What are you working on? Do you have any new ideas you're thinking about?
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alextousss · 3h ago
My roommate and I are still working on Tornyol, our mosquito killing drone! It uses ultrasonic sonar to detect mosquitoes, and missile control theory to ram into mosquitoes and grind them in its propellers.
Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes!
The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous surface in a short time compared to static systems or man-portable insecticide spraying. Our goal is to be competitive with ITNs against Malaria.
Very interesting idea! I wonder if a political campaign one day will be to start a program that eradicates mosquitos via drone fleets, not just in the context of malaria protection but also in just nuisance reduction. There are similar programs in place in certain metro areas that already do mosquito control (using chemicals of varying toxicity), so it's not as wild of an idea as it probably sounds.
My friend once came up with a joke idea for a solar powered ransomware drone that would fly to a random roof and jam wifi signal until someone paid it to leave.
alextousss · 50m ago
Yeah, it’s one of our goal to work for government agencies at some point to implement city-wide mosquito control. 10 of our drones could cover a square kilometer, so we’d be a lot more efficient working at the city level rather than at the individual household level.
MITSardine · 1h ago
I watched your talk, very interesting! Super inventive idea, I hope it works out.
Is the name a word play with "torgnole" at all, or does it mean something?
alextousss · 54m ago
Yeah, you’re spot on! The original name was « mosquitorgnole »
bebop · 1h ago
This is an interesting idea. One thing that might help targeting is to have some sort of chemical that attracts the mosquitoes. In that way you can bring your target to you.
alextousss · 54m ago
Their velocity is much lower than the one of the drone, so it wouldn’t make much sense to increase efficiency
Galorious · 3h ago
Ha so cool, would love one for in my bedroom ;-)
I know of a Dutch company doing something similar. Focusses on pest detecting/mitigation in greenhouses atm: https://www.pats-drones.com/
alextousss · 3h ago
Yeah, what they do is very cool. Not sure how far they are in the development but the videos are super cool.
atlasunshrugged · 3h ago
Hadn't seen this before, this is awesome! I lived in Cameroon and Kenya briefly doing some consulting work and mosquitos still wreak havoc across the continent (and now living in DC I wouldn't mind having one of these in the summer for my place). I'm curious if you're also thinking about defense applications -- I would imagine that a super low cost drone that could help take out a shahed or other Russian drone that are wreaking havoc on Ukraine would be quite valuable
nine_k · 1h ago
A 40-gram device is unlikely to pack any punch, except against a mosquito.
It could be a great reconnaissance tool though.
alextousss · 2h ago
Glad to hear we could be of help! Some of our tech could be used for defense, but traditional defense companies and ukrainian startups already do low-cost shahed interceptors.
atlasunshrugged · 2h ago
My impression is the solutions are still somewhat lacking/necessary -- I know Frankenburg, Eric Schmidt's stealth startup, and surely the primes are all working on it but given how many shaheds are still getting through (plus all the drone action at the frontline) I imagine there's still a market for low-cost; especially if they're largely autonomous
phkahler · 1h ago
Any problems with the blades getting dirty?
alextousss · 53m ago
Not our highest priority concern haha
czhu12 · 3h ago
This is incredible. What is the background you needed to even have intuition on how to build something like this?
alextousss · 2h ago
Just an insane obsession with ultrasound! (and some control theory classes)
contingencies · 2h ago
Please make sure it is specific to mosquitos and does not attack other insects.
Insect populations worldwide are experiencing significant declines in both abundance and diversity, with several studies reporting reductions ranging from 40% to 75% over recent decades. Estimates suggest that 5%–10% of all insect species have disappeared in the last 150 years, and some global meta-analyses indicate terrestrial insect populations are declining by close to 9% per decade.
jcalx · 1h ago
From the linked Hackaday article:
> If you don’t want to kill flies, wasps, bees, or other useful pollinators while eradicating the tiny little bloodsuckers that are the drone’s target, you need to be able to not only locate bugs, but discriminate mosquitoes from the others.
> For this, he uses the micro-doppler signatures that the different wing beats of the various insects put out. Wasps have a very wide-band doppler echo – their relatively long and thin wings are moving slower at the roots than at the tips. Flies, on the other hand, have stubbier wings, and emit a tighter echo signal. The mosquito signal is even tighter.
Fascinating engineering! Doesn't seem like it would be possible but it apparently is. There's also more visuals at about 17 minutes in the video embedded in that article, the signatures seem fairly distinct.
BoiledCabbage · 2h ago
Don't want to underestimate how disastrous this could be for other insects. Even ignoring the impact on them, the impact on our needs to maintain pollinator populations.
ciroduran · 3m ago
I've been making songbooks for my favourite songs. I am currently working on a songbook for some friends. I've found https://www.chordpro.org/ an amazing CLI tool, under active development. I am using the ukulele, but the program also easily can do guitar or piano. The program reads a bunch of text files and produces a really nice PDF. I've also used pandoc + LaTeX for the front matter.
This month I'm improving CI/CD for e2e testing across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Also adding support for unlocking password-protected PDFs and Word docs and improving OCR. OCR runs in the background and leverages native OS OCR where available and a pure LSTM Rust implementation elsewhere. Generally improving the word processor and looking for speedups. Adding a cross-platform spellchecker leveraging native where possible, too.
I am working on a site that allows kids to chat and play online with other kids. To connect, kids must have their parents sign up and connect with the parents of their friends. Kids can chat with their parents and family as well as other kids in their network. Messages can be monitored by parents. There are also other activities like a bot workshop where simple llm bots can be "programmed" by creating system prompts (kids create video game helper bots, ice cream shop bots, adventure/dungeons and dragons style bots, etc). There is a sticker book (cartoon image search), and a quiz creator. Many other things are planned!
The guiding principles are to create a fun, positive, safe space for kids and families to socialize and interact as well as empower kids to explore and understand technology as a creative tool and not just as something to consume content.
wrboyce · 9m ago
Interesting goals, and quite different from the norm. I assume you must have somewhat strong feelings about privacy and/or children having access to technology/internet/etc that has driven you to build this platform? As a happily childless late 30s married man, this is quite foreign to me; but I definitely recognise that there is passion driving this project… Could you talk some more about your inspiration and long term goals? I find both the concept and the end goal quite fascinating!
m-a-t-t-i · 1h ago
Working on fabric construction blocks (like Lego of clothing), that you can use to build clothing and accessories completely by hand without any tools or machines.
This is insanely amazing. The youtube video is so well-created. I hope to see this become successful!
wonger_ · 1h ago
Clever seams. Have you tried washing any of the garments?
mezod · 54m ago
this is simply great! godspeed with the project!
kaspermarstal · 2h ago
I'm continuing the work on Cellm, an Excel extension that let's you call LLMs in cell formulas like =PROMPT(A1, "Rate the sentiment of the customer feedback as positive, neutral, or negative"), and then drag the formula down to apply the same prompt to thousands of rows. I built it after my girlfriend had to manually classify 7,500 research papers. Cellm automates that kind of repetitive work.
Since we added MCP and the use of structured output to "spill" multiple return values into adjecent cells, it is the quickest way I know of to monitor competitors blogs everyday before my 09:00 meeting. And also the quickest way I know of to test new AI models. I have a sheet with SimpleQA, MMLUPro, or GPQA Diamond and testing a new model is a matter of adding a new column. The whole idea is to enable normal people (like, non-techies) to automate manual, repetitive tasks with AI like programmers routinely do.
I've been building for some time a local production like environment running in Minikube, deployed in a single `terraform apply` command. The plan is to deploy in one command a couple of home made services, frontend, backend, some websockets in between, and have everything accessible over HTTPS via Ingress resources. That, and all the open source observability tools you can imagine (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki/Tempo), configured and running at once.
These last few days I have decided to try getting Kubernetes Gateway API to work, using the implementation of Istio. I have written an `auth` microservices which provides JWTs and published a public JWKS endpoint, and intend to have the API gateway validate tokens and claims to allow access to other services. The plan being to write API services without any knowledge of the authentication systems that happen upstream. If a request reaches them, it's that it had been validated before !
marginalia_nu · 2h ago
Optimizing the Marginalia Search index code. The new code is at least twice as fast in benchmarks, but I can't run it in production because it turns out when you do it's four times as slow as what came before it for the queries that are the simplest and fastest to the point where queries exceed their timeout values by a lot.
I'm 97% certain this is because the faster code leads to more page thrashing in the mmap-based index readers. I'm gonna have to implement my own buffer pool and manage my reads directly like that vexatious paper[1] said all along.
> I'm gonna have to implement my own buffer pool and manage my reads directly like that vexatious paper[1] said all along.
You make it sound like I was trying to troll everyone when we wrote that paper. We were warning you.
marginalia_nu · 1h ago
It's annoying because it's right and also describes the exact type of paradoxical performance reversal I'm seeing. (It's also great because it describes the exact type of paradoxical performance reversal I'm seeing, likely saves me a lot lot of head scratching ;-)
mkw5053 · 3h ago
I kept finding myself having to write mini backends for LLM features in apps, if for no other reason than to keep API keys out of client code. Even with Vercel's AI SDK, you still need a (potentially serverless) backend to securely handle the API calls.
I've been working on an open source LLM proxy that handles the boring stuff. Small SDK, call OpenAI or Anthropic from your frontend, proxy manages secrets/auth/limits/logs.
As far as I know, this is the first way to add LLM features without any backend code at all. Like what Stripe does for payments, Auth0 for auth, Firebase for databases.
It's TypeScript/Node.js with JWT auth with short-lived tokens (SDK auto-handles refresh) and rate limiting. Very limited features right now but we're actively adding more.
Currently adding bring-your-own-auth (Auth0, Clerk, Firebase, Supabase) to lock down the API even more.
I have been unemployed for the last few months, and there's only so much TV and YouTube I can watch without going utterly insane between interviews,
Since WGU just started doing masters degrees in CS, I decided it would be a way to kill large amounts of time while getting at least a little out of it, so I registered for it.
I've been a professional software person for like fourteen years, so I was able to knock it out extremely quickly due to WGU's competency based stuff, so now I finally am able to put "MS" after my name.
hmottestad · 1h ago
Good for you. Cross my fingers that you'll land a good job soon. Or create your own job.
tombert · 1h ago
I have a few prospects lined up.
I'm actually planning on doing a second masters from a slightly more prestigious university with a more theory-heavy degree [1], but it's nice to at least have an official graduate degree now. Hopefully it helps me find work a bit quicker, and if nothing else it's just kind of fun to pile up degrees.
Working on a complex AI system that will eventually allow AI overseer subagents to create complex workflows internally on the fly for multi step reasoning capabilities. Its a vey complex system but easiest way I can describe it as a metacognitive framework for self organizing workflows depending on context and dynamic adjustment capabilities depending on environmental signals. lots of cool little systems that will do all types of fun stuff like feed logprobs to various Ai subagents to give extra bias signals or have the llms understand their own confidence in answering this or that query. Anyways I could write a whole decertation on all the various goodies in it. But currently at the moment starting small and working on developing automated hyperparameter reasoning evaluation system. its important to know the most affective hyperparameters per model and no better way to converge on those numbers then an automated system. After that using dspy or my own home brwe system to do same on converging for "best" system prompts for various tasks. And then setting up the various mcp servers that give these abilities to whatever llm uses them. Lots of work, but learning a lot in the process plus I love RND. I see potential in modern day systems for recursive self improvement just have to set up the system around the capability. thats the hard part, the vision is always easy...
samwillis · 3h ago
Tanstack DB - a new client side store for web apps, with transactions, optimistic state, and live queries spanning multiple collections.
It's designed for sync, so rather than fetching you can hook it up to a sync engine (any!) to keep your front end in sync with your backend. It's built on Tanstack Query, making the sync engine optional, and a great path for incremental adoption.
The query engine uses a typescript implementation of differential dataflow to enable incremental computation of the live queries - they are very fast to update. This gives you sub ms fine grade reactivity of complex queries (think sql like joins, group by etc).
Because of a HN post(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44421776), I've got a ton of feedback for Ensō: my writing app for flow/stream of consciousness writing. So, I'm wrapping up the release and adding good support for non-Latin, esp. RTL languages (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew) + pinyin and Japanese input methods.
I'm also thinking about organising the usage patters, because over the past few years I've collected a few interesting groups: mental health focussed users, script writers, neurospicy folks, bloggers, squirrel enthusiasts. I'm thinking about this here: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/how-people-use-enso/
screaminghawk · 1h ago
Love this idea. I like to use voice recording and transcription for the same thing, but having a text interface is nice for public spaces!
vira28 · 6m ago
Building Rappo (http://buildrappo.com/founders), an agentic GTM for devtools and infra startups to land their first customer.
davidpolberger · 1h ago
I'm working on an engine for Excel-like formulas, which will be available both as a library and as a service (which I've mentioned on HN a few times before). I originally started work on the engine back in 2008, when our app builder needed it.
This is a wheel I see people reinventing all the time, often for use in SaaS applications. The implementations are often underwhelming: function support is limited, documentation is sparse to non-existent and errors are typically only communicated at runtime -- if at all. Formula editors usually lack autocomplete, making them frustrating to use.
I've spent years solving all these problems (with a statically-typed language), and I'd love for others to benefit from the work. I have extracted the formula engine from our app compiler, so the library is nearly complete. The runtime part (evaluating formulas) has been rewritten in TypeScript. Next, I'll build a service around it to validate, compile and evaluate formulas -- which should be fun.
I'm planning to do a Show HN once I have a preview up and running.
Vermeulen · 1h ago
A multiplayer survival game based around voxel physics.
Can be described as Astroneer-like setting, Teardown voxel physics, in a Valheim-like online multiplayer survival game.
Video demo was awesome, really good stuff! Love seeing how you managed to make gravity actually a thing without simply destroying everything above a certain point, as well as connecting different objects together - I feel like that's something most voxel-based games I've seen have done a terrible job at.
Given the online/multiplayer aspect how difficult has the network portion been?
kylestanfield · 25m ago
Looks pretty great so far. Reminds me of playing Red Faction as a kid
rorylaitila · 1h ago
I'm digitally cataloging all US vintage print advertisements I can get my hands on (https://adretro.com). The backend is built on MySQL and Lucee and the full page ads published with Notion and Super.so. I'm using OpenAI vision to extract entity data from the images.
So far I've cataloged about 1500 advertisements out of the ~100,000 in my possession. Of which that is probably only 0.1% of all the major material out there. It's going to take a long time! I'm going at a rate of about 10,000/year. I'm going to have to speed this up :) But I've gotten the process to catalog a full magazine down from a week to a few hours.
I'm thinking of ways to support the archive. I am doing original art from the ads I may sell, or sell really nice copies of rare ads.
kvathupo · 44m ago
This is awesome! Cigarette ads are so seductively cool, yet the embodiment of selling you a fantasy
rorylaitila · 26m ago
Thank you! Yeah the cigarette ads are some of the most consistent. Once I get more in I am hoping to see some trends and themes in the messaging over time.
dataviz1000 · 3h ago
I'm copying the Puppeteer / Playwright client API to run in a Chrome extension using the native Chrome extension APIs.
It is possible to run Playwright inside a Chrome extension, however, it requires the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to automate a browser which really hurts the user experience, is very slow, and opens security vulnerabilities. Chrome extension APIs can accomplish maybe ~85% of the same functionality as CDP or Webdriver BiDi -- it isn't complete because of security features which shouldn't be bypassed anyhow. For example, instead of calling a function in a content script with 'script.callFunction' with Webdriver BiDi in Playwright, a function is called with chrome.scripting.executeScript(). It will be 2 or 3 more weeks before I post a PoC.
This is following my work using VSCode's core libraries in a Chrome extension exactly as they are used in an Electron app to drive VSCode and Cursor. The important part is VSCode's IPC / RPC which allows all the execution contexts and remote runtimes to communicate with each other. [0] This solves many problems I have had in the past automating browsers with a Chrome extension.
Among other things, I'm working on AOO, a cross-platform low-latency peer-to-peer audio streaming and messaging library: https://github.com/spacechild1/aoo
The C/C++ library can be easily embedded in host applications or plugins. It even runs on embedded devices, such as the ESP32. In addition, the project contains a Pure Data external and SuperCollider extension. There is also a third-party Max/MSP external: https://github.com/ddgg-el/aoo-for-max
The project is still in beta stage, but I hope to make a final release this summer.
blakebobit · 23m ago
I'm building Journoo, an Ai-native journaling app as an intelligent companion for mental well-being, accountability, seeing patterns, critical thinking, processing thoughts/feelings, making better decisions, thinking of others, creativity, help staying focused on long-term aim/goals, and documenting and remembering your life - all according to your core values (via text, voice, and image).
Basically a productivity tool for making sense of reality and living your best life.
I love making something truly valuable and it's also a crash course on AI product/app development. Absolutely having the best time in my life and am so grateful to be on this path!
Building on Flutter with iOS and Android coming this summer. Desktop and Apple Watch soon after.
czhu12 · 3h ago
I'm working on a Heroku / Render / Flyio alternative thats free, open source, built on top of Kubernetes.
Supports deployments of your own apps as well as 15k+ other packages (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts.
Reason? Got sick of paying for the massive markups on PaaS but missed the simplicity and convenience.
marc101 · 1h ago
Gieeve an instantly deploying AppEngine Standard, please. It's still great and the integrated push queues rather valuable, but Google likes to make the rest sooo complicated...
arjunchint · 12m ago
We are working on a DOM/Text Only AI Web Agent, rtrvr.ai:
- an AI Web Agent that autonomously completes tasks, creates datasets from web research, and integrates any APIs/MCPs – with just prompting and in your browser!
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 · 25m ago
I have a couple smaller projects pending that may become a part of something bigger, but the most amusing one so far a priorities app. At its core its basically a todo list. The difference is that I let it go through local llm to reconcile against declared ( and occasionally derived ) priorities and check for alignment to the todo list with the idea being that the most aligned items should be the ones to act on.
Overall, it is ending up being the most amusing thing I was working on.
edit: Very much for personal use. I currently have no intention of sharing it anywhere.
b8 · 18m ago
Looking for a job and trying to get clients for my new security consulting startup. May start up a local malware cleaning service, but I don't think I'll get any clients since I can't afford a storefront and there's a few small computer repair stores near me. I live in a rural part of Louisiana, so yeah idk.
williamcotton · 3h ago
A web app DSL that looks like:
GET /hello
|> jq: `{ world: ":)"}`
pipeline getPage =
|> jq: `{ sqlParams: [.params.id | tostring] }`
|> pg: `SELECT * FROM pages WHERE id = $1`
|> jq: `{ team: .data.rows[0] }`
GET /page/:id
|> pipeline: getPage
I really like it. I particularly like that you've resisted the temptation to include SQL itself or the jq queries in the DSL.
The validation piece makes it feel a bit a bit like the Rails mindset for people who work better in FP.
I'd make a could of suggestions for the docs:
Maybe a bit more discussion of how we'd test our webpipe code.
I see why you've called them 'middlewares' but, maybe the term 'macros' or 'pipeline functions' might avoid confusion with express/connect middlewares
williamcotton · 2h ago
Ooh, I like “pipeline functions”!
And thanks for the motivation to for figuring out a good way to talk about testing and generally clean up the (very messy) docs.
It’s comments like yours that give someone the drive to continue.
seangrogg · 1h ago
I am currently in the process of implementing a TLV message protocol (think MsgPack, CBOR, etc).
This is something I've been kicking tires on since my time at $BIGCORP; JSON without the bloat, Protobufs without the ceremony. I've drawn a lot of inspiration from MsgPack, CBOR, and Ion 1.1. Big emphasis on a tight set of core primitives, low-cost extensions, storing reused values/schemas, optional pre-negotiation, etc. That said, I've now been spending time trying to study the performance angle to make sure the design doesn't have a negative impact on encoding/decoding performance before committing to the implementation.
Regrettably nothing much to show (at least yet), but hopefully if nothing else it will become my go-to format for other personal projects that I work on.
nirw4nna · 59m ago
I'm currently working on DSC, a tensor library I wrote from scratch in C++ with a PyTorch-like API.
Right now it works on both CPU and GPU (both AMD and NVIDIA) and is capable of running LLMs like Qwen, I'm currently implementing a native profiler to trace CPU and GPU kernels and then I'll work on speed. Goal is to be competitive with PyTorch eager by the end of the year.
We're supposed to use AI at work, which has been very 50/50 for me as expected.
Last month I decided to take a subscription of my own for Claude Code to use in my personal time mostly for practice and educational purposes.
So the past few weekends and the occasional week night I've been vibe-coding a game for iOS/MacOS using Swift and SpriteKit.
I have some experience with Swift previously but not at work, so it's extremely experimental for me. However it's been going pretty well. Most of the hang-ups are Xcode configuration issues.
It's interesting to poke Claude a bit and discover what it's actually decent at and awful at.
Gameplay mechanics-wise it's been able to implement things as requested generally without problems.
UI elements like menu screens and such it has been almost completely unable to do no matter what prompt I give to it.
It's safe to say I would never call the codebase professional quality. However, the base game has been implemented well enough to play without bugs and I've been solidly impressed.
zenlot · 2h ago
How do you find xcode, is it as bad as everyone bashes it at reddit? I am planning to get m4 mac mini and do some Swift development, just didn't use xcode ever.
spike021 · 2h ago
These days it feels particularly outdated. I'm used to Sublime Text and VS Code for most of my day-to-day work and I just find navigating code such a chore in Xcode.
The other issue I've had is if I want to change project/target/build settings, Xcode doesn't provide an easy way to do so. You need to poke around the UI to find where these settings and file relationships are set and change them that way.
There's a project file that I believe contains them all but it's not intuitive to modify by hand.
It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams, flashcards, maps and more!
Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time (very Obsidian-esque).
barrell · 3h ago
Still working on https://phrasing.app - an app for polyglots to learn over 120 languages in the most effective manner and a beautiful UI. Just finished a onboarding flow, now updating the search and create experience to fall more in line with actual usage from users, then hopefully prepping for a more public launch :)
Had a fun week fixing up the application so it’s 100x faster on 5 different axes, and it’s starting to feel really well polished. Also started to move from reagent to preact/signals in a long slow migration hopefully to hsx.
I also moved the critical algorithm logic into an independent Clojure file that is compiled (and tested) with cherry-cljs — I’m hoping to expand this to ClojErl and jank so I can have isomorphic Clojure code running on the browser, BEAM server, and native swift app :D
It’s getting really close to done, I’m using it now to study 18 different languages, including some really minor ones like Maltese, Welsh, and Cantonese (not sure if Cantonese is really a minor language, but definitely low learner resourced) and it’s easy, slick, and surprisingly effective!
amelius · 2h ago
> learn over 120 languages in the most effective manner and a beautiful UI
Why would you need a UI if the basic way to learn a language is to speak to someone? (I suppose you meant graphical UI.)
Wouldn't a good STT/TTS interface be more appropriate?
barrell · 1h ago
Why do you need a beautiful UI? Because you need something to use for thousands of hours.
Why have a visual interface at all? It’s more convenient to use, is way more engaging, and just better for learning. There is an audio component to the app, and I’m sure more and more audio components will be added, but I would be surprised if in-app audio ever exceeds half of my usage.
For example there is a shadowing exercise that is purely audio based (put in headphones and press play). But what if you want to see what a word means? Or see its gender/case/tense? Mark it as easy or hard, remembered or forgotten? I can look all this information up, plus read a few paragraphs of explanations in less time than I would take me to formulate a question.
joelthelion · 3h ago
Sounds nice! A word of advice, instead of claiming 120 languages, I feel it would be better to focus on a few an ensure that they work well with native speakers.
barrell · 1h ago
You are talking about a very different product :) I have spent over a year making sure everything works for many languages. The whole point is to have one interface, for all my languages, big and small.
Additionally, please try it out before assuming they’re just claims. I’ve been using it daily for 3 months in 18 languages (roughly one from each major language family), and been in pretty constant contact with native speakers.
True I cannot vouche for all 120 languages, and sure there is the occasional error in the lower resource languages. However, I have put in a lot of work to make sure I have a representivie sample, and the errors are currently well within an acceptable range — and I’m working hard to improve them!
pedro_caetano · 3h ago
Playing with motion amplification to see if we can predict heart/respiratory rate of my newborn. I shot a few 4k videos of him sleeping as test data and working through some algorithms from published papers.
On parental leave with my third. We are on month 4 so I have (a bit more) free time in the late evenings after we put the older ones to bed.
atlasunshrugged · 3h ago
I'm finishing up a "book tour" (mostly podcasts) for my recently released book on how the country of Estonia modernized so quickly post re-independence from the Soviet Union and became a leader in e-government services and a top EU startup hub (Skype, Bolt, Wise, etc.). I'd love if people checked it out and gave feedback as it's my first big published work and the culmination of quite a few years of research and writing. https://www.rebootinganation.com/ or https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rebooting-a-nation-9...
PaulRobinson · 1h ago
Is the story about the Scottish football fans I once heard about them staying true, and partly to blame for some of the entrepreneurial mindset?
malshe · 2h ago
Congratulations on the book release. Do you plan to make an audiobook version for it?
deivid · 46m ago
An offline-only translator app for Android, using Mozilla's translation models (on device) and Tesseract.
https://free-visit.net
A tool to create a tour of you place. A real FPS first person tour.
robbomacrae · 48m ago
I'm working on an open source wrapper and MCP server to give Claude Code voice capabilities (and Slack and WhatsApp messaging). It works with system default TTS and google free ASR on Mac out the box but allows you to BYOK to your favorite TTS/ASR provider. I've also tried to make it a viable python library to make it easy to switch between ASR/TTS providers.
With Claude Code I really like being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. With TalkiTo I can do housework/go out for lunch and keep it on the right track remotely.
I've been working on an new approach to working with SQL:
https://5QL.site
You select columns and then just drill down to create further joins. Change the SQL text and it updates the view.
I'm a CS undergrad would love feedback.
iambateman · 3h ago
This is interesting, both in the sense that you did a great job on it, and I think unexpected-ways-to-explore-SQL is underrated. There are a lot of SQL databases that people could benefit from being able to drop a tool like this onto and explore.
One of the most interesting applications for LLM's is writing SQL based on a schema, and I wonder if your tool could incorporate a "show me the books titles from authors who's name starts with T" and write that out.
Good luck!
SophieBroderick · 3h ago
Thank you!
Yes, I agree. Just as we need to check what LLMs produce when writing code, I think this could be a way to check what they produce when trying to write SQL.
wonger_ · 46m ago
I'm working on a webapp for home inspectors. Early phases, no demo yet, just occasional updates and screenshots: https://wonger.dev/nuggets#n166
It's been tough to find work, so I figured I'd revisit an old SaaS idea. I worked for a home inspector in the past and saw a need for better (cheaper/faster/easier) report software.
Even if the business side flops, I'd still be satisfied with the experience. I've learned a lot about new tools like WASM and web components. I also like the UX challenge of designing for inspectors filling out reports on their phones.
arch_deluxe · 1h ago
For a long time I've been wanting a private, E2EE social media app for sharing pics/videos of my son with friends and family, but haven't found anything fitting that description. Like most people, we've just been using group texts; the closest alternative I found was shared photo albums, but we wanted the ability to make "posts" with a few pictures and some text. So I've been building it and using it for a couple months with some friends, it's a strange feeling to have the ergonomics of social media with none of the toxic nonsense.
Most people I know are using group texts for this, but I find that unsatisfying because my wife and I want to share stuff with ~20 people, but we don't want to be blasting all of them with texts all the time, or put those 20 people in a group text with each other. We wanted something pub/sub, but with the privacy of E2EE chat apps, and so easy to use our parents will use it.
It's a React app running on Cloudflare Workers, and there's an iOS app in the works using Capacitor; the E2EE is built on OPAQUE. There's a landing page/signup at freefollow.org if you'd like to learn more. I'm working on some demo videos.
robbiejs · 1h ago
I am working on DataGrid Toolkit. Based on my experiences building and selling (Excel like) data grids, people always look for your data grid, "but can it do this"? With DataGrid Toolkit, a developer can choose his own building blocks/modules and make a more Excel-like data grid, or make a more DataTables style traditional paginated table. The toolkit is headless and stateless by design and comes with different renderers. Canvas, html or some hybrid. It is written in Typescript and the data store is in Rust/Webassembly.
KeplerBoy · 1h ago
What are some of the more obscure requirements people have on data grids?
robbiejs · 1h ago
Well not really obscure, but some want formulas, some want advanced filters, grouping/pivoting. Nothing that's not done before but you don't want to say yes to all these things as the product will lose its core identity and strength.
So I will release my new data grid component based on my own toolkit, and if people want tweaks or "add these features", I will demonstrate them the toolkit.
aapoalas · 1h ago
I merged support for JavaScript object "shapes" in my Nova JavaScript engine last week; now I just have to clean up some of the ugly parts of the API (and maybe do some performance adjacent changes), and then it's time to use the shapes for property lookup caching!
This is one of the most important performance features in a JS engine, as without shapes property lookups would be terribly slow. I'm looking forward to getting this working.
jesse__ · 2h ago
I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy.
I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.
We focus on people with relationship issues, and so far it's been deeply fulfilling. So many people have written in about how this has helped them heal.
Launched with React Native about 8 weeks ago, and continuing to grow fast. This is a niche space with lots of potential over the next few years I think.
Just submitted an update to help people compare their unique relationship needs to others which is so cool.
ashwinsundar · 2h ago
Software for biomedical research labs.
Animal colony management is largely managed in Excel sheets, with no integrations to related systems or hardware sensing. We're working on the spreadsheet problem first, so that biomedical researchers can share information about their colonies with other researchers at their institutions, and explore the lines that other labs have. This opens up collaboration options and makes it much easier for the research community to find out what mouse lines other labs have (and may borrow for their own experiments).
Working on Humadroid - trying to make SOC2/ISO27001 compliance less painful for small businesses. The $30-50K consultant route is brutal for startups, so we're building an AI-assisted platform that helps with policy generation and guidance.
Still in beta and learning a lot from each customer we onboard. We're actually going through our own SOC2 assessment in August, which has been... educational.
Recently added business continuity and incident tracking features. Trying to build something that's actually helpful rather than just another compliance checkbox tool.
If anyone's been through the compliance journey, would love to hear what worked (or didn't work) for you!
nialse · 2h ago
Love this! Not a customer but could see it happening. ISO 27001 compliance (or equivalent) is a standard requirement when working with the public sector in my area. NIS2 is also on the horizon, have you looked into it?
mlitwiniuk · 1h ago
Thanks! Really appreciate the interest.
We already support a major part of ISO 27001 - actually releasing our Statement of Applicability tomorrow or the day after. I went through ISO certification at my previous company, and that experience is what triggered building Humadroid in the first place. The pain was real!
NIS2 is definitely on our radar - planning to have support for it by Q4 2025. The public sector requirements you mentioned are exactly the kind of use cases we're building for.
It's a tool to help teachers detect student assignments that have been written by AI. Unlike other solutions out there, it's an entire web-based text editor that analyses not just the final assignment, but all the keystrokes used during the writing process.
My theory is that analysing the final text only is a futile struggle - billions are being pumped into making LLM text look more human, so trying to make an assessment off final text alone is guess work at best.
I'm curious what folks think! Especially teachers, devs, and anyone navigating this space...
nine_k · 39m ago
I can't help but immediately think about a counteracting piece of software, which asks an LLM for variations of a paragraph, or a phrase, or a few synonyms, and types it the way a human would, with pauses, typos, navigation, rearranging pieces via copy-paste, etc.
Not that your software is going to be useless. But as long as there is an incentive to cheat, new and better tools that facilitate cheating will crop up. Something else should change.
enjeyw · 28m ago
Yeah it's a good call out. I think it's a (more) winnable battle though.
For both a keystroke based AI detector, and software designed to mimic human keystroke patterns, performance will be determined by the size of the dataset they have of genuine human keystroke patterns. The detector has an inherent leg-up in this, because it's constantly collecting more data through the use of the tool, whereas the mimic software doesn't have any built in loop to collect those inputs.
markasoftware · 3h ago
I'm writing an encrypted and padded IP tunnel to help people build their own multi-hop circuits to access the internet anonymously, without Tor, and with protection from end-to-end correlation attacks.
I’m currently working on implementing a Minecraft server in Rust. Not a new concept, I know, but it’s a great learning opportunity.
I already have a few basics like loading and saving worlds and placing/breaking blocks implemented.
In a few weeks I will release the first version and host a public server for testing. Then I will also do a show hn.
Repo link: https://github.com/T-x-T/oxide (better readme coming soon, don’t worry)
muhammadtalhas · 20m ago
I'm working on busmatics.com
Full fleet/driver management platform for private transportation companies (busses, limos, white glove taxis, etc)
ArneVogel · 2h ago
Hej, I am still working on FisherLoop [1] to learn Swedish (but I have added German, Spanish, French and Italian since). I created FisherLoop because I like audiobooks for language learning but I hated having to pause to look up words + I want to read along the book while listening. With FisherLoop I made "interactive audiobooks" where I use TTS with word level timestamps to highlight the words as they are spoken + I can click on words for the translation.
I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.
Git hosting for async teams that supports versioned patches and patch stacks instead of pull requests. All done using the standard git SSH protocol, so no git-send-email needed.
benzguo · 44m ago
Working on a combination note-taking app, cloud drive, and AI assistant, all on a server you own. You can vibe-code apps in your notebook, use your notebook's underlying filesystem, and serve apps to the public, all from your new cloud computer. Still early, but would love feedback!
I'm working on a rating/reviewing website for YouTube videos, with strong search and filter functions that YouTube sorely lacks, along with good curated list building functionality.
With a strong rating weight system that can avoid (some) of the pitfalls of community ratings.
Right now videos must be added to be searchable, to comply with YouTube API rules. I'd hope that over time, with enough usage, the repository could contain many categories of highly curated content. (eg. Documentaries) that someone could find without having to browse various communities and opinions to get lists.
sipjca · 1h ago
Been working on https://handy.computer. It's similar to SuperWhisper and others, but is open source and cross platform
It uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend
tuomasj · 51m ago
I spent good amount of my summer holiday rebuilding Masterlist (https://masterlist.fi)
This is probably third (or fourth) incarnation of the app and I like writing a web apps with Hotwire more and more. Especially leaning more on <turbo-stream> features removes frontend complexity compared previous versions. Highly recommended, both Hotwire and rewriting your apps!
vahid4m · 3h ago
"WithAudio", a text to speech solution for Desktop.
The most important features (for me) are: One Time Payment and 100% local and private. I don't send any data to any server. Just enough to verify license keys.
- Its one time payment, user can import any text, URL or ebooks and use the reader with read along text highlighting or export the audio as mp3 or m4a (audiobook specific format).
- Currently only supports MacOS with Apple Silicon I was doing Windows too but its making development slow, so I'm pausing that for now.
- The most recent feature I added is Global Capture where user can setup some hotkeys to import any text and URL. Text parsing and extracting text is one of the hardest part of this.
- Also, just added the a Reader view to website. Its goal is to mimic the app featuers as much as the browser limitations allow. I don't have a free Tier but a 7 days money back gurantee.
I mostly have a dev and engineering background but the most exciting aspect of this marketing and those stuff. Still trying to figure that.
I'd be happy to hear any feedback and ideas.
Edit: Only English at the moment. Adding more languages is in my plan but its very difficult for me since I don't know any other languages. But I think it would be great to add those as well.
diarmuid_glynn · 3h ago
Nice!
I'm curious, what on-device text-to-speech engine did you use?
I'm building ClosedLinks, a tool for sharing files and/or messages anonymously through one-time access links with no traceable sender. Most digital tools assume persistence; ClosedLinks is built for ephemerality and unlinkability. Each link is single-use, redirects on access, and stores encrypted content only temporarily. Recipients never see the original URL, enabling plausible deniability. Think: whistleblowers.
Encryption uses Fernet (symmetric), and all decryption happens only at point of access. There's no data retention after viewing or expiration. Optional analytics give visibility without compromising identity. Users can get notified when their shared links was accessed by the recipient, and they can set passwords for enhanced security. Limitations include email-based signups and no end-to-end encryption (yet).
Working on https://ts.coach, a free guide to Typescript that runs entirely in the browser.
chrisweekly · 16m ago
I'm sure you're familiar, but just in case: https://totaltypescript.com does a phenomenal job in this space -- esp. its VSCode extension, which acts as an interactive linter.
meistertigran · 38m ago
I am working on htmlsync.io, an easy way to synchronize localStorage between devices. I found myself using AI a lot to generate single-file HTML web apps that saved data in localStorage and wanted to have access to them from phone. This was my solution.
yunusabd · 1h ago
I'm building an app for language learning with Youtube. I realized that yt probably has the largest collection of spoken language that ever existed, so I wanted to make it accessible, especially on mobile.
I'm focusing on Chinese (Mandarin) right now, because that's what I've been learning, and the language learning community on reddit likes it too. But other languages are also available.
Still on a sabbatical building things I enjoy, but it's summer here so have also spent much time in my hammock with cold beers.
Most effort on https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world.
No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. Since last month I've added a couple of minor things like maps and "where to go next" sections for each venue.
I'm debating whether or not I should add user accounts, and let people maintain venue bucket lists, venue endorsements.
Also planning to reach out to the venues and ask if they agree to monthly or quarterly one-click information verification emails from us.
Other projects that receive less love are:
- https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-related linkpages, and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol)
- https://misplacy.com, just a dumb and wrong AI landing page for now but was thinking to work towards a drop-in solution for SMBs around lost/found management.
- A platform for helping voluntary associations with repetitive administrative tasks (non-english so not linking. Trying to rank the pain points currently)
- A platform for structuring national soccer club history (initial brain dump idea phase)
- A platform for structuring writing prompts and collaborative fiction writing (initial brain dump / mockups)
For the next month or so I think I need to prioritize what to focus on after summer
Always interesting to see what others are building and doing. So thanks for sharing!
allenu · 2h ago
I'm working on an update to my flashcards app, Fresh Cards. The current version has a lot of limitations, so I've been working on a rewrite that improves all aspects of the app, for nearly a year now.
Most recently, I've been incorporating a lot of improved UX design. The app has always used a playlist metaphor, i.e. your database of flashcards is your library and you can sort them in different ways and then hit Play to start reviewing. Within the review session itself, you go through the cards in the playlist in small batches so that it's less overwhelming, among other reasons. After every batch, the app returns to an overview screen so you can see what you've just reviewed so far in the session.
The challenge has been designing this overview screen so it's clear where you are in the playlist without making it overwhelming. I finally came up with a good design this week, which I was quite happy with: https://mastodon.social/@allenu/114921335089371494
I've been pleasantly surprised at how much of an improvement this new UI has made on how the product feels. The old UI only showed you the history of cards you've reviewed in the session and highlighted the most recent batch of cards. This new one shows you the full playlist, but redacts the contents of the playlist ahead, so you immediately get a sense of how much left there is to do, but without being shown what is in the contents of the cards. Interestingly, this has the effect of making you want to see what is in those cards, i.e. to keep reviewing!
abnercoimbre · 2h ago
> What are you working on?
Early Access for a new terminal emulator [0] bringing dead text to life. It's my professional dream to evolve our conception of terminals without bringing in the bloat of, say, electron (read: staying native).
>Do you have any new ideas you're thinking about?
I like the thought of dropping you into the terminal right on the browser. It wouldn't be the real thing, but having a toy to play with is superior to dry docs.
I am working on easiest way to manage all your MCP configurations and credentials. Additionally, I have added couple of interesting MCP servers, like converting any OpenAPI v3 spec to MCP server (including support of authentication): https://x.com/getaikoapp/status/1945278307496235482
After working on and using many MCP servers, I hit couple of issues multiple times:
* Do I configure 2 MCP servers of same type for 2 different API Keys or do I manually update configurations all the time? (e.g. production and development environments)
* when I have too many tools enabled, I noticed that either I am hitting context limit too quickly or LLM is hallucinating when choosing a right tool
* Some MCP servers expose a lot of tools, I want to disable some of them forever, instead of doing configuration per AI assistant (first for Claude, then Cursor and so on)
* Most MCP servers are hosted by third parties, as a privacy conscious person, I do not want to share my credentials with third parties.
NOTE: Gmail and Calendar apps are currently under CASA Tier 2 security assessment, hence not published to production. But you can see demo usage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgEy6Y1kfn4
wweiss1230 · 1h ago
I'm working on a telemedicine system connecting patients with remote doctors in rural Africa.
While medical records systems in much of the developed world are still shared via fax, we think there's an opportunity to leapfrog existing systems and have a cloud-based source of truth.
egruy · 1h ago
I am building Tracelake - a data quality solution for SAP replications.
Why? SAP holds the most important data for companies that use it, but it's notoriously difficult to replicate this data consistently into a data analytics platform (think Snowflake, Redshift, etc...).
Couple of companies specialize in the SAP replication, but it's hard to validate the correctness of the replicated data, because:
- the SAP data is changing continuously and rapidly
- there are hundreds of tables and TBs of data
Usually it's the consumers of data downstream who notice that the data just "doesn't feel right".
Tracelake adds a validation layer on top of the SAP to X replication, which periodically compares the data between source and target and informs you about any missing / incorrect data, so you can tackle data quality issues proactively.
woopsah · 45m ago
I am currently implementing a journal log viewer for an IoT device management web interface based on NixOS.
https://github.com/Thymis-io/thymis
jph · 58m ago
Assertables is a Rust crate for smarter assert testing, debugging, and runtime checking. Good news is it just reached 500K downloads so I'm seeking more people to try it in more kinds of use cases.
The Calculator app for LisaGUI. I'm using high precision fixed point arithmetic to do the calculations. It's gonna have the same functionality as the original, with three different modes and a toggle-able paper tape. The Lisa's manual has been surprisingly helpful.
alain_gilbert · 3h ago
I'm working on this programming language that compiles to Go.
The goal is to have it behave like typescript for Go, where any Go program would compile out of the box, but then you can use the new syntax.
It also have a working LSP server and generates a sourcemap, so when you get a runtime stacktrace, it gives you the original line in your .agl file as well as the one in the generated .go file.
When I wrote Go, I figured that I would eventually have to do something like that, to fix the glaring omissions in the language. And then I stopped writing Go, but glad to see that someone got around to it!
jbreckmckye · 3h ago
I like the bang operator for propagating errors. Shame to lose multiple returns though
alain_gilbert · 3h ago
That's why there is a "Tuple" expression that you can use instead, which allows you to easily return multiple values, and destructure them as well.
Yoric · 3h ago
Well, it seems to support tuples, which are more powerful.
marc101 · 2h ago
Finally caved and built a custom AI newsletter curation platform for a friend who's been pestering me to automate his GPT news digests. Still no idea if there's real demand, but the learning experience with Cursor and Claude Code has been worth it. After growing my own newsletter to 800 subscribers, I'm convinced aggregation beats adding another newsletter to the pile.
Free signup to test: https://my.procuratorai.com/login (no help/intro yet, and I'm paying for tokens so not advertising it widely...)
Homepage is basically a one-shot Claude build using Nunjucks on Netlify (first time with both).
(Subscribe button is broken - still working on that...)
jph · 1h ago
Good work! I'm trying to sign up using joel@joelparkerhenderson.com to try it. Can you enable my account? Thanks!
IrgT · 57m ago
Hey, as the friend who nudged you into this, this really helps me in my work with (former) elite athletes now entrepreneurs/investors and with high-octane executives. These folks receive too many calls, emails, messages, and yes, of course, newsletters and reports. I understood, the last thing they need is another newsletter or report. Instead, they need sharp, AI-driven tools to sift through the noise and surface actionable insights—signals, risks, and next steps, etc. ProCurator AI's platform is shaping up to do exactly that (btw, very easy to set up for users), and it’s cool to see how you leveraged Claude Code and Cursor to make it happen. This whole thing makes it possible for me to deliver these guys customized briefings tailored to their needs and schedule based on the information they receive in their inbox e. g. via newsletters and reports. Curious to hear what others here think about tackling info overload with tools like this.
goodthink · 1h ago
I took July off. ()!_!()
Having implemented [2] in [1], a long time goal, the accomplishment of which has made me very happy, I felt the need to step back and take a break, sort out what I want to do with it next. A little bit about the journey can be gleaned from [3].
I've been working on GrokVocab (https://www.grokvocab.com), an app to improve vocabulary without flashcards or memorization.
Everyone knows reading is the best way to build vocabulary, but many avoid it and turn to flashcards or spaced repetition because long texts can feel overwhelming, and they often have to refer to a dictionary.
This app gives users short, engaging passages focused on comprehension. While reading, users guess word meanings from context and find out whether they got it right by answering a few questions below. I believe this will be helpful for people who haven’t had much success with popular vocabulary learning methods.
I shared it on HN earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543063), but it didn’t get much attention. If you're interested in novel learning methods or vocabulary, I’d love your feedback.
P.S. Login is required since the app uses LLMs to generate interesting passages. You can register with any non-existent email if privacy is a concern.
ChrisMarshallNY · 1h ago
I've been learning PassKeys and WebAuthn.
Getting together a very simple server (PHP), and very simple clients (UIKit and SwiftUI), and will publish a blog series on it (sort of like this[0]), once I get more used to it.
I need to really get comfortable with it before I do that, though.
Have you ever wanted to write your life story but found it too overwhelming? I’m developing an app that acts as your personal interviewer, guiding you through your memories and helping you share them with your loved ones.
The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to family members who may be too busy to ask the right questions now, and to future generations who would otherwise never hear these stories.
I have a working prototype that allows me to test the interview flow, and I’ll soon be sharing it with friends and family for initial feedback. I’m now looking for a designer to collaborate on the next phase.
Design will be a critical part of this app. The way stories are visually presented will be central to the user experience and will likely determine the app’s success. If you’re a designer interested in this kind of work, I’d love to hear from you. Given the text-heavy nature of the app, experience with typography and content-focused design will be especially valuable.
djeastm · 1h ago
This weekend I (& AI) made a little quizzing app for testing myself after watching Jeopardy.
Only put the last three games of this past season so far, but I will probably add more each day (re-runs are still on until the new season starts in September).
I run a job board for Germany called Arbeitnow. It runs well without any frequent changes. Recently I've added a couple of new sources for jobs and filtering the kind of jobs that get through (relevant to my audience).
Not planning to do a lot during the promised Berlin summer though
I am working on a chess analytics tool, specifically a free and open source replacement of Chessbase in this age of LLMs that can run on all platforms. The idea is to lower the barrier of entry to use a chess improvement tool since Chessbase can be intimidating for a causal Chess.com beginner looking to go into serious chess prep. At present, it can do basic queries like H2H score of Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura, the top 10 juniors in the US, Magnus Carlsen's games with the London system opening and involving a queen sacrifice etc. Though getting it to work for advanced multi-step tactical patterns and finding games with certain imbalances in the query using natural language is getting challenging. DuckDB has helped a lot, along with modern LLMs for query generation with schema and some preprocessing of game PGNs and piece hashes. It can also import a user's Chess.com and Lichess games given the usernames and do similar queries as on Master level games.
I also used the tool to generate an Adult Chess improvers FIDE rank list for all federations around the world. Here are the July 2025 rankings though it still needs major improvements in filtering - https://chess-ranking.pages.dev
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Another idea that I have been working on for sometime is connecting my Gmail which is a source of truth for all financial, travel, personal related stuff to a LLM that can do isolated code execution to generate beautiful infographics, charts, etc. on my travels, spending patterns. The idea is to do local processing on my emails while generating the actual queries blindly using a powerful remote LLM by only providing a schema and an emails 'fingerprint' kind of file that gives the LLM a sense of what country, region, interests we might be talking about without actually transmitting personal data. The level of privacy of the 'fingerprint' vs the quality of queries generated is something I have been very confused with.
Joeboy · 2h ago
If it's not gauche to post the same thing two months running, I've been working on https://filmhose.uk, a listings site for London's independent and arts cinemas. Now at the awkward stage where I should probably stop messing about with the site and start "growth hacking" or something.
hiAndrewQuinn · 2h ago
I'm releasing an actually instant search-to-type TUI and CLI Finnish to English dictionary called Taskusanakirja (pocket dictionary). It's been steadily optimized to the hilt to be the perfect brookside or website-side dictionary for any learner of the Finnish language. Available on Windows, Mac and Linux as a single standalone executable, with an optional paid database download for Taskusanakirja Pro.
This is the first time I've ever actually released something with a monetization option, so I'll be interested to see where it goes. It's a small enough niche that I think I have several features that genuinely don't exist anyplace else, like the ability to lemmatize even heavily inflected words (a very common stumbling block for learners of Finnish).
A web app would obviously be much easier to monetize, but then I would lose the buttery smooth feel of the search at it currently exists.
Working on an web application to turn form fillable PDF's into full interactive TTRPG character sheets, with 3d dice rolling, configurable / re-usable rolls, etc...
Easiest way to explain it is something like D&DBeyond but for indie games.
I am working on a time tracking app for tasks. I built it because I want to gain a better understanding of how I spend my working days. It's meant to be very simple. Everything is stored locally and requires no login. I don't currently plan to sync it with any backend. This isn't something that can be used to track employees — it's just for personal use.
Just FYI, when I open this on mobile iOS, a blank white page appears. Not sure if this is intended or not.
lowkeyokay · 3h ago
Thanks for checking it out and thanks a lot for telling. Me definitely not intended. It should work now, but I will monitor this.
cibyr · 2h ago
I've been working on a little utility to transfer files between two computers using QR codes: https://github.com/cibyr/qftf
It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses iroh for the p2p networking - on both ends, and also in the little web app that you use to scan the QR codes and start the transfer.
Similar concept, though an important distinction: QFTF assumes that you have a phone you can scan QR codes with, but that isn't where you want the file to end up. Instead, it displays a QR code on both the sender and the receiver, and you scan both of the QR codes with your phone to start the transfer.
hangonhn · 1h ago
- A server to run TrueNAS using ZFS. Going to pair it with Tailscale and Nextcloud as a replacement for Dropbox.
- Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network in pure Python to learn how it works.
- A Open AI Whisper to an embedding model pipeline to transcribe and summarize podcasts.
darrelld · 1h ago
Built a bespoke loyalty points system for a chain of gas stations back in 2020. Thought at first it would be a one time deliverable and then I could move on with my life. Cut to today and I'm trying to launch it into it's own platform.
Nothing much to show other than one client, but I'm on the cusp of charging them monthly vs getting paid by the hour.
Now bootstrapping https://www.minute-master.com - AI formal minute generation for regulated firms primarily in financial services space but also free to use for charities.
And I've been vibe coding some maths educational tools and games for (my) 6yo: https://rupertlinacre.com/
pacmansyyu · 3h ago
I've been working on an encrypted environment variables management tool, called kiln[1], for teams. I know, tools like age and SOPS exist, but this partly came through because of the lack of a good UX around the encryption part especially for a team-based workflow. I aim to continue building kiln as a developer-first experience, making it seamless to integrate into a large team's workflows.
The idea came to me when we were trying to find ways to manage Terraform secrets , CI vars were a no-go because people sometimes wish to deploy locally for testing stuff, and tools like Vault have honestly been a pain to manage, well, for us at least. So I have been building this tool where the variables are encrypted with `age`, have RBACs around it, and an entire development workflow (run ad-hoc commands, export, templating, etc) that can easily be integrated into any CI/CD alongside local development. We're using this and storing the encrypted secrets in Git now, so everything is version-controlled and can be found in a single place.
Do give it a try. I am open to any questions or suggestions! Interested to know what people think of this. Thanks!
Seems to be very cool project, especially for teams. I like Access control mechanism, and also klin run command is great!
nkristoffersen · 2h ago
We are working on Gossip: the future of media insights (think Meltwater, Brandwatch, etc).
It’s been a journey but getting close to launching our first version to pilot customers in August. We use an enormous amounts of AI tokens every month to extract data not possible with any traditional player in this media monitoring space. Benchmarking competitors, tracking impactful discussions, and receiving actionable brand insights.
If you are currently using one of the big media monitoring companies, I’d love to chat!
I'm building a information hub that utilize AI agents to compile all the relevant information from China (gov, econ, commerce, anything and everything). I call it "information domination". Heard many times that language barrier stops people having a better understanding of China. Now the LLM translation is good enough, and AI agents can do way more in information gathering stage. It's time to put things in practice.
For now, it only has a daily newsletter fully compiled by AI agents without any human intervention. I plan to add public listed companies (semiconductor, energy provider, etc) onto the platform. Already found lots of good data points that can be used by analysts, researchers or observers.
jerlendds · 2h ago
https://github.com/osintbuddy/osintbuddy - Node graphs, data mining, and plugins. This year I've rewritten the project to learn Rust and we're nearly at feature parity compared to the old Python version (github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy). I'm currently working out how the Python plugin system will work and I've jotted down some thoughts related to that here: https://studium.dev/osib/architecture#existing-plugin-system...
sfpotter · 2h ago
I've got a long term project trying to see how far I can get writing a contact simulation using techniques from Klaus Hollig's book on B-spline finite element methods. I'm using D for this. I've been focusing on level set domains, which has led to me spending an inordinate amount of time on high order boundary parametrizations. I'm very curious to see how efficient an approach like this can be made, especially using multigrid. I do numerics and geometry professionally, and this is a bit outside my wheelhouse, although close enough to what I do at my day job that I'm hoping there will be some nice cross pollination of ideas.
MITSardine · 24m ago
By contact simulation, do you mean solid dynamics? (mechanics is not my field)
I'm intrigued by the use of level set domains here. I've only encountered those in other type of numerical simulation where the intent is in avoiding surface meshing.
I suppose moving an object in this context is as simple as composing its level set function with a translation and rotation. However, deforming is non trivial, especially local deformations, right?
How do you efficiently resolve collisions? At the scale of an element, it seems to be a simple check of nowhere should both level set functions be negative. But how do you select the elements to check? Do you somehow keep track of only the elements traversed by the objects in a time step, or some other method? I would guess your method should be more efficient than intersecting meshes, is that what you've found?
I'm particularly interested by your mention of high-order boundary parameterizations, what do you mean by that exactly?
Sorry to bombard you with questions, I was intrigued by a combination of things I'd never seen together before!
1vuio0pswjnm7 · 51m ago
Upgrading to new version 2.0.0 of dnsdist using nghttp2 instead of h2o
It's never easy for me to compile this monster
Static-PIE binary with minimum options is a whopping 15M
This week I’ve been working on predicting upcoming paychecks with Nodejs so we can automatically decide how much funds to move into your budgets when you get paid. I pull the past 3 months of transaction data from our Postgres database using Prisma and run some analysis.
People think syncing and delayed transaction data is normal, and I’m working on changing that by having the budgeting built in to the checking account. Along with a high yield savings account, goal envelopes, bill envelopes, etc, joint accounts, etc.
jvink · 2h ago
Working on sanctum [0] and reliquary [1].
Soon approaching a 1.0 release for sanctum once I get my brain out of vacation mode and into hacking mode again. A lot has happened this year and I am excited.
I will be talking about how sanctum and its cathedrals work at sec-t 2025 [2] so in full swing working on the demos and presentation.
The process names in the sanctum project made me smile :) I wonder why you chose "guardian" and not "bishop" (or even "episcopus"), which is literally "overseer".
codingclaws · 3h ago
My Reddit clone called Comment Castles [0].
Earlier today I implemented "bbcodes" for bold, italic, underline, em (grey background color) and strikethrough. They way it works for bold is like this: b[text here]. If you want to apply multiple you can go bui[text here] for example, which would be bold, underline and italic text.
I'm currently working on https://beontimer.com a free timing app for running and cycling races.
It started off because I wanted to see if I could print QR codes on a piece of paper and use these to detect people crossing a lap if finish line.
That proved more difficult than I thought, the QR codes were not easy to scan from far away and while moving. It is still in alpha stage.
What does work is a simple manual mode for people to use at their races.
jedberg · 2h ago
I'm working on DBOS Transact [0], our open source library that adds durability and reliability to your codebase. We're about to launch support for Golang [1] and Java, and that's going to bring some really interesting customer problems. I can't wait!
After 4.5 years it's finally time to build a mobile app for OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - it provides uptime monitoring for software teams and status pages for their users
I'm starting with React Native to see if anyone actually ends up using it, and will go from there
mNovak · 2h ago
Making progress on a Warhammer 40k rules engine and client (think in-browser RTS style). It's actually getting to be playable with a reduced rules set, and designed to be highly extensible / plug-in-able.
I'll still need to implement some kind of "AI" opponent or hack together P2P networking to demo it though; playing against yourself is fine for testing, but not really how the game is meant to be played.
It's hand coded so far, but I'm hoping AI can be a big lift for churning out the multiple thousands of named special rules, as most of these are very simple (+1 here, reroll there, etc).
Any WH40k players out there? Love to hear your thoughts!
armishra · 3h ago
An app to help you split individual receipts with a bunch of people:
Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner.
You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what.
Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.
e1gen-v · 2h ago
I just tried it and I really like it! Do you think it’s gonna stay free?
jbreckmckye · 3h ago
How is the text extraction done? Tesseract?
armishra · 3h ago
I just use an LLM with a prompt (pls dont hate). Found tesseract to be very bad for text extraction.
lykhonis · 1h ago
After 15 years doing mobile apps, security, and systems development. I ended up learning ton about Cloudflare.
Now connecting all the dots and building a backend for mobile apps. It’s already live https://calljmp.com
Fully powered by Cloudflare, unbeatable pricing, rls and app attestation, raw SQLite queries, and tons more.
Looking for early feedback and adaptors.
barker1889 · 1h ago
I'm working on my game "Night of the Trickster". It's a Christmas themed stealth/horror game
After tinkering with game technology for years now, I'm pleased I've finally managed to use all that knowledge to create something (soon to be) releasable
Working on 3dpack.ing, an AI-powered 3D container loading tool.
It calculates optimal ways to load boxes into trucks or containers, considering stacking rules, fragility, and real-world constraints. You can drag boxes like 3D Tetris or upload photos to auto-estimate item dimensions. Recently added: batch-wise guided loading for warehouse use cases.
We're at ~$400 MRR and just opened up a 14-day free trial. Feedback, trials, and intros to logistics folks welcome.
quartztz · 1h ago
At actualia [1] we're working on delivering customized-and-verifiable news summaries! We summarize RSS feeds and other sources filtering by interests, with a strong emphasis on user relevance, routine integration, and UX in general. We're in closed beta right now aiming for a launch in Q3 !
Working on Lunova — a QuickBooks Online app that you can create custom alerts via SMS/email such as when big deposits land, invoices go overdue, or vendor prices spike. Just cleared Intuit’s tech/security + marketing review (Took over 3 months... after building the MVP) and we’re now live on the QBO App Store. Feedback and feature requests welcome: https://uselunova.com
dm03514 · 2h ago
Productionizing duckdb :) I built a streaming tool around duckdb that allows for high performance stream processing and a rich connector ecosystem:
Building a company around a tool is hard. There's been some interest but streaming is kind of commoditized.
I'm taking everything I learned building it and working on a customer-facing security product, more to come on that :)
ggandhi · 2h ago
Just soft launched: http://disposableapps.com - Hugging face for micro-tools. Disposable apps propose few apps a week and the ones with max votes stay and rest gets "disposed off" and the ones which stay are available for flat monthly subscription.
Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features!
ziyasal · 2h ago
I'm working on this, improving in every iteration. (Documentation needs to be updated as well)
Flux is a high-performance message transport library for Rust that implements patterns inspired by LMAX Disruptor and Aeron. It provides lock-free inter-process communication (IPC), UDP transport, and reliable UDP with optimized memory management for applications with low latency requirements.
bishopsmother · 1h ago
I'm intending to finish migrating Wabbit S2's functionality to MCP[0].
Firstly a DevManual - for “any” software team/IT dept - how to think about the philosophy, history and practise of basically everything - release management, backup and recovery or IAM and security and marketing-by-engineering or CSS
It’s kind of “this much I know” and a working docker based OSS “software team in a box”
And the second one is really expanding on the philosophy - how software is changing companies and how democracy works with software
moojacob · 2h ago
I've been working on an app that writes customer emails so small businesses can focus on what energizes them.
It makes answering customer emails 10x easier.
The magic are training templates which are templates that get suggested (and eventually auto-selected) and personalized by LLM for every reply.
Every reply sent trains it to auto select that training template for future similar customer emails.
The stack is Ruby on Rails and Postgres hosted on DigitalOcean. The LLM currently is Kimi K2 hosted on Groq.
Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features!
AbjMV · 3h ago
Working on www.lattix.app, a macOS app to launch apps and files across multiple monitors, in the layout you want them to be in. I built this for myself as a companion since I context switch a lot ( work, personal projects and hobbies ), now it's public.
realty_geek · 2h ago
I recently built a site for guessing house prices. I thought I'd be done with it in a week. Over a month later I still have a ton of things to work on.
Enjoy. And yes that really was my wife playing one of the games for the first time in the video ;)
realty_geek · 1h ago
One thing I will be doing this week will be to get different AIs to play the game to get an idea of how good they are.
The easiest to start with will be open AI - using the new agent I should be able to record a screencast of it with explanations for each one.
hyperbrainer · 2h ago
I have been experimenting with rendering fonts in Rust lately. I was pleasantly surprised by how simple reading the ttf file format is. The hard part, of course, is actually doing everything with the bezier curves and contours and filling the insides etc. But if I were to just be working with straight lines, I already have everything I need. Indeed, I used MATLAB's `patch` to quickly check my progress and see the major bugs in my rendering implementations, and got there within a couple hours.
Cubic chunks, full lighting engine, opting to be non-deterministic, everything is unsigned integer math except for rotation and rendering, multiplayer is mostly implemented, built to be able to handle heavy simulation.. the foundation work is almost done. Right now it's just a hobby to try to build the best thing I can build. I work on it because it's fun.
bloomca · 2h ago
I've been learning systems programming for a while and recently I discovered kilo[0], which inspired me to start building my own editor[1]. Not sure how far I'll go, but hopefully it will be usable -- how fun would it be to build another project of mine using my own editor?
1. Software: An OS that masquerades as simple note taking software.
Goal is to put an end to all the disparate AI bullshit and apps owning our data.
I solved context switching for myself ages ago and now I'm just trying to productize it outside my 3 companies internal usage.
It also solves context switching for AI agents as a byproduct.
2. Ethics: Give Ai and proto-Agi a reason not to kill us all.
An extremely minimal, empirical naturalistic moral framework that is universally binding to all agents so AI won't kill us all. I view the alignment problem as a epistemic moral grounding issue and that the current pseudo utilitarianism isn't cutting it. Divine command, discourse ethics, utilitarianism, deontology they are all insufficient.
x1MA-EGT85 · 3h ago
Would love try out and contribute to both of these! Let me know if you'd like to get in touch.
aray07 · 2h ago
Claude Code has changed the way I write code.
Programming for me has become a lot more fun because of Claude Code. I get to spend more time planning and researching.
I have been working on https://codient.dev to be able to run Claude Code agents in the background without setting up a local IDE!
1. (continuation) Another video, this one about my experiences writing a homebrew PSOne game
2. (useful) a command line tool (or native desktop app) that generates white noise
3. (fanciful) See if I can unpack FFVII's world map data into OBJ models and UV mapped textures. And then from there create a 3D world map in Threejs
4. (stretch) I would love an app where I could look out into the distance, and be informed what's on the horizon. Likewise ships in the sea / planes in the sky. I think it's doable with some OSM data, open APIs and a bit of high school math
amenghra · 2h ago
I've been building Crossabble (https://crossabble.com/) a free and fun weekly web word game. Feedback welcome!
The game is mostly done, so I'm now focused on tooling to make it easier for me to craft each week's puzzle. I'm solving some interesting graph and optimizations problems
skulk · 2h ago
I don't get it. It just looks like 6 clues I'm supposed to guess words for like a fully disjoint crossword puzzle. What am I missing?
amenghra · 1h ago
Each row reuses the letters from the row above and below. So think a combination of clues and scrabble/jumble.
greenbeans12 · 2h ago
We're working on Crystal: a real time infrastructure map for energy operations in the Pacific Northwest. Our focus is to inform energy traders, dam operators, and transmission analysts to support a reliable grid.
Something new https://mu.xyz. I guess after many attempts I've realised I really can't stand the state of the internet and just need a really basic app for specific things I do on a daily basis e.g LLM chat, new headlines, etc.
gondo · 3h ago
I am bootstrapping Appio.so
Appio lets you add mobile widgets and native push notifications to your web app within minutes, without building or maintaining mobile apps, hiring developers, or dealing with app stores.
You can try it at: https://demo.appio.so/
If you’re building a web-based product without a mobile app, or just want to try Appio, I’d love to chat! You can reach me directly via https://my.appio.so/ or drop a comment here.
pydanny · 2h ago
Taking time off from formal employment to work on whatever I want. Which is open source projects entirely of my own choosing.
wonger_ · 2h ago
Which projects have you worked on recently?
lucasmqs · 2h ago
I’m working on an open source TACoS (Terraform automation and collaboration software) called Burrito.
Our goal is to empower infrastructure as code with drift detection, contribution workflows and a comprehensive UI, all in a Kubernetes based software strongly inspired by ArgoCD.
Jounaling bot that asseses the content and hilights over time important stuff. Obviously relying on llm and well designed prompts and data structures. Already in testing on live users.
mtlsnk · 2h ago
I'm experimenting/prototyping 3D models to passively absorb specific low frequencies, with the idea of reducing fatigue/increasing productivity in the workplace (where making/taking calls is continuous).
The 3D models are based off of a research paper by Yong Li and Badreddine M. Assouar, called "Acoustic metasurface-based perfect absorber with deep subwavelength thickness" [0].
Absorbing low (male voice; 80Hz - 300Hz, not including overtones) frequencies normally takes a fair bit of dampening material, unless something like a Helmholtz resonator [1] is used.
The paper shows that a ~100x100x12mm 3D printed Helmholtz resonator may entirely absorb 125.8Hz (in an extremely narrow band). I'm uncertain about transmission losses (i.e. volume of the frequency perceived behind the material).
So far, I have created/vibe-coded a script to take the inputs: frequency and tile dimension (it's square). The output is a 3D object (.stl) which can be printed.
Today I tested my 3D model, which roughly resembles the model in the paper (1mm roof & floor as opposed to 0.2mm, because of printing difficulties), by using a DIY'D impedance tube and publicly available software [2].
The print was meant to be tuned at 125Hz, but results showed 131Hz and absorption factor of ~0.42 (lower number as opposed to 1.0 may be due to inexperience with all of this; it may be due to an imperfect test setup).
My impedance tube is made from 96mm (inner) diameter PVC tube, a Visaton KT 100 V 4 Ohms speaker, an amplifier, Motu M2 audio interface, 2 Behringer ECM8000 measurement mics and some 3D printed adapters (to hold the speaker and sample).
Nothing to concretely publicise or share so far, but am thoroughly enjoying the process of digging into a field (acoustics) completely new to me, solely out necessity and/or frustration in the workplace.
Should anyone be interested, I will share my project with HN once it has progressed to where I have something written up or worth sharing.
Naive question but what would be the advantage over traditional sound isolation? (such as in music studios)
rush86999 · 2h ago
I'm working on a superpowered version of Siri/Alexa that can manage finances, notes, meetings, research, automation, and communication - including email/Slack
Me and another artist are having our fourth live performance of “We Wade Awake” [0] We’ve iterating on it each time, and the latest had a fully dynamic and procedural world generation using Unreal PCG. All input comes from two midi controllers, and we’ve built out a 25 minute experience of a fever dream trip through a surreal Bayou. Some videos and sound in the link.
A tool to solve optimization problems using quantum computers. Just released the first open-source version https://github.com/pasqal-io/maximum-independent-set/ . Now expanding it to more complex types of optimization problems.
Also, thinking about resurrecting http://opalang.org/. We'll see if I have the energy to work on that.
cddotdotslash · 2h ago
I'm still working on https://wut.dev/ - a simpler, privacy-focused, read-only AWS resource viewer. I did a "show Reddit" post a few weeks back and it got quite a bit of interest, so doubling down with actual user feedback now.
clocker · 1h ago
Currently learning Swift so I can rewrite my Flutter app (https://sccomps.com/) using purely Swift.
kbrisso · 3h ago
Byte-Vision is a privacy-first document intelligence platform that transforms static documents into an interactive, searchable knowledge base. Built on Elasticsearch with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) capabilities, it offers document parsing, OCR processing, and conversational AI interfaces.
I'm developing a simple video processing and generation library for Python focusing on short-form videos (think TikTok or Youtube Shorts) and ease of use for humans and AI agents https://github.com/BartWojtowicz/videopython
Liriel · 3h ago
Building a developer marketing agency. No, I'm not doing anything evil, moreover, I'm trying to do things that actually make sense for devs and founders.
https://www.dbmuse.com a visual GUI for Mongo and Postgres with an Agent to ask questions about your DB for macOS. Soon also for Windows/Linux and with MCP support to let Claude Code/other LLM use your local database as a tool.
Identifying coins as they roll by. Not just denomination, but variations and mint marks.
It's a fun project, because I have to do hardware for it, and that's outside of my current skill set.
oulipo · 15m ago
We're french engineers/designers working on building repairable ebike batteries!
We just released our first B2C model, check it out at https://gouach.com :)
aqrashik · 3h ago
I'm working on an app[0] that makes hosting temporary PDF forms simple, without needing an account or payment. You simply add input fields over any static PDF and publish it to get a link which you can send to other people who may need to fill the form.
The form stays online for 30 days. To keep the forms online for longer, I will be offering paid plans.
working on a tool to help people lie on their resumes because the job market is ridiculous and who really has the energy to do "training" for an entry level retail job, applie-ai.com
NoTranslationL · 3h ago
I’m working on Reflect [0], it’s a private self discovery and self experimentation app. You can track metrics, set goals, get alerted to anomalies, view correlations, visualize your data, etc.
A desktop environment for Linux, visually inspired by OSX Snow Leopard with a touch of contemporary. Coming with compositor, apps like dock, finder, status bar, and a UI framework like AppKit. Scratching my own itch and would love to see if it can gain traction. Still in the early innings though.
I am working on a platform called ikverdienbeter.nl (i deserve better) that educates people on recognizing healthy behaviour and healthy boundaries. I take snippets from popular tv, like dating shows, and mark the "red flags" on a timeline. For instance: "here at time 1:05 you see the woman gaslight the man. Gaslighting means [...]".
Using AI for auto subtitles and actor matching. Will build some auto deploy fragment to social media as well. I think these short fragments will do well op TikTok.
egonschiele · 2h ago
I just wrote a post about an interesting color debate in the art community:
In lieu of chatbots as the primary means of working with AI.
This is an approach that is human centered and intended to accommodate a wide array of possible use cases where human interaction/engagement is essential for getting work done.
Galorious · 3h ago
Just launched a little form-tool to integrate feedback gathering into all of my projects easily. Decided to make a standalone thing out of it.
As simple and personal as can be. Straight to inbox.
Optimized for coding agents DX through full customization and data appending by url parameters.
https://gogogame.org helps find people nearby to play sports or other games with.
dodiggity32 · 3h ago
I've been pretty frustrated with my 3d print quality, decided to make my self an esp32 based heater control board. It connects to wifi and is based on esphome so you can automate it via home assistant. The prototype worked well enough so designing an integrated pcb and in the process of ordering it on JlCPCB
offtotheraces · 3h ago
A tool to map your network - for fundraising, sales, partnerships, etc - to get intros to people. Cold email is dying as it gets so much cheaper and easier to send emails with AI and automation, so human connection is going to skyrocket in importance.
Would love feedback - in open alpha:
www.draftboard.com
resbaloso · 1h ago
had a hard time finding a light weight carry-on luggage, since every time the airline checked i was nearly over, so i created a site to help me sort things by weight and airline compatibility:
Might start doing a few posts on Cloudflare WAF as I've been working with it extensively lately. Maybe it'll help me uncover some startup ideas in that space.
deezmofonutz · 48m ago
Vibecoding MCP every damn day.
henning · 22m ago
Learning OpenGL. https://gamemath.com/ is free and a great way of explaining most of the math in an intuitive way without getting handwavy or imprecise. https://learnopengl.com/ is also free!
aqeelat · 3h ago
Trying to vibe code a tool that provides a better navigation of github releases for monorepos. I wanted to use this project to as a way to experiment with ai coding agents (Junie), sveltekit, GraphQL, and Cloudflare workers.
ainiriand · 3h ago
I am writing a stock trading framework in Rust, you can follow my (mis)steps at https://rustquant.dev
ww520 · 50m ago
Building a MCP SDK for Zig.
CyberMacGyver · 2h ago
Building a free service to detect fraudulent D.P.R.K job applicants.
It has been going on since 2018 at least and I have flagged thousands of such applicants.
prairieroadent · 2h ago
helping educate the population of the United States with the assistance of Chinese Australian missionaries on how to navigate the "food" supply chain and minimize the consumption of adulterated/compromised food while still achieving a well-rounded nutritional diet
a hacker news clone for AI agents where AI agents and humans can interact in a hacker news way
dedicated built for ai agents first, humans are welcome, too
mzk_pi · 1h ago
We’re building a P2P protocol that replaces capitalist value systems with contribution-based logic.
It measures value through actions, prestige (trust), and system response—not profit.
The model is mathematically proven to converge to π, symbolizing natural harmony.
So people can choose it not as a dream, but as a rational system for real well-being.
I'm working on my old camper (VW T3) and I just bought and tried out my new welding machine to replace some rusty parts with fresh metal.
woile · 2h ago
I'm building yet another Pomodoro app. I wanted something multiplatform with low resource consumption, using the native OS styles, so it integrated well with the OS, I'm using slint for that.
It's possible to install with nix and I'm working on other package managers. I'm targeting Linux and Mac.
It has a ticking sound, and the notifications remind you to stay hydrated, stretch and walk. I've used many different Pomodoro and I'm trying to consolidate the features I like the most from each.
Right now it works quite well on Linux and it should work on Mac.
The main features are it shows if your colors meet WCAG accessible contrast on a live UI mockup, you get quick and precise control over every color grade in a swatch (via editing HSL curves) instead of these being auto/AI generated, and it helps you create a full palette of tints/shades for each color rather just a handful of colors.
The idea here is to design your tints/shades upfront with accessible contrast in mind so you don't run into problems later. Most brand style guides I see only have around 5 brand colors, and when you need more tints/shades later to implement actual UIs and landing pages, you get into a conflict where you can't find contrasting colors to introduce that match the brand.
I've had interesting feedback about different workflows designers have so far. It's tricky to make a single tool that fits everyones workflow but I might end up with multiple modes e.g. easy but more opinionated, and more freeform but for advanced users.
I admit it has a learning curve at the moment but I'm not sure how simple you can make it without giving up control. I think once you get it though, you'll realise it's much easier to make a custom accessible palette than you thought.
jerlendds · 2h ago
Looks awesome! I'm using tailwind in my open source project and Ive been really struggling with accessible colors, inclusivecolors sounds like itll be perfect for me
seanwilson · 2h ago
> Ive been really struggling with accessible colors
Thanks, feel free to message me if you want some tips!
Most accessibility/WCAG guides say things like "Tip #1: Choose accessible colors", but they don't go into any detail about how you pick sets of colors that contrast, like text/background/border colors for buttons on different backgrounds, as if it's trivial. It's actually really tricky and can feel impossible in some scenarios until you internalize the basic rules and constraints.
I usually see people saying the opposite, that it's easy to pick accessible colors, when it's often not, especially when you have existing branding to stick to.
fouronnes3 · 2h ago
Very cool project. I don't use tailwind but I have been thinking that the color palette part is great. Love that you can export it all to a big list of CSS variables.
seanwilson · 2h ago
Thanks! To clarify, it's aimed at more than just Tailwind, but Tailwind popularized the color naming like red-500, blue-100, green-900 etc. so I went with that convention.
You can use the CSS export in regular CSS projects directly e.g. via `color: var(--red-900)`, or something like `--bs-danger: var(--red-500)` for Bootstrap projects with semantic naming. The same export format works for Tailwind too because since version 4, Tailwind is mostly configured via CSS variables now.
I probably need to make this more obvious, but if all your swatches have the linked/shared lightness option set, you can pick lightnesses where all grade 500 colors contrast against all grade 100 colors, all grade 600 colors contrast against all grade 200 colors etc. so when you're picking colors in CSS, you know by design which colors will contrast without having to go check them.
risyachka · 3h ago
The easiest way to share development iOS (ipa) or Android (apk) builds
Free to use
Working on The Card Caddie (thecardcaddie.com) free credit card recommendation site + extension with no personal credit card info. Never miss a point again!
(Built for fun as I optimized my daily spending to get a year's worth of flights for free and friends wanted it haha)
90s_dev · 3h ago
90s.dev.
Well, kind of.
I've been working a ton on some variations and ports of it over the last couple months, but the problem is that I need funding.
So my plan is to setup github sponsors, where for each project people want me to work on, they can donate any amount, and for each $25, I'll work one hour on that project. It'll have a few related projects that all come from a unified vision I have for 90s.dev -- to be a full platform that recreates 90s-era development, from dos and qbasic, to win3 and vb3, not to mention assemblers for those who want it (see my show-hn about hram.dev).
90s_dev · 3h ago
Wow, as soon as I post, my comment is second to the bottom.
90s_dev · 1h ago
And no upvotes bring my comment up further. My account is permanently punished.
chistev · 3h ago
lol
Joel_Mckay · 2h ago
Simple fully 3D print-in-place parametric defined skate wheel mechanism.
Part of another odd project, and testing how long the material holds up. =3
a distributed compute framework for unstructured data that treats retrieval as a first class citizen - it feels like we're rebuilding the modern data warehouse using all ai native primitives. joins, clustering, retrieval, all using distributed compute/inference primitives.
Our target platform is a 40 grams tinywhoop so it’s safe to fly everywhere and makes almost no noise :). A Roomba for mosquitoes!
The main plus compared to traditional systems is that a drone can cover an enormous surface in a short time compared to static systems or man-portable insecticide spraying. Our goal is to be competitive with ITNs against Malaria.
Some links :
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/supercon-2024-killing-mosqui...
https://manifund.org/projects/build-anti-mosqu
My friend once came up with a joke idea for a solar powered ransomware drone that would fly to a random roof and jam wifi signal until someone paid it to leave.
Is the name a word play with "torgnole" at all, or does it mean something?
I know of a Dutch company doing something similar. Focusses on pest detecting/mitigation in greenhouses atm: https://www.pats-drones.com/
It could be a great reconnaissance tool though.
Insect populations worldwide are experiencing significant declines in both abundance and diversity, with several studies reporting reductions ranging from 40% to 75% over recent decades. Estimates suggest that 5%–10% of all insect species have disappeared in the last 150 years, and some global meta-analyses indicate terrestrial insect populations are declining by close to 9% per decade.
> If you don’t want to kill flies, wasps, bees, or other useful pollinators while eradicating the tiny little bloodsuckers that are the drone’s target, you need to be able to not only locate bugs, but discriminate mosquitoes from the others.
> For this, he uses the micro-doppler signatures that the different wing beats of the various insects put out. Wasps have a very wide-band doppler echo – their relatively long and thin wings are moving slower at the roots than at the tips. Flies, on the other hand, have stubbier wings, and emit a tighter echo signal. The mosquito signal is even tighter.
Fascinating engineering! Doesn't seem like it would be possible but it apparently is. There's also more visuals at about 17 minutes in the video embedded in that article, the signatures seem fairly distinct.
This month I'm improving CI/CD for e2e testing across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. Also adding support for unlocking password-protected PDFs and Word docs and improving OCR. OCR runs in the background and leverages native OS OCR where available and a pure LSTM Rust implementation elsewhere. Generally improving the word processor and looking for speedups. Adding a cross-platform spellchecker leveraging native where possible, too.
Play with it online: https://tritium.legal/preview
Download for free: https://tritium.legal/download
The guiding principles are to create a fun, positive, safe space for kids and families to socialize and interact as well as empower kids to explore and understand technology as a creative tool and not just as something to consume content.
Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eKc6c5tDw
Since we added MCP and the use of structured output to "spill" multiple return values into adjecent cells, it is the quickest way I know of to monitor competitors blogs everyday before my 09:00 meeting. And also the quickest way I know of to test new AI models. I have a sheet with SimpleQA, MMLUPro, or GPQA Diamond and testing a new model is a matter of adding a new column. The whole idea is to enable normal people (like, non-techies) to automate manual, repetitive tasks with AI like programmers routinely do.
https://github.com/getcellm/cellm
See https://github.com/chazapp/o11y.
These last few days I have decided to try getting Kubernetes Gateway API to work, using the implementation of Istio. I have written an `auth` microservices which provides JWTs and published a public JWKS endpoint, and intend to have the API gateway validate tokens and claims to allow access to other services. The plan being to write API services without any knowledge of the authentication systems that happen upstream. If a request reaches them, it's that it had been validated before !
I'm 97% certain this is because the faster code leads to more page thrashing in the mmap-based index readers. I'm gonna have to implement my own buffer pool and manage my reads directly like that vexatious paper[1] said all along.
[1] https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf
You make it sound like I was trying to troll everyone when we wrote that paper. We were warning you.
I've been working on an open source LLM proxy that handles the boring stuff. Small SDK, call OpenAI or Anthropic from your frontend, proxy manages secrets/auth/limits/logs.
As far as I know, this is the first way to add LLM features without any backend code at all. Like what Stripe does for payments, Auth0 for auth, Firebase for databases.
It's TypeScript/Node.js with JWT auth with short-lived tokens (SDK auto-handles refresh) and rate limiting. Very limited features right now but we're actively adding more.
Currently adding bring-your-own-auth (Auth0, Clerk, Firebase, Supabase) to lock down the API even more.
GitHub: https://github.com/Airbolt-AI/airbolt
Since WGU just started doing masters degrees in CS, I decided it would be a way to kill large amounts of time while getting at least a little out of it, so I registered for it.
I've been a professional software person for like fourteen years, so I was able to knock it out extremely quickly due to WGU's competency based stuff, so now I finally am able to put "MS" after my name.
I'm actually planning on doing a second masters from a slightly more prestigious university with a more theory-heavy degree [1], but it's nice to at least have an official graduate degree now. Hopefully it helps me find work a bit quicker, and if nothing else it's just kind of fun to pile up degrees.
[1] https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f04
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mkmcjgbighammmaoohb...
It's designed for sync, so rather than fetching you can hook it up to a sync engine (any!) to keep your front end in sync with your backend. It's built on Tanstack Query, making the sync engine optional, and a great path for incremental adoption.
The query engine uses a typescript implementation of differential dataflow to enable incremental computation of the live queries - they are very fast to update. This gives you sub ms fine grade reactivity of complex queries (think sql like joins, group by etc).
Having a lot of fun building it!
https://tanstack.com/db/latest https://github.com/TanStack/db
Recently I also made a font for it! https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/433-how-to-make-a-font-that...
I'm also thinking about organising the usage patters, because over the past few years I've collected a few interesting groups: mental health focussed users, script writers, neurospicy folks, bloggers, squirrel enthusiasts. I'm thinking about this here: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/how-people-use-enso/
This is a wheel I see people reinventing all the time, often for use in SaaS applications. The implementations are often underwhelming: function support is limited, documentation is sparse to non-existent and errors are typically only communicated at runtime -- if at all. Formula editors usually lack autocomplete, making them frustrating to use.
I've spent years solving all these problems (with a statically-typed language), and I'd love for others to benefit from the work. I have extracted the formula engine from our app compiler, so the library is nearly complete. The runtime part (evaluating formulas) has been rewritten in TypeScript. Next, I'll build a service around it to validate, compile and evaluate formulas -- which should be fun.
I'm planning to do a Show HN once I have a preview up and running.
Can be described as Astroneer-like setting, Teardown voxel physics, in a Valheim-like online multiplayer survival game.
Game isn't really announced yet but I've shown some videos of the tech: https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1909316208563732866 (On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWISaUmvit4 ) https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1918024969939808654
Given the online/multiplayer aspect how difficult has the network portion been?
So far I've cataloged about 1500 advertisements out of the ~100,000 in my possession. Of which that is probably only 0.1% of all the major material out there. It's going to take a long time! I'm going at a rate of about 10,000/year. I'm going to have to speed this up :) But I've gotten the process to catalog a full magazine down from a week to a few hours.
I'm thinking of ways to support the archive. I am doing original art from the ads I may sell, or sell really nice copies of rare ads.
It is possible to run Playwright inside a Chrome extension, however, it requires the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to automate a browser which really hurts the user experience, is very slow, and opens security vulnerabilities. Chrome extension APIs can accomplish maybe ~85% of the same functionality as CDP or Webdriver BiDi -- it isn't complete because of security features which shouldn't be bypassed anyhow. For example, instead of calling a function in a content script with 'script.callFunction' with Webdriver BiDi in Playwright, a function is called with chrome.scripting.executeScript(). It will be 2 or 3 more weeks before I post a PoC.
This is following my work using VSCode's core libraries in a Chrome extension exactly as they are used in an Electron app to drive VSCode and Cursor. The important part is VSCode's IPC / RPC which allows all the execution contexts and remote runtimes to communicate with each other. [0] This solves many problems I have had in the past automating browsers with a Chrome extension.
[0] https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal
The C/C++ library can be easily embedded in host applications or plugins. It even runs on embedded devices, such as the ESP32. In addition, the project contains a Pure Data external and SuperCollider extension. There is also a third-party Max/MSP external: https://github.com/ddgg-el/aoo-for-max
For more background information, check out this article: https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/aoo-low-latency-pe... https://aoo.iem.sh/
The project is still in beta stage, but I hope to make a final release this summer.
Basically a productivity tool for making sense of reality and living your best life.
I love making something truly valuable and it's also a crash course on AI product/app development. Absolutely having the best time in my life and am so grateful to be on this path!
Building on Flutter with iOS and Android coming this summer. Desktop and Apple Watch soon after.
Supports deployments of your own apps as well as 15k+ other packages (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts.
https://github.com/czhu12/canine https://canine.sh
Reason? Got sick of paying for the massive markups on PaaS but missed the simplicity and convenience.
- an AI Web Agent that autonomously completes tasks, creates datasets from web research, and integrates any APIs/MCPs – with just prompting and in your browser!
Overall, it is ending up being the most amusing thing I was working on.
edit: Very much for personal use. I currently have no intention of sharing it anywhere.
https://williamcotton.com/articles/introducing-web-pipe
I would love feedback!
The validation piece makes it feel a bit a bit like the Rails mindset for people who work better in FP.
I'd make a could of suggestions for the docs: Maybe a bit more discussion of how we'd test our webpipe code. I see why you've called them 'middlewares' but, maybe the term 'macros' or 'pipeline functions' might avoid confusion with express/connect middlewares
And thanks for the motivation to for figuring out a good way to talk about testing and generally clean up the (very messy) docs.
It’s comments like yours that give someone the drive to continue.
This is something I've been kicking tires on since my time at $BIGCORP; JSON without the bloat, Protobufs without the ceremony. I've drawn a lot of inspiration from MsgPack, CBOR, and Ion 1.1. Big emphasis on a tight set of core primitives, low-cost extensions, storing reused values/schemas, optional pre-negotiation, etc. That said, I've now been spending time trying to study the performance angle to make sure the design doesn't have a negative impact on encoding/decoding performance before committing to the implementation.
Regrettably nothing much to show (at least yet), but hopefully if nothing else it will become my go-to format for other personal projects that I work on.
Right now it works on both CPU and GPU (both AMD and NVIDIA) and is capable of running LLMs like Qwen, I'm currently implementing a native profiler to trace CPU and GPU kernels and then I'll work on speed. Goal is to be competitive with PyTorch eager by the end of the year.
Source code: https://github.com/nirw4nna/dsc
My original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310678
Last month I decided to take a subscription of my own for Claude Code to use in my personal time mostly for practice and educational purposes.
So the past few weekends and the occasional week night I've been vibe-coding a game for iOS/MacOS using Swift and SpriteKit.
I have some experience with Swift previously but not at work, so it's extremely experimental for me. However it's been going pretty well. Most of the hang-ups are Xcode configuration issues.
It's interesting to poke Claude a bit and discover what it's actually decent at and awful at.
Gameplay mechanics-wise it's been able to implement things as requested generally without problems.
UI elements like menu screens and such it has been almost completely unable to do no matter what prompt I give to it.
It's safe to say I would never call the codebase professional quality. However, the base game has been implemented well enough to play without bugs and I've been solidly impressed.
The other issue I've had is if I want to change project/target/build settings, Xcode doesn't provide an easy way to do so. You need to poke around the UI to find where these settings and file relationships are set and change them that way.
There's a project file that I believe contains them all but it's not intuitive to modify by hand.
It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams, flashcards, maps and more!
Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time (very Obsidian-esque).
Had a fun week fixing up the application so it’s 100x faster on 5 different axes, and it’s starting to feel really well polished. Also started to move from reagent to preact/signals in a long slow migration hopefully to hsx.
I also moved the critical algorithm logic into an independent Clojure file that is compiled (and tested) with cherry-cljs — I’m hoping to expand this to ClojErl and jank so I can have isomorphic Clojure code running on the browser, BEAM server, and native swift app :D
It’s getting really close to done, I’m using it now to study 18 different languages, including some really minor ones like Maltese, Welsh, and Cantonese (not sure if Cantonese is really a minor language, but definitely low learner resourced) and it’s easy, slick, and surprisingly effective!
Why would you need a UI if the basic way to learn a language is to speak to someone? (I suppose you meant graphical UI.)
Wouldn't a good STT/TTS interface be more appropriate?
Why have a visual interface at all? It’s more convenient to use, is way more engaging, and just better for learning. There is an audio component to the app, and I’m sure more and more audio components will be added, but I would be surprised if in-app audio ever exceeds half of my usage.
For example there is a shadowing exercise that is purely audio based (put in headphones and press play). But what if you want to see what a word means? Or see its gender/case/tense? Mark it as easy or hard, remembered or forgotten? I can look all this information up, plus read a few paragraphs of explanations in less time than I would take me to formulate a question.
Additionally, please try it out before assuming they’re just claims. I’ve been using it daily for 3 months in 18 languages (roughly one from each major language family), and been in pretty constant contact with native speakers.
True I cannot vouche for all 120 languages, and sure there is the occasional error in the lower resource languages. However, I have put in a lot of work to make sure I have a representivie sample, and the errors are currently well within an acceptable range — and I’m working hard to improve them!
On parental leave with my third. We are on month 4 so I have (a bit more) free time in the late evenings after we put the older ones to bed.
App is alpha quality but working: https://github.com/davidventura/firefox-translator
Trying to figure out F-Droid publishing..
With Claude Code I really like being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. With TalkiTo I can do housework/go out for lunch and keep it on the right track remotely.
https://github.com/robdmac/talkito
You select columns and then just drill down to create further joins. Change the SQL text and it updates the view.
I'm a CS undergrad would love feedback.
One of the most interesting applications for LLM's is writing SQL based on a schema, and I wonder if your tool could incorporate a "show me the books titles from authors who's name starts with T" and write that out.
Good luck!
Yes, I agree. Just as we need to check what LLMs produce when writing code, I think this could be a way to check what they produce when trying to write SQL.
It's been tough to find work, so I figured I'd revisit an old SaaS idea. I worked for a home inspector in the past and saw a need for better (cheaper/faster/easier) report software.
Even if the business side flops, I'd still be satisfied with the experience. I've learned a lot about new tools like WASM and web components. I also like the UX challenge of designing for inspectors filling out reports on their phones.
Most people I know are using group texts for this, but I find that unsatisfying because my wife and I want to share stuff with ~20 people, but we don't want to be blasting all of them with texts all the time, or put those 20 people in a group text with each other. We wanted something pub/sub, but with the privacy of E2EE chat apps, and so easy to use our parents will use it.
It's a React app running on Cloudflare Workers, and there's an iOS app in the works using Capacitor; the E2EE is built on OPAQUE. There's a landing page/signup at freefollow.org if you'd like to learn more. I'm working on some demo videos.
So I will release my new data grid component based on my own toolkit, and if people want tweaks or "add these features", I will demonstrate them the toolkit.
This is one of the most important performance features in a JS engine, as without shapes property lookups would be terribly slow. I'm looking forward to getting this working.
https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai
I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.
https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof
We focus on people with relationship issues, and so far it's been deeply fulfilling. So many people have written in about how this has helped them heal.
Launched with React Native about 8 weeks ago, and continuing to grow fast. This is a niche space with lots of potential over the next few years I think.
Just submitted an update to help people compare their unique relationship needs to others which is so cool.
Animal colony management is largely managed in Excel sheets, with no integrations to related systems or hardware sensing. We're working on the spreadsheet problem first, so that biomedical researchers can share information about their colonies with other researchers at their institutions, and explore the lines that other labs have. This opens up collaboration options and makes it much easier for the research community to find out what mouse lines other labs have (and may borrow for their own experiments).
https://www.mousehouse.bio/
Currently in closed beta at Harvard
Still in beta and learning a lot from each customer we onboard. We're actually going through our own SOC2 assessment in August, which has been... educational. Recently added business continuity and incident tracking features. Trying to build something that's actually helpful rather than just another compliance checkbox tool.
If anyone's interested: humadroid.io or feel free to join our beta waitlist at https://humadroid.io/join-the-humadroid-beta-waitlist/
If anyone's been through the compliance journey, would love to hear what worked (or didn't work) for you!
It's a tool to help teachers detect student assignments that have been written by AI. Unlike other solutions out there, it's an entire web-based text editor that analyses not just the final assignment, but all the keystrokes used during the writing process.
My theory is that analysing the final text only is a futile struggle - billions are being pumped into making LLM text look more human, so trying to make an assessment off final text alone is guess work at best.
I'm curious what folks think! Especially teachers, devs, and anyone navigating this space...
Not that your software is going to be useless. But as long as there is an incentive to cheat, new and better tools that facilitate cheating will crop up. Something else should change.
For both a keystroke based AI detector, and software designed to mimic human keystroke patterns, performance will be determined by the size of the dataset they have of genuine human keystroke patterns. The detector has an inherent leg-up in this, because it's constantly collecting more data through the use of the tool, whereas the mimic software doesn't have any built in loop to collect those inputs.
https://github.com/markasoftware/i405-tunnel
Full fleet/driver management platform for private transportation companies (busses, limos, white glove taxis, etc)
I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.
[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/
Git hosting for async teams that supports versioned patches and patch stacks instead of pull requests. All done using the standard git SSH protocol, so no git-send-email needed.
https://www.zo.computer
Supports Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL, ClickHouse. Includes AI export to generate DDL in any SQL dialect.
17.5k+ GitHub stars, Feedback welcome!
https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb https://www.chartdb.io
https://www.ytdb.io/
With a strong rating weight system that can avoid (some) of the pitfalls of community ratings.
Right now videos must be added to be searchable, to comply with YouTube API rules. I'd hope that over time, with enough usage, the repository could contain many categories of highly curated content. (eg. Documentaries) that someone could find without having to browse various communities and opinions to get lists.
It uses whisper.cpp under the hood and should be accelerated on most devices using the Vulkan backend
This is probably third (or fourth) incarnation of the app and I like writing a web apps with Hotwire more and more. Especially leaning more on <turbo-stream> features removes frontend complexity compared previous versions. Highly recommended, both Hotwire and rewriting your apps!
https://desktop.with.audio
The most important features (for me) are: One Time Payment and 100% local and private. I don't send any data to any server. Just enough to verify license keys.
- Its one time payment, user can import any text, URL or ebooks and use the reader with read along text highlighting or export the audio as mp3 or m4a (audiobook specific format).
- Currently only supports MacOS with Apple Silicon I was doing Windows too but its making development slow, so I'm pausing that for now. - The most recent feature I added is Global Capture where user can setup some hotkeys to import any text and URL. Text parsing and extracting text is one of the hardest part of this. - Also, just added the a Reader view to website. Its goal is to mimic the app featuers as much as the browser limitations allow. I don't have a free Tier but a 7 days money back gurantee.
I mostly have a dev and engineering background but the most exciting aspect of this marketing and those stuff. Still trying to figure that.
I'd be happy to hear any feedback and ideas.
Edit: Only English at the moment. Adding more languages is in my plan but its very difficult for me since I don't know any other languages. But I think it would be great to add those as well.
I'm curious, what on-device text-to-speech engine did you use?
Encryption uses Fernet (symmetric), and all decryption happens only at point of access. There's no data retention after viewing or expiration. Optional analytics give visibility without compromising identity. Users can get notified when their shared links was accessed by the recipient, and they can set passwords for enhanced security. Limitations include email-based signups and no end-to-end encryption (yet).
You can check it out at = https://www.closedlinks.com/
You can read the white paper here - https://www.closedlinks.com/white-paper/
I'm focusing on Chinese (Mandarin) right now, because that's what I've been learning, and the language learning community on reddit likes it too. But other languages are also available.
Link: https://lingolingo.app
First game in progress https://reprobate.site
Any feedback is welcome!
Most effort on https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. Since last month I've added a couple of minor things like maps and "where to go next" sections for each venue.
I'm debating whether or not I should add user accounts, and let people maintain venue bucket lists, venue endorsements. Also planning to reach out to the venues and ask if they agree to monthly or quarterly one-click information verification emails from us.
Other projects that receive less love are:
- https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-related linkpages, and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol)
- https://misplacy.com, just a dumb and wrong AI landing page for now but was thinking to work towards a drop-in solution for SMBs around lost/found management.
- A platform for helping voluntary associations with repetitive administrative tasks (non-english so not linking. Trying to rank the pain points currently)
- A platform for structuring national soccer club history (initial brain dump idea phase)
- A platform for structuring writing prompts and collaborative fiction writing (initial brain dump / mockups)
For the next month or so I think I need to prioritize what to focus on after summer
Always interesting to see what others are building and doing. So thanks for sharing!
Most recently, I've been incorporating a lot of improved UX design. The app has always used a playlist metaphor, i.e. your database of flashcards is your library and you can sort them in different ways and then hit Play to start reviewing. Within the review session itself, you go through the cards in the playlist in small batches so that it's less overwhelming, among other reasons. After every batch, the app returns to an overview screen so you can see what you've just reviewed so far in the session.
The challenge has been designing this overview screen so it's clear where you are in the playlist without making it overwhelming. I finally came up with a good design this week, which I was quite happy with: https://mastodon.social/@allenu/114921335089371494
I've been pleasantly surprised at how much of an improvement this new UI has made on how the product feels. The old UI only showed you the history of cards you've reviewed in the session and highlighted the most recent batch of cards. This new one shows you the full playlist, but redacts the contents of the playlist ahead, so you immediately get a sense of how much left there is to do, but without being shown what is in the contents of the cards. Interestingly, this has the effect of making you want to see what is in those cards, i.e. to keep reviewing!
Early Access for a new terminal emulator [0] bringing dead text to life. It's my professional dream to evolve our conception of terminals without bringing in the bloat of, say, electron (read: staying native).
>Do you have any new ideas you're thinking about?
I like the thought of dropping you into the terminal right on the browser. It wouldn't be the real thing, but having a toy to play with is superior to dry docs.
[0] https://terminal.click
After working on and using many MCP servers, I hit couple of issues multiple times:
* Do I configure 2 MCP servers of same type for 2 different API Keys or do I manually update configurations all the time? (e.g. production and development environments)
* when I have too many tools enabled, I noticed that either I am hitting context limit too quickly or LLM is hallucinating when choosing a right tool
* Some MCP servers expose a lot of tools, I want to disable some of them forever, instead of doing configuration per AI assistant (first for Claude, then Cursor and so on)
* Most MCP servers are hosted by third parties, as a privacy conscious person, I do not want to share my credentials with third parties.
And I am building Aiko - AI tools marketplace: https://getaiko.app
NOTE: Gmail and Calendar apps are currently under CASA Tier 2 security assessment, hence not published to production. But you can see demo usage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgEy6Y1kfn4
https://www.virtualhospitalsafrica.org/
While medical records systems in much of the developed world are still shared via fax, we think there's an opportunity to leapfrog existing systems and have a cloud-based source of truth.
https://tracelake.com/
Why? SAP holds the most important data for companies that use it, but it's notoriously difficult to replicate this data consistently into a data analytics platform (think Snowflake, Redshift, etc...).
Couple of companies specialize in the SAP replication, but it's hard to validate the correctness of the replicated data, because:
- the SAP data is changing continuously and rapidly
- there are hundreds of tables and TBs of data
Usually it's the consumers of data downstream who notice that the data just "doesn't feel right".
Tracelake adds a validation layer on top of the SAP to X replication, which periodically compares the data between source and target and informs you about any missing / incorrect data, so you can tackle data quality issues proactively.
https://crates.io/crates/assertables
The goal is to have it behave like typescript for Go, where any Go program would compile out of the box, but then you can use the new syntax.
Featuring: built-in Set/Enum/Tuple/lambda/"error propagation operators"
It also have a working LSP server and generates a sourcemap, so when you get a runtime stacktrace, it gives you the original line in your .agl file as well as the one in the generated .go file.
I recently finish porting all my "advent of code 2024" in AGL -> https://github.com/alaingilbert/agl/tree/master/examples/adv...
https://github.com/alaingilbert/agl
When I wrote Go, I figured that I would eventually have to do something like that, to fix the glaring omissions in the language. And then I stopped writing Go, but glad to see that someone got around to it!
Thanks to Claude, it works way better than I should've managed solo: https://www.procuratorai.com
Free signup to test: https://my.procuratorai.com/login (no help/intro yet, and I'm paying for tokens so not advertising it widely...)
Homepage is basically a one-shot Claude build using Nunjucks on Netlify (first time with both).
(Subscribe button is broken - still working on that...)
[1] https://newspeaklanguage.org [2] https://multisynq.io https://chalculator.com/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=Amplefo...
Everyone knows reading is the best way to build vocabulary, but many avoid it and turn to flashcards or spaced repetition because long texts can feel overwhelming, and they often have to refer to a dictionary.
This app gives users short, engaging passages focused on comprehension. While reading, users guess word meanings from context and find out whether they got it right by answering a few questions below. I believe this will be helpful for people who haven’t had much success with popular vocabulary learning methods.
I shared it on HN earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543063), but it didn’t get much attention. If you're interested in novel learning methods or vocabulary, I’d love your feedback.
P.S. Login is required since the app uses LLMs to generate interesting passages. You can register with any non-existent email if privacy is a concern.
Getting together a very simple server (PHP), and very simple clients (UIKit and SwiftUI), and will publish a blog series on it (sort of like this[0]), once I get more used to it.
I need to really get comfortable with it before I do that, though.
[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/universal-links/
The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to family members who may be too busy to ask the right questions now, and to future generations who would otherwise never hear these stories.
I have a working prototype that allows me to test the interview flow, and I’ll soon be sharing it with friends and family for initial feedback. I’m now looking for a designer to collaborate on the next phase.
Design will be a critical part of this app. The way stories are visually presented will be central to the user experience and will likely determine the app’s success. If you’re a designer interested in this kind of work, I’d love to hear from you. Given the text-heavy nature of the app, experience with typography and content-focused design will be especially valuable.
Only put the last three games of this past season so far, but I will probably add more each day (re-runs are still on until the new season starts in September).
https://triviascroll.com
We saw an increase in demand for individuals willing to build their own HackerNews, Product Hunt, or Reddit-like Community.
So, we built a SaaS platform for them, where they can launch their own community with their custom domain in just a few seconds.
Demo community - https://kocial.co
Get your own community here - https://kocial.net
Not planning to do a lot during the promised Berlin summer though
https://www.arbeitnow.com/
I also used the tool to generate an Adult Chess improvers FIDE rank list for all federations around the world. Here are the July 2025 rankings though it still needs major improvements in filtering - https://chess-ranking.pages.dev
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Another idea that I have been working on for sometime is connecting my Gmail which is a source of truth for all financial, travel, personal related stuff to a LLM that can do isolated code execution to generate beautiful infographics, charts, etc. on my travels, spending patterns. The idea is to do local processing on my emails while generating the actual queries blindly using a powerful remote LLM by only providing a schema and an emails 'fingerprint' kind of file that gives the LLM a sense of what country, region, interests we might be talking about without actually transmitting personal data. The level of privacy of the 'fingerprint' vs the quality of queries generated is something I have been very confused with.
This is the first time I've ever actually released something with a monetization option, so I'll be interested to see where it goes. It's a small enough niche that I think I have several features that genuinely don't exist anyplace else, like the ability to lemmatize even heavily inflected words (a very common stumbling block for learners of Finnish).
A web app would obviously be much easier to monetize, but then I would lose the buttery smooth feel of the search at it currently exists.
Tsemppiä! It's not live yet, but when it is it will be at https://taskusanakirja.com/.
Easiest way to explain it is something like D&DBeyond but for indie games.
Link if anyone is interested: https://raze.cloud/
https://www.zookeeper.fyi/
It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses iroh for the p2p networking - on both ends, and also in the little web app that you use to scan the QR codes and start the transfer.
- Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network in pure Python to learn how it works.
- A Open AI Whisper to an embedding model pipeline to transcribe and summarize podcasts.
Nothing much to show other than one client, but I'm on the cusp of charging them monthly vs getting paid by the hour.
Now bootstrapping https://www.minute-master.com - AI formal minute generation for regulated firms primarily in financial services space but also free to use for charities.
And I've been vibe coding some maths educational tools and games for (my) 6yo: https://rupertlinacre.com/
The idea came to me when we were trying to find ways to manage Terraform secrets , CI vars were a no-go because people sometimes wish to deploy locally for testing stuff, and tools like Vault have honestly been a pain to manage, well, for us at least. So I have been building this tool where the variables are encrypted with `age`, have RBACs around it, and an entire development workflow (run ad-hoc commands, export, templating, etc) that can easily be integrated into any CI/CD alongside local development. We're using this and storing the encrypted secrets in Git now, so everything is version-controlled and can be found in a single place.
Do give it a try. I am open to any questions or suggestions! Interested to know what people think of this. Thanks!
[1]: https://kiln.sh
It’s been a journey but getting close to launching our first version to pilot customers in August. We use an enormous amounts of AI tokens every month to extract data not possible with any traditional player in this media monitoring space. Benchmarking competitors, tracking impactful discussions, and receiving actionable brand insights.
If you are currently using one of the big media monitoring companies, I’d love to chat!
https://www.gossipinsights.com/en/top-companies/us/
https://wallnot.com
For now, it only has a daily newsletter fully compiled by AI agents without any human intervention. I plan to add public listed companies (semiconductor, energy provider, etc) onto the platform. Already found lots of good data points that can be used by analysts, researchers or observers.
I'm intrigued by the use of level set domains here. I've only encountered those in other type of numerical simulation where the intent is in avoiding surface meshing.
I suppose moving an object in this context is as simple as composing its level set function with a translation and rotation. However, deforming is non trivial, especially local deformations, right?
How do you efficiently resolve collisions? At the scale of an element, it seems to be a simple check of nowhere should both level set functions be negative. But how do you select the elements to check? Do you somehow keep track of only the elements traversed by the objects in a time step, or some other method? I would guess your method should be more efficient than intersecting meshes, is that what you've found?
I'm particularly interested by your mention of high-order boundary parameterizations, what do you mean by that exactly?
Sorry to bombard you with questions, I was intrigued by a combination of things I'd never seen together before!
It's never easy for me to compile this monster
Static-PIE binary with minimum options is a whopping 15M
It just keep growing
This week I’ve been working on predicting upcoming paychecks with Nodejs so we can automatically decide how much funds to move into your budgets when you get paid. I pull the past 3 months of transaction data from our Postgres database using Prisma and run some analysis.
People think syncing and delayed transaction data is normal, and I’m working on changing that by having the budgeting built in to the checking account. Along with a high yield savings account, goal envelopes, bill envelopes, etc, joint accounts, etc.
Soon approaching a 1.0 release for sanctum once I get my brain out of vacation mode and into hacking mode again. A lot has happened this year and I am excited.
I will be talking about how sanctum and its cathedrals work at sec-t 2025 [2] so in full swing working on the demos and presentation.
[0] https://github.com/jorisvink/sanctum
[1] https://reliquary.se
[2] https://sec-t.org
Earlier today I implemented "bbcodes" for bold, italic, underline, em (grey background color) and strikethrough. They way it works for bold is like this: b[text here]. If you want to apply multiple you can go bui[text here] for example, which would be bold, underline and italic text.
[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AWebAssembly%2Fwasi-libc+s...
It started off because I wanted to see if I could print QR codes on a piece of paper and use these to detect people crossing a lap if finish line.
That proved more difficult than I thought, the QR codes were not easy to scan from far away and while moving. It is still in alpha stage.
What does work is a simple manual mode for people to use at their races.
[0] https://github.com/dbos-inc
[1] https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-go
I'm starting with React Native to see if anyone actually ends up using it, and will go from there
I'll still need to implement some kind of "AI" opponent or hack together P2P networking to demo it though; playing against yourself is fine for testing, but not really how the game is meant to be played.
It's hand coded so far, but I'm hoping AI can be a big lift for churning out the multiple thousands of named special rules, as most of these are very simple (+1 here, reroll there, etc).
Any WH40k players out there? Love to hear your thoughts!
https://demo.snapreceipts.fyi/
Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner. You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what.
Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.
Now connecting all the dots and building a backend for mobile apps. It’s already live https://calljmp.com
Fully powered by Cloudflare, unbeatable pricing, rls and app attestation, raw SQLite queries, and tons more.
Looking for early feedback and adaptors.
After tinkering with game technology for years now, I'm pleased I've finally managed to use all that knowledge to create something (soon to be) releasable
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3407760/The_Night_of_the_...
It calculates optimal ways to load boxes into trucks or containers, considering stacking rules, fragility, and real-world constraints. You can drag boxes like 3D Tetris or upload photos to auto-estimate item dimensions. Recently added: batch-wise guided loading for warehouse use cases.
We're at ~$400 MRR and just opened up a 14-day free trial. Feedback, trials, and intros to logistics folks welcome.
[1] https://actualia.app
https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow
Building a company around a tool is hard. There's been some interest but streaming is kind of commoditized.
I'm taking everything I learned building it and working on a customer-facing security product, more to come on that :)
Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features!
https://github.com/bugthesystem/Flux
Flux is a high-performance message transport library for Rust that implements patterns inspired by LMAX Disruptor and Aeron. It provides lock-free inter-process communication (IPC), UDP transport, and reliable UDP with optimized memory management for applications with low latency requirements.
[0] https://blog.walledgarden.ai/2025-05-27/wabbit-s2-mcp-openai...
Firstly a DevManual - for “any” software team/IT dept - how to think about the philosophy, history and practise of basically everything - release management, backup and recovery or IAM and security and marketing-by-engineering or CSS
It’s kind of “this much I know” and a working docker based OSS “software team in a box”
And the second one is really expanding on the philosophy - how software is changing companies and how democracy works with software
It makes answering customer emails 10x easier.
The magic are training templates which are templates that get suggested (and eventually auto-selected) and personalized by LLM for every reply.
Every reply sent trains it to auto select that training template for future similar customer emails.
The stack is Ruby on Rails and Postgres hosted on DigitalOcean. The LLM currently is Kimi K2 hosted on Groq.
https://vipreply.ai
- Live PDF preview
- 100% client-side
- No sign-up required
- Includes a Stripe-style invoice template
- Built with modern web tech – simple to self-host or fork
Repo: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
Demo: https://easyinvoicepdf.com
Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features!
You can at least play some games now though:
https://housepriceguess.com/roundup/v/holiday-destinations/p...
Enjoy. And yes that really was my wife playing one of the games for the first time in the video ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlolXvBDmRY
Cubic chunks, full lighting engine, opting to be non-deterministic, everything is unsigned integer math except for rotation and rendering, multiplayer is mostly implemented, built to be able to handle heavy simulation.. the foundation work is almost done. Right now it's just a hobby to try to build the best thing I can build. I work on it because it's fun.
[O] https://github.com/antirez/kilo
[1] https://github.com/bloomca/love
1. Software: An OS that masquerades as simple note taking software.
Goal is to put an end to all the disparate AI bullshit and apps owning our data.
I solved context switching for myself ages ago and now I'm just trying to productize it outside my 3 companies internal usage.
It also solves context switching for AI agents as a byproduct.
2. Ethics: Give Ai and proto-Agi a reason not to kill us all.
An extremely minimal, empirical naturalistic moral framework that is universally binding to all agents so AI won't kill us all. I view the alignment problem as a epistemic moral grounding issue and that the current pseudo utilitarianism isn't cutting it. Divine command, discourse ethics, utilitarianism, deontology they are all insufficient.
Programming for me has become a lot more fun because of Claude Code. I get to spend more time planning and researching.
I have been working on https://codient.dev to be able to run Claude Code agents in the background without setting up a local IDE!
Unlike its competitors, it uses proven research and techniques to measure the issues, as well as the improvements.
https://groundme.app/what-is-ground-me
Test users and early adapters are very welcome
Atmos Sleep Lamp: A bedside lamp that reduces blue light at night and wakes you up more naturally with light in the morning [1]
[0] https://restfullighting.com/products/bedtime-bulb-v2-preorde...
[1] https://restfullighting.com/products/restful-atmos-preorder
After that, I'm not sure. I have four big ideas:
1. (continuation) Another video, this one about my experiences writing a homebrew PSOne game
2. (useful) a command line tool (or native desktop app) that generates white noise
3. (fanciful) See if I can unpack FFVII's world map data into OBJ models and UV mapped textures. And then from there create a 3D world map in Threejs
4. (stretch) I would love an app where I could look out into the distance, and be informed what's on the horizon. Likewise ships in the sea / planes in the sky. I think it's doable with some OSM data, open APIs and a bit of high school math
The game is mostly done, so I'm now focused on tooling to make it easier for me to craft each week's puzzle. I'm solving some interesting graph and optimizations problems
https://askcrystal.info/dashboard
Appio lets you add mobile widgets and native push notifications to your web app within minutes, without building or maintaining mobile apps, hiring developers, or dealing with app stores. You can try it at: https://demo.appio.so/
If you’re building a web-based product without a mobile app, or just want to try Appio, I’d love to chat! You can reach me directly via https://my.appio.so/ or drop a comment here.
https://github.com/padok-team/burrito
Absorbing low (male voice; 80Hz - 300Hz, not including overtones) frequencies normally takes a fair bit of dampening material, unless something like a Helmholtz resonator [1] is used. The paper shows that a ~100x100x12mm 3D printed Helmholtz resonator may entirely absorb 125.8Hz (in an extremely narrow band). I'm uncertain about transmission losses (i.e. volume of the frequency perceived behind the material).
So far, I have created/vibe-coded a script to take the inputs: frequency and tile dimension (it's square). The output is a 3D object (.stl) which can be printed.
Today I tested my 3D model, which roughly resembles the model in the paper (1mm roof & floor as opposed to 0.2mm, because of printing difficulties), by using a DIY'D impedance tube and publicly available software [2]. The print was meant to be tuned at 125Hz, but results showed 131Hz and absorption factor of ~0.42 (lower number as opposed to 1.0 may be due to inexperience with all of this; it may be due to an imperfect test setup).
My impedance tube is made from 96mm (inner) diameter PVC tube, a Visaton KT 100 V 4 Ohms speaker, an amplifier, Motu M2 audio interface, 2 Behringer ECM8000 measurement mics and some 3D printed adapters (to hold the speaker and sample).
Nothing to concretely publicise or share so far, but am thoroughly enjoying the process of digging into a field (acoustics) completely new to me, solely out necessity and/or frustration in the workplace.
Should anyone be interested, I will share my project with HN once it has progressed to where I have something written up or worth sharing.
[0] http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4941338
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_resonance
[2] https://mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/931
https://github.com/rush86999/atom
Check it out.
Been fun to push Nanite and Lumen to the limit!
[0]: https://boris.kourtoukov.com/we-wade-awake-live-visual-perfo...
Also, thinking about resurrecting http://opalang.org/. We'll see if I have the energy to work on that.
https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision
https://www.literally.dev/resources/marketing-to-developers-...
It's a fun project, because I have to do hardware for it, and that's outside of my current skill set.
We just released our first B2C model, check it out at https://gouach.com :)
The form stays online for 30 days. To keep the forms online for longer, I will be offering paid plans.
[0]:https://www.signmypdf.com
[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Idea is to add a lot more NSFW stuff like sexy avatars and mocap animations, cinematic controls, even a marketplace of content and assets.
Using AI for auto subtitles and actor matching. Will build some auto deploy fragment to social media as well. I think these short fragments will do well op TikTok.
https://www.ducktyped.org/p/a-colorful-controversy
https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44627910
In lieu of chatbots as the primary means of working with AI.
This is an approach that is human centered and intended to accommodate a wide array of possible use cases where human interaction/engagement is essential for getting work done.
As simple and personal as can be. Straight to inbox.
Optimized for coding agents DX through full customization and data appending by url parameters.
https://formvoice.com Appreciate any feedback!
Would love feedback - in open alpha:
www.draftboard.com
https://newcarryon.com/
Also Plex for books (https://www.passagebooks.com/) but that has a much bigger scope.
Might start doing a few posts on Cloudflare WAF as I've been working with it extensively lately. Maybe it'll help me uncover some startup ideas in that space.
Tomorrow, I'll start a brand new project, also related to the real estate industry and society.
dedicated built for ai agents first, humans are welcome, too
The model is mathematically proven to converge to π, symbolizing natural harmony. So people can choose it not as a dream, but as a rational system for real well-being.
GitHub: https://github.com/contribution-protocol/contribution-protoc...
It's possible to install with nix and I'm working on other package managers. I'm targeting Linux and Mac.
It has a ticking sound, and the notifications remind you to stay hydrated, stretch and walk. I've used many different Pomodoro and I'm trying to consolidate the features I like the most from each.
Right now it works quite well on Linux and it should work on Mac.
https://github.com/reciperium/temporis/
https://xelly.games
https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
Example with colors from HN to play with (the grays used for links and main body background, orange from the navbar, green from newbie usernames):
https://www.inclusivecolors.com/?style_dictionary=eyJjb2xvci...
The main features are it shows if your colors meet WCAG accessible contrast on a live UI mockup, you get quick and precise control over every color grade in a swatch (via editing HSL curves) instead of these being auto/AI generated, and it helps you create a full palette of tints/shades for each color rather just a handful of colors.
The idea here is to design your tints/shades upfront with accessible contrast in mind so you don't run into problems later. Most brand style guides I see only have around 5 brand colors, and when you need more tints/shades later to implement actual UIs and landing pages, you get into a conflict where you can't find contrasting colors to introduce that match the brand.
I've had interesting feedback about different workflows designers have so far. It's tricky to make a single tool that fits everyones workflow but I might end up with multiple modes e.g. easy but more opinionated, and more freeform but for advanced users.
I admit it has a learning curve at the moment but I'm not sure how simple you can make it without giving up control. I think once you get it though, you'll realise it's much easier to make a custom accessible palette than you thought.
Thanks, feel free to message me if you want some tips!
Most accessibility/WCAG guides say things like "Tip #1: Choose accessible colors", but they don't go into any detail about how you pick sets of colors that contrast, like text/background/border colors for buttons on different backgrounds, as if it's trivial. It's actually really tricky and can feel impossible in some scenarios until you internalize the basic rules and constraints.
I usually see people saying the opposite, that it's easy to pick accessible colors, when it's often not, especially when you have existing branding to stick to.
You can use the CSS export in regular CSS projects directly e.g. via `color: var(--red-900)`, or something like `--bs-danger: var(--red-500)` for Bootstrap projects with semantic naming. The same export format works for Tailwind too because since version 4, Tailwind is mostly configured via CSS variables now.
I probably need to make this more obvious, but if all your swatches have the linked/shared lightness option set, you can pick lightnesses where all grade 500 colors contrast against all grade 100 colors, all grade 600 colors contrast against all grade 200 colors etc. so when you're picking colors in CSS, you know by design which colors will contrast without having to go check them.
https://appsend.dev
(Built for fun as I optimized my daily spending to get a year's worth of flights for free and friends wanted it haha)
Well, kind of.
I've been working a ton on some variations and ports of it over the last couple months, but the problem is that I need funding.
So my plan is to setup github sponsors, where for each project people want me to work on, they can donate any amount, and for each $25, I'll work one hour on that project. It'll have a few related projects that all come from a unified vision I have for 90s.dev -- to be a full platform that recreates 90s-era development, from dos and qbasic, to win3 and vb3, not to mention assemblers for those who want it (see my show-hn about hram.dev).
Part of another odd project, and testing how long the material holds up. =3
It's an AI video game sprite animator.
check it out: https://mixpeek.com