus speed) - is that the case?

I looked at the GPUAdapter docs, and all it told me was:

- device maker (amd)

- architecture (rdna-3)

and that was it. Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by shegeley »

1. Hackable text input system := Hatis https://github.com/shegeley/hatis

«Text-editors are dead as a concept. What’s needed is a text-input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago. Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: «ah here we can input text, let’s show the virtual keyboard!».

This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do what’s needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global, on Window Manager level (or even deeper).

In GUI it’s possible to “catch input context” using Wayland::InputMethod

It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or something.

The system should be very hackable. That’s why it’s written in Common Lisp»

2. SaaS Sales platform on Clojure(+script)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by jay-barronville »

sim04ful wrote: post #481

I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line height, size, letter spacing). My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can uncover valua…

> I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach.

Where can I go to learn more about your invisible `` approach/implementation?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Post by zb77 »

I'm building component playground using atomic design tokens to create harmonious components. It provides live previews with auto package imports, with AI you can generate components or theme them using the theme engine, and supports popular tech stacks (Next, React, Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, MUI). Later you can install components via CLI or copy generated prompt to tools like Cursor. Le link: compify.app
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