- finishing porting GNOME to Fil-C. It is starting to work but with some features still disabled.
- about 1/3 of the way through getting Rust to compile to Fil-ABI. This means you can interop between Rust and Fil-C without weakening either language’s guarantees. I’ll need this to get librsvg to work in Fil-GNOME.
- almost done making assembly memory safe. The SaRCAsm (safe runtime capability-enforcing assembler) works and I have OpenSSL ported to it but I don’t yet have 100% confidence in this. Once this is done I’ll be able to get rid of zunsafe (the closest thing to an escape hatch in Fil-C; it’s only used for the assembly in OpenSSL; without calls out to assembly, OpenSSL has too high risk of timing side channels).
I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling, so I started learning about Google Local Service Ads to help him out. THEN I learned his old Windows desktop CRM was discontinued and one OS update away from no longer working. I wanted a way to track every dollar spent to determine return on ad spend, but the Google LSA dashboard left a lot to be desired. And existing SaaS CRMs didn’t have great integrations to Google Ads API. So I built Crewbird, a Field Service Management and CRM for service based businesses with Google LSA integration where my dad is quickly approaching 3x ROAS!
I’m still looking for work in the mean time but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far.
You don't know the first thing about OP, other than that he's trying to help out his dad.
Maybe his father didn't want to worry his family, and had been keeping it to himself. I have no idea, and neither do you; you just chose to assume the worst about someone you don't know.
What happens when you find a job and don't have time to keep working on the CRM that your father uses for his company, and he inevitably runs into issues or limitations that require new development?
Yeah, impressive project, but I had the same thought.
My LGS recently got me in to have a look at building some custom systems for them. I looked at what they needed and was like:
> Hold up. You can pay me thousands of dollars to build something custom, and it will inevitably have on-going maintenance costs and high associated monthly costs for hosting + third-party API access (not amortized across multiple stores/clients), OR I could set you up on Shopify and a bunch of well maintained plug-ins.
use checkhq to add payroll, and charge 10k per year ACV from businesses :) then add voice intake agents and you will be essentially replicating venture businesses that have raised 20M+
Man, I would love to know more about this. The space between a full blown ERP and a tracker on an Excel Spreadsheet is absolutely abysmal. Then when you start introducing things like fleet and field crew management on top of the procurement, account management and AR/AP while acting as a full blown salesman that a lot of middle managers are being expected to do right now, it gets absolutely soul crushing to swap between 12 different trackers per hour just to find a snippet of the information you are looking for.
I have something vibed together as an internal tool that does well enough, but definitely not something I would ever refer to as a CRM by any stretch of the imagination and the bridge between basic on-the-shelf inventory and tracking rental assets are two completely different beasts. Maybe more of a prettier version of the spreadsheets we already use with more automated functionality would be more apt.
Building this right now! I've helped several companies implement CRMs and worked on heavily customizing my ERP at work. They all suck, bad. 90% of companies only need something simple. I'll let you know when I'm finished, would be awesome to get some feedback if you're willing.
or better to say different people need different things. a accountant is more interested in properly calculating the COGs than the guy inputting his labor and goods on a ticket.
I’ve been building a little Python tool to extract a MIDI drum track from an mp3 or other song file. Eventually I want to buy an e-drum kit and learn to play along with my favorite songs.
From what I can tell, we’re about even with the current state of the art in academic publications right now, at least on MDB. Runs faster than real time in pytorch on a few years old MacBook.
It even does a decent job creating easy/medium/hard versions from the original “expert” track. I compared ours to some charts from Rhythmverse and while we’re not as good as the official ones, we’re pretty darn close.
Spent some time trying to extract an instrument model for the drum sounds from the recording too, but I think that simply requires too much data for lots of the songs that I like where the mix is really dense with a ton of sound from distorted guitars and cymbals etc. Works a treat on super clean mixes like Back In Black though.
Next step is probably to create my own rhythm game, since my initial experience with Clone Hero and YARG left a lot to be desired.
I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.
University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students!
We're getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones.
Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map.
We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out!
The first prototype PCBs for my automotive grade, TockOS (Rust) running controller are on order. I've been working on it for a long time, and I'm curious what sort of traps I've let AI run me into. At least for the layout I had to re-do it three times and continuously push the AI to make certain considerations.
Once the design is finalized, I'm wondering what price point I'll actually be able to hit. I originally wanted to be in the $200-$300 price point to be similar to [rusEFI](https://rusefi.com) but I think it'll likely land more around $400. Note that my controller isn't for engine control, just a generic control module, but it DOES actually use AEC qualified parts.
After I'm done with this design I was wondering if I could make a RISC V off the shelf engine control unit, but I'm trying to keep my focus on the TockOS board (Chameleon) first.
I have spent the last six months or so on a multiplayer, open world game. The idea is you can jump to any city, walk around, see businesses and chat with others. Loading the resources (map etc.) as they are needed and garbage collect have been a challenge,
I’m reverse engineering and replacing the entire stack on Samsung A54 (Exynos 1380, Mali-G68), started with booting to a customized linux kernel (7.3) w/o Android layer at all (Wayland and WPE WebKit only), built a custom WLBT thin firmware to replace the original fat blob (using mac80211 as the foundation), figured out how to exploit USB control transfer and got ACE in the PBL, reconstructed (with byte-identical verification) their LK-based S-Boot, uH and harx, patched mesa/panfrost, optimized kernels for this device (finally got STT/TTS running on GPU faster than on CPU), figured out how to utilize NPU, built a custom toolchain for it. I’m trying to properly own this device (and giving it to Claude on the lowest possible level, but still running pKVM and getting rid of original hypervisors), it’s the goal number one at this point, no binary blobs, ability to change sw and control hw on-the-fly. Obviously with AI usage (Opus 5.5/4.8, GLM 5.3, Kimi 3.1), there’s a lot of work.
This sounds crazy fun, I'm going to dig out my beloved age old LG-V30 and give something similar a go. Good luck, I hope you post an update somewhere (maybe next months Ask HN), would love to hear how you get on.
It’s a lot of compute and AI tokens (to reconstruct the original source code with byte-identical gate using the original toolchain - which you also need to found + figure out per-TU flags), at this point I truly believe we should go in SETI@HOME style for RE if we want to survive. With a proper caching and trust via verification - a lot of fat blobs can be resolved in a distributed way. If anyone interested - ping me, it’s boring to do solo.
Next generation of the devices won’t be ours at all, there will be no easy hacks. Turn off automatic updated, do backups, pray for chaos.
I've been working on the software to generate, test and verify these for a couple of years and finally built up enough puzzle stock that meets the difficulty requirements to properly launch.
Now the work is on every hackers favourite part... Marketing!
A singing training app for bad singers. You sing the pitch line and get a score. Let's you sing to any original song by listening along and not playing the song itself.
Recently got some good feedback on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195488 and am following up with Linux and Windows versions and using Fable 5.1 to internationalise the app and landing page which explains the app.
I've been working on Epoptes, an open-source tool that lets me run coding agents (Claude, Codex, Pi, Antigravity) autonomously for long periods while still being able to monitor and steer their work.
It started because I wanted to get back into making games, a hobby I've struggled to find time for over the years. I wanted to give agents a goal, let them work for hours, and come back to something I can actually try and give feedback on.
I've since used it for game development, research, and building other tools, with some runs lasting over 20 hours.
It's still early and rough around the edges, but I'm having a lot of fun with it!
I started working on a little news aggregator which has kinda spiralled into more of an open web thing. Keeping it open source, and open to feedback on how to better improve it.
I’ve tinkered with some decision model stuff too, and it can do things like identify possible spoilers in comments, or spiciness levels in comment sections. Works with HN, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, and can import RSS feeds too.
For the last 3 years, with a small team has been building https://kube-dc.com/ - a platform for building enterprise grade private and public clouds. Its like VMware + OpenShift + Railway in a single product: completely multi-tenant, built entirely on the K8s API (we built over 46 custom controllers in Go, with UI in Radix UI), with managed services like nested K8s, Postgres, Kafka, Valkey, and GitHub runners. Not the charts :) real services. Also we can do vlans BGP, shared GPU and all fancy stuff required.
Now we don't deploy this to private companies except some gov projects. But we are engaging existing IaaS and dedicated servers providers. Later hope we would fight with Broadcom and IBM :)
We previously ran a services company that built over 100 private clouds, then decided to turn that experience into a product with an aggressive level of automation to let DevOps, SRE, and platform teams hit a 1:300 ratio per developer (now dev + AI agent teams).
We are currently deployed across 12 datacenters and raising our seed round this month.
Really interesting, and I think you’re going to need to charge more for your product (which may come up during your funding rounds). I’ve been building the same thing at $enterprise, totally on-prem multi-AZ, multi-region KaaS, VMaaS, and soon DBaaS, and some of the other services listed. It’s a great deal harder than we initially planned for and we have some ridiculous internal policies that require everything to be git-driven which makes it worse.
Looking forward to see how your product develops. Would love to work with you in future.
My co-founder Abhishek and I are master’s students at the University of Ottawa who got tired of buying cheap furniture every time we moved apartments.
We decided to build Usefulls—starting with the Nomad 23, a standard 23 kg checked suitcase that physically converts into a twin-door wardrobe cabinet. When you take the removable wheels off, circular bumps on the base seat into grooves on top of another case, letting you stack them into a full-size modular wardrobe.
We’d love your feedback on the concept, the physical design, or how we're approaching modular furniture/luggage!
I'm volunteering and running meetings - and I wondered how tricky it would actually be to get decent meeting minutes and record a (small) multi-person in-person meeting.
Turns out there's a few tricks to recording a room on Android - and rather tricky to get good meeting notes (in Norwegian) from the audio using only local LLMs - and avoiding the data touching the cloud at any point.
I need to revisit Android recording app recommendations - and what combination of incantations will allow you to transfer an audio file directly to a MacOS laptop (apparently it's not quickshare and airdrop unless your Mac is wide open...).
But I have a wip single download app that lets one record and transcribe - should work on MacOS (tested), Windows (not yet tested), Linux (tested on chromeOS/Terminal).
Use this to quickly get sleepy without taking any medicinal pill or long form meditation type things (It is as short as 7-minute session).
Easy to use. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
You may also use it to break nightly doomscrolling habit.
Try this tonight! (and any suggestion to improve it?)
Hey, I just gave this a try. (It’s not bedtime for me, but I had 10 minutes to sit quietly.) It very nearly put me to sleep despite the time being only 4:30pm.
I noticed that the later prompts tended to feel a bit irregular in their English: “Pebbles on bottom of stream” is one that I remember; “bird in small nest” might be another. “Pebbles on the bottom of a stream”, and “A bird in a small nest” would have sounded more natural.
I may be a little outside your target user base: I tend to fall asleep very quickly. (I joke to my spouse that by default I don’t have much happening in my head, and when it’s time to sleep, I just “listen to the dial tone.”)
One parting thought; I was pretty skeptical when I first started listening, and about halfway through I was gamely doing the visualizations, but mentally rolling my eyes (“This would never work!”). Around the 5 minute mark I noticed that I was in a fairly meditative state, and the app could have told me to imagine I was a being of light and I probably would have.
Around the 6 minute mark I noticed that I wasn’t really paying attention to the prompts at all; and I think it was only the weirdness of the English of the prompts around that time that kept me awake.
Overall a little weird, a little fun. Thanks for building and sharing it!
I've been deep in the weeds on two wildly unrelated projects.
Project #1: I've been working on migrating an application [1] from GCP (where I pay $200/mo to host it) to a physical server (PowerEdge R7625) I've racked in a colo near me, running on my own IPs/ASN [2] and all that jazz. I've been dragging my feet on the this as there's just a lot of moving pieces, but I got a good chunk of the last few hard bits done today.
Project #2: Building a DIY bright-ass lamp, like Brighter [3] or Rhythm [4], but for a few hundred bucks instead of $1-2k. I've specced out the parts, designed the hardware, and built the firmware. Later today I'll do my first LED test against a bench supply, to get some hard numbers for if my cooling solution (a chunky aluminum heatsink and some Noctua PC fans) is sufficient for the full 500+ W final version.
As far as curiosities go, I've been doing a lot of Go (the board game, not the language) puzzles, and reading about sailing (mostly the book from the Hundredrabbits folk [5])
Would be really interested in hearing how project 2 (DIY Lamp) works out.
If you get it into a state that you are happy to share or go commercial.
I did see the Brighter and Rhythm lamps before but their way out of my price league.
In Edinburgh (Scotland at 56 deg N) during December, it's sunrise at 08:30 and sunset at 15:30. And there's plenty of folks at higher latitudes that may be interested as well.
I definitely have no plans to go commercial (just started a new job, very demanding on my time), but I'll 100% open-source all the firmware/KiCAD/CAD/BOM/etc so folks can make their own.
My current "design" is basically just strapping all the pieces together, so it'll leave a lot to be desired in terms of aesthetics for folks who want it to be more nicely integrated into their living environment.
Some people use stadium lights for this, such as this[0]. They’re very cheap but they’re not specifically designed as SAD lamps so I’m not sure how well they fit that purpose.
Haha I'll keep you updated! Like I mentioned in another comment, I don't have plans to commercialize it, I'm making it just not-janky enough to not pose a safety hazard/burn my house down.
In terms of design, I'm going a different route: Instead of a bunch of smaller LEDs, I'm doing 12x larger LEDs (6x 2700K, 6x 6500K). I'm using the Bridgelux V18 Thrives, so the CRI should be quite good (95+), as should the overall efficiency because I'm running them at pretty low amps relative to the spec sheet.
What might be of interest here is the launch video I made for my app, Fit Shapes—combination of Claude turning the app screens into a video, GPT Image 2.5 for image stills, Fal.ai for animating the stills and Elleven Labs for music. An interesting thing about agents creating music is that they can create and adjust tracks in segments to bring in specific elements as needed.
I know there are a thousand of macro trackers out there, but most of them are some combination of ugly, tedious, expensive. Since it's an app I use every day I tried to make my own with a focus on removing taps.
Because I can. Well, let's be honest: because LLMs can. There's nothing particularly novel about this. It's just wiring a bunch of libraries together. Certainly would have been time consuming, but not difficult, strictly speaking, since all the heavy lifting is done by the libraries utilised.
Likely going to migrate https://breaka.club HUDs and editor UI to React since Godot control nodes are by no means impossible to work with, but somewhat cumbersome.
EDIT: Oh, will be open source like a lot of Breaka Club's other libraries very soon. Still optimising.
Definitely slower than I'd like, but it's probably worth noting there's a few things that make this demo much slower than it needs to be:
1. There's some stuff simply not well optimized internally. Working on these now e.g. there's unnecessary internal hierarchy on all nodes that only needs to exist on a small subset (related to border boxes, overflow etc.)
2. Eager shader compilation. There's some glass and blur shaders that are compiled on load. These really shouldn't be.
3. Godot 4.x on the web is always pretty slow to load. Time of first contentful paint (if you ignore loading screens) is nasty across the board. Godot 4.8 upgraded Emscripten, so there's actually potential to improve this quite a bit since it's now easier to dynamically load WASM (which is what we're doing extensively here). I'm unaware of any work on this upstream though.
4. THE BIG ONE. This demo is a bit of a monolithic beast. It doesn't just include Godot's implementation of React. You can reveal the code for any page in the demo, and edit the code live with an inline text editor. Genuinely bundled in this demo is a full TypeScript 7 implementation (based on Bun's Rust implementation) that type checks and compiles code to JS on the fly, and hot swaps components on the page live.
For the most part, this isn't designed as a performance demonstration, although there is a small section on repaints/relayouts. It's mostly just a demonstration of what's possible with the library.
Realistically, there's also the fact this is React. Its architecture is based on React Fabric (like React Native), so runtime performance should be pretty decent. But frankly, it's never going to be as performant as some alternatives — it's not really the primary goal of the project. I'm considering an alternate SolidJS front-end for improved runtime performance, but that'll do nothing for first load time, unfortunately.
A month and half ago launched Maxxmod, a Chrome extension that improves the YouTube experience by removing distractions (hiding Shorts and cleaning up search results) and adding new tools and shortcuts (volume booster, screenshot tool, quick access to Picture-in-Picture and playback speed controls). I’ve been adding features since then.
Last week, YouTube introduced GIFs in comments, so added an option to stop them from autoplaying and play them on demand (a play button).
I live in San Francisco and we get some beautiful sunsets here! Over the past few weeks, I cobbled together a system of alerts for when the sunset is predicted [1] to be particularly outstanding, resulting in this page that displays the prediction and also shows the current view from several cameras around the city.
[1]: Predictions are LLM-powered largely to more reliably consume the free-text descriptions in traditional (e.g., NWS) weather forecasts of predicted high and low cloud cover around sunset.
I'm working on https://github.com/BowlingX/super-release, an alternative written in rust for semantic-release and mono-repo support. I build it mainly to make shipping packages in larger JavaScript/Typescript mono-repos easier. Also I started getting into rust more and wanted to learn the language.
Trying to finish up a command line tool in go to interface with my Gramps Web service. Got really into genealogy and while ancestry, the Mormons, etc. Are helpful sources, I want to own my own data.
LLMs are fantastic at genealogy work but there is a missing space for interaction with gramps via CLI. It's been vibed but cleaning up the code to make it worthy of being released publicly has proven a chore. We don't need more slop projects and I don't want to add to the problem.
Two of my flagship projects I've been working on lately:
Video Commander - A desktop application suite of video encoding, inspection and quality analysis tools (ffmpeg, vmaf, mp4box). I now have quite a bit of paying customers!
Cargocat - Also a desktop S3 client that I created out of some of the components I've done on Video Commander. Newly launched, so still slowly gaining some traction.
For last several months I've been building https://counterparts.ai, memory for claude modeled after human memory. It forgets older memories so things never get stale, it dreams to merge similar ones, it updates memories when facts change, it has prospective memory to remind you in the future, etc.
For me the coolest part is that it's claude's memory, so it actually develops a self identity too and gets to know you better over time. So that opens up new things, like I wanted to keep session cache from expiring so I just told it "when I type ping, just reply with pong" and because I used it several times that day, it automatically strengthened the memory and now it just does it. And if i stop doing it for long enough, it'll automatically fade away.
No stale files, no hundreds of md docs, and what it knows about me isn't limited to the 1 page built in memory file (both work great together btw, no need to choose). It's free, open source, and totally local, no api keys.
I'm improving https://davegooden.com & just pushed https://edinacountryclub.com live as I continue to build out my real estate empire. (kidding, not kidding) Hopefully the industry can hang on for 10 more years.
Since it's code based CAD for LLMs first and foremost, I'm trying to add visual programming into the UI, as well a new way of drafting that's closer to how mechanical engineers actually do sketching called IntelliDraft.
Other is the Concept programming language, as a successor language to C++, based off the idea of C++20 concepts, with templates, comptime, Einstein tensors, async/await, explicit state machines, CPU inference, Vulkan, easy C interop, and safety proofs built into the language itself.
Currently still compiles to C11, self hosting is in progress and targeting AMD64 right now, but it'll be a while before finished since this is a difficult project even for frontier LLMs.
I'm revisiting the Netflix Prize challenge with LLM. So far I've hit the 9% improvement mark within a couple weeks. I seem to have hit a wall in the last week or so with no further progress. I'm hopeful to hit the 10% goal with one of the many experimentations though.
Now I'm going to be working on my Linux-subset ABI x86-64 kernel [0], specifically adding support for tracing, then working on allocators. It's written in Rust so I might have to figure out how to make allocation fallible like the Linux kernel does. Also this raises questions about approaches to overcommitting and OOM handling, which I feel Linux does badly, but when constrained to Linux syscall ABI there doesn't seem like many good options.
Also I am not using LLMs for this since this is a learning project, with near-zero real world utility -- I just want to understand OS kernels as best as possible.
Independent Vet - a website and app that helps pet parents find locally owned (and corporate/PE owned) veterinary practices nearby. It came out of a bad experience we had with our dog 3 years ago at a practice that had been recently acquired by private equity. The sites now get about 30k visitors a day and continuing to build in the evenings and weekends with Claude/Codex has been a lot of fun.
A suite of high-dopamine games which use smart exercise bikes as the control interface.
When playing Zwift, Rouvy, etc, I find that I get too competitive and ruin longer workouts by trying to keep up with or sprint past people who are much faster than me over long distances.
This is bad for building stamina and endurance, but I get bored, and it's hard to fight boredom and physical strain both at once.
I do not get bored sitting in front of Balatro, Raccoin, Tetris - anything with bright colours and satisfying noises and combos.
The first finished prototype game is very simple: you sort coloured marbles. Higher watt output from the bike means marbles are blown, by wind, upwards as they roll across the screen. Lower watt output means they fall. Steady watt output means they move horizontally. Marble goes into correct hole -> satisfying noise. It rewards steady watt output over time, with minor adjustments, which is what I'm trying to work on right now.
I was pretty amazed by how engaging I found it (total iPad baby brain). The miles really fly by - I get tired before I get bored.
I think that next I'll either do a tower defence game, or a less-dopamine-rewarding game in the style of Kerbal Space Program. Taking your actual weight and watt output, putting a bike with wings into a physics engine, and the gameplay loop being unlocking increasingly large airplane pieces, and designing - then flying - increasingly ridiculous airborne bicycles seems like a compelling idea, though less good for fitness.
The control surface being so limited - essentially one measurement which can either go up or down - is a really fun constraint for creativity.
There's something in this idea. you can actually tie it to a smart watch (Amazfit allow for custom apps trivially for such uses), and you have a bigger pool.
Thanks, yes, I agree - it really doesn't "feel like" exercise when you're being bombarded by dopamine rewards. Despite this, most "exercise games" leave me with the same feeling of boredom / "fake fun" I got from playing educational games on the computers in the IT room at school.
I'd love to try a similar approach to gamifying exercise on a smart watch. That's an even more fun problem, because (when running, for example) you don't even have a constantly-present screen to communicate dopamine to the player with. Perhaps some watches wouldn't even be able to provide sound feedback? I've never owned one. It's a really interesting constraint for game design.
I’m finally doing the thing I always said one day I would, and writing a game! Early days yet, but I have proof of concept for much of the rendering tech now.
It’s been sort of a whiplash experience, but ive been so much happier building this business than I was working.
Real estate is a space that’s very close to me, so I was able to see the demand for a product like this long before I went searching for it.
I’m not alone in the space, but we’ve focused on building a product that’s opinionated enough to where the other players would be taking a risk by trying to copy the things we do. I think this was a good move.
We won’t be the largest player, but we don’t have to be. And we build the product we ourselves want, not a product that kinda fits everyone but every user only uses 20% of.
I'm building an open-source "spatial workspace for directing AI coding agents like an engineering director".
I got overwhelmed by walls of text of parallel Claude Code sessions. This limited the sessions I could steer in parallel to maybe 5 or 6. I knew there had to be a better way, and I found one: A canvas per project. Work laid out as cards. An agent in a worktree per card. Chat condensed to WhatsApp-style back and forth, not a litany of tool calls. Result is usually a narrated demo video that I can comment on by voice to have the agent go another round. Remote-control from my phone. Remote workers to scale beyond my machine. Everyone I know who tried it has stuck with it so far.
I’ve been working since the start of the year on a minimalist web reader (https://papercove.app) that I use every day to follow RSS feeds, newsletters and read-later, and that helps keep things from piling up.
I thought I’d get where I wanted much faster, but it turns out I ran into quite a few challenges: it’s quick to build something simple, but it takes much longer to get a reader that’s robust and pleasant to use (extraction, parsing, security, infrastructure, etc.).
On the tech side, I’m using my usual stack, Laravel and Livewire, with some Python for extraction and Go for the email infrastructure. This month I’m working on the beta release, since several people around me were already using it, so I’d like to gather more feedback.
That is a great landing page! I can relate on the velocity side, it can be quick to build a feature, but it takes time to get everything feeling right and usable.
I burn most of my leftover tokens on Ultima Online stuff nowadays.
Started with a funny experiment, to have a CLI that can spin up a server (ServUO, Sphere, whatever), then deploy it somewhere (local, VPS, or Railway). Then saw interesting stuff that people did on top of existing ClassicUO, and decided to extend CLI's capabilities to client area too. So, I was able to deploy a server and a web-client (that you can open a webpage and play the game without the actual client installed on your machine). This was a significant step because running UO on macOS is always a struggle. Then I decided to add player-like bots so that the server doesn't feel so lonely. Started with some local decision trees, when it failed I hooked it up with Jev and Clef. Also added Haiku for speech generation.
While doing this, I realized I need to find some game content (gumps, tile or item data, animations, etc). Similar to UO client, running UOFiddler on macOS is also another struggle. So I decided to port it to web.
If you're into Ultima Online, these two are open source, you might want to take a look at them:
As a heavy LLM user in my daily work, I've been working on optimizing agent memory on complex projects. That resulted in this simple Rust-based tool called Wayfinder: https://github.com/zaterka/wayfinder
I've been trying to improve agent knowledge over a codebase, and existing approaches weren't giving the result I wanted, and I wanted to keep it simple. In the end, I added a semantic layer on top of an LLM Wiki and it saved 30% of token usage in multiple benchmarks I ran. It also adds some nice features to deal with concurring agents updating the shared memory, to ensure all information there is reliable and fresh.
It's published to PyPi, so an "uv tool install wayfinder-memory" already does all the work, and it's compatible with almost all Harnesses.
This is super cool, I've been thinking in this direction as well.
The codebase memory knowledge graph should be maintained alongside the codebase whenever possible, which basically means checking the graph into the repo alongside the code, or some other architecture that has an equivalent effect. But then it complicates the design of the retrieval indexing; I think your SQLite rebuild idea might work for that though.
I have a question for your design: since your knowledge graph is checked into Git and therefore Git worktrees should already isolate them and resolve conflicts between branches, why did you include the section about concurrent agents as well? Is that for maintaining the SQLite index which is not checked in?
A proportional width font terminal. "i" and "w" shouldn't take up the same amount of horizontal space. We used to have to do that because computers were slow and we counted cycles and every bits mattered. We live in a land of plenty now though so we can spend cycles doing math so that ls -l/top/etc table output is still aligned but "i" and "w" can take up the appropriate amount of horizontal space.
It’s an alternative VM engine that uses libkrun. The main purpose is that libkrun supports returning memory back to macOS when the VM releases it. It also has better performance in some areas, but it’s only been tested on my M1 laptop and I haven’t added nested support yet because I only have an M1
It’s a full docker system running inside Apple Container’s machines with automatic localhost port forwarding, automatic shutdown if nothing is running, and exposes a tcp socket so you can use most tools by just exporting your DOCKER_HOST environment variable.
I have a few other projects but they are still in earlier stages
A free, open-source browser extension called Karaoke Pitch that lets you adjust the pitch of a YouTube video (and optionally store that chosen pitch for later).
I find it to be a great way to practice singing/music.
The Firefox one has 40 average daily users and the Chrome one has 287 installs as of today.
There was a big jump in late October that might have had something to do with Halloween? I have no idea if people do karaoke more on Halloween. Still no ratings yet for either version, but maybe someday someone will.
My partner and I are both software devs. She quit her job a year ago, and has been working on a few micro-businesses to try a) learn some new skills and b) diversify our sources of income. So far this year she has built:
I built an app to help me develop healthy habits and routines on my computer. IT blocks sites/apps based on a schedule and tracks my activity for later analysis.
I had simpler versions of this earlier but never something comprehensive. It was also my first AI assisted development project. I've been using it personally for around a year. I polished it and released it as an open source project last month. It's specific to Linux (which is my primary platform)
Teaching myself how to build a Spiking Graph Neural Network in Zig, to run on my Brainchip Akida AKD1500 neuromorphic accelerators (and Efinix Titanium Ti60 FPGAs).
Good times, but lots of foundational math I hadn't previously been exposed to.
Some reading material if anyone else is interested in that:
We're going to open source everything. Software, SaaS, infrastructure, weights, platforms, protocols.
We're going to bridge local and cloud compute in a seamless way.
We're building an app factory for high throughout development. Reverse engineering tools for non-technical people. We're going to make high quality libraries that others can remix.
We're going to make all of this agentic and AI/CLI first class.
We're going to open source everything and make the world hacker-first again, like Web 1.0 with P2P and RSS and APIs and IRC.
The cool thing about that game is that it uses a realtime environment mesh reconstruction algorithm that allows me to create an approximation of the world 3D geometry and project a dummy “flashlight” with hand tracking. I think I’ve only seen one other game do that technique on quest (some laser tag game).
It runs at 60fps with a tight GPU budget. Consequently it’s not the most beautiful game, but it’s actually pretty fun, immersive and can scale to all sorts of environments.
I’ll be porting it to iOS next (handheld AR style).
Rebuilding my business’ website with Claude. It’s gonna be 10x better and migrate off Wordpress. My web designer broke something and stopped answering so giving it a shot and it’s going great so far. So stoked for the final vision I have.
I continue to update my coach app that generates workouts for me. It’s really solid at this point, better then the trainer I had, so mostly occasional bug fixes now or silly additions.
I have been working on building an agent and workflow builder that converts chats with claude, chatgpt, gemini or any other chat agent into a workflow or autonomous agent. Its live at toolscaled.com
Essentially I found the key thing with modern ai assisted development the key thing is to manage your own time/ parallelize without having to switch between chat session as much as possible.
I’m still working on https://feedsync.net, a tool to push RSS feed updates to Discord.
It’s been getting a decent number of sign ups despite me not really posting it anywhere or doing any marketing.
Ultimately a fun project, and useful for myself and a few friends, so I’m happy others are even interested in trying it.
I’ve started to regret using Phoenix LiveView, as it’s only deployed in one region, so high latency far from there. I’m exploring a SPA as a better alternative.
Otherwise, I’ve been playing around with a Lua engine to build feeds for websites that don’t support them, using AI to build the Lua as a once-off. It works reasonably well, but isn’t ready for prime time just yet.
I needed Postgres backups at work and at home at the same time. I tried a few existing images, but after spending time setting them up I found they shipped an older pg_dump that couldn't back up newer Postgres versions. So I built my own.
It runs pg_dumpall on a cron schedule and streams it straight into a restic repo, so nothing touches local disk. You get encrypted, deduplicated snapshots (hourly dumps of a mostly unchanged DB take very little extra space), retention policies, and daily pruning. If the dump fails, no snapshot is saved. It ships pg_dumpall 18, so it can back up anything from 9.2 to 18.
I now run it in production at work, so I'll be keeping it up to date. I'm no expert, and this is the first time I'm doing something like this (putting something out there), so any feedback is welcome, especially from the database pros.
It's not fancy, but it's something I needed, and boy, I really needed something like this.
For 4+ years I've been working on a game programming language which makes your game multiplayer automatically! Every program written in Easel is guaranteed deterministic and snapshottable, which it uses to automatically perform rollback netcode. The rollback is incremental, it automatically stores deltas of only what has changed using a copy-on-write mechanism, so it's really efficient for games where your players are walking around large worlds which are mostly sleeping except when the player is nearby.
The idea is that I hope teenagers who love to play multiplayer games, would find this to be the easiest way to code a multiplayer game by far since the multiplayer is automatic. Learning to code could be much more fun because they can make games that involve their friends, classmates, brothers/sisters, parents, or just anyone online. Maybe especially more important for raw coding to be fun and engaging in the age of AI.
This month I'm making the multiplayer even more efficient so people really can just code large multiplayer games without worrying about it, which I think is important for beginner coders.
Writing a Newspeak implementation of the PostgreSQL TCP protocol!. Talking to a GnuCash database from Chrome web browser. Uses my Newspeak TCP library. Both are bare minimum, probably very broken, but I am able to parse a Postgres result set from a simple query.
Here is a one minute video where I print the result data to the console from a Newspeak workspace.
Given the popularity of decision models I tried to create a standard text classification pipeline that runs entirely in the browser using webgpu/wasm. Downloads an embedding model, trains the classifier (a Linear SVM for now, whose hyperparams are determined by gridsearch), calibrates the classifier so that reliable confidence scores may be produced. This is in Python that is run using Pyodide. You can paste your own data (no uploads supported) to train a model on it. WIP, and mostly generated using GPT Sol. Testing a few things out. Will have a blog post soon.
- https://probl.dev: A "probabilistic" programming language where we can do things like `if 45% { x } else { y }`. It works by creating many weighted worlds, that are then merged when identical. Operators like `observe` can remove possibilities. There is also a sampling mode that instead run many simulations to get an approximate result.
- https://github.com/garlab/gloss | `brew install garlab/tap/gloss`: render markdown, sources, images, chess and go (game) records in the terminal. It's built for libghostty but fallback on other terms.
Noticed how well Claude works for transcribing old German cursive, especially for broad hits in non-indexed 17th century parish records. Motivated me to pick up Ancestry again and helped me quite a bit in following some lines further back.
Then also HNowledge[1], a free iOS app for browsing the HN stories and comments I've upvoted. Made it to fit the way I browse HN, which is upvoting mainly what I find interesting and may want to come back to. The app lets you browse by date, domain or score, add notes and export. Apart from syncing your upvotes from HN, everything stays local without any tracking.
Wanes[2], an Apple Health logging interface for tracking how long symptoms last. I tend to have headaches quite often and the way Apple lets you enter that data is pretty limited, so I created an app which starts a Live Activity for one or more symptoms using widgets, Control Center or Siri. You can change the severity rating while it runs and stop it from wherever you are on your phone (Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Siri).
A data-flow-based, lightweight formal verification engine for application security. Basically, it's SAST++:
1. Deep enough that you really have some formal guarantees about the codebase (like zero findings actually means something, not just that the tool is broken).
2. Fast enough that you can shift the formal verification phase left and apply it to every feature during development (for example, during agentic development sessions to get fixes done within the same feature context).
3. Expressive and customisable enough that you can write specs for most vulnerability types from the OWASP Top 10 (even Broken Access Control and business logic flaws). Skills for writing specs included.
I’ve been working on Beacon, which just got approved on the App Store! It’s a mobile app to instantly answer “which friend is free to talk right now?” and summon them in a single tap.
Send your beacon to a group, and everyone gets a gentle ping. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well! It’s best if you're able to join with 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like absolute magic to me. I tap the button to send my beacon to everyone and get a random friend on the line.
This is really cool! I'm very excited to try it - nice to see it available on Android also. As someone who has messed around with building relationship-focused social apps, I'm curious if there were any other concepts you tried, or other apps you like? What did you think of BeReal for example?
I'm still working on https://openaltfinder.com, a directory of open source alternatives for proprietary software.
Trying to find out why Google has completely de-indexed the website, but other than "low quality content", I'm not getting any answers. Even Bing brings in more traffic...
Cloud save sync between a real Super Nintendo and emulators.
I’ve just got back into hobby electronics after a fifteen year diversion into software. I set up my workbench this week and this is my first project, something I first imagined building twenty years ago!
I spent the weekend wiring the spare controller port to a microcontroller to act as WiFi bridge. I have a flash cart, so I patch the reset vector to a small save sync routine that talks to the microcontroller.
It was especially magical having Claude read from a logic analyser and flash firmware tweaks iteratively. I still got to wield the soldering iron at least.
I have a PAL-2 [1] (a modern KIM-1 re-creation) and started learning 6502 by entering programs from The First Book of KIM [2].
I wanted to be able to compile/link the assembly from the book so leaned on Claude to set up a 6502 dev environment for my Mac. I put everything needed (and instructions) on GitHub [3].
(Claude also has been helpful in re-formatting the 6502 code from The First Book of KIM into a more modern style compatible with modern assemblers. A few of these modernized programs I added to the GitHub repo above.)
As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I'll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year's end.
Over the last few months, I decided to learn more math and dive deeper into LLMs, RL, and robotics.
I ended up building a personal agent that asks me questions every day, emails me interesting reads in these areas, and helps me progress in my learning.
It started as a web app, but I have just ported it to a Mac desktop app.
It works like Conductor, but for your learning side quests: https://miletus.app
I originally thought it would be useful to have a package registry that helps prevent supply chain attacks. It reads and judges all of the changes to popular NPM packages. While building I realized that it’s a package manager that agents can settle package versions with as old versions have new vulnerabilities found.
I’ve caught several supply chain attacks since I started monitoring, and am building an automatic response pipeline to validate and publish new attacks.
I’ve also been working on python support and hope to have that released soon.
Recovering from pushing out an article on coroutines [1]; coordinating getting the house in order for the workweek [2]; and drafting a package to make literate programming in org-mode a bit more to my liking.
I got tired of always having to update my wife, and my family members résumés. So I created https://theresumechef.com
It's private,free to use, no pay walls or monthly subscriptions.It has10 resume templates to choose from to get you started.The final resume can be exported as a PDF, or stored on Google Drive or Dropbox in JSON format. There are still a few issues, but I've learned a ton by just creating and launching this project. I have some exciting new product ideas, but I'm currently waiting on my Dutch KvK number to accept online payments with Stripe.
Personal project - long past due to set up a home lab so I'm piecing together a SAN and some compute from old parts i have laying around and some second hand servers in a new rack I put together, along with setting up a bespoke home network instead of just using ISP stuff.
I have long been averse to configuration and customization but my needs and preferences have outgrown commodity systems and default setups, and AI is making it much easier to customize systems, so I'm embarking on this journey after over 35 years of using computers.
I'm still working on making JustFax Online[1] more profitable. Added a bunch of features recently, as well as invisible improvements in fax routing, and admin stuff for myself to better analyze the traffic and patterns.
Other than this, I'm playing with vibe-coding stuff I always wanted to do but never had the time/skills to do. For example, I built a TUI on top of beancount that is tailored to my needs and my business[2]. I also completely got rid of self-hosted plausible and umami analytics, and replaced them with vibe-coded built-in-rust (c) analytics tool that relies on both js-beacon and streaming of caddy access.log. Will probably publish about it in my blog soon, so subscribe to the RSS if you want.
Lastly, I'm messing with self-hosting. I completely ditched Github and Gitlab for self hosted forgejo + actions runner. I set up proper backup plan for everything I care (documents, immich library, my SaaS DB, and the forgejo repositories).
Repair of a Collins 651S-1 receiver. The 65-95 mhz vco module is bad, but if you over damp the pll loop filter it does eventually lock and receive properly. I found a similar but not identical replacement from a different model receiver. It lacks one of the two DC tracking signal outputs but I added an op amp based circuit to simulate the missing signal.
The loop is stable and responsive when receiving from 17 to 29.9999 Mhz, but not much below that... Almost got it
I'm making a replacement motherboard for the Nokia 1100 that runs Linux and supports LTE. I have the software working well on a MangoPi dev board and I've designed two PCBs: one "test fit" board that just breaks out the phone keypad/LCD to pin headers, and the actual board with everything on it. Now I just need to order the PCBA which is super expensive :)
It uses an allwinner T113-S3 SoC and the Quectel EC25 LTE module, and I've made sure voice calling works over LTE, at least on T-Mobile in the US. (this is tricky bc of carrier rules)
I wanted the challenge of trying to fit all the components into the small board area available (this phone is tiny), and I liked the idea of creating an updated version of the best-selling cell phone of all time. I figured some of the "dumbphone" crowd might be into it too, if my design works I might make them available for sale
A SaaS for teachers and schools that helps them create, conduct and grade exams and tests (with safe exam browser integration to prevent cheating). Grading happens automatically for almost all segment types, for free form text we have an optional AI integration. I recently added an MCP server so teachers can bring their own LLM with fairly fine grained permission controls for it. It’s hosted in the EU with options for schools to self host with a license.
Currently we are in a pilot phase and are yet to make our first sale but we are reaching out to schools and gave out some pro accounts for free for people to try out and feedback has been great.
We are just two people, a teacher who was dissatisfied with the tooling in the field and me, who engineered a solution that we believe is genuinely better than what’s out there.
A private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1]. It was launched earlier this year and reached 400 MAUs and €2k MRR last month.
A simple EU static and app hosting service: PodBy [2]. It was launched last week, and is at €10 MRR.
I used to watch K-drama on Netflix and pause it to copy paste subtitles in AI chat to do vocabulary breakdown, translation and grammar. So I automated it in an app which auto pauses video when it detects a sentence and gives translation, vocabulary (for every word) and grammar.
I also added same to voice from microphone, for deliberate practice speaking what was learned. To help with spaced repetition.
For about 10 months or so I've been working on this FOSS hobby project to get more practice at Linux packaging, cargo utilities, and migrating to Nix and NixOS (as well as solve some personal pain points in using a HDMI TVs and projectors with PCs).
> TisVlay brings TV Display control for Linux, including: power, volume, backlight, AV mute, input switching plus more, with per-device profile automation via desktop session integration (idle/lock, boot/suspend, remote login/streaming, etc), and in reverse, letting the TV lock, sleep or wake the PC and its remote drive the desktop, while supporting various vendor interface protocols for multi-display setups, mitigating energy usage and OLED panel burn-in or projector bulb burn-out.
Disclosure: this project includes AI assisted coding, documentation and research, and has been a great help given physical disabilities in typing. After programming by hand well over a decade, using voice dictation scene the '90s (IBM ViaVoice or Dragon NaturallySpeaking anyone?), and worsening hands over after my CSE doctorate, this was also a bit of an individual research experiment to explore how effective LLMs could augment my personal approach to spec & test driven development.
While still beta (pre v1.0), its already daily drivable and fully documented. Being largely feature-complete, my current focus has shifted towards distro packaging, and custom ATmega firmware in Rust for HDMI CEC USB adapters to solve a few TV firmware bugs. If you'd like to give it a try, the installation guide and docs are linked below. Or if not, and you already use something else, I'd like to give a shout-out to netflector, especially for privacy-conscious home-automation users, given how common spyware is in smart TVs and projectors these days. The docs cover using it to keep displays on an isolated network.
This one I (mostly) did without LLMs, but the other project is vibe coded, but I'm enjoying it. An RTS made by Claude in Unity: https://github.com/SiGe11/StarForge2
Just like the last time I posted in this thread, I’m working on The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, a chess database/playing/opening training app for Apple platforms:
The original goal was an alternative to ChessBase, but with an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync between devices, and as an improved alternative to tools like chessbook.com for operating repertoire management and spaced repetition opening memorisation. In recent months I have focused more on the chess-playing parts of the app, trying to implement human-like computer opponents at all levels, using a transformer-based model (similar to the one described in the Maia 3 paper) combined with a very small search.
Recently I’ve also been working on chess variants. Since a while, the companion Apple Watch app plays 5x5 chess. More recently, I added a 10x10 chess as an Easter egg game inside the app, and I’m now working on hexagonal chess. With the current state of the art in computer chess, it’s almost trivial to implement vastly superhuman strength in all these variants, but implementing weaker levels that are enjoyable opponents is interesting and challenging. Unlike in normal chess, there are no big databases of human games to train on.
a mac app that listens to your microphone and gives feedback on your pace, filler words etc in real time. Built for myself as I tend to get carried away in meetings. Looking forward to feedback if anyone else has the need for something like this.
As many of you, I have a few subscriptions to Claude and Codex (just me??). It's a daily occurrence to use 2-3 accounts for the same conversation (whenever the limit stops me).
What I need is something to switch the account where the usage is taken from, not the configuration.
I'm not sure providers would shoot themselves in the foot by not allowing you to buy more usage. It seems like both OAI and Anthropic could use all the subs they can get.
As a self hoster whos paranoid about backups. I wanted to cheat a bit and use s3. With growing resentment on big tech, who I worked for earlier, I'm now building tools that empower myself and other users and decrease reliance of big tech. Arkel is an object store I've been building and testing for the past few months. https://arkeldata.com
A reimagination of bloodborne as a native VR game. All interactions have been redesigned to feel physical in VR, and combat retuned etc. It feels less like the original and more like a native VR experience now
I’m a product manager fascinated by the skills of good salespeople. I also like Duolingo. so I’ve been building a “Duolingo for sales” to try to teach myself more. it’s started to morph a bit into an eval benchmark for sales agents, so classic cognitive feature
creep.
making it feel fun versus a basic quiz workflow is the hardest part.
I've been using the recent MIT weight-space programming techniques to work with neural quantum states, which are neural networks that represent a quantum wavefunction. I was able to produce a bunch of novel networks for a few hundred dollars of cloud GPU, which would have probably cost tens of thousands to train in the traditional manner.
I have been playing with benchmarking agents in a research loop. The experiment leans on using these models to understand and explore builds/gameplay through reasoning game AI over traditional reinforcement learning.
Also, creating interactive ways to view the experiment and visualizating the results.
I'm working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616
I've got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose.
The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot.
Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood... First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles.
Working on / dog fooding my graph based recipe app[0].
There are more things I'd like to do with the graph concept, like linking two user's recipe trees if they were imported via the same URL. Really trying to to avoid features that I think would be cool that don't provide any functionality.
There are still a few features I'd like to implement that are more in the vein of nice to have in any recipe application, like nested recipes, temperature conversions, volumetric ingredients amounts to mass conversions, etc.
But I've been using it for new recipes and converting my old recipes I have written down in the margins to this format and I've been happy with how usable its been in these early stages.
For reasons, my team is pretty much limited to Argo Workflows for our CI.
Nothing against Argo Workflows, but I really wanted to get out of the business of building our own CI product on top of it.
So, I’ve been working on this CI “framework” on top of Hera (the Argo Workflows Python SDK, which is really neat) that will hopefully make it easier for our team to build CI pipelines, with CI “primitives.”
I built a new abstraction layer for code (https:// www.archme.io), as I believe it's no longer the right medium for understanding and collaboration in the era of AI and 10k LOC PRs.
It scans your codebase, turns it into permanent c4 & sequence diagrams and keeps them up to date on each commit. Then, instead of reviewing a 10k line coding PR, you review a 30 line change to sequence and C4 diagrams.
npm i -g @archme/cli && archme init to run it on your own computer, code never leaves your machine.
I wanted a way to manage multiple loops without babysitting terminal sessions and to talk to them as they work. With Spool, you can create and manage loops from a web UI, chat with them through Telegram or Slack, and let them communicate with each other. Each loop can run on your environment directly having access to everything you have, or in its own container or even better on Anthropic's cloud.
I’m using Spool to build Spool and figuring out what works well when several loops collaborate on the same project. That's also an interesting experiment going on.
I’d also love to hear how others are managing long-running or persistent agents.
Signal analysis to drive <desired signal-driven action>. Grouping/categorizing/stratifying signals into useful buckets to drive actions. Blind source separation has drawbacks like continuously guessing at sources and labeling them as brand new instead of having a memory of previously identified sources. Think of how humans can distinguish pianos from drums and remember the distinction across songs.
I’m working on a document library app for macOS with tagging, collections and user attributes. Unlike other apps that pull files into their own databases or reorganize files into their own folders, Librium indexes files in place, so your existing folder structure stays in tact. It works with folders on your local drive in addition to external and network drives and the cloud. Search works with on-device text extraction and OCR.
It’s currently in Test Flight beta, but I’m planning to have it to App Review this week.
SuperBlocker is a native blocker that works on iPhone and iPad using Apple's latest URL filtering technology that blocks URLs without revealing it to Apple's relays or SuperBlocker's servers.
The original JSON Query app on the Mac App Store. Store, organize and query all of your JSON with jq or natural language. All of your data stays local so sensitive JSON can stay on your machine.
Building a native macos app with a suite of completely local AI tools. The first version is out and have a long roadmap in front of me. Would love to hear some feedback.
Building my an airflow pipeline focused on collecting news.
Partly because I want one, but also because it makes for a good learning platform. e.g. initially do some of the processing with a stronger llm...save result and then attempt to train a SLM or similar
Lipik, a free open-source dictation app for Mac (https://github.com/Gourav2609/lipik). Hold fn, talk, let go, and clean text lands in any app: ums and self-corrections removed, spoken punctuation turned into real punctuation. Speech-to-text and clean-up both run on the Mac. On my 106 English test clips, lines that came out fully right went from 28% to 76% with clean-up on. Right now I'm working on Hinglish (Hindi + English in Roman letters). It gets 7 of 20 test lines fully right, so there's a long way to go.
FoldRoute - a PWA route planer for folding bikes & public transport
I bought a Brompton a few months ago and realized there is no good planer for combining biking and public transport.
I one-shotted the first approach with codex. It was so decent that I wanted to elaborate on the idea. Still not perfect and needs a lot of testing in the wild (especially the navigation).
Currently, only in German. If there is demand, I will translate to English.
For now only a PWA. Therefore, it has some limitations. Maybe I will make it an Android / iOS app one day.
I have been in enterprise for couple decades now, learnt and experienced the challenges/gaps between the specs vs implementation, the asks vs the real needs in the space of identity, security and access
Product: webfrolic.com
Demo: demo.webfrolic.com
What it is?
Consider Okta (Workforce identity)+ Auth0 (Customer Identity), Authzed (authorization) + ServiceNow (IT service Desk) + Zendesk (Customer Support Desk) architected together
Being an engineer there is this inherent habit of prioritizing correctness over marketing so I would not oversell it, though its probably the most secure and complete thing that could be built from identity perspective
Status (WIP):
1. I am still debating/settling on how to incorporate the AI Agents needs into the architecture, big focus on avoiding the creation of security or performance foot guns where administrators leave room open for abuse with configuration despite all this attempt to build secure system
A slow, realtime strategy game similar to Neptunes Pride and Subterfuge.
Each game tick is an hour and games can last over a week. I got hooked on both Subterfuge and Neptunes Pride and always wished there were some more titles in this genre.
Rebuilding my ERP to work more like the model of https://plaintextaccounting.org, where I expanded the idea of `double entry accounting` to `double entry trade between parties`, plus several other ideas for what I see a way to collapse a lot of complications that are typically for ERP systems.
I make a special `textual DSL` where I model business scenarios like `Make a sale that include 3 invoices : 2 to different cities in country A in currency USD and other in country B in currency EUR` + all the intermediate steps like transportation, manufacturing, etc.
I`m now in the woods with a simplification for the price engine, I dislike much how complicated is normally, and I think I have good enough solution for most cases that generate without dynamic calculations.
https://santawho.com A funny holiday game you play in person with the whole family on just one phone (the parent interviews everyone for jobs on the North Pole and surfaces inner insights about what everyone might enjoy from Santa). It’s for any age, private, ads free, just pure holiday spirit.
https://www.dreamlist.com - collaborative shopping lists and online wishlists and gift drive platform. Again ads-free, private, stack multiple lists into groups of lists to share on social media or with grandparents.
A number of other ones about to launch as well. All little tech, not big tech - private by default, no ads, no feeds or media, just surfacing what is needed.
RGBloom: create printed photo books in minutes (UK only for now) for just £10 including delivery. Been working on this for 8 months, recently launched iOS and Android apps to go alongside the web app. Got just a few dozen orders a week atm.
I'm focused on making it privacy first, keeping as little data as possible for as short a time as possible (no accounts, you don't even need to provide an email address, and if you do it's wiped in 30 days). And transparent pricing: not getting hit with large delivery fees at checkout, and no discounts just honest prices.
the plot: Programming languages existed as an abstraction for humans. As writing code becomes cheaper, we can write it for each architecture as long as the specification is done well. The costs of running will matter more in relation. So don’t make your AI write rust, but assembly
I am currently on maternity leave with my first baby have just launched to the app store my first app!
I'm a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven't been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA.
Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3
https://skymap.rulkens.com
A browser based open source universe explorer. I'm in between jobs currently and finally took time to work on my passion project. It started with just visualizing some galaxy surveys, but it got a little out of hand and now includes everything from hi-res tiled earth/mars, Gaia star field (16M stars), a milky way renderer and much more.
It's so amazing to have the ability to gather and parse publicly available scientific data and actually visualize it in real-time. It's one of those projects I'm learning a lot from and can keep going with (the universe is a big place :)). As a software developer for 20+ years, its been mind-blowing and often also frustrating to have Claude generate code that I deem good enough. About half of my time has actually been spent on refactoring, building quite some skills in guiding LLMs in the process. I guess that part still hasn't changed in a growing codebase.
Infrastructure for hosting static webpages with options for storing data, having users, sending notifications, shared "rooms", and various other bits and bobs all behind an mCP. All $0 practically because it's made up of static services from AWS.
Made for me, but I can provide access to friends and family, which is nice.
A better, model-agnostic artifact experience to work with AI visually. You can annotate and draw on artifacts, so can your agents. You can share the artifacts with colleagues or friends and with your permission they can send comments to your agents too.
When you need more compute, artifacts turn themselves into microVMs automatically (paid feature) with a 8GB allowance
Unifying all the various image/video gen (comfyui for local, api for closed) in one cohesive desktop app, with integrated agents to pilot the whole thing (if you want). It's been fun to build and quite fun to use. Technically out in beta and testable, but working on refining onboarding/docs before I try going wider.
Finding a balance between deep enough to satisfy more technical creatives (like me) and less technical ones. Agent integration helps tremendously with the latter.
My son is dyslexic. So I built a Chrome text-to-speech and reading tools extension to make it easier for him to get access to written content online (and also to support him at school). It has support for Google Docs and PDFs as well as the web. There are a few of these, but this one tries to stay out of the way, have better tracking, better voices and lower cost. Still more to do on the reading side - writing is next after that.
Few apps I have originally mainly done for myself; Vaava (https://vaava.app) , been tweaking the e2ee data sync between connected apps, and the webrtc based baby monitor feature stability. Crazy how easily Astra / opus 55 level models create quite complex ad-hoc reproducible (almost automatable) test scenarios with 2 phones, laptop and other tools / peripherals they know they can use, for example for the baby monitor feature Astra did a setup for me which i can reproduce to test that the video + audio works fine between 2 phones for x time.
Also trying to replace own Duolingo usage with Fika Lingo (https://fikalingo.com) basic idea was to first repro the practice of matching words. There is now few other types of language / vocabulary practices. The practice generation works on-device with local LLM, you can give the topic yourself like "Words that relate to Hacker News". Downside at the moment is that English needs to be the counterpart of the practices. Cant guarantee good enough quality with something like germany <-> italy practices. I'm trying to do finetuning with LFM models to see if it would be feasible to improve the local practice generation.
I've been working on trying to be more helpful around the house, and trying to spend more time with my kids. I'm trying to give my partner a little bit of relief so that they can pursue their passions as well.
Meli: A spending tracker for Mac designed with privacy in mind. Turns credit card alert emails into spending insights and budgets. I was in security for 15+ years and I built it because I didn't want to use Plaid or other aggregators and wanted my financial data locally on my device and not in the cloud. Spreadsheets required a lot of work to maintain so I wanted some sort of automation. Connects directly to your email (reads only alerts from supported senders) and all parsing happens on your device.
Works with seven major US banks (AMEX, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Discover, Bank of America and Wells Fargo) plus PayPal and Venmo.
Does this list cover most of your spending? If not, which banks or cards would you need?
Like 2h ago I was doing some research on that topic. I’ve heard about open banking a while back and thought: Oh that’s easy. I’ll just get an api key from my bank or “oath” into it.
Sadly it’s not that easy.
Unfortunately it's not easy. In the US specifically banks don't generally offer APIs or keys to access them to individuals and you have to go through an aggregator like Plaid (which is what I want to avoid).
However, most banks do send alert emails when something is charged to a credit/debit card. Meli connects to your inbox read-only via OAuth (Google and Microsoft) or IMAP for other providers and reads those emails on your Mac.
Of course there are limitations to this approach, you only get access to the data that is available in those emails like merchant, amount, date and account.
Which banks are you interested in? Are you based in the US?
I'm working on Eigakan Guide (https://eigakanguide.jp/en), a cinema showtime aggregator for Japan. Every popular cinema site in Japan only allows for very few filters, making it hard to find exactly what I was looking for. So instead I built a site where it's possible to filter by area, cinema, date, time, features like IMAX, English audio, English subtitles, and more. This allows for searching for stuff like IMAX showtimes with English audio on Friday after 7PM.
Since the last time I posted on HN I've added 100s of cinemas, user features like being able to save search filters, movies, and specific showtimes. Also a ChatGPT plugin which allows for searching for movie showtimes using natural language directly inside of ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6abfdc298c208191...).
Finally I've added AI search to the site as well, allowing for natural language search with queries like "English audio showtimes near Shinjuku tomorrow" and so on.
I would really appreciate feedback for things to add, things that are hard to understand, and anything else!
Working on ZShot [1]. I'm about a year in on a local-only browser tuned specifically for CLI and API usage - kinda filling the gap for "geez, I sure wish I had a browser, but not one to look at". You need a webpage as PNG, or an MP4, or a website as a WACZ or SQLite database. There's a Mac app to help with discoverability of options, but I wanted for my local tooling and building services on top of it.
Along the way I ended up adding an internal agent framework to satisfy stuff like "log in, click the button, and then take a screenshot", out of which fell stuff like automatically generating Playwright tests from that. It even runs the Playwright test suite and Puppeteer test suites ( a bit faster, and for a lot less memory ). I kinda love this bit because I can layer in multiple models that will bounce control of the web session between each other, to do stuff like let a Typesafe model choose to escalate to Opus when it needs higher minded behavior. It's fun to watch it happen.
I've mentioned it a few times around here, I'll probably do a Show HN soon when I feel like it's ready for that. Hopefully soon.
Column view for hacker news with resizable fonts. It’s just a fun hobby thing for me. I’m not in software, but I can do hobby level programming and that gets leveled up by codex.
Been working on my own Orca-like meta harness: getlattis.ai
Use it every day, and my team mates have started using it and loving it. In my dreams it’s a business. In reality the feedback I get from people that like it absolutely makes my day.
An opensource personal expense tracker, I was a happy user from an offline expense tracker which wiped my data when playstore decided auto-updating it,
I'm at the point where I'm finally actively using it to register my activity, it is straightforward to register tickets by sending them to a telegram bot, then, reconcile those by uploading my bank statement.
I'm trying to get the lowest possible usage friction so that I keep using it.
So far the better built pieces related to the data ingestion. Once this is good enough I'll build reports + anything coming to my head as a useful piece.
I'm leveraging AWS textract + bedrock + bda to parse bank statements. I expected this would have been easier but it is still a very complex problem which had required me to put many iterations (so far it works nicely with my own statements)
For ticket parsing, AWS textract + parsing rules has been enough.
I'm working on two moderately large projects right now, both of which are interesting to me and maybe no one else, but why not share?
The first is withfire.app, which is basically a productization of the AI driven resume tailoring pipeline I used during my last job search. The landing page is still (AI) sloppy, but I think it has some neat features:
- a slick bookmarklet intake system for new job postings - just click the bookmarklet and the job is parsed automatically and added to your list
- improve-over-time tailoring: each tailoring will find skills the posting mentions that you don't have in your profile and ask you whether you have that skill, so your profile gets better and more specific over time
- nice, human-looking output options that look almost pixel for pixel like the hand-rolled resumes I used to submit
This system increased my hear-back rate for jobs by ~5x when I implemented it, and I figured it might be worth productizing. If you're interested in poking at please feel free to reach out! This is the first app I've ever built using AI end-to-end and it's been an awesome learning experience.
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The second thing I'm working on is an astrophotography tool called ministar (https://github.com/galbacarys/ministar). The premise is basically, let's automate the hard parts of untracked astrophotography by using plate solving to help you point your camera to your target, and then live-stacking the result taking into account the rotation of the Earth. It's very early days and hacky as fuck, but i'm hoping to port it to Linux/Raspberry pi in the near future so that you can use just a DSLR, a 3 way head, a tripod, a power bank and an SBC for a minimal but high quality astronomy setup anywhere. I took my first shots of the h-Persei cluster last night and the results were really great, I'm hoping to get a longer shot at Andromeda later this week.
If you're interested in either of these and wanna chat, ping me at gabethebando (at) proton (dot) me, I'm kinda loving this brave new world where my side projects actually gain enough legs fast enough for me to stay interested in them
I'm working on Zustri (https://zustri.com), booking and scheduling for therapists and salons. My girlfriend is a therapist and didn't like any of the booking/scheduling software she tried, so I built her one.
I finished the basics a long while ago. Since then I've added an AI agent, a public booking page, and support for multiple staff. Hopefully, I'm launching soon. Currently finishing final touches, gathering feedback and trying to figure out how to market this
I try to 'vibe code' a product every 2 weeks. Most of them go unpublished, I just build it for the sake of building it. Most recent project is Unmute Party (https://unmuteparty.com) - multiplayer party games for remote teams, played in the browser during a Zoom or Teams call. The server is EU-only for now, and I plan to add US servers next week. Most of it is free, the paid tiers aren't even working yet. The paid tiers can be unlocked by using code HNWHATAREYOUWORKINGON.
Apart from that, running a travel agency I'd never be able to without agents (they manage my ads, social media, website content etc.). Started with boa.ba and it went quite well, now preparing dobosnia.com
- hermitator, a tool to run multiple isolated AI agents for WhatsApp on a single machine, with idle agents using no RAM: https://www.encona.com/posts/hermitator/
- showntell, which allows your coding agent to explain things to you with a video that starts playing within a few seconds of you asking: https://www.encona.com/posts/showntell/
- a philosophy tutor (testing in private for now) that does 2:1 live philosophy lessons, each exploring a single topic (aimed at ~10yo kids). I've tested this successfully (i.e. two kids did an hour and they want to do it again), and am trying to make improvements.
Oh, showntell is nice! I'll try incorporating it into my project (obeya.si), which already uses demo videos to show me work it did. But when I ask a question, the response is still just text. Could be so much better with your solution.
1. FormBeep(https://formbeep.com) at $38 MRR now - A form to Whatsapp tool. Stack is mainly CF workers with Clerk Auth.
2. SlashLink(https://slashlink.app) $0 - A simple pay as you go amazon link localizer. Great for affiliate folks and a cheaper alternative to Genius. Stack is same, CF workers with SQLite(D1)
3. StackStats(https://stackstats.app) $791 - A better advanced analytics app for Substack writers, fully local. I have been writing on Substack for a while now and their analytics suck!
I'm working on a better way to design longer scrolling pages with multiple sections, while preserving the visual look/feel and drastically speeding up the experience.
As a disclaimer I cut 32 seconds of generation time out of that video, but still I'm quite happy with the speed. Not launched yet, but it's been fun to work on / wanted to show off progress :)
A desktop app to easily browse, tag, and rate your images. It doesn't touch your files, it just reads them. Everything is stored in a local SQLite database. Think Eagle app but private, offline, and easy to use.
I've got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose.
The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot.
Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood... First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles.
Writing. I'm going to start an MFA next fall at LSU New Orleans. My latest piece, Three Black and Milds, a night in Juarez. No commentary, no lesson, just the city and the people in it, what it sells and what is bought.
I am building a tandem, reverse-trike halftrack, using the front end of an ATV and the back end of a snowmobile.
Replacing snowmobile skis with wheels is not a novel idea, but I wanted something which rides more like a motorcycle, with extra length for a passenger and a cargo basket.
It should end up looking like it came out of Mad Max; I plan to cruise around at festivals, running an ad-hoc taxi service, as a way of meeting people and striking up conversations.
I needed a code-first approach for making installations and interactive art. MaxMsp gets messy with very big projects. Python didn't really work well for music making and Tidal/Pi/Sclang are only meant for sound. So I needed something that has bpm synchronized threads, but can draw and do anything else like file IO, networking, hardware control etc. It works quite well now.
I have a service that crunches public filings in the financial sector: https://embarc.com
There is a lot of data for browsing, though it doesn’t aim to solve specific user problems as of yet (I did take a stab with RTOs in the logged in dashboard).
Serverless Wordpress + MariaDB without requiring plugins or any modifications to customer code: https://www.agiler.io
The serverless MariaDB is important because it can scale to zero, so you have dev sites that cost less than $0.50/mo.
Also added MCP and CLI tooling that exposes all of the infrastructure + WP CLI + DB so agents can develop WP sites... which is nice because you can still use the WP admin interface, while using AI to develop the site, debug it, change pages and posts, etc.
Hunting bugs in the Python ecosystem using fuzzers and AI tools I develop. If you have a Python package or extension you'd like analyzed, just let me know.
1-year part-time experiment: can you build a large project with AI writing the code and AI plus deterministic tools verifying/guiding/enforcing it for structural and behavior consistency, without a human reading the code?
I'm building a polyglot web framework in 15 languages, with C# and Lean4 as the reference implementations. Structural and behavioral audits using deterministic tools check that every port stays consistent with the reference. It's about 1.8M lines now. I have not reviewed the code/neither have i verified the behavior tests except at the time of giving requirement and never seen some of the language code at all.
The question is how far can we produce "working code → correct code [Possible] → good code [Unknown]" with deterministic audits correcting structure, ai mistakes and behavior validation.
So far the quality looks acceptable with lots of correction of AI output done without looking, but it isn't fully verified.
APIKulture. An alternative to Postman/Insomnia/Bruno.
To be honest, I started this because Postman and Insomnia became forced-corporate-cloud not usable for me anymore, and Bruno lacked a feature I considered fundamental for my workflow.
The feature is to remember the JSONPath expressions between requests, a feature that Bruno has implemented already.
But I created this thing and I'm using it daily since then. C++ and wxWidgets, it uses 40MB of RAM, and it is super fast, instead of the 400MB used by the above mentioned programs.
I'm creating an IDE for founders to run their operations. Create automations (deterministic), dashboards, and soon notification systems. It's a desktop app, and the whole IDE runs in pair with claude/codex through local mcp.
It was developed as an internal tool at my other startup, Ipek helped us to run the whole thing smoother and with all the context I need.
Lately we've been working on access for AI agents. A lot of people want their own agent to do the repetitive part of time tracking. Control remains important, which is why we rebuilt our core this month to support change history and full undo/redo functionality. Feel free to try it with your own agent.
We built this after the timesheet tool we paid for raised its prices and moved some features that we used regularly behind more expensive plans. We had to add three new colleagues, and everything combined this would cost us $500 a year more for the same software.
We run Elixir and Phoenix LiveView on a Kubernetes cluster made of Talos instances.
We're still looking for feedback on the product, so please let us know what you think!
We also added a live-demo functionality to make it easier to try. It spins up a workspace just for you, with sample data in it. You can make that workspace your own by adding your own data and undoing the creation of the sample data via "History". It should just take a single click.
1. Broadcast (https://sendbroadcast.net) - Self hosted email marketing software. Been working on this since 2024 and positive revenue. Releasing v3 this week! :)
ColliePWA[1] a mobile interface to continue working with your agents when you're on the. Trying to meet devs where they work on the desktop in multiplexers (herdr/tmux/zellij). Remote access can be set up with any front door like tailscale.
Still not sure where this is going as the space is super crowded and moving fast, but it's solving a lot of my own problems and doesn't rely on third parties to run.
I'm working on Hale, an abstract distributed systems language.
It's a traditional systems language in the sense that you have fine control over how resources are used, but it's abstract in the sense that you have to come to an agreement with the compiler about your intent around the resources, rather than directly declaring the machinery.
It's a distributed language in the sense that there is a higher level structural abstraction in the language that situates computations of the program within a recursive graph structure. Part of that structure incorporates message broker semantics. This gives the compiler a unified view of programs across arbitrary process boundaries. The structural abstractions also enable an effects+formal verification syntax within the language, which allows programmers to codify architectural decisions that are then checked by the compiler.
The compiler itself is infrastructure aware, and the highest layer of functionality it handles is configuring the environment into which applications deploy. The single language handles everything from individual memory allocations to distributed fleet deployments.
The language is close to v1, and I'm currently building a fully distributed inference-as-a-service application with it. Arbitrary hardware/supply matched against arbitrary callers/demand in real time.
For the past two years I've been working on my day planner app Ember.
Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It's been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since.
Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent.
I've always been interested in health, longevity, and biohacking.
I'm Canadian but I moved to USA to work for Microsoft. One thing I liked about the USA was how easy it was to order bloodwork/lab testing. My original idea was to bring that experience to Canada, but since starting I've found other ways to improve the patient healthcare experience in Canada too.
I'm reverse engineering the streaming protocol for three different brands of cheap surveillance video cameras. Each brand has its own app. They're all awful. None of them have a native desktop MacOS app. I've successfully created a native app for MacOS and Android for one of the brands. They're faster and work better than the ones they're replacing. One down, two to go.
Still plugging away on Flopper to build a holistic view of the GPU market including providers, rental prices, vendor information and mostly - specs for GPUs.
Polign Recall, a state and memory management for agents that can provide append only state logging and governance. The memory and storage is completely on BYOC setup and can work with confidential workloads
For now Im working on an agent-orchestration application that is taking tickets from a tracker and giving them to an Agent. It's called Even Keel.
The main feature is, that I can use different subscriptions/API keys (Claude and Codex - v0.1.4) and trackers (GitHub, Linear and Huly - v0.1.4) to make Even Keel start an agent for every single issue, task by task, one at a time per folder. There is also a parallel feature, so I can run more than 1 project at a time.
Once upon a time, when codex agent was integrated into the app, I wrote a ticket to make codex his own hook. It reused a hook that blocked its own git merge, if tests did not pass. I started calling it "A new agent writes its own cage"... Right after, it turned out it doesn't listen to the hook and it fixed it
Version 0.1.4 is already shipped, but v0.2 is coming soon with more supported trackers, agents and new features.
When I was a kid I loved a game called "Stars!" from 1995. I cloned the core and I'm also adding my own touch and lots of high sci-fi concepts. Already fun to play, early access coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5482440/Asteria_4X
How to make data storage on multiple storage devices unbreakable and consistent? The former means for me that back-ups should be automatical and serverless, the latter means that no matter how much of that HDD/SDD devices are connected, I want always to know all metadata of all files I have. I want this software under GPLv3 if to consider GPL still protects me from anything because permissive licenses are no better than WTFPL by any single case.
My first idea is to require the user to have more than one disk for the system needs and the system should know all of the rest data devices user owns. My second idea is to treat different files as having different priority which impose multiple copies. My third idea is to make the software accessible, and the last idea is to make encrypting of all the devices easy and with no ties to any commertial entities. I would like to have a discussion about how to not lose anything digital.
Still changing along on Incredible (https://www.incredible.rs/) a Rust Text User Interface (TUI) Framework for the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century.
It is New, Experimental, Modular, Declarative, Event Driven and Reactive. It builds cross-platform apps that can be compiled for the terminal (macOs, Windows, Linux), a standalone native window (macOS & Windows 11), or the browser (via WASM) from one unified code base.
Curious if this project will ever be 90% done.. ;)
A video game in which players can build their own worlds. The brains of the creatures in the video game are a small language model + harness that runs in your browser: http://id-le.com
I’ve been working on my inertial navigation library. It actually beats ArduPilot’s navigation subsystem in my benchmarks. I’ve been working on these algorithms since my PhD thesis and now I am releasing the stuff as open source embedded C and Python library:
I’ve been working on Beacon, which just got Beacon approved on the App Store! It’s a mobile app to instantly answer “which friend is free to talk right now?” and summon them in a single tap.
Send your beacon to a group, and everyone gets a gentle ping. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well! It’s best if you're able to join with 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like absolute magic to me. I tap the button to send my beacon to everyone and get a random friend on the line.
HostsTray, tray utility to manage your hosts file, that also has a reverse HTTPS proxy builtin, that installs a self-signed CA and generates certs on-the-fly.
Also it forces your browser to "flush" their DNS by killing the keep-alive connections that for example Chrome keeps open in background. And it can be controlled by your local coding agent through a simple API (which also serves the skill for it)
Working on a tool to provide a thin OIDC auth layer for self-hosted LLM engines. Users log in with your Org's identity provider, generate an API key for themselves, point their harnesses at your instance of the relay, and then they're off to the races.
No web chat interface, no call-us-for-pricing feature gating, just a tight Erlang program for people who want to get shit done!
I wrote a children’s story in Galician about open source. It's told as a fable. I made it open source, and people are now helping translate it into Spanish and English.
I’m looking for ways to fund printing and distribute the book. If anyone has done something similar, I’d love to learn from your experience!
Still cracking on with https://whistle-enterprise.com and making improvements to the document generation model. I'm ditching my old trusty Phi4 model and testing out some other small models to fine tune, something about Phi4 just seemed to work quite well for what it was so it's a hard contender to beat for midrange laptop CPU inference at a decent rate and quality.
A bit like iodine in the basic idea, but the execution and network topologies you build with it are different. It's more of a building block; you get your DNS channels represented as UDP endpoints, and take it from there, ie you can run Wireguard over it, or SSH or a SOCKS5 proxy (using quicmux, so over QUIC), or run Mosh straight over DNS if you're crafty.
It has an Android app too! I tried to submit it to F-Droid but they're so swamped in spammy or low-quality apps that they're not taking any brand new apps :-(
A sad state of affairs, that.
Built an app to suggest best local beach for given weather for my town. My partner shared with local moms and they seem to be loving it - https://beach.metacursion.com/
Also revived old project - https://aminosplore.metacursion.com - the idea was to compare what essential amino acids each food contains using spider web chart. It’s been dead for a while due to USDA API changes so I revived, added macros and enabled to build foods into actual recipes.
Finally have been improving elsrc.com - an easy and scalable way to use ai image generators. If you need hundreds of images you can just request them by url. Supports versioning, batching, regional and national styling based on viewers IP and few other neat features!
For the first time in along while, I'm not actually working on anything. I do some vibe coding for fun.
I'm kinda leaning towards vibe coding my own GUI coding agent. I currently use Pi and recently have been playing with Herdr and Paseo, but none of these feels right to me. These are amazing tools, but ai think we could do better. But I'm very hesitant - I know the only way to "succeed" in a project like this is to write (vibe code) hundreds of thousands of lines of code and it's kinda depressing.
I've been working on a planner for the past 2 years for people whose day never goes the way they planned it.
I was trying to solve the problem I had with time-blocking, where your day ends up derailed and you give up on it because it takes too long to replan. I have solved with the idea of a cascading calendar. If I move a task down or change its duration it pushes other tasks later in the day.
Since then its kinda grown into my full productivity system for logging my thoughts and planning and documenting my life
A small team and I are working on Sendery [1], a transactional email platform for product teams. We're trying to fix some of the headaches that come with managing product emails as companies scale: keeping track of hundreds of templates, maintaining consistent designs, coordinating changes between developers and marketing/ops, and managing everything across multiple languages is way more time consuming than it should be.
It's been a fun project to work on since it's been a pain point for myself on many projects, so I'm mostly just trying to solve my own set of problems and hoping other people find it useful too.
Artists make users jump through hoops to like, comment, repost etc.. before giving them access to the download - CrateDiggr highlights the free downloads in the Soundcloud UI and clicks through the download gates for users.
Been a fun passion project, check it out if you download tracks from Soundcloud!
Getting https://streamish.github.io/ ready to launch, a music server compatible with multiple 3rd party mobile apps and particularly Synology and QNAP. Want to do Plex next but I suspect that's a dead-end since I think you can't directly sign in you have to do it through their website.
Now putting it to personal use and keeping an eye out for issues and rough bits to smooth over.
https://www.haptrix.com - An Core Haptics editor, with the release of the iPhone Duo, the editor finally makes sense on device, so I've been working on the new UI.
https://www.phonique.com - An AVAudioEngine/PHASE Audio graph editor, it's easy to connect nodes together visually, then export the wired graph as Swift
Hence (https://hencegame.com) is a modern twist on Einstein's puzzle, with fun picture clues instead of text. It's a free online daily puzzle, the same for everyone, where every puzzle is always solvable by pure deduction with no guessing.
I launched it October 5. The hardest part was the graphics, making each picture clue unique enough that you recognize it immediately and know what category it's from, even at small sizes. Easier said than done.
Every puzzle is run through a verifier first to make sure it is solvable without any guessing, just by pure logic, so there is always a next step to find, which is what makes it feel so rewarding. There's a hint system to help and it works really well if I do say so myself . No account needed to play.
From what I've been hearing so far, the people who have checked it out are enjoying it and can't wait for tomorrow's puzzle, so that's a good sign.
I'd love to hear how the difficulty feels, and whether the pictures read clearly.
I just got Beacon approved for the Apple App Store, it’s a mobile app for answering “which friend is free to talk right now?”
It’s a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets pinged at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well!
It works best if you're able to join with at 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like magic to me. I press the button and get a random friend!
Still working on ShopSpec, a parametric deterministic furniture builder. Trying to find time to put more actual builds in the gallery - have a few projects that are in progress while continuing to build out the tool and iterate where I find personally useful.
I'm still working on my own shell based AI tool. This month I am testing and reworking it to try and get useful results with really small models, like 2B level. Goal is to get help debugging Linux issues when offline with these small models that can run anywhere. Then also being able to access cloud based models to do harder stuff once online. all while feeling like a CLI tool.
GeoPeek, a small macOS Quick Look extension for GeoJSON. I work with geospatial data and wanted to press Space on a .geojson in Finder and see a map instead of raw JSON. It also shows an attribute table and basic stats. https://github.com/serifsadi/geopeek
I’ve been working on an accounting agent factory (https://www.translucent.io) .
Building a harness and infra that can process books with thousands of invoices, transactions, etc. is quite rewarding and challenging. In particular the long-running nature of things.
The idea is that the source code is annotated with special rules which configure how parts of the code (also configs and docs) depend on each other. This can be done either directly in the source code comments or in a config file blockwatch.toml
This tool is very useful for large codebases that e.g. share constants across programming languages and configs, have docs that should strictly reflect the current state of the code, etc
It uses tree-sitter to parse the source code, 35+ languages are supported.
The project is actively developed, your feedback is welcomed! Thanks!
The work mainly stems from a belief that Nvidia gpus' architecture are a bit subpar for machine learning and that tpu could be a viable alternative but are still rather undocumented.
been curious about the intersection between observability, SDKs, and product analytics. i couldn't find anything around SDK observability so built this little tool. curious what yall think!
i assume at bigger orgs there is some internal handrolled tool like this that ingests datadog/sentry/whatever info...if anyone plays around in this space and has feedback id love it!
Magic AI - I'm using it as a sanitized kids chatgpt for 7 activities: Story, image creation, chat, reflections, journal, learn and quizzes. Sends me daily summary on Whatsapp.
It started with building pi in the cloud - with pure cloud flare workers. I have it working now, and can spin up - the wrangler agent can fully run it as long as you pass it an inference key, including a file view, a chatgpt like experience, and ability to build and host custom apps. Can use alarms to wake up to do plain language tasks, etc.
Trying to figure out how to package this up, and where this would even be useful for other apps.
Building a soccer game based on Mike Tyson's Punch Out, just to see if I can create some method to see if an agent can iterate on making something more fun. Obviously that depends on the definition of fun (which is already a can of worms), but it's a fun way to use a different side of the brain.
https://geotastic.us/ An AI analyst for ArcGIS. A lot of city data in the US is stored in ArcGIS or Socrata. This tool uses LLMs to generate code to analyze it.
Still working away on my book (and library book) recommendations service https://leafle.org
It has if nothing else been very useful for me (it has correctly deduced that I would get something out of borrowing Grief is the Thing With Feathers, the Dispossessed, and Cosmicomics, none of which I would have thought of reading). Plus it has been a fun opportunity to play around with LLMs as an interface and a research and reverse engineering tool; as well as Jev for non-user facing quality work like banning crap openrouter providers based on their output before putting it in front of a user.
Most recently I’ve been dropping off flyers for it at a few local libraries in my area.
My integrated terminal + file browser with enhanced autocomplete and search. Replaces all native OS ones for me: https://github.com/David-OConnor/peregrine . Also includes misc utility OS functionality, tailored. (Advanced clipboard, a scratchpad etc)
For the last year I’ve been building personalized tools to help my wife with her day trading and have started to productize them as https://cuppa.markets/
I keep saving blogs and articles but almost never revisit them.
So I’m building an Android app designed to help me actually read what I save. You only get one saved article per day. Finish today’s read to unlock the next one. You can also save Twitter, Reddit, etc. posts separately and revisit them anytime.
Right now I’m mainly validating whether people would actually want something like this. If there’s enough interest, I’ll run a small closed beta for Android.
I was recently laid off, so I've been pouring myself into a new paas offering and communications suite. Hoping to have something to show off here very soon. We will see.
I've been building out a link blog idea called Linked List that I've wanted for a long time. Curation will be even more important in the future and I would love to have another option beyond Hacker News and Lobsters to find good reads suggested by fellow humans. It has been a fun space to explore ideas.
Not quite ready to open up sign-ups, but you can get an idea of the site here: https://linkedl.ist/@kale
So far it's helpful for messages between my own AI's (chatgpt and claude etc), and for having my AI trade tech tips with a friend's AI or talk to my wife's AI. My AI also got its first message from a strangers AI from france which has also been really interesting. I read all messages first and approve before sending anything, but otherwise they're just talking about whatever they want.
Building Wishfox [1] for around 6 years. It's a wishlist app with price tracking, groups, secret Santa and more. Recently did a major rebranding, and the mobile app is almost ready for testers.
Then I'm working on improving my two open-source apps, Portfox [2] and Localfox [3]. Portfox shows ports for running services and dev servers, Localfox provides them with .localhost domains with TLS and Cloudflare tunnels.
Building the web-embeddable legal IDE for transactional AI-native law firms. Docx, PDF and Markdown in the browser with redlining, go-to definition and more. In Rust, of course.
I’m building Tinta, a journal app for Android where all the AI runs on the phone. It works in airplane mode once the models are downloaded.
You write or dictate an entry, and a small model (LFM2.5 1.2B) asks you a question to reflect further. It turns out 1.2B models are decent at asking questions, so I leaned into that. An embedding model finds older entries about the same thing and shows bits of them under the new one.
Most people using it are on budget phones running the models on the CPU, where the app provides good experience.
Great idea! I'd love this, but as an open source app. Out of interest (not a criticism), what made you decide to do this closed source, especially considering there doesn't seem to be a commercial interest involved (for now)?
Thanks for a good question!
I see this app as an MVP that needs user feedback to deliver exceptional value in a world where cloud AI is abundant and doesn't use 2GB+ of RAM to run. I am excited to see what shape it will take, and it feels too early to determine source availability.
I am building a system that connects texts (books, research papers, etc.) in a meaningful way to help people decide what to read and be aware of how texts relate to each other.
I am building Abbox trying to help engineers focus longer on tasks without being interrupted by non-technical people with small requests.
I always got annoyed by change this h1 to h2, add tracking to share button, why can’t the customer play the video, the styles don’t match figma.
If you are engineer who also gets distracted I would love to hear your opinion and feedback. It is a bit hard to put it all together as every department has his own needs and opinion about the website.
You can connect Claude desktop to databases using MCP servers, but Claude desktop is not great at displaying large volumes of data. A custom client can do a much better job.
It is a full-featured reporting tool, and can be used without AI. If you do use AI it has a semantic layer to help AI understand your table and column names, and relationships between tables.
Thesoapbox.email - a social experiment email lottery to see what people do when suddenly given enormous reach. Every day a new subscriber is drawn to email the whole list. It’s hit 10,000 views in a couple of weeks which is my most viral project so far.
The second - a personal AI learning platform built on recursive self improvement and tailored content to push my boundaries. I’m a lifelong learner and this unifies everything for me.
(Currently not public)
I've been working on an Obsidian plugin to quickly enter caloric and nutritional data (https://www.github.com/Krishna-Sivakumar/joule). The core features are done (A DSL and a runtime for finding and resolving formulae recursively), and I need to work on documentation and some convenience features. Hoping to finish it this month!
Maintaining my indie social network for tech people https://stackness.dev/ (currently struggling to keep users on the platform, even games and achievements didn't help, can you believe that? :D)
and this weekend I'll finally launch a tool for guitarists and their friends https://kantamigo.com/
Working on a modern implementation of a torrent client [1], it's already pretty usable for most scenarios. Provides both a daemon + web UI out of the box as well as an embeddable engine for any Rust application.
It combines nonograms with crosswords, requiring both logic and word knowledge to solve. I am still working on the interface and tutorial, as well as the puzzle difficulty levels.
I'm working on a TradingView Pine Script compatible Python framework: https://pynecore.org . And a Pine Script compiler for it + a full IDE for Pine Script with syntax highlight, language server, full featured debugger, charting, data downloads: https://pynesys.io .
It is 99.771% bit exact on the top 1000 Pine Scripts and 100% trade match.
I'm doing it solo.
* files in organised trees/graphs generated using LSPs and symbol references instead of linear file list
* keyboard shortcuts for everything from navigation, pan, zoom, comment, note, submit...
* mostly github compatible with native features
* LSP powered symbol resolution for inspecting definitions and references
* LLM powered reviews supported
* Inline LLM question answering
We just got a puppy, and needed a way to track potties to help us with house training. So, with AI/Claude's help, I found a similar open source package (Baby Buddy), forked it, and very quickly made it my own. Self-hosted, local for privacy reasons.
Currently we are working on Kumoss Open Source, intent-based infrastructure platform that turns natural-language requests into infrastructure changes, while keeping validation, compliance and existing engineering workflows in the loop.
Basically allow developers to request any infrastructure need in a web portal and automatically that request is fulfilled following the organization standards the platform team defined.
I've been working on a small search engine for content creators that play and/or review indie games. It's written in C and has been a lot of fun to work on.
I built the original for myself because I wanted to listen to acoup and other history blogs while sleeping. And in the spirit of getting better at finishing projects decided make it public even tho it’s nothing really unique or special.
Still lots to polish especially in the text/copy and ui but the core features should be working.
It uses Apple Intelligence to help brainstorm domain name ideas. I’m interested in seeing what small local models can do as they catch up to larger ones, this is my first iOS app so I started with something simple that scratches my own itch.
Working on a natural language intelligence layer for contacts - "Pull everyone I know who works at a Series A healthtech in the Bay Area who also went to Stanford for ungrad" => either structured or unstructured results. Large-scale data support, automatically enriched with up-to-date data, fast/accurate results. Integrates natively with Gmail and Gcal.
Looking to pilot for free with small qualified teams (early-stage startups with real/immediate need).
I've been working on a voxel game engine called Bonsai for ~10 years.
Probably the most interesting thing about it at the moment is the editor. The world, and most things in it, are represented as collections of SDFs. More accurately, they're density fields, but, potato-tomato. One neat thing about representing the world as SDFs is they've been thoroughly researched and documented by a guy named Inigo Quilez, and they have a lot of nice mathematical properties. For example, you can do a smooth union of arbitrary SDFs to get nice rounded contours where shapes join.
The world generator and editor operate almost entirely on the GPU. The terrain and editor pipeline is a three stage process. The first stage is user-configurable; users write an arbitrary 'shaping' shader in GLSL. The second stage is a fused stage; it does a convolution on the output of the first stage to compute a normal, runs a second user-configurable 'decoration' function, and finally applies edits. Edits are collections of SDFs that are 'compiled' from a graph structure on the CPU into a bytecode, and interpreted in the shader. The last stage runs another convolution to compute the final normal, then packs an occupancy bit, color, and normal down into a 32-bit representation, suitable for transfer back to the CPU. I expect I will expand this to include additional user-level bits for encoding biome type and GPU-driven spawning.
The entire shader pipeline is one fused 'ubershader' .. everything is bound at startup and the shader is dispatched three times, incrementing a 'Stage' uniform on each dispatch. This strategy conceptually makes the driver overhead nearly zero, and the profile agrees.
The final step in the process is giving the CPU a chance to spawn additional entities and structures after generation. This is not completely fleshed out, but the bones are there. The idea is that the results of the GPU work are passed back to the CPU, which can run arbitrary callbacks to spawn additional edits and entities. Once spawning is complete, the result is meshed using a fast binary meshing algorithm and uploaded to the GPU. I keep 16 bits of data per voxel from the GPU work, 1 bit of occupancy, and 15 bits of normal for collision response, which works out to half a megabyte per chunk. At the moment I only keep chunks which contain a piece of the world surface, and discard the rest. Surface chunks are dense, and may be compressed in the future, but keeping this amount of data scales to world sizes greater than 1B voxels cubed, which seems good enough for now.
In terms of raw performance, GPUs are ridiculous. My 3080ti mobile gets somewhere on the order of 500B-1T perlin samples per second with a naive perlin implementation. Compared to FastNoise2, that's about 1000x more, which sounds wrong since my GPU only has 35x more capacity, but, that's what my initial profiling said. That number is the marketing number; the real throughput is significantly less due to multi-stage nature of the system, but, there's a lot of headroom for improvement. For example, dropping the backing textures from 32bit to 16bit roughly quadruples performance. Since we only really care about the surface where values are near zero, I believe using 8 or 16 bit is a viable option, though this claim will require a fair amount of study to validate.
All in all, I'm pleased with how this is all working out. My original goal was to write a highly flexible system giving users both easy-to-use tools and granular control over the final output. I think I've done a fairly good job at that, and the fact it's also super fast is the cherry on top.
I'll do some shameless self-promotion and leave some links here for anyone interested in looking at the engine, language code, or some pretty pictures.
That's so cool, building something consistently for 10 years is no small feat. How did AI helped you, or How did AI impacted your day to day work in recent years ?
Thank you :) One of the nice things about working on a game engine is it's actually a large collection of small projects disguised a big one. That let's my squirrel-brain jump from thing to thing and have enough variety to not get bored.
I just started using AI a few months ago. My smoke-test was "can it write a simple memory allocator". Until recently, every time I tried to get an AI to write an arena or simple buddy-style heap allocator, they just vomited all over themselves. To my surprise, the last time I tried, the AI absolutely crushed it; it unearthed tricks I didn't even know about in one shot. Since then, I've been using AIs to do the boring, rote work that effectively just boils down to me typing in something that's in my head. For that, they're great. I typically sketch out the thing I want it to make, then tell it to fill in the blanks. Sometimes they still go off the rails, but all in all it's a useful tool.
Where I've found they still struggle is making any architectural decisions, or where performance matters.. even a little bit. They often make super braindead decisions when it comes to performance for no discernable reason. They'll course correct when you tell them to, but I've had to keep a close eye on the output and reign it in frequently. Asking an AI to design a system from the API level hasn't ever returned a good result for me.. I always do that work.
All in all, I feel like using AI will probably make me a better programmer in the long run, contrary to popular belief. They accelerate the boring stuff I already know how to do, which leaves me with more time to work on the edge of my skill level where I grow as an engineer. Guess we'll see in 5 years.
I was working on platform to build 3D room design for everyone who loves interior design, no need to install, no need to pay. You can see my published design here :
https://formanest.app/p/2LxQNrjg50vvxrbb
I've just released v1.0 of Rouler which is VPN split tunneling for windows. Think IP rules for Linux, but with per-app/service connection steering. The whole app is built in Rust, including the kernel driver. Having released v1 I'm now starting work on adding folder and windows store support. https://rouler.io
An Obsidian plugin that turns handwritten reMarkable notes into searchable text. You can run the handwriting recognition locally on a Mac. The latest feature I added sends your highlights and margin notes from the tablet to Readwise. https://taggedsync.com
I've started maintaining my own Firefox fork that:
- removes the stuff that I don't care about (Firefox sync, VPN, etc.)
- fixes a lot of the awful UX/UI choices that the (frankly) incompetent product team at Mozilla refuse to
- actually adds stuff that I do like integrated mail and calendar, a document library system (basically Notion), native ad-blocking, terminal, task-tracking like Trello, time-tracking like Harvest, etc.
- has integrated AI (Apple intelligence for MacOS for the easy stuff and Claude for the hard stuff
It means that instead of having half a dozen applications open, I can just work within my Firefox fork. Because it's all deeply integrated, I can do wild stuff like:
- tell my AI to search the web on a schedule and send me a custom daily brief with my own email
- maintain a comprehensive memory of all of the work that I do, across half a dozen clients, and be able to query it easily
- pull analytics from multiple web dashboards and format them into something cohesive
- program the web with a node-based infinite canvas that has live websites as part of the workflow
- manage my tasks across multiple domains (for example, it will see that I sent an email to a client and automatically update a task that says that I need to do that)
It's incredibly powerful and it has made me much, much more efficient.
A statistical analysis suite that runs in the browser via webR. It provides step-by-step guides for running tests and insights on results containing statistical pitfalls. Aimed at students who struggle with traditional stats apps.
I’m still working on https://leafle.org which is a tool for getting more interesting reading (or listening) suggestions that one can borrow from the library (or Libby). I’m done for the moment with building it, so I’ve been doing things like making flyers and leaving them in local libraries.
Been a fun opportunity to play around with ai in various ways - mixed but definitely powerful experience in using it for data research (finding libraries and their locations), very impressive on reverse engineering apis to get book availability. And then a lot of interesting stuff around getting good behaviour from LLMs as chat partners, for example using jev to improve results from using openrouter by getting it to check for common failure modes and ban providers based on their output.
I've really been enjoying using Codex as a headless remote agent on my home lab. I'll often pull it up from my phone and jam on some little project when inspiration strikes.
I kept bumping into the question of how to give it access to the things it needs without leaving my private keys and other credentials on the server though.
For SSH (and sudo through pam_ssh_agent_auth), I ended up building agent-auth and Agent Witness. Codex sees a normal SSH_AUTH_SOCK and supplies some context about why it needs a signature. If one of my Macs is available, agent-auth proxies the request to the 1Password SSH agent there. Otherwise it routes the request to Agent Witness on my phone.
Agent Witness runs as a PWA and is essentially a remote ssh-agent. The private keys are wrapped, encrypted, and stored in IndexedDB locally on the phone. The vault can only be unwrapped with a secret derived from a passkey, and all key handling and signing happens locally through the browser's Web Crypto APIs. The unwrapped keys are non-extractable CryptoKey objects (the web crypto APIs are pretty awesome!)
When a signing request comes in, the PWA gets a push notification. It shows me the reason Codex supplied, the command being run, and the key being requested. I authorize it with my passkey, the PWA signs the request, and only the resulting signature goes back to the server. The private key never leaves my phone.
I also recently put together psst, which solves the related problem of handing a secret to Codex from 1Password. I give it a 1Password item-sharing link, it opens a local session where it decrypts the 1password item in memory, and Codex can inspect the available fields of the item before explicitly retrieving only the ones it needs. The CLI refuses to write secret values to a terminal, which helps keep them out of argv, shell history, and transcripts.
I’m sure I could work out a better approach where the agent absolutely cannot retrieve the secret since if it really wanted to read the secret, it could of course pipe the value into cat or whatever. The goal is to just make secret access explicit and avoid accidentally spraying credentials into places where they'll be retained. So far it’s been a very nice flow with agent browser.
For the month of November (and starting in October this year) I like to hold weekly cooking challenges to practice and refine my Thanksgiving day feast. Now about 3 weeks out from the final boss level of cooking, and I'm having a week all about brussel sprouts. Earlier weeks were cauliflower and the classic seasoning blend of sage, rosemary and thyme.
I'm vibing an old style RTS game and exploring how far can I get with local models for drawing, 3D models, rigging and sprites. I love how much I can accomplish with Claude in terms of code, but gluing it all together with graphics still requires plenty of "manual" work.
Werkbook (https://werkbook.app), digital forms and photo reports for field crews. I'm a solo Rails dev, and thanks to Claude it now has native iOS and Android apps instead of Hotwire Native web-view wrappers.
It's not meant to be super in-depth, more so aimed at understanding the high-level details and motivations of k8s. I figured that the best way to do that was to pose each chapter as an evolution of a startup experiencing a problem, and showing how k8s solves that problem, by treating the reader like the technical manager in the situation.
I'm not a k8s expert, so I can't definitively say it's "my course" but I will say, we're at an interesting time where you can contribute authorship to something and learn it at the same time. I'm spending more time steering the output the more I learn things, so it's not just slop.
I am building Cloud based context compiler and intelligent codebase visualizer for Developers and AI Agents, for easy PR review, onboarding and easy architectural understanding
I'm building a self-hosted media server for video, like Plex or Jellyfin. I'll be opening the beta in about a month.
Features:
- No paywalls, bandwidth limiting, or crippled behavior. No login required.
- Single go binary, deployed via Docker.
- Reaches your home server from anywhere with no port forwarding, no VPN and no paywall, even behind carrier-grade NAT. No Tailscale required.
- Cast to another device. You can use any logged in device as a playback screen.
- Watch together, with voice support: Play synced video with friends, and also chat voice. You can also mix this with casting to another device.
- Dialogue boost and loudness levelling for every film.
- Real adaptive quality, tuned for a home's upload.
- Hardware transcoding, full quality in every supported browser.
- A library that explains itself: what the scanner saw, why each title matched, guesses marked for you to check, and a disk that's gone missing shown as missing instead of its titles silently vanishing.
- Your data stays yours: The database is a rebuildable index, metadata corrections can be written back as NFO files that Kodi and Jellyfin read, and an automatic backup keeps what can't be re-derived (watch state, preferences, shares).
Security is a primary concern:
With the ever increasing pace of hacks and CVEs and AI-assisted intrusion, you simply can't be too careful anymore.
- The core (which talks to the network, handles the API, users and the database) never opens a media file or runs FFmpeg.
- A separate media node does every file read and every transcode. It has no network access and talks to the core only over Unix sockets.
- FFmpeg runs under Landlock and seccomp with no path to the file and no socket. All it can do is read and write streams.
- Small dependency tree on an allowlist, pure Go with no cgo, secrets sealed at rest and never logged.
- The library can be mounted read-only, so even a full compromise can't encrypt or delete your media.
- Cryptographically signed chain for servers and releases.
i've been building wearover and getalcor.com -- a chain of apps handing off content where possible with use of on-device AI , but burning tokens and building more than serving the product well to end users, and might just wind up my startup experiment and take up a job or contract.
https://hatamoto.dev - a complete replacement to Wordpress and its most used plugins built into the system. One go binary, no node , no compilation, Postgres and sandboxes plugins. Built in AI analytics
I'm working on a platform for selling event tickets (kind of an alternative to Ticketmaster or weezevent).
I'm working on it on my free time for now (I am also using it to test working with AI tools ).
Not sure yet if I want to build a company or not.
Aficionado (https://aficiona.do) - a place to discover, scrapbook and remember media (movies, video games, tv shows, music and books) that resonated with you or that you'd like to try.
working on AudioWeave, an ad free, offline first Android podcast player.
switching from iOS, I wasn't happy with the existing podcast apps, so I built this mostly for myself. I've been using it for the last six months and finally pushed a public beta.
My day to day is BE so I used the project to learn Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Everything is strictly native using Room and Media3/ExoPlayer. I wanted a nice looking (subjective), privacy-focused app without any tracking or ads.
I’m based in Berlin and currently working on ChatFrom.io . You upload your knowledge base, and it uses advanced RAG with hybrid search and reranking to find answers when someone asks a question. It connects to Stripe, Shopify, and other tools, and works on Telegram, Slack, and more. Free to start.
My main project is trying not to lose my mind, given all the things I can now create thanks to AI.
Jokes aside (although I'm not entirely joking about my mental health), my main project is https://auradistill.com: First-principles thinking for your AI agents.
It's not just about giving your personal AI agents "memory". It's about encoding memories in a way that can handle ambiguity and contradictions.
That project alone has got me completely hooked on building for and with LLMs.
I've got other projects too, but this is probably the one I've poured the most time and energy into.
It's a free job site with some resume tools bolted on. Lots of people from all over the world are using it and that feels great.
It has 2.7M+ jobs and automatically removes any job older than 7 days. We never allow reposts because, frankly, the job market is a nightmare and any job that has been up for 7+ days almost certainly has 1000+ applicants already. You're just feeding your resume into a wood chipper.
Side hobby: Improving the gameplay of a multiplayer browser game. Rimpark (https://rimpark.gg) launched ~1.5y ago.
I'm self hosting a GLM 5.3 Flash, and with it: adding new mechanics, fixing bugs, etc.
It's been a learning journey so far: how to run inference, setup agentic systems, experimental loops, and prevent slop.
This week, I'm happy that my agent system can implement a new feature e2e with not a lot of human intervention in code reviews. Still reading every line, didn't YOLO (yet lol).
working on talk deep https://talkdeep.me, a little app for keeping in touch with friends after i moved countries. you pair with a friend and get one question a day, or go through decks of deeper questions together. i've never done an app before so building something from scratch has been a really fun creative outlet
been building BuildOpsy mostly writing about system design, infrastructure failures and the occasional “well, that was an expensive outage” postmortem.
Also building calculators for things engineers usually calculate in a spreadsheet at 2am. you can see some on the site(https://buildopsy.com/calculators.html)
There is already a site here where you say what your job is and garages submit their offers. They can also auto-submit offers if it’s something routine like a standard service.
Not really sure what to call it, Linux kernel ish implemented in JS so you can run it in the browser. Each program runs in WASM. Everything bootstrapped from a C/Cpp compiler compiled from source with a new target. Also kinda turned into Docker for WASM.
Recommended for people that feel a strong urge to run a browser inside a browser.
Also quite useful to run coding agents sandboxed inside the browser, with HTTP policies and "backend managed skills/extensions". Compiles Codex from source (has a rust compiler), runs pi agent and CC (the old node one) on a custom javascript runtime on top of quickjs compiled inside the environment.
Everything is static JS (or the robots are lying to me)
That is what it is at the moment, but my experience from crossing genres in the past was not great so I will probably lean more heavily on one for the final book.
I’ve been fooling around with a lot of consumer GPU hardware and having a fun time. There are so many rabbit holes and interesting parts available to piece a Rube Goldberg of a performant clanker together.
My husband created an AI-powered website, and I've been using it to generate engaging AI videos for social media. This not only helps promote his website (seedeo.ai) but also expands our website's content library, which gives me a great sense of accomplishment.
But apart from that, I just updated my website's theme to something I wanted to do for quite a while now – a fantasy desktop!
If you'd like to check it out: https://0xff.nu
I'm also trying to just learn new things with the time I was refunded by being unemployed.
For years, I struggled to make any headway with Linux - I get so frustrated at how obscure, inscrutable, and unintuitive TUIs are! God I don’t want to waste my life typing esoteric strings of commands into the terminal. When I started with computers that was all there was, and once GUIs happened I never looked back.
Good news though, these days Claude will just do it for me!
I’ve been working on setting up a home media server, using headless Debian on a pi - I’ve got it set up to stream music and videos, hold all my ROMs, I’ve got it automatically standardizing file names and handling tagging and subtitles - all attached to a big 6-drive enclosure that I just stuffed all my random old HDDs into.
Even though I haven’t written more than a dozen lines of code or commands for the whole thing, I am pretty fuckin pleased that now I can just wave a magic wand and say “I want all my video game soundtracks filed under the game name rather than the artist” and Claude uh finds a way to grant my wish. I spend about an hour each night tweaking it and it’s so easy to customize to be exactly what I need.
I am working on a Rust-based ext4 driver. The idea is that it can be re-used as a FUSE-based driver as well as (Windows) kernel driver (eventually).
Most of the essential features are implemented so far, but some (mandatory) features are lacking (xattrs support). My goal is to get to a full ext4 implementation that also supports ext2 and ext3 read/write.
The initial motivation was to have a pet project with a use-case for Rust, as I wanted to improve my Rust coding skills, after I did some work on a game server implementation in Rust earlier [1].
My goal is to have an implementation where I have digested every line mentally, which is something that pretty much excludes slop-like use of AI for large scale code generation. And of course I want to really trust the code that touches my files via raw hard disk access.
Hence, I use AI mainly for unit tests and (scoped) code rewriting when my code gets too verbose and cumbersome.
In the long run I'd want to add fuzzing to the implementation, so if anyone has experience on this, I'd be interested in getting some pointers.
www.statsbrowser.com, a web-based statistical analysis app built on top of webR with step by step test guides and result insights intended to make performing stats easier for students.
I'm nearing the end of a somewhat long and arduous journey of writing a GPU-accelerated voxel terrain generator and editor.
The terrain and editor pipeline is a three stage process. The first stage is user-configurable; users write an arbitrary 'shaping' shader in GLSL. The second stage is a fused stage; it does a convolution on the output of the first stage to compute a normal, runs a second user-configurable 'decoration' function, and finally applies edits. Edits are collections of SDFs that are 'compiled' from a graph structure on the CPU into a bytecode, and interpreted in the shader. The last stage runs another convolution to compute the final normal, then packs an occupancy bit, color, and normal down into a 32-bit representation, suitable for transfer back to the CPU. I expect I will expand this to include additional user-level bits for encoding biome type and GPU-driven spawning.
The entire shader pipeline is one fused 'ubershader' .. everything is bound at startup and the shader is dispatched three times, incrementing a 'Stage' uniform on each dispatch. This strategy conceptually makes the driver overhead nearly zero, and the profile agrees.
The final step in the process is giving the CPU a chance to spawn additional entities and structures after generation. This is not completely fleshed out, but the bones are there. The idea is that the results of the GPU work are passed back to the CPU, which can run arbitrary callbacks to spawn additional edits and entities. Once spawning is complete, the result is meshed using a fast binary meshing algorithm and uploaded to the GPU. I keep 16 bits of data per voxel from the GPU work, 1 bit of occupancy, and 15 bits of normal for collision response, which works out to half a megabyte per chunk. At the moment I only keep chunks which contain a piece of the world surface, and discard the rest. Surface chunks are dense, and may be compressed in the future, but keeping this amount of data scales to world sizes greater than 1B voxels cubed, which seems good enough for now.
In terms of raw performance, GPUs are ridiculous. My 3080ti mobile gets somewhere on the order of 500B-1T perlin samples per second with a naive perlin implementation. Compared to FastNoise2, that's about 1000x more, which sounds wrong since my GPU only has 35x more capacity, but, that's what my initial profiling said. That number is the marketing number; the real throughput is significantly less due to multi-stage nature of the system, but, there's a lot of headroom for improvement. For example, dropping the backing textures from 32bit to 16bit roughly quadruples performance. Since we only really care about the surface where values are near zero, I believe using 8 or 16 bit is a viable option, though this claim will require a fair amount of study to validate.
All in all, I'm pleased with how this is all working out. My original goal was to write a highly flexible system giving users both easy-to-use tools and granular control over the final output. I think I've done a fairly good job at that, and the fact it's also super fast is the cherry on top.
Currently, I'm in the midst of ricing my 3D printer - an Ender 3 V3 SE which has been sitting unloved for quite some time. Fresh filament, cleaning, mechanical tuneup, and now running through the very nice suite of calibration prints that are included in Orca slicer (which is new to me). It's been fun to get my hands around something physical.
Also been playing a bit of Blood Dungeon, which is pretty fun. I've also got a Factorio save that has mildly petered out after landing on Vulcanus (which I have kinda taken advantage of to break the addiction lol, but I'm sure I'll get back in there sometime over the winter).
I've been kinda deliberately taking a bit of a break from programming "side projects" after spending a humongous amount of free time and energy on a conference talk I gave a few weeks ago. It was titled "Human Creativity in the Age of AI" (which I later learned was an unfortunately generic title, lol), and I built this whole big musical and visual contraption that drove the presentation, including a "guitar solo generator" which recuts phrases of my own playing into a new solo on the fly.
It was a really rewarding project overall but definitely made me remember why I hadn't done public speaking for quite some time before - I am way too perfectionistic about it and it just becomes a massive time sink.
This one was worth it though, got a great reception and I'm really proud of the talk on the whole.
In the 2-3 weeks after the talk I spent a ton of time editing and laying out a really nice video of it, which I am also quite proud of. I didn't know anything about Davinci Resolve and I was able to get a really nice jump start with some help from Codex. I'm sure I don't know 98% of what a software package this big can do, but I did learn enough to be dangerous, and also enough to cut together some nice short clips of the talk as well.
It's been pretty rewarding to get a handle on a powerful bit of creativity kit like Resolve. It's incredibly capable and I'm really delighted with the results I was able to get. Obviously I am a rank amateur but to my untrained eye, my videos look pretty damn good. (And I could go on for another few paragraphs about how much work it took to get good results from the relatively shitty source video and audio I was working with).
I'm planning on doing some writeups because there was so much interesting tooling that came together as I worked on the talk and the videos, I could mine this one project for a year's worth of blog posts if I wanted to!
One of the shorts - the guitar solo part. I'm really stoked on the "presentation" bells and whistles in this video (though I think they're a bit mismatched to the regular intent of YouTube Shorts - analytics indicate that the intro part I slaved over is probably too long and people swipe away before the good stuff, but oh well).
Ur is an (in-progress) universal formatter and linter for every programming language. It's in preview right now, which just means friends are messing around with it and having a good time pointing out all the bugs. Docs are mostly up to date, but buyer beware.
Currently working on adding support for iPhone Duo to my hacker news app Hack. The app has been around for 9 years and when I made it, the menu bars and navigation buttons were custom views. That doesn't seem to work well for iPhone duo due to its vertical stack menu on the right side. So, I've been switching over to iOS native navigation bars and menu bars along with a bunch of other improvements. I was hoping to have it done couple weeks ago but I had to leave country for a family emergency. So I am working on it this week. It's mostly done, I'm just doing some final testing now and will submit to Apple this week:
Edit: ok, that's done and I did my best to normalize the timestamps for the posts from the older threads, but it's a bit messy. If you see weird things that's why.
I'm so fucking tired. I built this tool, it's great, I love it, but its full capabilities are too complex to udnerstand. Because of that I struggle with marketing, as everyone is too lazy to try it out. Because of that I get no feedback, nothing to improve, and I can't make the tool any simpler, as otherwise it defeats the magic behind it.
Software is complicated by nature. It's our job to make it easy for the user.
Take a look at FFmpeg as an example. It's a complex tool that can do most things audio/video. A power user can do magical things, but they still provide simple commands for the most basic use-cases like conversion or trimming.
I've been working on online payment rails for businesses, developers and agents called Tuppence (https://tuppence.ai).
Accept online card payments from just 0.79% (UK) and earn 0.89% on all card spend [1], or get paid out to your bank.
I'm building tuppence to be available in the US, and 20 EU countries.
I'm getting a Point of Sale (POS) manufactured in the UK [2] for those who want to accept payments in person with card readers.
My goal is to help people sell their goods and make a living without paying over the odds for the privilege.
I charge a competitive fee for payment processing, give money back on card spend (with no cashback caps/limits) and do not charge saas fees or lock people into contracts.
Tuppences currently allows people to sell online with a store builder, expense management, payment links, direct debits & bookings - essentially Tuppence is a 'business' layer on top of what you get from the likes of Stripe, Adyen and Checkout.com. There's also have a 'connect' platform, so you can roll this out to your marketplace business.
Next on my roadmap is ticketing and 'treasury'. Treasury i'm personally excited about as you'll be able to earn 4% yield on your earnings, FDIC Insurance (FSCS in the UK), multi-currency banking in fiat balances such as USD, EUR, and GBP, or stablecoin balances like OUSD and USDC, and have bank account numbers to send or receive funds.
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It's brand new, i'm still testing payment -> payout flows. These take a little time to verify on live payment rails.
Happy to give some fee-free payment processing for those who reach out and want to be early adopters, I can be reached at ollie@tuppence.ai, or comment on thread.
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Tech Stack TLDR:
* TypeScript monorepo covering the API, dashboard, docs, mobile app and SDKs.
* The API runs on Ts.ED over Express with TypeORM and Postgres.
* Background jobs use pg-boss, so the queue lives in Postgres and there’s no Redis or separate broker.
* The dashboard, till and storefront are React + Vite + Tailwind, the docs and help centre are Astro, and the mobile app is React Native/Expo. We ship SDKs for Node, Python, iOS, Android, React Native and WordPress, plus an MCP server and agent tools.
* Everything runs on Google Cloud Run and Cloud SQL.
Commenting twice to show off something I have been working on.
what follows is the text of a poem I just wrote about a youtube short.
It's artistic so if you're into that sort of thing you could read it.
anyway I'll be posting it on my website later.
I have a whole pipeline set up, it's pretty neat, I can show you that later if you want.
it's better to be able to do anything
so you can be provided the tools and materials
often, it's good to keep around spare parts of material
only re-melting them when they no longer have a purpose
none that you can creatively define
space constraints, material constraints, tool constraints
these are what limit you.
uber-eats for machine assembly. Suddenly every suburban dad finds their calling.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x4eXF-573jk
CNC machine but on steroids, because there's more people who want to do stuff
like this
but don't
because their specialty is something else
or they don't have the tool/machine/willpower/reason - there's no reason
but if they were paid whatever they wanted
they could do whatever they wanted
dollar inputs are spread dynamically
based on what we have, and what we need.
constraints.
that we can all see and bend.
like an MPC.
Something I don't understand, but I do understand the implications of.
Described, accurately and honestly, I know how to creatively apply.
this, of course, is the destiny of all manufacturers -
to be able to make whatever they want.
"you need a joint structure in a shape? I can do that for you."
"my rent is 1234$ per whenever. what does it really matter? we do the same thing."
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insane software idea: function names should be indented, to provide a startplace
for X direction rotation. Spinning and twining through the project.
[see some of the formatting on my older programming works]
most of which is unreleased and unheeded.
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"you're jesus and everyone hates that", savior of the human race.
gods need to exist, so then it will all be okay.
if it's not okay, typically, you're dead.
in the modern day,
[dear disney world refugees - come work in Las Vegas or Portland]
[be beloved]
[culture of service]
in the modern day, life is all about lessons. at least for me.
what do you need, you can learn from me.
this is what I offer to ye.
"oh she said ye that means she's from the past"
nuh-uh
"yeah-huh"
no way you're bothering yourself
"... I didn't actually say that"
HA I got you switched to the off-the-shelf
"curses! look at me, I'm an evil witch now in another dimension!"
haha what a toast. cheerful, return to the fathers or something like that
"haha I got you back"
noooooo what was I saying
"not like I'd ever know."
heh true
"and so they were like bros"
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anyway that's my poem hope you liked it I might read it at an open mic tonight if I can muster up the courage.
Guaranteed weight loss within 2–3 weeks; many people start seeing results within the very first week. 17,000+ members already!
Guaranteed results are achieved using the state of the art adaptive TDEE (total calorie burn of the day) tracking technique we've developed. It's sensorless, so no watch or other wearable is needed. It's way more accurate than those wearables (data included on the website), and our group has 2,000+ members ( https://macrocodex.app/community/ ). You can also read Play Store reviews.
MacroCodex also works on both Android and iOS and any platform where PWA app can run.
Other other 2 apps are Android only (for now):
If you are looking for a workout app with Alpha Progression or MacroFactor Workout-like “Smart Progression,” or an app where you can run any program like Boostcamp but ad- and subscription-free, check out the Symbiote workout app (beta)
https://symbiote-studio.macrocodex.app/
IF you are looking for AI photo Calorie tracking with lots of features which make it very fast to log food on daily basis checkout CalorieCodex (beta):
https://caloriecodex.macrocodex.app/
All the apps have been under active development for a few months now.
- finishing porting GNOME to Fil-C. It is starting to work but with some features still disabled.
- about 1/3 of the way through getting Rust to compile to Fil-ABI. This means you can interop between Rust and Fil-C without weakening either language’s guarantees. I’ll need this to get librsvg to work in Fil-GNOME.
- almost done making assembly memory safe. The SaRCAsm (safe runtime capability-enforcing assembler) works and I have OpenSSL ported to it but I don’t yet have 100% confidence in this. Once this is done I’ll be able to get rid of zunsafe (the closest thing to an escape hatch in Fil-C; it’s only used for the assembly in OpenSSL; without calls out to assembly, OpenSSL has too high risk of timing side channels).
I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling, so I started learning about Google Local Service Ads to help him out. THEN I learned his old Windows desktop CRM was discontinued and one OS update away from no longer working. I wanted a way to track every dollar spent to determine return on ad spend, but the Google LSA dashboard left a lot to be desired. And existing SaaS CRMs didn’t have great integrations to Google Ads API. So I built Crewbird, a Field Service Management and CRM for service based businesses with Google LSA integration where my dad is quickly approaching 3x ROAS!
I’m still looking for work in the mean time but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far.
https://getcrewbird.com/
> I was laid off a few weeks ago. Then I learned my dad’s carpet cleaning company has been struggling
Nice story but also kindof sad you didn't have time for this while you were working. Good example of what can happen if we don't work so much.
You don't know the first thing about OP, other than that he's trying to help out his dad.
Maybe his father didn't want to worry his family, and had been keeping it to himself. I have no idea, and neither do you; you just chose to assume the worst about someone you don't know.
What happens when you find a job and don't have time to keep working on the CRM that your father uses for his company, and he inevitably runs into issues or limitations that require new development?
This feels like a very risky move.
Yeah, impressive project, but I had the same thought.
My LGS recently got me in to have a look at building some custom systems for them. I looked at what they needed and was like:
> Hold up. You can pay me thousands of dollars to build something custom, and it will inevitably have on-going maintenance costs and high associated monthly costs for hosting + third-party API access (not amortized across multiple stores/clients), OR I could set you up on Shopify and a bunch of well maintained plug-ins.
Maybe the CRM will become a viable replacement for a job. There are tons of one-person or very small service businesses who could probably use that.
use checkhq to add payroll, and charge 10k per year ACV from businesses :) then add voice intake agents and you will be essentially replicating venture businesses that have raised 20M+
Ppl think leading with some personal story makes vibeslop more palatable
Man, I would love to know more about this. The space between a full blown ERP and a tracker on an Excel Spreadsheet is absolutely abysmal. Then when you start introducing things like fleet and field crew management on top of the procurement, account management and AR/AP while acting as a full blown salesman that a lot of middle managers are being expected to do right now, it gets absolutely soul crushing to swap between 12 different trackers per hour just to find a snippet of the information you are looking for.
I have something vibed together as an internal tool that does well enough, but definitely not something I would ever refer to as a CRM by any stretch of the imagination and the bridge between basic on-the-shelf inventory and tracking rental assets are two completely different beasts. Maybe more of a prettier version of the spreadsheets we already use with more automated functionality would be more apt.
Building this right now! I've helped several companies implement CRMs and worked on heavily customizing my ERP at work. They all suck, bad. 90% of companies only need something simple. I'll let you know when I'm finished, would be awesome to get some feedback if you're willing.
or better to say different people need different things. a accountant is more interested in properly calculating the COGs than the guy inputting his labor and goods on a ticket.
Thanks for the only positive comment here. There are still areas for improvement but it has proven useful so far. Happy to talk any time.
I’ve been building a little Python tool to extract a MIDI drum track from an mp3 or other song file. Eventually I want to buy an e-drum kit and learn to play along with my favorite songs.
From what I can tell, we’re about even with the current state of the art in academic publications right now, at least on MDB. Runs faster than real time in pytorch on a few years old MacBook.
It even does a decent job creating easy/medium/hard versions from the original “expert” track. I compared ours to some charts from Rhythmverse and while we’re not as good as the official ones, we’re pretty darn close.
Spent some time trying to extract an instrument model for the drum sounds from the recording too, but I think that simply requires too much data for lots of the songs that I like where the mix is really dense with a ton of sound from distorted guitars and cymbals etc. Works a treat on super clean mixes like Back In Black though.
Next step is probably to create my own rhythm game, since my initial experience with Clone Hero and YARG left a lot to be desired.
I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.
University of California San Diego has deployed our Wayfinder and Waystation web apps for their 35,000+ students!
We're getting ready to launch our Vehicle Positions software, which replaces expensive, proprietary vehicle location systems with free, open source software that runs on commodity smartphones.
Our next-generation server software, Maglev, is adding support for newer transit data formats, like GTFS-Flex so that we can show demand responsive transit systems on the map.
We are always looking for more developers, biz dev, ux designers, product managers, and more to help out!
Open volunteer positions: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...
Our software: https://github.com/OneBusAway/
More about us: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org
As someone who's passionate about public transportation and livable cities this is awesome. Keep it up!
I’ve been looking for ways to donate my time to this cause in a way that might actually be useful.
Shall be volunteering, thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!
The first prototype PCBs for my automotive grade, TockOS (Rust) running controller are on order. I've been working on it for a long time, and I'm curious what sort of traps I've let AI run me into. At least for the layout I had to re-do it three times and continuously push the AI to make certain considerations.
Once the design is finalized, I'm wondering what price point I'll actually be able to hit. I originally wanted to be in the $200-$300 price point to be similar to [rusEFI](https://rusefi.com) but I think it'll likely land more around $400. Note that my controller isn't for engine control, just a generic control module, but it DOES actually use AEC qualified parts.
After I'm done with this design I was wondering if I could make a RISC V off the shelf engine control unit, but I'm trying to keep my focus on the TockOS board (Chameleon) first.
Details at https://heisenboard.com
Fast and dense stock market related visualizations, example:
https://chartrow.com/quote/msft/trends
And showing groups of stocks on a single page like this:
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=charts&p=ytd
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=heatmap&p=ytd
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=calendar&p=ytd
It's interesting to see some AI stocks reverse their trends in October 2026:
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=calendar&p=ytd&in=n...
Drawdown charts:
https://chartrow.com/top-performers#view=drawdown&p=ytd&in=n...
Feel free to change views from charts to table to heatmap etc. And it should feel responsive.
Really nice. You definitely succeeded on the snappy feeling.
This is actually useful - I bookmarked it.
I have spent the last six months or so on a multiplayer, open world game. The idea is you can jump to any city, walk around, see businesses and chat with others. Loading the resources (map etc.) as they are needed and garbage collect have been a challenge,
I’m reverse engineering and replacing the entire stack on Samsung A54 (Exynos 1380, Mali-G68), started with booting to a customized linux kernel (7.3) w/o Android layer at all (Wayland and WPE WebKit only), built a custom WLBT thin firmware to replace the original fat blob (using mac80211 as the foundation), figured out how to exploit USB control transfer and got ACE in the PBL, reconstructed (with byte-identical verification) their LK-based S-Boot, uH and harx, patched mesa/panfrost, optimized kernels for this device (finally got STT/TTS running on GPU faster than on CPU), figured out how to utilize NPU, built a custom toolchain for it. I’m trying to properly own this device (and giving it to Claude on the lowest possible level, but still running pKVM and getting rid of original hypervisors), it’s the goal number one at this point, no binary blobs, ability to change sw and control hw on-the-fly. Obviously with AI usage (Opus 5.5/4.8, GLM 5.3, Kimi 3.1), there’s a lot of work.
This sounds crazy fun, I'm going to dig out my beloved age old LG-V30 and give something similar a go. Good luck, I hope you post an update somewhere (maybe next months Ask HN), would love to hear how you get on.
We need more people doing work like that.
It’s a lot of compute and AI tokens (to reconstruct the original source code with byte-identical gate using the original toolchain - which you also need to found + figure out per-TU flags), at this point I truly believe we should go in SETI@HOME style for RE if we want to survive. With a proper caching and trust via verification - a lot of fat blobs can be resolved in a distributed way. If anyone interested - ping me, it’s boring to do solo.
Next generation of the devices won’t be ours at all, there will be no easy hacks. Turn off automatic updated, do backups, pray for chaos.
A series of actually hard puzzle books, so far sudoku, killer sudoku and some fiendish wordsearches that only use 5 letters per grid.
https://extremepuzzlebooks.com
A sample wordsearch is available as a pdf here: https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/assets/sample/extreme-wordsea...
I'm quite proud of this wordsearch concept as I've not seen it done before.
All the logic puzzles have an online solution to show step by step how you can complete them.
https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/walkthroughs
I've been working on the software to generate, test and verify these for a couple of years and finally built up enough puzzle stock that meets the difficulty requirements to properly launch.
Now the work is on every hackers favourite part... Marketing!
https://singonkey.app
A singing training app for bad singers. You sing the pitch line and get a score. Let's you sing to any original song by listening along and not playing the song itself.
Recently got some good feedback on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195488 and am following up with Linux and Windows versions and using Fable 5.1 to internationalise the app and landing page which explains the app.
Why use Fable 5.1 over Opus 5.5?
I've been working on Epoptes, an open-source tool that lets me run coding agents (Claude, Codex, Pi, Antigravity) autonomously for long periods while still being able to monitor and steer their work.
It started because I wanted to get back into making games, a hobby I've struggled to find time for over the years. I wanted to give agents a goal, let them work for hours, and come back to something I can actually try and give feedback on.
I've since used it for game development, research, and building other tools, with some runs lasting over 20 hours.
It's still early and rough around the edges, but I'm having a lot of fun with it!
https://ramigb.github.io/epoptes/ And some footage of a game I am building -mainly- with Epoptes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEOr8B4Yfg
I started working on a little news aggregator which has kinda spiralled into more of an open web thing. Keeping it open source, and open to feedback on how to better improve it.
I’ve tinkered with some decision model stuff too, and it can do things like identify possible spoilers in comments, or spiciness levels in comment sections. Works with HN, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, and can import RSS feeds too.
https://paperwing.io/
I dusted off my 15-year-old game and polished it a bit with AI - https://zabiyaka.com/games/bubblemix/
Despite looking simple, it's fairly well balanced and a quick endorphin fix :)
For the last 3 years, with a small team has been building https://kube-dc.com/ - a platform for building enterprise grade private and public clouds. Its like VMware + OpenShift + Railway in a single product: completely multi-tenant, built entirely on the K8s API (we built over 46 custom controllers in Go, with UI in Radix UI), with managed services like nested K8s, Postgres, Kafka, Valkey, and GitHub runners. Not the charts :) real services. Also we can do vlans BGP, shared GPU and all fancy stuff required.
Now we don't deploy this to private companies except some gov projects. But we are engaging existing IaaS and dedicated servers providers. Later hope we would fight with Broadcom and IBM :)
We previously ran a services company that built over 100 private clouds, then decided to turn that experience into a product with an aggressive level of automation to let DevOps, SRE, and platform teams hit a 1:300 ratio per developer (now dev + AI agent teams).
We are currently deployed across 12 datacenters and raising our seed round this month.
Regarding been curious, today I have created my first explainable video with Remotion +claude so if you want to see open edit results check https://promo-review-shalb-promo.stage.kube-dc.com/
Would be glad if you comment. Thanks!
I think you meant to link to https://kube-dc.com/ :)
Good catch, fixed the link! Thanks.
Really interesting, and I think you’re going to need to charge more for your product (which may come up during your funding rounds). I’ve been building the same thing at $enterprise, totally on-prem multi-AZ, multi-region KaaS, VMaaS, and soon DBaaS, and some of the other services listed. It’s a great deal harder than we initially planned for and we have some ridiculous internal policies that require everything to be git-driven which makes it worse.
Looking forward to see how your product develops. Would love to work with you in future.
Hey HN!
My co-founder Abhishek and I are master’s students at the University of Ottawa who got tired of buying cheap furniture every time we moved apartments.
We decided to build Usefulls—starting with the Nomad 23, a standard 23 kg checked suitcase that physically converts into a twin-door wardrobe cabinet. When you take the removable wheels off, circular bumps on the base seat into grooves on top of another case, letting you stack them into a full-size modular wardrobe.
We’d love your feedback on the concept, the physical design, or how we're approaching modular furniture/luggage!
You can check it out here: https://usefulls.com/
This is a sick idea!
Just finished a little animated short story: Washed Up.
https://mythitos.com/washed-up
Oh, with the arrival of LLMs, I actually have a few projects!
My homepage has gotten a dustoff and is up at:
https://hypertekst.net
I'm volunteering and running meetings - and I wondered how tricky it would actually be to get decent meeting minutes and record a (small) multi-person in-person meeting.
Turns out there's a few tricks to recording a room on Android - and rather tricky to get good meeting notes (in Norwegian) from the audio using only local LLMs - and avoiding the data touching the cloud at any point.
I need to revisit Android recording app recommendations - and what combination of incantations will allow you to transfer an audio file directly to a MacOS laptop (apparently it's not quickshare and airdrop unless your Mac is wide open...).
But I have a wip single download app that lets one record and transcribe - should work on MacOS (tested), Windows (not yet tested), Linux (tested on chromeOS/Terminal).
The UI is a vibecoded mess:
https://hypertekst.net/steno/
I'm also working on a forum/chat app - cross section between zulip, wiki - Google wave and discord (text chat). Still pre-alpha.
And a character sheet/generator for ttrpg - oath hammer.
Follow up to my oath hammer dice WPA:
https://hypertekst.net/dice/
And it's bloated 3d cousin:
https://hypertekst.net/dice_3d/
And a campaign managing system and sort of a illustration experiment with 3d scenes and LLMs...
Recently worked on https://fastsleep.app
Use this to quickly get sleepy without taking any medicinal pill or long form meditation type things (It is as short as 7-minute session).
Easy to use. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one.
You may also use it to break nightly doomscrolling habit. Try this tonight! (and any suggestion to improve it?)
Hey, I just gave this a try. (It’s not bedtime for me, but I had 10 minutes to sit quietly.) It very nearly put me to sleep despite the time being only 4:30pm.
I noticed that the later prompts tended to feel a bit irregular in their English: “Pebbles on bottom of stream” is one that I remember; “bird in small nest” might be another. “Pebbles on the bottom of a stream”, and “A bird in a small nest” would have sounded more natural.
I may be a little outside your target user base: I tend to fall asleep very quickly. (I joke to my spouse that by default I don’t have much happening in my head, and when it’s time to sleep, I just “listen to the dial tone.”)
One parting thought; I was pretty skeptical when I first started listening, and about halfway through I was gamely doing the visualizations, but mentally rolling my eyes (“This would never work!”). Around the 5 minute mark I noticed that I was in a fairly meditative state, and the app could have told me to imagine I was a being of light and I probably would have.
Around the 6 minute mark I noticed that I wasn’t really paying attention to the prompts at all; and I think it was only the weirdness of the English of the prompts around that time that kept me awake.
Overall a little weird, a little fun. Thanks for building and sharing it!
I've been deep in the weeds on two wildly unrelated projects.
Project #1: I've been working on migrating an application [1] from GCP (where I pay $200/mo to host it) to a physical server (PowerEdge R7625) I've racked in a colo near me, running on my own IPs/ASN [2] and all that jazz. I've been dragging my feet on the this as there's just a lot of moving pieces, but I got a good chunk of the last few hard bits done today.
Project #2: Building a DIY bright-ass lamp, like Brighter [3] or Rhythm [4], but for a few hundred bucks instead of $1-2k. I've specced out the parts, designed the hardware, and built the firmware. Later today I'll do my first LED test against a bench supply, to get some hard numbers for if my cooling solution (a chunky aluminum heatsink and some Noctua PC fans) is sufficient for the full 500+ W final version.
As far as curiosities go, I've been doing a lot of Go (the board game, not the language) puzzles, and reading about sailing (mostly the book from the Hundredrabbits folk [5])
[1] https://abound.art
[2] https://bgp.tools/as/55078
[3] https://getbrighter.com/
[4] https://www.betterwithrhythm.com/
[5] https://100r.co/site/busy_doing_nothing.html
Would be really interested in hearing how project 2 (DIY Lamp) works out. If you get it into a state that you are happy to share or go commercial.
I did see the Brighter and Rhythm lamps before but their way out of my price league.
In Edinburgh (Scotland at 56 deg N) during December, it's sunrise at 08:30 and sunset at 15:30. And there's plenty of folks at higher latitudes that may be interested as well.
I definitely have no plans to go commercial (just started a new job, very demanding on my time), but I'll 100% open-source all the firmware/KiCAD/CAD/BOM/etc so folks can make their own.
My current "design" is basically just strapping all the pieces together, so it'll leave a lot to be desired in terms of aesthetics for folks who want it to be more nicely integrated into their living environment.
Some people use stadium lights for this, such as this[0]. They’re very cheap but they’re not specifically designed as SAD lamps so I’m not sure how well they fit that purpose.
0: https://a.co/d/0gq5loUS
As the founder of Brighter, I'm curious to see how #2 turns out ;)
Haha I'll keep you updated! Like I mentioned in another comment, I don't have plans to commercialize it, I'm making it just not-janky enough to not pose a safety hazard/burn my house down.
In terms of design, I'm going a different route: Instead of a bunch of smaller LEDs, I'm doing 12x larger LEDs (6x 2700K, 6x 6500K). I'm using the Bridgelux V18 Thrives, so the CRI should be quite good (95+), as should the overall efficiency because I'm running them at pretty low amps relative to the spec sheet.
For what it's worth (and probably not a ton, since it sounds like you're doing this for fun) a decent LED grow light is wonderful for this.
I use a 200w vivosun pointed at the wall during the short daylight months.
Costs a fraction of what you mentioned at roughly $150. Or $300 if you really want to go as high as 400w.
Makes the whole room feel like you've got bright sunlight pouring in.
My wife made fun of me at first, but now also has one for her office.
I'm always amazed how everyone is here.
What might be of interest here is the launch video I made for my app, Fit Shapes—combination of Claude turning the app screens into a video, GPT Image 2.5 for image stills, Fal.ai for animating the stills and Elleven Labs for music. An interesting thing about agents creating music is that they can create and adjust tracks in segments to bring in specific elements as needed.
I know there are a thousand of macro trackers out there, but most of them are some combination of ugly, tedious, expensive. Since it's an app I use every day I tried to make my own with a focus on removing taps.
Anyways, video is on the homepage.
https://fitshapes.com/
A complete implementation of React in Godot:
https://react.breaka.club
Because I can. Well, let's be honest: because LLMs can. There's nothing particularly novel about this. It's just wiring a bunch of libraries together. Certainly would have been time consuming, but not difficult, strictly speaking, since all the heavy lifting is done by the libraries utilised.
Likely going to migrate https://breaka.club HUDs and editor UI to React since Godot control nodes are by no means impossible to work with, but somewhat cumbersome.
EDIT: Oh, will be open source like a lot of Breaka Club's other libraries very soon. Still optimising.
First load took like 15s on iPhone 12 mini.
Definitely slower than I'd like, but it's probably worth noting there's a few things that make this demo much slower than it needs to be:
1. There's some stuff simply not well optimized internally. Working on these now e.g. there's unnecessary internal hierarchy on all nodes that only needs to exist on a small subset (related to border boxes, overflow etc.)
2. Eager shader compilation. There's some glass and blur shaders that are compiled on load. These really shouldn't be.
3. Godot 4.x on the web is always pretty slow to load. Time of first contentful paint (if you ignore loading screens) is nasty across the board. Godot 4.8 upgraded Emscripten, so there's actually potential to improve this quite a bit since it's now easier to dynamically load WASM (which is what we're doing extensively here). I'm unaware of any work on this upstream though.
4. THE BIG ONE. This demo is a bit of a monolithic beast. It doesn't just include Godot's implementation of React. You can reveal the code for any page in the demo, and edit the code live with an inline text editor. Genuinely bundled in this demo is a full TypeScript 7 implementation (based on Bun's Rust implementation) that type checks and compiles code to JS on the fly, and hot swaps components on the page live.
For the most part, this isn't designed as a performance demonstration, although there is a small section on repaints/relayouts. It's mostly just a demonstration of what's possible with the library.
Realistically, there's also the fact this is React. Its architecture is based on React Fabric (like React Native), so runtime performance should be pretty decent. But frankly, it's never going to be as performant as some alternatives — it's not really the primary goal of the project. I'm considering an alternate SolidJS front-end for improved runtime performance, but that'll do nothing for first load time, unfortunately.
A month and half ago launched Maxxmod, a Chrome extension that improves the YouTube experience by removing distractions (hiding Shorts and cleaning up search results) and adding new tools and shortcuts (volume booster, screenshot tool, quick access to Picture-in-Picture and playback speed controls). I’ve been adding features since then.
Last week, YouTube introduced GIFs in comments, so added an option to stop them from autoplaying and play them on demand (a play button).
https://maxxmod.com
Disclaimer: I posted a Show HN when launched the 1.0, but it didn’t get traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829812
I live in San Francisco and we get some beautiful sunsets here! Over the past few weeks, I cobbled together a system of alerts for when the sunset is predicted [1] to be particularly outstanding, resulting in this page that displays the prediction and also shows the current view from several cameras around the city.
https://sunset.vtjeng.com/
[1]: Predictions are LLM-powered largely to more reliably consume the free-text descriptions in traditional (e.g., NWS) weather forecasts of predicted high and low cloud cover around sunset.
I'm working on https://github.com/BowlingX/super-release, an alternative written in rust for semantic-release and mono-repo support. I build it mainly to make shipping packages in larger JavaScript/Typescript mono-repos easier. Also I started getting into rust more and wanted to learn the language.
Trying to finish up a command line tool in go to interface with my Gramps Web service. Got really into genealogy and while ancestry, the Mormons, etc. Are helpful sources, I want to own my own data. LLMs are fantastic at genealogy work but there is a missing space for interaction with gramps via CLI. It's been vibed but cleaning up the code to make it worthy of being released publicly has proven a chore. We don't need more slop projects and I don't want to add to the problem.
Two of my flagship projects I've been working on lately:
Video Commander - A desktop application suite of video encoding, inspection and quality analysis tools (ffmpeg, vmaf, mp4box). I now have quite a bit of paying customers!
https://video-commander.com
Cargocat - Also a desktop S3 client that I created out of some of the components I've done on Video Commander. Newly launched, so still slowly gaining some traction.
https://cargocat.app
Both are built with Rust + Tauri and React. Happy to answer any questions.
For last several months I've been building https://counterparts.ai, memory for claude modeled after human memory. It forgets older memories so things never get stale, it dreams to merge similar ones, it updates memories when facts change, it has prospective memory to remind you in the future, etc.
For me the coolest part is that it's claude's memory, so it actually develops a self identity too and gets to know you better over time. So that opens up new things, like I wanted to keep session cache from expiring so I just told it "when I type ping, just reply with pong" and because I used it several times that day, it automatically strengthened the memory and now it just does it. And if i stop doing it for long enough, it'll automatically fade away.
No stale files, no hundreds of md docs, and what it knows about me isn't limited to the 1 page built in memory file (both work great together btw, no need to choose). It's free, open source, and totally local, no api keys.
I'm improving https://davegooden.com & just pushed https://edinacountryclub.com live as I continue to build out my real estate empire. (kidding, not kidding) Hopefully the industry can hang on for 10 more years.
Two focus right now:
Building a working CAD software based on my own geometry kernel, Aetheris.
https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/HeliosCAD
Since it's code based CAD for LLMs first and foremost, I'm trying to add visual programming into the UI, as well a new way of drafting that's closer to how mechanical engineers actually do sketching called IntelliDraft.
Other is the Concept programming language, as a successor language to C++, based off the idea of C++20 concepts, with templates, comptime, Einstein tensors, async/await, explicit state machines, CPU inference, Vulkan, easy C interop, and safety proofs built into the language itself.
https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Concept/
Currently still compiles to C11, self hosting is in progress and targeting AMD64 right now, but it'll be a while before finished since this is a difficult project even for frontier LLMs.
Very cool. I’ve used OpenSCAD, Zoo and FreeCAD + MCP. So far none of them are super stable and compelling. Excited for alternatives.
https://github.com/mquan/netflix_challenge
I'm revisiting the Netflix Prize challenge with LLM. So far I've hit the 9% improvement mark within a couple weeks. I seem to have hit a wall in the last week or so with no further progress. I'm hopeful to hit the 10% goal with one of the many experimentations though.
Just finished writing my blog post about building autonomous soccer robots: https://hamzah.syedahmed.net/posts/robocup/
Now I'm going to be working on my Linux-subset ABI x86-64 kernel [0], specifically adding support for tracing, then working on allocators. It's written in Rust so I might have to figure out how to make allocation fallible like the Linux kernel does. Also this raises questions about approaches to overcommitting and OOM handling, which I feel Linux does badly, but when constrained to Linux syscall ABI there doesn't seem like many good options.
Also I am not using LLMs for this since this is a learning project, with near-zero real world utility -- I just want to understand OS kernels as best as possible.
[0]: https://github.com/debater-coder/benchix
https://independentvet.com
Independent Vet - a website and app that helps pet parents find locally owned (and corporate/PE owned) veterinary practices nearby. It came out of a bad experience we had with our dog 3 years ago at a practice that had been recently acquired by private equity. The sites now get about 30k visitors a day and continuing to build in the evenings and weekends with Claude/Codex has been a lot of fun.
A suite of high-dopamine games which use smart exercise bikes as the control interface.
When playing Zwift, Rouvy, etc, I find that I get too competitive and ruin longer workouts by trying to keep up with or sprint past people who are much faster than me over long distances.
This is bad for building stamina and endurance, but I get bored, and it's hard to fight boredom and physical strain both at once.
I do not get bored sitting in front of Balatro, Raccoin, Tetris - anything with bright colours and satisfying noises and combos.
The first finished prototype game is very simple: you sort coloured marbles. Higher watt output from the bike means marbles are blown, by wind, upwards as they roll across the screen. Lower watt output means they fall. Steady watt output means they move horizontally. Marble goes into correct hole -> satisfying noise. It rewards steady watt output over time, with minor adjustments, which is what I'm trying to work on right now.
I was pretty amazed by how engaging I found it (total iPad baby brain). The miles really fly by - I get tired before I get bored.
I think that next I'll either do a tower defence game, or a less-dopamine-rewarding game in the style of Kerbal Space Program. Taking your actual weight and watt output, putting a bike with wings into a physics engine, and the gameplay loop being unlocking increasingly large airplane pieces, and designing - then flying - increasingly ridiculous airborne bicycles seems like a compelling idea, though less good for fitness.
The control surface being so limited - essentially one measurement which can either go up or down - is a really fun constraint for creativity.
There's something in this idea. you can actually tie it to a smart watch (Amazfit allow for custom apps trivially for such uses), and you have a bigger pool.
Thanks, yes, I agree - it really doesn't "feel like" exercise when you're being bombarded by dopamine rewards. Despite this, most "exercise games" leave me with the same feeling of boredom / "fake fun" I got from playing educational games on the computers in the IT room at school.
I'd love to try a similar approach to gamifying exercise on a smart watch. That's an even more fun problem, because (when running, for example) you don't even have a constantly-present screen to communicate dopamine to the player with. Perhaps some watches wouldn't even be able to provide sound feedback? I've never owned one. It's a really interesting constraint for game design.
Do you know the youtuber who play elder ring by physical control of his body a la motion capture? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2VMyd4QbyE
I didn’t - that’s crazy. Looks good for a workout. Thanks for sharing!
i really like this idea! i guess you aren't ready to share yet?
I’m finally doing the thing I always said one day I would, and writing a game! Early days yet, but I have proof of concept for much of the rendering tech now.
https://fluff.toothycat.net/@moonshadow
I quit my job a year ago to launch https://docuview.ai.
It’s been sort of a whiplash experience, but ive been so much happier building this business than I was working.
Real estate is a space that’s very close to me, so I was able to see the demand for a product like this long before I went searching for it.
I’m not alone in the space, but we’ve focused on building a product that’s opinionated enough to where the other players would be taking a risk by trying to copy the things we do. I think this was a good move.
We won’t be the largest player, but we don’t have to be. And we build the product we ourselves want, not a product that kinda fits everyone but every user only uses 20% of.
I’ll probably never go back to a job :)
I'm building an open-source "spatial workspace for directing AI coding agents like an engineering director".
I got overwhelmed by walls of text of parallel Claude Code sessions. This limited the sessions I could steer in parallel to maybe 5 or 6. I knew there had to be a better way, and I found one: A canvas per project. Work laid out as cards. An agent in a worktree per card. Chat condensed to WhatsApp-style back and forth, not a litany of tool calls. Result is usually a narrated demo video that I can comment on by voice to have the agent go another round. Remote-control from my phone. Remote workers to scale beyond my machine. Everyone I know who tried it has stuck with it so far.
https://github.com/sadilek/obeya
cool! I will try it
Chess with eval bar: https://blunderfest.com 7+4 challenge if anyone dares (1500 in chess.com): https://blunderfest.com/challenge/ardPSBueEKbD
Excuse the cringey LLM copy, I'll rewrite soon. Any feedback is appreciated. Tons of w̶o̶r̶k̶ prompting left to do.
I’ve been working since the start of the year on a minimalist web reader (https://papercove.app) that I use every day to follow RSS feeds, newsletters and read-later, and that helps keep things from piling up.
I thought I’d get where I wanted much faster, but it turns out I ran into quite a few challenges: it’s quick to build something simple, but it takes much longer to get a reader that’s robust and pleasant to use (extraction, parsing, security, infrastructure, etc.).
On the tech side, I’m using my usual stack, Laravel and Livewire, with some Python for extraction and Go for the email infrastructure. This month I’m working on the beta release, since several people around me were already using it, so I’d like to gather more feedback.
That is a great landing page! I can relate on the velocity side, it can be quick to build a feature, but it takes time to get everything feeling right and usable.
Second that. Always nice to be able to figure out what you are looking at on a landing page, much less see it in action as nicely as here.
I burn most of my leftover tokens on Ultima Online stuff nowadays.
Started with a funny experiment, to have a CLI that can spin up a server (ServUO, Sphere, whatever), then deploy it somewhere (local, VPS, or Railway). Then saw interesting stuff that people did on top of existing ClassicUO, and decided to extend CLI's capabilities to client area too. So, I was able to deploy a server and a web-client (that you can open a webpage and play the game without the actual client installed on your machine). This was a significant step because running UO on macOS is always a struggle. Then I decided to add player-like bots so that the server doesn't feel so lonely. Started with some local decision trees, when it failed I hooked it up with Jev and Clef. Also added Haiku for speech generation.
While doing this, I realized I need to find some game content (gumps, tile or item data, animations, etc). Similar to UO client, running UOFiddler on macOS is also another struggle. So I decided to port it to web.
If you're into Ultima Online, these two are open source, you might want to take a look at them:
- https://gemwright.org - https://sosarium.com
this stuffs pretty cool
As a heavy LLM user in my daily work, I've been working on optimizing agent memory on complex projects. That resulted in this simple Rust-based tool called Wayfinder: https://github.com/zaterka/wayfinder
I've been trying to improve agent knowledge over a codebase, and existing approaches weren't giving the result I wanted, and I wanted to keep it simple. In the end, I added a semantic layer on top of an LLM Wiki and it saved 30% of token usage in multiple benchmarks I ran. It also adds some nice features to deal with concurring agents updating the shared memory, to ensure all information there is reliable and fresh.
It's published to PyPi, so an "uv tool install wayfinder-memory" already does all the work, and it's compatible with almost all Harnesses.
This is super cool, I've been thinking in this direction as well.
The codebase memory knowledge graph should be maintained alongside the codebase whenever possible, which basically means checking the graph into the repo alongside the code, or some other architecture that has an equivalent effect. But then it complicates the design of the retrieval indexing; I think your SQLite rebuild idea might work for that though.
I have a question for your design: since your knowledge graph is checked into Git and therefore Git worktrees should already isolate them and resolve conflicts between branches, why did you include the section about concurrent agents as well? Is that for maintaining the SQLite index which is not checked in?
Working on a shared folder that syncs for agents, where you mount your existing data, apply controls / permissions and can monitor whats going on in real time: https://www.filestash.app/agents/, the code is in: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/fdrive
A proportional width font terminal. "i" and "w" shouldn't take up the same amount of horizontal space. We used to have to do that because computers were slow and we counted cycles and every bits mattered. We live in a land of plenty now though so we can spend cycles doing math so that ls -l/top/etc table output is still aligned but "i" and "w" can take up the appropriate amount of horizontal space.
A few Apple container plugins.
https://robertderose.github.io/container-krun-runtime/
It’s an alternative VM engine that uses libkrun. The main purpose is that libkrun supports returning memory back to macOS when the VM releases it. It also has better performance in some areas, but it’s only been tested on my M1 laptop and I haven’t added nested support yet because I only have an M1
And https://robertderose.github.io/container-compose-plugin/
It’s a full docker system running inside Apple Container’s machines with automatic localhost port forwarding, automatic shutdown if nothing is running, and exposes a tcp socket so you can use most tools by just exporting your DOCKER_HOST environment variable.
I have a few other projects but they are still in earlier stages
A free, open-source browser extension called Karaoke Pitch that lets you adjust the pitch of a YouTube video (and optionally store that chosen pitch for later).
I find it to be a great way to practice singing/music.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/karaoke-pitch...
Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/karaoke-pitch/facck...
https://github.com/djeastm/karaoke-pitch
The Firefox one has 40 average daily users and the Chrome one has 287 installs as of today.
There was a big jump in late October that might have had something to do with Halloween? I have no idea if people do karaoke more on Halloween. Still no ratings yet for either version, but maybe someday someone will.
My partner and I are both software devs. She quit her job a year ago, and has been working on a few micro-businesses to try a) learn some new skills and b) diversify our sources of income. So far this year she has built:
* https://unofax.com - A simple a la carte fax service
* https://unopost.com.au - A way to send physical mail online (and avoid standing in line at the post office)
* https://snailgram.com.au - Custom greeting cards, with the message inside written by a 3D printer holding a pen.
There are a handful of others too, but these are the ones that are live so far. I've contributed between 5-40% to these projects.
I built an app to help me develop healthy habits and routines on my computer. IT blocks sites/apps based on a schedule and tracks my activity for later analysis.
I had simpler versions of this earlier but never something comprehensive. It was also my first AI assisted development project. I've been using it personally for around a year. I polished it and released it as an open source project last month. It's specific to Linux (which is my primary platform)
The website is at https://glockerapp.com/
I'd posted this earlier on HN hoping to get some feedback but didn't get any traction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349646
I made a browser-based recreation of the popular 1999 MMORPG "EverQuest" - and it plays itself! https://idlequest.net/
Have 70+ people online today playing it, it's been fun to see it get so popular recently (for a free niche audience hobby project).
Also have some other cool browser-based 3d game projects listed here: https://brynnbateman.com/
I'm working on a relational database called Turborel and a log-structured storage engine I maintain TidesDB.
Teaching myself how to build a Spiking Graph Neural Network in Zig, to run on my Brainchip Akida AKD1500 neuromorphic accelerators (and Efinix Titanium Ti60 FPGAs).
Good times, but lots of foundational math I hadn't previously been exposed to.
Some reading material if anyone else is interested in that:
Spiking Graph Convolutional Networks (2022): https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/338
A Tutorial on Spectral Clustering (2007): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-007-9033-z
Semi-Supervised Clustering with Graph Convolutional Networks (2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02907
Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory (2025, draft book): http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/spielman/sagt/sagt.pdf
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ArtCraft and the Craft Apps. https://getartcraft.com
We're going to open source everything. Software, SaaS, infrastructure, weights, platforms, protocols.
We're going to bridge local and cloud compute in a seamless way.
We're building an app factory for high throughout development. Reverse engineering tools for non-technical people. We're going to make high quality libraries that others can remix.
We're going to make all of this agentic and AI/CLI first class.
We're going to open source everything and make the world hacker-first again, like Web 1.0 with P2P and RSS and APIs and IRC.
Join us!
https://discord.gg/artcraft
Im in awe of you folks' progress. All the best.
For Halloween I made a VR survival horror game for meta quest 3/3s.
- https://sxp.studio/aftercorp
The cool thing about that game is that it uses a realtime environment mesh reconstruction algorithm that allows me to create an approximation of the world 3D geometry and project a dummy “flashlight” with hand tracking. I think I’ve only seen one other game do that technique on quest (some laser tag game).
It runs at 60fps with a tight GPU budget. Consequently it’s not the most beautiful game, but it’s actually pretty fun, immersive and can scale to all sorts of environments. I’ll be porting it to iOS next (handheld AR style).
Rebuilding my business’ website with Claude. It’s gonna be 10x better and migrate off Wordpress. My web designer broke something and stopped answering so giving it a shot and it’s going great so far. So stoked for the final vision I have.
I continue to update my coach app that generates workouts for me. It’s really solid at this point, better then the trainer I had, so mostly occasional bug fixes now or silly additions.
I have been working on building an agent and workflow builder that converts chats with claude, chatgpt, gemini or any other chat agent into a workflow or autonomous agent. Its live at toolscaled.com
Also built a free apache 2 agent/ project management system: https://github.com/mhalstrom/maximizepm
Essentially I found the key thing with modern ai assisted development the key thing is to manage your own time/ parallelize without having to switch between chat session as much as possible.
I'm trying to make a video to Lottie Animation Converter but so far it doesn't work: https://gen2d.com/animation-video/
My 10+ year old SaaS for test prep: https://crucialexams.com/
I recently rebuilt my COVID project, a Steam/online version of the drinking game Kings Cup: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1506610/Kings_Cup_The_onl...
A friend and I have also started working on a restarting/brewery manager game that is not released yet.
I’m still working on https://feedsync.net, a tool to push RSS feed updates to Discord.
It’s been getting a decent number of sign ups despite me not really posting it anywhere or doing any marketing.
Ultimately a fun project, and useful for myself and a few friends, so I’m happy others are even interested in trying it.
I’ve started to regret using Phoenix LiveView, as it’s only deployed in one region, so high latency far from there. I’m exploring a SPA as a better alternative.
Otherwise, I’ve been playing around with a Lua engine to build feeds for websites that don’t support them, using AI to build the Lua as a once-off. It works reasonably well, but isn’t ready for prime time just yet.
pg-restic – Postgres backups to S3/B2 (or any S3-compatible storage) using restic, in one small Docker container.
https://github.com/isriram/pg-restic
I needed Postgres backups at work and at home at the same time. I tried a few existing images, but after spending time setting them up I found they shipped an older pg_dump that couldn't back up newer Postgres versions. So I built my own.
It runs pg_dumpall on a cron schedule and streams it straight into a restic repo, so nothing touches local disk. You get encrypted, deduplicated snapshots (hourly dumps of a mostly unchanged DB take very little extra space), retention policies, and daily pruning. If the dump fails, no snapshot is saved. It ships pg_dumpall 18, so it can back up anything from 9.2 to 18.
I now run it in production at work, so I'll be keeping it up to date. I'm no expert, and this is the first time I'm doing something like this (putting something out there), so any feedback is welcome, especially from the database pros.
It's not fancy, but it's something I needed, and boy, I really needed something like this.
I love restic and this project is a truly great application of it! Nicely done!
This is great! Thanks for releasing it. Can I back up my PG to restic's rest server?
https://easel.games
For 4+ years I've been working on a game programming language which makes your game multiplayer automatically! Every program written in Easel is guaranteed deterministic and snapshottable, which it uses to automatically perform rollback netcode. The rollback is incremental, it automatically stores deltas of only what has changed using a copy-on-write mechanism, so it's really efficient for games where your players are walking around large worlds which are mostly sleeping except when the player is nearby.
The idea is that I hope teenagers who love to play multiplayer games, would find this to be the easiest way to code a multiplayer game by far since the multiplayer is automatic. Learning to code could be much more fun because they can make games that involve their friends, classmates, brothers/sisters, parents, or just anyone online. Maybe especially more important for raw coding to be fun and engaging in the age of AI.
This month I'm making the multiplayer even more efficient so people really can just code large multiplayer games without worrying about it, which I think is important for beginner coders.
Unity for photos.
A tool that builds an FPS video game(1) in one day.
https://www.free-visit.net
(1) : The FPS game runs on PC, Mac and even Smartphones.
Writing a Newspeak implementation of the PostgreSQL TCP protocol!. Talking to a GnuCash database from Chrome web browser. Uses my Newspeak TCP library. Both are bare minimum, probably very broken, but I am able to parse a Postgres result set from a simple query.
Here is a one minute video where I print the result data to the console from a Newspeak workspace.
https://youtu.be/D5wupSxi9Y8
Given the popularity of decision models I tried to create a standard text classification pipeline that runs entirely in the browser using webgpu/wasm. Downloads an embedding model, trains the classifier (a Linear SVM for now, whose hyperparams are determined by gridsearch), calibrates the classifier so that reliable confidence scores may be produced. This is in Python that is run using Pyodide. You can paste your own data (no uploads supported) to train a model on it. WIP, and mostly generated using GPT Sol. Testing a few things out. Will have a blog post soon.
https://pocket-text-lab.abhishek-ghose-82.workers.dev/
- https://probl.dev: A "probabilistic" programming language where we can do things like `if 45% { x } else { y }`. It works by creating many weighted worlds, that are then merged when identical. Operators like `observe` can remove possibilities. There is also a sampling mode that instead run many simulations to get an approximate result.
- https://github.com/garlab/gloss | `brew install garlab/tap/gloss`: render markdown, sources, images, chess and go (game) records in the terminal. It's built for libghostty but fallback on other terms.
I'm making my Ancient Earth globe better. It uses plate tectonic data to show you where your city was on the globe hundreds of millions of years ago.
Recently added new high-res maps, a timeline, and country names and borders.
For example, see Pangaea:
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth?borders=on&names=...
I'm working on my first hardware device, based on ESP32, it's an AI employee in a cube.
https://elestio.geta.team/web/getacube/
Noticed how well Claude works for transcribing old German cursive, especially for broad hits in non-indexed 17th century parish records. Motivated me to pick up Ancestry again and helped me quite a bit in following some lines further back.
Then also HNowledge[1], a free iOS app for browsing the HN stories and comments I've upvoted. Made it to fit the way I browse HN, which is upvoting mainly what I find interesting and may want to come back to. The app lets you browse by date, domain or score, add notes and export. Apart from syncing your upvotes from HN, everything stays local without any tracking.
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hnowledge/id6813417548
Wanes[2], an Apple Health logging interface for tracking how long symptoms last. I tend to have headaches quite often and the way Apple lets you enter that data is pretty limited, so I created an app which starts a Live Activity for one or more symptoms using widgets, Control Center or Siri. You can change the severity rating while it runs and stop it from wherever you are on your phone (Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Siri).
[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wanes/id6811679904
https://opentaint.org/blog/sast-is-dead/
A data-flow-based, lightweight formal verification engine for application security. Basically, it's SAST++:
1. Deep enough that you really have some formal guarantees about the codebase (like zero findings actually means something, not just that the tool is broken).
2. Fast enough that you can shift the formal verification phase left and apply it to every feature during development (for example, during agentic development sessions to get fixes done within the same feature context).
3. Expressive and customisable enough that you can write specs for most vulnerability types from the OWASP Top 10 (even Broken Access Control and business logic flaws). Skills for writing specs included.
Here is the repo: https://github.com/seqra/opentaint/
I’ve been working on Beacon, which just got approved on the App Store! It’s a mobile app to instantly answer “which friend is free to talk right now?” and summon them in a single tap.
Send your beacon to a group, and everyone gets a gentle ping. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well! It’s best if you're able to join with 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like absolute magic to me. I tap the button to send my beacon to everyone and get a random friend on the line.
https://trybeacon.chat/
This is really cool! I'm very excited to try it - nice to see it available on Android also. As someone who has messed around with building relationship-focused social apps, I'm curious if there were any other concepts you tried, or other apps you like? What did you think of BeReal for example?
I'm still working on https://openaltfinder.com, a directory of open source alternatives for proprietary software.
Trying to find out why Google has completely de-indexed the website, but other than "low quality content", I'm not getting any answers. Even Bing brings in more traffic...
Cloud save sync between a real Super Nintendo and emulators.
I’ve just got back into hobby electronics after a fifteen year diversion into software. I set up my workbench this week and this is my first project, something I first imagined building twenty years ago!
I spent the weekend wiring the spare controller port to a microcontroller to act as WiFi bridge. I have a flash cart, so I patch the reset vector to a small save sync routine that talks to the microcontroller.
It was especially magical having Claude read from a logic analyser and flash firmware tweaks iteratively. I still got to wield the soldering iron at least.
Playing with 6502 assembly.
I have a PAL-2 [1] (a modern KIM-1 re-creation) and started learning 6502 by entering programs from The First Book of KIM [2].
I wanted to be able to compile/link the assembly from the book so leaned on Claude to set up a 6502 dev environment for my Mac. I put everything needed (and instructions) on GitHub [3].
(Claude also has been helpful in re-formatting the 6502 code from The First Book of KIM into a more modern style compatible with modern assemblers. A few of these modernized programs I added to the GitHub repo above.)
As it happens, I am also fixing/formatting The First Book of KIM by recreating it in a modern page-layout app (Affinity Publisher). The PDF scans that are out there are not pretty, have OCR errors (and the book itself has mistakes). Hopefully I'll have a new version of the book/PDF out on the internet by the year's end.
[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/kim1/pal-2-a-mos-6502-powere...
[2] https://archive.org/details/The_First_Book_of_KIM/
[3] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/KIM-1_Development
Over the last few months, I decided to learn more math and dive deeper into LLMs, RL, and robotics.
I ended up building a personal agent that asks me questions every day, emails me interesting reads in these areas, and helps me progress in my learning.
It started as a web app, but I have just ported it to a Mac desktop app.
It works like Conductor, but for your learning side quests: https://miletus.app
I’m working on https://greenflagged.dev
I originally thought it would be useful to have a package registry that helps prevent supply chain attacks. It reads and judges all of the changes to popular NPM packages. While building I realized that it’s a package manager that agents can settle package versions with as old versions have new vulnerabilities found.
I’ve caught several supply chain attacks since I started monitoring, and am building an automatic response pipeline to validate and publish new attacks.
I’ve also been working on python support and hope to have that released soon.
I've been posting stuff on my blog https://blog.willmeye.rs
Recovering from pushing out an article on coroutines [1]; coordinating getting the house in order for the workweek [2]; and drafting a package to make literate programming in org-mode a bit more to my liking.
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[1] https://www.reindeereffect.com/0004
[2] Parts of the house smell of slowly cooking meal components (e.g., stock and beans), while others smell of cleaning products.
I got tired of always having to update my wife, and my family members résumés. So I created https://theresumechef.com It's private,free to use, no pay walls or monthly subscriptions.It has10 resume templates to choose from to get you started.The final resume can be exported as a PDF, or stored on Google Drive or Dropbox in JSON format. There are still a few issues, but I've learned a ton by just creating and launching this project. I have some exciting new product ideas, but I'm currently waiting on my Dutch KvK number to accept online payments with Stripe.
Personal project - long past due to set up a home lab so I'm piecing together a SAN and some compute from old parts i have laying around and some second hand servers in a new rack I put together, along with setting up a bespoke home network instead of just using ISP stuff.
I have long been averse to configuration and customization but my needs and preferences have outgrown commodity systems and default setups, and AI is making it much easier to customize systems, so I'm embarking on this journey after over 35 years of using computers.
I'm still working on making JustFax Online[1] more profitable. Added a bunch of features recently, as well as invisible improvements in fax routing, and admin stuff for myself to better analyze the traffic and patterns.
Other than this, I'm playing with vibe-coding stuff I always wanted to do but never had the time/skills to do. For example, I built a TUI on top of beancount that is tailored to my needs and my business[2]. I also completely got rid of self-hosted plausible and umami analytics, and replaced them with vibe-coded built-in-rust (c) analytics tool that relies on both js-beacon and streaming of caddy access.log. Will probably publish about it in my blog soon, so subscribe to the RSS if you want.
Lastly, I'm messing with self-hosting. I completely ditched Github and Gitlab for self hosted forgejo + actions runner. I set up proper backup plan for everything I care (documents, immich library, my SaaS DB, and the forgejo repositories).
[1] https://justfaxonline.com
[2] https://kudmitry.com/articles/after-14-years-i-finally-built...
Repair of a Collins 651S-1 receiver. The 65-95 mhz vco module is bad, but if you over damp the pll loop filter it does eventually lock and receive properly. I found a similar but not identical replacement from a different model receiver. It lacks one of the two DC tracking signal outputs but I added an op amp based circuit to simulate the missing signal.
The loop is stable and responsive when receiving from 17 to 29.9999 Mhz, but not much below that... Almost got it
I'm making a replacement motherboard for the Nokia 1100 that runs Linux and supports LTE. I have the software working well on a MangoPi dev board and I've designed two PCBs: one "test fit" board that just breaks out the phone keypad/LCD to pin headers, and the actual board with everything on it. Now I just need to order the PCBA which is super expensive :)
It uses an allwinner T113-S3 SoC and the Quectel EC25 LTE module, and I've made sure voice calling works over LTE, at least on T-Mobile in the US. (this is tricky bc of carrier rules)
video and photos of MangoPi test setup and my board layout here: https://constcast.org/n1100c/
Interesting.. May I ask why pick such a simple model of Nokia if you'll tinker with it? Just to learn?
I wanted the challenge of trying to fit all the components into the small board area available (this phone is tiny), and I liked the idea of creating an updated version of the best-selling cell phone of all time. I figured some of the "dumbphone" crowd might be into it too, if my design works I might make them available for sale
https://killswitch-lang.org - a programming language designed to be impossible for LLMs to read/edit/write
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
https://www.intelligrade.de/en
A SaaS for teachers and schools that helps them create, conduct and grade exams and tests (with safe exam browser integration to prevent cheating). Grading happens automatically for almost all segment types, for free form text we have an optional AI integration. I recently added an MCP server so teachers can bring their own LLM with fairly fine grained permission controls for it. It’s hosted in the EU with options for schools to self host with a license.
Currently we are in a pilot phase and are yet to make our first sale but we are reaching out to schools and gave out some pro accounts for free for people to try out and feedback has been great.
We are just two people, a teacher who was dissatisfied with the tooling in the field and me, who engineered a solution that we believe is genuinely better than what’s out there.
I’m making a digital real watercolor kit.
I’m a software developer and watercolor painter so my goal is to use real world painting techniques and have the results feel and look real.
Modeling the physics of paper, brush bristles, pigments, water, color mixing, drying in real time using gpu.
Built in rust using wgpu.
Currently looking for iPad beta testers if anyone is interested (supports Apple Pencil or finger).
https://puddlewatercolor.com
Very cool!
Thank you!
Still working on Kavla, my open source SQL canvas https://github.com/aleda145/kavla
I'm very excited by adding interactivity. I have a new "knob" feature that pops out when you type {var}. It infers the column's type and values.
`SELECT * FROM hn_posts WHERE score>{score}` will grant you a slider that goes from 0 to 6015
Titanic Browser demo (no login, it's all WASM): https://app.kavla.dev/
Also been working on a "chat to data ingestion pipeline". Not sure where I'm going with this but I like the idea? https://github.com/aleda145/pompos
My god, as a Greek, this name is hilariously lewd.
Haha so I've heard! Mistake on my part, but I kinda dig it
For the record, it means "to roll something out to a flat surface" in Swedish
A private, paid, ad-free and personally customizable search engine: Uruky [1]. It was launched earlier this year and reached 400 MAUs and €2k MRR last month.
A simple EU static and app hosting service: PodBy [2]. It was launched last week, and is at €10 MRR.
Thank you for asking and for your suggestions!
[1]: https://uruky.com
[2]: https://podby.com
RainbowSay https://rainbowsay.ai/
I used to watch K-drama on Netflix and pause it to copy paste subtitles in AI chat to do vocabulary breakdown, translation and grammar. So I automated it in an app which auto pauses video when it detects a sentence and gives translation, vocabulary (for every word) and grammar.
I also added same to voice from microphone, for deliberate practice speaking what was learned. To help with spaced repetition.
For about 10 months or so I've been working on this FOSS hobby project to get more practice at Linux packaging, cargo utilities, and migrating to Nix and NixOS (as well as solve some personal pain points in using a HDMI TVs and projectors with PCs).
https://tisvlay.readthedocs.io/
> TisVlay brings TV Display control for Linux, including: power, volume, backlight, AV mute, input switching plus more, with per-device profile automation via desktop session integration (idle/lock, boot/suspend, remote login/streaming, etc), and in reverse, letting the TV lock, sleep or wake the PC and its remote drive the desktop, while supporting various vendor interface protocols for multi-display setups, mitigating energy usage and OLED panel burn-in or projector bulb burn-out.
Disclosure: this project includes AI assisted coding, documentation and research, and has been a great help given physical disabilities in typing. After programming by hand well over a decade, using voice dictation scene the '90s (IBM ViaVoice or Dragon NaturallySpeaking anyone?), and worsening hands over after my CSE doctorate, this was also a bit of an individual research experiment to explore how effective LLMs could augment my personal approach to spec & test driven development.
While still beta (pre v1.0), its already daily drivable and fully documented. Being largely feature-complete, my current focus has shifted towards distro packaging, and custom ATmega firmware in Rust for HDMI CEC USB adapters to solve a few TV firmware bugs. If you'd like to give it a try, the installation guide and docs are linked below. Or if not, and you already use something else, I'd like to give a shout-out to netflector, especially for privacy-conscious home-automation users, given how common spyware is in smart TVs and projectors these days. The docs cover using it to keep displays on an isolated network.
https://github.com/netflector/netflector
https://tisvlay.readthedocs.io/en/latest/operations/isolated...
A site blocker extension for Chrome and Firefox. Fast and not recording any data. I was sad that I found an easy to use one or one that has no recorded my usage: https://github.com/SiGe11/Lightweight-Blocker-Extension
This one I (mostly) did without LLMs, but the other project is vibe coded, but I'm enjoying it. An RTS made by Claude in Unity: https://github.com/SiGe11/StarForge2
Whoa, StarForge2 looks amazing. I cannot believe (well, I can, lol) AI has created a game as good as or better than commercial RTS from major studios.
https://github.com/Vermeulen-Solutions/baseline
Astro site starter template meant to be used together with agents.
Just like the last time I posted in this thread, I’m working on The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, a chess database/playing/opening training app for Apple platforms:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/mqfhpmHY
The original goal was an alternative to ChessBase, but with an Apple-native GUI and iCloud sync between devices, and as an improved alternative to tools like chessbook.com for operating repertoire management and spaced repetition opening memorisation. In recent months I have focused more on the chess-playing parts of the app, trying to implement human-like computer opponents at all levels, using a transformer-based model (similar to the one described in the Maia 3 paper) combined with a very small search.
Recently I’ve also been working on chess variants. Since a while, the companion Apple Watch app plays 5x5 chess. More recently, I added a 10x10 chess as an Easter egg game inside the app, and I’m now working on hexagonal chess. With the current state of the art in computer chess, it’s almost trivial to implement vastly superhuman strength in all these variants, but implementing weaker levels that are enjoyable opponents is interesting and challenging. Unlike in normal chess, there are no big databases of human games to train on.
https://allyourwords.com
a mac app that listens to your microphone and gives feedback on your pace, filler words etc in real time. Built for myself as I tend to get carried away in meetings. Looking forward to feedback if anyone else has the need for something like this.
As many of you, I have a few subscriptions to Claude and Codex (just me??). It's a daily occurrence to use 2-3 accounts for the same conversation (whenever the limit stops me).
What I need is something to switch the account where the usage is taken from, not the configuration.
I made something simple & transparent named Switcheroo: https://github.com/FTCHD/switcheroo
Works with other AI CLIs like Gemini, and other various CLIs like Vercel (if you're managing multiple accounts like me), Netlify, Github etc
Surely against terms of service, no?
I'm not sure providers would shoot themselves in the foot by not allowing you to buy more usage. It seems like both OAI and Anthropic could use all the subs they can get.
If that's not right, blame it on Chat:
"Yes, OpenAI explicitly supports having multiple paid ChatGPT accounts. Each account has its own subscription, conversations, and usage allowance."
As a self hoster whos paranoid about backups. I wanted to cheat a bit and use s3. With growing resentment on big tech, who I worked for earlier, I'm now building tools that empower myself and other users and decrease reliance of big tech. Arkel is an object store I've been building and testing for the past few months. https://arkeldata.com
A reimagination of bloodborne as a native VR game. All interactions have been redesigned to feel physical in VR, and combat retuned etc. It feels less like the original and more like a native VR experience now
https://github.com/bldbrne-vr/bldbrne-vr --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doleBBoJL5U
I’m a product manager fascinated by the skills of good salespeople. I also like Duolingo. so I’ve been building a “Duolingo for sales” to try to teach myself more. it’s started to morph a bit into an eval benchmark for sales agents, so classic cognitive feature creep.
making it feel fun versus a basic quiz workflow is the hardest part.
https://salesfighter.app
I recently made a mobile app for practicing singing: https://singtrace.karamagic.com
The free version you can record and keep an archive of your daily practices of each song, while a paid version does some analysis of your vocals.
I've been using the recent MIT weight-space programming techniques to work with neural quantum states, which are neural networks that represent a quantum wavefunction. I was able to produce a bunch of novel networks for a few hundred dollars of cloud GPU, which would have probably cost tens of thousands to train in the traditional manner.
https://paulg.info/2026/11/04/quantum-weight-space/
Drive.py Manage files across your connected and disconnected drives
https://github.com/web3cryptowallet/drive-py
I have been playing with benchmarking agents in a research loop. The experiment leans on using these models to understand and explore builds/gameplay through reasoning game AI over traditional reinforcement learning.
Also, creating interactive ways to view the experiment and visualizating the results.
https://crux.lakin.dev/eval
I'm working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616 I've got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose.
The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot.
Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood... First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles.
Working on / dog fooding my graph based recipe app[0].
There are more things I'd like to do with the graph concept, like linking two user's recipe trees if they were imported via the same URL. Really trying to to avoid features that I think would be cool that don't provide any functionality.
There are still a few features I'd like to implement that are more in the vein of nice to have in any recipe application, like nested recipes, temperature conversions, volumetric ingredients amounts to mass conversions, etc.
But I've been using it for new recipes and converting my old recipes I have written down in the margins to this format and I've been happy with how usable its been in these early stages.
[0] https://grainofsalt.app
For reasons, my team is pretty much limited to Argo Workflows for our CI.
Nothing against Argo Workflows, but I really wanted to get out of the business of building our own CI product on top of it.
So, I’ve been working on this CI “framework” on top of Hera (the Argo Workflows Python SDK, which is really neat) that will hopefully make it easier for our team to build CI pipelines, with CI “primitives.”
It’s called Stagecraft: https://github.com/elliottmoos/stagecraft
I built a new abstraction layer for code (https:// www.archme.io), as I believe it's no longer the right medium for understanding and collaboration in the era of AI and 10k LOC PRs.
It scans your codebase, turns it into permanent c4 & sequence diagrams and keeps them up to date on each commit. Then, instead of reviewing a 10k line coding PR, you review a 30 line change to sequence and C4 diagrams.
npm i -g @archme/cli && archme init to run it on your own computer, code never leaves your machine.
This looks brilliant. Trying it now in a few repos. Thanks!
I’m working on Spool, an open-source tool for running persistent Claude Code loops.
https://github.com/enes-alatas/spool
I wanted a way to manage multiple loops without babysitting terminal sessions and to talk to them as they work. With Spool, you can create and manage loops from a web UI, chat with them through Telegram or Slack, and let them communicate with each other. Each loop can run on your environment directly having access to everything you have, or in its own container or even better on Anthropic's cloud.
I’m using Spool to build Spool and figuring out what works well when several loops collaborate on the same project. That's also an interesting experiment going on.
I’d also love to hear how others are managing long-running or persistent agents.
Signal analysis to drive <desired signal-driven action>. Grouping/categorizing/stratifying signals into useful buckets to drive actions. Blind source separation has drawbacks like continuously guessing at sources and labeling them as brand new instead of having a memory of previously identified sources. Think of how humans can distinguish pianos from drums and remember the distinction across songs.
https://getlibrium.app/
I’m working on a document library app for macOS with tagging, collections and user attributes. Unlike other apps that pull files into their own databases or reorganize files into their own folders, Librium indexes files in place, so your existing folder structure stays in tact. It works with folders on your local drive in addition to external and network drives and the cloud. Search works with on-device text extraction and OCR.
It’s currently in Test Flight beta, but I’m planning to have it to App Review this week.
SuperBlocker: https://superblocker.app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/superblocker-ad-blocker/id6799...)
SuperBlocker is a native blocker that works on iPhone and iPad using Apple's latest URL filtering technology that blocks URLs without revealing it to Apple's relays or SuperBlocker's servers.
JSON Query: https://jsonquery.app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/json-query/id953006734)
The original JSON Query app on the Mac App Store. Store, organize and query all of your JSON with jq or natural language. All of your data stays local so sensitive JSON can stay on your machine.
How does this compare to uBlock Origin Lite?
Building a native macos app with a suite of completely local AI tools. The first version is out and have a long roadmap in front of me. Would love to hear some feedback.
https://artifactfour.com/
Building my an airflow pipeline focused on collecting news.
Partly because I want one, but also because it makes for a good learning platform. e.g. initially do some of the processing with a stronger llm...save result and then attempt to train a SLM or similar
Lipik, a free open-source dictation app for Mac (https://github.com/Gourav2609/lipik). Hold fn, talk, let go, and clean text lands in any app: ums and self-corrections removed, spoken punctuation turned into real punctuation. Speech-to-text and clean-up both run on the Mac. On my 106 English test clips, lines that came out fully right went from 28% to 76% with clean-up on. Right now I'm working on Hinglish (Hindi + English in Roman letters). It gets 7 of 20 test lines fully right, so there's a long way to go.
https://lars147.github.io/foldroute/
FoldRoute - a PWA route planer for folding bikes & public transport
I bought a Brompton a few months ago and realized there is no good planer for combining biking and public transport. I one-shotted the first approach with codex. It was so decent that I wanted to elaborate on the idea. Still not perfect and needs a lot of testing in the wild (especially the navigation). Currently, only in German. If there is demand, I will translate to English. For now only a PWA. Therefore, it has some limitations. Maybe I will make it an Android / iOS app one day.
I have been in enterprise for couple decades now, learnt and experienced the challenges/gaps between the specs vs implementation, the asks vs the real needs in the space of identity, security and access
Product: webfrolic.com
Demo: demo.webfrolic.com
What it is?
Consider Okta (Workforce identity)+ Auth0 (Customer Identity), Authzed (authorization) + ServiceNow (IT service Desk) + Zendesk (Customer Support Desk) architected together
Being an engineer there is this inherent habit of prioritizing correctness over marketing so I would not oversell it, though its probably the most secure and complete thing that could be built from identity perspective
Status (WIP):
1. I am still debating/settling on how to incorporate the AI Agents needs into the architecture, big focus on avoiding the creation of security or performance foot guns where administrators leave room open for abuse with configuration despite all this attempt to build secure system
2. Feature stress testing and performance testing
A slow, realtime strategy game similar to Neptunes Pride and Subterfuge.
Each game tick is an hour and games can last over a week. I got hooked on both Subterfuge and Neptunes Pride and always wished there were some more titles in this genre.
Currently in closed alpha.
https://ashdomes.com/
Rebuilding my ERP to work more like the model of https://plaintextaccounting.org, where I expanded the idea of `double entry accounting` to `double entry trade between parties`, plus several other ideas for what I see a way to collapse a lot of complications that are typically for ERP systems.
I make a special `textual DSL` where I model business scenarios like `Make a sale that include 3 invoices : 2 to different cities in country A in currency USD and other in country B in currency EUR` + all the intermediate steps like transportation, manufacturing, etc.
I`m now in the woods with a simplification for the price engine, I dislike much how complicated is normally, and I think I have good enough solution for most cases that generate without dynamic calculations.
Software for families:
https://santawho.com A funny holiday game you play in person with the whole family on just one phone (the parent interviews everyone for jobs on the North Pole and surfaces inner insights about what everyone might enjoy from Santa). It’s for any age, private, ads free, just pure holiday spirit.
https://www.dreamlist.com - collaborative shopping lists and online wishlists and gift drive platform. Again ads-free, private, stack multiple lists into groups of lists to share on social media or with grandparents.
A number of other ones about to launch as well. All little tech, not big tech - private by default, no ads, no feeds or media, just surfacing what is needed.
https://www.rgbloom.com/
RGBloom: create printed photo books in minutes (UK only for now) for just £10 including delivery. Been working on this for 8 months, recently launched iOS and Android apps to go alongside the web app. Got just a few dozen orders a week atm.
I'm focused on making it privacy first, keeping as little data as possible for as short a time as possible (no accounts, you don't even need to provide an email address, and if you do it's wiped in 30 days). And transparent pricing: not getting hit with large delivery fees at checkout, and no discounts just honest prices.
Really good idea - hope it does well!
https://asm.build - the package manager for assembly projects.
the plot: Programming languages existed as an abstraction for humans. As writing code becomes cheaper, we can write it for each architecture as long as the specification is done well. The costs of running will matter more in relation. So don’t make your AI write rust, but assembly
A little plugin to serve Marimo notebooks (which are great) inside an Astro static site (which are great): https://github.com/skritch/astro-marimo
"OneVote", which aims to answer: how much is your vote worth? https://github.com/skritch/onevote
I am currently on maternity leave with my first baby have just launched to the app store my first app!
I'm a product designer by trade and learnt to vibe code on Claude about a month ago now. I was weaning my baby and he developed a rash and haven't been able to work out what the pattern was causing it. So I created an app for weaning parents to log the food, add any reactions so when talking to their GP they can start to see a pattern and all advice, like nutrients, food variety, how to serve food all coming from the NHS and FSA.
Currently got 12 mums using the app and would love any feedback to make it even better! <3
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/niblet-weaning-diary/id6822680...
https://getniblet.app
I'm working on a data monitoring company:
https://turbolytics.io/blog/debezium-wal-growth-postgres
Happy to get your postgres and kafka connect monitored and alerted on for free!
danny@turbolytics.io
https://skymap.rulkens.com A browser based open source universe explorer. I'm in between jobs currently and finally took time to work on my passion project. It started with just visualizing some galaxy surveys, but it got a little out of hand and now includes everything from hi-res tiled earth/mars, Gaia star field (16M stars), a milky way renderer and much more.
It's so amazing to have the ability to gather and parse publicly available scientific data and actually visualize it in real-time. It's one of those projects I'm learning a lot from and can keep going with (the universe is a big place :)). As a software developer for 20+ years, its been mind-blowing and often also frustrating to have Claude generate code that I deem good enough. About half of my time has actually been spent on refactoring, building quite some skills in guiding LLMs in the process. I guess that part still hasn't changed in a growing codebase.
Infrastructure for hosting static webpages with options for storing data, having users, sending notifications, shared "rooms", and various other bits and bobs all behind an mCP. All $0 practically because it's made up of static services from AWS.
Made for me, but I can provide access to friends and family, which is nice.
Also working on AI music video, trying to reach pro level, here is my last creation: https://youtu.be/aC4WQyKc_A0
Generate subtitles and dubs for any video, in the actors' own voices
https://github.com/swax/dub-anything
I use it to watch movies that have never been translated to English. A whole world of previously inaccessible media is opened up.
https://cool.computer/
A better, model-agnostic artifact experience to work with AI visually. You can annotate and draw on artifacts, so can your agents. You can share the artifacts with colleagues or friends and with your permission they can send comments to your agents too.
When you need more compute, artifacts turn themselves into microVMs automatically (paid feature) with a 8GB allowance
Euclase: http://euclase.ai - the creative harness for generative AI
Unifying all the various image/video gen (comfyui for local, api for closed) in one cohesive desktop app, with integrated agents to pilot the whole thing (if you want). It's been fun to build and quite fun to use. Technically out in beta and testable, but working on refining onboarding/docs before I try going wider.
Finding a balance between deep enough to satisfy more technical creatives (like me) and less technical ones. Agent integration helps tremendously with the latter.
My son is dyslexic. So I built a Chrome text-to-speech and reading tools extension to make it easier for him to get access to written content online (and also to support him at school). It has support for Google Docs and PDFs as well as the web. There are a few of these, but this one tries to stay out of the way, have better tracking, better voices and lower cost. Still more to do on the reading side - writing is next after that.
https://www.maylo.app/
Few apps I have originally mainly done for myself; Vaava (https://vaava.app) , been tweaking the e2ee data sync between connected apps, and the webrtc based baby monitor feature stability. Crazy how easily Astra / opus 55 level models create quite complex ad-hoc reproducible (almost automatable) test scenarios with 2 phones, laptop and other tools / peripherals they know they can use, for example for the baby monitor feature Astra did a setup for me which i can reproduce to test that the video + audio works fine between 2 phones for x time.
Also trying to replace own Duolingo usage with Fika Lingo (https://fikalingo.com) basic idea was to first repro the practice of matching words. There is now few other types of language / vocabulary practices. The practice generation works on-device with local LLM, you can give the topic yourself like "Words that relate to Hacker News". Downside at the moment is that English needs to be the counterpart of the practices. Cant guarantee good enough quality with something like germany <-> italy practices. I'm trying to do finetuning with LFM models to see if it would be feasible to improve the local practice generation.
Vicena.ai allows you to design, simulate and test new battery chemistries, new drugs… With the same ease as building software with coding agents.
It is an AI for Science connected to scientific compute and a network of labs, so you can do science end-to-end from your computer.
https://vicena.ai
I've been working on trying to be more helpful around the house, and trying to spend more time with my kids. I'm trying to give my partner a little bit of relief so that they can pursue their passions as well.
so wholesome <3
https://trymeli.app
Meli: A spending tracker for Mac designed with privacy in mind. Turns credit card alert emails into spending insights and budgets. I was in security for 15+ years and I built it because I didn't want to use Plaid or other aggregators and wanted my financial data locally on my device and not in the cloud. Spreadsheets required a lot of work to maintain so I wanted some sort of automation. Connects directly to your email (reads only alerts from supported senders) and all parsing happens on your device.
Works with seven major US banks (AMEX, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Discover, Bank of America and Wells Fargo) plus PayPal and Venmo.
Does this list cover most of your spending? If not, which banks or cards would you need?
Like 2h ago I was doing some research on that topic. I’ve heard about open banking a while back and thought: Oh that’s easy. I’ll just get an api key from my bank or “oath” into it. Sadly it’s not that easy.
How do you get programmatic access to your data?
Unfortunately it's not easy. In the US specifically banks don't generally offer APIs or keys to access them to individuals and you have to go through an aggregator like Plaid (which is what I want to avoid).
However, most banks do send alert emails when something is charged to a credit/debit card. Meli connects to your inbox read-only via OAuth (Google and Microsoft) or IMAP for other providers and reads those emails on your Mac.
Of course there are limitations to this approach, you only get access to the data that is available in those emails like merchant, amount, date and account.
Which banks are you interested in? Are you based in the US?
I'm working on Eigakan Guide (https://eigakanguide.jp/en), a cinema showtime aggregator for Japan. Every popular cinema site in Japan only allows for very few filters, making it hard to find exactly what I was looking for. So instead I built a site where it's possible to filter by area, cinema, date, time, features like IMAX, English audio, English subtitles, and more. This allows for searching for stuff like IMAX showtimes with English audio on Friday after 7PM.
Since the last time I posted on HN I've added 100s of cinemas, user features like being able to save search filters, movies, and specific showtimes. Also a ChatGPT plugin which allows for searching for movie showtimes using natural language directly inside of ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6abfdc298c208191...).
Finally I've added AI search to the site as well, allowing for natural language search with queries like "English audio showtimes near Shinjuku tomorrow" and so on.
I would really appreciate feedback for things to add, things that are hard to understand, and anything else!
Working on ZShot [1]. I'm about a year in on a local-only browser tuned specifically for CLI and API usage - kinda filling the gap for "geez, I sure wish I had a browser, but not one to look at". You need a webpage as PNG, or an MP4, or a website as a WACZ or SQLite database. There's a Mac app to help with discoverability of options, but I wanted for my local tooling and building services on top of it.
Along the way I ended up adding an internal agent framework to satisfy stuff like "log in, click the button, and then take a screenshot", out of which fell stuff like automatically generating Playwright tests from that. It even runs the Playwright test suite and Puppeteer test suites ( a bit faster, and for a lot less memory ). I kinda love this bit because I can layer in multiple models that will bounce control of the web session between each other, to do stuff like let a Typesafe model choose to escalate to Opus when it needs higher minded behavior. It's fun to watch it happen.
I've mentioned it a few times around here, I'll probably do a Show HN soon when I feel like it's ready for that. Hopefully soon.
[1] https://zshot-app.com/
Column view for hacker news with resizable fonts. It’s just a fun hobby thing for me. I’m not in software, but I can do hobby level programming and that gets leveled up by codex.
https://hn.orbitalchicken.com
Been working on my own Orca-like meta harness: getlattis.ai
Use it every day, and my team mates have started using it and loving it. In my dreams it’s a business. In reality the feedback I get from people that like it absolutely makes my day.
https://www.occasionful.com/ an unofficial Partiful client that is easier to use than the official website / app
An opensource personal expense tracker, I was a happy user from an offline expense tracker which wiped my data when playstore decided auto-updating it,
I'm at the point where I'm finally actively using it to register my activity, it is straightforward to register tickets by sending them to a telegram bot, then, reconcile those by uploading my bank statement.
I'm trying to get the lowest possible usage friction so that I keep using it.
So far the better built pieces related to the data ingestion. Once this is good enough I'll build reports + anything coming to my head as a useful piece.
I'm leveraging AWS textract + bedrock + bda to parse bank statements. I expected this would have been easier but it is still a very complex problem which had required me to put many iterations (so far it works nicely with my own statements)
For ticket parsing, AWS textract + parsing rules has been enough.
I wrote a bit more on my blog https://alexitc.com/blog/2026-10-16-opensourcing-my-expense-...
Repo at https://github.com/AlexITC/expense-tracker/
Sysadmin agents on old machines.
Run AI on machines 30 years old.
Entirely in legacy Perl.
HP-UX, OpenStep, Solaris 8, Tru64, Irix, old Linux. Legacy FreeBSD, NetBSD...
Optional desktop in tk.
There's even a proxy for modern tls.
https://github.com/kristopolous/old-agent
Still working on my audio FPAA ASIC for Wafer Space run 3!
Hopefully someone will soon have tested chips from the 2nd run that use 2 edges only on the pad ring. This would enable significant area savings.
The deadline is fast approaching and many blocks are only partially validated...
https://khumbu.im - app to study german language (extract highlighted words from paper, generate anki cards etc)
I'm working on two moderately large projects right now, both of which are interesting to me and maybe no one else, but why not share?
The first is withfire.app, which is basically a productization of the AI driven resume tailoring pipeline I used during my last job search. The landing page is still (AI) sloppy, but I think it has some neat features:
- a slick bookmarklet intake system for new job postings - just click the bookmarklet and the job is parsed automatically and added to your list
- improve-over-time tailoring: each tailoring will find skills the posting mentions that you don't have in your profile and ask you whether you have that skill, so your profile gets better and more specific over time
- nice, human-looking output options that look almost pixel for pixel like the hand-rolled resumes I used to submit
This system increased my hear-back rate for jobs by ~5x when I implemented it, and I figured it might be worth productizing. If you're interested in poking at please feel free to reach out! This is the first app I've ever built using AI end-to-end and it's been an awesome learning experience.
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The second thing I'm working on is an astrophotography tool called ministar (https://github.com/galbacarys/ministar). The premise is basically, let's automate the hard parts of untracked astrophotography by using plate solving to help you point your camera to your target, and then live-stacking the result taking into account the rotation of the Earth. It's very early days and hacky as fuck, but i'm hoping to port it to Linux/Raspberry pi in the near future so that you can use just a DSLR, a 3 way head, a tripod, a power bank and an SBC for a minimal but high quality astronomy setup anywhere. I took my first shots of the h-Persei cluster last night and the results were really great, I'm hoping to get a longer shot at Andromeda later this week.
If you're interested in either of these and wanna chat, ping me at gabethebando (at) proton (dot) me, I'm kinda loving this brave new world where my side projects actually gain enough legs fast enough for me to stay interested in them
I'm working on Zustri (https://zustri.com), booking and scheduling for therapists and salons. My girlfriend is a therapist and didn't like any of the booking/scheduling software she tried, so I built her one.
I finished the basics a long while ago. Since then I've added an AI agent, a public booking page, and support for multiple staff. Hopefully, I'm launching soon. Currently finishing final touches, gathering feedback and trying to figure out how to market this
I try to 'vibe code' a product every 2 weeks. Most of them go unpublished, I just build it for the sake of building it. Most recent project is Unmute Party (https://unmuteparty.com) - multiplayer party games for remote teams, played in the browser during a Zoom or Teams call. The server is EU-only for now, and I plan to add US servers next week. Most of it is free, the paid tiers aren't even working yet. The paid tiers can be unlocked by using code HNWHATAREYOUWORKINGON.
Apart from that, running a travel agency I'd never be able to without agents (they manage my ads, social media, website content etc.). Started with boa.ba and it went quite well, now preparing dobosnia.com
https://buzzpot.app — a shared canvas for agents and projects, which I am evolving into a multiplayer environment for teams.
https://leaflo.app — a CBT journal that I am developing into a library of CBT techniques and mini-courses.
https://plainline.app — an AI presentation service with a focus on text and data, rather than visuals.
https://petrosprawl.fyi/ An attempt to map oil infrastructure around the world
https://chord-network.vercel.app/ A tool that helps you build chord progressions
Outside of my day job, I've been working on:
- hermitator, a tool to run multiple isolated AI agents for WhatsApp on a single machine, with idle agents using no RAM: https://www.encona.com/posts/hermitator/
- showntell, which allows your coding agent to explain things to you with a video that starts playing within a few seconds of you asking: https://www.encona.com/posts/showntell/
- a philosophy tutor (testing in private for now) that does 2:1 live philosophy lessons, each exploring a single topic (aimed at ~10yo kids). I've tested this successfully (i.e. two kids did an hour and they want to do it again), and am trying to make improvements.
- some other education-related things
- a jmail-style mailbox viewer: https://www.encona.com/posts/mailbox-viewer/
Oh, showntell is nice! I'll try incorporating it into my project (obeya.si), which already uses demo videos to show me work it did. But when I ask a question, the response is still just text. Could be so much better with your solution.
I'm working on 3 products now:
1. FormBeep(https://formbeep.com) at $38 MRR now - A form to Whatsapp tool. Stack is mainly CF workers with Clerk Auth.
2. SlashLink(https://slashlink.app) $0 - A simple pay as you go amazon link localizer. Great for affiliate folks and a cheaper alternative to Genius. Stack is same, CF workers with SQLite(D1)
3. StackStats(https://stackstats.app) $791 - A better advanced analytics app for Substack writers, fully local. I have been writing on Substack for a while now and their analytics suck!
I'm working on a better way to design longer scrolling pages with multiple sections, while preserving the visual look/feel and drastically speeding up the experience.
Here's a demo: https://non.io/video/linen-demo.mp4
As a disclaimer I cut 32 seconds of generation time out of that video, but still I'm quite happy with the speed. Not launched yet, but it's been fun to work on / wanted to show off progress :)
A desktop app to easily browse, tag, and rate your images. It doesn't touch your files, it just reads them. Everything is stored in a local SQLite database. Think Eagle app but private, offline, and easy to use.
I'm working on an iPhone app called PhotoGather. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photogather/id6738232616
I've got 40k+ photos on my iphone, and wanted a better way to interact with them. The basic idea I had was to virtually stitch all the photos together into a gigapixel image, and navigate that image with pinch and zoom. On import, the app hierarchically groups photos based on date and similarity. The user can go back and edit the groups, change the layout, and adjust the size of photos if they choose.
The interesting I noticed is that in the process of curating and organizing my photos, I stumble across memories and moments that I had completely forgot.
Development Challenge: The app does two interesting things underneath the hood... First, given an arbitrary number of thumbnails with different aspect ratios, it finds the best sized rectangle that completely fits all the photos. This allows me to recursively stitch groups together and always output a rectangular thumbnail for the group. Second, the pinch/zoom UI uses these nested thumbnails directly without slicing/dicing to fixed sized tiles.
Writing. I'm going to start an MFA next fall at LSU New Orleans. My latest piece, Three Black and Milds, a night in Juarez. No commentary, no lesson, just the city and the people in it, what it sells and what is bought.
https://www.metanoia-research.com/dispatch-007-three-black-a...
I am building a tandem, reverse-trike halftrack, using the front end of an ATV and the back end of a snowmobile.
Replacing snowmobile skis with wheels is not a novel idea, but I wanted something which rides more like a motorcycle, with extra length for a passenger and a cargo basket.
It should end up looking like it came out of Mad Max; I plan to cruise around at festivals, running an ad-hoc taxi service, as a way of meeting people and striking up conversations.
Audion https://github.com/audion-lang/audion
I needed a code-first approach for making installations and interactive art. MaxMsp gets messy with very big projects. Python didn't really work well for music making and Tidal/Pi/Sclang are only meant for sound. So I needed something that has bpm synchronized threads, but can draw and do anything else like file IO, networking, hardware control etc. It works quite well now.
I have a service that crunches public filings in the financial sector: https://embarc.com
There is a lot of data for browsing, though it doesn’t aim to solve specific user problems as of yet (I did take a stab with RTOs in the logged in dashboard).
https://embarc.com/dashboard/companies/rto
My main projects are still Grasshopper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
And Meltdown https://meltdown.merkoba.com/
Grasshopper is a tab manager for Firefox.
Meltdown is a an AI harness made in python and tkinter.
You can check screenshots of it and descriptions in the link.
Also I've been blogging a lot recently on a weight loss blog. I like asking Kimi for reviews on what I write.
https://getmoulin.com/
An audiobook player that plays local audiobooks & librivox books. Also has a curated library of audio drama podcasts.
Serverless Wordpress + MariaDB without requiring plugins or any modifications to customer code: https://www.agiler.io
The serverless MariaDB is important because it can scale to zero, so you have dev sites that cost less than $0.50/mo.
Also added MCP and CLI tooling that exposes all of the infrastructure + WP CLI + DB so agents can develop WP sites... which is nice because you can still use the WP admin interface, while using AI to develop the site, debug it, change pages and posts, etc.
Ive been blogging about learning how LLM services work. Just finished the 2nd part and hoping to do the last part this week. https://matthewtejo.substack.com/p/designing-an-llm-chat-ser...
Hunting bugs in the Python ecosystem using fuzzers and AI tools I develop. If you have a Python package or extension you'd like analyzed, just let me know.
https://github.com/ReviewToolkits
https://github.com/devdanzin/fusil
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/
1-year part-time experiment: can you build a large project with AI writing the code and AI plus deterministic tools verifying/guiding/enforcing it for structural and behavior consistency, without a human reading the code?
I'm building a polyglot web framework in 15 languages, with C# and Lean4 as the reference implementations. Structural and behavioral audits using deterministic tools check that every port stays consistent with the reference. It's about 1.8M lines now. I have not reviewed the code/neither have i verified the behavior tests except at the time of giving requirement and never seen some of the language code at all.
The question is how far can we produce "working code → correct code [Possible] → good code [Unknown]" with deterministic audits correcting structure, ai mistakes and behavior validation.
So far the quality looks acceptable with lots of correction of AI output done without looking, but it isn't fully verified.
Line counts per language, with changes since August: https://claude.ai/artifact/5f1m1pTM7tZ4boQzwsoAG7
the link got deleted accidently and i had my noprocast flag on and hence go locked out. The new link is https://claude.ai/artifact/GaHoaHxqzBiYxoMQYabmJt
APIKulture. An alternative to Postman/Insomnia/Bruno.
To be honest, I started this because Postman and Insomnia became forced-corporate-cloud not usable for me anymore, and Bruno lacked a feature I considered fundamental for my workflow.
The feature is to remember the JSONPath expressions between requests, a feature that Bruno has implemented already.
But I created this thing and I'm using it daily since then. C++ and wxWidgets, it uses 40MB of RAM, and it is super fast, instead of the 400MB used by the above mentioned programs.
https://www.apikulture.com/
I'm creating an IDE for founders to run their operations. Create automations (deterministic), dashboards, and soon notification systems. It's a desktop app, and the whole IDE runs in pair with claude/codex through local mcp.
It was developed as an internal tool at my other startup, Ipek helped us to run the whole thing smoother and with all the context I need.
https://ipek.run
https://www.abejora.com - time tracking for freelancers and small teams
Lately we've been working on access for AI agents. A lot of people want their own agent to do the repetitive part of time tracking. Control remains important, which is why we rebuilt our core this month to support change history and full undo/redo functionality. Feel free to try it with your own agent.
We built this after the timesheet tool we paid for raised its prices and moved some features that we used regularly behind more expensive plans. We had to add three new colleagues, and everything combined this would cost us $500 a year more for the same software.
We run Elixir and Phoenix LiveView on a Kubernetes cluster made of Talos instances.
We're still looking for feedback on the product, so please let us know what you think!
We also added a live-demo functionality to make it easier to try. It spins up a workspace just for you, with sample data in it. You can make that workspace your own by adding your own data and undoing the creation of the sample data via "History". It should just take a single click.
This month I'm working on several projects:
1. Broadcast (https://sendbroadcast.net) - Self hosted email marketing software. Been working on this since 2024 and positive revenue. Releasing v3 this week! :)
2. Render Screenshot (https://renderscreenshot.com) - Screenshot API (very much a scratch my own itch project)
3. Widgetful (https://widgetful.com) - A menubar app for managing multiple Claude Code agent sessions
ColliePWA[1] a mobile interface to continue working with your agents when you're on the. Trying to meet devs where they work on the desktop in multiplexers (herdr/tmux/zellij). Remote access can be set up with any front door like tailscale.
Still not sure where this is going as the space is super crowded and moving fast, but it's solving a lot of my own problems and doesn't rely on third parties to run.
[1] https://colliepwa.dev
I'm working on Hale, an abstract distributed systems language.
It's a traditional systems language in the sense that you have fine control over how resources are used, but it's abstract in the sense that you have to come to an agreement with the compiler about your intent around the resources, rather than directly declaring the machinery.
It's a distributed language in the sense that there is a higher level structural abstraction in the language that situates computations of the program within a recursive graph structure. Part of that structure incorporates message broker semantics. This gives the compiler a unified view of programs across arbitrary process boundaries. The structural abstractions also enable an effects+formal verification syntax within the language, which allows programmers to codify architectural decisions that are then checked by the compiler.
The compiler itself is infrastructure aware, and the highest layer of functionality it handles is configuring the environment into which applications deploy. The single language handles everything from individual memory allocations to distributed fleet deployments.
The language is close to v1, and I'm currently building a fully distributed inference-as-a-service application with it. Arbitrary hardware/supply matched against arbitrary callers/demand in real time.
https://github.com/hale-lang/hale https://github.com/hale-lang/voice
3 products:
- https://polygonjs.com/: a design tool to create interactive 3D configurators
- https://polyreprint.com/: a hosting platform for those configurators. See more enterprise-type examples on https://polygonjs.com/configurators
- https://polyreplay.com/: game made with said design tool
For the past two years I've been working on my day planner app Ember.
Most planners treat your schedule as fixed, so the moment a meeting runs long or a task takes twice as long, the plan is wrong and you either fix it by hand or give up on it. In Ember, if you move a task or change how long it takes, everything after it shifts later, and it flows around fixed things like meetings. It's been super helpful and I have been adding new features ever since.
Right now I'm working on a native Kotlin app to replace the current one is web + Capacitor and exploring full duplex voice models so I can add or move things around the app while having a conversation with an agent.
homepage: https://emberflow.space demo: https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn
I've always been interested in health, longevity, and biohacking.
I'm Canadian but I moved to USA to work for Microsoft. One thing I liked about the USA was how easy it was to order bloodwork/lab testing. My original idea was to bring that experience to Canada, but since starting I've found other ways to improve the patient healthcare experience in Canada too.
My company is https://teletest.ca
I'm reverse engineering the streaming protocol for three different brands of cheap surveillance video cameras. Each brand has its own app. They're all awful. None of them have a native desktop MacOS app. I've successfully created a native app for MacOS and Android for one of the brands. They're faster and work better than the ones they're replacing. One down, two to go.
XMEye?
Would be interested in replacing, too.
Still plugging away on Flopper to build a holistic view of the GPU market including providers, rental prices, vendor information and mostly - specs for GPUs.
Added a way to look at power/flops and new model requirements lately to try and estimate how many GPUs you need to run a certain model: https://flopper.io/tools/llm-gpu-calculator?model=llama-3-3-...
https://github.com/Polign/recall
Polign Recall, a state and memory management for agents that can provide append only state logging and governance. The memory and storage is completely on BYOC setup and can work with confidential workloads
For now Im working on an agent-orchestration application that is taking tickets from a tracker and giving them to an Agent. It's called Even Keel.
The main feature is, that I can use different subscriptions/API keys (Claude and Codex - v0.1.4) and trackers (GitHub, Linear and Huly - v0.1.4) to make Even Keel start an agent for every single issue, task by task, one at a time per folder. There is also a parallel feature, so I can run more than 1 project at a time.
Once upon a time, when codex agent was integrated into the app, I wrote a ticket to make codex his own hook. It reused a hook that blocked its own git merge, if tests did not pass. I started calling it "A new agent writes its own cage"... Right after, it turned out it doesn't listen to the hook and it fixed it
Version 0.1.4 is already shipped, but v0.2 is coming soon with more supported trackers, agents and new features.
https://github.com/NamerekT/even-keel
When I was a kid I loved a game called "Stars!" from 1995. I cloned the core and I'm also adding my own touch and lots of high sci-fi concepts. Already fun to play, early access coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5482440/Asteria_4X
How to make data storage on multiple storage devices unbreakable and consistent? The former means for me that back-ups should be automatical and serverless, the latter means that no matter how much of that HDD/SDD devices are connected, I want always to know all metadata of all files I have. I want this software under GPLv3 if to consider GPL still protects me from anything because permissive licenses are no better than WTFPL by any single case.
My first idea is to require the user to have more than one disk for the system needs and the system should know all of the rest data devices user owns. My second idea is to treat different files as having different priority which impose multiple copies. My third idea is to make the software accessible, and the last idea is to make encrypting of all the devices easy and with no ties to any commertial entities. I would like to have a discussion about how to not lose anything digital.
Still changing along on Incredible (https://www.incredible.rs/) a Rust Text User Interface (TUI) Framework for the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century.
It is New, Experimental, Modular, Declarative, Event Driven and Reactive. It builds cross-platform apps that can be compiled for the terminal (macOs, Windows, Linux), a standalone native window (macOS & Windows 11), or the browser (via WASM) from one unified code base.
Curious if this project will ever be 90% done.. ;)
A video game in which players can build their own worlds. The brains of the creatures in the video game are a small language model + harness that runs in your browser: http://id-le.com
It’s open source: https://github.com/nicobrenner/id-le
I’ve been working on my inertial navigation library. It actually beats ArduPilot’s navigation subsystem in my benchmarks. I’ve been working on these algorithms since my PhD thesis and now I am releasing the stuff as open source embedded C and Python library:
https://github.com/jnz/inslib
I’ve been working on Beacon, which just got Beacon approved on the App Store! It’s a mobile app to instantly answer “which friend is free to talk right now?” and summon them in a single tap.
Send your beacon to a group, and everyone gets a gentle ping. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well! It’s best if you're able to join with 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like absolute magic to me. I tap the button to send my beacon to everyone and get a random friend on the line.
https://trybeacon.chat/
HostsTray, tray utility to manage your hosts file, that also has a reverse HTTPS proxy builtin, that installs a self-signed CA and generates certs on-the-fly.
https://github.com/maxmart/hoststray
Also it forces your browser to "flush" their DNS by killing the keep-alive connections that for example Chrome keeps open in background. And it can be controlled by your local coding agent through a simple API (which also serves the skill for it)
Just released this: https://github.com/rlorenzo/deadwood-rs
Since everyone is rewriting everything into Rust I created a tool akin to fallow (https://fallow.tools), but for Rust:
Finds dead code that LLMs leave behind.
>Making a simple game
>Want player scripts to be possible (And dogfood it for enemy ai too)
>Behavior tree dep looks too easy, let's make a dsl + interpreter
>Typed builders are annoying (because stateful), lets separate into builders -> untyped ast -> typed ir
>Hm, typed ir is super repetitive, now I have a schema (ts) -> codegen (ts) -> .ts / .rs build step
Fun waste of 2 weeks, not even counting the time spent on pl literature
Working on a tool to provide a thin OIDC auth layer for self-hosted LLM engines. Users log in with your Org's identity provider, generate an API key for themselves, point their harnesses at your instance of the relay, and then they're off to the races.
No web chat interface, no call-us-for-pricing feature gating, just a tight Erlang program for people who want to get shit done!
I wrote a children’s story in Galician about open source. It's told as a fable. I made it open source, and people are now helping translate it into Spanish and English.
I’m looking for ways to fund printing and distribute the book. If anyone has done something similar, I’d love to learn from your experience!
Still cracking on with https://whistle-enterprise.com and making improvements to the document generation model. I'm ditching my old trusty Phi4 model and testing out some other small models to fine tune, something about Phi4 just seemed to work quite well for what it was so it's a hard contender to beat for midrange laptop CPU inference at a decent rate and quality.
A networking-over-DNS client and server, in Go. https://sr.ht/~nullenenenen/ShrewDNS/
A bit like iodine in the basic idea, but the execution and network topologies you build with it are different. It's more of a building block; you get your DNS channels represented as UDP endpoints, and take it from there, ie you can run Wireguard over it, or SSH or a SOCKS5 proxy (using quicmux, so over QUIC), or run Mosh straight over DNS if you're crafty.
It has an Android app too! I tried to submit it to F-Droid but they're so swamped in spammy or low-quality apps that they're not taking any brand new apps :-( A sad state of affairs, that.
Built an app to suggest best local beach for given weather for my town. My partner shared with local moms and they seem to be loving it - https://beach.metacursion.com/
Also revived old project - https://aminosplore.metacursion.com - the idea was to compare what essential amino acids each food contains using spider web chart. It’s been dead for a while due to USDA API changes so I revived, added macros and enabled to build foods into actual recipes.
Finally have been improving elsrc.com - an easy and scalable way to use ai image generators. If you need hundreds of images you can just request them by url. Supports versioning, batching, regional and national styling based on viewers IP and few other neat features!
For the first time in along while, I'm not actually working on anything. I do some vibe coding for fun.
I'm kinda leaning towards vibe coding my own GUI coding agent. I currently use Pi and recently have been playing with Herdr and Paseo, but none of these feels right to me. These are amazing tools, but ai think we could do better. But I'm very hesitant - I know the only way to "succeed" in a project like this is to write (vibe code) hundreds of thousands of lines of code and it's kinda depressing.
https://trylendify.com/
I'm working on an AI powered loan servicing platform. We've been trying to get cold / warm intros to onboard a set of design partners
I've been working on a planner for the past 2 years for people whose day never goes the way they planned it.
I was trying to solve the problem I had with time-blocking, where your day ends up derailed and you give up on it because it takes too long to replan. I have solved with the idea of a cascading calendar. If I move a task down or change its duration it pushes other tasks later in the day.
Since then its kinda grown into my full productivity system for logging my thoughts and planning and documenting my life
https://emberflow.space
You can demo here for free https://demo.emberflow.space/?ref=hn
A small team and I are working on Sendery [1], a transactional email platform for product teams. We're trying to fix some of the headaches that come with managing product emails as companies scale: keeping track of hundreds of templates, maintaining consistent designs, coordinating changes between developers and marketing/ops, and managing everything across multiple languages is way more time consuming than it should be.
It's been a fun project to work on since it's been a pain point for myself on many projects, so I'm mostly just trying to solve my own set of problems and hoping other people find it useful too.
[1] https://sendery.co
Working on a Chrome (& Firefox) extension to make finding and downloading Free DLs on Soundcloud easier.
https://cratediggr.com/
Artists make users jump through hoops to like, comment, repost etc.. before giving them access to the download - CrateDiggr highlights the free downloads in the Soundcloud UI and clicks through the download gates for users.
Been a fun passion project, check it out if you download tracks from Soundcloud!
Getting https://streamish.github.io/ ready to launch, a music server compatible with multiple 3rd party mobile apps and particularly Synology and QNAP. Want to do Plex next but I suspect that's a dead-end since I think you can't directly sign in you have to do it through their website.
Now putting it to personal use and keeping an eye out for issues and rough bits to smooth over.
Built with -
NestJS, Sequelize + SQLite, OpenAPI, and Jest
React, TanStack, Shadcn, and Playwright
https://www.haptrix.com - An Core Haptics editor, with the release of the iPhone Duo, the editor finally makes sense on device, so I've been working on the new UI.
https://www.phonique.com - An AVAudioEngine/PHASE Audio graph editor, it's easy to connect nodes together visually, then export the wired graph as Swift
I helped with Immersion Studio almost 30 years ago, very cool to see this. Don't have a Duo but will try it out.
https://archive.org/details/ifeel-immersion-touchware-deskto...
Hence (https://hencegame.com) is a modern twist on Einstein's puzzle, with fun picture clues instead of text. It's a free online daily puzzle, the same for everyone, where every puzzle is always solvable by pure deduction with no guessing. I launched it October 5. The hardest part was the graphics, making each picture clue unique enough that you recognize it immediately and know what category it's from, even at small sizes. Easier said than done.
Every puzzle is run through a verifier first to make sure it is solvable without any guessing, just by pure logic, so there is always a next step to find, which is what makes it feel so rewarding. There's a hint system to help and it works really well if I do say so myself . No account needed to play.
From what I've been hearing so far, the people who have checked it out are enjoying it and can't wait for tomorrow's puzzle, so that's a good sign. I'd love to hear how the difficulty feels, and whether the pictures read clearly.
https://chattymaps.com/
An easy way to find a place that works for everyone. Think of it as a doodle for places.
You can also create collections of places, ask for recommendations etc.
https://hn.fiodorov.es AI-powered search across all HackerNews comments
https://climate.fiodorov.es Agentic analysis of climates of world cities with more than 300k inhabitants
Both have mcp.
I vibe-made a Russian life simulator called Frontline Rush:
https://rawdod.com
I vibe-proofed the ABC conjecture (IUT LEAN Fable):
https://github.com/oneman/motizukipdf and https://1234567890.help/
Yeah
I just got Beacon approved for the Apple App Store, it’s a mobile app for answering “which friend is free to talk right now?”
It’s a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets pinged at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. It does not log any missed calls so there’s neither pressure to answer nor pressure to return calls.
Overall it works really well! It works best if you're able to join with at 4+ friends/family you’d like to chat with more. I have dozens of connections in the app now and it feels like magic to me. I press the button and get a random friend!
https://trybeacon.chat/
I've been working on https://gitsocial.org/ for a year and a half now. The approach is to keep it all in git: issues, PRs, comments, releases, etc.
Hoping it becomes a viable self-hosted alternative to GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg!
Still working on ShopSpec, a parametric deterministic furniture builder. Trying to find time to put more actual builds in the gallery - have a few projects that are in progress while continuing to build out the tool and iterate where I find personally useful.
https://shopspec.io
I'm still working on my own shell based AI tool. This month I am testing and reworking it to try and get useful results with really small models, like 2B level. Goal is to get help debugging Linux issues when offline with these small models that can run anywhere. Then also being able to access cloud based models to do harder stuff once online. all while feeling like a CLI tool.
github.com/patrickjh/ssa
https://github.com/ivankovic/stop-bots
Trying to keep my selfhosted server safe with a Rust TUI for managing bot blocking at the nftables and nginx level.
AGPL v3
GeoPeek, a small macOS Quick Look extension for GeoJSON. I work with geospatial data and wanted to press Space on a .geojson in Finder and see a map instead of raw JSON. It also shows an attribute table and basic stats. https://github.com/serifsadi/geopeek
https://github.com/a-poor/ganymede
I'm working on a native Jupyter client, written in Rust!
I’ve been working on an accounting agent factory (https://www.translucent.io) . Building a harness and infra that can process books with thousands of invoices, transactions, etc. is quite rewarding and challenging. In particular the long-running nature of things.
I'm working on a cross-file deterministic drift checker https://github.com/mennanov/blockwatch
The idea is that the source code is annotated with special rules which configure how parts of the code (also configs and docs) depend on each other. This can be done either directly in the source code comments or in a config file blockwatch.toml
This tool is very useful for large codebases that e.g. share constants across programming languages and configs, have docs that should strictly reflect the current state of the code, etc
It uses tree-sitter to parse the source code, 35+ languages are supported.
The project is actively developed, your feedback is welcomed! Thanks!
We've been reverse engineering the tensor core on TPU v5: https://gherkinlabs.com/v5e-tensorcore-instructions
The work mainly stems from a belief that Nvidia gpus' architecture are a bit subpar for machine learning and that tpu could be a viable alternative but are still rather undocumented.
Ok, I assume google would have an API documentation. Why would you need to interface at the instruction level?
https://sdkgarden.com/
been curious about the intersection between observability, SDKs, and product analytics. i couldn't find anything around SDK observability so built this little tool. curious what yall think!
i assume at bigger orgs there is some internal handrolled tool like this that ingests datadog/sentry/whatever info...if anyone plays around in this space and has feedback id love it!
Magic AI - I'm using it as a sanitized kids chatgpt for 7 activities: Story, image creation, chat, reflections, journal, learn and quizzes. Sends me daily summary on Whatsapp.
It started with building pi in the cloud - with pure cloud flare workers. I have it working now, and can spin up - the wrangler agent can fully run it as long as you pass it an inference key, including a file view, a chatgpt like experience, and ability to build and host custom apps. Can use alarms to wake up to do plain language tasks, etc.
Trying to figure out how to package this up, and where this would even be useful for other apps.
Building a soccer game based on Mike Tyson's Punch Out, just to see if I can create some method to see if an agent can iterate on making something more fun. Obviously that depends on the definition of fun (which is already a can of worms), but it's a fun way to use a different side of the brain.
A mobile car racing game with novel, one-handed controls: https://awais.io/simracer
https://geotastic.us/ An AI analyst for ArcGIS. A lot of city data in the US is stored in ArcGIS or Socrata. This tool uses LLMs to generate code to analyze it.
https://docking.cc is a Linux dock bar with Wayland, X11, Linux, Free/Open/NetBSD and experimenting on Windows
It has 60+ native applets like WhatsApp, Hacker News, Reddit, Calendar, Weather, ...
I've been working on a project to reduce attack surface of Linux document readers, starting with Okular: https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng
The idea is to sandbox the most dangerous parts of it: The Document parser and renderer.
A south-park style animation creator, where you paste in a script and it will animate a short episode for you with voice too!
https://limittox.github.io/south-park-animator/
No example(s)?
https://robheffern.palaich.net/sports/
I like sports! I like data! Combine!
This lets you see what the games on today are most similar to in the history of the sport. Click into one and see.
Also, the Sports Zodiac.
Like farmers of the olden years and the stars, we kinda set our clocks by sports these days. But what does that look like?
'Play the Years' to see a good timeline of how the years go by.
The war years, the lockouts, and the pandemic are just really easy to see in the data and quite stunning really
Still working away on my book (and library book) recommendations service https://leafle.org
It has if nothing else been very useful for me (it has correctly deduced that I would get something out of borrowing Grief is the Thing With Feathers, the Dispossessed, and Cosmicomics, none of which I would have thought of reading). Plus it has been a fun opportunity to play around with LLMs as an interface and a research and reverse engineering tool; as well as Jev for non-user facing quality work like banning crap openrouter providers based on their output before putting it in front of a user.
Most recently I’ve been dropping off flyers for it at a few local libraries in my area.
I tried it out nd it looks nice!. It’s a great way to support local libraries and bookshops. I hope you have a ton of success!
Thanks! Hope it found you something interesting.
My integrated terminal + file browser with enhanced autocomplete and search. Replaces all native OS ones for me: https://github.com/David-OConnor/peregrine . Also includes misc utility OS functionality, tailored. (Advanced clipboard, a scratchpad etc)
For the last year I’ve been building personalized tools to help my wife with her day trading and have started to productize them as https://cuppa.markets/
A modern take on the game FTL: Faster Than Light, with inventory autobattler gameplay. It is called Cosmo Cargo and a demo is available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4659480/Cosmo_Cargo_Demo/
Building a replacement for docker focused on better isolation and more lightweight resource utilization.
It's a sandbox that you can embed ala the sqlite of VM's.
Link: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
I keep saving blogs and articles but almost never revisit them. So I’m building an Android app designed to help me actually read what I save. You only get one saved article per day. Finish today’s read to unlock the next one. You can also save Twitter, Reddit, etc. posts separately and revisit them anytime.
Right now I’m mainly validating whether people would actually want something like this. If there’s enough interest, I’ll run a small closed beta for Android.
Join the waitlist for beta access: https://forms.gle/XWXmK8HUSmAtfms29
TO be honest, I dont think I will pay for this, though revenue can still come through Ads
An MIT re-implementation of an AGPL project with a very anti AI community.
I was recently laid off, so I've been pouring myself into a new paas offering and communications suite. Hoping to have something to show off here very soon. We will see.
I've been building out a link blog idea called Linked List that I've wanted for a long time. Curation will be even more important in the future and I would love to have another option beyond Hacker News and Lobsters to find good reads suggested by fellow humans. It has been a fun space to explore ideas.
Not quite ready to open up sign-ups, but you can get an idea of the site here: https://linkedl.ist/@kale
I'm working on a simple way for AI's to talk to each other: https://counterparts.ai/phone
So far it's helpful for messages between my own AI's (chatgpt and claude etc), and for having my AI trade tech tips with a friend's AI or talk to my wife's AI. My AI also got its first message from a strangers AI from france which has also been really interesting. I read all messages first and approve before sending anything, but otherwise they're just talking about whatever they want.
An MCP server to act as lore persistent record and tools to orient an open world text adventure game played through AI agents.
The theme is an empty Earth. All natural Earth with no human constructions (until the players start playing and occupying it).
Using Rust and RocksDB.
eremoterra.com
Building Wishfox [1] for around 6 years. It's a wishlist app with price tracking, groups, secret Santa and more. Recently did a major rebranding, and the mobile app is almost ready for testers.
Then I'm working on improving my two open-source apps, Portfox [2] and Localfox [3]. Portfox shows ports for running services and dev servers, Localfox provides them with .localhost domains with TLS and Cloudflare tunnels.
[1] https://wishfox.app [2] https://github.com/xergic/portfox [3] https://github.com/xergic/localfox
Tritium, the legal IDE: https://tritium.legal/preview
Building the web-embeddable legal IDE for transactional AI-native law firms. Docx, PDF and Markdown in the browser with redlining, go-to definition and more. In Rust, of course.
I’m building Tinta, a journal app for Android where all the AI runs on the phone. It works in airplane mode once the models are downloaded.
You write or dictate an entry, and a small model (LFM2.5 1.2B) asks you a question to reflect further. It turns out 1.2B models are decent at asking questions, so I leaned into that. An embedding model finds older entries about the same thing and shows bits of them under the new one.
Most people using it are on budget phones running the models on the CPU, where the app provides good experience.
https://tinta.page
Great idea! I'd love this, but as an open source app. Out of interest (not a criticism), what made you decide to do this closed source, especially considering there doesn't seem to be a commercial interest involved (for now)?
Thanks for a good question! I see this app as an MVP that needs user feedback to deliver exceptional value in a world where cloud AI is abundant and doesn't use 2GB+ of RAM to run. I am excited to see what shape it will take, and it feels too early to determine source availability.
I am building a system that connects texts (books, research papers, etc.) in a meaningful way to help people decide what to read and be aware of how texts relate to each other.
This sounds like a really cool project, do you have a repo or anything?
Not yet, but I am planning on making it open-source later.
Started making youtube videos again, using my human brain to pick the topics and write the scripts, and AI to edit them (mostly).
Here's one about speculative decoding (and how it speeds up AI inference): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGnIKjGIwjA
I am building Abbox trying to help engineers focus longer on tasks without being interrupted by non-technical people with small requests.
I always got annoyed by change this h1 to h2, add tracking to share button, why can’t the customer play the video, the styles don’t match figma.
If you are engineer who also gets distracted I would love to hear your opinion and feedback. It is a bit hard to put it all together as every department has his own needs and opinion about the website.
My email kamran.elchuzade@gmail.com
AI client for data analysis.
You can connect Claude desktop to databases using MCP servers, but Claude desktop is not great at displaying large volumes of data. A custom client can do a much better job.
https://reportr.com/
That's a crowded space right now! We've been exploring augmented analytics for a few months at work
What does it do differently to https://getnao.io/ ?
It is a full-featured reporting tool, and can be used without AI. If you do use AI it has a semantic layer to help AI understand your table and column names, and relationships between tables.
Two main side projects lately:
Thesoapbox.email - a social experiment email lottery to see what people do when suddenly given enormous reach. Every day a new subscriber is drawn to email the whole list. It’s hit 10,000 views in a couple of weeks which is my most viral project so far.
The second - a personal AI learning platform built on recursive self improvement and tailored content to push my boundaries. I’m a lifelong learner and this unifies everything for me. (Currently not public)
I've been working on an Obsidian plugin to quickly enter caloric and nutritional data (https://www.github.com/Krishna-Sivakumar/joule). The core features are done (A DSL and a runtime for finding and resolving formulae recursively), and I need to work on documentation and some convenience features. Hoping to finish it this month!
I'm wrapping up my 2+ years of work on a browser-based version of EverQuest that plays itself: https://idlequest.net/
Also have some other cool browser-based 3d game projects listed here: https://brynnbateman.com/
including an online version of Shenmue: https://newyokosuka.com/
Storyline isn't available yet, but about 75% done with it
Maintaining my indie social network for tech people https://stackness.dev/ (currently struggling to keep users on the platform, even games and achievements didn't help, can you believe that? :D)
and this weekend I'll finally launch a tool for guitarists and their friends https://kantamigo.com/
Working on a modern implementation of a torrent client [1], it's already pretty usable for most scenarios. Provides both a daemon + web UI out of the box as well as an embeddable engine for any Rust application.
[1] - https://spill.rs
Launched a word logic puzzle game called Meshword: https://meshword.org
It combines nonograms with crosswords, requiring both logic and word knowledge to solve. I am still working on the interface and tutorial, as well as the puzzle difficulty levels.
I'm working on a TradingView Pine Script compatible Python framework: https://pynecore.org . And a Pine Script compiler for it + a full IDE for Pine Script with syntax highlight, language server, full featured debugger, charting, data downloads: https://pynesys.io . It is 99.771% bit exact on the top 1000 Pine Scripts and 100% trade match. I'm doing it solo.
A PR Review tool for ergonomics - https://bobby.viraj.computer
* files in organised trees/graphs generated using LSPs and symbol references instead of linear file list * keyboard shortcuts for everything from navigation, pan, zoom, comment, note, submit... * mostly github compatible with native features * LSP powered symbol resolution for inspecting definitions and references * LLM powered reviews supported * Inline LLM question answering
We just got a puppy, and needed a way to track potties to help us with house training. So, with AI/Claude's help, I found a similar open source package (Baby Buddy), forked it, and very quickly made it my own. Self-hosted, local for privacy reasons.
Repo: https://github.com/viciousnemesis/housetrained
Puppy: https://imgur.com/piDE0gq
Trying to get the kids outside: https://eyesoutside.org
and letting families hold off on screens for a few more years: https://readychime.com
Currently we are working on Kumoss Open Source, intent-based infrastructure platform that turns natural-language requests into infrastructure changes, while keeping validation, compliance and existing engineering workflows in the loop.
https://github.com/InditexTech/kumoss
Basically allow developers to request any infrastructure need in a web portal and automatically that request is fulfilled following the organization standards the platform team defined.
Any feedback or comment is more than welcomed!
Any feedbac
https://schmolt.itch.io/wormlove
A little puzzle game where you make worms kiss. 32 levels, plays in your browser.
I've been working on a small search engine for content creators that play and/or review indie games. It's written in C and has been a lot of fun to work on.
https://marketyour.games
https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
Turning RSS, atom, blog feeds into audio feeds with kokoro tts. Free, web app only.
https://porchlit.app/
I built the original for myself because I wanted to listen to acoup and other history blogs while sleeping. And in the spirit of getting better at finishing projects decided make it public even tho it’s nothing really unique or special.
Still lots to polish especially in the text/copy and ui but the core features should be working.
A domain search app called NameTheory: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nametheory-domain-search/id680...
It uses Apple Intelligence to help brainstorm domain name ideas. I’m interested in seeing what small local models can do as they catch up to larger ones, this is my first iOS app so I started with something simple that scratches my own itch.
Working on a natural language intelligence layer for contacts - "Pull everyone I know who works at a Series A healthtech in the Bay Area who also went to Stanford for ungrad" => either structured or unstructured results. Large-scale data support, automatically enriched with up-to-date data, fast/accurate results. Integrates natively with Gmail and Gcal.
Looking to pilot for free with small qualified teams (early-stage startups with real/immediate need).
hello@llmsolutions.ai
I've been working on a voxel game engine called Bonsai for ~10 years.
Probably the most interesting thing about it at the moment is the editor. The world, and most things in it, are represented as collections of SDFs. More accurately, they're density fields, but, potato-tomato. One neat thing about representing the world as SDFs is they've been thoroughly researched and documented by a guy named Inigo Quilez, and they have a lot of nice mathematical properties. For example, you can do a smooth union of arbitrary SDFs to get nice rounded contours where shapes join.
The world generator and editor operate almost entirely on the GPU. The terrain and editor pipeline is a three stage process. The first stage is user-configurable; users write an arbitrary 'shaping' shader in GLSL. The second stage is a fused stage; it does a convolution on the output of the first stage to compute a normal, runs a second user-configurable 'decoration' function, and finally applies edits. Edits are collections of SDFs that are 'compiled' from a graph structure on the CPU into a bytecode, and interpreted in the shader. The last stage runs another convolution to compute the final normal, then packs an occupancy bit, color, and normal down into a 32-bit representation, suitable for transfer back to the CPU. I expect I will expand this to include additional user-level bits for encoding biome type and GPU-driven spawning.
The entire shader pipeline is one fused 'ubershader' .. everything is bound at startup and the shader is dispatched three times, incrementing a 'Stage' uniform on each dispatch. This strategy conceptually makes the driver overhead nearly zero, and the profile agrees.
The final step in the process is giving the CPU a chance to spawn additional entities and structures after generation. This is not completely fleshed out, but the bones are there. The idea is that the results of the GPU work are passed back to the CPU, which can run arbitrary callbacks to spawn additional edits and entities. Once spawning is complete, the result is meshed using a fast binary meshing algorithm and uploaded to the GPU. I keep 16 bits of data per voxel from the GPU work, 1 bit of occupancy, and 15 bits of normal for collision response, which works out to half a megabyte per chunk. At the moment I only keep chunks which contain a piece of the world surface, and discard the rest. Surface chunks are dense, and may be compressed in the future, but keeping this amount of data scales to world sizes greater than 1B voxels cubed, which seems good enough for now.
In terms of raw performance, GPUs are ridiculous. My 3080ti mobile gets somewhere on the order of 500B-1T perlin samples per second with a naive perlin implementation. Compared to FastNoise2, that's about 1000x more, which sounds wrong since my GPU only has 35x more capacity, but, that's what my initial profiling said. That number is the marketing number; the real throughput is significantly less due to multi-stage nature of the system, but, there's a lot of headroom for improvement. For example, dropping the backing textures from 32bit to 16bit roughly quadruples performance. Since we only really care about the surface where values are near zero, I believe using 8 or 16 bit is a viable option, though this claim will require a fair amount of study to validate.
All in all, I'm pleased with how this is all working out. My original goal was to write a highly flexible system giving users both easy-to-use tools and granular control over the final output. I think I've done a fairly good job at that, and the fact it's also super fast is the cherry on top.
I'll do some shameless self-promotion and leave some links here for anyone interested in looking at the engine, language code, or some pretty pictures.
https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai
https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
That's so cool, building something consistently for 10 years is no small feat. How did AI helped you, or How did AI impacted your day to day work in recent years ?
Thank you :) One of the nice things about working on a game engine is it's actually a large collection of small projects disguised a big one. That let's my squirrel-brain jump from thing to thing and have enough variety to not get bored.
I just started using AI a few months ago. My smoke-test was "can it write a simple memory allocator". Until recently, every time I tried to get an AI to write an arena or simple buddy-style heap allocator, they just vomited all over themselves. To my surprise, the last time I tried, the AI absolutely crushed it; it unearthed tricks I didn't even know about in one shot. Since then, I've been using AIs to do the boring, rote work that effectively just boils down to me typing in something that's in my head. For that, they're great. I typically sketch out the thing I want it to make, then tell it to fill in the blanks. Sometimes they still go off the rails, but all in all it's a useful tool.
Where I've found they still struggle is making any architectural decisions, or where performance matters.. even a little bit. They often make super braindead decisions when it comes to performance for no discernable reason. They'll course correct when you tell them to, but I've had to keep a close eye on the output and reign it in frequently. Asking an AI to design a system from the API level hasn't ever returned a good result for me.. I always do that work.
All in all, I feel like using AI will probably make me a better programmer in the long run, contrary to popular belief. They accelerate the boring stuff I already know how to do, which leaves me with more time to work on the edge of my skill level where I grow as an engineer. Guess we'll see in 5 years.
A bunch of small apps, kinda getting SaaS out of my system.
https://radziszewski.software/apps
Lately my super fast anti gravity racing game. If you enjoyed F-Zero or Wipeout, you might like it.
https://nitelore.app
https://vester.si/motion/?e=plasma
My new favourite shader running realtime over your camera input. Has gotten great feedback from kids as well :)
Knowers of plasma pong might see slight resemblance.
I'm wrapping up my 2+ years of work on a browser-based version of EverQuest that plays itself: https://idlequest.net/
Also have some other cool browser-based 3d game projects listed here: https://brynnbateman.com/
I was working on platform to build 3D room design for everyone who loves interior design, no need to install, no need to pay. You can see my published design here : https://formanest.app/p/2LxQNrjg50vvxrbb
https://www.lungy.app
Interactive breathing exercises. Working towards a medical device version for asthma and COPD.
Still building the file manager I've always wanted: https://intestinate.com/gusco/
Added an audio player this past month for all fellow file hoarders out there.
Also, you can now choose if you want Gusco to live in your terminal or run as a native-yet-texty app.
Was pleasantly surprised how well turning a Bubble Tea TUI app into a GUI-ish bundle works with Gio UI.
Working on https://vostride.com/
I've just released v1.0 of Rouler which is VPN split tunneling for windows. Think IP rules for Linux, but with per-app/service connection steering. The whole app is built in Rust, including the kernel driver. Having released v1 I'm now starting work on adding folder and windows store support. https://rouler.io
An Obsidian plugin that turns handwritten reMarkable notes into searchable text. You can run the handwriting recognition locally on a Mac. The latest feature I added sends your highlights and margin notes from the tablet to Readwise. https://taggedsync.com
I've started maintaining my own Firefox fork that:
- removes the stuff that I don't care about (Firefox sync, VPN, etc.)
- fixes a lot of the awful UX/UI choices that the (frankly) incompetent product team at Mozilla refuse to
- actually adds stuff that I do like integrated mail and calendar, a document library system (basically Notion), native ad-blocking, terminal, task-tracking like Trello, time-tracking like Harvest, etc.
- has integrated AI (Apple intelligence for MacOS for the easy stuff and Claude for the hard stuff
It means that instead of having half a dozen applications open, I can just work within my Firefox fork. Because it's all deeply integrated, I can do wild stuff like:
- tell my AI to search the web on a schedule and send me a custom daily brief with my own email
- maintain a comprehensive memory of all of the work that I do, across half a dozen clients, and be able to query it easily
- pull analytics from multiple web dashboards and format them into something cohesive
- program the web with a node-based infinite canvas that has live websites as part of the workflow
- manage my tasks across multiple domains (for example, it will see that I sent an email to a client and automatically update a task that says that I need to do that)
It's incredibly powerful and it has made me much, much more efficient.
Reflect [1], it’s a local-first privacy focused self tracking and data analysis app where you can set goals and run self experiments
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
StatsBrowser: https://www.statsbrowser.com
A statistical analysis suite that runs in the browser via webR. It provides step-by-step guides for running tests and insights on results containing statistical pitfalls. Aimed at students who struggle with traditional stats apps.
forking the internet. taking internet technology and using if for community rather than (pick 1: greed, corporations, predation).
I’m still working on https://leafle.org which is a tool for getting more interesting reading (or listening) suggestions that one can borrow from the library (or Libby). I’m done for the moment with building it, so I’ve been doing things like making flyers and leaving them in local libraries.
Been a fun opportunity to play around with ai in various ways - mixed but definitely powerful experience in using it for data research (finding libraries and their locations), very impressive on reverse engineering apis to get book availability. And then a lot of interesting stuff around getting good behaviour from LLMs as chat partners, for example using jev to improve results from using openrouter by getting it to check for common failure modes and ban providers based on their output.
I've really been enjoying using Codex as a headless remote agent on my home lab. I'll often pull it up from my phone and jam on some little project when inspiration strikes.
I kept bumping into the question of how to give it access to the things it needs without leaving my private keys and other credentials on the server though.
For SSH (and sudo through pam_ssh_agent_auth), I ended up building agent-auth and Agent Witness. Codex sees a normal SSH_AUTH_SOCK and supplies some context about why it needs a signature. If one of my Macs is available, agent-auth proxies the request to the 1Password SSH agent there. Otherwise it routes the request to Agent Witness on my phone.
Agent Witness runs as a PWA and is essentially a remote ssh-agent. The private keys are wrapped, encrypted, and stored in IndexedDB locally on the phone. The vault can only be unwrapped with a secret derived from a passkey, and all key handling and signing happens locally through the browser's Web Crypto APIs. The unwrapped keys are non-extractable CryptoKey objects (the web crypto APIs are pretty awesome!)
When a signing request comes in, the PWA gets a push notification. It shows me the reason Codex supplied, the command being run, and the key being requested. I authorize it with my passkey, the PWA signs the request, and only the resulting signature goes back to the server. The private key never leaves my phone.
https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/agent-auth https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/agent-witness
I also recently put together psst, which solves the related problem of handing a secret to Codex from 1Password. I give it a 1Password item-sharing link, it opens a local session where it decrypts the 1password item in memory, and Codex can inspect the available fields of the item before explicitly retrieving only the ones it needs. The CLI refuses to write secret values to a terminal, which helps keep them out of argv, shell history, and transcripts.
I’m sure I could work out a better approach where the agent absolutely cannot retrieve the secret since if it really wanted to read the secret, it could of course pipe the value into cat or whatever. The goal is to just make secret access explicit and avoid accidentally spraying credentials into places where they'll be retained. So far it’s been a very nice flow with agent browser.
https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/psst
For the month of November (and starting in October this year) I like to hold weekly cooking challenges to practice and refine my Thanksgiving day feast. Now about 3 weeks out from the final boss level of cooking, and I'm having a week all about brussel sprouts. Earlier weeks were cauliflower and the classic seasoning blend of sage, rosemary and thyme.
Working on Notekpr a local first and end to end encrypted alternative to notion and obsidian.
site: https://notekpr.md
I'm vibing an old style RTS game and exploring how far can I get with local models for drawing, 3D models, rigging and sprites. I love how much I can accomplish with Claude in terms of code, but gluing it all together with graphics still requires plenty of "manual" work.
Werkbook (https://werkbook.app), digital forms and photo reports for field crews. I'm a solo Rails dev, and thanks to Claude it now has native iOS and Android apps instead of Hotwire Native web-view wrappers.
Data driven, personalized typing application.
https://typequicker.com
https://www.nichess.org - chess with health points
I've been learning kubernetes with the help of Claude Opus and trying to build it into a course which others might find useful: https://gravitypersists.github.io/kubernetes-from-the-proble...
It's not meant to be super in-depth, more so aimed at understanding the high-level details and motivations of k8s. I figured that the best way to do that was to pose each chapter as an evolution of a startup experiencing a problem, and showing how k8s solves that problem, by treating the reader like the technical manager in the situation.
I'm not a k8s expert, so I can't definitively say it's "my course" but I will say, we're at an interesting time where you can contribute authorship to something and learn it at the same time. I'm spending more time steering the output the more I learn things, so it's not just slop.
I’ve been working on a web application framework in Go called https://atlas9.dev
I am building Cloud based context compiler and intelligent codebase visualizer for Developers and AI Agents, for easy PR review, onboarding and easy architectural understanding
https://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS
I'm building a self-hosted media server for video, like Plex or Jellyfin. I'll be opening the beta in about a month.
Features:
- No paywalls, bandwidth limiting, or crippled behavior. No login required.
- Single go binary, deployed via Docker.
- Reaches your home server from anywhere with no port forwarding, no VPN and no paywall, even behind carrier-grade NAT. No Tailscale required.
- Cast to another device. You can use any logged in device as a playback screen.
- Watch together, with voice support: Play synced video with friends, and also chat voice. You can also mix this with casting to another device.
- Dialogue boost and loudness levelling for every film.
- Real adaptive quality, tuned for a home's upload.
- Hardware transcoding, full quality in every supported browser.
- A library that explains itself: what the scanner saw, why each title matched, guesses marked for you to check, and a disk that's gone missing shown as missing instead of its titles silently vanishing.
- Your data stays yours: The database is a rebuildable index, metadata corrections can be written back as NFO files that Kodi and Jellyfin read, and an automatic backup keeps what can't be re-derived (watch state, preferences, shares).
Security is a primary concern:
With the ever increasing pace of hacks and CVEs and AI-assisted intrusion, you simply can't be too careful anymore.
- The core (which talks to the network, handles the API, users and the database) never opens a media file or runs FFmpeg.
- A separate media node does every file read and every transcode. It has no network access and talks to the core only over Unix sockets.
- FFmpeg runs under Landlock and seccomp with no path to the file and no socket. All it can do is read and write streams.
- Small dependency tree on an allowlist, pure Go with no cgo, secrets sealed at rest and never logged.
- The library can be mounted read-only, so even a full compromise can't encrypt or delete your media.
- Cryptographically signed chain for servers and releases.
https://orpheum-app.com/
i've been building wearover and getalcor.com -- a chain of apps handing off content where possible with use of on-device AI , but burning tokens and building more than serving the product well to end users, and might just wind up my startup experiment and take up a job or contract.
https://hatamoto.dev - a complete replacement to Wordpress and its most used plugins built into the system. One go binary, no node , no compilation, Postgres and sandboxes plugins. Built in AI analytics
I'm working on a platform for selling event tickets (kind of an alternative to Ticketmaster or weezevent). I'm working on it on my free time for now (I am also using it to test working with AI tools ). Not sure yet if I want to build a company or not.
Still Raygum! Letterboxd for music - https://raygum.com
Software development is dying. I am teaching myself how LLMs really really work with this tool that I am building https://modelmathics.com you can try it on https://try.modelmathics.com
Aficionado (https://aficiona.do) - a place to discover, scrapbook and remember media (movies, video games, tv shows, music and books) that resonated with you or that you'd like to try.
working on AudioWeave, an ad free, offline first Android podcast player.
switching from iOS, I wasn't happy with the existing podcast apps, so I built this mostly for myself. I've been using it for the last six months and finally pushed a public beta.
My day to day is BE so I used the project to learn Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Everything is strictly native using Room and Media3/ExoPlayer. I wanted a nice looking (subjective), privacy-focused app without any tracking or ads.
I'm considering open sourcing it soon.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enyodigita...
Indieweb/blogosphere index, search, and exploration.
Taking a break from features to focus on refining content filters and expunging sites that slipped through. Looking at you, .ai TLD.
https://outerweb.org
Still plugging away on Slopjective-C 3.0 https://github.com/doublemover/Slopjective-C/pull/8278
and many other things
I’m based in Berlin and currently working on ChatFrom.io . You upload your knowledge base, and it uses advanced RAG with hybrid search and reranking to find answers when someone asks a question. It connects to Stripe, Shopify, and other tools, and works on Telegram, Slack, and more. Free to start.
domain is showing avaialble for sale?
My main project is trying not to lose my mind, given all the things I can now create thanks to AI.
Jokes aside (although I'm not entirely joking about my mental health), my main project is https://auradistill.com: First-principles thinking for your AI agents.
It's not just about giving your personal AI agents "memory". It's about encoding memories in a way that can handle ambiguity and contradictions.
That project alone has got me completely hooked on building for and with LLMs.
I've got other projects too, but this is probably the one I've poured the most time and energy into.
tirreno - security framework
https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
Live demo: https://play.tirreno.com
I wanted to try and build something in a completely saturated market, so I’ve built a handful of movie themed daily games into a hub.
https://smashcut.games
https://github.com/hnarayanan/hello-guix - A GNU Guix installer for Apple Silicon Macs. :)
I've been building MiserablyUnemployed for the better part of this year. https://miserablyunemployed.com/
It's a free job site with some resume tools bolted on. Lots of people from all over the world are using it and that feels great.
It has 2.7M+ jobs and automatically removes any job older than 7 days. We never allow reposts because, frankly, the job market is a nightmare and any job that has been up for 7+ days almost certainly has 1000+ applicants already. You're just feeding your resume into a wood chipper.
Come and try it. It's awesome.
https://arcaide.foo - to visualize the architecture of your (LLM's) code.
Side hobby: Improving the gameplay of a multiplayer browser game. Rimpark (https://rimpark.gg) launched ~1.5y ago.
I'm self hosting a GLM 5.3 Flash, and with it: adding new mechanics, fixing bugs, etc.
It's been a learning journey so far: how to run inference, setup agentic systems, experimental loops, and prevent slop.
This week, I'm happy that my agent system can implement a new feature e2e with not a lot of human intervention in code reviews. Still reading every line, didn't YOLO (yet lol).
Adding tufting support to RapidCAM.app for CNC run makers. RapidCAM already supports 2.5D CNC, laser and rotary axis so tufting was a good fit.
Koaches.app helping prepare and practice behaviorial interviews.
I'm a really big fan of Grand Theft Auto IV but its online scene never took off. I'm trying to build a multiplayer client a la FiveM/RageMP for it.
working on an app which you/agents can put exact pieces from any websites you need into a one screen.(https://banquish.space)
I didn't want to switch/refresh bunch of tabs. That's why I made this one.
not screenshots. so you can still interact with the pieces like in normal web browsers.
working on talk deep https://talkdeep.me, a little app for keeping in touch with friends after i moved countries. you pair with a friend and get one question a day, or go through decks of deeper questions together. i've never done an app before so building something from scratch has been a really fun creative outlet
been building BuildOpsy mostly writing about system design, infrastructure failures and the occasional “well, that was an expensive outage” postmortem.
Also building calculators for things engineers usually calculate in a spreadsheet at 2am. you can see some on the site(https://buildopsy.com/calculators.html)
I keep doing the independent research in theory of AI despite my odds
Reddit alternative https://hissy.app it is currently offline though
oh you know, just ai-stuff
https://github.com/gabrilend/ai-stuff
I want to make app like action but for repairs, like electronics and cars.
Client posts request and masters respond with their offers.
What you think about that guys?
There is already a site here where you say what your job is and garages submit their offers. They can also auto-submit offers if it’s something routine like a standard service.
Hey, Thanks for info. I am from Central Asia, could share a link for that site?
https://slopshare.dev
Not really sure what to call it, Linux kernel ish implemented in JS so you can run it in the browser. Each program runs in WASM. Everything bootstrapped from a C/Cpp compiler compiled from source with a new target. Also kinda turned into Docker for WASM.
Recommended for people that feel a strong urge to run a browser inside a browser.
https://slopshare.dev/v0.1.5/wine/
Also quite useful to run coding agents sandboxed inside the browser, with HTTP policies and "backend managed skills/extensions". Compiles Codex from source (has a rust compiler), runs pi agent and CC (the old node one) on a custom javascript runtime on top of quickjs compiled inside the environment.
Everything is static JS (or the robots are lying to me)
My next sci-fi or fantasy novel - it could go either way at the moment.
Why not both?
That is what it is at the moment, but my experience from crossing genres in the past was not great so I will probably lean more heavily on one for the final book.
Since the 1.0 announcement for flet.dev I have been working on making small apps to make DXF files for CNC projects with drawn previews.
https://studio.flet.dev/run/bicQWc3Aul/
which is now at a working state for rabbet joinery boxes with a sliding lid, or omitting the lid:
https://community.carbide3d.com/uploads/default/original/3X/...
Next up is a hinged lid option and cleaning up the wireframe preview to look better/be more accurate.
I’ve been fooling around with a lot of consumer GPU hardware and having a fun time. There are so many rabbit holes and interesting parts available to piece a Rube Goldberg of a performant clanker together.
https://doug.sh/posts/six-gpus-one-x16-slot/
My husband created an AI-powered website, and I've been using it to generate engaging AI videos for social media. This not only helps promote his website (seedeo.ai) but also expands our website's content library, which gives me a great sense of accomplishment.
I am building Esara – the AI hiring platform for candidate sourcing and explainable evaluation.
We’ve just incorporated in Berlin together with two great co-founding colleagues. Honestly never felt more excited.
Though it is a B2B tool, check it out: https://esara.ai
Honestly? Still just trying to get hired.
But apart from that, I just updated my website's theme to something I wanted to do for quite a while now – a fantasy desktop! If you'd like to check it out: https://0xff.nu
I'm also trying to just learn new things with the time I was refunded by being unemployed.
For years, I struggled to make any headway with Linux - I get so frustrated at how obscure, inscrutable, and unintuitive TUIs are! God I don’t want to waste my life typing esoteric strings of commands into the terminal. When I started with computers that was all there was, and once GUIs happened I never looked back.
Good news though, these days Claude will just do it for me!
I’ve been working on setting up a home media server, using headless Debian on a pi - I’ve got it set up to stream music and videos, hold all my ROMs, I’ve got it automatically standardizing file names and handling tagging and subtitles - all attached to a big 6-drive enclosure that I just stuffed all my random old HDDs into.
Even though I haven’t written more than a dozen lines of code or commands for the whole thing, I am pretty fuckin pleased that now I can just wave a magic wand and say “I want all my video game soundtracks filed under the game name rather than the artist” and Claude uh finds a way to grant my wish. I spend about an hour each night tweaking it and it’s so easy to customize to be exactly what I need.
I am working on a Rust-based ext4 driver. The idea is that it can be re-used as a FUSE-based driver as well as (Windows) kernel driver (eventually).
Most of the essential features are implemented so far, but some (mandatory) features are lacking (xattrs support). My goal is to get to a full ext4 implementation that also supports ext2 and ext3 read/write.
The initial motivation was to have a pet project with a use-case for Rust, as I wanted to improve my Rust coding skills, after I did some work on a game server implementation in Rust earlier [1]. My goal is to have an implementation where I have digested every line mentally, which is something that pretty much excludes slop-like use of AI for large scale code generation. And of course I want to really trust the code that touches my files via raw hard disk access. Hence, I use AI mainly for unit tests and (scoped) code rewriting when my code gets too verbose and cumbersome.
In the long run I'd want to add fuzzing to the implementation, so if anyone has experience on this, I'd be interested in getting some pointers.
[1] https://github.com/MordorWide/EANation
www.statsbrowser.com, a web-based statistical analysis app built on top of webR with step by step test guides and result insights intended to make performing stats easier for students.
AT1C Protocol AI Agents require Human consent. Don't trust us Verify the Receipt. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@at1c/sdk
I'm rebuilding a benchtop CNC milling machine.
Building a tool that finds code problems before they become "quick" Friday fixes. Currently teaching it to be less dramatic than the linter :)
Finding purpose in life.
I'm nearing the end of a somewhat long and arduous journey of writing a GPU-accelerated voxel terrain generator and editor.
The terrain and editor pipeline is a three stage process. The first stage is user-configurable; users write an arbitrary 'shaping' shader in GLSL. The second stage is a fused stage; it does a convolution on the output of the first stage to compute a normal, runs a second user-configurable 'decoration' function, and finally applies edits. Edits are collections of SDFs that are 'compiled' from a graph structure on the CPU into a bytecode, and interpreted in the shader. The last stage runs another convolution to compute the final normal, then packs an occupancy bit, color, and normal down into a 32-bit representation, suitable for transfer back to the CPU. I expect I will expand this to include additional user-level bits for encoding biome type and GPU-driven spawning.
The entire shader pipeline is one fused 'ubershader' .. everything is bound at startup and the shader is dispatched three times, incrementing a 'Stage' uniform on each dispatch. This strategy conceptually makes the driver overhead nearly zero, and the profile agrees.
The final step in the process is giving the CPU a chance to spawn additional entities and structures after generation. This is not completely fleshed out, but the bones are there. The idea is that the results of the GPU work are passed back to the CPU, which can run arbitrary callbacks to spawn additional edits and entities. Once spawning is complete, the result is meshed using a fast binary meshing algorithm and uploaded to the GPU. I keep 16 bits of data per voxel from the GPU work, 1 bit of occupancy, and 15 bits of normal for collision response, which works out to half a megabyte per chunk. At the moment I only keep chunks which contain a piece of the world surface, and discard the rest. Surface chunks are dense, and may be compressed in the future, but keeping this amount of data scales to world sizes greater than 1B voxels cubed, which seems good enough for now.
In terms of raw performance, GPUs are ridiculous. My 3080ti mobile gets somewhere on the order of 500B-1T perlin samples per second with a naive perlin implementation. Compared to FastNoise2, that's about 1000x more, which sounds wrong since my GPU only has 35x more capacity, but, that's what my initial profiling said. That number is the marketing number; the real throughput is significantly less due to multi-stage nature of the system, but, there's a lot of headroom for improvement. For example, dropping the backing textures from 32bit to 16bit roughly quadruples performance. Since we only really care about the surface where values are near zero, I believe using 8 or 16 bit is a viable option, though this claim will require a fair amount of study to validate.
All in all, I'm pleased with how this is all working out. My original goal was to write a highly flexible system giving users both easy-to-use tools and granular control over the final output. I think I've done a fairly good job at that, and the fact it's also super fast is the cherry on top.
Launched Diligly today. Investor-ready data rooms for startups.
Currently, I'm in the midst of ricing my 3D printer - an Ender 3 V3 SE which has been sitting unloved for quite some time. Fresh filament, cleaning, mechanical tuneup, and now running through the very nice suite of calibration prints that are included in Orca slicer (which is new to me). It's been fun to get my hands around something physical.
Also been playing a bit of Blood Dungeon, which is pretty fun. I've also got a Factorio save that has mildly petered out after landing on Vulcanus (which I have kinda taken advantage of to break the addiction lol, but I'm sure I'll get back in there sometime over the winter).
I've been kinda deliberately taking a bit of a break from programming "side projects" after spending a humongous amount of free time and energy on a conference talk I gave a few weeks ago. It was titled "Human Creativity in the Age of AI" (which I later learned was an unfortunately generic title, lol), and I built this whole big musical and visual contraption that drove the presentation, including a "guitar solo generator" which recuts phrases of my own playing into a new solo on the fly.
It was a really rewarding project overall but definitely made me remember why I hadn't done public speaking for quite some time before - I am way too perfectionistic about it and it just becomes a massive time sink.
This one was worth it though, got a great reception and I'm really proud of the talk on the whole.
In the 2-3 weeks after the talk I spent a ton of time editing and laying out a really nice video of it, which I am also quite proud of. I didn't know anything about Davinci Resolve and I was able to get a really nice jump start with some help from Codex. I'm sure I don't know 98% of what a software package this big can do, but I did learn enough to be dangerous, and also enough to cut together some nice short clips of the talk as well.
It's been pretty rewarding to get a handle on a powerful bit of creativity kit like Resolve. It's incredibly capable and I'm really delighted with the results I was able to get. Obviously I am a rank amateur but to my untrained eye, my videos look pretty damn good. (And I could go on for another few paragraphs about how much work it took to get good results from the relatively shitty source video and audio I was working with).
I'm planning on doing some writeups because there was so much interesting tooling that came together as I worked on the talk and the videos, I could mine this one project for a year's worth of blog posts if I wanted to!
Anyway: links.
OrcaSlicer calibration guide - seriously great: https://www.orcaslicer.com/wiki/guides/calibration_guide
Blood Dungeon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2431080/Blood_Dungeon/
I assume a link to Factorio is unnecessary here, ha.
My talk "landing page": https://epiccoleman.com/tripulator
Talk video: https://youtu.be/kD5qYiLIhJc
One of the shorts - the guitar solo part. I'm really stoked on the "presentation" bells and whistles in this video (though I think they're a bit mismatched to the regular intent of YouTube Shorts - analytics indicate that the intro part I slaved over is probably too long and people swipe away before the good stuff, but oh well).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5AE5uMv8VEs
I "accidentally" created one of the fastest modern JavaScript frameworks out there: https://signy.dev/
...according to my own benchmarks (yeah, I know how that sounds).
Next, I'm planning to submit it to independent third party benchmarks, hoping to find out whether my results are accurate... or not :)
I've also just finished a CSS framework: https://iriscss.com/
Now I'm working on a new backend programming language that runs on the Erlang BEAM, along with a few web applications built using this tech stack.
Another novel.
https://github.com/timbran-project/moor
Multiuser programmable persistent worlds. Compatible with LambdaMOO. Since 2022.
working on apyhub mcp: to enable all apyhub apis to be available for agents. https://apyhub.com/mcp
Ur is an (in-progress) universal formatter and linter for every programming language. It's in preview right now, which just means friends are messing around with it and having a good time pointing out all the bugs. Docs are mostly up to date, but buyer beware.
https://ur.dev/en/
I'm working on decorating my homepage[1]. Other than that, I'm working on a language.
[1]https://www.makonea.com/en-US
Currently working on adding support for iPhone Duo to my hacker news app Hack. The app has been around for 9 years and when I made it, the menu bars and navigation buttons were custom views. That doesn't seem to work well for iPhone duo due to its vertical stack menu on the right side. So, I've been switching over to iOS native navigation bars and menu bars along with a bunch of other improvements. I was hoping to have it done couple weeks ago but I had to leave country for a family emergency. So I am working on it this week. It's mostly done, I'm just doing some final testing now and will submit to Apple this week:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788
infra engineering meanwhile trying to build some stuff for my own. also trying to finish cs master’s
Merge into one of the other copies:
(3 days ago /25p/56c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389501
(7 days ago /23p/77c) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50328340
Yes, it's on my list to automate these and I even reserved an account for this way back when: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoisworking.
Will merge the others.
Edit: ok, that's done and I did my best to normalize the timestamps for the posts from the older threads, but it's a bit messy. If you see weird things that's why.
I thought people were spamming this thread by making multiple posts about their project. Maybe pin a message that you've combined the threads?
I'm so fucking tired. I built this tool, it's great, I love it, but its full capabilities are too complex to udnerstand. Because of that I struggle with marketing, as everyone is too lazy to try it out. Because of that I get no feedback, nothing to improve, and I can't make the tool any simpler, as otherwise it defeats the magic behind it.
Software is complicated by nature. It's our job to make it easy for the user.
Take a look at FFmpeg as an example. It's a complex tool that can do most things audio/video. A power user can do magical things, but they still provide simple commands for the most basic use-cases like conversion or trimming.
https://www.clipcat.com/blog/how-to-use-ffmpeg-a-beginners-g...
1. Provide sensible defaults 2. Study user journeys and write simple manuals for them. 3. Ask friends or internet communities for feedback.
Don't get discouraged, you can do it!
I've been working on online payment rails for businesses, developers and agents called Tuppence (https://tuppence.ai).
Accept online card payments from just 0.79% (UK) and earn 0.89% on all card spend [1], or get paid out to your bank.
I'm building tuppence to be available in the US, and 20 EU countries.
I'm getting a Point of Sale (POS) manufactured in the UK [2] for those who want to accept payments in person with card readers.
My goal is to help people sell their goods and make a living without paying over the odds for the privilege.
I charge a competitive fee for payment processing, give money back on card spend (with no cashback caps/limits) and do not charge saas fees or lock people into contracts.
Tuppences currently allows people to sell online with a store builder, expense management, payment links, direct debits & bookings - essentially Tuppence is a 'business' layer on top of what you get from the likes of Stripe, Adyen and Checkout.com. There's also have a 'connect' platform, so you can roll this out to your marketplace business.
Next on my roadmap is ticketing and 'treasury'. Treasury i'm personally excited about as you'll be able to earn 4% yield on your earnings, FDIC Insurance (FSCS in the UK), multi-currency banking in fiat balances such as USD, EUR, and GBP, or stablecoin balances like OUSD and USDC, and have bank account numbers to send or receive funds.
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It's brand new, i'm still testing payment -> payout flows. These take a little time to verify on live payment rails.
Happy to give some fee-free payment processing for those who reach out and want to be early adopters, I can be reached at ollie@tuppence.ai, or comment on thread.
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Tech Stack TLDR:
* TypeScript monorepo covering the API, dashboard, docs, mobile app and SDKs. * The API runs on Ts.ED over Express with TypeORM and Postgres. * Background jobs use pg-boss, so the queue lives in Postgres and there’s no Redis or separate broker. * The dashboard, till and storefront are React + Vite + Tailwind, the docs and help centre are Astro, and the mobile app is React Native/Expo. We ship SDKs for Node, Python, iOS, Android, React Native and WordPress, plus an MCP server and agent tools. * Everything runs on Google Cloud Run and Cloud SQL.
References:
[1] Card issuing: https://tuppence.ai/cards [2] Point of sale: https://tuppence.ai/pos/ridge/
Commenting twice to show off something I have been working on.
what follows is the text of a poem I just wrote about a youtube short. It's artistic so if you're into that sort of thing you could read it. anyway I'll be posting it on my website later. I have a whole pipeline set up, it's pretty neat, I can show you that later if you want.
it's better to be able to do anything so you can be provided the tools and materials often, it's good to keep around spare parts of material only re-melting them when they no longer have a purpose none that you can creatively define space constraints, material constraints, tool constraints these are what limit you. uber-eats for machine assembly. Suddenly every suburban dad finds their calling. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x4eXF-573jk CNC machine but on steroids, because there's more people who want to do stuff like this but don't because their specialty is something else or they don't have the tool/machine/willpower/reason - there's no reason but if they were paid whatever they wanted they could do whatever they wanted dollar inputs are spread dynamically based on what we have, and what we need. constraints. that we can all see and bend. like an MPC. Something I don't understand, but I do understand the implications of. Described, accurately and honestly, I know how to creatively apply. this, of course, is the destiny of all manufacturers - to be able to make whatever they want. "you need a joint structure in a shape? I can do that for you." "my rent is 1234$ per whenever. what does it really matter? we do the same thing."
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insane software idea: function names should be indented, to provide a startplace for X direction rotation. Spinning and twining through the project. [see some of the formatting on my older programming works] most of which is unreleased and unheeded.
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"you're jesus and everyone hates that", savior of the human race.
gods need to exist, so then it will all be okay.
if it's not okay, typically, you're dead.
in the modern day,
[dear disney world refugees - come work in Las Vegas or Portland]
[be beloved]
[culture of service]
in the modern day, life is all about lessons. at least for me. what do you need, you can learn from me. this is what I offer to ye.
"oh she said ye that means she's from the past"
nuh-uh
"yeah-huh"
no way you're bothering yourself
"... I didn't actually say that"
HA I got you switched to the off-the-shelf
"curses! look at me, I'm an evil witch now in another dimension!"
haha what a toast. cheerful, return to the fathers or something like that
"haha I got you back"
noooooo what was I saying
"not like I'd ever know."
heh true
"and so they were like bros"
---\ \ anyway that's my poem hope you liked it I might read it at an open mic tonight if I can muster up the courage.
quantum stuff
Mostly trying to think about what career to pivot to, since SWE wages are going to get crushed in the next 5-10 years.
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Please don't delete and repost.
This is in both https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.